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Birds of Passage Director: Ciro Guerra Writer: Ciro Guerra Ciro Guerra’s 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent won top honors out of Directors’ Fortnight and was the...

In the seven previous editions (with 2007 being the best crop of films with noteworthy titles such as Bertrand Bonello's De La Guerre, Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte, Semih Kaplanoglu's Milk, Ciro Guerra's The Wind Journey, João Pedro Rodrigues' To Die Like A Man and So Yong Kim's Treeless Mountain), L’Atelier has been a pivotal stop for new auteurs in world cinema finding some coin. And while this doesn't carry the same weight as Rotterdam, so far the ratio is 72 for 115. Among the 15 projects selected this year we find find the likes of Dutch helmer Marco van Geffen (pictured) who gave us last year's Among Us (Locarno, TIFF), docu helmer Mahmoud Al Massad (Sundance's Recycle) and a foursome of filmmakers who've workshopped their nascent projects at the well-regarded Torino Film Labs. Here's the list below:

Film Movement have nabbed the North American rights to Ciro Guerra's The Wind Journeys - a film that supported by Cannes Film Festival’s Atelier de la Cinefondation and which received its world premiere at the fest last May before heading out onto the fall film festival circuit (TIFF, San Sebastian, London).

Most of the projects we find listed in the annual selections for the San Sebastian Co-Production Forum are at the very least two, mostly...

Enemy at the Gate: Guerra Heads to the International Frontier with Flat Coetzee Adaptation The richness and heft of Ciro Guerra’s cinema gets lost somehow...