The projects for the upcoming Venice Gap-Financing Market have been unveiled (27 feature-length fiction) and there’ll be several listed here projects that we’ll discuss at length next year when they start hitting the festival circuit of 2025 and especially, 2026. At the top of our most anticipated list, we find Ulrike Ottinger‘s The Blood Countess (which might still have Tilda Swinton and Isabelle Huppert attached) in almost ready to shoot mode. Also from Europe, we have Polish filmmaker Aga Woszczyńska readying Black Water. She premiered Silent Land in TIFF’s platform section in 2021. We also find Directors’ Fortnight favorite Shahrbanoo Sadat (2016’s Wolf and Sheep / 2019’s The Orphanage) rounding out final funds for No Good Men. Also in the Quinzaine alumni, we have Erige Sehiri‘s Marie & Jolie which is deep in prep mode. From Latin Americas we got Chile’s Theo Court (from 2019’s Blanco en blanco) with Three Black Nights, and from Argentina we have Ivan Granovsky working on his sophomore feature Jealous White Men. Also worth mentioning are a quartet of projects that received Eurimages coin (we reported on this yesterday) in Anke Blondé’s Dust, Jaap van Heusden’s In Alaska, Sylvère Petit’s La Baleine and Marco Nguyen’s Jim Queen. Here are all the feature film projects (including docs) showcased at the 2024 Venice Gap-Financing Market, plus the trio of items selected for the Biennale College Cinema.
Ama – Yuki Kawamura (Luxembourg/France/Japan) (Focus on Luxembourg)
Production: Les Films Fauves, Good Fortune Films, Flag Pictures
Amoeba – Siyou Tan (Singapore/Netherlands/France/Spain)
Production: Akanga Film Asia
Better Class – Victor García León (Spain)
Production: Buenapinta Media
Black Water – Aga Woszczyńska (Poland/Finland/Estonia)
Production: Lava Films
Death Has No Master – Jorge Thielen Armand (Venezuela/Canada/Italy/Luxembourg/Mexico/Spain)
Production: Volos Films Italy, La Faena Films
Dengue – Prantik Basu (India/France/Netherlands)
Production: Riverine Films, Jba Production, The Film Kitchen
Devolution – Nicolas Boucart (Belgium/Italy/Poland) (Focus on Wallonia – Brussels)
Production: Tarantula Belgique
Dust – Anke Blondé (Belgium/Grecia/Poland/UK)
Production: A Private View
Global Project – Ivo M. Ferreira (Portugal/Luxembourg)
Production: O Som e a Fúria
Golem – Jiří Barta (Czech Republic/France/Slovakia) (animation)
Production: Hausboot
If I See a Rainbow – Zhao Hao (China/France)
Production: Good Time Films
In Alaska – Jaap Van Heusden, Vinnie Karetak (Netherlands/Canada)
Production: Ijswater Films
Jealous White Men – Ivan Granovsky (Argentina/Portugal/Italy/Brazil)
Production: Frutacine, O Som e a Fúria, Ring Film, Biônica Filmes
La Baleine – Sylvère Petit (France/Spain/Belgium)
Production: Les Films d’Ici Méditerranée
Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes – Gabriel Azorín (Spain/Portugal)
Production: DVEIN Films
Legìtima – Elisa Miller (Mexico)
Production: Pimienta Films
Love Before Sunrise – Chen-Ti Kuo (Taiwan/Japan)
Production: A Thousand Tree Films / J&K Entertainment Inc.
Marie & Jolie – Erige Sehiri (France/Tunisia/Qatar)
Production: Maneki Films & Henia Production
No Good Men – Shahrbanoo Sadat (Germany/France/Norway/Denmark)
Production: Adomeit Film GmbH
The Blood Countess – Ulrike Ottinger (Austria/Luxembourg/Germany) (Focus on Luxembourg)
Production: Amour Fou Vienna
The Good Life – Matt Winn (UK)
Production: Funny Peculiar Ltd.
The Isle of the Demoiselle – Micha Wald (Belgium/France/Canada) (Focus on Wallonia – Brussels)
Production: Stenola Productions
The Life of Simon Jashi – Dmitry Mamuliya (Georgia/France/Lithuania)
Production: Millimeter Film
The Station – Sara Ishaq (Yemen/Jordan/France/Netherlands/Germany/Norway/Qatar)
Production: Screen Project
Three Black Nights – Theo Court (Chile/Spain) (fiction)
Production: Quijote Films, El Viaje Films
Tristes Tròpicos – Gastón Solnicki (Austria/Argentina) (fiction)
Production: Little Magnet Films, Filmy Wiktora, Primo
Twins – Eva Neymann (Jordan/Poland/Netherlands)
Production: Toy Cinema
Documentaries:
A Sweetness From Nowhere – Ester M. Bergsmark (Sweden/Norway)
Production: Garagefilm International
Becoming Ema – Patricia Drati (Denmark/Spain/Slovakia)
Production: Good Company Pictures
Cuba & Alaska – Yegor Troyanovsky (Ukraine/France/Belgium)
Production: 2Brave Productions, TAG Film
Movie Kintsugi (wt) – Eva Knopf (Japan/Germany) (Focus on Japan)
Production: Trixta Ltd., Amerikafilm GmbH
The Magic City – Pablo Guarise, Guillaume Maupin (Belgium/France/Sweden) (Focus on Wallonia – Brussels)
Production: Naoko Films
The Reserve – Ezequiel Yanco (Argentina/Spain/Mexico)
Production: Isoi Cine, Lacima, Fiasco
Theft of Fire – Amer Shomali (Canada/Palestina/France)
Production: Intuitive Pictures Inc.
3 BIENNALE COLLEGE CINEMA PROJECTS
3 projects, that have been developed during the first workshop of the Biennale College Cinema, 12th edition, and that have reached different stages of development and pre-production.
Dog Days of Summer (Italy) by Camilla Carè, Piroetta
Jaysan (Kyrgyzstan) by Aisha Sultanbekova, Koyon Media
The Forest (Hungary) by Bálint Kenyeres, Anabanana
