A longstanding champion of emerging European cinema, the Les Arcs Film Festival’s Co-Production Village has announced eighteen feature film projects selected for its development program, including those from the likes of Lisa Brühlmann, Mar Coll and Lina Soualem. As we await the savoury list of films selected in their Work in Progress section (we often find future Cannes titles embedded in that selection), we have Bye Bye Tiberias helmer firmly moving into fiction with Alicante (also feature at the Atlas Labs at Marrakech) a story about Franco-Algerian photographer transplanted in Spain. Mar Coll who last directed Locarno entry Salve Maria (read review) is now focused on Dasha while Switzerland’s Lisa Brühlmann is taming The Tigress. Here are the selections:
Alicante – Lina Soualem (France) – Production: Easy Riders
Confirmation – Maciej Jankowski (Poland) – Production: Rozbrat Films
Dasha – Mar Coll (Spain/Germany) – Production: Fasten Films, Yellow Blackbird
Disqualifié – Dimitris Zouras (Greece) – Production : Neda Film
Elsewhere – Adelina Borets (Ukraine/Poland) – Production: Toy Cinema, Koskino
Friends, Birthdays, Murder, etc. – Lida Vartzioti/Dimitris Tsakaleas (Greece) – Production: Atalante Productions
Hard Copy – Marleen Valien (Germany) – Production: Sommerhaus Filmproduktion
I Will Drink With The Bees – Léa Triboulet (France) – Production: La Belle Affaire Productions
In The Name of Pleasure – Lisa Clarkson (UK) – Production: Story Horse Pictures Ltd
Inner Warrior – Nicolai G.H. Johansen (Denmark) – Production: Sub Rosa Pictures
Invasion – Jerry Carlsson (Sweden) – Production: Verket Produktion
Love in The Time of Communism – Kristina Grozeva/Petar Valchanov (Bulgaria/Greece) – Production: Abraxas Film, Graal
One Hand Jesus – Bogdan Mirică (Romania) – Production: deFilm
Pantano de aves – Karen Vázquez Guadarrama (Belgium) – Production: Mirage
Riot/Girl – Arman T. Riahi (Austria/France) – Production: Golden Girls Filmproduktion, Les Contes Modernes
Since You’ve Been Gone – María Herrera López (Spain) – Production : Avalon
The Hermit – Nicolas Kolovos (Greece/Sweden) – Production : Homemade Films, Kakadua Filmproduktion
The Tigress – Lisa Brühlmann (Switzerland/UK) – Production : tellfilm GmbH, tempesta film UK
