The Venice Production Bridge have unveiled the projects lining up the Venice Gap-Financing Market and we find auteurs such as Mexican filmmaker Lila Avilés, Damian Kocur, Asmae El Moudir and a slew of great auteurs are among the 38 feature-length fiction and documentary projects showcased this upcoming September. The 13th edition (September 4th – 6th, 2026) will offer selected projects from Europe and around the world the opportunity to close their international financing, through one-to-one meetings with international decision-makers. The earliest we might see these projects next year in 2027, more than likely 2028. After The Chambermaid (2018) and Totem (2023), Avilés will be getting her third feature film ready in Cábula. After Bread and Salt (2022) and Under the Volcano (2024), Kocur’s La Manche focuses on what aftermath of what happens during an illegal hunt, Tomasz accidentally shoots a man who turns out to be a refugee. Don’t Let the Sun Go Up on Me by Asmae El Moudir is likely being completed for Cannes next year – it chronicles the lives of the “Children of the Moon,” a community of young adults living with the rare genetic disorder xeroderma pigmentosum, which makes sunlight deadly. Here are the projects worth tracking:
38 selected fiction and documentary projects:
A Year Without Summer — fiction (Switzerland, Germany) — Flurin Giger
African Grey — fiction (Greece, Bulgaria) — Yorgos Goussis
All Clear — fiction (Ukraine, Germany, Luxembourg) — Christina Tynkevych
An Entry Into a Portuguese Woman’s Sadness — fiction (France, Philippines, Portugal) — Lav Diaz
Ballad of the Phoenix — animation (Mexico) — Rodolfo Ambriz Rendón, Arturo Ambriz Rendón
Cábula — fiction (Mexico, Spain) — Lila Avilés
Untitled Water Documentary — documentary (Chile, Canada) — Carola Fuentes
Don’t Let the Sun Go Up on Me — documentary (Morocco, Norway, France, Chile) — Asmae El Moudir
Faux Bijoux — fiction (France, Lebanon, Belgium) — Jessy Moussallem
Holiday — fiction (France, Italy, Greece, Lebanon) — Wissam Charaf
Kurinji — fiction (India, France, Germany) — Payal Sethi
Kyūshū Moon — fiction (Switzerland, France) — Stéphanie Argerich
La Manche — fiction (Poland, Germany, France) — Damian Kocur
Land of Savages — fiction (Colombia, United States, Chile) — Fernando Guzzoni
Light Boxes — animation (Bulgaria, Canada, France, Belgium, Poland) — Theodore Ushev
Lionfish — fiction (Greece, Germany) — Thanasis Trouboukis
Magnum Opus — fiction (Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Moldova) — Bogdan Mirică
News From Lod, a Letter to Chantal Akerman — documentary (France, Belgium) — Michale Boganim
Patrimonial Fears and Other Illusions — fiction (Greece, Netherlands, Cyprus) — Elina Psykou
Primo Viaggio — fiction (Italy, France) — Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman
Quiet Land — fiction (Switzerland, France, Canada) — Ursula Meier
Salut Robert — documentary (USA, Switzerland, France) — Laura Israel
Shitballs — fiction (Iceland, Canada) — Alfrun Ornolfsdottir
Something Strange Happened to Me — fiction (Ukraine, United Kingdom) — Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
Stallions — documentary (Morocco, United States) — Rita Baghdadi
The Amateurs — documentary (Chile, Argentina) — Felipe Solari Yrigoyen
The Funeral — fiction (Brazil, Portugal, Romania) — Carolina Markowicz
The Horsemen of the Apocalypse — documentary (Norway, Sweden, Germany) — Lene Berg
The Langfang Republic — fiction (Japan, France, Taiwan) — Katsuya Tomita
The Rope — fiction (Italy, Switzerland) — Alberto Fasulo
The Smuggler — fiction (Switzerland, Greece, France) — Kaveh Bakhtiari
They Burn in the Same Way — fiction (Argentina, Brazil) — Clarisa Navas
Toxic — fiction (Austria, Germany, France, Sweden) — Jessica Hausner
Urihi – The Forest-Land — documentary (Brazil) — Morzaniel Iramari
Wake — fiction (Greece, Cyprus, Serbia) — Thelyia Petraki
Wolfmother — fiction (France, Morocco) — Ismaël El Iraki
Ya & Niki — fiction (Italy, France, Lebanon) — Rä Di Martino
Barnacles – fiction (Italy) by Andrej Chinappi, Mosaicon Film Srl
Piggy Baby – fiction (Italy, France) by Maria Giménez Cavallo, Berta Film
Tithes & Offering – fiction (Kenya) by Tony Koros, We Are Not the Machine Ltd.
