Federico Luis from Argentina and Maksym Nakonechnyi from Ukraine are among the six young filmmakers chosen for the Festival de Cannes Residency in Paris. Luis’s film Simon of the Mountain was selected for Critics’ Week in 2024, and Nakonechnyi’s Butterfly Vision (read review) was part of the 2022 Un Certain Regard section. For four and a half months, they will benefit from a challenging and stimulating screenwriting environment combining individual support and group meetings with film professionals. We can expect a handful of these projects to come to fruition but we’ll need to wait a while. The other filmmakers include Slovakia’s Alica Bednáriková, Brazil’s Laís Santos Araújo, Iran’s Baran Sarmad and Dian Weys from South Africa.
50th Résidence du Festival de Cannes: Federico Luis & Maksym Nakonechnyi Among the Half Dozen Invites
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