European Film Promotion is taking part in host on the Cannes Film Festival to up-and-coming European producers, chosen for its Producers on the Transfer program. Selection invited the producers to share particulars of their upcoming initiatives, which embrace “Vanda,” Clémence Poésy’s debut characteristic as a director.
Lixi Frank, Austria
Mission: “Fanny Is Alive”
Director: Alexandra Makarová
In 1947, Fanny continues to be residing within the Bergen-Belsen DP camp, hoping to to migrate to Palestine. When her husband Karl finds her after years of looking, that hope is shattered, forcing her to return to Vienna – right into a society that after sought to erase her. Fanny and Karl should then confront whether or not a future collectively continues to be potential in any case they’ve misplaced.
Roxanne Sarkozi, Belgium
Mission: “Harvest”
Director: Anke Blondé
Harvest, the lighthearted drama by Berlinale Expertise Anke Blondé, follows the younger Romanian Lucian and his mom Alina as they chase a greater life in Sicily. Whereas Alina toils within the greenhouses, Lucian makes new mates. However when their parent-child roles reverse, issues collapse.
Dagmar Sedláčková, Czech Republic
Mission: “Sow”
Director: Tereza Nvotová
Ema has spent her life invisible in a theater the place her mom was as soon as a star. When a door opens into one other world the place she will lastly take middle stage, she’ll give it no matter it asks.
Constantinos Nikiforou, Cyprus
Mission: “Excavators”
Director: Argyro Nicolaou
Excavators follows Klió, a younger video artist investigating the decades-old disappearance of her grandmother in the course of the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, after her stays are unearthed within the occupied north of the island. Mixing household drama with thriller, this debut characteristic explores political reminiscence and intergenerational relationships in a society scarred by struggle, displacement and unresolved battle.
Maria Møller Kjeldgaard, Denmark
Mission: “The von Sydow Murders”
Director: Isabella Eklöf
A 1932 true crime love story. Unfolding one of the scandalous crimes in Sweden; a five-person homicide/suicide in Stockholm’s higher courses, skilled from the perspective of a younger girl. Like Eklöf’s earlier movies, “Holiday” (Sundance) and “Kalak” (San Sebastián), this half chamber play, half highway film will discover energy buildings, generational trauma and the boundaries of affection.
Marianne Ostrat, Estonia
Mission: “Saima: Scenes From a Midlife Crisis”
Director: Chintis Lundgren
Animated characteristic for adults
“Saima: Scenes From a Midlife Crisis” by Chintis Lundgren and Draško Ivezić is a deep but humorous tackle navigating the chaos of midlife transformation. Expressed via a daring, imaginative aesthetic, the movie invitations grownup audiences to attach with themes of abandonment, management and self-discovery. Co-developed between Alexandra Movie (Estonia), Adriatic Animation (Croatia) and Avec ou sans Vous (France).
Daniel Kuitunen, Finland
Mission: “The Liar’s Paradox”
Director: Zaida Bergroth
“Liar’s Paradox” is a psychological thriller about Alma Stone, a mathematician whose disgraced ex-husband, a legendary theater director accused of abusive working strategies, seeks refuge in her remoted house. When a younger and charismatic actor arrives to check beneath the fallen grasp, an intense triangle of manipulation, need and efficiency begins to unfold. Because the scenario spirals right into a violent psychological sport, Alma should resolve whose story to consider.
Julie Billy, France
Mission: “Vanda”
Director: Clémence Poésy
Within the vein of “Fish Tank” and with the heartbeat of “À plein temps,” the primary characteristic directed by Clémence Poésy follows a fiercely free mom whose life unravels when her 7-year-old son’s absent father returns. A narrative of a girl’s battle for independence.
Philipp Trauer, Germany
Mission: “War Tourist”
Director: Kilian Riedhof
Writers: Astrid Ströher, Marc Blöbaum, Kilian Riedhof
Impressed by true occasions “War Tourist” is an existential satire a few man on a quest for greatness by means of vacationing in lively struggle zones.
Danae Spathara, Greece
Mission: “Human Negligence”
Director: Eirini Vianelli
“Human Negligence” by Eirini Vianelli is a darkish comedy about 4 generations of ladies who’re comedically compelled to depart behind their lavish house, unsustainable facades and inherited dysfunction with a purpose to survive each a devastating fireplace and one another. The movie is a stop-motion animation characteristic that blends deadpan wit and surreal conditions into a mirrored image on existential whiplash. It was a part of 2024 Sundance Intensive Screenwriters Lab.
Sunna Guðnadóttir, Iceland
Mission: “True North”
Director: Nanna María Magnúsdóttir
Reside-Motion Household Movie
Satisfied she has ruined her mom’s profession, a trouble-prone 11-year-old travels to Iceland to dwell together with her estranged father, however when she finds him absent, she seeks refuge in an unlikely friendship with a polar bear, and the laborious lesson that true braveness means accepting individuals, and your self, as you’re.
Julianne Forde, Eire
Mission: “Mondegreen”
Director: George Kane
“Mondegreen” is a black comedy/psychological thriller that follows reformed ex-stalker Nira, who falls for touring musician Man Mondeville and follows him to Canada in an effort to flee mounting public shaming for a previous incident, solely to grow to be the prime suspect in Mondeville’s lacking individual’s investigation. Now she should show her innocence regardless of the proof of her previous suggesting in any other case.
Stefano Centini, Italy
Mission: “Poem of a Phantom”
Director: Jorge Thielen Armand
Caracas, 2029: as a brand new coalition authorities takes over, Italian-Venezuelan architect Marcello is invited to rebuild an iconic construction which as soon as represented Venezuela’s prosperity. His journey will unravel previous ghosts and future misdeeds.
Ivana Shekutkoska, North Macedonia
Mission: “The Pot, the Lid and the Nurse”
Director: Vardan Tozija
At the moment in growth, “The Pot, the Lid and the Nurse” follows a burned-out nurse who, after a public breakdown, takes a job caring for an aged couple in a distant mountain city, changing into entangled of their long-buried secrets and techniques, bitterness, and sudden tenderness.
Olivia Sophie van Leeuwen, The Netherlands
Mission: “The Woman Who Made Van Gogh Famous”
Director: Willemiek Kluijfhout
“The Woman Who Made Van Gogh Famous” is a documentary about Jo van Gogh-Bonger, the girl who rescued Vincent van Gogh’s work from obscurity after his loss of life and reworked him into one of the celebrated artists in historical past whereas disappearing from the narrative herself.
Agata Novinski, Slovak Republic
Mission: “Wish It!”
Director: Kristina Dufková
“Wish It!” is a stop-motion animated characteristic about two youngsters whose needs unexpectedly come true, main them on a playful but emotional journey throughout a small city, exploring household, creativeness, and the stunning energy of what we dare to want for.
Xavi Font, Spain
Mission: “Petróleo”
Director: Álvaro Pulpeiro
“Petróleo,” Álvaro Pulpeiro’s fiction characteristic debut, is a geopolitical fever dream set in a collapsing petro-state in Central America, the place a European engineer enters a world of oil extraction, corruption and international interference, because the pursuit of sources slowly dissolves territory, reminiscence and identification itself.
Linda Mutawi, Sweden
Mission: “The Replaceable” (in growth)
Director: Abbe Hassan
An elevated Nordic thriller set between Malmö and Copenhagen, the place a grief-driven younger man infiltrates a trafficking community to avenge his lacking brother, solely to uncover a shadow financial system of organ commerce, vanished refugees and outsourced violence working in plain sight. Then he discovers his brother should be alive contained in the system he got here to destroy. Revenge turns to rescue in a narrative of brotherhood, loyalty and the way far we’ll go to avoid wasting those we love.
