Locarno and Venice line-ups include seven projects developed at EAVE workshops

Nominations and Selections July 2022

Locarno Film Festival

International Competition

• SERMON TO THE FISH by Hilal Baydarov, co-producer: EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler
• SATURN BOWLING by Patricia Mazuy, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman
• HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH by Helena Wittmann, producer: TTB graduate and EAVE participant Julia Cöllen
• IL PATAFFIO by Francesco Lagi, producer: Interchange graduate Marta Donzelli
• MATTER OUT OF PLACE by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Michael Kitzberger
• REGRA 34 by Julia Murat, producer: PUENTES graduate Tatiana Leite
• STONE TURTLE by Ming Jin Woo, co-producer: TTB graduate and EAVE participant Yulia Evina Bhara
• TENGO SUENOS ELECTRICOS by Valentina Maurel, producer: EAVE graduate Benoit Roland

Cineasti del presente 

• TTB project ARNOLD IS A MODEL STUDENT by Sorayos Prapapan, producer: TTB graduate Donsaron Kovitvanitcha, co-producer: EAVE graduate Denis Vaslin
• OUR LADY OF THE CHINESE SHOP by Ery Claver, producer: EAVE graduate Jorge Cohen
• SAFE PLACE by Juraj Lerotić, producer: EAVE graduate Miljenka Cogelja

Pardi di Domani

• AIRHOSTESS-737 by Thanasis Neofotistos, producer: EAVE graduate Ioanna Bolomyti
• CASTELLS by Blanca Camell Galí, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Nadine Rothschild
• DIAMOND KID by Pierre Edouard Dumora, producer: EAVE graduate Alejandro Arenas
• MONEY AND HAPPINESS by Ana Nedeljkovic, Nikola Majdak Jr., co-producer: EAVE MW graduate Peter Badac
• ASTERION by Francesco Montagner, producer: TTB graduate Veronika Kührova, co-producer; EAVE graduate Juraj Krasnohorsky
• THAT'S HOW THE SUMMER ENDED by Matjaz Ivanisin, producers: EAVE graduate Miha Cernec, EAVE graduate and Slovenian National Coordinator Jozko Rutar

Piazza Grande

• EVERYTHING ABOUT MARTIN SUTER. EVERYTHING BUT THE TRUTH by André Schäfer, producer: EAVE participant Nadine Lüchinger
• ANGRY ANNIE by Blandine Lenoir, producer: B’EST and Interchange graduate Charlotte Vincent
• DELTA by Michele Vannucci, producer: EAVE graduate Giovanni Pompili
• LAST DANCE by Delphine Lehericey, producers: EAVE graduate Anne-Laure Guégan, PUENTES graduate Géraldine Sprimont
• YOU WILL NOT HAVE MY HATE by Kilian Riedhof, producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Jean-Yves Roubin

Out of competition

• OBSCURE NIGHT – WILD LEAVES (THE BURNING ONES, THE OBSTINATE) by Sylvain George, co-producer: EAVE graduate Eugenia Mumenthaler

Open Doors: Screenings

• OPTION ZERO by Marcel Beltrán, co-producers: PUENTES graduates Maria Carla Del Rio, Paola Andrea Pérez Nieto

Open Doors: Shorts

• SOUL OF THE SEA by Elvis Caj Cojoc, producer: EAVE graduate Elisa Pirir

Locarno Kids: Screenings

• LA FRECCIA AZZURRA by Enzo D'Alò, producer: EAVE graduate Paul Thiltges
• HOW I LEARNED TO FLY by Radivoje Andrić, producers: EAVE graduate and Serbian National Coordinator Milan Stojanovic, EAVE graduate Maja Popovic, co-producers: EAVE graduate, group leader and Croatian National Coordinator Ankica Jurić Tilić, EAVE graduate and Slovak National Coordinator Katharina Krnáčová
• EAVE Marketing Workshop project SIHJA, THE REBEL FAIRY by Marja Pyykkö, producers: EAVE graduate and Finnish National Coordinator Elli Toivoniemi, EAVE graduate Venla Hellstedt

Critics’ Week

• THE RIVER IS NOT A BORDER by Alassane Diago, producer: EAVE graduate Heino Deckert
• THE HAMLET SYNDROME by Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosołowski, producer: EAVE graduate Magdalena Kamińska

Panorama Suisse

• ALA KACHUU - TAKE AND RUN by Maria Brendle, producer: EAVE participant Nadine Lüchinger
• A PIECE OF SKY by Michael Koch, producer: EAVE+ graduate Christof Neracher
• LIKE AN ISLAND by Tizian Büchi, producer: EAVE+ and PUENTES graduate Britta Rindelaub
• OLGA by Elie Grappe, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Tom Dercourt

Locarno Pro Market

• CARAVANES by Nicolas Blies & EAVE graduate Stéphane Hueber-Blies, producer: EAVE graduate Stéphane Hueber-Blies

www.locarnofestival.ch

 

Coprocity Development Award

Projects by EAVE graduates selected for Coprocity Development Award:

• A SONG THAT SLAYS by Mo Scarpelli, producer: EAVE graduate Alessandro Amato
• AL BASEER – THE BLIND FERRYMAN by Ali Al-Fatlawi, producer: EAVE graduate Karin Koch
• MADE IN EU by EAVE graduate Stephan Komandarev
• THE SWEDISH TORPEDO by Frida Kempff, producer: EAVE graduate David Herdies

A partner to 13 co-production markets, the online platform will be choosing the winner of its development award this September.

www.coprocity.com

 

Venice International Film Festival

Competition

• L’IMMENSITA by Emanuele Crialese, producer: EAVE FFF graduate Lorenzo Gangarossa
• THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER by Joanna Hogg, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney
• CHIARA by Susanna Nicchiarelli, producer: Interchange graduate Marta Donzelli

Out of competition - fiction

• WHEN THE WAVES ARE GONE by Lav Diaz, producer: TTB producer and TTB group leader Bianca Balbuena, TTB graduate Bradley Liew
• SICCITA by Paolo Virzi, producer: Film Forum graduate Lorenzo Gangarossa

Out of competition – non fiction

• MUSIC FOR BLACK PIGEONS by Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed, producer: EAVE graduate Emile Hertling Péronard

Horizons

• PRINCESS (opening film) by Roberto De Paolis, producer: PUENTES graduate Carla Altieri
• VICTIM by Michal Blasko, producers: EAVE graduates Jakub Viktorin and Pavla Janoušková Kubečková, co-producer : EAVE graduate Saar Yogev
• PUENTES Project BLANQUITA by Fernando Guzzoni, producer: PUENTES, EAVE + and MW graduate Giancarlo Nasi, sales: EAVE graduate Jan Naszewski NEW EUROPE FILM SALES
• LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG by Antonio Lukich, producer: EAVE graduate Vladimir Yatsenko 
• EAVE and TTB PROJECT TO THE NORTH by Mihai Mincan, producer: EAVE and TTB graduate Radu Stancu, co-producers: EAVE and TTB graduate Konstantinos Vassilaros, EAVE graduate Mikulas Novotny
• TTB PROJECT AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Makbul Mubarak, producer : EAVE participant and TTB graduate Yulia Evina Bhara
• THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD by Teona Strugar Mitevska, producers: EAVE graduate and Macedonian National Coordinator Labina Mitevska, EAVE+ graduate Danijel Hocevar, EAVE graduates Benoît Roland, National Coordinator Bosnia Herzegovina Amra Baksic Camo, EAVE graduates Maria Møller Christoffersen, Sébastien Delloye

Horizons Extra

• INTERCHANGE PROJECT NEZOUH by Soudade Kaadan, producers: Interchange graduates Amira Kaadan and Soudade Kaadan 
• NOTTE FANTASMA by Fulvio Risuleo, producer: EAVE FFF graduate Lorenzo Gangarossa
• VALERIA GETTING MARRIED by Michal Vinik, co-producer: Vladimir Yatsenko

 

Venice Days – Giornate degli Autori

Competition

• EAVE project ORDINARY FAILURES by Cristina Grosan, producer: EAVE graduate Marek Novak, co-producer: EAVE graduate Marica Stocchi
• DIRTY, DIFFICULT, DANGEROUS by Wissam Charaf, producer: Interchange and B’EST graduate Charlotte Vincent, co-producers: EAVE graduate Marco Valerio Fusco, Interchange graduate Pierre Sarraf
• THE LAST QUEEN by Adila Bendimerad, Damien Ounouri, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman
• THE DAMNED DON’T CRY by Fyzal Boulifa, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Jean-Yves Roubin

 

Miu Miu Women’s Tales

• #24 CARTA DE MI MADRE PARA MI HIJO by Carla Simón (short film), producer: EAVE graduate, group leader and Croatian National Coordinator Ankica Juric Tilic

https://www.labiennale.org

 

Venice International Film Critics’ Week

Competition

• ANHELL69 by Theo Montoya, producer: EAVE participant Maximilan Haslberger
• DOGBORN by Isabella Carbonell, producer: EAVE graduate David Herdies
• EISMAYER by David Wagner, producers: EAVE graduates Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber
• MARGINI by Niccolo Falsetti, producers: EAVE graduate Alessandro Amato, EAVE participant Luigi Chimienti

 

Special Events

• QUEENS (closing film) by Yasmine Benkiran, producers: EAVE graduate and French National Coordinator Jean des Forets, EAVE MW graduate Amélie Jacquis, co-producers: EAVE graduates Anne-Laure Guégan, Marie Dubas, PUENTES graduate Géraldine Sprimont, EAVE+ graduate Hanneke Niens

SIC@SIC Short Italian Cinema

• LIKE SNAILS by Margherita Panizon, producer: EAVE graduate Sarah Pennacchi

https://www.sicvenezia.it/

 

Projects selected for Final Cut in Venice:

• BACKSTAGE by Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane, producer: EAVE graduate Isabelle Truc
• INSHALLAH A BOY by Amjad Al Rasheed, producer: EAVE graduate Rula Nasser
• SUSPENDED by Myriam El Hajj, producer: EAVE graduate Myriam Sassine

http://veniceproductionbridge.org

 

63 projects will be presented at the Venice Gap-Financing Market. The event is being organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge during the Venice Film Festival. Among them:

• ARCADIA by Yorgos Zois, producer: EAVE graduate Maria Drandaki
• BLUE BANKS by Andreea Cristina Bortun, producer: EAVE graduate Jean-Laurent Csinidis
• COLD by Erlingur Thoroddsen, producer: EAVE participant Elisa Heene
• FÜR IRENA by Giedre Zickyte, producer: EAVE+ graduate Pille Rünk
• HOLD ME TIGHT by Ana Guevara, Leticia, producer: EAVE graduate and PUENTES group leader Agustina Chiarino
• STRANGER EYES by Yeo Siew Hua, producer: EAVE graduate Jean-Laurent Csinidis
• THE GOD WILL NOT HELP by Hana Jusic, producer: EAVE group leader and Croatian National Coordinator Ankica Juric Tilic
• THE SMELL OF FRESHLY CUT GRASS by Celina Murga, producer: TTB and EAVE graduate and German National Coordinator Jonas Weydemann
• TTB project TITANIC OCEAN by Konstantina Kotzamani, producer: EAVE graduate Maria Drandaki

http://veniceproductionbridge.org

Page published 28 July 2022. Updated 29 July 2022.