01/07/2022 – These projects from all over the world will participate in the ninth edition of the market, organized within the Venice Production Bridge which takes place from September 2 to 4

Dedicated to films in their final stages of development and financing, and organized within the Venice Production Bridge, the Venice Gap-Financing Market has announced the 63 projects selected to participate in the ninth edition of the event, scheduled for September 2-4 during the 79th Venice International Film Festival.

Made up of works from all over the world, the selection reflects a wide variety of backgrounds, stories, talents, genres and budgets, and includes 33 feature-length fiction and documentary projects (including 5 from Taiwan and France, this Country in Focus VPB of the year), 16 immersive projects (including 4 Country in Focus projects), 11 Biennale College – Virtual Reality projects and 3 Biennale College – Cinema projects.

Through its various locations, the Venice Gap-Financing Market will welcome face-to-face the teams (i.e. the producer and the director) at the origin of these 63 projects and the professionals with the power to decision-making (producers, private and public funders, banks, distributors, commercial agents, television channels, online and video platforms, institutions and post-production companies).

The Book of Projects containing detailed information on each of the projects will be published online around mid-July. VPB-accredited film industry professionals will be able to request one-on-one meetings with project teams through the Venice Production Bridge website.

The selected projects are:

Fiction films and documentaries

5 seasons of revolution – Lina (Syria/Germany/Norway/Holland/Qatar) (documentary)
Producer: No Nation Films

The 67th summer – Abu Bakr Shawky (France/Austria/Egypt) (fiction)
Production: Cinenovo

Arcadia – Yorgos Zois (Greece/Bulgaria) (fiction)
Production: Foss Production, Home Movies, Red Carpet

To be with me (Taiwan) – Hwarng Wern Ying
Production: Simovie (fiction)

Blue Benches (Malul Vanat) – Andreea Cristina Bortun (Romania/France/Slovenia) (fiction)
Production: Film Workshop, Force Majeure Films, Perfo

chasing the sun – Huang Ruosong(China/Hong Kong) (fiction)
Production: Event Horizon Culture Media, Chinese Shadows

Cold (Kuldi) – Erlingur Thoroddsen (Iceland/Belgium) (fiction)
Production: Compass Films, Eyjafjallajokull Entertainment, Mirage Films

An endless Sunday – Alain Parroni (Italy/Germany) (fiction)
Production: Alcor Srl, Fandango SPA, Road Movies

Dewlap – Jean-Claude Barny (France/Luxembourg/Belgium/Canada) (fiction)
Production: Special Touch Studios

Fatna, a woman named Rashid – Helen Harder, Abel Aflam (Morocco/France) (documentary)
Production: Wendigo Films

First names – Fernando Dominguez (Argentina/France/Germany) (documentary)
Production: CSP Films, Les Valseurs, Black Forest Films

To flow – Gints Zilbalodis (France/Germany/Latvia) (fiction)
Production: Sacrebleu Productions, Cine Litte Productions, Dream Well Studios

For Irena – Giedre Žickyte (Lithuania/Estonia/Bulgaria) (documentary)
Production: Moonmakers, Allfilm, Agitprop

The God Won’t Help (Bog Nece Pomoci) – Hana Juic (Croatia/Italy) (fiction)
Production: Kinorama, Rosamont

A golden life – Boubacar Sangare (France/Benin/Burkina Faso) (documentary)
Production: Les Films de la Caravane, Merveilles Production, Imedia

His second chance – Vito Palmieri (Italy) (fiction)
Production: Articulture

Hug me tight – Ana Guevara, Leticia Jorge (Uruguay) (fiction)
Production: Mutante Cine, Bocacha Films. Augustine Chiarino

House – Or Sinai (Israel/Ukraine) (fiction)
Producer: Baryo

Horizonte – Cesar Augusto Acevedo Garcia (Colombia/France/Chile) (fiction)
Production: Inercia Peliculas

Houses – Veronica Nicole Tetebaum (Israel) (fiction)
Producer: Marker Films, Daizy Films

me the song – Dechen Roder (Bhutan/France/Taiwan) (fiction)
Production: Dakinny Productions, Girelle Productions, Fidalgo Films

indelible – Laura Chiosson (Italy) (fiction)
Production: Twister srl, Adler Entertainment, Showlab SRL

The master of this silence – Jonathan Littel (France/Poland/Ukraine) (fiction)
Production: Night watchman

Monsters (working title) – Manuel Abramovich (Argentina/Germany) (documentary)
Producer: Ruido

The mysterious gaze of the pink flamingo – Diego Cespedes (Chile/France/Mexico/Spain) (fiction)
Production: Rampante Films, Quijote Films, Les Valseurs, Varios Lobos, Irusoin

november – Thomas Corredor (Colombia/Mexico) (fiction)
Production: Burning S.A.S.

Sat – E del Mundo (Philippines/Norway) (fiction)
Production: Create Cinema Inc., DUOFilm

The smell of freshly cut grass – Celina Murga (Argentina/Germany/Uruguay) (fiction)
Production: Tresmilmundos Cine, Mostra Cine, Weydemann Bros., Nadador Cine

Stranger eyes – Yeo Siew Hua (Singapore/France/Taiwan) (fiction)
Production: Akanga Film Asia, Force Majeure Films, Volos Films

Tales of Taipei – Pawo Choyning Dorji, Keat Aun Chong, KEFF, Rachid Hami, Norris Wong, Pei-Ju Hsieh, Joseph Hsu, Chen-Hao Yin, Liu Chuan-Hui, Tang Yi (Taiwan) (fiction)
Producer: MA Studios Ltd.

Titanic Ocean – Konstantina Kotzamani (Greece/France/Spain/Romania/Germany/Japan) (fiction)
Production: Home movies

Who’ll Stop the Rain – SU I-Hsuan (Taiwan) (fiction)
Producer: Suz Creative Studio

Ze – Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir (France/Mongolia/Portugal/Holland/Germany) (fiction)
Production: Aurora Films

Immersive story projects

0 – Albedo – Iolanda Di Bonaventura (Italy)
Production: Artheria srl

Substitutes – Jonathan Hagard (Japan/France)
Production: CinemaLeap Inc., Floreal Films

Incredible monster! – Raphael Penasa (France/Switzerland)
Production: Wowl and Small Creative

Bliss Club RV – Camille Duvelleroy (France)
Production: Atlas V

Crows Castle – Ismaila Jallow (Sweden)
Production: GotaFilm

eyes of shame – Tomas Tamosaitis (Lithuania/France/Slovenia)
Production: Insomniak, Joni Art, Transmedia Design Institute

father’s videotape – Babou Liao (Taiwan)
Manufacturing: SWSG

Gargoyle Doyle – Ezequiel Lenardon (USA/Argentina)
Production: Easy Action, Detona Cultura

kandaka – Ainslee Alem Robson (Sudan/USA/France)
Producers: Ainslee Alem Robson, Kidus Hailesilassie

Kill Philip – Fabito Rychter, Amir Admoni (Brazil)
Production: Delirium XR

Mirror – By Chuen Wu (Taiwan)
Producer: Longwell

Nana Lou – Isabelle Andreani (France/Luxembourg)
Production: small creation

soul painting (working title) – Niki Smith, Sarah Ticho (UK/Holland)
Production: Monobande, Improv Vive

Stephen Hawking’s Black Holes – Elliot Graves (UK)
Production: Atlantic Productions, Alchemy

The February Towers – Philip Wenning (Germany)
Production: Studio Philipp Wenning, Expanding Focus GmbH

We whisper their names – Osakpolor Omoregie (Nigeria)
Production: Sud Electric

Biennial College Projects

Film projects

Deus Cherzat – Silvia Perra (Italy)
Producer: Mommotty Film

Once upon a time you loved me – Melissa Anastasi (Australia)
Producer: Unruly Hearts, Media Stockade

Problem – Sifiso Khanyile (South Africa)
Production: Zinc Pictures

Immersive projects

1991 – Akmyrat Tuyliyev (Turkmenistan/USA/Canada)
Realization: Sensorium

Deusa Das Aguas – Joao Paulo Miranda Maria (France)
Production: Les Valseurs

Humart – Michal Stankiewicz (Poland/UK)
Producer: Liliana Grzybowska

Guardian – Jennifer Shortall (Ireland/Italy)
Production: Nuwa Digital Media

Locked – Antonio Messina (Italy)
Producer: Studio Robin

Massad – Alba Zari (Italy)
Producer: Slingshot Films

Meteors – Jacopo Marco Zanessi (Italy)
Producer: Kublai

queer utopia – Lui Avallos (Portugal/Brazil)
Production: Mundivagante Studio

Detection mirror – Peiying Lin, Chin Hsuan Sung (Taiwan)

Somewhere unknown in Indochina – have you ever been there (Taiwan/Belgium/Cambodia/Vietnam/USA) – Asio Chihsiung Liu
Production: Mimeo Films Ltd.

Thread. Motherhood Stories – Elena Baucke (Italy/UK)
Production: Images counter-attacks

(Translated from Italian)