Type: Feature Narrative
Contry: Algeria
Estimated budget: 1247 650 Euro
Email: latifas73@gmail.com / rdjdiffusion@gmail.com
Synopsis
Nora learns from the TV that the Algerian government is going to compensate women who were victims of rape during the 'Black Decade'. Suddenly her entire past comes back. She has to choose : stay and continue as if nothing had happened, or go home and ask for compensation. After much hesitation and fear she decides to return to Algeria. But revisiting the past is never that simple.
Biography: Latifa SAID (DIRECTOR)
Latifa Said, having won first prize (SIRAR Fund) at the Aubagne International Film Festival,
directed Unquiet Days which, produced in 2016 by Le Grec, was selected at over twenty festivals and won several prizes.
She then directed Waste Land, selected at over 70 festivals and winner of some twenty prizes.
She is now in Algeria, preparing her first feature film, The Night Will be Longer.
Richard DJOUDI (PRODUCER)
Show Guest Entertainment is an Algiers-based independent production company, set up by Yacine Laloui and Richard Djoudi.
It's productions policy aims mainly at launching young talents and keeping up long-term collaboration with the authors it produces.
It's productions are intended to develop intercultural dialogue and are remarkable for their openness onto the world.
Type: Feature Narrative
Contry: Burkina Faso
Estimated budget: 1 161 827 Euro
Email: kadabazon@yahoo.fr / esthertraore1@gmail.com
Synopsis
This is a feature fiction set in the 90s in a small town in Burkina where Aicha and her mother Mariama live in poverty. Aicha, the breadwinner, has a busy' nightlife. She falls ill and is chained up in the yard by Mariama, who wants to hide her shame. When she dies uncared for, the corpse must be quietly removed before the women hold their monthly group meeting there.
Biography: Kady TRAORÉ (DIRECTOR)
Kady Traore, from Burkina Faso, graduated from ISIS and has worked with young technicians to produce low-budget films for people
in Burkina who want to see films set locally.
She has made two telefilms, in 2014 For Sale, and in 2017 Marital Clash, and recently Housewives.
She is now working on the feature film Prejudice.
Esther TRAORÉ(PRODUCER)
Esther Traore has a Master's in applied molecular biology; with Kady Traore she set up Athena Films to work on low-budget quality films.
She produced the documentary S'engager Pour Exister and two video features by Kady.
At the 2018 Ouaga Lab 3, she won two prizes for Prejudice.
Type: Feature Narrative
Contry: Egypt
Estimated budget: 1 200 000,00 Euro
Email: m_siam2000@yahoo.com
Synopsis
A dark satire about Adham, a low-ranking jaded cop who is suffering from panic attacks. He's ordered to save and protect Tanya, the teenager daughter of his boss from a burnt down zoo and they must cross together the chaotic lawless Cairo streets in turmoil of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Adham is only trying to survive all this chaos / turmoil and maintain his sanity in an apocalyptic settings of escaping animals running in the middle of the road, cars flipped over and burnt and deserted government buildings.
Biography: Mohamed SIAM (DIRECTOR)
Siam is a Member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. He's a fiction and documentary film-maker whose film Whose Country?
was shown in NYFF, Karlovy Vary, Visions du Réel and JCC, where he won Best Cinematography. His film Amal was 2017 IDFA Opening
Film that won the Sheffield Jury Prize and the FidaDoc Award and was selected at Göteborg, CPH Dox, Vision du Réel, Hot Docs.
ArtKhana (Production Company)
Siam's Cairo-based production company ArtKhana has a focus on documentaries whose subjects & impact echo internationally and grab audience worldwide.
The company shares its name with ArtKhana Film Centre in Alexandria, an established art space Siam founded in 2006
that caters to filmmakers' technical and training needs.
Type: Feature Documentary
Contry: Gabon
Estimated budget: 134 910 Euro
Email: apnkoulou@gmail.com / onezik.burkina@gmail.com
Synopsis
In the context of post-electoral violence, Armel, student of Plastic Arts, decides to stage the stories of the victims.
He wants to make a comic strip and hopes to sell this to help these forgotten people.
Biography: Amédée PACÔME NKOULOU (DIRECTOR)
After his film studies, he started his professional career as assistant director. His first short fiction, The Only Child,
was selected for the 2014 Cannes Festival Short Film Corner and the 2015 Fespaco.
His first documentary, Boxing Libreville, had its world premier at the 2018 Visions du Réel Festival,
and won Best Documentary Film at the Tarifa African Festival and Jury's Prize at Fidadoc.
Mannsomdé Honoré YAMEOGO (PRODUCER)
Honoré Yameogo is a graduate in Accountancy and Marketing Management. A real music-lover, in 2015 he set up Onezik,
a film/music production company. He co-produced two documentaries, Eleonore Yameogo's The Elephants'
Graveyard and Souleymane Ouedraogo's Rap in the Land of Honest Men (Rap aux pays des homme integres).
Type: Feature Narrative
Contry: Lebanon
Estimated budget: 1,021,780 Euro
Email: crystalfbis@gmail.com / massadorproduccions@gmail.com
Synopsis
Ali is a Syrian refugee working in Lebanon on construction sites. As the fighting intensifies in war-torn Syria, he brings his family to his home in Lebanon. Unable to adapt to the harsh reality of Beirut, Ali's wife finds a way to smuggle herself and her two sons illegally to France. She is giving a refugee status. As he plans to join them using a femily reunion visa, he finds himself stuck and left alone in an absurd situation; as he has been denied the reunion visa.
Biography: Dima AL-JOUNDI(DIRECTOR)
Originally from Lebanon, director Dima AL-Joundi, graduatedwith distingction from the INSAS-Brussels in Script-Editing.
In 1994, she strated directing films in Paris, before she going to Sri Lanka where she worked as a Producer-Director for Young Asia TV.
In 1998 she returned to Lebanon where she established Crystal Films, a film production and Distribution company.
Isona PASSOLA (PRODUCER)
In 1992, Isona Passola founded Massa d'Or Produccions in Barcelona. She has produced over 20 feature films, documentaries and TV movies.
In 2001, she represented Spain at the Cannes Film Festival, in 2012 she became a member of CONCA, and from 2013 on she has been
President of the Academy of Catalan Cinema.
Among recent productions, she produced Uncertain Glory (2016), which won a Goya Award, and then Laura Jou's Life Without Sara Amat, to be released in 2019.
Type: Feature Narrative
Contry: Morocco
Estimated budget: 498 401 US Dollar
Email: contact@caravanchergui.com
Synopsis
After years away, Dr. Youssef Ben Saleh, a lecturer in Canada, returns to Morocco with his new wife to visit his family. The night he arrives he gets a call in his hotel room from the management of the Eden City supermarket to the effect that his mother and sister have been arrested for shoplifting. He goes to the supermarket and makes a scene with the security staff and ends up at the same police station. Here starts a long investigation for the police superintendent, who discovers through the statements made by the protagonists lies, manipulations and dark family secrets.
Biography: Hicham AMAL (DIRECTOR/PRODUCER)
Hicham Amal is a Moroccan film director. He started his career as a screenwriter on national TV networks.
He has written many teleplays such as “Laab Al Baroud” and” Yamna” produced by Nabil Ayouch.
In 2016 he produced and directed his first feature film "The Morphine Melody”;
it was selected in the official competition at the Dubai International Film Festival and
won two prizes Best Editing and Best First Feature at the Tangiers National Film Festival.
Caravan Chergui Productions
After years of experience as a screenwriter and executive producer for many production companies in Morocco,
Hicham Amal started his own company, Caravan Chergui Productions. With this new structure he produced The Morphine Melody.
The company is developing two projects for Moroccan TV, a short film and Madness.
Type: Feature Narrative
Contry: Senegal
Estimated budget: 381 421 Euro
Email: sylass29@gmail.com / sybaila8@gmail.com
Synopsis
Alright is a young Senegalese wrestler who is preparing for an important fight. His brother Moulaye wrestles well but is attracted by violence.
When Alright dies in an accident, Moulaye becomes responsible for honouring his community and protecting his family.
Biography: A SY (DIRECTOR)
A Sy was born in Mauritania, grew up in Senegal, and moved to Paris and then New York.
His first short film, Marabout, won the Golden Tanit at the 2016 JCC.
After his second short film, Fallou, he is making his first feature fiction, Moulaye.
Baila SY (PRODUCER)
Baila Sy was born in Mauritania, grew up in Senegal, and took a Master's in Marketing.
After three years in audiovisuals, he decided in 2013 to set up Proxycom, with which he produced 4 fiction films and 3 documentaries.
Type: Feature Documentary
Contry: Togo
Estimated budget: 65 849 Euro
Email: koffiatamessan@gmail.com / kidastudios@gmail.com
Synopsis
Diva of Togolese and African music, incredibly talented, Bella Bellow at the age of 22, goes through the first Festival of Negro Arts, the Olympia in Paris, the popular song festival of Rio de Janeiro. Soon West African stamps and banknotes bear his portrait. On December 10, 1973 at the age of 27, she lost her life in a tragic accident veiled by myths. Today her memory is dulled. Between creation, words and music, the author and her friend Adjoa Sika rising star of Togolese music, go back in the footsteps of the famous diva.
Biography: Ata Messan KOFFI (DIRECTOR)
Ata Messan Koffi holds a Master's in Political Anthropology
and law and a Master's in documentary Creation.
He has directed short films including The Griot du Metal,
(Blaise Pascal Prize, Festival Traces of Lives), with more than a dozen selections at festivals.
Kwami Etonam Jean AHONTO (PRODUCER)
Kwami Etonam Jean Ahonto is a young Togolese producer-director who has created his own film production structure, KIDA Studios.
For 4 years he has produced television programs including Ciné-art exclusively dedicated to cinema and broadcast on Togolese national television.
He also has had short films broadcast on TV5 Monde including Lidao and Mayi, and feature films in the distribution phase.
Type: Feature Narrative
Contry: Tunisia
Estimated budget: 863 452 Euro
Email: lotfiachour.apa@gmail.com / daoud.anissa@gmail.com
Synopsis
Two shepherd boys, 16-year-old Nizar and 14-year-old Achraf, wander with their goats into the mountains entering a forbidden military zone. Caught by jihadis, Nizar is decapitated and his severed head given to Achraf for him to hand to his mother. The family will do everything they can to recover the corpse, refusing to bury the head without the body.
Biography: Lotfi ACHOUR (DIRECTOR)
Lotfi Achour has directed theatre productions in London, Paris and the Avignon Festival, etc.
and short films that won awards in Clermont-Ferrand and Tokyo, including Law of the Lamb
(in the official competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival). His feature film Burning Hope competing
in CINEMED, JCC, New York, Hof, Beirut, Montreal, Buenos Aires, and has won many awards.
Anissa DAOUD (PRODUCER)
Anissa Daoud has produced several of Lotfi Achour's films, including the feature film Burning Hope and the short films Father and Law of the Lamb,
selected in the Official Competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. She has also produced two short films directed by Doria Achour,
including The Remains Are the work of Man, in competition at the 2016 Venice Mostra.
Type: Feature Narrative
Contry: Tunisia
Estimated budget: 338 000 Euro
Email: houcemsansa@gmail.com / ahmedkefi04@hotmail.fr
Synopsis
After years of absence, when he had got used to the idea of dying, Khaled unexpectedly resurfaces. His return shatters the future of his family, his former wife and especially his mother Aicha. Lost in resentment, Aicha refuses to accept his fortuitous return and the risks her son is taking for terrorism in Syria.
Biography: Houssem SANSA(DIRECTOR)
Houssem Sansa directed his two first films at the EAD Tunis and the Femis Paris.
He worked briefly as assistant director before concentrating on his own projects.
He directed two short films, Waiting for Tomorrow and Tribute, and is developing others, including A Last Prayer.
Ahmed KEFI (PRODUCER)
Ahmed Kefi produced his first film, Tribute, with Houssem Sansa, and their collaboration led on to other projects such as A Last Prayer.
He also produced other films like Rami Jarboui's Eidos; he is preparing to make another film with Jarboui, Hollow Dreams.
He is currently working on his first feature film, Hamza Aouni's El Medstansi.
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