Genre : Documentary
Director : Hassen FERHANI
Producer : Narimane MARI
Production company : POLIMOVIE INTERNATIONAL PICTURES
Production company : Allers Retours Films & Centrale Electrique
Country of production : Algeria / France / Qatar
Language : Arabic
Subtitles : French / English
Duration of the submitted copy : 1h30
Estimated duration of the film : 2h20
Works needed to finish the film : Editing/ Color grading/ Sound design / mixing /musical rights/ subtitles/ DCP and Blu-Ray / communication and distribution
Funds received : IDFA 5000 € / DFI developpement 10000$ Institut Français Algérie 8 000 € / Allers Retours films 15000 € / La double 15000 € Budget total du film
Total budget of the film : 221 000 €
Amount requested to complete the budget : 15 000 €
Synopsis :
In Malika's little shack, meetings are like ghosts. But, far from the world, this place reveals a country's soul.
The winds of sand and the silences tell as much as dramas and dreams.
Statement of intent :
I envisage the editing of this film, like the experience of filming, where each meeting is a single, specific story suspended out of time. I shall cultivate the out of sight. What you can't see extends understanding to other horizons.
Hassen FERHANI (DIRECTOR)
Hassen Ferhani was born in 1986 in Algiers, where from 2003-2008 he CO-ran the Chrysalide Film Club.
In 2006, he directed his first short film, The Bays Of Algiers, selected in official competition at
several international festivals. In 2010, he co-directed the documentary Afric Hotel, shown at Visions
Du Réel and in 2013 his third short film Tarzan, Don Quixote and Us was selected there and at FID Marseille.
He worked as assistant director with names such as Lyes Salem, Malek Bensmail and Karim Moussaoui.
In 2015, he directed his first feture documentary In my head, a round about - Golden Tanit for best documentary and best first feature JCC 2015.
Narimane MARI (PRODUCER)
Narimane Mari has since 2006 produced documentaries for companies as well as her own films :
Loubia Hamra (2013) and The Madmen's Fort (2017). The last two productions of prize-winning documentaries
were Hassen Ferhani's In My Head a Roundabout (2015) and Djamel Kerkar's Atlal (2016).
Genre : Documentary
Director : Lina Soualem
Producer : Marie Balducchi
Production company : AGAT Films & Cie
Country of production : France
Language : French / Arabic
Subtitles : English
Duration of the submitted copy : 61 min
Estimated duration of the film : 80 min
Works needed to finish the film : Additionnal shooting / Final editing/ Post-production
Funds received : Procirep / CNC / SCAM / TV5 Monde
Total budget of the film : 180000 €
Amount requested to complete the budget : 80000 €
Partners wanted : Support for post-production, Distributors, TV Channels
Estimated delivery date of film/ : June 2019
Contact : marie.balducchi@agatfilms.com/ linasoualem@gmail.com
Synopsis :
After 62 years together, my grandparents separated. Both were born in Algeria and arrived in France in the 1950s; both have lived for sixty years in Thiers in the Auvergne. This is a story of exile, of disintegrating ties, of the suffering and pride that deeply marked my grandparents and an entire generation of Algerian immigrants in France.
Statement of intent :
The film transports us into worlds that never meet. I shall film the distance that separates people, territories. We shall move from Aicha to Mabrouk, from the world of women to that of men, from images of the present to those of the past, from the Auvergne to Algeria, in a constant oscillation.
Lina SOUALEM (DIRECTOR)
Lina Soualem, a French-Algerian-Palestinian director and actress and Sorbonne graduate, specialises in the study of contemporary Arab societies. She started a journalist, then she moved into films. She was programmer of the Buenos Aires Human Rights Cinema Festival and the Latin Arab Festival and then the Palest'In & Out Festival, Paris. Now Paris-based, she is assistant director and writer on documentary projects.
Marie BALDUCCHI (PRODUCER)
Marie Balducci basically produces documentaries and films like Three Sisters and Oblomov. She produced Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi's A 90-year-old Girl and Dieudo Hamadi's State Certificate, both selected in international festivals (Locarno, Toronto, Namur, IDFA etc.). She prefers films that straddle formal inventiveness and political/cultural stakes.
Genre : Drama
Director : Hisham Saqr
Producer : Hisham Saqr / Mohamed Herzy / Jessica Khoury
Production company : White Feather Productions, Film Clinic
Country of production : Egypt
Language : texte
Subtitles : English
Duration of the submitted copy : 96 min
Estimated duration of the film : 95 min
Works needed to finish the film : Editing / Sound design and mix / Music / VFX / Deliverables
Funds received : 5000E Lgoonie Films, 5000E OIF, 15000E Laser film (Inkind Grading)
Total budget of the film : 361 125 €
Amount requested to complete the budget : 66 770 €
Partners wanted : Festivals
Estimated delivery date of film/ : January 2019
Contact : jessica.khoury@fcidistribution.com
Synopsis :
Hala has to face her suicidal thoughts alone since her husband, who always rescued her, has been sent to jail. She is struggling to deal with society as nobody understands or accepts what she's going through. She has to figure out how to deal with life and everyone around her in order to be there for her family.
Statement of intent :
I made a film about the idea of loss and how one can surprisingly find an inner strength to deal with it. How a normal person who's emotionally fragile can cope with such incomprehensible emotions as anxiety and depression that lead to suicidal thoughts.
Hisham SAQR (DIRECTOR)
Hisham Sagr was born in Cairo in 1987. He has more than 10 years' experience as an editor in the Egyptian film industry. Saqr has worked with a number of acclaimed Egyptian directors, most recently with Ahmad Abdalla on the award-winning Rags and Tatters (2013), Microphone (2010), for which Saqr won the award for best film editor at the DIFE. He also edited Al Batout's Winter of Discontent which earned Saqr a best African editor nomination from the African Film Development Foundation. Certified Mail is his first feature film.
Jessica KHOURY (PRODUCER)
Jessica Khoury is an established distributor specializing in independent world cinema. She is the acquisition and sales executive of Abu Dhabi based distribution company, Film Clinic Indie Distribution, the sister firm of leading Egyptian production house, Film Clinic, founded by award-winning Egyptian producer Mohammed Hefzy. Prior to her work in Film Clinic, she worked for Pacha Pictures in Paris then came back to Beirut and worked for the Beirut-based distribution company, MC Distribution, for three years.
Genre : Drama
Director : Mohanad Hayal
Producer : Ali Raheem / Hala Alsalman
Production company : Dream Productions
Country of production : Iraq
Language : Arabic
Subtitles : English
Duration of the submitted copy : 71 min
Estimated duration of the film : 75 min
Works needed to finish the film : Credits, VFX, SRT (French & english)
Funds received : Doha Film Institute fund (45.000 USD), Dubai Film market (10.000 USD) award
Total budget of the film : 265.000 USD
Amount requested to complete the budget : 10.000 USD
Partners wanted : None
Estimated delivery date of film/ : 01/12/2018
Contact : ali.raheem.ch@gmail.com / halalsalman@hotmail.com
Synopsis :
A ruthless sniper on Haifa Street in Baghdad kills a man who walks into the neighborhood. He prevents anyone from retrieving the corpse with the threat of gunfire, causing a chain of events that will reveal the tragic truth about the main character's relationship to the deceased.
Statement of intent :
My film Haifa Street is an attempt to contextualize and understand those ten minutes, in which lescaped from deadly sniper bullets. Nine years later, questions still haunt me: Who was the deceased? Why was he killed? And many more. But like all Iraqis, I have no answers. With my film, I want to expound on those intense minutes that reeked of death.
Mohanad HAYAL (DIRECTOR)
Mohanad Hayal is a graduate of the Baghdad Faculty of Fine Arts and Cinema. After working as assistant to Mohamed Al-Daradji and Oday Rasheed he made the short films City Heart, Wrong, Furat and Screenplay. He works for the Iraq Independent Film Centre and his film Happy Birthday was selected for the 2013 Berlinale.
Hala ALSALMAN (PRODUCER)
Hala Alsalman is a Dubai-based Iraqi-Canadian film-maker. Her fiction film Bêtes humaines, a multi-genre short film set in the Montreal subway, was nominated for the prestigious Canadian Gemini Award and premiered at the 2012 Newport Beach International Film Festival.
Ali Raheem (PRODUCER)
Ali Raheem was born in 1988 in Baghdad, Iraq. He studied cinema at the Baghdad University College of Fine Arts; since 2003 he has run the Iraqi parliament's media department and worked in many Arab and Iraqi networks. His last short film was Life In Darkness and his first long documentary (2012) Balanja. He has produced both documentary and fiction films, the last being Haifa Street, and worked as producer for a documentary series, Heroes of Iraq. His films have been shown at European and Arab film festivals.
Genre : Documentary
Director : Ruba AATIYEH
Producer : Ruba AATIYEH
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Production company : Cee Films- Ruba Atiyeh
Country of production : Lebanon / Jordan
Language : English
Subtitles : English
Duration of the submitted copy : 73 min
Estimated duration of the film : 76 min
Works needed to finish the film : Edit lock, coloring, sound design
Funds received : Screen Institute Beirut
Total budget of the film : 90 000$
Amount requested to complete the budget : 21 000$
Partners wanted : Distributer, Possible
Co-production
Estimated delivery date of film/ : March 2019
Contact : +9613659933
Synopsis :
Growing up with an exiled mother, Ruba has internalised her mother's struggle, including living between two worlds. Suffering two severe losses, she seeks to deconstruct her streams of memories and create a sensitive narrative that allows her to find a home. But is she willing to let go of her identity as outsider?
Statement of intent :
A Home of One's Own is a story of one generation as internalised by another. The way defeat and exile shape personal journeys is explored through two women. The film evolves in a process that resembles the evolution of my own consciousness at a time of severe loss. I am improvising with fragments of my memories to reconstruct a self within time.
Ruba AATIYEH (DIRECTOR/PRODUCER)
With an MA in Documentary from Goldsmith's College, London University, Ruba Atiyeh has produced plays on the theme of displacement and identity for second-generation immigrants. She produced and directed documentaries for Aljazeera Documentary Channel and other commissioners. She teaches at the Lebanese University and is. researching geography in film. She is now producing two features (fiction and documentary) on place and identity for emerging directors. She has designed drama workshops and written/acted in plays for which she received awards. Since 2013 she has made documentaries, biographies and two personal shorts Salute Comrade and Let Me Stand Alone. She teaches documentary film-making and has mentored emerging film-makers, some of whose first features she is producing and she's also a member of the documentary jury at the Emmy Awards.
Genre : Creative documentary
Director : Nadim MISHLAWI
Producer : Georges Schoucair, Myriam Sassine, Nadia Turincev
Production company : Abbout
Productions - Rouge International
Country of production : Lebanon / France
Language : Arabic - English
Subtitles : English
Duration of the submitted copy : 80 min
Estimated duration of the film : 80 min
Works needed to finish the film :
final shooting / finalize the editing of the film / Sound design / post-production
Funds received :
The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) - Screen Institute Beirut
Total budget of the film : 202.895$
Amount requested to complete the budget : 68.000$
Partners wanted :
We are looking for funds, post production inkind services, festivals, sales agent, distributors
Estimated delivery date of film/ : April 2019
Contact : myriam@abboutproductions.com
Synopsis :
"The Eye Of The Architect" est un mémoire rassemblant les témoignages de différentes personnes essayant de trouver une logique dans la capitale Beyrouth, 20 ans après la fin de la guerre civile.
Statement of intent :
This film is about the surreal possibility that the city of Beirut might one day disappear. Beirut is a city of paradoxes and contradictions where there is no one synchronous rhythm. In this sense, the uncanny and hostile environment of Beirut today presents an ideal science fiction setting where the familiar and the unusual exist side by side.
Nadim MISHLAWI (DIRECTOR)
Nadim Mishlawi is a lebanese composer and film-maker. He made his directorial debut with the documentary Sector Zero (first documentary prize at DIFF 2011, Berlin Art Prize for Film and Media Arts 2013). Over the past 15 years, Nadim's projects have ranged from film to art installations. In 2011 he was nominated for best Original Score at the Aubagne International Film Festival for his work on the film Stray Bullet. In 2006 he co-founded the sound studio db Studios. He currently teaches sound art at Alba University.
Georges SCHOUCAIR (PRODUCER)
Christian Eid joined Abbout Productions in 2010 as a Production Supervisor. Abbout Productions produces feature films and documentaries with a distinctly Arab voice, expressing the identity of the region. Since 1998, the company brought together an important network of Arab and Lebanese artists and produced award winning films such as / Want to See by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, The Valley by Ghassan Salhab and Tramontane by Vatche Boulghourjian.
Genre : Documentary
Director : Reham ALKASSAR
Producer : Hala Bdier
Production company : Crystalfilm
production ltd
Country of production : Germany
Language : Arabic, English, German
Subtitles : English
Duration of the submitted copy : 40 min
Estimated duration of the film : 75 min
Works needed to finish the film : Shooting Inserts, Editing, Sound Mastering and Design, Color Grading and Color Correction, Music and Soundtrack, Translation and Subtitling, Marketing and Publicity, Crew and Director’s fees.
Funds received : 60.000€
Total budget of the film : 130.000€
Amount requested to complete the budget : 70.000 $
Partners wanted : Arte, ZDF TV, and
other film grants.
Estimated delivery date of film/ : March 2019
Contact : hala.bdier@gmail.com
Synopsis :
Reham is a Syrian student at the University of Arts, Berlin. When she is kicked out of her room for not paying the rent in time, she moves from one place and one friend to another. As the money she has saved runs out and she begins to realise that nobody can help her, her living conditions worsen. Nevertheless, with each new place she enters and each new character she meets, she discovers a new and unsuspected part of herself.
Statement of intent :
This film questions the notions of stability, focus, ownership, and this through the story of my own experience in the streets of Berlin, as well as those of various other people. This film whose aesthetic oscillates between fiction and documentary aims to achieve a visual reality capable of delivering the emotions of the main character.
Reham ALKASSAR(DIRECTOR)
Reham Alkassar is a 25-year-old actress and director born in Damascus.
After graduating from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts, Acting
Department in Syria, 2014, she travelled to Germany to continue her
Master studies in Spatial Strategies at the Berlin Weissensee School of
Art. She participated in a wide range of works as an actress. Besides
her main performative work she has also done work as a dramatic
consultant and instructor in several actor training workshops. Her first
experiment with film was the writing and directing of the short film Toi,
Toi, Toi in 2015, Berlin, followed by the documentary film Tent in 2016,
Damascus.
Hala BDIER (PRODUCER)
Hala Bdier was born in Amman in 1992. In 2014 she took a BA in Acting from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts, Damascus. She acted on stage and in films, the most recent being the short films Sama (Dubai, 2017) and Kabbout: Spare Parts (Amman, 2017). She made some experimental films like Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? (Amman, 2013) and the short documentary Grey (Damascus, 2016). In 2018, she was awarded a scholarship from the prestigious Hamburg University Of Fine Arts.
Genre : Drama
Director : Nkunda Wa Mutiganda
Producer : Yuhi Amuli
Production company : IZACU
Country of production : Rwanda
Language : Kinya Rwanda
Subtitles : English / French
Duration of the submitted copy : 110 min
Estimated duration of the film : 100 min
Works needed to finish the film : Final Edit, Color grading, Sound editing & Sound mix
Funds received : No funds yet
Total budget of the film : 41.670 $
Amount requested to complete the budget : 36.560 $
Partners wanted : Financiers, co-producers, and distributors
Estimated delivery date of film/ : March 2019
Contact : hala.bdier@gmail.com
Synopsis :
A young couple is struggling to make ends meet in Kigali. The struggle for life grows into tension and desperation that lead to the tragic finale.
Statement of intent :
Nameless is a film about people who are left behind by the fastest growing city in the world, whose names are spotlighted when the tragedy strikes.
Nkunda WA MUTIGANDA (DIRECTOR)
Mutiganda wa Nkunda is a Rwandan filmmaker who works in film and television and a former film critic. He is known for writing Inshuti - Friends (sitcom) (2014-2015) and Seburikoko (TV Series) (2015- present); writing and directing City Maid (TV Series) (2016-present). His short films were shown in Luxor, Zanzibar, CinemAfrica, BlackStar and other various international film festivals. His short film The Secret Of Happiness is distributed by Gravitas Ventures and is on Streampix and other VOD platforms. He is in post-production of his 3rd short film Rockabye and his debut feature film Nameless.
Yuhi AMULI (PRODUCER)
Yuhi Amuli is a Rwandan film-maker. He made his first short film Ishaba in 2015. The film was made with support from a South African production company Urucu Media, the Swiss Fresh Prod and Mashariki African Film Festival and was screened in various film festivals including Luxor, Amiens, Vue d'Afrique, Lausanne, etc. Akarwa is his second short film made in 2017. He is currently developing the script for his debut feature film Yohani.
Genre : Drama
Director : Ibrahim Letaief
Producer : Taoufik Guiga, Fabrice Préel-Cléach and Ibrahim Letaief
Production company :
Myway Productions (Tunisie) Offshore ( France) et les films longs et courts (Tunisie)
Country of production : Tunisia - France
Language : Tunisian Dialectal - French
Subtitles : French
Duration of the submitted copy : 80 min
Estimated duration of the film : 95 min
Works needed to finish the film : Sound Editing, sound mixing,subtitles, copies
Funds received : 500.000€
Total budget of the film : 650.000€
Amount requested to complete the budget : 100.000€
Partners wanted : TV, Financials
Estimated delivery date of film/ : February 2019
Contact
: taomywayproductions@gmail.com / fabpc@offshore.fr
Synopsis :
Unable to have a child with Sophie, and unwilling to adopt, Aly accepts his despotic father's suggestion - return home and marry Sarah, his first cousin. But what he doesn't know is that going back to his roots will confront him with an unsuspected reality and a dark family secret, one that will force him to take control of his own destiny.
Statement of intent :
In this film family relationships are probed: each person promotes his own cause and expects others to agree with him, as in a reflecting mirror. Fradj, the despotic father, is shattered not to find in Aly a son like himself. But perhaps Aly is not his son! And Aly, who wants fatherhood so desperately.
Ibrahim LETAIEF (DIRECTOR)
Ibrahim Letaief is a Tunisian director. He has three feature films to his credit: Ugly, Dirty and Greedy released in 2012, Cinecitta, released in 2008 and Porto Farina, which will be released in 2018. He also directed three short films including Visa, which has received 23 international awards including the J.C.C's Golden Tanit.
Taoufik GUIGA (PRODUCER)
Taoufik Guiga was Managing Director of different companies in the Tarak Ben Ammar Group: Quita Communications, Les laboratoires LTCGammarth, Carthago Films Tunis. He is manager of My Way Productions-Tunisie and Sunny ways Pictures-France.
Genre : Documentary
Director : Wided Zoghlami
Producer : Riadh Thabet
Production company : Ulysson Production
Country of production : Tunisia
Language : Arabic
Subtitles : English
Duration of the submitted copy : 75 min
Estimated duration of the film : 90 min
Works needed to finish the film :
Final edit, soundtrack, sound edit, mix, color grading, subtitling, credit design
Funds received :
Ministère de la culture tunisien / OIF
Total budget of the film : 82.839,03 €
Amount requested to complete the budget : 10.000 €
Partners wanted :
Financiers, co-producers, and distributors
Estimated delivery date of film/ : January 2019
Contact : widedbooking@gmail.com
Synopsis :
Five young people's destinies, one neighborhood, one decade - we are launched on a to-and-fro trip between 2007 and 2017, dictatorship and democracy. The young people talk frankly about their dreams, show us their neighborhood, and paint a sharp picture of the country.
Statement of intent :
The film offers a return trip between two eras - 2007 and 2017 - using editing, mixture of image formats and music as means of writing a story that plays around with the historical chronology.
Wided ZOGHLAMI (DIRECTOR)
After studying at EDAC, Wided Zoghlami continued at EICAR, Paris, directing a short film, Almost a Pleasure, which appeared at several festivals. In 2016, she focused on directing at the Tunis National Theatre School headed by Fadhel Jaibi. In 2017, she returned to Fathallah TV, her first feature documentary, ten years after starting it.
Riadh THABET (PRODUCER)
In 1985 Riadh Thabet set up Ulysson Production. He produced several feature fictions and documentaries such as Khemissa (2000), The Ksour (2001), The Cursed Isle (2003), Ten Shorts Ten Glances Hazz ye Wizz (2012), Jamila and the Jinn (2015), Attitude, The Guest, and Woh (all 2016), and Fathallah TV, FC Zagora, True Story, and 24 Truths (all 2018).
Genre : Drama
Director : Majdi LAKHDAR
Producer :
Mohamed Ali BEN HAMRA et Soumaya JELASSI Coproducteur Guillaume DE SEILLE
Production company :
POLIMOVIE INTERNATIONAL PICTURES
Production company : ARIZONA PRODUCTIONS
Country of production : Tunisia / France
Language : Arabic
Subtitles : English or French
Duration of the submitted copy : 69 min
Estimated duration of the film : 73 min
Works needed to finish the film :
Sound design / SFX / Sound editing / color grading / VFX / compositing 3D / DCP
Funds received :
CNCI TUNISIE / Angoa FRANCE / Sponsors TUNISIE
Total budget of the film : 500.000 €
Amount requested to complete the budget : 160.000 €
Partners wanted :
Coproducers / funds / vendeurs / festivals / TV / VOD
Estimated delivery date of film/ : 03/2019
Contact : polimovie.prod@gmail.com
Synopsis :
Ali is an old tailor from Tunis who spends his time looking for a buried treasure in an underground gallery in his house. One day, he finds himself stuck with his wife and children under the rubble, after the collapse of their home. That's when he must learn to take care of them by taking them to the underground shelter. He must fight and look for a way to save them before it's too late.
Statement of intent :
The film paints the portrait of Ali, a father whose destiny is boring and flat. And for a good reason: his modest condition of tailor's assistant doesn't help him to free himself from the weight of everyday life, or find a way out of his needy condition. It's therefore necessary for Ali and his family to go through a painful ordeal, through the experience of cloistering, so that their vision of life changes.
Majdi LAKHDHAR (DIRECTOR)
Majdi Lakhdar was born in Tunis in 1987. He studied writing and directing at ISAMM Institute Tunis and graduated in 2009. He has directed three short films and acted in several others. With his first feature film Before it's too late, he participated in several writing workshops and development programmes: Beyond Borders 2010, Sud Ecriture, La Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde, Grand Nord.
Mohamed Ali BEN HAMRA (PRODUCER)
Mohamed Ali Ben Hamra, born in Sousse in 1986, graduated in Cinema Engineering and Means of Communication from the Turin Polytechnique. He is founder and managing director of Polimovie International Pictures, which has to its credit four feature fictions, including Mahdi Hmili's Thala Mon Amour and Elyes Baccar's Tunis By Night, three documentaries, and eight short films. He is a member of the Producers Network, EAVE and TorinoFilmLab.
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