Type : Feature Narrative
Country of production : South Africa
Language : English / Isizulu
Production company : Trial by media Films
Estimated duration of the film : 120 دقيقة
Film budget : 600 000 $
Funds received : 20 000 $
Email : vusiafrica@gmail.com/ nalebogacwi@gmail.com
Synopsis
A mother in mourning is haunted by her dead son when he appears in the shape of water. To stop the haunting and lay her son to rest she will not only have to challenge her tribal laws and risk banishment , but she will have to be the first woman to dive into the forbidden waters to fetch her son.
Vusi’ Africa
(Director )
Vusi Africa debuted his first feature Letters of Hope in competition at the 40th Durban International Film Festival. The film opened the 5th edition of The South African International Film Festival commonly known as RapidLion. His film was awarded with the Best Artistic Bravery at DIFF. His unique voice as a storyteller saw him being awarded with a Golden Horn , by the South Africa Film and Television Awards , for Best Emerging Filmmaker at the 14th SAFTA awards, 2020.
Naledi Bogacwi
(Producer )
Naledi has produced three short films and her debut short film she worked with professionals like Sello Maake KaNcube and Luthuli Dlamini. Her film career was mentored by multiple award winning director Adze Ugah. Naledi paved her way as an award winning film Producer and Writer when her debut feature film Letters of Hope won the award for Best Artistic Bravery at the 40th DIFF.
Type : Feature Narrative
Country of production : Ethiopia
Language : Amharic
Production company : Gobez Media Inc.
Estimated duration of the film : 100 دقيقة
Film budget : 400 000 $
Funds received : 10 000 $
Partners wanted : Co producers, funds, sales agents, broadcasters
Email : connect@gobez.ca / tamara@gobez.ca
Synopsis
Tilahun, an ambulance driver, collects the corpses of opposition supporters from the streets of Ethiopia’s capital during the rule of a military junta. He reminds his teenage children to be politically apathetic to avoid the junta’s death squads. One night at work Tilahun finds his son’s corpse on a city street and must confront his children’s connection to the opposition movement. He plans to covertly steal his sons body for a dignified burial and attempts to save his daughter by driving her out of the city hidden among corpses in his ambulance.
Abraham Gezahagne
(Director )
Abraham Gezahagne is an Ethiopian filmmaker. His award winning films include MIZEWOCHU (2008), LOMI SHITA (2012) and YENEGEN ALWOLDEM (2016. He directed the series Gebena for ETV (2010-11), and he was the showrunner for three seasons of the drama Yegir Esat for EBS (2019-20). He is an alumi of the Torino Lab, Realness Screenwriting Residency, Follow the Nile, Doha Screenwriters Lab and the TIFF Writers Studio.
Tamara Mariam
(Producer )
Tamara Mariam Dawit is an Ethiopian-Canadian producer. She is a founding board member of the Racial Equity Media Collective, Ethiopia Creates and the East Africa Screen Collective. Tamara was a resident in Docs in Progress, the Logan Non-Fiction Residency and is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents, Durban Talents, Doha Producers Lab, Rotterdam Lab, Apost, and EAVE.
Type : Feature Documentary
Country of production : Lebanon
Language : Arabic and French
Production company : Dewberries Films
Estimated duration of the film : 90 دقيقة
Film budget : 274 000 €
Funds received : 5 000 €
Partners wanted : Coproducteur, Distributeur, Ventes internationales, Chaînes, Plateformes
Email : abouchabkejoelle@gmail.com / m.marinevaillant@gmail.com / dewberriesfilms@gmail.com
Synopsis
In the tight alleyways of Tripoli, Lebanon, in his birth district called «Court of slaves», Ghassan is still questioning the destiny of his grandfather, his roots, and rights. He’s the descendant of a black African fighter who came to Lebanon fighting with De Gaulle during the French mandate on Lebanon and Syria and disappeared after leaving with the French army in 1943. With only a photograph in hand to link him to a forgotten past, Ghassan’s focus is on getting recognition for his grandfather’s sacrifices. Today, one letter is still waiting to be delivered to the other side of the Mediterranean “Dear French President, I would like to tell you...”
Joëlle Abou Chabké
(Director )
Joëlle Abou Chabké is a Lebanese filmmaker, director of photography and sound engineer, working between Beirut and Paris. In 2017, she acquired a masters in creative documentary from Paris 7 Diderot. Through her films, she explores the human condition and marginalization in our modern societies. Ourjouwan is her first feature-length documentary, after several festival-winning shorts, including one that won a Silver Tanit from JCC in 2017.
Marine Vaillant
(Producer )
Marine Vaillant is a French producer, founder of Dewberries Films, who supports promising talents from the early development stages, and aims to participate in the emergence of new directors. Long based in Lebanon, Marine Vaillant now produces from France short and feature films marked by a strong blend of cultures, born from the encounter between East and West.
Type : Feature Documentary
Country of production : Libye
Language : Arabic
Production company : Khayal Productions
Film budget : 80 000 $
Funds received : 41 000 $
Partners wanted : Co-producers, financiers
Email : muhannad@khayal.ly
Synopsis
Donga is a story told through the lens of a fighter who carries a camera as a chosen weapon. Mohamed (Donga) was 19 when he started documenting life during the 2011 uprising in Libya, his camera took him to the frontlines of the war against the regime, the war against ISIS and the war against Hafter’s forces in Tripoli. The adrenalin rush, humour and a sense of a just cause that has accompanied Donga come to a halt in 2019 at Tripoli’s frontline when a mortar missile falls from the sky killing almost everyone, initiating a new journey for him.
Muhannad Lamin
(Director )
Muhannad Lamin is a Director and producer, graduated from Tripoli’s art institute with a directing and screenwriting degree.
He has been involved in producing a number of public-awareness campaign projects for such clients as the Electoral High Authority, the Ministry of Justice, the Warriors Affairs Commission, BBC Media Action, and other organizations. In addition to involvement in several documentary projects, Lamin directed four short films that have been screened at international festivals including Clermont-Ferrand International Short film festival and Carthage International film festival (JCC)
Muhannad is co-founding “Khayal” a Libyan production company working on media production and on the development of Libyan Cinema.
(Producer )
Type : Feature Documentary
Country of production : Mauritania
Language : Français, Arabe, Bambara, Wolof
Production company : Drôle de trame (France) / Abel Aflam (MOROCCO)
Estimated duration of the film : 80 دقيقة
Film budget : 335 212 $
Funds received : 24 000 $
Partners wanted : Co-producteur – Distributeurs – Diffuseurs/ Co-producer – Distributor – Broadcaster
Email : maud@droledetrame.fr / ilham@abelaflam.com
Synopsis
In 2007 the President Sarkozy gave a speech in Dakar stating that «the African man has not made history enough». My aunt used to say : We are the heirs of King Alboury N’diaye. Determined to find out about his family’s true story, Cheikh flies to his native Mauritania. An imaginary camel suddenly appears. Cheikh names him Zarathoustra. He becomes his confidant, responding to his questions and doubts by asserting African proverbs. In Mali and Senegal, he finds out that colonization strongly altered his family’s story.
Cheick N’diaye
(Director )
Studies at the Sorbonne and at the International Institute of the Image and sound(3IS), Cheikh made his first film Najib Soudani, Craftsman and Master Gnawi, thenMalouma, Sand Diva, The Shadows of marabouts and White Negro. He launched the culinary magazine Afrique je te mangerais which aims to talk about a positive and dynamicAfrica.
Ilham Raouf - Maud Huynh
(Producer )
A After her BA in English Literature at the university, Ilham Raouf is production coordinator and then manager as a freelancer. Since 2014 Ilham has been an associate producer in Abel Aflam.
After studies at Femis, Maud Huynh is producer at Films d’Ici, in Gloria Films et in Drôle de Trame since 2019. Teacher, member at fund commissions,alumni Eurodoc.
Type : Feature Narrative
Country of production : Tunisia / Palestine
Language : Arabic
Estimated duration of the film : 120 دقيقة
Film budget : 600 000 €
Partners wanted : Co-productions
Email : smahanelahmar@gmail.com / madeinpal.project@gmail.com
Synopsis
Once there was a world where biodiversity degraded at the same pace as society complies. This world is ruled by the supreme law of marriage and procreation . What if a woman’s fertility resided in her brain, not in her uterus? what if this biological clock is not the one, we have always been told but a state of consciousness and our connection to nature? Houda a young unique women designs her own path, with the goal to discover, connect, find herself.
Ismahane Lahmar
(Director )
Franco-Tunisian director and screenwriter. Trained at ESRA from Paris, and obtained her master’s degree in audiovisual production in New York. She has made short films which have been seen at several international film festivals. In 2017 she directed a Tunisian comedy for ICFLIX, «WOH». In 2019, she launched her production company, Madame Prod dedicated to developing and supporting women’s projects. She founded «Le cinema Au feminin», a program that trains women from disadvantaged backgrounds in the film industry on the preparation, shooting and post-production of a film.
Rashid Abdelhamid
(Producer )
He founded the Made in Palestine Project, an independent arts initiative to create and promote contemporary visual art with a focus on Palestine in 2013. In the same year, he produced and acted in the short film’ Condom Lead’, the first Palestinian short film part of Cannes Film Festival official selection . In 2015, Made in Palestine Project’s first feature film ‘Dégradé’ was selected at La Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival. He is the co-founder of the Palestine Film institute.
Type : Feature Documentary
Country of production : Tunisia
Language : Tunisian Dialect and French
Production company : Stratus Films (Tunisie ) - Praxis Films (France)
Estimated duration of the film : 81 دقيقة
Film budget : 91 500 €
Funds received : 30 000 $
Partners wanted : Distributeur, TV diffuseur
Email : nawfel.sahebettaba@gmail.com
Synopsis
Through the prism of education in Tunisia, the documentary «Dar el Bacha sur la voie des Lumières» traces the socio-political upheavals that shook the country from 1830 to Independence in 1956. The film focuses on the emblematic college for young Muslim girls «Dar el Bacha», founded in 1900 by Louise René Millet, the wife of the French Resident, during the Protectorate. The film also sheds light on the reasons and circumstances that led to the introduction of the French language in education and looks at its cultural contribution to the country.
Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba
(Director )
Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba is a producer, director and trainer. He has been directing Stratus Films since 1995. He lived in Canada and then returned to Tunisia to work at Canal Horizons. He has produced and directed several films. Among his productions: Stambali (FF, 1999), El Kotbia (FF, 2002), El Ziara (FF, 2014), Les tisseuses de Chaambi (SF, 2016), Terreur (SF, 2019)
(Producer )
Type : Drame
Country of production : Tunisia
Language : Arabic
Estimated duration of the film : 90 دقيقة
Film budget : 396 000 €
Partners wanted : Coproducteurs/ Distributeur international/ Fonds d’aide/ Festivals/ Chaînes de télé
Email : nidhalguiga@yahoo.fr / nawfel.sahebettaba@gmail.com
Synopsis
Inspector Sabbagh is investigating the mysterious disappearance of Kmar, an actress starring in a play about the tragic fate of diva Asmahan and who threatened to expose a heavy case of corruption. Sara, asked to replace Kmar in the show, is convinced that Asmahan’s soul looms over the city and that tragedies will follow one another. Despite the obstacles, Sabbagh decides to go through with the investigation, trying not to succumb to Sara’s bewitching charm ...
Nidhal Guiga
(Director )
Nidhal Guiga is a writer, director and actress. She has directed three short films (a capella / Astra/ Silencio). She wrote and directed three plays (Zéro bis/ One hour and a half after me/ Pronto Gagarin). She has published three fictions on her own (Mathilde B./ Tristesse Avenue / Pronto Gagarine,). She was a radio columnist (RTCI).
Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba
(Producer )
Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba is a producer, director and trainer. He has been directing Stratus Films since 1995. He lived in Canada and then returned to Tunisia to work at Canal Horizons. He has produced and directed several films. Among his productions: Stambali (FF, 1999), El Kotbia (FF, 2002), El Ziara (FF, 2014), Les tisseuses de Chaambi (SF, 2016), Terreur (SF, 2019)
