Agora (Tunisia-France)
Dir. Ala Eddine Slim
A tough reduce of Agora performed ultimately 12 months’s Atlas Workshops in Marrakech, with a narrative about three lacking folks returning to a distant Tunisian city, the place an area police officer tries to unravel their thriller. Tunisian filmmaker Slim has performed extensively on the competition circuit together with his earlier work, together with at FIDMarseille in 2012 with Babylon, which gained the Grand Prize; at Venice in 2016 with Lion of the Future prizewinner The Last Of Us; and most just lately at Cannes in 2019, with Directors’ Fortnight entry Tlamess. Julie Viez’s French firm Cinenovo, which made Lotfy Nathan’s Cannes 2022 title Harkaco-produces.
Contact: Exit Productions
Carissa (South Africa)
Dirs. Jason Jacobs, Devon Delmar
This South African drama was a success ultimately 12 months’s Final Cut In Venice lab, profitable a post-production prize awarded by Mubi, Cinecitta and The Party Film Sales execs; in addition to taking the Coup de Coeur de la Cinematheque Afrique prize from the Institut Francais. Produced by Deidre Jantjies and Annemarie Du Plessis, it facilities on a younger girl who discovers that the brand new golf property the place she is on the lookout for work, might be constructed over her estranged grandfather’s rooibos tea lands. It has additionally been by New York’s Gotham Film Week, Rotterdam’s CineMart and its homeland market, Durban FilmMart.
Contact: Na Aap Productions
Everybody Loves Touda (working title) (Morocco-France)
Dir. Nabil Ayouch
Franco-Moroccan filmmaker Ayouch follows his 2021 characteristic Casablanca Beats, the primary Moroccan movie to compete for the Palme d’Or in Cannes, with a female-driven story a few poet and singer elevating her deaf-mute son in a small village who heads to Casablanca in quest of a greater life. Ayouch co-writes together with his spouse and actress, filmmaker Maryam Touzani, whose The Blue Caftanproduced by Ayouch, was the primary Moroccan movie to land on the Oscars shortlist.
Contact: mk2 Films
Finally (Israel)
Dir. Tom Nesher
The debut characteristic of Israeli filmmaker Nesher – the son of acclaimed Israeli director Avi Nesher – is impressed by a tragic private expertise: in 2018 Tom’s brother Ari was killed in a hit-and-run incident. Finally follows a younger girl whose youthful brother dies in the same occasion; when she discovers about his secret girlfriend, she begins to develop nearer to the opposite girl. Producers Haim and Estee Mecklberg are stalwarts of the Israeli scene by their 2-Team Productions, with credit together with Eran Riklis’ The Human Resources Manager and Tal Grant’s The Farewell Party. Finally got here by the 2021 Sam Spiegel Film Lab, and comes after Nesher’s shorts together with 2020’s And Now Shut Your Eyes.
Contact: Fandango
The Legend Of The Vagabond Queen Of Lagos (Nigeria)
Dirs. The Agbajawo Collective
This magical realist fable is a singular proposition – a singular story co-directed by seven folks, 5 of whom are children from the slums of Nigerian capital Lagos. It participated in Durban’s FilmMart, and has backing from the Sundance Institute and the Berlinale World Cinema Fund. The movie follows a younger mom from a waterfront Lagos slum, who stumbles upon blood cash marked to construct a luxurious property the place her neighborhood lives. The filmmakers are eager to emphasise the social affect potential of the venture, with co-producers together with Slum Dwellers International, a company supporting over 5,000 slums worldwide.
Contact: Raconteur Productions
Things That You Kill (Iran-Tur-Fr)
Dir. Alireza Khatami
An Iranian filmmaker primarily based in Canada, Khatami is understood for co-directing Terrestrial Verses, the one Iranian movie at Cannes final 12 months, that took a essential take a look at life within the totalitarian nation. His first characteristic Oblivion gained Venice’s Horizons award for finest screenplay in 2017. His newest movie is a political drama in regards to the patriarchy set in Turkey, that includes a well known native forged.
Contact: Fulgurance Films
Additional reporting by Rebecca Leffler.