The project of Emily Atef, Babak Jalali, Luis Ortega and Ulrich Seidl is one of 40 films chosen for 12th An edition of the Venice Gap Finnance Market (August 29th-31st) held at the Venice Film Festival.
The market is part of the Venice Production Bridge, offering an opportunity to shut down intentional funding for 67 projects. The focus of this year will be on projects in the UK, Chile and Morocco.
Atef will be her English debut Call me the Queen On the friendship between Irish journalists in Kenya and Rwandan women during the AIDS crisis of the 1990s. It is produced by the German Ringer film and the French film Perris.
The project of Jalali, a British Iranian filmmaker, has been called Towns in Nova Scotia It is produced by the UK’s Paradise City and has a production set set to begin in Liverpool later this year. Jalali’s final movie Fremont He won the John Cassavetes Independent Spirit Award in 2024.
Also, Seidl’s is seeking funding. distance About journalists traveling to dark tourist spots and slowly get to experience reality. The Austrian filmmaker produces through his own company, Ulrich Seidlfilmproduktion. Further projects selected come from Sofia Araui in France, Camilla Andini in Indonesia and Luis Ortega in Argentina.
According to organizers, this year’s Venice Gap Finance Market received over 330 applications, which have finally received 32 fiction, eight documentaries and 14 immersive projects.
At least 70% of the funding has already been introduced in the fiction project.
Venice Gap Finance Market 2025
93 Echo from the collapse (den-faroe Islands-ICE) Documentary
director: Andrias Høgenni
What goes back: Tambo movie
Afonso’s smile (Port-Lux-It)
director: Joan Pedro Rodriguez
Prod Cos: Terramoume Films, Nice Media Curtains, Crazy Movies
Poppy (ECU-BRAZ-MEX-CHILE)
director: Anna Christina Rose Gan
Prod Cos: Tropical movies, film buttons
Towns in Nova Scotia (UK) Focus on the UK
director: Newspaper News
What goes back: Paradise City
White House (IT-FR)
director: Francesco Romano
What goes back: Amarena movie
rust (North Waffin)
director: She is Sarah
What goes back: Star Film
Athos 2643 (ger)
director: David Unent
Prod Cos: Seven Elephants, Constantine Film Produced, Constantine Film Distribution
Black pearl (MOR) Focus on Morocco
director: qanir
What goes back: prediction
Call me the Queen (ger-fr)
director: Emily Atef
What goes back: Ring film
Dear Nanni (sp)
director: Pablo Makeda
What goes back: Viva Films
Cut the Culebra (Pan-Fr-Chile)
director: Ana Elena Tegera
Prod Cos: Mestizo Cinema, Fulgurance
distance (aus-ger-fri)
director: Ulrich Seidl
What goes back: Ulrich Seidl FilmProduktion, Crododuction Office
Dog’s legs (Chili Korger) Focus on Chile
director: Matthias Rojas Valencia
Prod Cos: Simple view, Rhayuela, Klinker Films
Drift image (Chile-S-SP) Documentary, focusing on Chile
director: Nicholas Tabilo
What goes back: Tabilos
Echo of light (it-ger)
director: Luca Lucchesi
What goes back: Alction
Emerald Butterfly (Neth-Bel-Sing-uk)
director: Martin Courhoven
What goes back: N279 Entertainment
Forough: Believe in the beginning of the cold season (UK-Den-Gre-Fr) Focused on the UK
director: Tina Garavi
What goes back: Bridge + Tunnel
The Four Seasons of Java (indo-neth-nor-fr-ger-sing)
director: Camilla Andoni
What goes back: Folk movie
Family heirloom (indger) animation
director: upamanyu bhattacharyya
Prod Cos: Odd & Even, Otter Studio, Pom Pom Animation
I’ll forget your name (fr-switz)
director: YAMM GONZALEZ
What goes back: Pancinema
With black fantastic (UK) Documentary. Focus on the UK
director: JulianKnxx
What goes back: Memory
A love story with a dancing man (it-chile)
director: Cosimo Gomez
What goes back: Tramp Limited
Magnetization (arg)
director: Luis Ortega
What goes back: Office
Mammoths escaped the Kingdom of Errik Khan (Port-Den-uk-North Mac) Focused on the UK
director: Tamara Koteveska
What goes back: Vagabond Rosemary
May you live a long life We (Belleb)
director: Isabel Mekataff
What goes back: Rouge International
Maya Butterfly (IRE-LUX)
director: Edwina Casey
What goes back: Hare Mary Photos
Missing camel (Mor-Sen-Mali) Focused on Morocco
director: Chek n’diiye, Ahellama
Prod Cos: Astou Productions, DS Productions
my way (arg-it)
director: Diego Lerman
What goes back: Film Field
Orso Q: Season of Loneliness (Greenland Fin)
director: Inuk SilisHøegh
What goes back: Aorak movie
outside (sp)
director: Victor Moreno
What goes back: KV Film
People are still dying from love (Chilimex)
director: Fernando Guzzoni
What goes back: Oro movie
Rebellion of memory (Switz-Peru) Documentary
director: John’s Gent
Prod Cos: Aaron movies, Amazona Producciones
Save our souls (ger-fr)
director: Jonas Steinacer
What goes back: Lightlock Film Production
Seraphine (Yeast Rut)
director: veiko unpuu
What goes back: oil
The sound of silence (fr-gre-uk-leb)
director: Joyce A. Nashwati
Prod Co: Pancinema
Hinder (MOR-FR) Focus on Morocco
dir: Sofia Araui
Prod Cos: Jiango Films, Srab Films
I’ll die on your feet (Chile-S-SP-Lux-urow) Focus on Chile
director: Maria Paz Gonzalez
Prod Co: Quijote Films
A torn heart (Braz-Port-Ger)
dir: Hervesiomarines
Prodos: Canabrava, Casana Tree
Rotting West Wild Horse (UK-Bulg-Fr) Focused on the UK
Director: Mina Mileba and Vesella Kazakova
Prod Co: MK38
Wild Wild East (pol-isr)
dir: Jan Holbeck
Prod Co: TPB Pol
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