[FILMS EN COURS] 2024 - selection
The [Films en cours] award offers post-production support for first, second, and third feature films, dedicated to theatrical release (narrative, essay, documentary), towards the end of editing process.
Thanks to the commitment of our partners LA PUCE A L'OREILLE, STUDIO ORLANDO, LE GRAND ACTION and LYSI MEDIA.
2024 WINNER
La Muerte te vio volver, Sebastián Cuevas Barría
Chile / France, fiction, 90', Colors
Production : Praxia Producciones, Vert et Bleu Productions
After thirty years of absence, Silvia comes back to her native village on Chiloé Island, Chile, to speak to her sister and dying mother about the legacy that the latter wishes to leave them. This stay will bring the three women back into the past, which will allow them to heal old wounds.
2024 CANDIDATES
Don't let me die, Andrei Epure
Bulgaria / France / Romania, fiction, 105', Colors
Production : Saga Film, Handplayed, Tomsa Films, Arrogant Films, Conceptual Lab by Theo Nissim
Maria finds the body of a neighbour outside her apartment building. With no family to claim her, she decides to arrange the funeral herself. Though the woman was a stranger, her disappearance begins to haunt Maria.
Fantaisie, Isabel Pagliai
France, documentary, 90', Colors
Production : 5à7 Films
Louise turned 20 nearly two years ago. She's passed the most beautiful age of her life. But has she ever reached it? Alone in the big, empty house, she'd like to write. Her autobiography? At the very least, to tell stories... But the bottles of wine go faster than the words. Asleep, she's like any puppet put to rest: lifeless. That's when Louise wakes up, in the middle of the forest of dreams.
Si nous habitons un éclair, Louise Chevillotte
France, documentary, 76', Colors
Production : Apsara Films
“I don't understand this line by René Char: “If we inhabit a flash of lightning, it is the heart of the eternal”. What does it mean?” my bedridden mother asked me insistently, three days before she died. This mysterious oracle I inherited haunts me. To understand its mysteries, I embark on an investigation that will take me to the frontiers of the visible. Will answering my mother, beyond death, enable me to ward off the void?
Chroniques d'un siège, Abdallah Al-Khatib
Algeria / France / Palestinian Territories, fiction, 106', Colors
Production : Evidence Films, Blue Train Films
Five chronicles that bring to life the radical transformation of the residents of a war zone under siege into a relentless struggle for survival. Five chapters that offer a window into the human spirit faced with the most difficult choices, each struggling in their own way to preserve a semblance of normality and humanity despite the extreme circumstances.
