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Projects by Irish genre writer-director Ivan Kavanagh and Palestinian writer-director Razan Madhoon are among 62 selected for this year’s co-production market at Rome’s MIA film and TV event, which runs from October 6-10.

The 62 projects in development span films, animation, documentaries and scripted TV dramas.

There are 16 feature film projects in development being presented at MIA, among them Kavanagh’s Fugue. Produced by Ireland’s Fantastic Films, it is billed as a haunting tale of possession, sacrifice, and eternal return, where the sins of the dead echo in Bach’s The Art of Fugue. Kavanagh’s previous credits include Son and The Canal. P

Palestinian writer-director Razan Madhoon is bringing family drama The Good Spirit. Produced through Meraki Films, the Palestine-UK co-production is inspired by true events in the Gaza Strip, and follows a young woman who rescues an injured stray dog despite local beliefs that dogs drive away good spirits.

Ukrainian director Egor Olesov’s The Old Gun, produced by Forecast Pictures and Heroes Creative Studio, follows a surgeon who loses his wife and daughter during the occupation of his village.

Additionally, 16 animation projects have been selected, 15 documentaries and 15 TV dramas.

The animation projects include director Eléa Gobbe-Mévellec (The Swallows of Kabul)’s new film The Northern Star (Serveka), produced by the Czech Republic’s Hausboot and France’s Les Films du Cygne. It is the story of escape and redemption through the journey of a seventeen-year-old girl fleeing North Korea.

Meanwhile, seven films have been selected for C EU Soon, the work-in-progress programme for European films in production and post-production, seeking international distribution. The films compete for the Screen International Award.

The selected films are: Laura Haby’s Beyond The Mountains Of Acrocero; Katharina Rivilis I’ll Be Gone In June; Sergio Castro San Martín’s Il Cileno; Valéry Rosier’s Parkings; Laura García Alonso’s Runner; Valeriu Andriuta’s The Circle, Tomasz Wolski’s The Incident.

New for 2025, MIA is launching the Book Adaptation Forum (BAF), designed to connect publishers, producers, literary agents, and audiovisual professionals for literary adaptations.

Film Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum - 2025 selection

Cold Sun, dir. Gentian Koçi (Albania)
Prod. Blerina Hankollari, Gentian Koçi (Artalb Film Productions)

Beginners, dir. Birutė Kapustinskaite (Lithuania)
Prod. Rūta Petronytė, Justinas Pocius (Smart Casual)

Draft Zero, dir. Ahmed El Zoghby (Egypt)
Prod. Mohamed Hefzy (Film Clinic)

Fugue, dir. Ivan Kavanagh (Ire)
Prod. Brendan McCarthy (Fantastic Films)

I Have To Fuck Before The World Ends, dir. Andrea Benjamin Manenti (It-Phil).
Prod. Stefano Centini (Volos Films Italia), Carlo Hintermann (Citrullo International)

Roma Shocking, dir. Angela Norelli (It)
Prod. Andrea Occhipinti, Stefano Massenzi, Serena Sostegni (Lucky Red)

Summer Of Jesus, dir. Tatiana Delaunay (Nor)
Prod. Renée Mlodyszewski (True Content), Thomas Robsahm (Amarcord)

Sweat, dir. Elif Refiğ (Turkey)
Prod. Alara Hamamcıoğlu (Muhtelif Yapım, Vigo Film)

The Good Spirit, dir. Razan Madhoon (Palestine-UK)
Prod. Marie-Elena Dyche (Meraki Films)

The Fog Catcher, dir. Daniel Rehder (Peru)
Prod. Javier Salvador (Los Chicxs Altos), Daniel Rehder (Rehder Films)

The Old Gun, dir. Egor Olesov (Ukraine)
Prod. Jean-Charles Lévy (Forecast Pictures), Olha Maksiuk (Heroes Creative Studio)

Three Times Jenny, dir. Milena Doenst (Fr-Ger)
Prod. Guillaume Dreyfus, Delphine Schmit (Tripode Productions), Jonas Weydemann (Weydemann Bros)

Wanna Taste IT? - 2025 film selection

The Blue Line, dir. Tomaso Mannoni (It)
Prod. Luca Cabriolu, Andrea Di Blasio (Ombre Rosse Film Production), Cesare Apolito (Lama Film)

The Boundary, dir. Federica Cellini (It)
Prod. Luca Scarabelli, Andrea Josè Di Pasquale (Qoomoon), Beppe Caschetto (IBC Movie)

The Colour Of Doubt, dir. Ivan Gergolet (It-Slovenia)
Prod. Miha Černec, David Cej (Staragara I.T.)

Via Di Bravetta, 415, dir. Mounir Derbal (It)
Prod. Flaminio Zadra (Dorje Film)

C EU Soon - 2025 selection

Beyond The Mountains of Acrocero (Fr-Sp). Dir. Laura Haby
Prod. Efthymia Zymvragaki (Gris Medio), co-produced by Cedric Bonin (Seppia)

I’ll Be Gone In June, (Ger-Switz). Dir. Katharina Rivilis
Prod. Léa Germain (Road Movies GmbH), Olga Lamontanara and Simon Jaquemet (8Horses).

Il Cileno (Italy-Chile-Switz). Dir. Sergio Castro San Martín
Prod. Alessandro Amato and Luigi Chimienti (dispàrte), Pablo Calisto (Equeco), Michela Pini (Cinédokké). Sales: Fandango Sales.

Parkings (Bel-Fr). Dir. Valéry Rosier
Prod. Benoit Roland (Wrong Men), co-produced by Sebastien Haguenauer (10:15! Productions).

Runner (Sp). Dir. Laura García Alonso
Prod. Miriam Porté (Distinto Films) and coproduced by Àngels Masclans (Dos Soles Media) and María Zamora (Elastica).

The Circle (Moldavia-Romania). Dir. Valeriu Andriuța
Prod. Ionut Ionescu, Iulia Andriuta and Andrei Marinescu (Idea Film Around The World, Amprenta Films)

The Incident (Pol-Neth-Rom). Dir. Tomasz Wolski
Prod. Anna Gawlita, Marta Szymanowska (Kijora Film), Maria Choustova (Atoms & Void), Cristian Mungiu (Mobra Films). 

 

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