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Venice Golden Lion

The Venice Film Festival’s Gap-Financing Market has selected 33 international feature and documentary projects for its ninth edition this year, which runs from September 2-4. 

The international projects nearing completion will have the chance to close their financing through one-to-one meetings at the Market, which is part of the Venice Production Bridge.

Each of the feature and documentary projects has at least 70% of its funding in place.

The countries in focus at this year’s event are France and Taiwan, with a number of projects from each country receiving a special invite to the Market.

The Market also features another 27 immersive and virtual reality projects, and three Biennale College Cinema projects.

Feature film projects at the Gap-Financing Market

The 67th Summer (Fr- Aust- Egy)
Dir: Abu Bakr Shawky
Prod co: Cinenovo

Arcadia (Gr- Bulg) 
Diri: Yorgos Zois
Prod cos: Foss Production, Homemade Films, Red Carpet

Be With Me (Tai) 
Dir: Hwarng Wern Ying
Prod co: Sinomovie

Blue Banks (Rom-Fr-Slov) 
Dir: Andreea Cristina Bortun
Prod cos: Atelier de Film, Films de Force Majeure, Perfo

Chasing The Sun (Ch-HK) 
Dir: Huang Ruosong
Prod cos: Event Horizon Culture Media, Chinese Shadows

Cold (Ice- Bel)
Dir: Erlingur Thoroddsen
Prod cos: Compass Films, Eyjafjallajokull Entertainment, Mirage Films

An Endless Sunday (It-Ger)
Dir: Alain Parroni
Prod cos: Alcor, Fandango, Road Movies

Fanon (Fr-Lux-Bel-Can)
Dir: Jean-Claude Barny
Prod co: Special Touch Studios

Flow (Fr-Ger-Lat) 
Dir: Gints Zilbalodis
Prod cos: Sacrebleu Productions, Cine Litte Productions, Dream Well Studios

The God Will Not Help (Cro-It)
Dir: Hana Jusic
Prod cos: Kinorama, Rosamont

Her Second Chance (It) 
Dir: Vito Palmieri
Prod co: Articolture

Hold Me Tight  (Urug) 
Dirs: Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge
Prod cos: Mutante Cine, Bocacha Films, Agustina Chiarino

Home (Isr-Ukr) 
Dir: Or Sinai
Prod co: Baryo

Horizonte (Col-Fr-Chile) 
Dir: César Augusto Acevedo García
Prod co: Inercia Películas

Houses (Batim) (Isr) 
Dir: Veronica Nicole Tetebaum
Prod cos: Marker Films, Daizy Films

I The Song (Bhu-Fr-Tai)
Dir: Dechen Roder
Prod cos: Dakinny Productions, Girelle Production, Fidalgo Films

Indelebile (It)
Dir: Laura Chiossone
Prod cos: Twister, Adler Entertainment, Showlab 

The Master Of This Silence (Fr-Pol-Ukr) 
Dir: Jonathan Littell
Prod co: Veilleur de Nuit

The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo (Chi- Fr-Mex-Sp) 
Dir:  Diego Céspedes
Prod cos: Rampante Films, Quijote Films, Les Valseurs, Varios Lobos, Irusoin

Noviembre (Col-Mex)
Dir: Tomás Corredor
Prod co: Burning Sas

SAM (Phil-Nor) 
Dir: E del Mundo
Prod cos: Create Cinema Inc., DUOFilm

The Smell Of Freshly Cut Grass (Arg-Ger-Urug)
Dir: Celina Murga
Prod co: Tresmilmundos Cine, Mostra Cine, Weydemann Bros., Nadador Cine

Stranger Eyes (Sing-Fr-Tai)
Dir: Yeo Siew Hua
Prod cos: Akanga Film Asia, Films de Force Majeure, Volos Films

Tales Of Taipei (Tai) 
Dirs: Pawo Choyning Dorji, Keat Aun Chong,  KEFF, Rachid Hami, Norris Wong, Pei-Ju Hsieh, Joseph Hsu, Chen-Hao Yin , Liu Chuan-Hui, Tang Yi 
Prod co: MA Studios 

Titanic Ocean (Gr-Fr-Sp-Rom-Ger-Jap)
Dir: Konstantina Kotzamani
Prod co: Homemade Films

Who’ll Stop The Rain (Tai)
Dir: Su I-Hsuan
Prod co: Suz Creative Studio

ZE (Fr-Mong-Port-Neth-Ger)  
Dir: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
Prod co: Aurora Films

Documentary projects at the Gap-Financing Market 

5 Seasons Of Revolution (Syr-Ger-Nor-Neth-Qatar)
Dir: Lina
Prod co: No Nation Films

Fatna, A Woman Named Rashid (Mor-Fr) 
Dirs Helene Harder, Abel Aflam
Prod co: Wendigo Films

First Names  (Arg-Fr-Ger)
Dir: Fernando Dominguez
Prod cos: CSP Films, Les Valseurs, Black Forest Films

Für Irena (Lith- Est-Bulg) 
Dir: Giedrė Žickytė
Prod cos: Moonmakers, Allfilm, Agitprop

A Golden Life  (Fr-Benin-Burkino Faso)
Dir: Boubacar Sangaré
Prod cos: Le Films de la Caravane, Merveilles Production, Imedia

The Monsters (working title) (Arg- Ger)
Dir: Manuel Abramovich
Prod cos: Ruido