Project Development Workshops – Arché
Projectos Seleccionados
Ayvu – Story of a Forbidden Language
Production: Leandro Listorti (MaravillaCine, Argentina), Noelia Armele (Sabaté Films, Paraguay)
Estimated length: 90’
Completion date: June of 2025
Estimated budget: 137 357,00€
Acquired budget: 40 936,00€
Project stage: advanced development
Looking for: co-producer, sales agent, film festivals
This is the story of Guaraní, a language that Mina could not teach her grandson Joaquín. A prohibition that determined his family’s history and that of South America, a story that Mina avoided telling him to protect him, but which he learned to speak.
Cidade dos Espíritos
Production: Rodrigo Letier (Kromaki, Brazil), Elina Ferreira (Muiraquitã Filmes, Portugal, Brazil)
Estimated length: 80’
Completion date: October of 2025
Estimated budget: 900 000,00€
Acquired budget: 0,00€
Project stage: in development
Looking for: co-producers, distribution partners
After a plane with passengers crashes in the Amazon rainforest, the area becomes a forest of white spirits. The film explores the encounter between white and indigenous people, the dead and the living, the judiciary and Kayapó-Mebêngôkre cosmology.
Giordano Bruno’s Plaza
Production: Juan Manuel Sepúlveda (Fragua Cinematografía, Mexico)
Estimated length: 120’
Completion date: 2025
Estimated budget: 385 927,18€
Acquired budget: 183 837,90€
Project stage: editing
Looking for: co-producers
Hundreds of Haitian migrants in Mexico City, camped in Giordano Bruno’s Plaza around the statue of the heretic, are resisting pressure from neighbours and authorities who are trying to evict them.
Ku Handza
Production: Jacinta Barros (Real Ficção, Portugal), André Guiomar (Olhar de Ulisses, Portugal)
Estimated length: 120’
Completion date: January of 2025
Estimated budget: 115 000,00€
Acquired budget: 115 000,00€
Project stage: first cut
Looking for: distribution
Benjamin tries to raise money through informal exchanges. Pedro dreams of playing soccer in Europe. Filimone visits his family between war missions. Eulália gives birth to a premature baby. Ku Handza describes a chicken scavenging for food.
More than Just a House
Production: Julián Etienne, Abril López Carrillo (Cine Laida, Mexico)
Estimated length: 90’
Completion date: December of 2025
Estimated budget: 370 655,98€
Acquired budget: 333 428,44€
Project stage: editing
Looking for: editing consultants, international co-producers and sales agents, distribution partners in Europe and North America.
For two decades, massive social housing complexes were built on the outskirts of major Mexican cities. Transformed by their inhabitants, these neighbourhoods reflect the dreams of a generation of dispossessed workers.
Noise
Production: Laura Nogal (Los Niños Films, Colombia)
Estimated length: 90’
Completion date: November of 2026
Estimated budget: 146 000,00€
Acquired budget: 24 000,00€
Project stage: advanced development
Looking for: co-producers, funding, distribution partners
Crossing Bogotá in a limbo between the visible and the imaginary, David, a young activist with low vision, builds theatrical stagings with blind people, victims of ocular violence, and soldiers who went blind in combat.
Penitentes
Production: Paulo Carneiro, Miguel de Jesus (Bam Bam Cinema, Portugal)
Estimated length: 90’
Completion date: 2026
Estimated budget: 120 000,00€
Acquired budget: 10 000,00€
Project stage: writing
Looking for: co-producers, partners
João Garcia embarks on a journey to the highest mountains in the world. Before descending from the summit, he collects ice samples for scientific studies. Penitentes addresses the dangers of climate change for the Himalayan population.
A Terra das Viúvas dos Vivos
Production: Pedro Neves (Red Desert Films, Portugal)
Estimated length: 90’
Completion date: 2027
Estimated budget: 191 100,00€
Acquired budget: 7 250,00€
Project stage: in development
Looking for: co-producers, distribution
In the Land of the Widows of the Living, it’s in its women’s blood to survive in a territory where poverty and emigration are everywhere, and the relationship with nature is at times of complicity, at others tense.
Tutors
Helena Girón
Her work alongside Samuel M. Delgado explores the relationship between mythology, history and materialism. Their first feature film, They Carry Death (2021), premiered and was awarded at the Venice and San Sebastian festivals. Their previous short films have been shown at festivals like Toronto, Locarno, New York and Ann Arbor. She teaches at the Madrid Film and Audiovisual School (ECAM) and the Elías Querejeta Film School (EQZE).
Andrés Duque
His first film “Ivan Z” is a portrait of cult filmmaker Iván Zulueta. He has done self-referential films and portraits about exceptional figures such as the composer Oleg Karavaichuk. His projects received many international awards and recognitions at film festivals and have been exhibited in cultural centers such as the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum. He’s been teaching avantgard cinema history for more than 20 years at various universities.
Tiago Hespanha
Film director and producer. Has a degree in architecture. Completed the course on documentary film direction at Ateliers Varan and a master’s degree on documentary creation in Barcelona. Founding member of the production company Terratreme Filmes (2008), where he produces his films and works with several directors and producers. Teaches film directing at the Docnomads international master’s degree on documentary film since 2012 and is a member of Ateliers Varan.