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CIIF Market has selected the following film and audiovisual projects in development for the global market, taking into account criteria of quality, talent of producers and directors, viability of the financing plan and international projection.

THE COLLAPSE

Type: Feature Film
Genre: Folk Horror
Country: Spain
Director: Marina Lameiro Garayoa
Producer: Nano Arrieta, Claudia Ruiz
Company: Atlantika Films
CIIF Market Representative:

Synopsis:

Iceland, 2010: Enara, a young Basque doctor, arrives at a research station to study puffins and escape the heartbreak of a recent break-up. There, José manipulates her until she believes that Hjördis, an Icelandic researcher and his former lover, wants to kill her. After Enara kills Hjördis, an ancient legend is triggered, setting the Basques and the Icelanders on a collision course.

WILD WATER

Type: Feature Film
Genre: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Director: Glorimar Marrero Sánchez
Producer: Vanessa López Rodríguez
Company: Canica Films
CIIF Market Representatives: Glorimar Marrero Sánchez (Director, Screenwriter), Vanessa López Rodríguez (Producer)

Synopsis:

Marisa is a surfer and an archivist of drowned people. She lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico, but loses her home when the building she has lived in for decades is sold. Grappling with grief and the pressure to emigrate, she clings to a country that also seems to be pushing her away. Returning to the abandoned childhood home in the mountains forces her to rebuild her connection with the archipelago.

TO CATCH AN OLD LADY

Type: Feature Film
Genre: ‘Berlanga-esque’ Comedy
Country: Spain
Director: Anita Pico
Producer: Alberto Domínguez, Paula Mariñas
Company: Treboamedia
CIIF Market Representative: Paula Mariñas – Executive Producer

Synopsis:

Olvido, a lonely Galician widow, realises that prison provides her friend Amparo with the companionship that she lacks herself. She decides to commit a crime so that she can end up behind bars too, but her plans keep failing. With Nardo’s help — Amparo’s geeky godson — she becomes embroiled in an absurd spiral of crime that ultimately provides her with exactly what she was looking for: someone to share her life with.

COLIVING

Type: Series
Genre: Dramedy
Country: Colombia
Director: Euder Arce Quintero, Mauricio Quintana
Producer: Euder Arce Quintero
Company: Euder Arce Films
CIIF Market Representative: Euder Arce Quintero – Producer, Showrunner, Screenwriter

Synopsis:

How much does it cost to pretend to be successful? Hidden behind flawless social media filters in an exclusive penthouse in Barranquilla, three young women are trying to hide their debts, failed start-ups and toxic boyfriends. Their world comes crashing down when they discover that the building is facing asset forfeiture and that they have been used as a legal front. Coliving is a vibrant black comedy about how friendship is the only salvation in the chaotic and aspirational contemporary Caribbean.

CRESPIN

Type: Feature Film
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Director(s): Mariano Biasin, Federico Marcello
Producer: Juan Pablo Miller
Company: Tarea Fina
CIIF Market Representative: Mariano Biasin – Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis:

After his break-up, Manuel, a 45-year-old Argentine musician, takes refuge in his dilapidated summer house in Crespin, planning to sell it and move on from the past. However, there, his memories of Béatrice begin to materialise before his eyes. ‘Entangled’ in his mistakes, he is pulled out of his despair by an unexpected encounter with an intrepid Spanish tourist stranded in the village.

THE CROSSING OF SOULS

Type: Feature Film
Genre: Migration Drama
Country: Panama
Director: Arturo Montenegro
Producer: Andry Barrientos
Company: Q Films
CIIF Market Representative: Arturo Montenegro – Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis:

The Crossing of Souls is the story of an encounter. It tells the tale of two strangers who, while migrating through one of the continent’s most hostile territories, become family. Perhaps reaching the other side means not just crossing a border, but also finding someone who, when all seems lost, chooses to continue the journey with you.

EMMANUEL KLAUS, THE LADY HEARTBREAKER

Type: Series
Genre: Dark comedy
Country: France
Director: TBD
Producer: Caroline Tracanelli
Company: TDCB Productions
CIIF Market Representative: Caroline Tracanelli – Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis:

Emmanuel Klaus is a 55-year-old con artist who fancies himself a great seducer, but he is nothing more than a small-time con artist. After failing at everything else, he realises that care homes on the Côte d’Azur are the perfect setting for his new business: seducing and manipulating vulnerable women and turning them into his loyal followers.

I HAVE LOVED YOU FOR A LONG TIME

Type: Feature film
Genre: Comedy-drama
Country: Cuba
Director: Jeniffer Castañeda
Producer: Ever Miranda Palacio
Company: Miranda Films
CIIF Market Representatives: Ever Miranda Palacios – Executive Producer, Screenwriter; Marco Toledo – Associate Producer

Synopsis:

Niurka Royo, a retired teacher, is responsible for the day-to-day running of a block of flats in Havana that has been left empty by the departure of its residents. Searching for answers and a future free from loneliness, she meets Néstor Perera on the phone. He offers her the hope of a better life filled with companionship and love. However, despair and a sense that her future is not her own lead Niurka to embrace the present in solitude. She needs nothing more.

RIVER WOMAN

Type: Feature Film
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Spain
Director: Tamara García Iglesias
Producer: Laura Lizuma
Company: Atekaleun
CIIF Market Representatives: Tamara García Iglesias (Director, Screenwriter), Laura Lizuma (Producer)

Synopsis:

In the summer of 1872, Lucrecia Grouard left her brother behind. Alone and penniless in the remote reaches of the American West, she agreed to take charge of a ferry. As she ferries passengers from one bank to the other, they accompany her on a spiritual journey that will lead her to confront her sadness and loneliness in search of her destiny.

GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO EVERYONE ELSE

Type: Feature Film
Genre: Comedy
Country: Argentina
Director: Florencia Tundis
Producer: Maria Eugenia Lombardi
Production Company: 80 Mundos
CIIF Market Representative: Maria Eugenia Lombardi – Producer

Synopsis:

As she approaches her thirtieth birthday, Julieta loses her home, her job and, once again, the comic strip competition that she was certain she would win. Forced to move in with her sister and share a room with her nine-year-old niece, Julieta feels like a teenager again — but with more emotional baggage and dark circles under her eyes. However, when all seems lost, she must rediscover her purpose and reconnect with the women in her life.

THE HOLLOWS OF THE MOON

Type: Feature film
Genre: Neo-noir thriller, Social drama, Dark comedy
Country: Peru
Director: Paula D’Angelo Schmid
Producer: Norma Velásquez
Company: Warmi Audiovisual
CIIF Market Representatives: Paula D’Angelo Schmid (Director, Screenwriter), Norma Velásquez (Executive Producer), Alejandra Castillo (Producer)

Synopsis:

A female taxi driver works for 72 hours straight in order to pay off a debt. She finds herself facing violent situations and ends up spiralling into madness and revenge.

TERMINALS

Type: Series
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Director: Federico Khaski
Producer: Gerardo Javier Khaski
Company: Nuevedoce Films
CIIF Market Representatives: Federico Khaski (Director, Screenwriter), Gerardo Javier Khaski (Producer)

Synopsis:

Fausto is a reclusive genius and a brilliant doctor. Claudia is a lonely woman with dissociative identity disorder. They are both terminally ill. They devise a plan to kill corrupt individuals and die as heroes. There are only two rules: personal vendettas are forbidden, and whoever kills must also die.

CLOSE TO EVERYTHING, FAR FROM ME

Type: Feature Film
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Director: Diogo Leite
Producer: Paula Pripas
Company: Lie Films
CIIF Market Delegates: Maria Gabriela de Oliveira Sampaio – Screenwriter,
Diogo Leite da Silva – Director/Screenwriter, Paula Aidar Pripas – Producer

Synopsis:

Geralda has been diagnosed with advanced glaucoma and will go blind. Faced with this situation, she decides to fulfil a dream and see the Rio de Janeiro Carnival. Her family are against the trip, but Geralda uses her savings to buy a package holiday. However, in Rio de Janeiro, she is swindled and left devastated. Alone and with her sight deteriorating, Geralda finds solace in embracing her dream.

STELLA MARIS

Type: Feature film
Genre: Fiction, Drama, Coming-of-age with dreamlike and poetic elements
Country: Spain
Director: Laura Muñoz Liaño
Producer: Laura Muñoz Liaño
Company: Producciones 24Violets
CIIF Market Representative: Laura Muñoz Liaño – Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis:

August 1984: Eleven-year-old María is on holiday with her family in Isla Cristina, where she meets Tony, a local girl who teaches her to swim with the current. The summer comes to an abrupt end when the Isla Mar III sinks in Canary Island waters, carrying more than twenty men from the village. Surrounded by women dressed in black supporting one another, María learns something that will stay with her for forty years.

TRAPHOLE

Type: Feature Film
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Country: Mexico
Director: Juan Carlos Guerra
Producer: Karina Blanco
Production Company: Nativo Cine
CIIF Market Representatives: Juan Carlos Guerra (Director, Screenwriter), Karina Blanco (Producer)

Synopsis:

Mario, a successful politician, is attacked in his flat. Unable to help himself due to a knee injury, he gradually recognises the attacker, who is persistently searching the flat for something. He realises that his entire career is at risk as the uncomfortable truth about his past could come to light. Feeling cornered, he decides to take drastic action.

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