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Seven Canarian film and audiovisual projects in development are participating in the CIIF Market, seeking funding for the European and international markets. These projects are based on criteria such as quality, international reach, talent of producers and directors, and the viability of the financing plan.

EMPATHY

Type: Feature Film
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
City: Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Director: Jorge Guimerá
Producer: Jorge Guimerá
Company: Jorge Guimerá
CIIF Market Representative: Jorge Guimerá, Director, Producer & Screenwriter

Synopsis:

Eugenio, a self-centred and cynical but successful advertising creative, is bitten by a small chameleon whilst brainstorming in a park for one of his projects. From that moment on, he will only be able to feel what he makes others feel.

HARRAGA

Type: Feature Film
Genre: Fictionalized Reality
City: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Director: Mercedes Ortega
Producer: Mercedes Ortega, Ana Sánchez Gijón
Company: Mercedes Ortega
CIIF Market Representative: Mercedes Ortega, Director, Producer & Screenwriter – Ana Sánchez Gijón, Executive Producer

Synopsis:

Three children from Senegal, Western Sahara and Morocco are secretly preparing to set off for Europe. Harraga weaves together fictional stories with the real-life accounts of other children who have experienced migration, exploring the desire to leave, the decision to do so, the sacrifices involved and the consequences of crossing the sea.

THE CHOSEN ONES

Type: Feature Film
Genre: Drama
City: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Director: Belén Macías
Producer: Yadira Ávalos Benitez, Juan Sola, Palmira Marquez, Belén Macías, David Naranjo
Company: Naif Films
CIIF Market Representative: Belén Macías (Director, Producer & Screenwriter); Yadira Ávalos (Executive Producer)

Synopsis:

Spain, 1953. Asun meets Santos, an underground librarian fighting against Franco. Amidst books, desire and defiance, together with Miguel and Alonso, the four of them defy the rules of a Spain that hunts down anything that breaks the law. When Santos is sent to the Tefía camp, his death will change their lives forever. Decades later, a film will rescue their story from oblivion.

DAMNED DOG

Type: Feature film
Genre: Psychological drama, Moral thriller
City: Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Director: Roberto Chinet
Producer: Minia Díaz
Company: Novilunio Music and Films
CIIF Market Representative: Roberto Chinet, Director & Screenwriter

Synopsis:

When a renowned theatre director is accused of an alleged incident of abuse that took place twenty years ago, a rumour begins to tear apart his life, his marriage and the identity he has built for himself. As a former student investigates what happened, suspicion spreads, forcing Manuel to confront his past, those around him and, above all, the man he thought he was.

THE BANDONEON'S VOICE

Type: Feature Film
Genre: Historical Drama
City: Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Director: Jeniffer Castañeda García
Producer: Carlota Bravo Reta
Company: Nostrana Films
CIIF Market Representative: Jeniffer Castañeda, Director & Screenwriter

Synopsis:

When Gara, a fine arts student, meets Valeria, an elderly Argentine woman with Alzheimer’s, she feels the need to piece together a painful story from her past, when Valeria lived in Buenos Aires in the 1940s.

WHO IS MARIA

Type: Feature Film
Genre: Family Drama, Magical Realism, Poetic Sci-Fi
City: Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Director: Ana Sánchez-Gijón
Producer: Ana Sánchez-Gijón, Aline Rajan-Harjani
Company: La Mirada Producciones
CIIF Market Representatives: Ana Sánchez-Gijón (Director, Producer & Screenwriter), Aline Rajan-Harjani (Producer)

Synopsis:

A teenager’s pregnancy through parthenogenesis shatters the fragile balance of her family. Harassed by a vicious online witch-hunt and hounded by international scientific institutions keen to unravel the mystery, mother and daughter embark on a journey of redemption from the volcanic peaks of the Canary Islands to the Peruvian Amazon to protect this evolutionary miracle.

I WON

Type: Feature Film
Genre: Drama
City: Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Director: Vasni J. Ramos
Producer: Vasni J. Ramos
Company: The Kung Fu Brothers
CIIF Market Representative: Vasni J. Ramos, Director, Producer & Screenwriter

Synopsis:

Wednesday 11 March 2020. 10.20 am. Miriam goes into the bathroom at home following a brief argument with her partner. A few seconds later, the door opens and, before she can say a word, she realises that a knife is piercing her abdomen. Thus begins the true story of one of the most heart-wrenching incidents of gender-based violence to have occurred in Spain in recent history.

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