SÉLECTION PITCHS INTERNATIONAUX

ÉDITION 2027

Où allons-nous maintenant ?

Pour beaucoup de projets sélectionnés pour l’édition 2027 des Pitchs internationaux du Fipadoc, une question simple est au cœur de tout : où allons-nous maintenant ?


Cette question à la fois simple et complexe se pose à un groupe d’étudiants en Birmanie, à un Moukhtar à Gaza, à un commissaire européen, à un pianiste en Ukraine, à l’homme qui va avoir un enfant avec une autre femme que son épouse, à un agriculteur écologique en Belgique, et à bien d’autres personnages que vous rencontrerez dans les 24 projets sélectionnés.

Cette question reflète à la fois des dilemmes très personnels et des problèmes structurels plus larges dans nos sociétés. Elle donne aussi lieu à une grande variété d’approches cinématographiques et de formes narratives.

D’un voyage dans l’espace à partir d’images d’archives, aux merveilles du microcosme d’un village hongrois, d’un voyage futuriste au cœur de l’identité à une plongée d’observation dans le dilemme de la façon dont nous choisissons de mettre fin à notre vie, la sélection vous emmène aux quatre coins de notre langage documentaire.

Les équipes de pitch vous demanderont, en tant que partenaires potentiels de leurs projets : où allons-nous maintenant ?

Nous espérons que vous répondrez aux porteurs de projets que vous les y accompagnerez, pour les aider à réaliser leurs projets et en faire de grands documentaires

◤ SESSIONS DE PITCHS

MER 27/01
09h00 > 15h45 (3 sessions)

JEU 28/01
09H00 > 13h00 (2 sessions)

Salle Rotonde (Bellevue) 
En anglais uniquement

◤ CÉRÉMONIE DE CLÔTURE DU FIPADOC PRO ET REMISE DES PRIX

JEU 28/01   18h30

Salle Rotonde (Bellevue) 

AFTER THE RIOT (IE)

LUKE MCMANUS

Production :
Nuala Carr (Fourth Wall Film & TV)


One off : 90 min 
Production stage: Développement

After the Riot revisits Dublin’s devastating 2023 riot, tracing the forces that brought a city to the brink. Through archive, CCTV and intimate testimony, the film explores the technological destabilisation, online radicalisation, and social exclusion that shape modern Ireland - and the world.

 

AT THE TIPPING POINT (BE, FR)

SERGIO GHIZZARDI

Production :
Virgile Tron (BrownBro Production) | Sergio Ghizzardi (DOMINO PRODUCTION)

Coproduction :
Jacques Aragones (Studiofact Presse & Docs )


One off : 75 min & 52 min 
Production stage: Développement

Daughter of a Berlaymont cleaning lady and former journalist, Hadja Lahbib becomes a European Commissioner as Europe faces rising illiberalism, climate change and global crises. She must move from bearing witness to taking action — and confront what it means when action is no longer enough.

 

BÁNYA (HU)

DÁVID MIKULÁN & GEORGE BOOTH-COLE

Production :
Bálint Révész (Roughhouse Project)


One off : 90 min 
Production stage: Développement

BÁNYA maps the relationship between a Hungarian village and an expanding mining industry in the region. Over 10 years, Photographer George Booth-Cole has documented farmers and locals, strangled by a system stripping their identity while destroying the ecosphere they have inhabited for generations.

 

COSMOBILITY (FI)

MIKA MATTILA

Production :
Kristian Van der Heyden (Ideasthetic) 


One off : 90 min 
Production stage: Production

What happens when Homo Sapiens once again turns into a mobile species?
How will our lives, minds & societies look like after we’ve uncoupled our identities from places? From crypto cities to digital nomads, migrant journeys to network states — Cosmobility is a cinematic reflection of a timeless life in a placeless world.

 

 

 

DIRECTOR’S CUT (RO, DK, UA)

RADU CIORNICIUC

Production :
Radu Ciorniciuc (Ciorniciuc Films)

Coproduction :
Oleksandra Kravchenko (Moon Man) | Tereza Simikova (Wingman Media)


One off : 90 min & 52 min
Production stage: Développement

Hired to film a celebrated humanitarian aid hub on Ukraine’s border, a Romanian filmmaker is drawn into an investigation into missing aid. When powerful backers turn on him, he must confront what truth means when those who control the story can silence its tellers.

 

DIY DEATH (FR, NL, CH)

BASILE ROZE & BRUNO LUS

Production :
Théo Laboulandine (Melocoton Films) 


One off : 90 min 
Série: 4 x 40 min
Production stage: Développement

Two rebellious retirees intend to give death to anyone who wants it.
But when an assisted suicide goes awry, they find themselves caught in a hellish juggernaut. FBI investigations, a mad scientist inventor of suicide capsules, grieving families…
How far can we tinker with death?

 

FACES&TRACES (ES, IT)

LAURA SISTERÓ

Production :
Marieke Van Den Bersselaar & Carles Brugueras (Polar Star Films) 

Coproduction :
Giorgio Viscardini (Studiox01) 


One off : 90 min 
Production stage: Développement

In Chongqing, a young woman dreams of changing her face for online fame. As surveillance cameras follow her every move and the mask changing of Bian Lian performers blurs one identity into another, she starts to wonder: does freedom lie in being seen - or disappearing altogether?

 

FERMATA (UA, FR)

OLEKSANDRA GROMOVA 

Production :
Daria Lanova (Kolganova Production)

Coproduction :
Guillaume de la Boulaye (Zorba)


One off : 80 min 
Production stage: Développement

In wartime Kyiv, a renowned Ukrainian pianist loses his inner sense of music. He begins listening to sirens, drones, explosions, shattered silence, and human cries, until music slowly returns as a fragile act of resistance and survival.

 

GASLIT (BG)

FINN PERELSTEIN  & VIKTORIA BOZHINOVA

Production :
Angel Ivanov & Leda Dragieva (Handplayed)


One off : 90 min & 53 min
Production stage: Production

A Russian natural gas pipeline to supply Serbia and Hungary is finished within a few months of Russia launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Two Gen Z journalists in love investigate the dark motive behind the TurkStream pipeline.

 

LABOUR & LOVE (FR, UK, NL)

LOTJE SODDERLAND 

Production :
Corinne Delpech & Christilla Huillard Kann (Elda Productions) 

Coproduction :
Sasja Opdam & Morris Rohof (SUBMARINE AMSTERDAM) | Charlie Phillips (I Am Charlie Ltd)


One off : 90 min 
Production stage: Développement

Trapped in debt bondage in rural England, Nigerian carer Mercy sustains herself through storytelling while caring for a dying man — until his death collapses the fragile world protecting her.

 

LES AVENTURIERS (IT, BE, DE)

MICHELE CINQUE

Production :
Michele Cinque, Fabio Parente & Malou Visco Comandini (Lazy Film srl)

Coproduction :
Bertrand Leclipteux (Clair-obscur production) | Christopher Zwickler (Neue Flimmer Gmbh)


One off : 90 min 
Production stage: Production

A photojournalist investigates a hidden human trafficking system between Tunisia and Libya involving state actors, while two survivors transform their trauma into a fight for justice at the heart of European institutions.

 

MALADAPTED ? (BE, FR)

MARIE MANDY

Production :
Isabelle Truc (Iota Production)

Coproduction :
Barbara Hurel (Wanted Story) | Denis Carot (Elzevir Films)


Série : 3 x 45 min 
Production stage: Développement

We have built a world we are no longer adapted to. It puts our bodies and our emotions under severe strain. MALADAPTED? explores the symptoms of this headlong rush: stress, anxiety, exhaustion. But our imbalances also reveal untapped resources. What if we could reactivate them?

 

MISSING FRIDA (EE, PL, MX)

ANDRZEJ MIĘKUS

Production :
Peter Gage Morris (Gage Pictures) 

Coproduction :
Andrzej Miękus (Film Boom Productions Ltd) 


One off : 90 min 
Production stage: Post production

70 years ago, Frida Kahlo's largest painting vanished after an exhibition behind the Iron Curtain. Today, Kahlo has become the world's most valuable female artist. Her missing masterpiece has become the Holy Grail of lost art. Missing Frida reopens one of the art world's greatest cold cases.

 

PEOPLE ON AIR (GE)

MARADIA TSAAVA

Production :
Mariam Chachia (OpyoDoc) 


One off : 70 min 
Production stage: Development

When Georgia’s Public Broadcaster is silenced, young people take a camera and create independent news. As their voices spread across the country, the regime follows, confronting them with a harder question: how long can they stay out of its reach?

 

RED ELVIS, THE AMERICAN COMMIE (FR, CZ)

LARS BLUMERS & NICKY BOLSTER 

Production :
Fabrice Frank, Céline Payot Lehmann (Pernel Media)

Coproduction :
Filip Remunda (Hypermarket film) 


Série : 4 x 30 min 
Production stage: Développement

He turned his back on America to become the biggest pop star the Soviet world had ever seen. He filled stadiums from Moscow to Havana, secretly worked for the Stasi. Then one morning, they found him floating in a Berlin lake. His story is told through the declassified Stasi files.

 

ROCKETLAND (FR)

FABIEN BENOIT

Production :
Mathilde Racymow (Les Films Du Bilboquet) |  Jean-Baptiste Fribourg (La Société des apaches)


One off : 90 min 
Production stage: Développement

Texas, on the Mexican border, SpaceX established his space base. As “ Starbase” employees and Elon Musk admirers flock in, longterm residents try to respond to the urgent issues of the present and fight for a different future.

 

SPACE CONQUEST, ANOTHER HISTORY (FR)

JEAN-ROBERT VIALLET

Production :
Amélie Juan (Morgane Production) 


One off : 90 min 
Série: 3 x 30 min
Production stage: Production

From the first rockets developed in Nazi Germany to the unbridled space capitalism of our time, this series reveals the true nature of the space race, caught between unacknowledged military aims and an ever-evolving predatory logic.

 

THE FARMER'S CASE (BE, FR, NL)

PIETER VAN EECKE 

Production :
Hanne Phlypo (Clin d'oeil films)

Coproduction :
Eugénie Michel Villette (Les Films Du Bilboquet) | Ilja Roomans (Docmakers)


One off : 80 min & 52 min 
Production stage: Développement

When extreme weather destroys his organic farm, Belgian farmer Hugues Falys takes TotalEnergies to court in Belgium’s first climate case against a fossil fuel multinational. Backed by four young lawyers, he asks one question: is there still a future for those who respect the land?

 

THE GAZA MUKHTAR (PS)

MOHAMMED ALMUGHANNI 

Production :
Mohammed Almughanni (Gaza Films) | Rashid Abdelhamid (made in palestine project)


One off : 90 min 
Production stage: Développement

In Gaza City, an 84-year-old mukhtar mediates disputes over rent, inheritance, divorce and survival. Inside his family diwan, THE GAZA MUKHTAR observes a society under pressure, where every attempt to repair a relationship carries the weight of years of war, loss and displacement.

 

THE WEIGHT OF WINGS (FR, JP)

TENJI TAKAKURA

Production :
Tenji Takakura (TEMJIN CO)

Coproduction :
Serge Lalou & Angèle Perrottet (Les Films d’Ici Méditerranée)


One off : 120 min 
Production stage: Production

Moemi, a young japanese woman devotes three years to inheriting a centuries-old falconry tradition. But after a hawk dies and her faith in her aging master Matsubara breaks, she must choose between preserving his world and reclaiming her own life.

 

TRAFFICKING CHAOS (FR)

MADELEINE LEROYER 

Production :
Flore de Fontainieu & Valérie Montmartin (Little Big Story)


Série: 2 x 45 min 
Production stage: Développement

The MET. The Louvre Abu Dhabi. When the world's greatest museums are caught in a looted antiquities scandal, the art world shakes. A black market feeds on treasures torn from countries ravaged by war and geopolitical unrest. The film delves into these global networks, from the pit to the plinth.

 

UNBALANCED (RO, FR)

PAULA ONET

Production :
Diana Caravia & Ada Solomon (microFILM)

Coproduction :
Eliott Baillon (Darjeeling )


One off : 90 min 
Production stage: Production

When her open marriage is shaken by the birth of her husband’s child with another woman, a filmmaker turns the camera on herself. Tracing how society shaped her idea of romantic love, she searches for ways to hold love, family, and herself together.

 

WELCOME TO TRANSNISTRIA! (DE, FR, MD, CZ)

DENIS PAVLOVIC

Production :
Julia Meyer-Pavlovic (Glass Frog Films)

Coproduction :
Christilla Huillard-Kann (Elda Productions) | Filip Remunda (Hypermarket film) | Călin Laur (Laur Cinema)


One off : 90 min & 52 min
Production stage: Développement

In Transnistria, a Moldovan autonomous region under Russian influence, torn between East and West, two rival travel agencies have taken on an unlikely challenge: sell their region to the world. Amidst communist relics, dreams of modernity and the absurdities of everyday life, a tragicomedy unfolds.

 

WHEN STUDENTS BECOME SOLDIERS (JP)

THURA WIN

Production :
Naoki Yonemoto (Ten-Ten Film & Media) 


One off : 90 min 
Production stage: Production

A Myanmar-born filmmaker raised in Japan begins filming young students resisting a military coup. After two years in prison, he reunites with them—now a 1,000-strong armed force. He captures their youth amid the loss of friends and brutal fighting, as they are forced to leave peaceful lives behind.

 

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