IN PRE-PRODUCTION / PRODUCTION
IN PRE-PRODUCTION / PRODUCTION
The Thing That Hurts
Original Drama Feature
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Written by: Kamen Velkovsky and Arnaud Desplechin
Cast: Noemie Merlant, Alfre Woodard, Felicity Jones, Jason Schwartzman, Golshifteh Farahani, Andre Holland
In association with CG Cinema, Wrong Men and 3Six9 Productions
Please send all inquiries to olga@alazfilm.com.
Two Men, A Boy and A Llama
Original Drama Feature
In the 1970s, after the Apollo missions, a depressed U.S. astronaut goes to Bolivia's salt desert in a search for a blinding light he saw from space. There he meets a disgraced shaman and his precocious grandson. Their friendship will change all of them and help the two tormented older men to finally let go.
Written & Directed By: Maria Camilla Arias & Fernando Lopez Escriva
Cast: Walton Goggins
Please send all inquiries to olga@alazfilm.com.
Una
Animated Feature Film
Una is a 9 year old girl living in a small mountain village. The arrival of a mining company is only the first step taken to destroy her beautiful world and eventually will lead to the village’s evacuation. Una and her friends stage a protest. When their actions spiral out of control, and with security guards on their tails, Una gets separated from her friends and begins a dreamlike adventure where she will encounter her future and decide to fight for the sake of the village, the mountain and herself.
Directors: David Doutel & Vasco Sá
in association with
Bando A Parté (Portugal) // BAP (Portugal) // Coala Filmes (Brazil) // Art Shot (Latvia)
Please send all inquiries to olga@alazfilm.com.
An Odd Enchantment
Original Fantasy Drama Feature
A long retired opera diva, Madame P, lives in a private fantasy world filled with fear and wonder in her secluded mansion. When her estranged nephew and his wife suddenly arrive, insisting on taking care of her, Madame P will have to summon all her defenses in order to push them away and protect her little paradise.
Director / Writer: Sara Driver
Co-Producer: Rodrigo Areias (Portugal)
Cast: Maria de Medeiros, Aurelia Thierree, Mathieu Amalric, Emily Beecham, Tom Austen, Orion Lee, Alex Descas, Albano Geronimo, Luke Eberl, Trine Dyrholm, and Edgar Morais
in association with Bando A Parté
Please send all inquiries to olga@alazfilm.com.
Anonimi Romani
Documentary
Beneath the Roman sky, masked performers move through the city’s monumental stage sets, blending into its ancient grandeur. As their private worlds unfold, they reveal not only themselves, but a deeper meditation on identity and the soul of the city itself.
Directed By: Susanna della Sala
Written By: Susan della Sala & Shervin Zinouzi
In association with DocLab (Italy)
Please send all inquiries to olga@alazfilm.com.
IN DEVELOPMENT
Alicante
Drama / Comedy Feature
Assia, a 30 year-old French-Algerian woman in the midst of an existential crisis, joins her parents for the summer - as they have just opened a restaurant in a popular seaside resort in Spain. Arriving in Spain, Assia has no idea what she’s in for : what was meant to be a family vacation turns into a rescue operation for a fragile business and a shaky family equilibrium.
Director: Lina Soualem
Please send all inquiries to olga@alazfilm.com.
The Trap
Original Drama Feature
Written and directed by: Tawfeek Barhom
Produced by: Philippe Martin
Please send all inquiries to olga@alazfilm.com.
The Trash King
Original Drama Feature
Director: Georgi M. Unkovski
Written by: Georgi M. Unkovski and Kamen Velkovsky
Please send all inquiries to olga@alazfilm.com.
The Ashes' Lullaby
Original Drama Feature
When a Ukrainian soldier is pulled from the frontlines to help an ICC envoy solve the murder of a war crimes investigator, they uncover a child trafficking conspiracy which drives the soldier to believe her deceased daughter may still be alive.
Writer / Director: Danis Tanović
Please send all inquiries to olga@alazfilm.com.
Unknown Others
Original Dark Thriller Feature
A combat veteran ER doctor defends a pregnant teenager on the run from a crazed apocalyptic cult.
Director: Jeffrey A. Brown
Written By: Jeffrey A. Brown & Blake Hoss
Please send all inquiries to olga@alazfilm.com.
Foreigners' Club
Original Comedy Feature
Five misfits from different corners of the world, determined to find answers to their inexplicable encounters with extraterrestrials, take a cross-country trip in Iceland to an alien convention. The journey, which leads them through absurd and humorous experiences, inadvertently forces them to reexamine their lives and make bold choices in moving forward.
Writer / Director: Sofija Sztepanov
Cast: Moon Lee, Cristo Fernandez, Carice van Houten, Kim Bodnia
Torino Film Lab 2022 // Comedy Program
Toronto IFF 2024 // Ontario Creates International Financing Forum
Please send all inquiries to olga@alazfilm.com.
Fish
Original Drama Feature
An old man decides to save the fish in the supermarket by taking them to the sea and releasing them.
Director / Writer: Andrey Paounov
Please send all inquiries to olga@alazfilm.com.
Silver Blues
Original Drama Feature
Two intertwined stories -- one of two brothers smuggling Communist era artifacts out of Ukraine and another of a Ukranian going into the country to retrieve the dead body of his mother.
Director: Rodrigo Areias
Cast: Jussi Vatanen, Janne Hyytiainen
Please send all inquiries to olga@alazfilm.com.
Fall of Men
Original Drama Feature
Director / Writer: Jack Turits
Please send all inquiries to olga@alazfilm.com.
Love Child
Dark Comedy Feature
11-year-old JUNIOR, an aspiring Broadway star, fiercely loves his mother Misty. Junior encourages Easy, the handsome man hired to help run the family business, to court his mother and become his new Dad. But when the two fall in love, nothing can stop Junior's fierce jealousy.
Director / Writer: Todd Solondz
Cast: Elizabeth Olsen
Please send all inquiries to olga@alazfilm.com.
Jerusalem
Drama Feature
An adaptation of the award-winning novel of the same name by Gonçalo M. Tavares which has been translated into 32 languages.
Writer: Kamen Velkovsky & Gonçalo M. Tavares
in association with Bando A Parté
Please send all inquiries to olga@alazfilm.com.
Sea Urchins
Orignal Drama Feature
Two sisters, seven and ten years old, live with their family close to nature. In order to protect themselves from the harsh reality of life, they become sea urchins and turn death into a game.
Director / Writer: Iris Baglanea
Producer: Ioanna Bolomyti
in association with Atalante Productions (Greece)
Please send all inquiries to olga@alazfilm.com.