CIRCLE Showcase at Cannes Docs
2023
Maka Gogaladze wins the Alphapanda award at Docs-In-Progress with EVER SINCE I KNEW MYSELF
CIRCLE Showcase at Cannes Docs presented four projects. Find more abou the selection on Variety.
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EVER SINCE I KNEW MYSELF
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Written and directed by: Maka Gogaladze
Produced by: Maka Gogaladze (Formo Production, Georgia), Anke Petersen & Lilian Tietjen (Jyoti Film, Germany)
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Developed through: CIRCLE 2020
Maka, the daughter of a strict math teacher and high-maintenance mother, launches a journey around post-Soviet Georgia to observe children in the process of education. This quest is accompanied by her intimate conversation with her mother Nino. Two women of different generations, with different experiences and clashing perspectives, reflect on parenting, education and systems of power.
Awards and festival presence: "Ever Since I Knew Myself" by Maka Gogaladze won the Alphapanda Award at the Docs-In-Progress Award 2023 and had its first world premiere in the Burning Lights competition at Vision du Réel 2024.
It also won EWA's Women's Talent Award at Dok Leipzig in 2020.
REBELADAS
Written & directed by: Andrea Gautier & Tabatta Salinas
Produced by: Dafne Espinosa & Julio Fernández (Perro Rojo Films, Mexico), Manuel Diaz, Juan & Andrea Gautier (Smiz and Pixel)
Developed through: CIRCLE 2019
Fourty years ago in Mexico, a group of women filmmakers gathered to make films dealing with taboo subjects, gender violence, rape, feminicide, clandestine abortion, labor discrimination. They called themselves “Cine Mujer'' and were active as a collective for over 10 years. Today they reflect on violence against women and their continuous struggles, which are still prevalent in modern society.
72 HOURS
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Written and directed by: Anna Savchenko
Produced by: Isabel de la Serna (Playtime Films, Belgium), Jean-Marie Gigon (Sanosi Films, France), Volia Chajkouskaya (Voila Films, Estonia/Belarus, co-producers)
Developed through: CIRCLE 2019
A woman’s life has been incomplete ever since her son was wrongfully accused, sentenced to death and executed within a year. From a grieving mother she transforms to a symbol of the struggle against the death penalty. Today, she shares her painful reminiscences with a theater group of 4 young people, all displaced for different reasons. They gather together to poetically process the mother and son’s story, combining documentary theater with media and family archives.
TATA
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Written and directed by: Lina Vdovîi, Radu Ciorniciuc
Produced by: Monica Lazurean Gorgan (Manifest Film, Romania), Corso Film (Germany), Halal production (Netherlands)
Developed through CIRCLE 2020
A journalist, long estranged from her father for being violent to her as a child, discovers that he’s being beaten by his own employer. When she agrees to help him expose the injustice, will she also be able to heal the pain he caused her?