Circle Women Dock Accelerator has selected four documentary projects by women and gender-wisting filmmakers for its annual showcase at the upcoming Cannes Docks program of Cannes.
The selection symbolizes the sixth consecutive year that the International Training Program has presented a work-in-tradition from its alumna during the market incident.
This year’s lineup in this year’s lineup winning director Meena Keswarz (“The Art of Living in Danger,” “Professionalist”), first time feature director Anna Khazradz (“9 -month contract”, which has recently been recognized in CPH, and newcomers Ramona Mos and Reshl Close, of which projects include prosecution, including prosecution. (“The Art of Living of Danger,” Documentist, Documentarist “. Film (Romania).
There are four films selected for the showcase:
“Berliner” (Georgia)
Director: Anna Khazradz
Production Company: 1991 Productions (Georgia)
The film follows a Georgian translator Nana in Berlin, who serves as an important link for shelter seekers, which helps them to navigate the challenges of sharing their stories and starting a new life. As German officials push towards distance translation systems, both Nana’s profession and their personal connections face uncertain future.
“Dear” (Germany/Norway)
Director: Ramona Moss
Production Companies: Fuver Film (Germany) and Strey Dogs (Norway)
A personal documentary detected a six -year journey with close friends with his mother and close friends with courage, disappointment and flexibility. Their discovery for justice develops in a will to preserve reality and solidarity in front of heavy challenges.
“Hope Against Hope” (Norway/France)
Director: Meena Keswarz
Production Companies: Mindoc Film Production, Folkfilms (Norway) and ICI at La Production (France)
Up to 25 years, this intimate documentary checks how political and social conflict through the filmmaker’s own story shapes personal identity.
“Some familiar” (Romania/Britain)
Director: Rachel Close
Production Companies: Manifest Film (Romania) and My Complees (UK)
Helping a partner adopted adoption, his birth mother, British-Romanian filmmaker Rachel Close investigated his family history, began an international discovery for missing sisters and exposed the legacy of misuse. The documentary examines the creative ability of the self-writer as a means of facing previous trauma and creating new narratives.
Circle Women’s Dock Accelerator Showcase has set a track record to identify success drawings. The previous mines include Lynn Allona’s “twice colonial”, which won the top award at Docs-in-Princtions 2022 before the premiere in Sunndens and opening both CPH and Hot Docs; “Cent’anni of Maja Prelog,” winner of 2021 Docs-in-Princtions Award; And Anna Nemet’s “Beauty of the Beast”, which received the Nordisk Panorama Award in 2020.
Among the other notable alumni, I knew myself from Maka Gogaladze’s “Annie Hi,”, which was honored in Cannes Docs 2023 and the Vision du Rail was premiered in the Burning Lights Competition in 2024, and Leena Vodovi and Redu Sirisiyuk’s “Tata”, which started in Tiffs before 2024.
Biljana Tutorov, director of the circle’s program, said, “We are happy to present four cinematic, personal and political films by Circle Alumni in the sixth time. This showcase will also mark the celebration of Circle Seventh’s birthday.” “We are ready to step into a new cyclus with a great community of more than 120 Doc and fiction women and gender-wisting filmmakers who have developed our projects in circles. Along with this we work to expand the perception of a safe place, which we together inspired by co-stamped, new possibilities and technologies.”
Tutorov said: “This year we will highlight one and four talented filmmakers around the world, navigate and interact in personal, political and moral issues in our films. We will invite you to meet four separate and idiocratic works: cinema and black and white drama to the architectural reality, the nature of the life and the malevolence.
The showcase will take place on 18 May.
Circle conducts two major initiatives: female dock accelerator, one year training program opened for projects and professionals in all stages, and fiction orbit, an intensive residential workshop for mid-career filmmakers developing scripted projects launched in 2023.
The program is co-funded by the Creative Europe media and is organized under the protection of Urime, in which Wake Up Films (Serbia) is serving as the event unit. Circle partners include when East West, Iefta, DAE Documentary Association of Europe and many other film industry organizations.
