The selection includes seven first or second works alongside works by acclaimed filmmakers. Some of the participants in the VI Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum have already attended the Festival with other films, such as the moviemakers Pablo Agüero (Eva no duerme / Eva Doesn’t Sleep, Official Selection 2015) and Mikel Rueda (New York. Quinta Planta, Zinemira 2016) and the producer Macarena López (Rara, Horizontes Award 2016). Furthermore, the new projects by Koldo Zuazua, producer of Morir / Dying and Diego Lerman, director of Una especie de familia / A Sort of Family, both in this year’s Official Selection, will be presented at the Forum.

Half of the projects from the first five editions have now been filmed. Some of them have recently participated at international festivals: El auge del humano / The Human Surge, by Eduardo Williams, winner of the Cineasti del Presenti Golden Leopard at the Locarno Festival 2016, Jesús (Jesus, formerly Niño Nadie) by Fernando Guzzoni, which competed in the Official Selection at the San Sebastian Festival 2016; Rifle (formerly Até o Camiho), by David Pretto, selected for the Forum section at the last Berlinale, and X500 by Juan Andrés Arango, competitor in the Bright Future section at the Rotterdam Festival 2017.

For the first time this year the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum will have an extra day, on Sunday 24, at which the pitching session will take place. On the other dates it will coincide with Films in Progress 32 and Glocal in Progress, the new industry activity.

The Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum is promoted by the Basque Government Department of Economic Development and Infrastructures.

SELECTED PROJECTS

1. 1989
Director: Alicia Scherson
Production Company: Araucaria Cine
Chile

2. AKELARRE
Director: Pablo Agüero
Production Company: Sorgin Films, AIE.
Spain - France

3. BORDERLESS
Director: Fernando Frías
Production Company: Film Tank
Mexico - The Netherlands

4. BREVE HISTORIA DEL PLANETA VERDE (BRIEF STORY OF THE GREEN PLANET)
Director: Santiago Loza
Production Company: Constanza Sanz Palacios Films, S.R.L.
Argentina - Germany

5. DOCE INFERNO NA GALÁXIA (SWEET HELL THROUGHOUT THE GALAXY)
Director: Fábio Baldo
Production Company: Glaz
Brazil

6. EL AGENTE TOPO (THE MOLE AGENT)
Director: Maite Alberdi Soto
Production Company: Micromundo Producciones
Chile

7. EL DOBLE MÁS QUINCE
Director: Mikel Rueda
Production Company: Baleuko, S.L.
Spain

8. EL GOL MÁS TRISTE (THE SADDEST GOAL)
Director: Sergio Castro San Martín
Production Company: Manufactura de películas
Chile - Mexico - Brazil

9. ESE FIN DE SEMANA
Director: Mara Pescio
Production Company: Maravillacine
Argentina

10. LA ROYA (THE RUST)
Director: Juan Sebastián Mesa
Production Company: Monociclo Cine
Colombia

11. LAS CONSECUENCIAS (THE CONSEQUENCES)
Director: Claudia Pinto Emperador
Production Company: Sin Rodeos Films España, S.L.
Spain - Mexico

12. LIMBO
Director: Mateo Bendesky
Production Company: Volpe Films
Argentina - Chile - Austria

13. MOTHER LODE
Director: Matteo Tortone
Production Company: Malfé Film
Italy - France

14. PLANTA PERMANENTE
Director: Ezequiel Radusky
Production Company: Campo Cine
Argentina

15. TENGO MIEDO TORERO (MY TENDER MATADOR)
Director: Rodrigo Sepúlveda
Production Company: Forastero
Chile - Argentina

16. A MEDIA VOZ (WHISPERING)
Directors: Heidi Hassan - Patricia Pérez
Production Company: Matriuska Producciones, S.L.
Spain - Cuba - Switzerland - France

AWARDS

The VI Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Best Project Award, € 10,000 for the majority producer of one of the selected projects.

The EFADs-CAACI Europe-Latin America Co-Production Award, € 20,000 for the majority producer of one of the selected projects.

The Eurimages Development Co-Production Award, € 20,000 euros for the majority producer of an Eurimage's Member Country that intends to co-produce with another country of the same programme.

The ARTE International Prize  € 5,000  for the majority producer of one of the selected projects.

Complementing the San Sebastian Forum and thanks to the collaboration with the Marché du Film-Festival de Cannes' Producers Network and the Argentina's INCAA, both organisers of Ventana Sur in Buenos Aires, some of these projects will have the opportunity to continue on their international journey by participating at the Ventana Sur market and in the coming edition of the Producers Network. This itinerary will contribute to lending their international projection a decisive boost.

The Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum is promoted by the Basque Government Department of Economic Development and Infrastructures.