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BLACK NIGHT
by Özcan Alper   I  Feature Film   I   115 min   I  In post-production  I  2022
Black Night is a crime thriller and follows Ishak; how he becomes a part of collective anger in a small village in Anatolia, how he deals with his conscience and struggles with the violence of collective silence.

Directed by : Özcan Alper
Written by : Özcan Alper, Murat Uyurkulak 
Produced by: Nar Film (Turkey), La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma (France) , Arthood Films (Germany) 
BKM & Bakyus Yapim  (Turkey)

*Golden Antigone  Cinémed Montpellier 2023
Festivals: 30+ selections: Cinémed Montpellier I Antalya Golden Orange FF I Ankara IFF I etc.

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TOMORROW IS A LONG TIME

by Jow Zhi Wei  I  Feature Film  I   115 min  I  In post-production  I  2022
Chua, a shipyard worker in a bid to free himself and his son from their destiny, performs a 'mercy release', freeing a captive animal into the wild. 

Written and Directed by: Jow Zhi Wei
Produced by: Akanga Film Asia (Singapore), Potocol (Singapore), Volos Films (Taïwan),
La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma (France)

World premiere: Berlinale 2023

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THE RETURN (AL AOUDEH)

by Meyar Al Roumi  I  Feature Film  I  65 min  I  In post-production  I  2022
A journey across Syria during which Taysir and Juliette meet, and go bury Kamal, who died during the fighting.

Directed by: Meyar Al Roumi
Written by: Meyar Al Roumi, Louise Thermes, Nathalie Najem, Matthieu Taponier
Produced by: La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma (France), Sutor Kolonko (Germany)
*L'Atelier Cinéfondation Cannes Film Festival 2018
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THE SUMMER FACTORY

by Chen Tao  I  Feature Film  I  90 min  I  In production  I  2023
1997, three stories in a private school displayed in an abandonned factory reveal the unforgettable influence of Gaokao exam on each chinese people.

Written and Directed by: Chen Tao
Produced by: Midnight Blur Films (China), La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma (France) 

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OASIS OF NOW

by Chia Chee Sum  I  Feature Film  I  90 min  I  In post-production  I  2023
After secretly meeting her daughter who lives with the local adoptive parents, Hanh (30s), an undocumented Vietnamese continues her door-to-door housekeeping in an apartment area in Kuala Lumpur, where the decades old buildings are home to both locals and foreign. During an immigration raid, she escapes to an elderly Malay stranger’s apartment. While waiting for the raid to end, the stranger mistakes Hanh as if she was his daughter who left home. Hanh plays along like she is in a home she longs for, as if they are a family. However, such impressions only last until her return to the apartments after the raid, she realises the people and places she once felt like family and home, have always been seeing her differently.
Written and Directed by: Chia Chee Sum
Produced by: Afternoon Pictures (Malaysia), theCommonist (Malaysia), Akanga Film Asia (Singapore), La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma (France)

*SEAFIC Award 2020/21
*Arte Kino International Award Locarno Open Doors 2020
*Talents Tokyo 2020 Award
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BALEARIC

by Ion de Sosa  I  Feature Film  I  90 min  I  In production  I  2023
A group of teenagers are held against their will in the interior of a pool by three Dobermans in a luxury villa at Mallorca. They don’t have much time: one of the boys is really injured with severe bites. Despite their cries for help no one comes to rescue them, all the neighbors of the area are celebrating the beginning of the summer eating the traditional paella at a house nearby. A strange spell affects the assistants of the party, no one can enter the pool because those who touch the water can feel the pain of the teenagers of the luxury villa. It’s the summer solstice, an auspicious day for magic.

Written and Directed by: Ion de Sosa
Produced by: La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma (France), Apellaniz y de Sosa (Spain), Jaibo Films (Spain), Umbracle Cine (Spain)
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WHO KILLED NARCISO ?

by Marcelo Martinessi  I  Feature Film  I  90 min  I  In production  I  2023
Asunción, 1959. He was an Adonis: Young, handsome, daring; A wild child in a city controlled by a military regime.  Desired by both, men and women, whilst his only love was rock & roll. One night, his body appears tied to his bed, completely burnt.

Written and Directed by: Marcelo Martinessi
Produced by: La Babosa Cine (Paraguay), La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma (France) 

*Arte Kino International Award Berlinale 2021
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IVAN'S LADDER

by Nikolay Bem  I  Documentary Film  I  60 min  I  In post-production  I  2022
In the middle of the boreal forest, Syssoï perpetuates the tradition of Byzantine religious singing, which he teaches to his thirteen-year-old son Ivan. With Elena, his wife, they live a peaceful existence, in seclusion, on the edge of the siberian permafrost zone. 
The voices of the father and son unite in the silence of the majestic taiga, where time seems to have stopped long ago;  those are the voices of the old believers, inhabited by a strong spirituality, and determined to preserve their way of life in Eastern Siberia. 

Written and Directed by: Nikolay Bem
Produced by: Siberian Studio of Cinema (Russia), La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma (France)

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EXCRETAPOLITICS

by Yoel Meranda  I  Documentary Film  I  115 min  I  In post-production  I  2022
In Cape Town’s informal settlements, the government never built a sewage system, hence the absence of flush toilets. Each resident must therefore devise an individualised solution to dispose of their excrement. Excretapolitics is an impressionistic documentary composed of portraits of the people facing this infrastructural injustice.

Written and Directed by: Yoel Meranda
Produced by: La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma (France), Kamara (Turkey),
Blingola Media (South Africa) 

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I, POPPY

by Vivek Chaudhary  I  Documentary Film  I  80 min  I  In production  I  2023
Opium poppy cultivation has given a low-caste mother social status and the financial means to educate her son. Their filial relationship is tested when the idealistic son leads an activist campaign against the corrupt Narcotics Bureau - which controls his mother's opium cultivation license - and trouble begins.

Written and Directed by: Vivek Chaudhary
Produced by:  Unek Films (India), La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma (France)  
 
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A DISTANT CALL

by Andrea Suwito  I  Documentary Film  I  90 min  I  In production  I  2023
On the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, an ancient custom considers five different genders. Their last representatives face the dilemma between survival of their culture or assimilation into modern society.

Written and Directed by: Andrea Suwito
Produced by: Umbra Films (United Kingdom), La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma (France),
Tanakhir Films (Indonesia)

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THE LAST (LOS ULTIMOS)

by Sebastián Peña Escobar  I  Documentary Film  I  90 min  I  In production  I  2023
Two naturalists are planning a journey deep into Paraguay, where wildfires threaten the forests with extinction. From this romantic journey, filled with irony and skepticism, but also with wisdom and hope, comes a sharp conversation about the future of human societies and the world's forests.

Written and Directed by: Sebastián Peña Escobar
Produced by: La Babosa Cine (Paraguay), La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma (France)  
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