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French outfit Still Moving has joined forces with Switzerland’s GoldenEggProduction to co-produce “Tropical Malaise” (“Malestar tropical”), a Colombia-set drama project directed by Jorge Cadena, whose short “Flores del otro patio” snagged a Special Jury Award at 2023’s SXSW Film Festival.

“Tropical Malaise” features among the 14 projects being brought to market at San Sebastian’s 2024 Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum edition.

Produced by Gabriela Bussmann and Yan Decoppet at Geneva-based GoldenEggProduction, “Tropical Malaise” is at financing stage, planned for an early 2026 shoot.

Co-writers include Jacques Toulemonde, a co-scribe on Ciro Guerra’s Oscar-nominated “El abrazo de la serpiente” and director of Netflix’s “Historia de un Crimen – Mauricio Leal;” and the Colombian-born and Swiss-trained Cadena, alongside Juana del Río (“Goles en contra”) and “Flores del otro patio” co-scribe Li Aparicio Candama.

Deeply rooted in Colombian reality, “Tropical Malaise” addresses contemporary societal issues, exploring social, political, environmental, and gender (Lgbtqia+) themes.

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As SXSW basks in the Oscars afterglow of Everything Everywhere All at Once, which premiered out of competition at the event last year, jury and special awards winners for the 30th edition of the film and TV festival have been announced.

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Top honors in the Narrative Feature Competition went to Paris Zarcilla’s horror pic Raging Grace. The film follows Joy, an undocumented Filipino immigrant who is struggling to do the best she can for her daughter Grace when she secures the perfect job: taking care of an extremely wealthy but terminal old man. The new...

Upcoming features from Brazilian director João Paulo Miranda Maria and Swiss-Rwandan director Philibert Aimé Mbabazi

New projects from Brazilian director João Paulo Miranda Maria and Swiss-Rwandan director Philibert Aimé Mbabazi are among nine projects selected for Locarno Pro’s Alliance 4 Development initiative this year.

The initiative is an integral part of Locarno Film Festival’s Locarno Pro industry strand and is aimed at encouraging co-productions between Switzerland and France, Germany and Italy.

Each participating territory presents two to three projects.

The shortlist was selected from a record 75 submissions this year. “We were delighted with the quality and the sheer number of entries received,...

The European Film Academy has unveiled its nominations for the 32nd European Film Awards with the ceremony to be held December 7 in Berlin. Among the titles to figure in the races, three are tied with four mentions each including Roman Polanski’s An Officer And A Spy, Pedro Almodovar’s Pain And Glory and Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor. The latter two are also the Oscar representatives from their respective Spain and Italy and give Sony Pictures Classics a combined eight nods at the EFAs.

While Polanski remains a controversial figure, there has been a divide between U.S. and Euro perspectives in the #MeToo era. His Dreyfus Affair drama, An Officer And A Spy, which also has Efa nominations for Director, Actor and Screenwriter, was one of the most contested titles at the Venice Film Festival where it debuted earlier this year. It went on to win the Grand Jury Prize there.