Les Arcs Coproduction Village: Sophie Linnenbaum, Anastasiia Solonevych & Claire Fowler Projects Among Female-Focused 2024 Selection

Melanie Goodfellow

8 November 2024 at 5:00 am·3-min read

The Les Arcs Film Festival has announced the 18 in development film projects selected for its 16th Les Arcs Coproduction Village, aimed at connecting the upcoming features with coproducers, sales agents, distributors and other financing partners.

The copro meeting will take place within the context of Alpine festival’s industry program running December 14 to 17.

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Sixteen of the 18 projects are directed by female filmmakers, with 38% of the features submitted directed by women. Ten are first fiction feature projects, seven are second features and one is by a more established filmmaker.

They include Ukrainian director Anastasiia Solonevych’s debut feature 30 Days Of Summer, about two sisters who reconnect against the backdrop of a military training camp. Solonevych won the Cannes Palme d’Or for Best Short Film in 2023 for As It Was.

German director Sophie Linnenbaum, whose 2022 fantasy drama The Ordinaries enjoyed a buzzy awards and festival run, will participate with second fiction feature The Nose.

Further projects include UK director Claire Fowler’s Toad, which is her first feature after taking director credits on Netflix’s Manifest and short film Salam, which played at Tribeca.

This year, Les Arcs Film Festival is dedicating its country focus to Iceland cinema, and as a result three of the projects in the selection hail from the country.

The drama, which recently attended the Sundance Lab, revolves around a woman living far away from home and ostracized from her strikingly successful twin brother who begins to piece together memories of the teen theater experience that came between them.

The co-pro meeting – which previously supported films such as Juris Kursietis’s Oleg, Shahrbanoo Sadat’s The Orphanage and Laszlo Nemes’s Son of Saul – saw an uptick in application this year to 353, from 269 for the 2023 edition.

This year’s edition will see the addition of the Eurimages Co-production Development Award, worth €20,000 to the prizes, alongside the ArteKino International Award, worth €6000.

In addition to the selection of projects, the Les Arcs Industry Village will also run a program of meetings, workshops and masterclasses on key issues touching the European film industry.

The Work In Progress selection will be announced at a later stage. The Les Arcs Film Festival runs December 14 to 21.

Full list of projects (* denotes 1^st feature, ** denotes 2^nd feature,

30 DAYS OF SUMMER* by Anastasiia Solonevych (Ukraine), produced by Bosonfilm (Ukraine)

ALL CLEAR** by Christina Tynkevich (Ukraine), produced by Evos Film (Ukraine) PARK (Germany)

ANEMONE* by Sarah Veltmeyer (The Netherlands), produced by Fixy (The Netherlands)

BABETTE** by Franziska Margarete Hoenisch (Germany), produced by Studio Zentral (Germany), Tellfilm GmbH (Switzerland), Amour Fou (Austria)

BURNING SKIN** by Behrooz Karamizade (Germany), produced by Weydemann Bros. (Germany), Living Pictures Production GbR (Germany)

CLARA by Agustina Macri (Italy), produced by Ginger Film Flanders (Belgium), Maze Pictures (Germany), Mapuche Films (U.S.)

DISCIPLINE* by Camille Degeye (France), produced by petit chaos (France)

GRIZZLY** by Sophie Galibert (France), produced by Elementary (France)

HAPPY DAYS** by Floor Van Der Meulen (The Netherlands), produced by Keplerfilm (The Netherlands)

JUST A KID* by Vala Ómarsdóttir (Iceland), produced by Ursus Parvus (Iceland), BIND (The Netherlands), Alexandra Film (Estonia)

ROSA CANDIDA* by Clara Lemaire Anspach (France), produced by Haut Et Court (France)

SEAVIEW* by Katarina Morano (Slovenia), produced by Vertigo (Slovenia), Eclectica (Croatia)

SEVEN BALCONIES* by Erlendur Sveinsson (Iceland), produced by Sensor (Iceland)

TARFAYA** by Sofia Alaoui (Morocco/France), produced by Wrong Films (France), Jiango Films (Morocco), Kwassa Films (Belgium)

THE NOSE** by Sophie Linnenbaum (Germany), produced by BandenFilm (Germany)

TOAD* by Claire Fowler (United Kingdom), produced by Elation Pictures (United Kingdom)

UNTIL WE FIND YOUR NAME* by Vaggelio Soumeli (Cyprus), produced by AMP Filmworks (Cyprus), Graal (Greece)

WHALE* by Helga Rakel Rafnsdóttir (Iceland), produced by Compass Films (Iceland)

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