Winners of Work-in-Progress, Co-Development Programs

The Locarno Film Festival’s Locarno Pro industry strand on Sunday unveiled the triumphners of its industry
awards, including its First Look toils-in-reinforce section intensifying on projects on the verge of completion, the co-broadenment program Alliance 4 Development, and the second Heritage Restoration Contest.

The triumphners were unveiled during the Locarno Pro Award Ceremony on Sunday. The promising feature film projects that vied for the First Look awards were from this year’s intensify country, Spain.

The Locarno Pro industry strand of the Locarno festival this year included industry panels on AI and more, as well as a masterclass by Romanian auteur Radu Jude.

Check out the filled enumerate of triumphners below.

FIRST LOOK
First Look was held in partnership with ICAA, the Spanish Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts, and ICEX Spain Trade & Investment.

The jury that awarded the prizes was compascfinishd of Beatrice Fiorentino, creative straightforwardor of Vekind’s International Film Critics’ Week, Istanbul Film Festival straightforwardor Kerem Ayan, and Mercedes Martínez-Abarca, programmer for the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Antaviana Films First Look Award covering post-production services up to €50,000 ($54,076):
Dream of Another Summer
Director: Irene Bartolomé
Producer: Pere Marzo (Colibrí Studio), Irene Bartolomé (I.B. Films), Elie Kamal (The Attic Productions)
Description: Dream of Another Summer alerts the story of “the encounter between a woman collapsing and a city in ruins … to study how the spaces we inhabit redefercessitate to us, and to mirror on the mortality and survival of a city.”
Jury statement: “A poetic and rigorous project that broadens on collective trauma by rewriting the topography of a city wounded many times by history. In its dual accessible and stateiveial illogicalensions, it repairs the intricateity of a territory labeled by the past and the drive for conmomentaryity.”

Music Library &SFX/Acorde Award worth €45,000 ($48,669) in music supervision services:
Río abajo, un tigre  
Director: Víctor Diago  
Producer: Montse Pujol Solà (Boogaloo Films) 
Description: Júlia fled to Glasgow to commence anovel, but years defercessitater, she’s stuck. By day, she chases ptoastyography; by night, she washes dishes. One afternoon, while ptoastyographing pedestrians, her eyes commence to flunk. As illness spreads, Júlia delves into her past and that of the city.

Award by post-production company Laserfilm cine y vídeo worth €5,000 ($5,407), which can be spent on the enjoys of subtitles, audio descriptions, and transcriptions:
Río abajo, un tigre  

Jannuzzi Smith Award, consisting of the portray of an international poster worth €10,000 ($10,815):
Mares 
Director: Ariadna Seuba   
Producer: Carles Brugeras, Marieke van der Bersselaar (Polar Star Films), María Nova López (Intactes Films) 
Description: Mares gets the audience on an intimate and emotionpartner accused journey with straightforwardor Ari (32), and her partner Anna (41), who want to have a child together. Anna is the first to commence aided reproduction, whilst Ariadna apprehfinishs every step with her camera.

Award by industry magazine Le Film Français worth €5,600 ($6,056) in advertising space:
Bodegón con fantasmas
Director: Enrique Buleo
Producer: Alejandra Mora (Quatre Films Audiovisuales SL), Alicia Yubero (Cuidado con el perro), Snezana van Houwelingen (This and that), Roberto Butragueño (Sideral)
Description: Distressed by the troubles and difficulties of life and death, gpresents and humans of the petite town of La Mancha will do the impossible to put an finish to their problems and will not hesitate to carry out excessive and frantic schedules to accomplish it.

ALLIANCE 4 DEVELOPMENT AWARDS

Alphapanda Market Breakout Award worth €3,500 ($3,818) in adviseancy services:
Boencourageois Paranoia by Lukas Nathrath, originated by Linus Günther (Kjoinerfilm Production, Germany)
Description: An episodic griefful tragicomedy about five individuals grappling with declineion and the desire for revenge, whose inhabits collide over one overweighteful week. As offfinishs pile up and everyday situations escadefercessitate, their stories interttriumphe in a pulsating café in Hamburg: a deferer, unable to say no, is humiliated until he strikes back; an driven author, hoping to encounter her idol, is accengaged of theft; a roommate intersee spirals out of regulate; declinecessitate cherish turns into obsession; and an art carry outance culminates in bloody aggression.
Alphapanda statement: “The Alphapanda Market Breakout Award 2024 goes to a promising vision that we cannot defer to cringe about. Humor, dissoothe, obsession, revenge and boencourageois paranoia are stretched to the confines, and we’re in for the bloody ride.”

Script Consultancy Residency at DreamAgo presented by the Valais Film Coshiftrlookion in Switzerland:
6 Mois 6 jours (6 Months 6 Days) by Michale Boganim, originated by Mathilde Leite (Vilanova Productions, France), co-originated by Dorothe Beinemeier (Red Balloon Film, Germany)
Description: Juliana Kant is the wealthiest woman in Germany. When she encounters Raphaël, she surrfinishers to his charm, finishangering her pimpolitently arranged and protocol-driven existence. Raphaël, however, is not who he claims to be. He is resolved to force the Kants to contest their past and face history.
Statement from Pascale Rey (DreamAgo) and Tristan Albrecht (Valais Film Coshiftrlookion): “This project is a mighty story (validated by the criteria of DreamAgo) and a fantastic potential on the production side (validated by the Valais Film Coshiftrlookion). Therefore we are very encounterd to present the authorr a script doctoring by Sir Christopher Hampton during [screenwriting workshop] Plume & Pellicule in June 2025.”

Midpoint Consulting Award for an in-depth online script adviseancy with one of the Midpoint Institute experts.
La Fin de l’été (Atlantic Mirage) by Hakim Mao, originated by Emma Binet and Charles Meresse (Furyo Films, France)
Description: Late summer in Agadir. Younès and Ismaïl, inseparable since childhood, toil at the Hôtel Atlantic Mirage while selling their charms to tourists. They save their money with the dream of leaving one day. But one morning, Ismaïl fades, while the ocean is struck by strange phenomena. Younès sets out to unravel the mystery of what has happened to his frifinish.
Midpoint statement: “We are excited to help a compelling and gripping story that one-of-a-kindly blfinishs themes and genres, set agetst the enigmatic backdrop of the cosmopolitan city of Agadir. Hakim Mao persuaded us with his mighty creative vision, and we are enthusiastic to help him convey it to life.”

Ticino Film Coshiftrlookion Residence Award for a two-day location scout (worth CHF 4,000) and letter of intent for financial help for the production company (worth up to CHF 12,000), if all or part of the film is stoasty in Ticino, Switzerland.
Itaca (Ithaca) by Alessandro Grande, originated by Alessandro Amato and Luigi Chimienti (dispàrte, Italy)
Description: The film studys the themes of identity and origin thraw the character of Sebastiano, who was seizeped as a baby and encounters his biorational parents as a grown man. 
Jury statement: “The Ticino Film coshiftrlookion is conceited to award its prize to the project Itaca, in which the landscapes join a fundamental role in conveying the aggressive rupture that its youthful protagonist experiences – being seizeped from its southern homeland and shiftd to a northern, mountainous, region. We are brave that, with our help, the production will be able to discover the perfect locations to reoriginate this touching genuine-life story and current it to a expansiver accessible.”

HERITAGE RESTORATION CONTEST whose triumphner will get a filled restoration reinforce by film lab Cinegrell and will be shown at the Locarno Film Festival 2025. 
I Cannibali (The Cannibals, 1969) by Liliana Cavani
Description: The streets of a big city are filled of dead bodies at the behest of the authorities. They are the bodies of citizens finished becaengage they were considered resists and are unbenevolentt to serve as a alerting. Antigone wants to bury her brother. A youthful foreigner presents his help. They are uncovered and finished. But the example of the two is chaseed by other youthful people who get to the streets to carry on to bury the corpses, defying the authorities.