The programme will run as part of the Venice International Film Festival’s Venice Production Bridge.
Final Cut in Venice has selected eight work-in-progress films for its 10th edition.
The Final Cut in Venice workshop supports films in the post-production stage from Africa, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. The film selections are screened to an audience of producers, distributors, and programmers of international film festivals. The workshop concludes with an award ceremony to honour the winning films that will be supported through the post-production phase.
Final Cut in Venice is one of the projects launched by the Venice Production Bridge of the 79th Venice International Film Festival, which is scheduled to take place from August 31 – September 10, directed by Alberto Barbera and organised by La Biennale di Venezia.
The selected projects, which include three fiction and five documentaries, will be shown to producers, buyers, distributors, post-production companies and film festival programmers during a three-day workshop from September 3-5.
The dark comedy Inshallah A Boy, from former Screen Arab Star of Tomorrow Amjad Al Rasheed, is one of eight feature projects selected for the 10th edition. It is a co-production from Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Other films selected from the fiction category include Khalil Benkirane’s drama Backstage, a co-production between Tunisia, Morocco, Belgium, France, Norway and Qatar, and Karim Bensalah’s Blacklight, which is a co-production between France, Algeria, and Qatar.
Kamal Aljafari’s documentary A Fidai Film from Germany, Palestine and Qatar is also in the line-up.
The other documentaries chosen are Elvis Sabin Ngaïbino’s The Burden from Central African Republic, France and Congo RDC; Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir’s Land Of Women from Egypt, France and Denmark; and Myriam El Hajj’s Suspended from Lebanon, France and Qatar.
Karim Bensalah’s Blacklight and documentary The Cemetery Of Cinema by Thierno Souleymane Diallo, have been selected as part of Venice’s Production Bridge’s France in Focus framework.
Final Cut in Venice will conclude with the awarding of prizes, in kind or in cash, for the financial support of the films in their post-production stage.
