projects
Doc in Progress – Projects 2024
The Man Who Wasn’t Meant
Screenplay / Director: Janno Jürgens i Anti Naulainen
Producer: Janno Jürgens
Countries of Production: Estonija
Estimated length: 90 minuta
Participant: Janno Jürgens (Estonija)
Logline:
When you are dead as a creator, how do you continue to live as a person?
Sulala (سلالة)
Screenplay / Director / Producer: Brett Allen Smith
Countries of Production: Palestine, Danmark, Belgium
Estimated length: 110 minutes
Participant: Brett Allen Smith (USA / Israel)
Logline:
Conveyed through a shattered mosaic of broken transmissions, Sulala (سلالة) charts the enduring work of Saeed Al-Err, a Palestinian activist who operates the only animal rescue organization in the Gaza Strip.
A Cold Soup
Screenplay / Director: Mima Pastor
Producer: Palle Lindqvist
Countries of Production: Sweeden, Serbia
Estimated length: 58 – 72 minutes
Participant: Mima Pastor (Sweeden / Serbia)
Logline:
After 30 years, filmmaker Mima Pastor reconnects with her father. Their journey uncovers buried truths, revealing silence’s impact on families and hints at reconciliation by confronting their shared past.
Days of Wonder
Screenplay / Director: Karin Annika Pennanen
Production: Sonja Lindén
Country of Production: Finland, Danmark
Estimated length: 75 minutes
Participant: Karin Annika Pennanen (Finland)
Logline:
After the death of her artist uncle, the director discovers his hidden world and starts making a film about his life – together with him.
Hayat – The Afganic Court
Screenplay / Director: Joona Mäkelä
Production: Ida Karoskoski
Country of Production: Finska
Estimated length: 15 – 30 minutes
Participant: Joona Mäkelä (Finland)
Logline:
Letters from the Juniper Strand dives into the past and the present through films that the director’s grandparents have shot with their Super 8 camera in their ascetic summer cottage in Central Finland in the 1960s and 1970s, and again in 2020s.