Frontières Platform in Cannes Announces Program

The Frontières Platform in Cannes will return to the Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes for a fifth year, presenting 13 genre projects to the industry on May 21st and 22nd, 2022. As a co-presentation between the Fantasia International Film Festival and the Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes, the Frontières Platform activities will include Proof of Concept presentations for projects in the advanced stages of financing, and the Buyers Showcase for films that are in post-production or have recently been completed.

 

We are thrilled to announce the selection of six films for the Buyers Showcase which will take place on Sunday, May 22nd, 2022 at 4.30pm. Producers will screen footage for potential buyers, sales agents, and festival programmers. We are proud to offer Marché du Film participants a first look at a variety of projects from around the world such as a creature feature from Canada, an American tale about fallen witches as well as a psychological horror movie from Pakistan.

 

The Frontières Proof of Concept Presentation, held Saturday May 21st, 2022 at 9.30am, will showcase seven projects from European, South African, Syrian and Algerian filmmakers who will present their completed teaser trailers to prospective partners. Amongst them a psychotic kitten, a useless little robot with a new purpose in life and killer Gnomes!

 

The Frontières Platform in Cannes is funded by Telefilm Canada, SODEC, the Government of Quebec, the City of Montreal and the Netherlands Film Fund.

 

Frontières Platform in Cannes: Complete List of Projects

 

BUYERS SHOWCASE

 

A GUIDE TO LIVING FOR THE DEAD  (Turkey)

Director: Baris Fert

Producers: Ipek Erden, Emre Pekçakir

Genre: Action, Thriller, Dark Comedy

Deniz, a crime machine who lost her feelings and ability to empathize years ago, chases after a mysterious software that is supposed to be in Istanbul and finds herself in a chaotic, one night only adventure.

 

CULT HERO (Canada)

Director: Jesse T. Cook

Producer: Jesse T. Cook, Liv Collins, Craig Shouldice

Genre: Horror, Comedy, Action

Manager-summoning control freak Kallie Jones teams up with washed-up cult buster Dale Domazar to rescue her husband from the clutches of a cannibalistic death cult.

 

FALLING STARS  (USA)

Directors: Richard Karpala, Gabriel Bienczycki

Producers: Richard Karpala, Gabriel Bienczycki

Genre: Horror, Drama, Thriller

On the first night of harvest, three brothers set out for the desert to see a witch's corpse.

 

IN FLAMES  (Pakistan, Canada)

Director: Zarrar Kahn

Producers: Anam Abbas, Shant Joshi

Genre: Psychologiocal Horror

After a fatal accident claims the life of Mariam’s boyfriend, she is haunted by unresolved grief. But, when her thoughts twist into vivid hallucinations, she must choose to confront her past or let her nightmares consume her.

 

JUNCTION ROW (Canada)

Director: Ashlea Wessel

Producer: Pasha Patriki, James Fler, Michael Paszt, Andrew T. Hunt

Sales Agent: Raven Banner Entertainment

Genre: Horror, Science-Fiction

A veteran recovering from addiction returns to the intentional community she once called home in search of her missing friend, but finds that it has been infiltrated by an otherworldly force.

 

KIDNAPPING INC (Canada)

Director: Bruno Mourral

Producers: Yanick Létourneau, Samuel Chauvin

Genre: Dark Comedy

Two hapless kidnappers, tasked with what seems like a simple job discover it's anything but, and find themselves in the middle of a political conspiracy.

 

 

PROOF OF CONCEPT

 

GNOMES! (The Netherlands)

Director: Ruwan Suresh Heggelman

Producers: Monique van Kessel, Richard Raaphorst

Genre: Horror

When a talented arrogant mountainbiker enters an off limits forest section, she inadvertently becomes the key piece in a secret battle between humanity and gnomanity, and the only person to rescue us from complete annihilation.

 

NIGHT TOWN (Ireland)

Director: Imogen Murphy

Producer: Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde

Genre: Gothic Drama

In Dublin's late 19th century red light district, a teenage girl on the run is drawn into a sinister vortex of love, revenge – and murder.

 

REQUIEM FOR A ROBOT (Austria, Germany)

Director: Christoph Rainer 

Producers: Loredana Rehekampff, Andreas Schmied, Josef Redinger

Genre: Science-Fiction

A thrilling sci-fi fairytale about a misfit robot struggling to find his purpose. When the life of his god-like brother is in danger, our clumsy hero embarks on an existential journey to save him.

 

ROQIA (Algeria, France, USA)

Director: Yanis Koussim 

Producer: Farès Ladjimi, Christophe Lafont, Armen Aghaeian, Abhi Goel, Tara Ansley

Genre: Horror

1993... Ahmed becomes amnesic after a car crash. Nowadays... an old raqi, a Muslim exorcist, is suffering of a dazzling Alzheimer's, under the worried eyes of his disciple. And while Ahmed is increasingly afraid of recovering his memory, the raqi's disciple fears that the loss of his master's will causes the return of an evil locked up years ago....

 

SERIAL KITTEN (France)

Director: Cédric Hachard

Producer: Alexis Perrin

Genre: Fantasy, Comedy

As Ana's life crumbles with the death of her father and a romantic breakup, her little cat Lucius inexplicably takes on human form and sets out to kill those who cause her mistress pain - helping Ana to regain control over her life.

 

STREET TRASH (South Africa, USA)

Director: Ryan Kruger

Producers: Justin Martell, Matt Manjourides, James C. Williamson, Ryan Kruger

Genre: Horror, Comedy

A group of homeless misfits must fight for survival when they discover a plot to exterminate every homeless person in the city.

 

THE PORTAL (France, Syria, Germany)

Director: Chadi Abo 

Producers: Chadi Abo, Ruba El Khash Khair, May Odeh, Zorana Musikic, Tania Khouri

Genre: Science-Fiction, Fantasy

In a war zone, a little girl prays for salvation. A cosmic power comes to help her. Now Sana can resurrects dead children too.