The Festival launched L’Atelier in 2005 in order to assist directors with financing and completion of their projects.

For its fourth edition, the Atelier of the Cinefondation selected 15 projects from 14 countries. The selection 2008 brings together directors who have already directed one or several features and present the project of their future films such as Ilmar Raag, Benedek Fliegauf, Lee Isaac Chung, Oleg Novkovic, or Lou Ye; as well as young directors whose short films have been noted in many festivals, such as Ruben Mendoza, Nadav Lapid, Arvin Chen, Phan Dang Di, or Abdi Ismael Jama.

Alongside the producer(s) of their films, each director will meet in Cannes from May 16th to May 23rd film industry professionals during the course of meetings that are presently being organized.


THE PROJECTS


Australia – Cure For Serpents by Ben Hackworth (2nd feature film)
China – Bitch by Lou Ye (6th feature film)
Colombia – The Stoplight Society by Ruben Mendoza (1st feature film)
Estonia – One More Croissant by Ilmar Raag (2nd feature film)
USA - Here by Braden King (1st feature film)
USA - Lucky Life by Lee Isaac Chung (2nd feature film)
France – Qu’un seul tienne, et les autres suivront by Léa Fehner (1st feature film)
Hungary – Womb by Benedek Fliegauf (3rd feature film)
Israel – The Policeman by Nadav Lapid (1st feature film)
Romania - First of all, Felicia bby Razvan Radulescu & Melissa De Raaf (1st feature film)
Serbia - White, White World by Oleg Novkovic (4th feature film)
Somalia - Queleh by Abdi Ismael Jama (1st feature film)
Taiwan / USA - First page Taipei by Arvin Chen (1st feature film)
Uruguay - Punta del Este by Juan Pittaluga (2nd feature film)
Vietnam - Bi, don’t be afraid by Phan Dang Di (1st feature film)


The Livre des Projets, in addition to a form to request a meeting with our directors, will be available from April 1st on the Cinefondation website