Flóra Anna Buda, Andrea Gatopoulos, Xiwen Cong, Simon Maria Kubiena, Constance Tsang and Rodrigo Ribeyro have been named as the latest cohort of emerging directors to participate in the Cannes Film Festival’s La Résidence initiative, which is now in its 49th edition.
The six filmmakers are being hosted in the program’s residency in the Pigalle neighborhood of Paris, from March 15 to July 31, where they are benefiting from personalized screenwriting support and a collective program of meetings with film professionals.
Hungary’s Buda made waves in 2023 with her animated short film 27, which won the Cannes Palme d’or for best short, and then the Cristal Award at the Annecy Festival in 2023.
Italian and Greek director, producer and distributor Gatopoulos’s most recent work, the short film The Eggregores’ Theory, opened the 39th Venice Film Critics’ Week and made history as one of the first AI films to show in the sidebar.
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Austrian writer-director Simon Maria Kubiena latest short film At Home I Feel Like Leaving was shown at Premiers Plans d’Angers. He is currently developing his first feature, The Flowering of a Chimera, which explores the journey of a disturbed young man coming to terms with his guilt through a healing, yet unusual, connection with an older man.
Beijing Film Academy graduate Xiwen Cong’s short film Banished Love screened in Cannes last year as part of La Cinef selection. She is currently developing her first feature Home, Sick.
Tsang is a Chinese American filmmaker based in New York. Her debut feature Blue Sun Palace premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2024, and she is currently developing her next feature-length film My Mother and Yours.
Brazilian director Ribeyro’s work explores the frictions between society, nature and labor. His most recent short, The Nature, premiered at Festival do Rio.
La Résidence has welcomed more than 250 filmmakers from some sixty countries over the course of its existence.
Past participents include Argentina’s Lucrecia Martel, Romania’s Corneliu Porumboiu, Mexico’s Amat Escalante and Michel Franco, Hungary’s László Nemes, Belgium’s Lukas Dhont, Lebanon’s Nadine Labaki, Israel’s Nadav Lapid, Croatia’s Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, Spain’s Carla Simón, Brazil’s Karim Aïnouz, Zambia’s Rungano Nyoni, India’s Payal Kapadia and Singapore’s Chiang Wei.
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