Laura Baumeister, Valeria Pivato and Alvaro Brechner are among the Latin American filmmakers returning to next month’s San Sebastian Internation
Laura Baumeister, Valeria Pivato and Alvaro Brechner are among the Latin American filmmakers returning to next month’s San Sebastian International Film Festival with projects in the Europe-Latin America co-production forum (September 22-24).
Nicaraguan filmmaker Baumeister is back with What Follows Is My Death after her first work Daughter Of Rage played at Toronto and went on to win at the forum and WIP Latam in 2022.
Argentina’s Pivato is taking part with her first solo feature An Illusion Of Paradise, after The Desert Bride played at Cannes and in Horizontes Latinos in 2017, and Surfacing was in New Directors last year. Both were co-directed with Cecilia Atán.
Uruguay’s Brechner is taking part with La Piel Del León, after being selected for Horizontes Latinos in 2018 with A Twelve-Year Night.
Also being presented at the forum is Hijas Del Agua to be directed by Jacques Toulemonde, co-writer of Ciro Guerra’s Embrace Of The Serpent which also played at Horizontes Latinos in 2015 and Guerra and Cristina Gallego’s Birds Of Passage which was selected for the Perlak section of San Sebastian in 2018.
Eleven of the 15 projects taking part are first or second films, including the first feature of Roxana Stroe, Houses Are Silent. The Romanian director won the Generation 14plus special prize at the Berlinale in 2016 for her low film A Night In Tokoriki.
The second feature of Colombian director Andrés Ramírez Pulido, Praise For Crime, is taking part in the forum after The Pack (2022) was selected for Horizontes Latinos and won the Critiques Week Grand prize at Cannes, and his Damiana (2017) played for the Palme d’Or for best low film at Cannes.
The biggest prizes available are the best project award, with the main producer of the winning film being awarded €10,000, and the DALE! Award (Development Latin America-Europe) with €10,000 for the majority producer of the winning film.
Projects that have taken part in the forum and gone on to enjoy international festival success include Celina Murga’s The Freshly Cut Grass which won best screenplay at Tribeca Festival, while last year’s WIP Latam winner, Daniel Hendler’s A Loose End, has been selected for this year’s Venezia Spotlight.
Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum 2025 line-up
El Atletismo Y El amor (Chile)
Dir: Alejandra Moffat
Prod co: Globo Rojo Films
Praise For Crime (Col)
Dir: Andrés Ramírez Pulido
Prod co: Valiente Gracia
Hijas Del Agua (Col)
Dir: Jacques Toulemonde
Prod co: 64A Films
Houses Are Silent (Rom)
Dir: Roxana Stroe
Prod co: Atelier de Film
The Boa And The Bamboo (Sp-Switz)
Dir: Maitane Carballo Alonso
Prod co: Gariza Films
An illusion Of Paradise (Arg)
Dir: Valeria Pivato
Prod co: Tarea Fina
La Piel Del León (Sp-Uru-Bra)
Dir: Alvaro Brechner
Prod co: Tornasol Media
What Follow Is My Death (Nic-Mex)
Dir: Laura Baumeister
Prod co: Tarco Estudio
Mother Of Gold (Braz-Ger)
Dir: Madiano Marcheti
Prod Co: Multiverso Produções
Not A River (Arg-Mex)
Dir: Diego Martínez Ulanosky
Prod co: Caponeto
Do Not Let Me Die Alone (Chile-Belg)
Dir: Francisco Rodríguez Teare
Prod co: Axolotl
Pacto Sublime (Chile)
Dir: Ignacio Juricic
Prod co: Araucaria Cine
Dad Is No Punk Rocker (Uru)
Dir: Pablo Stoll
Prod co: Temperamento Films
Patrimony (Arg)
Dir: María Astrauskas
Prod co: Pablo Giorgelli Cine
Victoria In The Clouds (Pan-Chile)
Dir: Ana Endara
Prod co: Expansiva Cine
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