While the men were at war, the women kept the village running, and they did just fine. They worked, drank, even took lovers from the enemy’s side. But when peace comes and the men return, furious and ready to reclaim control, something shifts. There’s no help coming. So Hilda offers a quick fix: hard-to-detect arsenic. One drop calms him; the whole bottle ends it. Together with nurse Carina, they turn survival into a system. A council forms. Poison becomes policy. But what starts as homemade justice now begins to rot. The cemetery overflows with fresh graves. And a curious General comes poking around. Still, everything is running smoother than ever. Welcome to the village. Try not to eat the stew.
Cristina is a Romanian-Hungarian filmmaker working across Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Romania. She co-directed the TV mini-series Daughter of the Nation (2024), which premiered on Canal+ in seven countries and was nominated for five Czech Lion Awards. Her feature film Ordinary Failures (2022) premiered at Venice IFF, where she won the Best Director under 40 prize. Cristina’s debut film Things Worth Weeping For (2021) premiered at Sarajevo FF, screened at over 25 festivals, and was nominated for Best Screenplay at the Hungarian Motion Picture Awards. She is a member of the Hungarian Film Directors’ Association and ARAS Czech Republic. She is currently a lecturer at FAMU International.
Anda is an owner, managing partner, and producer at Bucharest-based Tangaj Production. She has produced and released a number of features, documentaries, and shorts, the most recent titles including TWST/Things We Said Today by Andrei Ujică, part of the Official Selection of the 81st Venice IFF and My Uncle Jens by Brwa Vahabpour, selected at SXSW in 2025. Anda is an EAVE Producers Workshop, Ties That Bind and EAVE+ alumna, Cannes Producers Network participant, as well as a graduate of Emerging Producers, Berlinale Talents, and ACE Series Special. She’s also a member of the European Women’s Audiovisual Network (EWA), European Producers Club (EPC), and Documentary Association of Europe (DAE).
Inspired by true events from the forgotten edge of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Angelmaker shows what happens when the powerless stop asking and start organizing. In a village where divorce is a fantasy but the bruises are very real, women turn to arsenic poison, forged documents, and resourceful teamwork. The series explores inequality, justice, and what happens when people take the law into their own hands. This power is meant to protect, yet it spirals out of control and becomes a new form of violence. As filmmakers from the region, we’re drawn to stories buried in our shared memory that echo even today. When the law looks away, you boil flypaper, form a council, and keep smiling.
Tangaj Production
12-14 General Constantin Budisteanu, 010775, Bucharest, Romania
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Cristina Groșan | Director, Scriptwriter
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Loic Barrere | Scriptwriter
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Leana Jalukse | Scriptwriter
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Anda Ionescu | Producer
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When disgraced superheroes start dying exactly as he sees in his dreams, a hard-drinking paparazzo and his estranged detective twin sister are pulled into a hunt for a killer hiding dangerously close to home.
Eric is an Oscar-nominated producer with a deep passion for independent filmmaking. His credits include Last Film Show (Academy Awards shortlist, 2023), Mobile Homes (Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, 2017), and the Academy Award-nominated short Ave Maria (Cannes Official Selection, 2016). Before founding Incognito Films, he shepherded book adaptations as head of development for several production companies and scouted emerging writing talents for the London-based agency Hamilton Hodell. These experiences honed his skills in storytelling, which he now applies to his own projects. Recently, among its key projects in development, the company has expanded into television with Crimson Crown – a 6 x 52' English-language mystery thriller series developed in collaboration with ZDF.
Based on the Italian best-seller, Erotic Lives of the Superheroes is a noir thriller with a provocative twist on the superhero genre. In a crumbling European city haunted by its past, compromised superheroes wrestle with trauma, power, and the corrosive afterlife of fame. Part mystery, part family drama, and part cultural reckoning, the series confronts the toxic legacy of invincible icons and asks: What happens when the figures we once worshipped are revealed to be as broken as the rest of us? And above all, it’s the first chapter of a bold, diverse, and disturbingly relevant new mythology of European superheroes.
Incognito Films
76/78 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, 75012, Paris, France
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Ruddy-Williams Kabuiku | Scriptwriter
Nadya Todorova | Scriptwriter
Eric Dupont | Scriptwriter, Producer
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Set in 14th-century Paris, a community of independent women – the Beguines – face rising danger after their visionary spiritual leader, Marguerite Porete, is arrested for heresy. At the heart of the turmoil stands Ysabel, the community’s elected leader, a woman with a hidden past and a dangerous secret: she is the only one who holds the last surviving copy of Marguerite’s banned book, rumoured to possess dark powers. As the Inquisition closes in and fear spreads like wildfire, Ysabel must decide whether to destroy the book to save the sanctuary – or protect it, save its spirit, and risk everything: The sanctuary. The women. And Herself. A gripping historical drama about forbidden knowledge, female resistance, and the price of freedom in an oppressive age.
David Roux started his career as a theatre journalist and launched the theatre magazine Rappel. In addition, he has worked as a 1st AD and literary advisor. He started co-writing with the short Donde està Kim Basinger? by Edouard Deluc and then wrote and directed two shorts – Leur Jeunesse (2012) and Répétitions (2014) – which were screened at more than 40 festivals. He attended l’Atelier scénario de la Femis, where he developed his first feature, Breath of Life, which premiered in Locarno Piazza Grande in August 2018 and was released in France in January 2019. Attended festivals include Namur, Tbilisi, Istanbul, Lecce, Hong Kong, and Richmond. Mrs, his second feature starring Mélanie Thierry, Eric Caravaca, Jérémie Renier, and Arnaud Valois is in post production. International sales: Luck Number French, distributor: Jour2Fête.
After working for UGC Fox Distribution, Candice Zaccagnino joined Sony Pictures as VP of European production and then partnered with Luca Guadagnino for I Am Love. Back in France, she founded ElianeAntoinette. In 2001, Olivier Aknin founded Backup Films, which offered what at the time was seen as the ground-breaking activity of looking for and structuring international funding. In 2010, he moved to production and founded Reboot Films. Films include The Big Fix by Josh Tickell (Cannes 2011), Fantasia by Wang Chao (Cannes 2014), Eva and Leon by Emilie Cherpitel (Seoul 2015), Looking for Rohmer by Wang Chao (Busan 2015), Breath of Life by David Roux (Locarno 2018), A Distant Thud in the Jungle (Leeds 2021), and For Night Will Come (Mostra di Venezia 2023), both by Céline Rouzet.
“Women were long overlooked by history”, Jacques Le Goff, the famous French historian, used to say. And it’s high time this injustice was fixed. Through the destiny of the Parisian Beguines, my dream is to build an epic thriller that fully takes into account the intimate dramas women have had to suffer through the centuries. I dream of a modern, clever, refined mini-series that depicts the Middle Ages in the most unintimidated way – at a crossroads with the poisonous vividness of Queen Margot by Patrice Chereau and the modern and radical tone of The Favourite by Yorgos Lanthimos. I find this project highly exciting and I cannot wait to direct it.
Eliane Antoinette
19 rue Saint Marc, 75002, Paris, France
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Reboot Films
20 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, 75010, Paris, France
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David Roux | Director
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Yaelle Kayam | Scriptwriter
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Candice Zaccagnino | Producer
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When a sharp-tongued professor checks into a remote hospital expecting peace and privacy during chemotherapy, she ends up in a six-bed cancer ward full of loud, impossible-to-ignore women, including her old college nemesis. Beating cancer might be the goal, but first, they'll have to survive each other. As gossip spreads, WhatsApp groups form, and crystal healing sessions clash with silent hours, the ward becomes its own dysfunctional universe. Amid the absurdity, the women slowly chip away at each other's defences – finding unexpected friendship, meaning, and a strange kind of freedom. A slice-of-life existential comedy about illness, control, and letting go.
Lithuanian writer-director Birutė Kapustinskaitė has written seven plays staged in Lithuanian theatres and scripts for six feature and seven short films. Two of her plays – Therapies (2014), the inspiration for this series, and Stand Up for Suicide (2024) – won Best Play at the National Theatre Awards. She has directed two short films and is developing her first feature.
Lithuanian writer-director Marija Kavtaradzė’s debut Summer Survivors (2018) screened at Toronto IFF. Her second film, Slow (2023), won Best Director at Sundance, and both were awarded Best National Film in Lithuania. Marija has also written numerous shorts, features, and the recent animated series BFF.
Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė is a Lithuanian producer and the managing director of the production company Just a moment, working across fiction, documentary, animation, and experimental cinema. A member of the EFA and EPC, she is an alumna of renowned training programmes including EAVE, ACE Producers, and EURODOC. She has produced 40 titles, and her films have been screened at leading festivals such as Venice, Rotterdam, Sheffield DocFest, IDFA, Hot Docs, and Karlovy Vary. Recent highlights include Twittering Soul, the first Lithuanian 3D feature film, which received five major awards at the National Film Awards; Burial, screened at Visions du Réel, Hot Docs, and Viennale; and Dance Plus City, an ambitious dance film series co-produced by partners in Lithuania, France, Ukraine, Latvia, and Estonia.
When I was twenty-two, I took care of my mom during her six-month chemotherapy treatment, and I spent a lot of time with her at the hospital. There was plenty of laughter, and also plenty of silent pain. Every three weeks, we'd return to the same ward and see the same women. They were all so different, yet something connected them – not just cancer, but the everyday moments they shared in that room. Back then, I told my mom I would write a play about it. She said to focus on life in the ward, not the illness. My mom didn't make it, but her story did. And now, it continues its journey – this time, as a TV series.
Just a moment
Vitebsko 23-491, LT11350, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Birute Kapustinskaite | Director, Scriptwriter
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Ruxandra Ghitescu | Scriptwriter
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Fabrizio Muscia | Scriptwriter
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Dagnė Vildžiūnaite | Producer
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1973. At the height of the Greek junta, Irma is murdered by her husband, a tycoon, on their private island. When the coroner is called upon by the tycoon to cover up the crime, Maria, the coroner’s wife, tries to prevent it, and she mysteriously loses her voice. As Irma's dead body becomes a battlefield, Bianca, a lost Italian girl, grows close to the coroner’s young assistant. Together, in a misguided act of supposed social justice, they kidnap the tycoon’s son. In a final act of defiance, Maria publicly denounces Irma’s femicide and her husband’s complicity and commits suicide. The junta sends a tank crashing through the gates of the Athens Polytechnic, suppressing the student uprising. Bianca, betrayed by the coroner’s assistant, emerges from the chaos, but for the first time, she is truly free.
Born in Greece in 1977, Elina Psykou studied filmmaking and sociology in Athens. Her debut feature, The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas, premiered at the Berlinale Forum in 2013 and has been screened at more than 40 international film festivals. In the same year, the trade publication Variety singled her out as one of the “10 European Directors to Watch”. Her second feature, Son of Sofia, premiered in the competition at Tribeca FF in 2017, where it won Best International Narrative Feature Award. Both her films were shortlisted at the European Film Awards in 2013 and 2017 respectively. Her first documentary, Stray Bodies, premiered at CPH:DOX and Hot Docs in 2024.
Fenia Cossovitsa is an acclaimed film producer with many years of experience in the development, production and post-production of feature films, documentaries, and TV series. Her résumé includes over 30 Greek and international feature films and high quality TV series. She has worked with internationally acclaimed filmmakers like Peter Bogdanovic, Jonathan Nossiter, Tony Gatlif, Dominik Moll, Delphine & Muriel Coulin, and Cedric Klapisch, and has co-produced with Italy, France, Germany, Canada, Algeria, and Cyprus. Fenia has played a pivotal role in producing noteworthy works, including the Emmy-winning series Tehran (Apple TV), Greek Salad (Amazon Originals), Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (Season 3 for Paramount), Karantina (MBC), Eteros Ego (Seasons 1 - 3 for Cosmote TV), and Kabul (Alliance, New8 and Cosmote TV).
The Three Burials of Irma is based on the book Alfatride by Vassilis Vassilikos and deals with the cover-up of a femicide in the 1970s, making this seemingly straightforward crime thriller instigate a dialogue with the present day in surprising ways, adopting a profoundly political and unexpectedly modern perspective. The contemporary take, combined with the intense atmosphere of the book and the images inspired by the narrative and the characters themselves – their lust, their guilt, their fears – convinced me it would make a unique screen adaptation. The Three Burials of Irma takes place in 1973 in the midst of a dictatorial regime. Fifty years later, the steps that humanity has taken towards exposing violence and corruption are very few, and cover-ups are flourishing.
Blonde
Garyttou St.61, 15234, Athens, Greece
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Elina Psykou | Director
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Lemba De Miranda | Scriptwriter
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Fenia Cossovitsa | Producer
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