Feature Film by Anna Llargués

Production: Astra Pictures (SP)

Coproduction: Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR), Wonder Maria (PT)

Budget: 3M€

Shoot: 2027

Support: ICEC, Arcs Talent Vilage Award

Synopsis: Èlia left her native village in Catalonia when she was eight years old. A few years later, as a young teenager, she decides to return to spend the summer with her friend Juna. She hopes to rediscover the isolated paradise of her childhood, but finds a place that has been completely transformed.

Feature Film by Bassel Ghandour

Production: Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR)

Coproduction: Abbout Productions (LB)

Budget: 1.8M€

Shoot: 2027

Support: MEDIA Creative Europe

Synopsis: After the sudden death of her husband, Raghida, a 65-year-old woman, dsicovers that her comfortable life was just an illusion. Devastated by her husband’s financial and personal secrets, she takes over the management of a run-down seaside hotel, a place that hides a clandestine world of crime and prostitution.

Feature Film by Pia Marais

Screenplay: Pia Marais & Willem Droste

Production: Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR)

Budget: 5.5M€

Shoot: 2027

Support: MEDIA Creative Europe

Synopsis: Sarah Whyte, 39 and recently released from prison, is determined to win back the love of her 8-year-old daughter by helping her achieve her dream: attending the prestigious and costly Prestige Dance Competition School for child- ren. To make this happen, she manipulates her Gamblers Anonymous support group and forms a criminal organization to rig horse races.

Animated Feature Film by Eirini Vianelli

Screenplay: Andrew Gilchrist

Script doctor: Efthymis Filippou (The Lobster, Kind of Kindness, Canine…)

Production: Heretic (GR)

Coproduction: Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR), Lava Films (PL), Foliascope (FR), WJT Studio (PL)

Budget: 6M€

Animation: 2027

Support: MEDIA Creative Europe

Synopsis: As a devastating fire ravages their surrounding countryside and an urgent evacuation order comes through, four generations of women struggle to navigate their disconnected, dysfunctional, and sometimes mutually destructive relationships in the comically absurd, life-or-death situation they find themselves in.

Feature Film by Said Zagha

Production: Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR)

Coproduction: Night Owls (UK)

Budget: 1.5M€

Shoot: 2026

Support: Doha Film Institute, Red Sea Fund, the Arab Fund for Arts & Culture (AFAC), Palestinian Ministry of Culture, the Jordan Film Fund

Synopsis: Abbas, a self-righteous, middle-aged car mechanic living in Palestine’s lawless “Area-C”, where marijuana cultivation is thriving, will do anything to avenge his older son’s death. But Abbas’s task proves lethal when his younger son’s plans get in the way.

Short Film by Jan Bujnowski

Production: Kijora Film (PL)

Coproduction: Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR)

Budget: 115K€

Shoot: 2026

Support: Krakow Film Commission, Podkarpacki Film Fund, Łódź Film School

Synopsis: An elderly couple, Jola and Staszek, lead a seemingly monotonous life in a small apartment. They live alone with their small dog, Bobik. One day their routine is interrupted by a visit from soldiers who are desperately looking for army reinforcements. They take Bobik into the army.

Feature Film by Mounia Akl

Screenplay: Mounia Akl, Livia Ulman, Andris Feldmanis (Compartment n°6)

Production: Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR)

Coproduction: Abbout Productions (LB), Amrion (EE), Heretic (GR)

Budget: 3M€

Shoot: 2027

Support: Ciclic – Aide à l’écriture

Synopsis: Dalia and Eli, both in their thirties, have built a safe bubble amid Beirut’s economic and social tensions as they plan their wedding. Days before the ceremony, Dalia begins experiencing hallucinations, feeling like a stranger in her own home. Sleep-deprived, she wanders into the mountains, where a nun from a nearby psychiatric hospital takes her in. There, Dalia reconnects with reality but grows attached to this fractured world. Incidentally, she is obsessing over Paul, a recovering addict who avoids contact. When the hospital announces a “resocialization” release, Paul is set free while Dalia is not. She escapes to find him. Their brief, intense time together awakens his addictive side, and they start a passionate relationship. But Eli eventually tracks them down and Paul flees. Dalia and Eli search nighttime Beirut for him, finding him volatile, and bring him back home. With the psychiatric ward closed, Paul must stay with them. During a fragile dinner, grief turns to laughter, and all three realize that, though their future is uncertain, they have profoundly touched each other.

Feature Film by Nicole Jaramillo

Production: Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR)

Budget: 2.5M€

Shoot: 2028

Synopsis: Fran, 24, left Panama to pursue a career as a tennis player in Paris. Talented but suffering from insomnia, she divides her time between training, working as a barista, and daily phone calls from her mother back home. When her father, a former drug trafficker who is now in prison, tries to reconnect with her, her past comes flooding back.

Feature Film by Nathalie Álvares-Mesén

Production: HOBAB (SW), Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR), Need Productions (BE)

Budget: 5M€

Shoot: 2027

Support: MEDIA Creative Europe

Synopsis: In 1770, Isabela Godin crosses the Amazonian jungle to reunite with her husband after 20 years of separation.What begins as a noblewoman’s comfortable journey with a large entourage soon turns to a perilous odyssey through the terrifying jungle. Isabela oscillates between life and death, dreams and reality, emerging after 6 months as the only survivor. Isabela’s belief in real love conquers all, as she becomes the first woman on record to have crossed the Amazon.

Feature Film by Adina Pintilie

Production: Manekino Film (RO, DE), Amerika Film (DE)

Coproduction: Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR), KGP (AT), Pink (CZ), in association with Cinema Inutile (US)

International Sales: The Party Film Sales

Budget: 2M€

Shoot: 2026

Support: MEDIA Creative Europe, Ciclic Co-development fund, BKM, German Federal Film Fund, Film Fonds Wien Austria, BMKOES, Romanian Film Center

Synopsis: Paul (23) and Radu (53) are a couple in crisis. They are visited every day in their home by a small film crew. Together with the filmmaker, they go through a « destruction of memory » process, via procedures such as intimate video diaries, exercises inspired from family constellations, reenactments of key memories and dreams, in an attempt to make sense of their explosive relationship.

Feature Film by Łukasz Ronduda

Screenplay: Łukasz Ronduda, Łukasz Czapski

Production: Lava Films (PL), Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR)

Coproduction: Aldabra Films

Budget: 6M€

Shoot: Autumn 2026

Support: Polish Film Institute, Polish Ministry of Culture, Région Martinique, Collectivité Territoriale de Guadeloupe

Synopsis: The true story of a Black General of the Polish Legions sent by Napoelon to suppress the uprising of former slaves in Haiti. A tale of a search for identity, faith and freedom, in which Polish romantic ghosts believes blend with Haitian voodoo tales.

Feature Film by Ognjen Glavonic

Production: Non-Aligned Films (RS)

Coproduction: Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR), Kinorama (HVR), Sragara (SL), Cinema Inutile (US)

Budget: 1.5M€

Shoot: Spring 2026

Support: MEDIA Creative Europe, Ciclic Aide au codéveloppement international, Film Center Serbia, Visions Sud-Est, Huber Bals Fund, TRT, Slovenian Film Center, Croatian Film Center

Synopsis: During his final year of high school, Vuk is determined to record an album with his black metal band, while struggling to maintain a shaky friendship with his best friend Igor. Together, they try to navigate the prejudices and condemnations of their community, a village that hides deep, dark secrets from its past.

Feature Film by Alexa Karolinski

Screenplay: Alexa Karolinski & Matthieu Taponier (« Son of Saul »)

Production: Telos Pictures

Coproduction: Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR), Heretic (GR)

International Sales: Heretic (GR)

Budget: 5M€

Shoot: 2026

Support: MEDIA Creative Europe, Ciclic Aide au codéveloppement international, Hessen Film Fund

Synopsis: It’s 1941. The Nazis have conquered France and are advancing toward the « Free Zone » where Jewish refugees believed themselves safe. But 25-year-old artist Charlotte Salomon has retreated to a modest hotel room on the Côte d’Azur fleeing a different kind of terror—one that lives within her own bloodline, or so she thinks.

Feature Film by Boo Junfeng

Screenplay: Boo Junfeng & Raymond Phathanavirangoon

Production: Peanut Pictures (SG), Gaijin / Sarmadi (FR), Filmagic (TW)

Coproduction: augenschein Filmproduktion (DE), Lava Films (PL), Heretic (GR), in association with Dropkick (SG), Kawankawan Media (ID), Epic Media (PH), MyMama (BR), Throne (JP)

Budget: 2.8M€

Delivery: May 2026

Cast: Leon Dai (Yi Yi, The Assassin), Yeo Yann Yann (Wet Season, Ilo Ilo), Tseng Jing-Hua (Your Name Engraved, Detention)

Synopsis: Johnny, an evanlegical pastor, performs Shaolinesque tests of strength during his service. Despite his anti-gays sermons, Johnny becomes infatuated with his disciple Yang. One day, Yang goes missing. Distraught, Johnny vows to investigat the matter by himself.

Feature Film by Qiu Jiongjiong

Production: Uluka Productions (HK), Rise Pictures (TW)

Coproduction: Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR)

Budget: 1.1M€

Delivery: 2026

Support: Red Sea Film Festival, Zilch Inc., Levie Plus Inc. MPA APSA Academy Film Fund

Synopsis: Under a circus tent, a motley crew is making a film about four strange tales from Sichuan – from prehistoric ancestors with tails to the fertile beginnings of agriculture, from the rivers of medieval exile to the sparks of the Cultural Revolution… Spanning four millennia and told through the chronicles of four celebrations, this film invites us to feast with the living, the dying and the dead, both recent and forgotten.

Short Film by Nicole Jaramillo

Production: Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR)

Coproduction: Pecado Films (SP), Mente Pública (PAN)

Budget: 80K€

Delivery: 2025

Support: ICAA, Media Creative Europe, TV Tours and Bip TV, CNC

Synopsis: In Panama, 12-year-old Clara goes sport fishing in open sea with her father. As they get farther from the coast, the discomfort she feels towards him become more and more oppressive.

Short Film by Anna Llargués

Production: Astra Pictures

Coproduction: Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR)

Budget: 93K€

Delivery: Winter 2025

Support: CNC AVR2, MEDIA Creative Europe, Generalitat de Catalunya Department de Cultura, ICEC, Festival internacional de cinema de Bueu

Synopsis: Helena, an eigh-year-old girl, travels to her family to say goodbye to her grandmother in the last moments of her life. While the adults solve problems they don’t want her to get involved in, they give her a little family camera to distract her.

Feature Film by Valérie Massadian

Production: Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR)

Coproduction: Terratreme Films (PT)

Budget: 1M€

Delivery: 2026

Support: MEDIA Creative Europe, CNC Mini-traité franco-portugais, Eurimages Prix Audentia

Synopsis: Amidst violence and chaos, a group of kids flees the violence of the adults, seeking refuge in an abandoned castle deep in the forest. As they navigate the intimate changes of their age, they try together to define their own codes and reinvent their world, far from the one they left behind. Through their own histories, peculiarities and contradictions, navigating as best they can the intimate changes of their age, they try to reinvent their own world, far from the one they’ve left.

Feature Documentary by Valérie Osouf

Production: Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR), Karezeki Film Production (RWA), les Films du Djabadjah (BFA)

Budget: 280K€

Delivery: February 2026

Support: CNC – FAIA, TV5 Monde, Fondation Shoah, Ciclic – Aide au Documentaire

Synopsis: Kigali, capital of Rwanda: a motor-bike taxi connects its passengers through the arteries, veins and vessels of the city, weaving a rhizome of relation along the threads of the night.

Feature Film by Nathalie Álvares-Mesén

Screenplay: Nathalie Álvares-Mesén & Sjón (Lamb, The Northman…)

Production: HOBAB (SW)

Coproduction: Gaïjin / Sarmadi (FR), Need Productions (BE), Quiditty Films (UK), Still Vivid (ISL)

Budget: 8M€

Delivery: 2026

Support: MEDIA Creative Europe, Swedish Film Institute, Film I Väst, Film Stockholm, Aide au Co-development de Ciclic, Eurimages, Resolve Media,Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, Proximus & BeTV

Cast: Alexander Skarsgård

Synopsis: In 19th century North America, Isabel, a christianized native American governess, grapples with her lost heritage after she is sent to educate two white sisters on a rural estate.When tensions in the household rise, a mystical connection between the family and the wolves in the surrounding forest emerges and Isabel realizes her lessons threaten to destroy the lives of the two girls, as she begins to question the merits of ‘cilvilization’ and the patriarchal traditions she has been taught to transmit.