IBF Europe Selection 2023
Film still: Croma, dir. Manuel Abramovich
Encouraging European Co-productions
IBF Europe offers production & post-production support to documentary films from the IBF regions through European minority co-producers.
Selection IBF Europe — Minority Co-production
Dir. Manuel Abramovich Argentina, Austria, Germany
In a green-screen studio, a group of people meets to imagine the future. The chroma becomes here a way of thinking. A project about gender as a fiction that we have learned. A film where no one has to justify their existence, where we can reinvent our lives’ scripts.
Dir. Yegor Troyanovsky Ukraine, France
Two young female paramedics, Cuba and Alaska, live on the edge in the war-torn Kharkiv region – their mission is to save lives while sharing their dreams, good humour, and belief in victory.
Dir. Maricarmen Merino Mora Costa Rica, Romania
Matryoshka is a mother and daughter dialogue about the journey of transformation one must take in the quest of finding your own voice, so that we can understand the choices of the women that raised us and preceded us.
Dir. Olga Chernykh Ukraine, Germany, France
A Picture to Remember is an essayistic account of a family's long journey through exile and wars. Three generations of Ukrainian women - those of the director, her mother, and her grandmother search for a way to come to term with terrible and recurring losses.
Dir. Bo Yang China, France
Inner Mongolia, China, today. A young cattle farmer with unrealistic dreams of greatness drags his mother, his younger sister and his wife into a spiral of financial difficulties that will test their family unity. They will have to sacrifice themselves to help the only man in the household grow up.
Dir. Anastasiya Miroshnichenko Belarus, France, Belgium, The Netherlands
Katya is a young woman and a professional welder. Abandoned as a little girl, she embarks on a personal journey to reunite with her lost family, to weld it together as she would weld metal at work. Yet what she discovers down that road is about to make her relive her early childhood trauma.
One of the selected projects in 2023 must remain anonymous.
The Selection Committee
IBF Europe — Minority Co-production
Bianca Oana - Producer at Monogram Film Darya Bassel - Producer at Moon Man Eliane Ferreira - Producer at Muiraquitã Filmes Fabien Greenberg - Producer at Antipode Films Isabel Arrate Fernandez - Deputy Director, IDFA; Executive Director, IDFA Bertha Fund
Selection NFF+IBF Co-Production Scheme
The NFF+IBF Co-production Scheme is a collaboration between the Dutch Film Fund and IBF aimed at stimulating Dutch producers to get involved in projects that have already received an IBF grant. The selection process is conducted by the Dutch Film Fund.
Dir. Vladlena Sandu Russia, Netherlands
Vladena Sandu, a survivor of the war in Chechnya between 1994 and 1998, studies her memories in order to transcend and transform them via cinema.
Dir. Anastasiya Miroshnichenko Belarus, France, Belgium, The Netherlands
Katya is a young woman and a professional welder. Abandoned as a little girl, she embarks on a personal journey to reunite with her lost family, to weld it together as she would weld metal at work. Yet what she discovers down that road is about to make her relive her early childhood trauma.