The Pitching Forum is the central public presentation moment of the selected projects within Bio to B – Industry Days | Doc. Up to 20 European documentary and docu-series projects are presented to an international audience composed of producers, commissioning editors, sales agents, festival representatives, Film Commissions and institutions. Selected teams take part in the Pitching Lab, an online preparation programme designed to support the projects in the lead-up to the public presentation, followed by Q&A sessions and one-to-one meetings with the experts attending the market.
Director: Alina Marazzi
Production: Casa delle visioni, Fremantle (ITA) Fiumi Film (CHE)
A collective narrative exploring the ethical challenges of contemporary fashion, inspired by the visionary thinking of Rosa Genoni, a pioneer of Italian fashion in the early 20th century, who transformed fashion into a political act, a creative gesture and a form of women’s emancipation
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Director: Sylvia Vollenhoven
Production: Reassemblage Produzioni Audiovisive (ITA) Vision In Africa (ZAF)
Hate crimes in Cape Town have made Athiphila “Athi” Sidondi and her lover fear for their lives. But the murder of lesbians – one of them a close friend – have not deterred this young soccer player from pursuing her dreams of empowering young girls through sport. And, she has an ally all the way from the NBA in California.
Director: Carlotta Piccinini
Production: Sayonara Film (ITA) First Hand Films (CHE)
An intimate and political journey between Kenya and Switzerland, to confront generations of deep wounds, setting off urgent acts of radical healing and transformative love.
Director: Filippo Tommasoli, Matteo Brunetta
Production: Maecenas Media (USA) & Tommasoli Visual Factory (ITA)
In the drought-stricken town of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico, the resilient autonomous community of Cuxtitali battles paramilitary forces and powerful interests to reclaim their most precious resource - water - risking everything to protect their way of life.
Director: Paolo Geremei, Giacomo Del Buono
Production: Redigital (ITA)
The search for love never fades. Celestino knows this well, and with his van he travels across the Italian provinces organizing “Singles Nights on Tour.” Between seafood starters, handwritten phone numbers and red roses, thousands of participants hope to find the right person…
Director: Vivian Barbullushi
Production: Anemone Film (ITA) Anima Pictures Ads (ALB)
Thirty years after arriving in Italy illegally, I return to Shkodër to collect my Albanian passport. While trying to catch glimpses of my short life there, I open up a cultural dialogue with those who never left. A journey to rebuild my memory and my identity, retracing the same route I took in 1997.
Director: Michael Petrolini, Marco Bergonzi
Production: Raw Sight (ITA) Bird Street Productions (USA)
Michael and Marco, two cousins raised as brothers, embark on a journey into their family memory when Michael gains access to his adoption file: an intimate and layered confrontation that, through four maternal figures, unsettles identities, memories, and unspoken truths.
Direction: Federica Di Giacomo
Production: MIR Cinematografica (ITA), Bellota Films (FRA)
In the Gulf of La Spezia, a single day and night interweave invisible worlds: cruise tourists, shipyard workers, and military divers — all sharing the same city and the same water, never meeting.
Director: Michele Fornasero
Production: Epica Film (ITA), Indyca (ITA)
In a small village in northern Italy slowly fading away, a classroom of immigrant children lives its final school year.
Director: Maciek Bochniak
Production: Madants (POL) Velvet Films (BEL), 3L Picture (FRA)
When an incredibly talented Kenyan lawyer, Brian Mwenda, wins a seemingly impossible case, someone begins to investigate him. The truth surprises everyone.
Director: Sara Tirelli
Production: Zenit Arti Audiovisive (ITA)
The Red Sheep follows Maria Vittoria Backhaus, Mussolini’s granddaughter and iconic fashion photographer, as she retraces a life shaped by political rebellion and creative freedom, revealing an intimate portrait against the backdrop of modern Italian history.
Director: Lorenzo Spinelli
Production: Kiné Società Cooperativa (ITA)
Three generations, 100 years of Italian history, and a single destiny: prison. While my brother Giacomo serves a six-year sentence, I delve into the archives to understand how the way people protest—and its consequences—has changed, asking myself whether Giacomo’s path is a choice or an inherited fate.
Regia: Antoine Tassin
Production: L'atelier zéro de conduite (FRA), The Intellectual Property Corporation (USA)
‘The Amidlisa affair ’ explores the unraveling of a french family, torn apart by shocking accusations of abuse and murder. Their three children are caught in the chaos, and through intimate interviews and archival footage, the film reveals the urgent importance of truth in the Internet era.
Director: Marco Spagnoli, Rüdiger Sturm
Production: Samarcanda Film (ITA) Harald House (BEL)
In The Consciousness of David Lynch documentary filmmakers Marco Spagnoli and Rüdiger Sturm take the audience on a trip into the consciousness, life and imagination of legendary filmmaker David Lynch, who granted them insights of unprecedented intimacy and inspiring originality.
Direction: Giulia Amati
Production: Blink Blink (ITA)
In Dolce Vita Rome, iconic photographer Elisabetta Catalano captured the faces that defined European culture. Yet she kept her own hidden: through her archive, the film explores image, authorship, and the mystery of a woman who, in a male-dominated culture, chose to observe rather than be observed.
Direction: Maria Makedonska
Production: ProudCloud Productions (UK), SMK Factory (ITA)
In northwestern Bulgaria, Vlach villages are disappearing, and the last brass band is one of the few things keeping community alive. Within this world, Pepi, the last resident of the abandoned village of Kanitz, decides to organize a funeral for his home village, as if it were a person.
Contacts
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