Fifty-two projects, including 28 fiction films and documentaries, will be presented at the seventh edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market (4-6 September), an event dedicated to works in the final stage of development and funding and organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, in the 77^th Venice International Film Festival.

Over the course of the three-day-long Venice Gap-Financing Market, these 52 projects, chosen from among 270 works hailing from all corners of the globe, will be given the opportunity to complete their financing through one-to-one meetings with international professionals. Jostling among the selected works are 22 fiction feature films (17 European and 5 international) and 6 documentaries (all European) looking to round off their funding packages with minority co-production stakes and having 70% of their funding already secured; 12 Virtual Reality Immersive Stories projects (10 European and 2 international), including fiction films, documentaries, animated films and other interactive installation experiences, with 30% of their budgets guaranteed; 12 Biennale College – Virtual Reality projects and 3 Biennale College – Cinema projects, which are all at different stages of development, from pre-production to post-production.

The Market will organise one-to-one meetings for the 52 project teams (composed of the producer and the director) with professionals armed with decision-making powers (producers, private and public backers, banks, distributors, sales agents, TV channels, web and video platforms, institutions, post-production companies).

The selected projects are as follows:

Fiction films and documentaries

Heartbeast [+lee también:
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Production: Adastra Films

A Beautiful Imperfection - Michiel van Erp, Erwin Olaf (the Netherlands/Italy/Belgium/UK)
Production: Kaap Holland Film

A Picture Book - Tomoko Kana (Japan/Germany)
Production: Horizon Features Co., Ltd.

Beloved Shores [+lee también:
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Production: EiE Film

Bouazizi - Lofty Nathan (France/Germany)
Production: Cinenovo

Brother - Clement Virgo (Canada)
Production: Conquering Lion Pictures

Captain Volkonogov Escaped [+lee también:
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Production: Lookfilm Studio

Convenience Store [+lee también:
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Production: Metrafilms Llc

The Faun - Augusto Zanovello (Romania/France)
Production: Aparte

The Legionnaire [+lee también:
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Production: Clemart

Iris - Myrsini Aristidou (Cyprus/Greece/France/Germany)
Production: The Living

Jeux sans frontières - Andrei Cretulescu (Romania)
Production: Digital Cube

La guardia - Giulio Ricciarelli (Italy/Germany)
Production: La Sarraz Pictures

L’età dell’innocenza - Enrico Maisto (Italy/Switzerland)
Production: Start, Ventura Film

Medusa - Anita Rocha da Silveira (Brazil)
Production: Bananeira Filmes

Meursault contre enquête - Malek Bensmaïl (Algeria/France)
Production: Hikayet Films

More Than Ever [+lee también:
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Production: Eaux Vives Productions

Occupied City - Steve McQueen (the Netherlands/UK) (documentary)
Production: Family Affair Films

Small Body [+lee también:
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Production: Nefertiti Film

Runner [+lee también:
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Production: Killjoy Films

Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free - Dawn Gifford Engle (the Netherlands/Spain) (documentary)
Production: Stichting PeaceJam Europe

Summerlight and Then Comes the Night [+lee también:
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Production: Berserk Films, Compass Films

Supernova - Natalia López (Mexico/Argentina)
Production: Amondo Cine, Lobo en medio de Lobos

Sweet Dreams [+lee también:
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Production: Lemming Film

The Things You Kill - Alireza Khatami (France/Canada/Iran)
Production: Fulgurance

Transamazonia - Pia Marais (France/Germany/Sweden)
Production: Cinéma Defacto

Why We Fight - Alain Platel, Mirjam Devriendt (Belgium/Germany) (documentary)
Production: Cassette for Timescapes

Wir Waren Kumpel [+lee también:
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Production: CognitoFilms Ltd.

Virtual Reality Immersive Stories projects

Alone At Night - Hanna Västinsalo (Finland)
Production: Handle Productions Oy

Banksy: The Walled Off Hotel VR - Amer Shomali (Germany/Palestine/the Netherlands)
Production: K5 Factory GmbH

Birdie Long Gone - Samuel Lepoil (France/Belgium)
Production: Tamanoir Immersive Studio, Demute Studio

Gulli’VR - Michaël Bolufer (France)
Production: La Générale de Production

Let Go - Michael Beets (France/Australia/Belgium/Switzerland)
Production: Les Produits Frais

Néphélé - Alexandre Perez (France)
Production: Floréal Films

Night Shift - Abdalsalam Alhaj (the Sudan/South Africa)
Production: Electric South

Project Dastaan: Child of Empire - Erfan Saadati (UK/India)
Production: Project Dastaan

Tangible Utopias - Ioana Mischie (Romania)
Production: Storyscapes, Studioset

The Garden - David Barlow-Krelina (France)
Production: Red Corner, ED Film

The Greatest Wait. After the Last Sky - Razan Alsalah (France/Canada)
Production: Ida.Ida.

The Sick Rose - Tang Chi-Chung (Taiwan)
Production: HTC Vive Originals

Biennale College - Virtual Reality Projects (11 projects developed during the fourth edition of the Biennale College Cinema VR workshop, and 1 project from the third edition)

A Vocal Landscape - Omid Zarei (Denmark/Iran)
Production: Bullitt Films, Rawmantik Pictures

Chroma 11 - Tsui Shan Tsang (Hong Kong)
Production: River Vision Production

Dancing Letters - Anna Zoll (Poland)
Production: Udyssey Creative Technologies

Jamie & Jamie - Fanni Fazakas (Hungary)
Production: OCG

Nowhere Left To Go - Patricia Echeverria Liras (US/Spain)
Production: Lightshed Llc

Mono - Chiara Troisi (Italy)
Production: Epica Film

Puppet Trouble - Lucas Rizzotto (US/Brazil)
Production: Thought Co.

The Pub - Duane Hopkins (UK)
Production: Oslo Pictures

The Wolf and the Lamb - Emanuel Nordrum (Norway)
Production: Varino Creative

Ticket to Nowhere - David Wedel (Denmark)
Production: Mannd

Touched - Emilia Ondriasova, Sara Lisa Vogl (Denmark/Slovakia/Germany)
Production: Makropol

Open the Door to the 20^TH Century: The Scitovsky Villa - Zsolt Magyari (UK/Hungary)
Production: Stellar Circus

Biennale College – Cinema Projects (developed during the first workshop of the Biennale College Cinema’s 8^th edition)

Babado - Camila Freitas, João Vieira Torres (Brazil/Portugal)
Production: Primeira Idade

Good Deal - Shen Di (China)
Production: Spire Media

The Plant Under the Wild Land - Diego Zon (Brazil)
Production: De Repente o Rio