66 projects from around the world, in the final stages of development and financing, will be presented over the three-day-long 13th edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market (unspooling 4 - 6 September), as organised by the Venice Production Bridge within the 83rd Venice Film Festival. The selected projects will get to complete their financing through one-to-one meetings with international professionals.

The organisers of the co-production market, which has become a key event in the film and immersive industries, report that more than 370 projects were received and that the selection reflects the great diversity of backgrounds, stories, talents, genres and budgets of these numerous submissions. This year, the VPB Focus will be on Greece, with the support of the Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center, and Switzerland, with the support of Swiss Films.

The selection is divided into 38 feature-length fiction and documentary projects (including 9 VPB Focus projects), 14 immersive projects (including 3 VPB Focus projects), 11 Biennale College – Immersive projects, and 3 Biennale College – Cinema projects.

The Venice Gap-Financing Market is organising one-to-one meetings between the director-producer teams behind the 66 projects and industry decision-makers (producers, public and private financiers, banks, distributors, sales agents, TV channels, streamers, VOD platforms, institutions, post-production companies…).

Of the 38 selected projects, 31 are fiction films (20 from Europe and 11 from the rest of the world) which need to complete their financial package with minority co-production shares and already have 70% of their financing secured, while the documentary slate comprises 7 projects (2 European and 5 from further afield) which are either narrative or creative (and meeting the same conditions as the afore-mentioned fiction films). Projects from the 2026 VPB Focus on Greece and Switzerland are also included in this line-up.

The 14 Immersive projects (8 European and 6 from elsewhere) include fiction, documentaries, animated films and other interactive installation experiences. All the projects have 30% of their budget in place. This line-up includes the projects selected for the 2026 VPB Focus on Greece and Switzerland. The 11 projects developed during the workshop held within the 10^th edition of Biennale College Cinema Immersive are at various stages of development, from pre-production through to post-production.

Last but not least, the line-up also includes the 3 projects developed during the first workshop held within the 14th edition of Biennale College Cinema, which are now at various stages of development and pre-production.

The Book of Projects, containing detailed information on each and every title, will be published online around mid-July. Film-industry professionals accredited for the Venice Production Bridge will be able to request one-to-one meetings with the project teams via the dedicated Venice Gap-Financing Market section on the Venice Production Bridge website.

The list of projects is as follows:

Films

Ballad of the Phoenix - Rodolfo Ambriz Rendón, Arturo Ambriz Rendón (Mexico) (animation)
Production: Woo Films, Cinema Fantasma

Kyūshū Moon - Stéphanie Argerich (Switzerland/France) (fiction)
Production: Intermezzo Films, Les Films du Bélier

Cábula - Lila Avilés (Mexico/Spain) (fiction)
Production: Pimienta Films

Stallions - Rita Baghdadi (Morocco/United States) (documentary)
Production: Lady & Bird Films

The Smuggler - Kaveh Bakhtiari (Switzerland/Greece/France) (fiction)
Production: Beauvoir Films, Homemade Films, TS Productions

The Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Lene Berg (Norway/Sweden/Germany) (documentary)
Production: Twentyone Pictures

News from Lod, a Letter to Chantal Akerman - Michale Boganim (France/Belgium) (documentary)
Production: Blue Train Films

Primo viaggio - Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman (Italy/France) (fiction)
Production: Sacher Film, Halley Production

Holiday - Wissam Charaf (France/Italy/Greece/Lebanon) (fiction)
Production: Aurora Films, Intramovies, Marni Films, Né à Beyrouth Films

Ya & Niki - Rä Di Martino (Italy/France/Lebanon) (fiction)
Production: Dugong Films

An Entry Into a Portuguese Woman's Sadness - Lav Diaz (France/Philippines/Portugal) (fiction)
Production: Films Boutique

Wolfmother - Ismaël El Iraki (France/Morocco) (fiction)
Production: Special Touch Studios, Kasbah Films

Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me - Asmae El Moudir (Morocco/Norway/France/Chile) (documentary)
Production: Insight Films, Haut et Court Doc, Quijote Films, Lofoten Film

The Rope - Alberto Fasulo (Italy/Switzerland) (fiction)
Production: Nefertiti Film

Untitled Water Documentary - Carola Fuentes (Chile/Canada) (documentary)
Production: La Ventana Cine, Intuitive Pictures

A Year Without Summer - Flurin Giger (Switzerland/Germany) (fiction)
Production: Beauvoir Films, Heimatfilm

African Grey - Yorgos Goussis (Greece/Bulgaria) (fiction)
Production: Plankton Films

Land of Savages - Fernando Guzzoni (Colombia/United States/Chile) (fiction)
Production: Oso Films

Toxic - Jessica Hausner (Austria/Germany/France/Sweden) (fiction)
Production: Schubert

Urihi – The Forest Land - Morzaniel Iramari (Brazil) (documentary)
Production: Aruac Filmes

Salut Robert - Laura Israel (United States/Switzerland/France) (documentary)
Production: Correspondent

La Manche - Damian Kocur (Poland/Germany/France) (fiction)
Production: Kijora Film, Les Contes Modernes, Oma Inge

The Funeral - Carolina Markowicz (Brazil/Portugal/Romania) (fiction)
Production: Biônica Filmes

Quiet Land - Ursula Meier (Switzerland/France/Canada) (fiction)
Production: Bande à part Films, Paradise City Films

Chocolat Amer - Valentin Merz (Switzerland/Germany/France) (fiction)
Production: Cinédokké

Magnum Opus - Bogdan Mirica (Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Moldova) (fiction)
Production: deFilm

Faux Bijoux - Jessy Moussallem (France/Lebanon/Belgium) (fiction)
Production: Vixens

They Burn in the Same Way - Clarisa Navas (Argentina/Brazil) (fiction)
Production: Gentil Cine

Shitballs - Alfrun Ornolfsdottir (Iceland/Canada) (fiction)
Production: Compass Films

Wake - Thelyia Petraki (Greece/Cyprus/Serbia) (fiction)
Production: Filmiki, Out the Box

Patrimonial Fears and Other Illusions - Elina Psykou (Greece/Netherlands/Cyprus) (fiction)
Production: Jungle Films, Homemade Films, StudioBauhaus, Studio Ruba, Bark Like A Cat Films

Kurinji - Payal Sethi (India/France/Germany) (fiction)
Production: FilmKaravan, Blue Monday Productions, 70 Steps

The Amateurs - Felipe Solari Yrigoyen (Chile/Argentina) (documentary)
Production: Quijote Films

Something Strange Happened to Me - Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (Ukraine/United Kingdom) (fiction)
Production: Mellivora Production

The Langfang Republic - Katsuya Tomita (Japan/France/Taipei) (fiction)
Production: Kuzoku

Lionfish - Thanasis Trouboukis (Greece/Germany) (fiction)
Production: asterisk*, Studio Zentral

All Clear - Christina Tynkevych (Ukraine/Germany/Luxembourg) (fiction)
Production: Evos Film

Light Boxes - Theodore Ushev (Bulgaria/Canada/France/Belgium/Poland) (animation)
Production: Cinelibri

Immersive projects

Race Against the Machine - Amir Admoni, Fabito Rychter (Brazil) (immersive experience)
Production: Delirium XR

The Berlin Wall - Karim Ben Khelifa, Tina Ahrens (France/Germany) (immersive experience)
Production: Lucid Realities, Filmtank

Opi and the Quiet Ones - Federico Carlini, Jorge Tereso, Fernando Maldonado (Argentina) (immersive experience)
Production: 3DAR LTDA

Pilgrims - DARKFIELD (United Kingdom) (immersive experience)
Production: DARKFIELD

The Mysteries of Eleusis - John Fitzgerald, Simon Critchley (United States/Greece) (immersive experience)
Production: Techno Firma, Onassis Onx

Hide and Seek - Fabienne Giezendanner (Switzerland/France) (immersive experience)
Production: Elefant Films

Montmartre, la nuit - Pierre-Alain Giraud, Stéphane Foenkinos (France) (immersive experience)
Production: Novaya

A Funeral for the Internet - Samantha Gorman, Scarlett Kim (United States/United Kingdom) (immersive experience)
Production: Thresholds & Co.

The River Within You - Hsin Hsuan Yeh (Taiwan) (immersive experience)
Production: Joyful Beings Animation Studio

Marta Becket's Death Valley - Gilles Jobin, Susana Panadés Diaz (Switzerland) (immersive experience)
Production: Cie Gilles Jobin, Studio 44 MocapLab

After the Flood - Chloé Lee (Germany) (immersive experience)
Production: Reynard Films

Animal Being - Barnaby Steel, Ersin Han Ersin, Robin McNicholas (United Kingdom) (immersive experience)
Production: Marshmallow Laser Feast

Gloomy Eyes & The Last Standing - Jorge Tereso, Fernando Maldonado (Taiwan/France/Argentina) (immersive experience)
Production: HTC VIVE Originals, Atlas V, 3dar

Wolf - Of Hide and Flesh - Alex Verhaest (Belgium) (immersive experience)
Production: Timescapes

Biennale College Cinema Immersive

Walking with Ghosts - Alejandro Angel-Torres (Colombia) (film)
Production: Armadillo: New Media & Films

Visitor - Spyros Boukas (Greece/Luxembourg) (film)
Production: asterisk*

Mystis - Tatiana Collet Apraxine (United Kingdom) (film)
Production: Onism Studio

Pelle - Stefano Conca Bonizzoni (Italy) (film)
Production: Officine Creative-Università di Pavia

Isabella, Mad with Love - Giulia Falciani (Germany/Italy) (film)
Production: Studio Fazi

Oubliette - Wen-Yee Hsieh (Taiwan) (film)
Production: Wen-E Studio

Primer Plano - Giulia Jiménez Tani (Venezuela/United States) (film)
Production: Casivache

Sāmoa Ocean Odyssey - Yuki Kihara (Samoa/New Zealand/Australia) (film)
Production: Pernickety Split

Unstill Stillness - Bang-Yao Liu (Taiwan) (film)
Production: Boilfilm Studio

The Mother Tree - Vernante Pallotti, Daniele Zen (Italy/Brazil/Portugal) (film)
Production: Gastonia Motion Srl, Hilda Motion

Damned - Nataliya Velikanova (France/Ukraine) (film)
Production: Da Prod

Biennale College Cinema

Barnacles - Andrej Chinappi (Italy) (fiction)
Production: Mosaicon Film Srl

Piggy Baby - Maria Giménez Cavallo (Italy/France) (fiction)
Production: Berta Film

Tithes & Offering - Tony Koros (Kenya) (fiction)
Production: We Are Not the Machine Ltd.