from Aug. 30 to Sept. 1, presents 51 international projects in the final stages of development and funding, including 28 feature films and documentaries.
Also taking part in the Gap-Financing Market is “Alam,” by Palestinian filmmaker Firas Khoury. The film follows a 17-year-old Palestinian-Israeli whose political apathy is challenged when he falls for a beautiful and politically engaged new classmate, leading him into a dangerous act of protest against the Israeli government.
Czech director Michaela Pavlátová’s animated feature, “My Sunny Maad,” based on the novel “Freshta” by Petra Prochazkova, follows a Czech woman who, after moving to Kabul to marry the man she loves, is forced to deal with cultural and generational challenges and the upheavals her Afghan family must face, including the arrival of an orphan who is to become her son.