For its 26th edition, the PaS professional training workshop welcomes five feature film projects to Nantes, from Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Tunisia and Turkey. Over one week, the duos of directors and producers develop their projects, refining their production strategies and their screenwriting.
Two public events will mark this workshop. First, our traditional pitch session takes place on Thursday, November 26 at 2:00 pm at the Cinématographe, where the five duos will present their projects in development (in English, free admission). To learn more about the projects and the profiles of the invited filmmakers, the project sheets can be downloaded on this page.
The second event is new this year: on Tuesday, November 24 at 6:15 pm, a one-time screening brings together the films previously made by the five filmmakers of the PaS workshop 2026 edition. The filmmakers will be present to talk with the audience after the screening. Five films, five artistic universes to discover on the big screen.
From Mumbai to Tunis, along the Turkish coast, through a Brazilian family home and the Bangladeshi jungle, these five short films start from everyday life, seen up close. Their characters, the ones we pass every day without noticing, step into the foreground. Young as they are, each of them shows us the world from the place society has assigned them.
Around them, fiction takes many forms: fantastical tale, family drama, coming-of-age story, social and political chronicle. These films share neither geography nor genre. They share a gesture: to decenter us, to make another reality accessible to us.
In one of them, a knot refuses to loosen. That image speaks for the program as a whole: these visions of tomorrow don’t untangle anything. They place the knot in our hands and invite us to sit with it, for the length of a film.
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