JEONJU Project

JEONJU Cinema Project: Next Edition - International

Sealand

Sylvain GEORGE

France,Germany,Portugal 120min 2K Color/B&W Documentary

GenreDocumentary

LanguageFrench, Arabic, Bambara, Soninke, Fula

Project StatusPre-Production

JEONJU Project GoalFundraising, World Sales

Total Budget230,807 USD

Secured Budget

149,554 USD

PartnershipCentre National des Arts plastiques(CNAP), Centre National du Cinema et de l'Image animee(CNC), Weltfilm(Germany), ICA - Kintop (Portugal), Federica BIANCHI

LOGLINE

The film follows the steps of a young man from Mali, stuck in the mountains of Morocco, and trying to reach Europe.

SYNOPSIS

Nonon is an orphan who left Mali and the Kaye region at the age of 14 to go to Europe, and who is today, after crossing the desert, in transit in the mountains of Morocco. We discover his terrible living conditions in the forests surrounding Nador, his daily life as well as that of sub-Saharans, the different paths they can take to get around the ban on entering the city of Nador, to escape the multiple roundups, the destruction of the camps in the mountains... Finally, we see the barrier crossed...

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

By showing, in profound immersion, Nonon and of the people called "migrants" in the Moroccan forests, by paying attention to their way of acting, to their voices, to the movements of bodies in time and space, by taking the position of beings and things, it will be a question on the one hand of understanding the effects and consequences of migration policies on people, but also perhaps of discovering new ways of inhabiting the world.

DIRECTOR

Sylvain GEORGE

Sylvain George is a filmmaker graduate in philosophy, political sciences, and cinema. He makes poetics and politicals films on the themes of immigration and social movements in particular. His work is screened and awarded at major international festivals and museums (Locarno, Viennale, IFFR, Bafici, Center Pompidou etc.) and has given rise to several retrospectives (Cinémathèque Française, Muestra de Sao Paulo...) He teaches, and gives workshop around the world (IEP, FEMIS, EICTV etc.)

Obscure Night - "Ain't I a Child?" (2024), Obscure Night - Good Bye Here, Anywhere (2023), Obscure Night - Wild Leaves (2022), Paris is a Moveable Feast (2017), Vers Madrid-The Burning Bright (2014), The Outbursts (2011), May They Rest in Revolt (2010), The Impossible (2009)

PRODUCER

Marie-Noelle GEORGE

After a career as chief curator in the book and image professions, Marie-Noelle George has run the company Noir Production initially created by filmmaker Sylvain George for more than 10 years. Drawing on her expertise, the company became stronger and developing international co-productions for feature films by both well-known and emerging directors with Portugal, Colombia...; and had a strong presence at international festivals and exhibitions such as Locarno, Rotterdam, Viennale, Documenta.

Ottavia FRAGNITO

Lawyer with a specialisation in specialization civil law, family and juvenile law, copyright law, and fascinated by cinema, She works since many year for severals production societies (contracts and production for Noir Production, Invisibile Film, Mir Cinematographica, Passe Partout, Maremosso, Ventura Film, LaDoc, Fax media), and for festivals (Filmmaker Film Festival, Milano Film Festival).

Obscure Night - "Ain't I a Child?" (2024), Obscure Night - Good Bye Here, Anywhere (2023), Obscure Night - Wild Leaves (2022), Sicilian Ghost Story (2016), 7 Minutes (2016)

Ansgar SCHAEFER

Ansgar Schaefer is co-founder of Kintop, managing partner (since 2012), producer. He has a PhD in Contemporary Portuguese History with a thesis in Visual History (focus: Portuguese colonial wars). He has produced feature-length documentaries, including Journey to the Sun (world premiere IDFA 2021), Fordlandia Malaise (Berlinale 2019), Anything and All (Locarno Film Festival 2018), Obscure Light (Cinéma du Réel, Paris 2017), 48 (Grand Prix Cinéma du Réel Paris).

Hydroelectric Joy (2024), A Fireland (2024), Welcome Interplanetary and Sidereal Space Conquerors (2024), Journey to the Sun (2021), Fordlandia Malaise (2019), Anything and All (2018), 48 (2009), Still Life (2005)

Kristina KONRAD

After studying history and philosophy in Paris, she worked freelanced for Swiss Television. In 1983 she moved to New York, after a few months she decided to make films with Gabriel Baur in Nicaragua. 1987 – 1994 she lived and worked in Montevideo/Uruguay. Since then she lives in Berlin as author, director and producer(weltfilm GmbH). Her films were screened at important international festivals, she has been invited to labs and juries and is a member of the European Film Academy.

Under the Flags, the Sun (2025), Vidhvastha | Devastated (2024), Maia-Portrait with Hands (2024), Excretapolitics (2023), XARAASI XANNE – Crossing Voices (2023), Herbaria (2022), Ramba Zamba (2022)

Federica Maria BIANCHI

Graduated Es Lettres with a major in Ancient Art History, she worked for a long period in the field of ancient art research in Switzerland (Opera Svizzera dei Monumenti) and in Italy (Fondazione Cariplo etc.). Over the last ten years her interests have shifted towards contemporary arts. In 2012, she decided to set up Snaporazverein with these aims, and she produces cinema, performances, installations.

Vangelo (2016)

PRODUCTION COMPANY

Noir Production

Noir Production is a company that produces and distributes cinematographic films and artistic installations in an artisanal spirit, which respects the vision of the authors. Films which attest to the most crucial issues, which run through our contemporary societies, while being driven by the concern for demanding formal and plastic research.

Kintop

Kintop produces films and installations in-house in an almost artisanal production spirit, combining art and cinema. Strongly supporting the vision of each author, Kintop pays particular attention to the time it takes to make the work, in a form of production designed on a film-by-film basis. Kintop is currently developing international co-productions for feature films by both well-known and emerging directors with France, Belgium, Spain, Colombia among others. He has a strong presence at international festivals such as Berlinale, Locarno, Visions du Réel.

Weltfilm

Weltfilm GmbH (Kristina Konrad, Christian Frosch) was founded in 2002 in Berlín. It is focusing on the production of European Arthouse movies and creative documentaries with theatrical release and co-productions with Latin America, Africa, Asia. Weltfilm has been awarded several grants from different German’s Film Funds and several films were screened at important international festivals.

Snaporazverein

Snaporazverein’s action is born from the firm belief in the essential and founding role of artists in contemporary society. It aims to promote the production of works on an international scale in which artists use techniques and technologies from the most remote to the most innovative and experimental, in the fields of cinema, video, performances, theater, music, new circus and dance. We work with major festivals (Locarno, Venice, Tribeca Film Festival), institutions and gallery owners (Palazzio Vecchio, MOMA), gallery owners.

CONTACTMarie-Noelle GEORGE │noirproduction.distribution@gmail.com