La Fabrique Cinéma 2026 Selection

La Fabrique Cinéma is a program created by the Institut français, in partnership with France Médias Monde and the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, to promote the emergence of young filmmakers from developing and emerging countries on the international market.

Conceived in close collaboration with the Cannes Film Festival and its Marché du Film, La Fabrique Cinéma de l'Institut français selects each year ten 1st or 2nd feature film projects to present and introduce them in a privileged way to the industry and its decision-makers during the Cannes Film Festival.

Thanks to this program, young directors and their producers benefit from support tailored to their project and level of professional experience. From the moment they are selected in March, they are advised by a personal coach, who helps them identify their needs (rewriting, co-production, distribution, target territories, etc.) and draw up a program of targeted meetings with professionals likely to co-finance their project.

Winners of the program receive pitch training with an expert, attend presentations by professionals on production and market-related topics, and meet professionals from key sectors of the international film industry.

Boris Lojkine is the Patron of current year's La Fabrique Cinéma and these are some of his comments: "I am very much looking forward to meeting these directors-producers pairs from all over the world, from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Their projects are extremely exciting. Once again, I know that I will learn a great deal. I hope that I will be able to bring a little something too." 

The 2026 Projects

Brazil: A Última Cachorra (The Last Dog On Earth), Nina Kopko

Summary: In the near future, in the city of São Paulo, Luana, a rideshare driver, is living the last day of her life. Just one more trip stands between her and the money she needs to afford her long-awaited assisted suicide. But her final passenger carries a secret in his suitcase: a dog named Laika. In this world, after a devastating new pandemic, dogs have been outlawed and supposedly driven to extinction. Now, Luana must choose between going through with her plan or trying to save what may be the last dog on Earth.

Ecuador: Ovnis en el Trópico (UFO's In The Tropic), Rob Mendoza

Summary: Ecuador, 1999. Raúl (50), a solitary orchid grower in the mountains of Buenaventura, refuses to sell his home to the mining company Progold. His life shifts when Hendrick (50), a strange interstellar visitor, entrusts him with a warning: contamination will unleash a cancer pandemic. Hesitant, Raúl confides in Rosa (40), a travesti TV ufologist, and becomes an outcast in his own mining town. As Raúl and Hendrick fall in love and defend life and territory, homophobia and extra activism turn against them.

Haiti: Pays poète éternel, Samuel Suffren

Summary: Anacacis, a lover of books, is growing up on Rue Dessalines in a working-class neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince. Her father, an evangelical preacher, lives between sermons and promises of salvation, while her mother works as a typist on Rue de la Réunion, typing all kinds of documents—real and forged. When her mother falls seriously ill, sixteen-year-old Anacacis has to drop out of school and take her place on the street. But a major event upends her life: Anacacis leaves the street to become a waitress at Bar Distraction, a literary bar. In this place haunted by poetry yet marked by machismo, the young girl nurtures her lifelong dream more than ever: to become a writer.

Kenya: Pepo Kali (Strong Winds), Lydia Matata

Summary: On a dusty playing field in Nairobi, WAIRIMU (50s) is learning to ride a motorcycle. Months earlier, her daughter KEMI (20s), a co-founder of the women’s biker club Pepo Kali, died in a grisly accident during a trip to Northern Kenya. As the anniversary of her death approaches, Wairimu becomes determined to complete the journey Kemi never finished. Trained by SLY (20s), Kemi’s best friend and the only survivor of the accident, Wairimu pushes forward-until buried secrets about the crash threaten to derail her healing and her ride.

Morocco: Laissées-pour-compte, Kenza Tazi

Summary: In a waiting room at dawn, four women from vastly different walks of life see their fates forever entwined following a police raid on a doctor performing illegal abortions. Maria, Kébira, Fatema and Aïcha are incarcerated in the same prison, where they must share a cell for six months,bound merely by the fact that each is facing an unwanted pregnancy. After numerous failed abortion attempts, the four women are faced with a long road toward acceptance—of a forced motherhood, a motherhood not chosen.

Nigeria: Till The Morning Comes, Dika Oforma

Summary: In a pre-colonial Igbo society, warrior chief Obidike and the maiden Ekemma fall in love despite tradition forbidding their union. Forced apart, they vow that if they ever walk the earth again, nothing will separate them. In present day Enugu, they are reincarnated as two men. Nnanna, a Nigerian-Italian photographer, and Achebe, a Catholic priest in training, find themselves bound by that ancient promise. As their connection deepens, Achebe must confront the conflict between his faith, his vocation, and a love considered taboo in Nigeria.

Palestine: Ping-Pong, Saleh Saadi

Summary: As war erupts in Gaza, a few kilometers away in a village between Nazareth and Haifa, Issam returns to his childhood home to stay with his parents, for the first time since his brother’s passing a year prior. The house is heavy with memories and unspoken grief, while the echoes of war and loss are a constant backdrop. Drawn by rhythmic ping-pong sounds from his neighbor’s house, Issam finds refuge in nightly games held amidst the chaos. Through his new friendship and moments of laughter and competition, he begins to grieve and confront his new reality, discovering solace in human connection and resilience.

Turkey: Divine Poison, Nehir Tuna

Summary: In Turkey, a devout young man reunites with a rebellious childhood friend he once betrayed. Believing their meeting is no coincidence, he sets out to save him, perhaps even himself. But as buried desire resurfaces and his certainties begin to fracture, he spirals toward obsession. In the end, he must face an impossible choice: one will be saved, but at what cost?

Venezuela and Peru: What We Don't Say, Maria Saavedra

Summary: On New Year’s Eve, Elena (42) gathers with her family at a beach house on the Venezuelan coast. Beneath the celebration, old wounds and quiet resentments resurface. Trapped in a family that survives through silence, she finds unexpected intimacy with her younger brother’s free-spirited girlfriend. But what unfolds between them begins to crack the fragile order holding the family together.

Vietnam: The River Knows Our Names, Huyên Chi Mai

Summary: On a drifting houseboat along the Mekong, nine-year-old Gam dreams of a birthday party she has never had. Her mother hustles on the river while her father takes a dangerous night diving job at a fish landing station. When the celebration collapses into a quarrel, Gam finds her own cake. But that night their neighbor Tha drowns retrieving a gift for her. At dawn, a burning houseboat drifts down the river. Afterwards Gam refuses to wake, hoping to meet Tha in dreams, leaving her parents to bring joy back into her life.

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