Our Rough Cut Screenings are an opportunity for five selected MeetMarket teams to show part of their documentaries to a room of industry representatives and delegates, to discuss, receive feedback and find partners to move their projects forward.
Participating Rough Cut projects include:
Rebellion of Memory
Director: Joël Jent (Switzerland, Peru)
From the ruins of the Peruvian civil war, an unlikely family is born: Carlitos, a former child soldier, finds a mother in guerrilla Tania. Years later, Lieutenant Shogún spares him and becomes his father figure. Today, the three confront their memories, seeking understanding and reconciliation.
Smoking Shores
Director: David Roland Warwick (United Kingdom)
In the shadow of the UK’s largest steelworks, a unique surfing community seeks joy and solace in the waves - as a green tide of change threatens to engulf the town.
The Stateless As Wind
Director: Samereh Rezaei (Iran, Afghanistan, France)
Samereh, born in Iran after her family fled the Soviet war, has lived thirty years without a homeland. After the Taliban’s return, she is exiled again to France — a ten-year journey in search of identity and belonging in lands that rejected her.
Upstream
Director: Moira Fett, Natalie Berger (USA)
At the edge of youth and adulthood, young men converge at a remote salmon conservation site along Alaska’s Taku River. Cut off from the outside world, they must rely on each other—and the lessons of the salmon—to confront turbulent pasts and come-of-age.
The Weight of Snow
Director: Matias Bolla (Australia, Chile)
In the far south of Chilean Patagonia, ageing gauchos live alone on vast ranches, sustaining a way of life built on endurance. As drought takes hold and their bodies begin to fail, they must decide whether survival means adapting or being left behind.
By invitation only.
