Category: ACE Network

European Film Awards 2025 Nominations for ACE producers

EUROPEAN FILM

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT by Jafar Panahi
Produced by Philippe Martin (ACE France) and David Thion (ACE France)

SENTIMENTAL VALUE by Joachim Trier
Produced by Andrea Berentsen Ottmar (ACE Norway)
Co-produced by Jonas Dornbach (ACE Germany), Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany)

SIRAT by Olivier Laxe
Produced by Mani Mortazavi (ACE France)

THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB by Kaouther Ben Hania
Produced by Nadim Cheikhrouha (ACE France)

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR

BUGONIA by Yorgos Lanthimos
Produced by Ed Guiney (ACE Ireland)

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT by Jafar Panahi
Produced by Philippe Martin (ACE France) and David Thion (ACE France)

SENTIMENTAL VALUE by Joachim Trier
Produced by Andrea Berentsen Ottmar (ACE Norway)
Co-produced by Jonas Dornbach (ACE Germany), Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany)

SIRAT by Olivier Laxe
Produced by Mani Mortazavi (ACE France)

EUROPEAN ACTRESS

Léa Drucker for DOSSIER 137 by Dominik Moll
Produced by Carole Scotta (ACE France)

Leonie Benesch for LATE SHIFT by Petra Volpe
Produced by Reto Schärli (ACE Switzerland)

Renate Reinsve for SENTIMENTAL VALUE by Joachim Trier
Produced by Andrea Berentsen Ottmar (ACE Norway)
Co-produced by Jonas Dornbach (ACE Germany), Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany)

EUROPEAN ACTOR

Stellan Skarsgård for SENTIMENTAL VALUE by Joachim Trier
Produced by Andrea Berentsen Ottmar (ACE Norway)
Co-produced by Jonas Dornbach (ACE Germany), Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany)

Sergi López for SIRAT by Olivier Laxe
Produced by Mani Mortazavi (ACE France)

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER

Jafar Panahi for IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT by Jafar Panahi
Produced by Philippe Martin (ACE France) and David Thion (ACE France)

Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier for SENTIMENTAL VALUE by Joachim Trier
Produced by Andrea Berentsen Ottmar (ACE Norway)
Co-produced by Jonas Dornbach (ACE Germany), Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany)

Santiago Fillol and Oliver Laxe for SIRAT by Olivier Laxe
Produced by Mani Mortazavi (ACE France)

EUROPEAN DISCOVERY

LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS by Urška Đukić
Co-produced by Miha Cernec (ACE Slovenia), Dragana Jovovic (ACE Serbia) and Julie Paratian (ACE France)

MY FATHER’S SHADOW by Akinola Davies Jr.
Executive produced by Ed Guiney (ACE Ireland)

EUROPEAN YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD

I ACCIDENTALLY WROTE A BOOK by Nóra Lakos
Co-produced by Joram Willink (ACE The Netherlands)

LUX AUDIENCE AWARD

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT by Jafar Panahi
Produced by Philippe Martin (ACE France) and David Thion (ACE France)

SENTIMENTAL VALUE by Joachim Trier
Produced by Andrea Berentsen Ottmar (ACE Norway)
Co-produced by Jonas Dornbach (ACE Germany), Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany)

ACE Project Spotlight: SK+TE’KMUJUE’KATIK

SK+TE’KMUJUE’KATIK (AT THE PLACE OF GHOSTS) by Bretten Hannam is premiering at Toronto International Film Festival 2025. Producer Marc Tetreault participated with the project in the ACE 33 Annual Programme.

Mise’l and Ante have drifted apart in adulthood, but are forced to reunite when a supernatural presence they thought was long-buried threatens them and their loved ones. As they set off on a journey through an ancient forest rich with Mi’kmaq history, the past, present and future collide.

How did the ACE Annual Programme benefit you as a producer, and your ACE project?
When I joined the ACE Annual Programme, SK+TE’KMUJUE’KATIK was already fairly developed. We found a great co-producer in Diana Elbaum (ACE Belgium), and financing was largely in place. My goals for participating in the ACE Annual Programme was mainly to refine the creative vision.

The Content Development Workshop in Oslo, Norway was an important moment for me. Working with our script consultant and the other producers helped me realise that although the story is deeply rooted in North American history, and specifically around First Nation experiences, it was also a universal story that would resonate with international audiences. This creative input was valuable for the project and it was interesting to hear the European perspectives on the project.

The financing plan of the project didn’t change drastically during the workshop, but it had a huge impact on how I approach future work, and made me realise co-productions are not only financial collaborations, but also make for stronger and more meaningful films.

What was the most challenging part in getting this film from script to screen?
Interestingly, the financing of SK+TE’KMUJUE’KATIK came together relatively smooth, which is often not the case. The production and post-production were more challenging.

We shot almost entirely in remote forests, which was beautiful but logistically very difficult. The biggest challenge in the project came in the edit. This was by far the longest and most complex post-production I’ve ever been part of. With the footage, we could have made many different films, and after months of editing, we felt lost and didn’t agree on what the film was anymore.

At that time, we brought in a new editor from Belgium, who wasn’t involved until that time and brought a new perspective on the film, which was exactly what we needed. It took a while for everyone to align, but eventually we did, and we are excited that we will present it at TIFF now, following by screenings at BFI London Film Festival and at our home turf at Atlantic International Film Festival in Halifax.

What’s ahead for you and your company? What are you currently working on?
The ACE Annual Programme has changed how I look at co-producing, and that’s directly shaped our strategy at Shut Up & Colour Pictures.

We are currently in post-production on a low-budget Christmas horror movie, and have a UK/Canada co-production greenlit to shoot early next year: ODDLY FLOWERS. I actually found my partners for this project through a consultant I met at the Financing Strategies Workshop of the ACE Annual Programme.

We also have an Australia/Canada co-production that seems like it is financed for the same period.

Although we didn’t find a project yet, I would love to collaborate with any of my fellow ACE 33 producers. We build strong and long term relations during the programme, and I’m sure we will work together in the future.

ACE Project Spotlight: GRAND CIEL

GRAND CIEL by Akihiro Hata is premiering on 5 September during the 82nd Venice Film Festival. Producer Clément Duboin (ACE France) participated in the ACE 29 Annual Programme, and discussed the development of the project and the benefits of the workshop with us.

Vincent works the night shift on the construction site of a futuristic district. When a worker goes missing, Vincent and his colleagues begin to suspect that their superiors are covering up an accident. But soon, another worker disappears.

How did the ACE Annual Programme benefit you as a producer, and your ACE project?
ACE 29 was a truly unique edition, as the COVID-19 pandemic made it the longest ACE Annual Programme to date. We were able to have Content Development Workshop and Financing Strategies Workshop in the fall of 2019, before the lockdown, but had to wait until November 2021 for the Business Prospects Workshop.

By then, our outlook on company sustainability, growth, and management had shifted significantly, which made that final workshop especially engaging and refreshing, both personally and as a group.

For my project as well, the workshop has been decisive. From the initial feedback from my peers and consultants, the diverse perspectives they shared, to the ongoing mutual support we’ve maintained on each other’s projects.

What was the most challenging in getting this film from script to the screen?
The development and financing of GRAND CIEL took time and were inevitably slowed down by the pandemic. Within just a few months, the industry and the market had changed dramatically, and by the time we were ready to secure financing, the landscape was no longer the same as when we first initiated the project.

As an ambitious first feature, both arthouse and genre-blending, the project became a riskier bet after the pandemic than it had been before. At one point, we even considered scaling down our ambitions, but doing so would have compromised the very essence and uniqueness of the film.

Complicating matters further, during our initial preparation we faced difficulties securing our main shooting location—a massive construction site at night. This forced us to postpone filming for a year, reorganize our financing and production strategy, and ultimately bring the project together thanks to a decisive, organic co-production with long-time friend and ACE member Gilles Chanial (ACE Luxembourg) of Les Films Fauves.

What’s ahead for you and your company? What are you currently working on?
Beyond GRAND CIEL, we are completing Ulrich Köhler’s new film GAVAGAI, a co-production with Ingmar Trost (ACE Germany) from Sutor Kolonko, which will premiere in the Main Slate of the New York Film Festival at the end of September. With the same ACE partner, we are also in post-production on Ilian Metev’s new film PLATEAU, a German–Bulgarian–French co-production.

Together with Gilles from Les Films Fauves again, we are currently financing another project by a Japanese director based in Paris—an adaptation of a French comic book set in Japan, co-written by Yuki Kawamura and Raphaëlle Desplechin, and to be directed by Yuki Kawamura.

Alongside Akihiro Hata, writer-director of GRAND CIEL, we are also developing the TV series THE TREE (ACE Series Special 6), as well as a new feature film project.

Films by ACE producers on the TIFF line-up

DISCOVERY

AMBOEBA by Siyou Tan
Produced by Fran Borgia (ACE Singapore)
Co-produced by Luisa Romeo (ACE Spain), Antoine Simkine (ACE France) and Denis Vaslin (ACE The Netherlands)

FORASTERA by Lucía Aleñar Iglesias
Co-produced by Olivier Guerpillon (ACE Sweden) and Giovanni Pompili (ACE Italy)

GHOST SCHOOL by Seemab Gul
Co-produced by Dorothe Beinemeier (ACE Germany)

JULIAN by Cato Kusters
Co-produced by Laurette Schillings (ACE The Netherlands) and Frans van Gestel (ACE The Netherlands)

OUR FATHER by Goran Stankovic
Produced by Snezana van Houwelingen (ACE Serbia)

PLATFORM

AT THE PLACE OF GHOSTS by Bretten Hannam
Produced by Marc Tetreault (ACE Canada) and Diana Elbaum (ACE Belgium)
Developed during the ACE 33 Annual Programme

HEN by György Pálfi
Produced by Thanassis Karathanos (ACE Germany)

TO THE VICTORY! by Valentyn Vasyanovych
Produced by Volodymyr Yatsenko (ACE Ukraine)
Co-produced by Marija Razgute (ACE Lithuania)

GALA PRESENTATIONS

GLENROTHAN by Brian Cox
Executive produced by Sheryl Crown (ACE United Kingdom)

PEAK EVERYTHING by Anne Émond
Produced by Sylvain Corbeil (ACE Canada)

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

A PALE VIEW OF HILLS by Kei Ishikawa
Co-produced by Mariusz Włodarski (ACE Poland)

BAD APPLES by Jonatan Etzler
Executive Produced by Judy Counihan (ACE United Kingdom)

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT by Jafar Panahi
Produced by Philippe Martin (ACE France) and David Thion (ACE France)

LOVELY DAY by Philippe Falardeau
Produced by Luc Déry (ACE Canada)

SACRIFICE by Romain Gavras
Produced by Giorgos Karnavas (ACE Greece)

SENTIMENTAL VALUE by Joachim Trier
Produced by Andrea Berentsen Ottmar (ACE Norway)
Co-produced by Jonas Dornbach (ACE Germany) and Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany)

SIRAT by Olivier Laxe
Produced by Mani Mortazavi (ACE France)

STEAL AWAY by Clement Virgo
Produced by Damon D’Oliveira (ACE Canada)

THE SECRET AGENT by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Co-produced by Leontine Petit & Erik Glijnis (ACE The Netherlands)

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE by Mona Fastvold
Produced by Viktória Petrányi (ACE Hungary)

CENTREPIECE

EAGLES OF THE REPUBLIC by Tarik Saleh
Co-produced by Monica Hellström (ACE Denmark)

FOLLIES by Eric K. Boulianne
Produced Hany Ouichou (ACE Canada)

LA PETITE DERNIÈRE by Hafsia Herzi
Produced by Julie Billy (ACE France)

MILK TEETH by Mihai Mincan
Produced by Radu Stancu (ACE Romania)
Co-produced by Monica Hellström (ACE Denmark) and Cyrial Auriol (ACE France)

MY FATHER’S SHADOW by Akinola Davies Jr.
Executive Produced by Ed Guiney (ACE Ireland)

ORPHAN by Lazlo Nemes
Produced by Ildikó Kemény (ACE Hungary)
Co-produced by Thanassis Karathanos (ACE Germany)

RENOIR by Chie Hayakawa
Produced by Fran Borgia (ACE Singapore)

THE BLUE TRAIL by Gabriel Mascaro
Co-produced by Marleen Slot (ACE The Netherlands)

THE LOVE THAT REMAINS by Hlynur Pálmason
Produced by Anton Máni Svansson (ACE Iceland)
Co-produced by Eva Jakobsen (ACE Denmark)
Developed during the ACE 33 Annual Programme

THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO by Diego Céspedes
Co-produced by Jakob D. Weydemann (ACE Germany)

TWO PROSECUTORS by Sergei Loznitsa
Co-produced by Viola Fügen (ACE Germany) and Alise Gelze (ACE Latvia)

WHITETAIL by Nanouk Leopold
Produced by Stienette Bosklopper (ACE The Netherlands)
Co-produced by Bart Van Langendonck (ACE Belgium)

TIFF DOCS

MODERN WHORE by Nicole Bazuin
Produced by Lauren Grant (ACE Canada)

NUESTRA TIERRA by Lucrecia Martel
Co-produced by Claire Gadéa (ACE France), Leontine Petit (ACE The Netherlands) and Erik Glijnis (ACE The Netherlands)

TIFF PRIMETIME

PORTOBELLO by Marco Bellocchio
Produced by Mario Gianani (ACE Italy) and Simone Gattoni (ACE Italy)

Sarajevo 2025 titles by ACE producers

COMPETITION

DJ AHMET by Georgi M. Unkovski
Co-produced by by Jelena Mitrovic (ACE Serbia)

GOD WILL NOT HELP by Hana Jušić
Produced by Ankica Jurić Tilić (ACE Croatia)
Co-produced by Ada Solomon (ACE Romania) and Yorgos Tsourgiannis (ACE Greece)

SORELLA DI CLAUSURA by Ivana Mladenović
Produced by Ada Solomon (ACE Romania)

WIND, TALK TO ME by Stefan Djordjevic
Produced by Dragana Jovovic (ACE Serbia)
Co-produced by Miha Cernec (ACE Slovenia)

YUGO FLORIDA by Vladimir Tagić
Co-produced by Katya Trichkova (ACE Bulgaria)

SHORT FILM COMPETITION

ERASERHEAD IN A KNITTED SHOPPING BAG by Lili Kiss
Produced by Vanya Rainova (ACE Bulgaria)

ACE Producers’ Films in Venice 2025

COMPETITION

BUGONIA by Yorgos Lanthimos
Produced by Ed Guiney (ACE Ireland)

ELISA by Leonardo Di Costanzo
Produced by Carlo Cresto-Dina (ACE Italy)

FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER by Jim Jarmusch
Co-produced by Conor Barry (ACE Ireland)
Winner – Golden Lion

ORPHAN by Laszlo Nemes
Produced by Ildikó Kemény (ACE Hungary)
Co-produced by Thanassis Karathanos (ACE Germany)

THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB by Kaouther Ben Hania
Produced by Nadim Cheikhrouha (ACE France)
Winner – Silver Lion

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE by Mona Fastvold
Produced by Viktória Petrányi (ACE Hungary)

UN FILM FATTO PER BENE by Franco Maresco
Produced by Marco Alessi (ACE Italy)

OUT OF COMPETITION – NON-FICTION

NUESTRA TIERRA by Lucrecia Martel
Co-produced by Claire Gadéa (ACE France), Leontine Petit (ACE The Netherlands) and Erik Glijnis (ACE The Netherlands)

OUT OF COMPETITION – SERIES

ETTY by Hagai Levi
Produced by Frans van Gestel (ACE The Netherlands), Jonas Dornbach (ACE Germany) and Yaël Fogiel (ACE France)

PORTOBELLO by Marco Bellocchio
Produced by Mario Gianani (ACE Italy) and Simone Gattoni (ACE Italy)

HORIZONS

FATHER by Tereza Nvotova
Co-produced by Milos Lochman (ACE Czech Republic) and Mariusz Wlodarski (ACE Poland)

GRAND CIEL by Akihiro Hata
Produced by Clément Duboin (ACE France)
Co-produced by Gilles Chanial (ACE Luxembourg)
Developed during the ACE 29 Annual Programme

MILK TEETH by Mihai Mincan
Produced by Radu Stancu (ACE Romania)
Co-produced by Monica Hellström (ACE Denmark) and Cyrial Auriol (ACE France)

MOTHER by Teona Strugar Mitevska
Co-produced by Amra Bakšić Čamo (ACE Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Adis Đapo (ACE Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Opening Film Horizons

THE SOUFFLEUR by Gaston Solnicki
Produced by Gabriele Kranzelbinder (ACE Austria)

VENICE CRITICS WEEK

STEREO GIRLS by Caroline Deruas Peano
Co-produced by Serge Noel (ACE Canada) and Jean-Laurent Csinidis (ACE France)

VENICE SPOTLIGHT

A BRAS-LE-CORPS by Marie-Elsa Sgualdo
Produced by Elena Tatti (ACE Switzerland)

MADE IN EU by Stephan Komandarev
Produced by Katya Trichkova (ACE Bulgaria)
Co-produced by Pavel Strnad (ACE Czech Republic)

GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI – COMPETITION

SHORT SUMMER by Nastia Korkia
Co-produced by Miroslav Mogorovic (ACE Serbia)
Winner – Luigi De Laurentis Award for Debut Film

GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI – SPECIAL EVENTS

DO YOU LOVE ME by Lana Daher
Produced by Jean-Laurent Csinidis (ACE France)

Films by ACE Members on the Locarno 2025 line-up

PIAZZA GRANDE

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT by Jafar Panahi
Produced by Philippe Martin (ACE France) and David Thion (ACE France)

LA PETITE DERNIÈRE by Hafsia Herzi
Produced by Julie Billy (ACE France)

SENTIMENTAL VALUE by Joachim Trier
Produced by Andrea Berentsen Ottmar (ACE Norway)
Co-produced by Jonas Dornbach (ACE Germany) and Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany)

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY by Miguel Ángel Jiménez
Produced by Giorgos Karnavas (ACE Greece)
Co-produced by Leontine Petit & Erik Glijnis (ACE The Netherlands) and Kurban Kassam (ACE United Kingdom), Executive Produced by Dries Phlypo (ACE Belgium)
Developed during the ACE 21 Annual Programme

THE DEAL by Jean-Stéphane Bron
Produced by Philippe Martin (ACE France)
Co-produced by Jacques-Henri Bronckart (ACE Belgium)

CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE

DESIRE LINES by Dane Komljen
Produced by Nataša Damnjanović (ACE Serbia)
Co-produced by Miljenka Čogelja (ACE Croatia)

DONKEY DAYS by Rosanne Pel
Produced by Floor Onrust (ACE The Netherlands)
Co-produced by Verena Gräfe-Höft (ACE Germany)

DRACULA by Radu Jude
Co-produced by Ada Solomon (ACE Romania)

GOD WILL NOT HELP by Hana Jušić
Produced by Ankica Jurić Tilić (ACE Croatia)
Co-produced by Ada Solomon (ACE Romania) and Yorgos Tsourgiannis (ACE Greece)

SOLOMAMMA by Janicke Askevold
Produced by Gary Cranner (ACE Norway)
Co-produced by Inese Boka-Grube (ACE Latvia) and Jani Pösö (ACE Finland)

SORELLA DI CLAUSURA by Ivana Mladenović
Produced by Ada Solomon (ACE Romania)

CONCORSO CINEASTI DEL PRESENTE
BECOMING by Zhannat Alshanova
Produced by Jean-Laurent Csinidis (ACE France), Denis Vaslin (ACE The Netherlands) and Marija Razgute (ACE Lithuania)
Co-produced by Marie Kjellson (ACE Sweden)

FOLLIES by Eric K. Boulianne
Produced by Hany Ouichou (ACE Canada)

HIJO MAYOR by Cecilia Kang
Co-produced by Claire Charles-Gervais (ACE France)

PANORAMA SUISSE

LATE SHIFT by Petra Volpe
Produced by Reto Schärli (ACE Switzerland)

THE SAFE HOUSE by Lionel Baier
Produced by Yaël Fogiel (ACE France)

OPEN DOOR SCREENINGS

TUG OF WAR by Amil Shivji
Co-produced by Nicole Gerhards (ACE Germany)

LOCARNO KIDS

FOREVER WITH YOU by Fabrizio Cattani
Produced by Emanuele Nespeca (ACE Italy)

SECRET DELIVERY by Ján Sebechlebský
Produced by Silvia Panáková (ACE Slovakia)

Films by ACE members in the KVIFF 2025 line-up

Crystal Globe Competition

BETTER GO MAD IN THE WILD by Miro Remo
Co-produced by Tomáš Hrubý (ACE Czech Republic)

DON’T CALL ME MAMA by Nina Knag
Executive produced by Janne Hjeltnes (ACE Norway)

THE VISITOR by Vytautas Katkus
Produced by Marija Razgute (ACE Lithuania)
Co-produced by Anna-Maria Kantarius (ACE Sweden)

Proxima Competition

HOW COME IT’S ALL GREEN OUT HERE? by Nikola Ležaić
Co-produced by Siniša Juričić (ACE Croatia) and Nikolay Mutafchiev (ACE Bulgaria)

THEY COME OUT OF MARGO by Alexandros Voulgaris
Produced by Nicholas Alavanos (ACE Greece)

Special Screenings

ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU by Cherien Dabis
Produced by Thanassis Karathanos (ACE Germany)
Co-produced by Janine Teerling (ACE Cyprus)

CARAVAN by Zuzana Kirchnerová
Co-produced by Carlo Cresto-Dina (ACE Italy)

THE CZECH FILM PROJECT by Marek Novák and Mikuláš Novotný
Produced by Marek Novák (ACE Czech Republic)

Films by ACE producers awarded in Cannes

PALME D’OR
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT by Jafar Panahi
Produced by Philippe Martin (ACE France) and David Thion (ACE France)

GRAND PRIX – COMPETITION
SENTIMENTAL VALUE by Joachim Trier
Produced by Andrea Berentsen Ottmar (ACE Norway)
Co-produced by Jonas Dornbach (ACE Germany), Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany)

JOINT JURY PRIZE – COMPETITION
SIRAT by Olivier Laxe
Produced by Mani Mortazavi (ACE France)

BEST DIRECTOR – COMPETITION
THE SECRET AGENT by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Co-produced by Leontine Petit & Erik Glijnis (ACE The Netherlands)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS – COMPETITION
Nadia Melliti for
LA PETITE DERNIÈRE by Hafsia Herzi
Produced by Julie Billy (ACE France)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR- COMPETITION
Wagner Moura for
THE SECRET AGENT by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Co-produced by Leontine Petit & Erik Glijnis (ACE The Netherlands)

FIPRESCI AWARD – COMPETITION
THE SECRET AGENT by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Co-produced by Leontine Petit & Erik Glijnis (ACE The Netherlands)

UN CERTAIN REGARD PRIZE
THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO by Diego Céspedes
Co-produced by Jakob D. Weydemann (ACE Germany)

BEST DIRECTOR – UN CERTAIN REGARD
ONCE UPON A TIME IN GAZA by Arab Nasser and Tarzan Nasser
Co-produced by Dorothe Beinemeier (ACE Germany)

BEST ACTRESS – UN CERTAIN REGARD
Cleo Diára for
O RISO E A FACA by Pedro Pinho
Produced by Filipa Reis (ACE Portugal)
Co-produced by Radu Stancu (ACE Romania)

BEST SCREENPLAY – UN CERTAIN REGARD
PILLION by Harry Lighton
Produced by Ed Guiney (ACE Ireland)

SPECIAL MENTION CAMERA D’OR – UN CERTAIN REGARD
MY FATHER’S SHADOW by Akinola Davies Jr.
Executive produced by Ed Guiney (ACE Ireland)

QUEER PALM
LA PETITE DERNIÈRE by Hafsia Herzi
Produced by Julie Billy (ACE France)

AFCAE AWARD
THE SECRET AGENT by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Co-produced by Leontine Petit & Erik Glijnis (ACE The Netherlands)

CST AWARD FOR BEST ARTIST-TECHICIAN
Ruben Impens and Stéphane Thiébaut for
ALPHA by Julia Ducournau
Co-produced by Jean-Yves Roubin (ACE Belgium)

PALM DOG
Panda for
THE LOVE THAT REMAINS by Hlynur Pálmason
Produced by Anton Máni Svansson (ACE Iceland)
Co-produced by Eva Jakobsen (ACE Denmark)
Developed during the ACE 33 Annual Programme

ACE Producers’ Films at Cannes 2025

COMPETITION

ALPHA by Julia Ducournau
Co-produced by Jean-Yves Roubin (ACE Belgium)

DOSSIER 137 by Dominik Moll
Produced by Carole Scotta (ACE France)

EAGLES OF THE REPUBLIC by Tarik Saleh
Co-produced by Monica Hellström (ACE Denmark)
and Misha Jaari (ACE Finland)

THE HISTORY OF SOUND by Oliver Hermanus
Co-produced by Giovanni Pompili (ACE Italy)

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT by Jafar Panahi
Produced by Philippe Martin (ACE France) and David Thion (ACE France)

LA PETITE DERNIÈRE by Hafsia Herzi
Produced by Julie Billy (ACE France)

RENOIR by Chie Hayakawa
Produced by Fran Borgia (ACE Singapore)

THE SECRET AGENT by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Co-produced by Leontine Petit & Erik Glijnis (ACE The Netherlands)

SENTIMENTAL VALUE by Joachim Trier
Produced by Andrea Berentsen Ottmar (ACE Norway)
Co-produced by Jonas Dornbach (ACE Germany), Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany)

SIRAT by Olivier Laxe
Produced by Mani Mortazavi (ACE France)

TWO PROSECUTORS by Sergei Loznitsa
Co-produced by Viola Fügen (ACE Germany) and Alise Gelze (ACE Latvia)

CANNES PREMIERES

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JOSEF MENGELE by Kirill Serebrennikov
Co-produced by Hernán Musaluppi (ACE Argentina)

THE LOVE THAT REMAINS by Hlynur Pálmason
Produced by Anton Máni Svansson (ACE Iceland)
Co-produced by Eva Jakobsen (ACE Denmark)
Developed during the ACE 33 Annual Programme

UN CERTAIN REGARD

CARAVAN by Zuzana Kirchnerová
Co-produced by Carlo Cresto-Dina (ACE Italy)

MY FATHER’S SHADOW by Akinola Davies Jr.
Executive produced by Ed Guiney (ACE Ireland)

THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO by Diego Céspedes
Co-produced by Jakob D. Weydemann (ACE Germany)

O RISO E A FACA by Pedro Pinho
Produced by Filipa Reis (ACE Portugal)
Co-produced by Radu Stancu (ACE Romania)

ONCE UPON A TIME IN GAZA by Arab Nasser and Tarzan Nasser
Co-produced by Dorothe Beinemeier (ACE Germany)

A PALE VIEW OF HILLS by Kei Ishikawa
Co-produced by Mariusz Włodarski (ACE Poland)

PILLION by Harry Lighton
Produced by Ed Guiney (ACE Ireland)

SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE

REEDLAND by Sven Bresser
Produced by Marleen Slot (ACE The Netherlands)
Co-produced by Dries Phlypo (ACE Belgium)

SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE – SHORTS

ERASERHEAD IN A KNITTED SHOPPING BAG by Lili Koss
Produced by Vanya Rainova (ACE Bulgaria)

DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT

PEAK EVERYTHING by Anne Émond
Produced by Sylvain Corbeil (ACE Canada)

YES! by Nadav Lapid
Co-produced by Janine Teerling (ACE Cyprus) and
Jonas Dornbach and Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany)

OUT OF COMPETITION

THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD by Thierry Klifa
Co-produced by Jacques-Henri Bronckart (ACE Belgium)