Singapore’s Momo Movie Co has unveiled a six-film slate that features initiatives from latest prize-winners at Cannes and Locarno.
Momo is one in every of 5 outfits chosen on the 2024 Berlinale Co-Manufacturing Market‘s firm matching program.
Recent off two wins at Locarno 2023 for Nelson Yeo’s debut function “Dreaming & Dying,” Momo is constant its relationship with the Singaporean filmmaker for his sophomore function “The Drought,” a darkish comedy-horror movie set within the time of a drought. The mission participated on the Philippines QCinema mission market final yr, the place it gained a prize.
“On the Fringe of the Sea,” the function debut of Anh Le, who produced 2023 Cannes’ Digicam d’Or winner “Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell,” is an absurdist Vietnam-set drama the place males begin having an odd illness. An alumni of Locarno Open Doorways and Rotterdam Lab, Le’s brief “Goodnight Child” was in competitors on the Singapore Worldwide Movie Competition (SGIFF) 2023.
“Different Individuals’s Goals” the fifth function from Daniel Hui (2024 Rotterdam title “Small Hours of the Evening”), will observe two runaway souls escaping a darkish previous within the chaos of Singapore. The mission was at Rotterdam’s CineMart final month.
Momo’s co-production initiatives embody three options from filmmakers from the Philippines and Cambodia. Filipino debutant Arvin Belarmino’s “Ria” will study how a folk-punk lady aids her chronically unwell foster mom whereas defending their punk commune – the only real surviving dwelling amidst the ruins of a land-grabbed neighborhood. The mission earned Belarmino choice on the 2022 Competition De Cannes Cinéfondation La Residence and gained the Centre Nationwide du Cinema (CNC) award. Lately, he was among the many chosen filmmakers for the Cannes’ Administrators Fortnight Manufacturing facility 2024 program.
Manufacturing corporations on “Ria” embody WAF Studios (Philippines), Daluyong Studios( Philippines), Momo, Yaman Movies (Japan) and Sasha & Co. (France).
From Filipino editor and audiovisual artist Gabriella Serrano, who beforehand directed SGIFF-winning brief “Dikit,” comes “Please Bear With Me,” a sci-fi movie set in a near-future Philippines the place individuals have misplaced the power to dream. Manufacturing corporations are Archipelago (Philippines) and Momo, with Gale Osorio producing alongside Momo managing director Tan Si En.
Cambodia’s Danech San, recognized for SGIFF and Kurzfilm Hamburg-winning brief “A Million Years” and brief “Dawn in My Thoughts,” which performed Busan and gained at Tallinn Black Nights, is making her function debut with “To Go away, To Keep.” It follows a lady on the cusp of maturity who visits a distant rocky island to go to a soldier who she met on-line and weeks later, goes lacking. Daniel Mattes will produce for Anti-Archive (Cambodia) alongside Tan for Momo.
“We’re thrilled to work on these unbelievable movies, every with a novel voice. I’m grateful that the filmmakers belief us with their stunning tales,” mentioned Tan. “It’s our agency perception that the area of Southeast Asia has a number of nice tales to supply and we will’t wait to share these movies.”
In 2021, Seashore Home Photos took a majority stake in Momo. Earlier this month, Fremantle acquired Seashore Home.
