The new feature film by Argentine director Clarisa Navas, They Burn the Same Way, has been selected to take part in the 13th edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market, to be held September 4–6 as part of the Venice Production Bridge at the Venice Film Festival (Mostra di Venezia).
The project is among a selection of 38 titles seeking to complete their international financing through individual meetings with potential co-producers, funds, and investors. In total, the market will present 66 projects at various advanced stages of development and financing, including fiction features, documentaries, immersive projects, and proposals from the Biennale College Cinema.
They Burn the Same Way is set in a social housing neighborhood in Corrientes, where Ezequiel confronts the recent death of Tomás, his firefighter boyfriend, as a devastating wave of fires threatens the city. Against this backdrop, his friends Ava and Juana begin a romantic relationship marked by the prejudices of those around them and the imminent gender-affirming surgery of one of them. Amid the smoke, a dengue epidemic, motorcycles, small everyday acts of resistance, and the organizing of a neighborhood assembly, the film builds a queer, post-apocalyptic-toned melodrama that reflects on grief, desire, and the possibility of collective action in times of crisis.
Executive production is by Eugenia Campos Guevara, of the production company Gentil Cine SRL.
The market’s selection also includes new projects by acclaimed international filmmakers such as Jessica Hausner, who will present Toxic; Lav Diaz, with An Entry Into A Portuguese Woman’s Sadness; and Ursula Meier, with Quiet Land. Projects by Lila Avilés, Payal Sethi, and Asmae El Moudir were also selected.
Venice Gap-Financing Market 2026
A Year Without Summer (Switz-Ger)
Dir Flurin Giger
Prod co: Beauvoir Films, Heimatfilm
African Grey (Greece-Bul)
Dir Yorgos Goussis
Prod co: Plankton Films
All Clear (Ukr-Ger-Lux)
Dir Christina Tynkevych
Prod co: Evos Film
An Entry Into A Portuguese Woman’s Sadness (Fr-Phil-Port)
Dir Lav Diaz
Prod co: Films Boutique
Ballad Of The Phoenix (Mex)
Dir Rodolfo Ambriz Rendón and Arturo Ambriz Rendón
Prod cos: Woo Films, Cinema Fantasma
Cábula (Mex-Sp)
Dir Lila Avités
Prod co: Pimienta Films
Chocolat Amer (Switz-Ger-Fr)
Dir Valentin Merz
Prod co: Cinédokké
Untitled Water Documentary (Chile-Can)
Dir Carola Fuentes
Prod cos: La Ventana Cine, Intuitive Pictures
Don’t Let The Sun Go Up On Me (Mor-Nor-Fr-Chile)
Dir Asmae El Moudir
Prod cos: Insight Films, Haut et Court Doc, Quijote Films, Lofoten Film
Faux Bijoux (Fr-Leb-Belg)
Dir Jessy Moussallem
Prod co: Vixens
Holiday (Fr-It-Greece-Leb)
Dir Wissam Charaf
Prod cos: Aurora Films, Intramovies, Marni Films, Né à Beyrouth Films
Kurinji (India-Fr-Ger)
Dir Payal Sethi
Prod cos: FilmKaravan, Blue Monday Productions, 70 Steps
Kyūshū Moon (Switz-Fr)
Dir Stéphanie Argerich
Prod cos: Intermezzo Films, Les Films du Bélier
La Manche (Pol-Ger-Fr)
Dir Damian Kocur
Prod cos: Kijora Film, Les Contes Modernes, Oma Inge
Land Of Savages (Col-US-Chile)
Dir Fernando Guzzoni
Prod co: Oso Films
Light Boxes (Bul-Can-Fr-Bel-Pol)
Dir Theodore Ushev
Prod co: Cinelibri
Lionfish (Greece-Ger)
Dir Thanasis Trouboukis
Prod cos: asterisk*, Studio Zentral
Magnum Opus (Rom-Pol-Bul-Moldova)
Dir Bogdan Mirica
Prod co: deFilm
News From Lod, A Letter To Chantal Akerman (Fr-Belg)
Dir Michale Boganim
Prod co: Blue Train Films
Patrimonial Fears And Other Illusions (Greece-Neth-Cyp)
Dir Elina Psykou
Prod cos: Jungle Films, Homemade Films, StudioBauhaus, Studio Ruba, Bark Like a Cat Films
Primo Viaggio (It-Fr)
Dir Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman
Prod cos: Sacher Film, Halley Production
Quiet Land (Switz-Fr-Can)
Dir Ursula Meier
Prod cos: Bande à part Films, Paradise City Films
Salut Robert (US-Switz-Fr)
Dir Laura Israel
Prod co: Correspondent
Shitballs (Ice-Can)
Dir Alfrun Ornolfsdottir
Prod co: Compass Films
Something Strange Happened To Me (Ukr-UK)
Dir Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
Prod co: Mellivora Production, Wellington Films
Stallions (Mor-US)
Dir Rita Baghdadi
Prod co: Lady & Bird Films
The Amateurs (Chile-Arg)
Dir Felipe Solari Yrigoyen
Prod co: Quijote Films
The Funeral (Bra-Port-Rom)
Dir Carolina Markowicz
Prod co: Biônica Filmes
The Horsemen Of The Apocalypse (Nor-Swe-Ger)
Dir Lene Berg
Prod co: Twentyone Pictures
The Langfang Republic (Japan-Fr-Taiwan)
Dir Katsuya Tomita
Prod co: Kuzoku
The Rope (It-Switz)
Dir Alberto Fasulo
Prod co: Nefertiti Film
The Smuggler (Switz-Greece-Fr)
Dir Kaveh Bakhtiari
Prod cos: Beauvoir Films, Homemade Films, TS Productions
They Burn In The Same Way (Arg-Bra)
Dir Clarisa Navas
Prod co: Gentil Cine
Toxic (Austria-Ger-Fr-Swe)
Dir Jessica Hausner
Prod co: Schubert
Urihi – The Forest-Land (Bra)
Dir Morzaniel Iramari
Prod co: Aruac Filmes
Wake (Greece-Cyp-Ser)
Dir Thelyia Petraki
Prod co: Filmiki & Out the Box
Wolfmother (Fr-Mor)
Dir Ismaël El Iraki
Prod cos: Special Touch Studios, Kasbah Films
Ya & Niki (It-Fr-Leb)
Dir Rä Di Martino
Prod co: Dugong Films
