Six filmmakers. Six new films in the making.
They come from Spain, Lithuania, the Philippines, Malaysia, Argentina and Belgium. Anna Llargués Muñoz, Vytautas Katkus, Sam Manacsa, Ananth Subramaniam, Agustina Sánchez Gavier and Dorian Jespers are joining La Résidence du Festival de Cannes in Paris.
Anna Llargués Muñoz © Raquel Barrera / Vytautas Katkus © Audrius Solominas / Sam Manacsa © Polo Boado / Ananth Subramaniam © Adrian Wong / Agustina Sánchez Gavier © Francisco Muñoz Berrios / Dorian Jespers © Lina Laraki
For six months, the Festival provides them with a unique space to support them in writing their first or second feature-length fiction film. Three women and three men, aged between 27 and 35, make up the group. Five of them are developing their first feature film. Their backgrounds reflect six very different approaches to the art of cinema.
Catalan filmmaker Anna Llargués Muñoz presented her first short film, Trenc d’alba (Crack of Dawn), a fiction piece blending digital footage, Super 8 and archive footage, with La Cinef at the 76th Festival de Cannes.
Vytautas Katkus, a director and cinematographer based in Vilnius, works in both fiction and documentary films, and is currently developing his second feature film.
Sam Manacsa, a Filipino filmmaker whose work spans several disciplines, has notably worked in production design on several films.
Ananth Subramaniam, a Malaysian filmmaker of Tamil descent, directed the first Malaysian short film, Bleat!, ever selected for Cannes at the 2025 Critics’ Week.
Agustina Sánchez Gavier, an Argentine screenwriter and director based in Germany, saw her graduation film Nuestra Sombra (Our Own Shadow) screened at more than 70 international festivals.
Finally, Belgium’s Dorian Jespers, who trained at Le Fresnoy among other places, has directed two short films that have been screened at more than 200 festivals around the world.
The Résidence is supported by the Fondation des Amis du Festival.
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