Cannes, Locarno Winners’ Projects Among Singapore Company Momo’s Berlin Co-Production Market Slate (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Singapore’s Momo Film Co has unveiled a six-film slate that includes projects from recent prize-winners at Cannes and Locarno.
Momo is one of five outfits selected at the 2024 Berlinale Co-Production Market‘s company matching program. Fresh off two wins at Locarno 2023 for Nelson Yeo’s debut feature “Dreaming & Dying,” Momo is continuing its relationship with the Singaporean filmmaker for his sophomore feature “The Drought,” a dark comedy-horror film set in the time of a drought.
The project participated at the Philippines QCinema project market last year, where it won a prize. “At the Edge of the Sea,” the feature debut of Anh Le, who produced 2023 Cannes’ Camera d’Or winner “Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell,” is an absurdist Vietnam-set drama where men start having a strange disease.
An alumni of Locarno Open Doors and Rotterdam Lab, Le’s short “Goodnight Baby” was in competition at the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) 2023. “Other People’s Dreams” the fifth feature from Daniel Hui (2024 Rotterdam title “Small Hours of the Night”), will follow two runaway souls escaping a dark past in the chaos of Singapore.
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