Circle Women Doc Accelerator Reveals Cannes Docs Projects (EXCLUSIVE)

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Naman Ramachandran Circle Women Doc Accelerator, an exclusive training program for female-identifying documentary filmmakers, has selected the projects that will take part in its showcase as part of the Cannes Docs program of the Marché du Film 2023.

For the fourth consecutive year, four alumnae of the program have the opportunity to present their works-in-progress during the Cannes Film Market.

Previous winners include “Twice Colonized” by Lin Alluna, which won the Docs-In-Progress award in Cannes last year before premiering in Sundance and opening both CPH:DOX and Hot Docs; Ágnes Horváth-Szabó and Anna Nemet’s “Beauty of the Beast” (Nordisk Panorama Award 2020); and “Cent’anni” by Maja Prelog (IEFTA Docs-In-Progress Award 2021). “Ever Since I Knew Myself” by Maka Gogaladze, developed through Circle 2020, follows Maka, the daughter of a strict maths teacher and high-maintenance mother, on her journey around post-Soviet Georgia to observe children in the process of education.

This quest is accompanied by her intimate conversation with her mother Nino. Two women of different generations, with different experiences and clashing perspectives, reflect on parenting, education and systems of power. “Ever Since I Knew Myself” is produced by Maka Gogaladze for Georgian production company Formo Production and Anke Petersen and Lilian Tietjen for Jyoti Film in Germany. “Rebeladas” by Andrea Gautier and Tabatta Salinas centers around the Cine Mujer, a group of women filmmakers who gathered 40 years ago to make films dealing with taboo subjects, gender violence, rape, feminicide, clandestine abortion and labor discrimination.