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Switzerland’s Akka Films Ramps Up Movie, TV, Doc Production

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John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentLinking to Paris-based Nadia Turincev (“Raw,” “Mimosas”) and her producer partner Omar El Kadi to develop and produce two new Swiss films, Geneva-based Akka Films is also ramping up TV production, with Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, writer-directors of the acclaimed “My Little Sister,” Switzerland’s Oscar submission, teaming to create a new TV series .

Headed by Nicolas Wadimoff and Philippe Coeytaux, Akka is readying with Turincev and El Kadi “O Jacaré,” the third feature from Swiss-Portuguese filmmaker Basil Da Cunha whose debut, “After the Night” played the Cannes Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight in 2013.

Its follow-up, “O film do mundo,” screened in main competition at Locarno in 2019. Presented at 2021’s online Industry Village, part of France’s Les Arc Film Festival, “O Jacaré” concludes Da Cunha’s trilogy set in the humble district of Reboleira on the outskirts of Lisbon.

Described by its producers as a breathless ensemble thriller in the line of his previous features, it turns on a robbery in the hood which threatens its close-knit solidarity.A second Swiss film, “Purgatory,” marks the feature-length fiction debut of Ufuk Emiroglu.

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