Films in Progress

In 2002, San Sebastián Film Festival and the Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine de Toulouse went into partnership to organise a Films in Progress section dedicated to independent Latin American feature films unable to complete the postproduction stage due to a lack of means.

In 2020, this double event was organised jointly with Lima Film Festival PUCP and presented an annual selection of 12 works-in-progress in two sections: 6 films in March in Toulouse and 6 films in August in Lima.

This initiative is the answer to an urgent request from Latin American producers and directors who are facing difficulties finalising their films due to a lack of funding. There very frequently exists a disparity between a director’s creativity and the funds available to these directors.

Films in Progress propels the meeting and cooperation between producers of the selected works-in-progress and European partners to enable the films to reach screens and audiences. These two sessions contain more than 200 professionals who are among the most influential in Europe and internationally. Therefore, Films in Progress is the unmissable strategic meeting with Latin American films and professionals connected to Latin America.

Over the last few years, Films in Progress has efficiently contributed to the finalisation, distribution and commercialisation of the most noteworthy Latin American films: Tony Manero by Pablo Larraín, Gloria by Sebastián Lelio, Sangre by Amat Escalante, La sombra del caminante by Ciro Guerra, Los Perros by Marcela Said, Ixcanul by Jayro Bustamante, La Familia by Gustavo Rondón Córdova, Los tiburones by Lucía Garibaldi, Los silencios by Beatriz Seigner, among others.

By bringing together film professionals capable of contributing to those films’ post-production, and by encouraging distributors and promoters to diversify their offer, Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse hopes to develop and strengthen, with as much pragmatism and efficiency as possible, the respect for the promotion of cultural diversity based on a spirit of solidarity and cooperation.

Call for entries

Films in Progress 45 – Toulouse 26 and 27 March 2026

Registration open until 28 January 2026

Film in Progress 45 will be held on March 26th and 27th 2026, as part of Cinélatino’s Professional Platform activities. A pioneering initiative to support Latin American films at the post-production stage brings together cinema professionals able to contribute to the finalization and promotion of the selected films.

Films in Progress sends these films on the international scene in order to ease their journey and their circulation, and make the meeting and cooperation happen between directors and productors carrying projects, and the accredited professionals. Films in Progress acts as a launching pad for movies to come out of their screens and find their public, participating in the battle for exception and cultural diversity; especially useful when culture is left to be an adjustable variable for austere and authoritarian politics.

Since its beginnings in 2002, 250 films have been presented to a loyal and diligent professional public, during 44 sessions and one session dedicated to Cinema in Construction São Paulo in 2025. Once finalized, many of these movies were selected in prestigious international festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Venise, San Sebastián, Sundance, Locarno, Rotterdam.

Films in Progress, more than ever, claims the solidarity values and the founding challenges of this rendez-vous you can’t miss with the Latin-American cinema and the emerging talents carrying their new vision.

The selection of the six movies selected will be done by the comitee from Toulouse. The call for entries will be limited to fiction feature films, hybrid, and animation movies.

Films in Progress Toulouse Awards

The awards consist in post-production services and promotional initiatives by the partner companies: CCAS, A Fabrica Studio, Cercle Rouge Productions, Eaux Vives Productions, Kiss Studio, Phare Postproduction, Titra Films, Europa Distribution, Cicae, Le Film français, la région Occitanie

ACTIVITES SOCIALES DE L’ENERGIE, is a 5 weeks residency in the CCAS center to ensure the post production or the promotion of the movie in France
A FABRICA STUDIO, offers a 15 000€ technical provision of sound mix. Excluding technician’s fees
CERCLE ROUGE PRODUCTIONS, offers a consulting service for musical requirements and artistic, legal and financial expertise, as well as musical accompaniment and supervision of the film (5KE) and the mix of the film’s music by Laurent Chassaigne (2KE), representing 2 days of studio time (excluding technician’s fees and additional studio time).
EAUX VIVES PRODUCTIONS will coordinate the selected movie’s post-production with the partners of this prize, which includes one to two weeks of coordination representing up to 4600 €
PHARE POSTPRODUCTIONS (membre APIFA Occitanie) Is a service provision linked to the picture postproduction, up to 3500€ done in the Phare (cut, color grading, lab). This amount in provision is to be done on the picture post-production accordingly with the 2025-2026 prices. Excluding technician’s fee
TITRAFILM gives to the selected movie’s productor a work envelope up to 3000€ in service provision (cutting, post synchro, sound mix, color grading) under the condition of the whole postproduction of your next movie being done by TITRAFILM

The European Distributors and Operators Award

EUROPA DISTRIBUTION, the international network of independent film distributors, will promote the award-winning film to its network of over 130 members in 32 countries in Europe and beyond
La CICAE, Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d’Art et d’Essai, will promote the award-winning film, keep its 2,474 member cinemas in 46 countries worldwide informed and encourage the film’s circulation by providing a seal of approval for arthouse exhibitors and adding the winner to the programme recommendations for the European Arthouse Cinema Day.

Le Film français Award

Is the possibility for the winning movie to have an article or an interview done in one of the editions of the Le Film Français magazine, or the Cannes Market News.

Moreover

RÉGION OCCITANIE supports Films in Progress and Films in Development and contributes to the attendance of directors and producers whose films have been selected, as well as film professionals involved in these co-production and post-production support programmes