Natalia Oreiro, Maeve Jinkings are attached to star in projects; producers include Rei Pictures, Piano, Tarea Fina, Luxbox and Cannes Un Certain Regard winner Simón Mesa Soto Packed to its entirety by first and second-time directors, the 12 projects at this year’s Ventana Sur Proyecta co-production forum delivers a new generation snapshot backed by some of Latin America’s finest producers which delivers a searing portrait of the contemporary realities. In key casting Brazil’s Maeve Jinkings, renowned for her pivotal role in Walter Salles’ Oscar-winning “I’m Still Here,” is set to star in “Cabildo 71.” Natalia Oreiro (“Yosi, the Regretful Spy”) in “The Other Mountain.” Of project confirmed Tuesday by the San Sebastián Oil. Festival, which partners on Proyecta with Cannes Festival’s Marché du Film and Ventana Sur, “Give Me Shelter” marks one of the latest projects from Rei Pictures.
Based in Argentina, Mexico and Spain, it is behind Lucrecia Martel’s Venice Selected “Our Land,” Argentine Oscar submission “Kill the Jockey” and Cannes Un Certain Regard winner “The Settlers” of just recent films. Ocúltimo aims “to become a platform for new generations of Colombian filmmakers with bold, director-driven films,” Mesa Soto told Variety. A closer look at the 12 film projects at this year’s Proyecta lineup: “The Absence,” (“La Ausencia,” Jorge Sistos Moreno, Mexico) The feature debut of Sistos Moreno, whose “The Darkness was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week in 2022.
In 18th century Morelia, a mestizo woman, the lady of an estate, invokes an ancestral deity in search for a for her husband’s syphilis, passed on to her. An intimate take on the biggest women’s jail break in history. Boarded by Una Presencia (Argentina) and Vitrine Filmes (Brazil/Spain), lead produced by Monarca Films of Uruguay and co-producer Boulevard Filmes, Brazil.
Led by Ayhe Productions alongside Kabiria Films and Barcelona-based Contraria Media, behind Berlinale VFF Talent Highlight Award winner “March 14th,” the drama follows a Black teenager with vitiligo who finds acceptance while performing community service at a disability care home. Ayhe’s David Aymerich says the film aims to bring underrepresented communities to the screen. When his father is kidnapped by a paramilitary task force days before the coup, doctor Gustavo Vaca Narvaja returns to his family and decides to risk everything on a desperate escape.
Set in Guatemala, the drama follows a young agronomist investigating her long-absent father amid the migration crisis. With established Italian arthouse distributor Teodora Film on board, the project participated in TorinoFilmLab’s FeatureLab 2026. Reyes Páez, her real-life grandson, calls it “the intimate, invisible battle of a mother, far from the snow and the wreckage.” Uruguay’s U Films and Sueño Ci
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