The FIDLab is a workspace and networking platform dedicated to film projects selected through an international call for entries. Each year, FIDLab selects approximately a dozen projects from an international call for entries, encompassing various formats such as fiction, documentary, animation, and series, at different stages of production—writing, development, or post-production. Designed as a project accelerator, FIDLab offers filmmakers the opportunity for dynamic encounters with producers, support funding, broadcasters, distributors, sales agents, television representatives, and more. A veritable talent spotlight and a showcase for diversity, it has now become an internationally recognised label.
The 17th edition of FIDLab will take place on 10 and 11 July 2025, at the heart of FIDMarseille (8–13 July 2025).
FIDLab
The Jury
Stefan Ivančić
Programmer, producer and director, Locarno Film Festival, Serbia
Pierre-Emmanuel Finzi
Producer, distributor, Nabis Filmgroup, Filmgarten, Austria
Olimpia Pont Cháfer
Head of Industry, producer, TorinoFilmLab, Ventall Cinema, Spain
FIDLab
Awards
Casa de Velázquez/ ECAM
La Casa de Velázquez, an artistic creation and research centre based in Madrid will offer a two-month residency to the award winning director. This year, ECAM, School of Cinematography and Audiovisual of the Community of Madrid, presents the Impulso ECAM prize providing the winner with tailored advice to strengthen and refine their project.
Commune Image
Prize awarded by Commune Image, a film hub offering, among other services, post-production facilities. This prize consists of 8 weeks of editing worth €4 000 for a project produced or co-produced by a European production company.
DA Films
The VOD platform DAFilms will offer an in-kind package of distribution, marketing, and promotion including graphic design and video editing services to one of the selected projects (a first or second feature film). Worth a total of €5 000, the award also covers a worldwide release on DAFilms for two years.
Kodak/ Transperfect
This prize consists of the provision of seven 16mm reels by Kodak and their development by Transperfect, who proposes a preferential rate to all the selected projects.
Label 42
An award provided by Label 42 Studio, a laboratory and post-production studio in Marseille, which will offer either 1 week of colour grading on a cinema projector or 1 week of Dolby Atmos mixing (excluding technician) worth a total of €10 000.
Préludes
Prize awarded by Préludes to a first-film project that includes access to a residency (for writing or editing) in a chalet in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, the use of an editing station and the possibility of being accompanied by a scriptwriter, producer, or editor.
Sublimages
Prize awarded by the subtitling company Sublimages, which will provide translation, adaptation, localization and subtitling services for the awarded film into English, Spanish, or French.
Vidéo de Poche
Prize awarded by the post-production company Vidéo de Poche, which will provide colour grading work (7 days of studio without technician) and the creation of a DCP, worth a total of €11 000. A preferential rate for DCP creation is also offered to all the selected projects.
FIDLab 2025
Selected projects
Post-production
Lo demás es ruido, Nicolás Pereda
0, 67’
Development
I can feel you breathing into my palm, Alexandra Karelina
2025, 70’
Development
Die Stadt, Helena Wittmann
2025, 90’
Post-production
El espejismo, Bingham Bryant
2027, 75’
Script
Je m’appelle Nina Shakira, Samuel Suffren
2025, 90’
Script
La volière, Judith Auffray
2025, 80’
Script
MARCELA, Salka Tiziana
2025, 90’
Development
Ne quittes pas ton pays, Aliha Thalien
2025, 85’
Script
Notes of a Crocodile, Daphne Xu
2025, 100’
Development
The Case Against Space, Graeme Arnfield
2025, 50’
Production
The Most Dangerous Question, John Bruce
2025, 90’
FIDLab 2025
Joaquim Jordà Projects
For the third consecutive year, FIDMarseille, DocLisboa and Museo Reina Sofía are partnering to presenta residency programme named in honor of the Spanish filmmaker Joaquim Jordà. The two awarded artists of this residency are invited to present their projects during the 17th edition of FIDLab.
Script
De sol a sol, María Aparicio
2025, 120’
Script
Tonada, Andrés Jurado, María Rojas Arias
2025, 300’
FIDLab 2025
Polish Focus
Since 2019, the FIDLab has hosted a focus on a country in order to highlight key production companies in contemporary cinematographic production. After Bulgaria, Greece, Belgium, Portugal, Lithuania and the Czech Republic, the country highlighted this year will be Poland.
The focus is an occasion to explore a territory through its recent production and its industry. In this context, three production companies are invited to participate in FIDLab in order to present their ongoing projects and enjoy professional encounters in the heart of FID and FIDLab. It is also an occasion to forge new ties and bonds with the institutions supporting us in designing this event.
This year, the focus is organised with the precious support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, which works towards promoting Polish culture throughout the world, the Polish Institute in Paris, and in complicity with the New Horizons International Film Festival.
Anna Gawlita - Producer, Kijora Film
The company focuses onproducing both documentary and feature films, with a strong emphasis on stories that address current social and ethical issues, as well asintimate, local narratives. Kijora’s productions have been showcased at international festivals such as Berlinale, Busan, Visions du Réel, and many others. They are committed to auteur-driven projects that seek new forms of expression and engage in dialogue with contemporary reality. They are also involved in producing films about art and artists. Our portfolio includes, among others, the series about Polish design titled Polish Thing (Rzecz Polska) a documentary film about sculptor Roman Stańczak and short documentary about sculptor August Zamoyski.
Magdalena Sztorc - Producer, Mozaika Films
Mozaika Films is a production company founded in 2023 by Magdalena Sztorc and Anna Zajączkowska. Their goal is to produce ambitious, high quality, auteur-driven films and series. They are looking for projects with co-production potential, aimed at international audiences. Mozaika Films is looking for new voices and perspectives portraying the diversity of human experience.
Marta Gmosińska - Producer, OMG
OMG is a newly established independent production company committed to telling bold, resonant stories from underrepresented perspectives. We develop and produce both small and large-scale projects that give voice to women, minority communities, and all those rarely heard in mainstream cinema. At the heart of our work lies a passion for contemporary storytelling, ethical collaboration, and a drive to reimagine what cinema can be.
FIDLab 2025
Expanded
LPA Professional Day – Région Sud appointed production companies.
A day dedicated to exchanges between professionals about current issues in cinematographic and audiovisual creation. Through encounters, individual meetings and round-table discussions, this day will aim to foster networking, sharing of production experiences, and interrogating the artistic and economic development of the field.
Professional meeting
Moderator: Jean-Laurent Csinidis
Open to the public !
11.07.25 ; 9:30 – 11:30
Round-table
Through feedback and discussions with professionals, this round-table will suggest comparing two approaches to documentary – scripted writing and direct cinema – and question their impact on production forms, funding strategies and distribution perspectives.
Moderator: Alice Leroy
Participants:
Olivier Brumelot (Synecdoc)
Marie Dumora (Director)
Rebecca Houzel (Petit à Petit production)
Guillaume Massart (Triptyque film)
Open to the public !