Lands of loneliness, a feature film by Meritxell Colell, has been selected to participate in the Cinéfondation’s Atelier of Cannes. This 11th edition of the festival will invite 15 directors, whose projects have been considered particularly promising.

The Atelier offers to directors and producers of films the opportunity to meet with international co-producers and potential partners, a necessary step to begin the production of their projects.

The Cinéfondation’s Atelier was created in 2005 to stimulate the creativity of a new generation of filmmakers. Since then, it has supported 156 projects, 103 of which have been boradcasted and 40 of which are in preproduction.

The project by Colell and Polar Star Films, Lands of loneliness, is starring Monica. Dancer and choreographer, she’s forced, due to the illness of her father, to return to her hometown after twenty years. When she arrives, the father has died. After the funeral, her mother asks her to stay. An elusive past, a hostile environment and a reason for reconciliation force her to rediscover herself through dance and so to deal with the life she left behing. Lands of Loneliness explores the boundaries between fiction and documentary, between film and dance.