Locarno’s Match Me! Captures the Sweep of Emerging Producers’ Output, From Tales of Queer Migration to Amazon Injustice and the ‘Nicest Bank Robber in History’

LOCARNO, Switzerland — Launched 2015, Match Me! is now a firmly established festival fixture, an informal networking platform for young producers with strong usually but not entirely auteurist visions looking for international co-production.  

Supported by 14 national film agencies, Match Me! highlights 37 companies from Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay. Projects being brought onto the market range from “Vaca Muerta,” from fast emerging German-Argentine scribe helmer Sophia Mocorrea, a winner at Sundance and Les Arcs, “Echoes” from Dominican Balck List-selected Kryss Gautier, acting to “erasure of Blackness, queerness, and Caribbean identity in Latin American cinema,” she says, and “Climacteric” (“Climateri”), the next from Spain’s Liliana Torres, director of 2024 SXSW winner “Mamífera.”