The Locarno International Film Festival launched the project entitled "Open Doors - World producers meet the world cinema" in 2003 in cooperation with the Swiss agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). As mentioned in the first Open Doors publication from 2003, its aim was to "promote those Cinema industries from South and East that are living a moment of crisis, but are worth to be helped and rediscovered."
Selected projects from Cuba
Arturo Sotto
ELLOS SON
Daniel Diaz Torres
LA AURORA (AT DAWN)
LISANSKA
Fernando Pérez Valdes
FRUTAS EN EL CAFE
LOVING GILDA
MADRIGAL
Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti
NADA, NADIE Y NUNCA (Trilogy)
VIVA CUBA
Juan Carlos Zaldivar
AGUA DULCE
FORGIVE AND FORGET
PHIBIE
VIOLETA
Humberto Solas
RETURN TO CINEFUEGOS
Umberto Padron
FRUTAS EN EL CAFE
OUTSIDE
ARJ: Argentinos Juniors - Selected projects from Argentina
AGUAS (working title: AGUAS ARGENTINAS), Veronica Chen (Argentina/ France)
EL CUSTODIO, Rodrigo Moreno (Argentina/France/ Germany/ Uruguay)
GEMINI, Albertina Carri (Argentina/ France)
HABITACIONES VACIAS, Santiago Loza (Argentina/ France)
LOS MUERTOS - aka SANGRE, Lisandro Alonso (Argentina/ France)
LOS SUICIDAS, Juan Villegas (Argentina)
MIENTRAS TANTO, Diego Lerman (Argentina)
MONOBLOC, Luis Ortega (Argentina)
PARAPALOS, Ana Poliak (Argentina)
VIRGINAL, Ernesto Baca (Argentina)