Open Doors 2012: Francophone Sub-saharan Africa
1 - 11 August 2012

Following on from India in 2011, the next edition of Open Doors, the Festival del film Locarno's co-production lab, will be devoted to francophone Sub-saharan Africa.

Application forms for Open Doors 2012 are available on opendoors.pardo.ch and are restricted to projects from francophone Sub-saharan Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d\'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Niger, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Togo.

The Festival will select a dozen applicants, which will be announced in May 2012.

The finalist projects will be presented at the co-production lab Open Doors (August 4 - 7), whose mission is to bring professionals from the chosen region into contact with potential, mainly European, partners, in order to bring their projects to fruition.

The 65th edition of the Festival del film Locarno will take place August 1 - 11, 2012.

For more information on call for entries, please see website at www.pardolive.ch.