Manufactura Pictures

18/06/2025

Behind-the-scenes peek at the shoot for the spot of the 40th anniversary of the Schengen agreement, produced for the 🎬

Big love to the amazing cast and crew - your talent and dedication were next level. And huge thanks to the representation of the European Commission in Luxembourg for trusting Manufactura Pictures with this one. 💙

Yann TONNAR - Producer -
Elif SAN - Production Manager -
Chris POULLES - Director - .poulles
Sirvan MAROGY - Assistant Director - //
Björn WEBER - Director of Photography -
Morris KEMP - 1st Assistant Camera - .jpeg
Marion COPPA - 2nd Assistant Camera -
Vitalijus KISELIUS - Gaffer -
Laurent RISCHETTE - Best Boy -
Ulysse CHARLIER - Grip -
Labio TSAGANAS - Location Sound -
Julieta FERNÁNDEZ - Production Designer - //
Emer O'HARA - Assistant Production Design - .ohara
Osvaldo MEDINA - Assistant Production Design - .medina33
Manu POUPARD - Stand-by Props - //
Nuno CARDOSO - Location Manager - //
Stéphanie CHAPUT - Make-up / Hair Art Department -
Tara KLASSEN - Casting -
Kyan BAYANI - Original Music -
Bernhard Schlick - Color Grade -

All pictures by Yann Tonnar


The film brings together six voices from across Europe — including commuters, students, entrepreneurs, as well as Robert Goebbels, former minister and one of the original signatories of the Schengen Agreement — reflecting on the freedoms made possible by Schengen.

16/06/2025

The Schengen agreement turns 40.

MANUFACTURA PICTURES is honoured to have produced this clip for the European Commission, to mark this historic and highly symbolic anniversary. The video illustrates the impact of Schengen through real and very diverse testimonials from citizens of several Member States. Thank you to the representation of the Commission européenne au Luxembourg for trusting Manufactura Pictures, and kudos to director Chris Poulles for his vision and talent, and the whole cast and crew for making this happen.

19/05/2025

With Milad Khosravi and Ali Asgari at the Luxembourg reception from the Film Fund Luxembourg
Festival de Cannes

18/05/2025

Open for business

Festival de Cannes
Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes
Film Fund Luxembourg

07/05/2025

AND WE ARE LIVE !!!
Check out 6 brand new episodes of the series MOVE on ARTE.
Huge thanks to the whole crew Sylvia Camarda Julie Schroell Eileen Byrne Heiko Lange Felix Sorger Tomás Simões Solveig Harper Elif San Kobalt Productions Philophon Studios and the Film Fund Luxembourg for their support !!!

Dans ce road-movie dansé, Sylvia Camarda part à la rencontre d'interprètes de haut niveau et nous guide dans le monde de la danse. MOVE ! explore cet art vivant à travers le prisme de la culture et de la tradition, en présentant des personnalités extraordinaires dans des lieux inhabituels. Le ...

29/04/2025

INTERNATIONAL DANCE DAY TODAY !

Manufactura is celebrating this special day, by announcing the release of 6 brand new episodes of our dance series MOVE! on ARTE on May 7th. Featuring Sylvia Camarda Directed by Julie Schroell, Eileen Byrne and Heiko Lange. Shot in Brasil, Ireland, France and Germany. Produced by Manufactura and Kobalt Productions. With the support of Film Fund Luxembourg

16/04/2025

"Higher Than Acidic Clouds" directed by Ali Asgari, and produced by Seven Springs Pictures, together with Manufactura Pictures, is starting its theatrical run today in Luxembourg. If you did not have the chance to catch this haunting, autobiographical essay at the Luxembourg City Film Festival, discover it now in one of the screenings at Ciné Utopia. The theatrical release follows its selection at a string of the most prestigious documentary film festivals worldwide (IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Visions du Réel, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival...)

Milad Khosravi


more info:
https://www.manufacturapictures.lu/productions/higher-than-acidic-clouds

09/04/2025

We are delighted to announce that Ali Asgari's film "Higher Than Acidic Clouds" is officially selected and currently screening at Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland, as well as at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. The film produced by Milad Khosravi (Seven Springs) and co-produced by Manufactura has previously been selected/showcased at prestigious festivals such as IDFA, Torino Film Festival Luxembourg City Film Festival Goa, MArrakech and Tallinn

11/03/2025

Join us this Thursday 13/03 at 8:45pm for the screening of Ali Asgari's mesmerizing film "Higher Than Acidic Clouds" at the Luxembourg City Film Festival in the section "Made In/With Luxembourg". A co-production with Seven Springs Pictures (Iran). Kinepolis Luxembourg Kirchberg

More info here:
https://lnkd.in/e7h-YjAg

About the film:

Ali Asgari is a prominent figure in Iranian cinema with more than 200 awards to his name. After the premiere of his film Terrestrial Verses (co-directed by Alireza Khatami) in Cannes, he was banned from traveling. In stubborn resistance to his growing pessimism about the way his city is developing, Asgari expresses his dreams and reflections in countless apocalyptic shades of gray. In a haunting, autobiographical essay, he questions what it means to be an artist, as censorship drains the color from his home city of Tehran, and from his life.

FESTIVAL SELECTIONS
IDFA, Amsterdam - Envision Competition
Tallinn Black Nights IFF - Best of Docs
Torino Film Festival - Documentary Competition - Special Mention
Marrakech International Film Festival - Documentary Competition
GOA International Film Festival - Special Screening
Pune International Film Festival

04/03/2025

Manufactura Pictures est très heureux de pouvoir démarrer la production de « Service Logement », une série documentaire qui aborde le problème du logement au Luxembourg - conçue et réalisée par Anne Schiltz. Un grand merci au Film Fund Luxembourg et RTL Lëtzebuerg pour leur soutien et leur confiance.

23/12/2024

Every picture tells a story - Manufactura Pictures celebrates its 4th year, and the most productive and fulfilling so far. We are pleased to share with you the projects on which we collaborated in 2024. Thank you to everyone involved, and wishing you all the best for 2025!💖💖💖

16/11/2024

If you're in Amsterdam tonight, come to the premiere at the international documentary film festival of our film "Higher Than Acidic Clouds" by Iranian director Ali Agari, officially selected IDFA

A film co-produced by Manufactura Pictures together with Milad Khosravi frim Seven Springs Pictures.

Synopsis:

After the premiere of his film Terrestrial Verses (co-directed by Alireza Khatami) in Cannes, Ali Asgari was banned from traveling. However, filmmakers like Asgari are not easily deterred from practicing their art, despite relentless repressive interference. In stubborn resistance to his growing pessimism about the way his city is developing, Asgari expresses his dreams and reflections in countless apocalyptic shades of gray. He muses about his mother’s native language, his sisters who could never see his films in the cinema, and Rome, where he lived for ten years. But above all, the filmmaker longs to go outside and fly above the city at a height from which all people are equal. He is left with his memories and imagination, the only things that cannot be confiscated.

Ali Asgari’s Biography:

Ali Asgari is a prominent figure in Iranian cinema with more than 200 awards to his name. Two of his short films, More Than Two Hours (2013) and The Silence (2016), were nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Festival de Cannes. His short film The Baby was featured in the short film competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2014. Ali’s films focus on the precarious lives of individuals living on the margins of society in his native country, Iran.

His debut feature film, Disappearance, was developed at the Cinéfondation Residency of the Festival de Cannes and had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, followed by its North American premiere at the Toronto IFF in 2017. After dedicating his time to creating several other short films, he directed Until Tomorrow, his second feature film, which premiered at Berlinale 2022.

Ali’s third feature film, Terrestrial Verses, a cross-genre film, premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and was theatrically released in more than 10 territories across the world. Terrestrial Verses has drawn over 100,000 spectators in France and 26,000 in Italy.

His fourth feature film, Higher than Acidic Clouds, is a boundary-pushing hybrid film that has been selected for IDFA 2024. Most recently, Ali Asgari was chosen as a jury member for the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival. Ali is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.