Films in development
Roaming Rhymes
NARRATIVE FEATURE - 120 min
Written and Directed by Ania Jamila
Genre: Drama
International Coproduction: Canada - Romania
Funders: Telefilm Canada - TFO - CBC - APFC - EAVE - Canada Council for the Arts
Anticipated year of production: 2027
Produced by: Kavalo Productions - Productions Ocho - microFILM
⮕ Looking for: Distributors - Sales Agent
As he nears retirement, Omar reunites with Fifi, and music rekindles their love from 1970s Romania. His final broadcast turns into a powerful confession, revealing that Assia, a young traveling cellist, is their daughter, forever altering his life.
FRANKIE
NARRATIVE FEATURE - 100 min
Genre: Youth - Dark Fantasy
International Coproduction: Canada - Other country
Written by Marie-Claire Marcotte and Gilles Poulin-Denis
Directed by Marie-Claire Marcotte
Funder: Telefilm Canada
Anticipated year of production: 2028
Produced by: Kavalo Productions - Fittonia Films
Looking for: Co-producer, Distribution, Sales Agent
After a mine is reopened, a young spirit from the past emerges, forcing three teenagers, bound by a fragile friendship, to join forces to confront the supernatural and atone for long-buried wrongs.A dramatic fantasy feature film, rooted in a distinct Canadian territory, conceived for an international audience, for a target audience aged 9–13, with co-viewing potential.
Kung Fu Taboo
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM - 70 min
International Coproduction: Canada - Other countries
Written and Directed by Ania Jamila
Funder: Telefilm Canada
Anticipated year of production: 2027-2029
Produced by: Kavalo Productions - Kasa Creative Productions
Looking for: Co-producer, Distribution, Sales Agent
Through the little-known practice of vaginal Kung Fu, two women on different continents reclaim the female body as a site of power and healing. Narrated by the mythological Greek figure Baubo, this hybrid documentary travels between Canada, Kenya, and Cameroon, blending live action and animation to dismantle bodily taboos and reveal the body as a space of trauma, resilience, and transformation.
The Peacock’s Breath
NARRATIVE FEATURE - 100 min
Written by Paul Ruban
Directed by Ania Jamila
Genre: Dramatic comedy
International coproduction: Canada, European Country (preferably Germanic)
Funder: Telefilm Canada
Anticipated year of production: 2029
Produced by: Kavalo productions
Looking for: Co-producer, Distribution
When the prima donna of a German opera house is dismissed, she reinvents herself as a prompter, while setting a terrible plan of revenge into motion.
The Little Prince of the Atlas
NARRATIVE FEATURE - 110 min
Written by Aida Karkas and Ania Jamila
Directed by Ania Jamila
Genre: Youth - Dark Fantasy
International Coproduction: Canada, Other Countries
Funder: Telefilm Canada
Anticipated year of production: 2030
Produced by: Kavalo productions
Looking for: Co-Producer, Distribution, Sales Agent
Propelled into a shadow realm inspired by native North African mythology, a boy faces seven perilous adventures to return home. Survival becomes a journey into fear, legend, and his ancestral identity.
Series in development
Hotel Beirut-Season 2
SERIES - 8 episodes (30 min)
Written by Ania Jamila and Bernard Boulad
Directed by Ania Jamila
Genre: Comedy
International Coproduction: Canada + Other country
Stage: Late Development
Funders: TFO, Radio-Canada, NatyfTV, Canada Media Fund
Anticipated year of production: 2026
Produced by: Kavalo Productions - Productions Ocho
⮕ Looking for: Co-Producer - Distribution - Sales Agent
Season 2 of Hôtel Beyrouth follows Fady in Ottawa, 1992, three years after his family fled Lebanon. Through black-and-white photography, he documents a duplex that functions as a temporary shelter for exiles.
Exqueer
MINI SERIES - 5 episodes (20 min)
Written and Directed by various artists
Genre: Drama
Domestic production: Canada
Stage: Early Development
Anticipated year of production: 2027
Produced by: Kavalo productions
Looking for: Distribution - Sales Agent
An anthology series exploring queer identities through a collection of short, intimate stories.
Destino
SERIES - 10 episodes (45 min)
Written and Directed by Ania Jamila
Genre: Drama
International coproduction: Canada - Spain
Stage: Early Development
Anticipated year of production: 2028
Produced by: Kavalo Productions
⮕ Looking for: Co-Producer
A cross-century political thriller following two mothers separated by 500 years. As Granada falls, Morayma, wife of the Sultan, must choose between power and her child; in present-day Canada, Mira, a Honduran professor, risks everything when her son vanishes into the migration detention system.
Nemesis
SERIES - 8 Episodes (45 min)
Written and Directed by Ania Jamila
Genre: Drama
International coproduction: Canada
Stage: Development
Funder: Independent Production Fund
Anticipated year of production: 2029
Produced by: Kavalo productions
Looking for: Co-Producer - Distribution - Sales Agent
A fatal act of self-defense binds three women in a shelter, pushing them toward a covert war against domestic violence.
Pirates and Outlaws
SERIES - 8 Episodes (30 min)
Written and Directed by Ania Jamila
Genre: Youth - Animation
International Coproduction: Canada - Other country
Stage: Early Development
Anticipated year of production: 2029-2030
Produced by: Kavalo Productions
⮕ Looking for: Co-producer - Distribution
In a lawless age, young pirates and outlaws rule the Atlantic coast, chasing freedom, fortune, and glory. Every adventure brings danger, legend... and the price of living outside the law.
Shorts in development
Echoes in the Throat
NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
Written and directed by: Ania Jamila
After escaping her abuser and plunging into an icy lake, Luzmila awakens in a surreal tunnel between life and death, where she is guided by visions of her future self, and by Tarik, the stranger who risked his life to save hers.
She and the Sheep
SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM
Written and directed by Ania Jamila
In the Atlas Mountains, a sheep’s wool begins a quiet odyssey — through the hands of Amazigh women, across the loom’s patient rhythms, into a carpet that speaks a hidden language. She and the Sheep is a lyrical journey from field to souk, weaving beauty and struggle, tradition and resistance, in the threads of an ancestral craft.
