Bodies of Summer | Iván Fund

Image: https://i.postimg.cc/7PVJq9JX/Ivan-Fund-Felipe-Martin-Castagnet-Rodrigo-Teixeira-SSIFFMarco-Barada-Dominique-Besanson-ECAM-Forum.jpg ---Quote--- Rodrigo Teixeira’s Brazil-based RT Features, producer of 2025 Oscar winner “I’m Still Here” and James Gray’s 2026 Cannes contender “Paper Tiger,” has boarded “Bodies of Summer,” a sci-fi drama from Iván Fund who won a Berlin Film Festival 2025 Silver Bear Jury Prize for “The Message.” Argentina’s Fund is set to direct “Bodies of Summer” from a screenplay he co-wrote with Martín Felipe Castagnet, based on Castagnet’s awarded novel of the same name. “Bodies of Summer” marks the duo’s third feature together after co-penning “Dusk Stone,” which bowed at the Venice Festival’s 2021 Venice Days, and “The Message.” São Paulo-based, RT Features will produce and fully-finance “Bodies of Summer.” The announcement was made just hours before Teixeira will be the subject of a 90-minute talk – an effective masterclass – at Madrid’s ECAM Forum, Spain’s newest, prestigious and still growing co-production forum which celebrates its third edition over June 9-11. As in so much Argentine fiction, the shadow of literary giant Jorge Luis Borges falls over “Bodies of Summer,” departing from an idea, before keying in this case on its human implications. The film is set in a not-so-distant future where death is no longer definitive. A body whose resources are exhausted can have its consciousness survive in a digital limbo, then come back in a different body. That doesn’t come free of charge, however. In “Bodies of Summer,” Rana, after 100 years as data, come back to life in a what is described as a “makeshift body, the only one he can pay for. He returns to find his son, now an old man, who defies the system by choosing to die naturally and disappear forever.” https://variety.com/2026/film/global/rodrigo-teixeira-paper-tiger-ivan-fund-new-film-rt-features-1236771249/ ---End Quote---