10 TATINO supported films to tempt festivals!

Ten films. Ten directors. One shared conviction: that the best stories are shaped together.

This year, TATINO Films is proud to spotlight ten projects that passed through its network of initiatives — from First Cut Lab to Full Circle Lab — now ready to make their mark on the international circuit. From a Nordic survival drama to a Philippine animated feature, from a Palestinian neo-realist fiction film to a French genre film, this selection maps the breadth of what independent co-production looks like in 2026. Each title carries the fingerprints of a creative process built on collaboration, editorial rigour, and bold storytelling.

These are the films to tempt festivals.

Brace Your Heart

Director: Amanda Kernell

Production: Nordisk Film Production AB

Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Bulgaria

First Cut Lab On Demand

A young Sámi woman inherits her father's reindeer herd — and, reluctantly, the local leader's affections. Then his cousin Nejla arrives, and everything shifts. Kernell turns a love triangle into a reckoning with power and body: Heaika's jealousy leaves Ejva's hands trembling uncontrollably, threatening the herd she's fighting to keep alive.

Film still: © Sophia Olsson

Death Has No Master

Director: Jorge Thielen Armand

Production: La Faena Films, Volos Films Italia, Deal Productions

Venezuela, Italy, Canada, Luxembourg, Spain, Mexico

First Cut Lab Canada

Caro arrives in Venezuela to sell her late father's cacao plantation. She finds the mansion occupied by its former workers — and they're not leaving. Thielen Armand brews a dangerous game of manipulation under the tropical heat, where buried secrets rise to the surface and the line between obsession and reality dissolves. The harvest, when it comes, spares no one.

Film still: © Sophia Olsson

Ella Arcangel

Director: Mervin Malonzo

Production: Twenty Manila

Philippines

Full Circle Lab Philippines

When her sorcerer grandmother dies, young Ella inherits the role of community protector — ready or not. A brutal crime scene, a missing best friend, and a monster rumoured to haunt the Shadowlands set her on a collision course with something far more complex than evil. Malonzo embeds Philippine folklore deep into the open wound of the drug war.

Erratics

Directors: Thomas Woodroffe

Production: Fiebre, La Belle Affaire

Chile, France

Pop Up Focus Copro

The ghost of a French filmmaker, frozen in a Patagonian glacier for a century, finally breaks free. Woodroffe sends him wandering through a technocratic present haunted by an indigenous past — a dead man's eyes as the sharpest lens on a world that has lost its memory.

Lightness and Weight

Director: Erec Brehmer

Production: Maverick Film

Germany

MunichFilmUp!

A grieving photographer and a quietly unravelling single mother find each other in the wreckage of absent people. He lost his girlfriend to death, she lost her partner to disappearance. Brehmer traces recovery as a delicate equation — every step back toward life shadowed by a secret that could shatter it all.

Oma

Director: Armin Septiexan

Production: Popple Pictures, Ammu Hawu

Indonesia, Philippines, France, The Netherlands

First Cut Lab Philippines

In Kupang, West Timor, 85-year-old Oma Net Markus is all warmth and spirit. She is also, for nearly sixty years, a keeper of unbearable memory. Septexian and Jawa sit with a woman who survived what her father, brother and cousins did not — the massacres of 1965–66 that tore through Indonesia and left her sister broken by years of imprisonment and torture. A portrait of joy and grief, coexisting for sixty years.

Picturehouse

Director: Nghiem Minh Nguyen Vo

Production: East Films, Girelle Production, Add Oil Films, Daluyong Studios

France, Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines

First Cut Lab Philippines

In 1960s Vietnam, a family-run movie house becomes a haven for Quang, an eight-year-old boy who sees his world being undone by war. Bardot, Kurosawa, John Ford: Nguyen-Vo frames cinema itself as the last stable surface in a country coming apart at the seams.

She Was Not Alone

Director: Hussein Al Asadi

Production: Ishtar Iraq Film Production, Iraq Visions Film Production

Iraq, United States, Saudi Arabia, Qatar

First Cut Lab Doha

In 1960s Vietnam, a family-run movie house becomes a haven for Quang, an eight-year-old boy who sees his world being undone by war. Bardot, Kurosawa, John Ford: Nguyen-Vo frames cinema itself as the last stable surface in a country coming apart at the seams.

Too Many Beasts

Director: Sarah Arnold

Production: 5 à 7 Films

France

Full Circle Lab Upper Rhine

In the French countryside, wild boars ravaging crops have ignited a war between farmers and the gentlemen's hunting club that feeds the game. Arnold turns a rural land dispute into a portrait of men pushed past their limits: a bankrupt farmer vanishes, a volatile cop inherits the investigation, and the boars keep multiplying.

Yesterday The Eye Didn’t Sleep

Director: Rakan Mayasi

Production: Atata

Belgium, Palestine, Lebanon

First Cut Lab Doha

In a valley veiled by fog and tribal codes, two sisters walk into the night — not as daughters, but as offerings. Mayasi works in the register of myth: blood, memory and silence as the last tools against a fire already spreading.