Full Circle Lab Nouvelle-Aquitaine Hessen
- tatinofilmsweb
- May 19
- 4 min read
Updated: Jun 10
Tatino Films is proud to unveil the selection for the second edition of Full Circle Lab Nouvelle-Aquitaine Hessen, building on the strong momentum of last year’s successful collaboration between the French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Germany’s Hessen. This joint initiative—dedicated to fostering emerging cinematic voices across borders—returns in 2025 with ten strong feature film proposals which are selected to receive intensive development and editing support.
6 projects will undergo the intensive Development Lab, benefiting from invaluable support in writing, co-production consultations, and industry guidance.
4 projects in the editing stage will participate in the First Cut Lab, where they will receive expert feedback from industry professionals, guided by an experienced editing tutor.
2025 LINE-UP
Development Lab
Hessen
Taped Love (1st feature, dramedy)
by Aria Azizi
Producer: Niklas Seehausen (YAL Filmproduction) – Germany / Afghanistan
Monika, a Woman in Fragments (1st feature, drama/ thriller)
by Adriana Montenegro
Producer: Philipp Goeser (Schiwago Film) and Camila Molina Wiethutcher (OMM Cine) – Germany / Bolivia
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Avant que la mer ne ferme les chemins (2nd feature, drama)
by Camila Beltrán
Producers: Lionel Massol (Les Films du Grand Huit) and David Hurst (Dublin Films) – France / Colombia
Ceux qui partent (1st feature, drama)
by Hefse Guiro
Co-written with Violette Garcia
Producers: Yannick Beauquis and Quentin Brayer (Don Quichotte Films) – France / Senegal
Najma et Salomé (1st feature, eco-thriller)
by Anne Zinn-Justin
Producer: Clémentine Mourão-Ferreira (So-Cle Production) – France
Smecheria (1st feature, animated docu-fiction)
by Antoine Fontaine
Producer: Lucie Rego (Hutong Productions) – France / Romania / Belgium
First Cut Lab
Hessen
Mix Tape (4th Feature, Psychological Drama)
by Piotr J. Lewandowski
Producer: Oli Becker & Frank Vogt (COP Film & United Creative Studio eG, in cooperation with CIARA Filmproduction) – Germany
Somewhere Between Sleep
by Jonas Bak (2nd Feature, Experimental Drama)
Producers: Charlotte Lelong (Trance Films) & Jasper Wiedhöft (Reynard Films) – Germany/France
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
J’ai l’honneur de vous rendre compte (1st Feature, Documentary)
by Jeremie Gaulin
Producer: Lucie Rego and Pauline Tran Van Lieu (Hutong Productions) – France
Fitness and Despair (1st Feature, Drama/Political Romance)
by Moritz Geiser
Producer: Margarita Armineva-Jester (Voices Film) and Daria Wichmann – Germany
The selected projects in development will be accompanied over a 7-month period, comprising two residential workshops and an Industry Event:
The first workshop will be held at La Maison Forte in Monbalen (Lot-et-Garonne, France) from the 11th to the 15th of June 2025.
The second workshop will take place in Schloss Biebrich in Wiesbaden (Hessen, Germany) from the 22nd till the 26th of September 2025.
The lab will culminate in an Industry Day in Poitiers, in collaboration with the Poitiers Film Festival and its “Jump In” initiative on the 5th of December 2025, where all participants will have the opportunity to pitch their projects to sales agents and distributors.
The expertly curated Full Circle Lab Nouvelle-Aquitaine Hessen team, led by Myriam Sassine under the supervision of Tatino Films’ CEO Matthieu Darras, is thrilled with this year's selection. The chosen projects showcase the vitality and dynamism of talented filmmakers working on their first or second feature. It also shows the dedication of the region-based producers in both regions to a young, diverse and international cinema as well as the committed support they’re receiving from the regions of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Hessen.
Tutors and experts
The projects will be mentored by:
Myriam Sassine, Producer (Diaries from Lebanon, Berlinale 2024; Costa Brava, Lebanon, Venice 2021; 1982, TIFF 2019), Co-Founder of the Maskoon Fantastic Film Festival and Manager of Aflamuna Connection, a co-production platform for the Arab world.
Philippe Barrière, Scriptwriter (On Ira, Festival de l’Alpe d’Huez 2025 and Made in Bangladesh, Toronto 2019), and script consultant for institutions like Torino Film Lab, Jump In Poitiers and Semaine de la Critique’s Next Step workshop.
Britta Krause, Script Consultant and scriptwriting tutor for institutions like the Doha Film Institute, European Short Pitch, Torino Film Lab, Nipkow Programm, Attagirl (BFI), Semaine de la Critique’s Next Step workshop.
Edyta Janczak-Hiriart, Producer and founder of Kometa Films, her filmography includes Entroncamento (ACID 2025) and films selected at Venice Film Festival, Locarno, and Berlinale such as Red Path by Lotfi Achour (2024) and Anatomia by Ola Jankowska (2021).
Alexis Hofmann, Producer and Head of Acquisitions at BAC Films in France.
Partners
Full Circle Lab Nouvelle-Aquitaine Hessen is financially supported by Hessen Film & Medien, Agency Alca Nouvelle-Aquitaine and the Lot-et-Garonne Department. The lab has also partnered up with La Maison Forte in Monbalen and the Poitiers Film Festival.
ALCA, the cultural agency for publishing and cinema in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, supports creation and production of fiction, animation and documentary films through funding, artists-in-residence program, partnerships with Labs and international markets and a regional film commission.
Hessen Film & Medien is the first point of contact for film funding in Hesse, Germany, and strengthens the regional film and media industry. It supports film and media professionals and those who want to shoot and produce in Hesse while planning and shooting their projects.
The Lot-et-Garonne Department Council is active in the cinema industry, specifically through the action of the BAT47 Filming Office, the main actor of the Department’s cinema and audiovisual policy.
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