TATINO Pop Up Wild Card

TATINO Pop Up Wildcard is designed to support exceptional film talents from countries in a state of political unrest. This year, we could count on the cooperation and support of production company Kino Produzioni, who has hosted for the first time a Pop Up residency in Rome.

2026 Resident

Laila Abbas

Palestine

Residency: Rome (Italy)

Hosts: Giovanni Pompili and the team of Kino Produzioni

Mentor: Lara Costa Calzado

Dates of residency: June 2026

America Is Behind the Door

As her citizenship interview approaches, Nadine, a Palestinian mother in America, battles school politics, congressional indifference, her husband’s complicit tech job, AI, and chicken tenders. The US -backed war on Gaza turns American citizenship into a darkly comic moral trap..

Past residents

Past residents of the residency include:

• 2024 Tetyana Simon (Director | Ukraine) with the project Fucking Sensitivity

• 2023 Karolina Koltun (Director | Poland) with the project Dr. Tvardowski Marina Stepanska (Director | Ukraine) with the project Consider Vera

• 2022 Tetyana Simon (Director | Ukraine) with the project Fucking Sensitivity

• 2020 Aline Fischer (Director | France) with the project The Entertainers

• 2019 Marija Kavtaradze (Director | Lithuania) with the project Slow