We are happy to announce the selected participants joining the first Feature Film workshop of the year. Plus, to help you plan ahead, you can start taking notes of the 2026 calendar*. As you can see, a new call for applications will open already next week!
TFL NEXT FEATURE FILM
Open call: 26th January - 12th March
1st session: 4th - 8th May
2nd session: 1st - 5th June
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
TFL NEXT TV SERIES
1st session: 21st - 25th September
2nd session: 19th - 23rd October
TFL NEXT FEATURE FILM
1st session: 12th – 16th October
2nd session: 9th – 13th November
Stay tuned for more information about upcoming calls for applications.
*please note: workshop dates are subject to change.
Finally, find down below the list of the selected participants, they will work on the development of their feature film projects between January and February.
Let’s meet them.
THE SELECTED PROJECTS:
A MOMENT OF SILENCE (Brazil)
Flavio Ermirio De Moraes
A Brazilian immigrant, a frustrated trumpeter from Recife, finds accidental and meteoric fame in NYC after stealing compositions from his dead father.
ADA (Kosovo)
Trendelina Halili
A brief extramarital affair during a storm disrupts Ada's quiet life, leading to a dangerous cycle of revenge as her secret threatens to unravel.
ANOTHER CHANT (Italy)
Valeria Anatriello
While on her summer holidays in Capri, Isabella gets drawn into a series of inexplicable disappearances, forcing her into a forbidden coming-of-age in which innocence can be dangerously fragile.
AURA OF AGNES (Spain)
Doriam Alonso, Gema Arquero
As a mother with epilepsy, Agnes, a visual artist, faces her deepest fears—losing her children, her credibility, and her identity—during a week of intense emotional turmoil, where her absence seizures blur the line between art and reality, with her art becoming the refuge that heals and sustains her.
HALFWAY SAINTS (Canada)
Salvador Miranda
Two vampire lovers with a suicide pact take one last road trip south through a long-dead Wild West. But when they pick up a hitchhiker fleeing her own demons, their fatal plan starts to unravel.
IN THE TRUTH (Latvia)
Toms Harjo, Liva Vernere
Mark (17) grows up in a loving but strict Jehovah’s Witness family, striving to be the best preacher in his congregation. However, after losing his virginity to classmate Elīna and drawing her into his faith, she exposes his double life to “save” him. He is expelled, isolated, and pushed toward a tragic clash with his father over what it means to live “in the truth”.
LET ME KILL YOU, PLEASE! (Latvia)
Dan Silov
An idealistic middle-aged office worker with childlike naiveté and no special skills decides to become a hitman in order to save his mother’s life and maybe finally change his own.
LONG EXPOSURES (UK/Bulgaria)
Galina Chakarova
Fresh out of film school and lost between dreams and reality, Nina returns to Glasgow after working as a PA on a movie abroad. Navigating dead-end jobs, a messy love life, and an uncertain artistic future, she finds inspiration where she least expects it - through the fleeting connections and quiet moments of everyday life.
LULEBORE (Albania)
Kelmend Karuni, Floren Papas
Stricken by fatal illness, an orphaned gifted dancer ventures across Europe seeking her birth parents, only to learn tha her survival depends on confronting the man who could be both her father and her mother’s rapist.
MOUNTAINS OF GOLD (Poland)
Aleksandra Chmielewska, Maciej Kubicki
A troubled boy and a troubled girl fight for their custodian’s attention. The kids’ prank will twist the lives of all three for long and finally change them forever.
MUKBANG (Netherlands)
Madhiha Duynhouwer, Liza Koifman
Two seemingly successful influencers, a body positivity activist and a mukbang YouTuber, cross paths at an event. An intense bond forms, forcing them to confront the painful truth behind their eating disorders.
POLAROID KID (Poland)
Michał Chmielewski
A teenage runaway, rides freight trains across America in search of his criminal father, his quest evolving into a journey of self-discovery and freedom.
SOLO (Spain)
Mikel Rueda
On the last night of Pride, Antonio (69) dives into the gay underworld, searching for Raúl (19), a boy he just met at a chemsex session. What happens when you’ve spent your whole life running from yourself?
THE FLAMES OF A THOUSAND FIRES (Chile)
Florencia Rodríguez, Diego Breit
During the winter camp, Zurdito joins a new Boy Scouts Patrol. Forcing him to adapt to a world of aggressive and beastly dynamics.
THE FOREST (Belgium)
Silvia Rexha, Majo Moirón
In Algotown, where children grow based on data and scores, Aine and her blind sister Lea enter a forbidden forest searching for the forgotten stories their grandfather left behind. Lost together, their opposite ways of sensing the world teach them shared trust, intuition and the need to stay united.
THE MASSIVENESS (Brazil)
Carolina Costa
In a remote town, only Eshu hears the Dead Whale’s whispers. As fear spreads, she must decode its message before she’s blamed for the unfolding horrors.
THE RETURNERS (Ukraine)
Alex Sobolev
In the distant future, people have learned how to resurrect individuals who died long ago. The resurrected soldiers are being asked to return to war to defend a world they do not know or understand.
THREE TIMES OF LOVE (Argentina)
Javier Cibils Madero
Across Argentina and Italy, 3 kinds of love: one that can’t start, one that can’t continue, one that can’t stop. Marcos and Anna can’t break up despite geography pulling them apart, Sara and Emanuel can’t continue due to Sara’s tumor, Bea and Davide keep flirting but fail at starting a relationship.
UKUMARI (Bolivia, Belgium)
Wendy Montellano, Rosa Galguerra
In the shadow of Belgium's mid ‘90’s rising far-right tide, seven-year-old Ukumari dances between worlds: her Bolivian heritage pulsing in her veins even as MTV melodies flutter through her dreams, while her teenage sister. Juanita drifts toward a homeland that exists only in memory. Their shared childhood dissolves into the fragile spaces between what was lost and what might still be saved.
UNDER ENDLESS SKIES (Austria)
Katrine Eichberger
Two women, worlds apart, embark on a road trip around Iceland. When one disappears, the other questions reality, confronts loss, and unexpectedly finds herself.