TorinoFilmLab’s co-production market TFL Assembly Occasion has awarded prizes price over €440,000 to 21 tasks at its 2025 version, which concluded in Turin on Saturday (November 22).
4 movie tasks in superior improvement took house €50,000 every within the TFL Manufacturing Awards.
The profitable tasks are: La Canícula by Rod Llaverías, produced by the Dominican Republic’s Wendy Espinal; Fortunate Lady by Linda Lô, a France-Senegal co-pro produced by Didar Domehri; The Passions Of Angela Simmons by the US’s Lucy Kerr, produced by Megan Pickrell; and Three Ages by Jiajie Yu Yan, produced by Spain’s César Esteban Alenda.
La Canícula centres on Dolores, a hermit caring for her ailing mom and aunt in a decaying Dominican property, who yearns to flee her remoted life.
Fortunate Lady is about four-year-old Lili and her brothers who, throughout a trip in Bordeaux, discover themselves left to their very own gadgets when their flamboyant mom returns with out them to Gabon.
The Passions Of Angela Simmons is about amid the rituals of Texas sorority life and debutante season in 2004, when a school lady spirals into obsession and a haunting sense of divine function.
Three Ages centres on Xiaowei, a seven-year-old Chinese language boy who arrives in Barcelona in 1992 to reunite along with his mother and father, who emigrated to Spain when he was nonetheless a child; their troublesome relationship then extends all through his adolescence and maturity.
The 4 movies have been chosen from 10 shortlisted FeatureLab tasks by a jury composed of The Match Manufacturing unit’s head of gross sales Thania Dimitrakopoulou, filmmaker Mo Harawe, Toronto programmer Dorota Lech and Fortunate Crimson founder Andrea Occhipinti.
Elsewhere, TFL’s ComedyLab Award for function movie comedies, price €10,000, was awarded to A Summer time Story by Germany’s Berthold Wahjudi. Set towards the backdrop of the 2006 World Cup, it tells the parallel story of a 13-year-old German-Indonesian child who must defend his social standing as the category clown towards a brand new Chinese language classmate, and his father who questions the life decisions that led to his emigration to Germany.
The €20,000 Eurimages Co-Manufacturing Improvement Award was awarded to the ScriptLab undertaking Historical past Of Sickness by Croatia’s David Gašo. Set in a hospital, it’s a couple of younger man’s seek for solutions about his tic that entangles him in an online of unusual occasions.
The TFL Co-Manufacturing Fund prize, price €50,000 and supported by the Artistic Europe Media programme, was formally awarded to 9 Temples To Heaven by Thailand’s Sompot Chidgasornpongse.
TFL stated its 18th version was its most attended ever, with 400 audiovisual professionals from 46 international locations attending three days of conferences and shows in Turin from November 20-22.
The TFL Assembly Occasion marks the conclusion of a year-long coaching programme organised by TorinoFilmLab – Museo Nazionale del Cinema. Supported by TFL tutors, 113 writers, administrators and producers labored on the event of 48 tasks – 39 function movies and 9 TV sequence – after which introduced their concepts in Turin in entrance of an trade viewers.
The tasks participating within the three-day occasion included: 16 function movies within the writing stage from ScriptLab, 10 movies in pre-production from FeatureLab, 4 comedy movie tasks from ComedyLab, 9 authentic TV sequence tasks supported by SeriesLab, and eight Italian and worldwide tasks from Increase It Lab.
TFL Assembly Occasion winners 2025
TFL Manufacturing Awards
La Canícula, dir. Rod Llaverías, prod. Wendy Espinal (Dom Rep)
Fortunate Lady, dir. Linda Lô, prod. Didar Domehri (Fr-Sen)
The Passions of Angela Simmons, dir. Lucy Kerr, prod. Megan Pickrell (US)
Three Ages, dir. Jiajie Yu Yan, prod. César Esteban Alenda (Sp)
SeriesLab Improvement Awards
Connection Misplaced, dir. Maja Costa, Melina Voss (It-Ger)
Madre Mia, dir. Emmanuelle Kesch, Mauricio Cuffaro, Francisco Carrasco (Per-Bel-Arg-It-Sp)
Particular point out: Buffalo Johansson, dir. Lars Damoiseaux, prod. David Vermander (Bel-Neth)
ComedyLab Award
A Summer time Story, dir. Berthold Wahjudi (Ger)
TFL Co-Manufacturing Fund
9 Temples to Heaven, dir. Sompot Chidgasornpongse (Thai), prod. Kick the Machine Movies in co-production with E&W Movies (Sing) and Petit Chaos (Fr)
Alumni Grants
Nightsong, dir. Maya Da-Rin, prod. Juliette Lepoutre (Br-Fr)
Quickly We Will All Be Historical past Right here, dir. Saeed Taji Farouky, along with Maria Caruana Galizia (UK-Pal-Malta)
Companions Awards
Eurimages Co-Manufacturing Improvement Award
Historical past of Sickness, dir. David Gašo (Cro)
CNC Award
Chosen Metropolis, dir. María Belén Poncio (Arg)
Particular point out: Maintain Nonetheless, dir. Shalini Adnani, prod. Sara Bonakdar (UK-Chile)
Artekino Worldwide Award
Black Furry Beast, dir. Anna Hints & Tushar Prakash (Est-India)
Sub-Ti Award
Culebra Lower, dir. Ana Elena Tejera & Tomás Cortés (Pan)
Sub-Ti Entry Award
The Passions of Angela Simmons, dir. Lucy Kerr & Megan Pickrell (US)
IEFTA Award
Maintain Me (If You Need), dir. Mounia Akl (Leb)
Publish-Manufacturing Award 2025
Chilly Ashes Can Trigger Forest Fires, by Ashmita Guha Neogi, prod. Avantika Singh Desbouvries of Salt for Sugar Movies (India-Fr)
Inexperienced Awards
Greener Visitor Award
Jonas Egert for having undertaken essentially the most sustainable journey to Turin.
TFL White Mirror
Grasshopper, by Micah Magee (Den-US)
Inexperienced Filming Awards
Ladies Strolling, by Kerren Lumer-Klabbers, Ingvil Sæther Berger, Emil Wahl (Den-Nor)
To Depart, To Keep, by Danech San, Daniel Mattes (Camb-US-It)
Fortunate Lady, by Linda Lô, Didar Domehri (Fr-Sen)