Cinema Tigris is an independent production company based in Amsterdam. We develop and produce original projects and international co-productions across fiction, documentary and hybrid forms, cultivating long-term creative collaborations with filmmakers from development through production and beyond.

We are drawn to stories that move between the intimate and the political, questioning inherited narratives and embracing complexity. Cinema Tigris collaborates with filmmakers who have a distinctive artistic voice and who are willing to take risks in form, perspective and content.

Cinema Tigris is committed to cinema that follows its own artistic logic. Sometimes that takes the form of uncompromising auteur cinema, sometimes it finds expression through genre, suspense or other cinematic forms. We welcome films that resonate with broad audiences as much as those that challenge or defy convention - and those that combine both! What matters to us is not their reach, but the integrity of their artistic vision.

Sherin Seyda founded Cinema Tigris in the springtime of 2026. Before establishing the company, Sherin worked as a film consultant at the Netherlands Film Fund, where she assessed fiction, documentary and international co-productions. Alongside her own filmmaking practice, she has curated programmes for institutions including IDFA, IFFR and De Balie, bringing filmmakers, artists and audiences together around cinema and public discourse. Drawing on her interdisciplinary background in psychology, international law and audiovisual arts, she combines artistic vision with strategic thinking in her producing practice.