Director Agustina Navarro presents Tilf, a vertical-format fiction series adapted from an original cinematic script. The production, an erotic drama focused on suggestion and imagination, reached millions of organic views in its first season of 50 chapters. Navarro highlights the challenge of condensing emotions into short minutes and the key role of her team.
Agustina Navarro, a director from Microcine, wrote and directed Tilf, a series that originated as a movie but was adapted to vertical format through a proposal by Loli Miraglia and Lucas Mentasti. "Tilf was originally conceived as a movie," Navarro explains, noting that the project required rethinking the narrative language for episodes of one or one-and-a-half minutes.
The series is an erotic drama that prioritizes imagination over the explicit. "We chose to suggest rather than show, to unsettle rather than expose, and to trust desire as the narrative engine," the director details. Pre-production involved intense rehearsals to ensure authentic character connections, with locations chosen to convey realism.
Influenced by directors like Godard, Bertolucci, and Xavier Dolan, Navarro composes from music and mentally edits during direction. Her consistent team from Microcine views cinema as language. The creative duo with Gimena Accardi and actors such as Leonor Manso, Ludovico Di Santo, and Seven Kayne were essential.
Tilf achieved 50 chapters with millions of organic views, proving that vertical format can retain cinematic depth. "Vertical series are here to stay," Navarro states, as she works on the second season. For her, vertical cinema appeals to the intimate and the viewer's imagination, without betraying its horizontal essence.
