Najwa Nimri’s “Blind Spot” Heads to the American Film Market

By Grace Kim

Najwa Nimri’s “Blind Spot” is scheduled for a Spanish theatrical release in late 2027 through ADSO Films, Film Factory Entertainment said. The survival thriller is now shooting in Bilbao, Northern Spain, and Film Factory will present it to buyers at this week’s American Film Market (AFM). Film Factory will handle international sales.

Mar Targarona directs the survival thriller, a genre organized around characters enduring sustained physical danger. Film Factory’s announcement credits Nimri with “Money Heist,” “30 Coins” and “Locked Up,” and Targarona with “The Photographer of Mauthausen” and “Boy Missing.”

According to Film Factory, Alex Aviñó wrote the screenplay. The cast also includes Pako Revueltas (“The Invisible Guardian”) and María Rodríguez-Maribona (“Sundays”).

What is “Blind Spot” about?

Film Factory calls the film:

“claustrophobic, high-tension survival thriller that turns a single, desperate location (a car trapped between the rocks and a rising sea) into a relentless race against time,”

In its synopsis, Film Factory says Sara is returning home for Christmas with her daughter. A storm forces them into a carpool, meaning a shared car ride, with a stranger.

According to Film Factory’s synopsis, a tyre blowout sends the car plunging off a cliff. The driver, Luis, dies instantly, leaving Sara trapped between rocks as the tide rises. Armed only with her phone, Sara discovers the crash may not have been an accident and then realizes she has put her daughter in danger. The synopsis asks: “But whom can she trust?”

The setup compresses the story’s resources into a car, a phone and a rising tide. In Film Factory’s synopsis, the stranger and Sara’s daughter turn that physical trap into a moral problem, which explains the closing question about trust.

How does the film create isolation?

Film Factory said the production fully recreated the cliff-side setting facing the sea on a sound stage, a controlled studio set used for filming. Survival sequences combine a specially designed technical setup with natural exteriors in the Basque Country to convey isolation and danger.

Targarona’s account divides the work between the stage and landscape: the stage must support measurable car-and-water action, while the exteriors establish exposure and distance. Her account frames the central problem as one of technical coordination and staging, not location alone.

Targarona said:

“It’s both a technical and a staging challenge, because so many things have to fit together and so many departments have to be coordinated for everything to work,”

She added:

“The car and water sequences are especially complex – everything has to be precisely measured – but at the same time we need the performances to flow and the situation to feel believable. In the end, everything is there so the audience gets drawn into the story and feels Sara’s anguish,”

Who is behind “Blind Spot”?

Rodar y Rodar produces the film and stands behind “The Orphanage,” “Julia’s Eyes” and the 2026 Prime Video hit “Naughty Business,” Film Factory said. Rodar y Rodar produces with Oslodije, whose credits include “Naughty Business” and “Todo arde,” and Esan Nizuen.

Film Factory also reported that RTVE participates in the production and Prime Video collaborates. The Basque Government’s Department of Culture and Language Policy and Basque Audiovisual support the project.

What does the AFM presentation mean for buyers?

Film Factory’s sales arrangement gives the AFM presentation a specific function: the company will seek international buyers, while ADSO Films handles theatrical distribution in Spain. For viewers outside Spain, the film’s route to a release depends on those international deals; the late-2027 Spanish release already has a named distributor.

Film Factory Director Vicente Canales said:

“We are thrilled to join Mar Targarona on such a gripping, tension, high-concept thriller. With Najwa Nimri leading the cast and a premise that grabs you from the very first minute, we are convinced ‘Blind Spot’ will travel strongly with audiences and buyers worldwide,”

Canales framed the pitch in terms of worldwide appeal. The next measurable test is whether buyers at this week’s AFM convert that forecast into distribution agreements for “Blind Spot.”