Latido Gets ‘Carte Blanche’ (EXCLUSIVE)

May 11, 2026 10:55pm PT Latido Gets ‘Carte Blanche’ (EXCLUSIVE)

A horror of war action movie, ‘Carte Blanche’ turns on a bloody, real-events-based revenge mission by Spanish Legion soldiers in Spain’s 1921 Rif War in the Moroccan desert

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Latido Films is bringing “Carte Blanche,” a bloody period war action movie directed by Oscar-winning producer Gerardo Herrero (“The Secret in Their Eyes”) to the Cannes market. It’s part of a batch of buzzy quality genre movies made at scale, which marks Spain out at this year’s Marché du Film.

“Carte Blanche” is set in the Moroccan desert in 1921, where Spain is waging a disastrous war against Berber tribesmen of the Rif. The movie unfolds after the killing of Spanish soldiers when an eight-man elite Spanish Legion unit sets off, commanded by a sergeant hell-bent on revenge after his brother’s torture and murder in the massacre. 

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