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  • THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

    In the near future, a mysterious phenomenon strikes humanity and unexplained mutations gradually transform parts of the population into human-animal hybrids. The creatures, considered a threat by many, are sent to specialised centers in an attempt to stop their mutations from progressing and to c...

  • SAFE PLACE

    A traumatic event—a suicide attempt—creates a rift in the family’s everyday life. Their lives fundamentally change, as if they are waging a war invisible to everyone else. The film is reduced to the most acute, to a short time span and a clear situation that can be put in a nutshell: save the lov...

  • SLOW

    Contemporary dancer Elena meets Dovydas when he is assigned to interpret via sign language in a class she is teaching to deaf youth. Their connection is immediate, kinetic, and frictionless. As they gravitate toward each other, resisting the forces and interventions of their separate daily lives,...

  • SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD

    In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength.

    Directed by: Anna Hints

    Written by: Anna Hints

    Produced by: Marianne Ostrat, Juliette Cazanave...

  • SWEET DREAMS

    A patriarch’s death and the ensuing power struggles add to the troubles of a sugar factory in the last years of the Dutch colonial era in Indonesia.

    A sharp-eyed satire set on a sugar plantation on an Indonesian island in the final years of the Dutch colonial era, Ena Sendijarević’s second featu...

  • TATAMI

    Iranian female judokas Leila (Mandi) and her coach Maryam (Amir), travel to the Judo World Championship, intent on bringing home Iran’s first gold medal. Midway through the Judo World Championships, they receive an ultimatum from the Islamic Republic ordering Leila to fake an injury and lose, or ...

  • THE AMAZING MAURICE

    Rats! They’re everywhere … In the breadbins, dancing across the tabletops, stealing pies from under the cook’s noses. So, what does every town need? A good piper to lure them away. That’s where Maurice, a streetwise tomcat with the perfect money-making scam, comes in.
    Everyone has heard of the st...

  • THE GOLDMAN CASE

    November 1975. The second trial of Pierre Goldman is set to begin. Goldman, a far-left activist, faces life imprisonment for four armed robberies, one of which resulted in the death of two pharmacists, both women. Pleading not guilty at his trial, in a matter of weeks Goldman is transformed into ...

  • THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD

    Asja, a 40-year-old single woman, lives in Sarajevo. In order to meet new people, she ends up spending her Saturday in a speed dating event. She’s matched with Zoran, a 43-year-old banker. However, Zoran is not looking for love but forgiveness.

    Directed by: Teona Strugar Mitevska

    Written by: El...

  • THE HEARING

    What happens when your future depends on telling your own life story? Four rejected asylum seekers relive the hearing on their reasons for fleeing their homelands thus shedding light on the core of the asylum procedure. Those who succeed in recounting the personal danger in their home country “cr...

  • THE OLD OAK

    The Old Oak is a special place. Not only is it the last man standing it is the only remaining space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline. TJ Ballantyne (Dave Turner) the landlord hangs on to The Old Oak by his finger...

  • THE POT-AU-FEU

    1885. Peerless cook Eugenie has worked for the famous gourmet Dodin for the last 20 years. As time went by, the practice of gastronomy and mutual admiration turned into a romantic relationship. Their association gives rise to dishes, one more delicious than the next, that confound even the world’...

  • THE PROMISED LAND

    WINNER EUROPEAN ACTOR 2023

    In 1755, the impoverished Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer the harsh, uninhabitable Danish heath with a seemingly impossible goal; to build a colony in the name of the King. In exchange, he'll receive a desperately desired Royal name for himself. But the sole ...

  • THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE

    Carla Nowak, a dedicated sports and math teacher, starts her first job at a high school. She stands out among the new staff because of her idealism. When a series of thefts occur at the school and one of her students is suspected, she decides to get to the bottom of the matter on her own. Carla t...

  • THE UNIVERSAL THEORY

    1962. Johannes Leinert (Jan Bülow), together with his doctoral advisor (Hanns Zischler), travels to a physics congress in the Swiss Alps, where an Iranian scientist is set to reveal a "groundbreaking theory of quantum mechanics". But when the physicists arrive at the five star hotel, the Iranian ...

  • THE VANISHING SOLDIER

    An 18-year-old Israeli soldier flees the Gaza battlefield and heads back to his girlfriend in Tel Aviv only to discover that the military elite is convinced he was kidnapped in the fog of war.

    A tragic-comic journey, taking place over a period of 24 hours on the hot and humid streets of Tel Aviv...

  • WE WILL NOT FADE AWAY

    Donbas, 2019. The prospect of a new Russian invasion hangs in the air, while the sound of the gunfire resulting from the old one can still be heard in the distance. In this seemingly bleak wartime setting, five teenagers start to think seriously about their future. Their energy, enthusiasm, and h...

  • WOMAN OF...

    Set against the landscape of the Polish transformation from communism to capitalism, WOMAN OF... spans 45 years of the life of Aniela Wesoły, who lives more than half of her adult life in a provincial Polish town as a man. Aniela's journey to find personal liberty as a trans woman reveals hardshi...

  • LONGING FOR THE WORLD

    NOMINATION FOR EUROPEAN YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD 2023

    In the feverish summer heat, three lost souls meet on the shores of Lake Geneva. The gentle fourteen-year-old Margaux, the rebellious foster child Juliette and Joël, a fisherman who has just returned from Indonesia because of the death of his mot...

  • ONE IN A MILLION

    ONE IN A MILLION tells the story of two girls coming of age. As gymnast and YouTuber Whitney Bjerken from the US struggles with setbacks, she turns to music to express her feelings. Yara from Germany is one of her biggest fans and part of a show-acrobatics team. When she falls in love with a girl...