Portugal, Switzerland
Documentary/fiction

Nominated for European Short Film – Prix Vimeo 2024

After a violent police raid in a poor clandestine neighbourhood in Lisbon, a 7-year-old girl seeks to find her missing older brother. At the same time, a young newly released ex-convict tries to start ...

Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden

Winner European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI 2024
Nominated for European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI 2024, European Actress 2024, European University Film Award 2024

One of the last days before the school holidays something happens between six-year-old Armand and...

BOUCAN

France

Fiction

Nominated for European Short Film – Prix Vimeo 2024

Johannes and Gabin are young, cousins and in love with each other: their story takes place in Southern France.

Directed by: Salomé Da Souza
Written by: Salomé Da Souza, Romy Coccia du Ferro
Produced by: Lou Chicoteau,...

Sweden, France, Denmark, Turkey, Georgia

Lia, a retired teacher, made a promise to find her long-lost niece Tekla. The search takes her to Istanbul, a beautiful city that seems full of connections and possibilities. There she meets Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights, and Tekla starts to f...

Germany, France

Taking its title from the tactical protest strategy of the same name, “an action that seeks to achieve an end directly and by the most effective means”, DIRECT ACTION documents the everyday lives of one of the most high-profile militant activist communities in France and asks whe...

STERBEN
Germany

Nominated for European Actor 2024

DYING follows the very individual members of the Lunies family, who haven’t been a family for a long time. Lissy is quietly happy about her demented husband Gerd slowly wasting away in a home. But her new freedom is short-lived: diabetes, cancer...

STRAUME
Latvia, France, Belgium

Winner European Animated Feature Film 2024
Nominated for European Animated Feature Film 2024, European Film 2024

The world seems to be coming to an end, teeming with the vestiges of a human presence. Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a g...

United Kingdom, Spain

Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated SECRETS AND LIES, the astonishing...

TEREDDÜT ÇİZGİSİ

Turkey, Spain, France, Romania

Criminal lawyer Canan has to make a moral choice that will affect the lives of her ailing mother, a judge, and a murder suspect client, whose defence is turning in his favour.

Written & directed by: Selman Nacar
Produced by: Diloy Gülün, Burak Çe...

United Kingdom

Nominated for European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI 2024

1984, London: 7-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and we join Maria a decade later, living with her fos...

W ZAWIESZENIU

Poland

Nominated for European Documentary 2024, European Film 2024

Russia's invasion of Ukraine hits Alina in Irpin, near Kiev. She is alone, with her leg in a plaster after recent surgery. She manages to escape together with her cat from a bombed and cut off city with one of the...

Ireland, United Kingdom

Nominated for European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI 2024, European University Film Award 2024

When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip-hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Ir...

LARS ER LOL
Norway, Denmark

Nominated for European Young Audience Award 2024

Amanda is reluctantly tasked with taking special care of her new classmate, Lars, who has Down syndrome. To her surprise, Amanda and Lars develop a unique friendship. But in her struggle to fit in, Amanda ends up bet...

HAYAT
Turkey, Bulgaria

Hicran runs away from home when her father forces her into an engagement with Rıza. Rıza, who thinks that Hicran doesn't want to be with him, doesn't care at first. But then it starts eating him and he decides to confront the situation and embarks on a long search for Hicr...

ŽIVOT K SEŽRÁNÍ
Czech Republic, France, Slovakia

Nominated for European Animated Feature Film 2024, European Film 2024

12-year-old Ben has just hit puberty and suddenly his weight's a problem – for him and for everyone else. The other kids bully him, his divorced parents don't know what to do ....

Italy

Sicily, a small seaside village of rough stone huts, surrounded by waste and scrap. Behind a majestic mountain, Arturo, a son of poverty and violence, was born and raised here, while his mother died here giving birth to him. Betta, Nuccia and the young Anna, prostitutes like his mother, ra...

The Netherlands, Belgium

Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of the hotel he has slept in. His attempts to get out only pull him deeper, entangling him further with the hotel and its curious inhabitants.

Written & directed by: Tallula...

BIRU UNJÁRGA

Norway, Sweden, Finland

Elvira, a confident Sámi teenager, firmly believes that her mother conceived her at a Danish fertility clinic. She often daydreams about her father, envisioning him as a charismatic movie star. However, her world is turned upside down when her real biologica...

Palestine, Norway

Winner European Documentary 2024
Nominated for European Documentary 2024, European Film 2024

Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community's mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual era...

KÉK PELIKAN

Hungary

In the 1990s in Hungary, travelling is finally possible but unaffordable. By forging international train tickets, three young men provide the opportunity for a whole generation to experience the outside world.
With the fall of the Iron Curtain, Hungary’s borders suddenly ope...

Italy, United States

Nominated for European Actor 2024

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a ...

United Kingdom, France, Germany

Nominated for European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI 2024

In the corrupt hinterlands of Northern India, a newly widowed woman inherits her husband’s job as police constable through an archaic government scheme. When a young girl’s body is found, she is forced to conf...

SAUVAGES

Switzerland, France, Belgium

Nominated for European Animated Feature Film 2024, European Film 2024

In Borneo, near the tropical forest, Kéria rescues a baby orangutang in the palm oil plantation where her father works. Kéria's cousin Selaï comes to live with them seeking refuge from t...

L'HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE

France

Winner European Actor 2024, European Sound 2024
Nominated for European Actor 2024

As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining p...