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  • THE INVISIBLE FIGHT

    NÄHTAMATU VÕITLUS
    Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Finland

    USSR-China border, 1973: Young soldier Rafael is on guard duty when the border falls under attack from flying Chinese kung fu warriors, leaving him as the sole survivor. Utterly fascinated by the long-haired martial artists who easily dispatched...

  • THE LANDSCAPE AND THE FURY

    Switzerland

    This is a cinematographic essay centring around the region of the Bosnian-Croatian border near Velika Kladuša, and explores questions of displacement, violence and also everyday life and coincidence. It is about scars that break open, war memories that are awakened, profound encounte...

  • THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT

    ČOVJEK KOJI NIJE MOGAO ŠUTJETI

    Croatia, France, Bulgaria, Slovenia

    Fiction

    Winner European Short Film – Prix Vimeo 2024
    Nominated for European Short Film – Prix Vimeo 2024

    February 27, 1993, Strpci, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A passenger train from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary for...

  • THE NEW YEAR THAT NEVER CAME

    ANUL NOU CARE N-A FOST

    Romania, Serbia

    Nominated for European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI 2024

    It is the 20th of December, 1989, and Ceaușescu’s regime is on its last legs. The army violently suppresses an uprising in Timișoara, but any news that reaches Bucharest is scant and sanitised. Six peo...

  • THE OTHER WAY AROUND

    VOLVERÉIS
    Spain, France

    After 15 years together, Ale and Alex have come up with the crazy idea of throwing a party to celebrate their recent breakup. While their close ones are quite skeptical, they seem to be sure of their decision. Or are they really?

    Directed by: Jonás Trueba
    Written by: Jon...

  • THE RYE HORN

    O CORNO
    Spain, Portugal, Belgium

    1971, Francoist Spain. In the Galician countryside María assists women in childbirth. After an attempt to help a young woman in trouble, she suddenly has to hide from the authorities, leave everything behind and flee the country.
    On her perilous journey to Portug...

  • THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG

    DANAYE ANJIR-E MOABAD

    Germany, France

    Nominated for European Director 2024, European Screenwriter 2024, European Film 2024

    The celebration of Iman’s latest promotion as investigating judge in the Revolutionary Guard Court coincides with widespread public protests after the death of a young wom...

  • THE SHAMELESS

    Switzerland, France, Bulgaria, Taiwan, India

    In the dead of night, Renuka escapes from a Delhi brothel after stabbing a policeman to death. She takes refuge in a community of sex workers in northern India, where she meets Devika, a young girl condemned to a life of prostitution. Their bond devel...

  • THE SPARROW IN THE CHIMNEY

    DER SPATZ IM KAMIN

    Switzerland

    Karen lives with her husband Markus and their children in her idyllically located childhood home. For Markus’ birthday, Karen’s sister Jule, her husband Jurek and their two children come to visit. Jule is her sister’s polar opposite: easy-going, lively and a freed...

  • THE VEILED CITY

    United Kingdom

    Documentary/experimental

    A speculative city symphony inspired by London’s Great Smog of 1952. Merging reality with fiction, THE VEILED CITY invites us to understand the smog in the context of the present-day climate crisis.

    Written & directed by: Natalie Cubides-Brady
    Produced b...

  • THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE

    Austria, Germany, France, Somalia

    In a windy Somali village, a newly assembled family must navigate between their different aspirations and the complex world surrounding them. Love, trust and resilience will power them through their life paths.

    Written & directed by: Mo Harawe
    Produced by: Sabi...

  • THE WORDS WOMEN SPOKE ONE DAY

    LES MOTS QU'ELLES EURENT UN JOUR

    France

    In 1962, Yann Le Masson filmed Algerian women activists on their release from prison in France. More than 50 years later, with the soundtrack of the footage having been lost, I set out to find these women.
    This film investigation tells their silent story ...

  • UN AMOR

    Spain

    Escaping her overwhelming life in the city, thirty-year-old Natalia finds refuge in the small village of La Escapa, deep in the Spanish countryside. In a rustic derelict house, flanked by a wild and clumsy dog at her side, the young woman aims to rebuild anew. When confronted with the host...

  • VALERIJA

    Croatia

    Documentary/experimental

    This hybrid film takes us on a journey into a world without men, where women choose the image that will represent them after they die. Through a participatory process, the author silently questions: How does it feel to have a family tree consisting only of women...

  • WANDER TO WONDER

    The Netherlands, France, Belgium, United Kingdom

    Animation

    Nominated for European Short Film – Prix Vimeo 2024

    Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton are three miniature actors who star in a kids’ TV series. After their creator dies, they are left alone in the studio. With their slowly decaying costume...

  • WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS

    LJÓSBROT

    Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France

    Winner European Make-Up & Hair 2024

    When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty.

    Written & directed by: Rúnar Rúnarsson
    Produced by: ...

  • WINDLESS

    БЕЗВЕТРИЕ

    Bulgaria, Italy

    Kaloyan returns home to handle the sale of his late father’s apartment. At the beginning the process starts as a routine mundane task, but soon transcends into a journey of self-discovery that tries to track the connection between childhood trauma, memory and the passa...

  • WINNERS

    SIEGER SEIN

    Germany

    Nominated for European Young Audience Award 2024

    Eleven-year-old Mona fled Syria with her Kurdish family and goes to a school in Wedding in Berlin. Mona doesn’t know a word of German, but she can speak football. The dedicated teacher Mr. Chepovsky, or Mr. Che for short, rec...

  • WITHOUT AIR

    ELFOGY A LEVEGŐ
    Hungary, Romania

    Ana, a literature teacher, is being accused of misconduct for suggesting students Agnieszka Holland’s TOTAL ECLIPSE to her 17-year-old students so they can better understand Rimbaud’s work. She has to decide whether to stand up for the values she represents or to...

  • ZIMA

    Poland

    Animation

    It grows slowly as an icicle, but one day it drops and crashes. Anka loves cats. And Jesus. In a winter silence the lagoon freezes and the unspoken resurfaces like crack on ice. Mosaic portrait of a small fisherman's village where human to human, human to animal, animal to anim...