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THE INVISIBLE FIGHT
NÄHTAMATU VÕITLUS
Estonia, Greece, Latvia, FinlandUSSR-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...
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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...
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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 2024February 27, 1993, Strpci, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A passenger train from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary for...
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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...
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THE OTHER WAY AROUND
VOLVERÉIS
Spain, FranceAfter 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?
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THE RYE HORN
O CORNO
Spain, Portugal, Belgium1971, 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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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WITHOUT AIR
ELFOGY A LEVEGŐ
Hungary, RomaniaAna, 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...
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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...