TARDES DE SOLEDAD

Spain, France
Documentary

Nominated for European Film 2026, European Documentary 2026

AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE is a documentary about bullfighting based on the portrait of the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey and his cuadrilla.

Written & directed by: Albert Serra
Produced by: Alber...

UNE PASTORALE AMERICAINE

France

Documentary

Nestled in a valley among Lancaster County’s rolling farmland, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania has all the charm of small-town America. Yet behind this bucolic veneer lies a fracture in the making.
After months of bitter debate over Covid-19 pandemic res...

France, Lesotho, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia

Documentary

ANCESTRAL VISIONS OF THE FUTURE is a deeply personal work by filmmaker Lemohang Mosese. With fragmented narratives and mythical images, he crafts a haunting reflection on dislocation and belonging. Enter: the puppeteer, a man who tends h...

France

Animation

In 2075, a ten-year-old girl, Iris, witnesses a mysterious boy in a rainbow suit falling from the sky. It’s Arco. He comes from an idyllic far future where time travel is possible. Iris shelters him and will do whatever it takes to help him return to his time.

Directed by: Ugo...

Italy, Germany

Animation

Inspired by a true story, the film tells the courageous choice of two boys, aged 11 and 14, who, in Sardinia in 1940, on the eve of the Second World War, free a herd of horses destined for the front. An idealistic and rebellious gesture that becomes a symbol of freedom ...

ΑΡΚΟΥΔΌΤΡΥΠΑ

Greece, United Kingdom

Fiction

Set in the Greek mountain village of Tirna, Bearcave follows Argyro, a badass farmer, and her best friend Anneta, the village “It” girl and local manicurist. Once Anneta admits that she’s pregnant and planning to leave town with her lame cop boyfrien...

United Kingdom

Documentary

After enduring many decades of embarrassment and discomfort, the filmmaker finally admits that possessing the most common name in the English-speaking world has had a profound impact on his psyche. Peppered with disparate fragments of autobiography, BEING JOHN SMITH t...

TERNET NINJA 3

Denmark

Animation

After their adventures in Thailand time has gone by, Alex and Checkered Ninja are back home, and things are back to normal. Maybe a bit too normal. Alex’s interest in Ninja missions is decreasing and Checkerd Ninja feels left behind and yearns to find a new mis...

Ireland, United Kingdom

Fiction

Seventeen-year-old Christy is at a crossroads. He's just been thrown out of his pleasant suburban foster home and moved in with his estranged older brother Shane. As far as Shane is concerned this is a temporary arrangement, but Christy begins to feel at home on ...

Netherlands

Documentary

Through a collage of personal archive footage and photographs, the history emerges of a small, metaphorical city where all the streets are named after poets. The town’s psychogeography defines the mental and emotional state of its inhabitants, who live in a utopian illus...

DIEVA SUNS

Latvia, United States

Animation

In a 17th-century Swedish Livonian village, constant rain and drunkenness prevail. When a stolen relic sparks witchcraft accusations, an 80-year-old self-proclaimed werewolf named The Dog of God arrives with a mysterious gift: The Devil's Balls. This ...

DRØMMER

Norway

Fiction

Johanne falls in love for the first time, with her teacher. To preserve her feelings, she documents her emotions and experiences in writing. When her mother and grandmother read what she has written, they are initially shocked by its intimate content but soon see that it...

Italy, France

Fiction

After decades on stage, Eleonora Duse looks back on a legendary career that seems to have run its course. But in the savage days between World War I and the rise of Fascism, the Divine Duse heeds a call stronger than any resignation and returns to where her life began: the...

OTEC

Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland

Fiction

A tragic mistake destroys a man’s life, isolating him in guilt and shaking his marriage. Now facing prison, can he find a path to forgiveness? Can love survive what no heart was built to endure?

Directed by: Tereza Nvotová
Written by: Tereza Nvoto...

Croatia, Slovenia, Italy
Documentary

Winner European Documentary 2026
Nominated for European Film 2026, European Documentary 2026

On 12 September 1919, a troop of some three hundred soldiers under the leadership of the flamboyant war loving Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio swooped into the Nort...

HISTORIAS DEL BUEN VALLE

Spain, France

Documentary

On the outskirts of Barcelona, Vallbona is an enclave bordered by a river, railway tracks, and a highway. Antonio, the son of Catalan workers, has been growing flowers here for nearly 90 years. He’s been joined by Makome, Norma, Tatiana, comi...

TÓC, GIẤY VÀ NƯỚC...

Belgium, France, Vietnam

Documentary

Cao Thị Hậu was born in a cave more than 60 years ago. Now she lives in a village, with many children and grandchildren to look after. Sometimes, she dreams of her dead mother calling her home – to the cave. The film captures fleeting m...

VÉLETLENÜL ÍRTAM EGY KÖNYVET

Hungary/Netherlands 2024
Fiction

Nominee European Young Audience Award 2026

I ACCIDENTALLY WROTE A BOOK tells the very personal and inspiring story of a 12-year-old girl, Nina, who discovers the healing power of writing. As she learns to write, Nina uncovers her fa...

UN SIMPLE ACCIDENT

France, Iran, Luxembourg

Fiction

Iran, present day. A man happens to bump into someone he believes to be his former torturer. But when faced with this family man who vehemently denies having been his tormentor, doubt sets in.

Directed by: Jafar Panahi
Written by: Jafar Pana...

HELDIN

Switzerland, Germany

Fiction

Floria, a dedicated nurse, navigates the relentless pace of her hospital’s understaffed surgical ward with humanity and warmth. As the day intensifies, she is pushed to the brink in a race against time.

Written & directed by: Petra Volpe
Produced by: Reto ...

France

Fiction

Aliou, a rising student at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, sells a painting of his deceased mother for 3,000 euros to a renowned collector. The delivery of the painting then becomes a long journey during which he will realise the weight of the money he earned.

Directed by: Djiby Kebe
W...

KOUTÉ VWA

Belgium, France

Documentary

Melrick, a 13-year-old boy, spends his summer vacation in Cayenne with his grandmother Nicole. His desire to learn to play the drum brings back the spectre of Lucas, Nicole's son, also a drummer, who died in tragic conditions 11 years earlier.

Directed b...

AMÉLIE ET LA MÉTAPHYSIQUE DES TUBES

France

Animation

Amélie is a little Belgian girl born in Japan. Thanks to her friend Nishio-San, the world is full of adventures and discoveries. But on the day of her third birthday, an event changes the course of her life. Because for Amélie everything is ...

KAJ TI JE DEKLICA

Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia

Fiction

Introverted 16-year-old Lucia joins her Catholic school's all-girls choir, where she befriends Ana-Maria, a popular and flirty third-year student. But when the choir travels to a countryside convent for a weekend of intensive rehearsal...