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Portugal

Fiction

End of spring. A sonata, a letter, a bouquet of flowers. A train runs slowly through the landscape of São João da Madeira, a small town in the north of Portugal. Samuel, 38, devotes his days to his work as a flute teacher and the rituals of mourning the early death o...

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...

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...

Slovenia, United Kingdom

Documentary/fiction

In a not-too-distant future ravaged by climate crisis, a team of scientists analyses archival footage of farmers from the past in an attempt to understand their connection to the land.

Directed by: Gregor Božič
Written by: Marina Gumzi, Gregor Božič...

ТАТОВА ПОДРЯПИНКА

Ukraine

Fiction

For the first time, Slava spends a day with her father, Roman, who is home on leave from the war. They go to return an expensive carpet he bought for her, and Slava must navigate the distance that eight years of service have created between them.

Directed by:...

Germany

Animation

War for our attention has suddenly become an actual war. Information technologies appear not just as mere means for somebody’s ends but as something having their agency, as one of the acting forces rendering possible a horrific event, which is very hard to accept and almost im...

Netherlands, Poland

Experimental

Film created from archival materials of the Educational Film Studio in Łódź, tells the story of a matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems. Originally created as didactic and propa...

MUA BESOJ MË SHPËTOJ PORTRETI

Kosovo, Netherlands

Documentary

Twenty-five years after his abduction during the Kosovo War, painter Skender Muja recalls a pivotal moment of survival. During the war’s final months, Muja and many Albanian citizens from Mitrovica were captured while attempting to ...

France, Greece, Palestine

Fiction

Two brothers return to the island of their childhood, where buried secrets and heavy tensions force them to confront a dark past that connects them.

Written & directed by: Tawfeek Barhom
Produced by: Tawfeek Barhom, Akis Polizos, Stylianos Kotionis, Alexandre ...

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...

TUŠINUKAS

Lithuania

Fiction

It's a sunny summer day at a suburban school. Schoolteacher Velta gazes at pupils celebrating the end of their final exam. Her son Paulius is there. Velta is distracted by knocking on a classroom door.
Helped by a colleague working at an exam committee, Velta secret...

Netherlands, Switzerland

Fiction

Having just moved to Amsterdam, Lou prepares her new apartment that she will share with her partner, Joel. Though for now, Joel is on a trip with an intimate other. Confronted with the complexities of her non-monogamous relationship, Lou shifts her gaze to the r...

United Kingdom

Documentary/experimental

Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.

Written & directed by: Miranda Pennell
Produced by: Miranda Pennell
Editing: Miranda Pennell
Sound: Philippe Ciomp...

United Kingdom

Fiction

A modern musical between Tess and her daughter Justine. After suffering a fall, the doctor expresses to Tess, from the CT scan, a potential presence of a lump in her breast and recommends a mammogram. Justine accompanies her and ultimately uncovering the real reason of th...

Iceland, Sweden

Fiction

I walk in a circle
around everything which is.
And within this circle
is your world.
My shadow fell for a moment
on the window’s glass.

I walk in a circle
around everything which is.
And outside this circle
is my world.

(‘Outside the Circle’ by Steinn Steinarr, transla...

United Kingdom

Fiction

Manny, a single father grappling with intense loneliness after his daughter leaves for university. Struggles with empty nest syndrome that begins to manifest with grotesque physical symptoms – as his stomach inexplicably starts to swell.

Written & directed by: Matty Craw...

Italy

Animation/experimental

He does not remember much from that time. Things have faded, like the color of a painting after too much light. The only thing that bothers him is this music. It keeps popping up … He thinks he forgot what it meant. All he knows for sure is that he cannot get it out...

United Kingdom

Documentary

When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wildflowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender essay film questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected...

LA IDEA DE UNA ISLA

Spain

Experimental/fiction

Bombs are falling while a mother sings to her daughters. Nature shivers. Houses become empty.
9-year-old Emilia is about to learn that the war around her is not a game anymore.

Written & directed by: Carmen Pedrero
Produced by: Eva Bodas, Maribel...

DIE LETZTEN MENSCHEN

Austria

Fiction

Lenz is a humble character. But things seem to be changing in his village. Fabian beats someone half to death and Carina wants to move to New York. When a great love does not come true for him, Lenz has to accept that his little world is slowly fading away....

LA LIGNE DE VIE

France

Fiction

24 December 1916. On the other side of a German checkpoint, a truck carrying mail is stopped and riddled with bullets. Inside, a man lies dead. Another man and a woman, on a postal mission, proclaim their innocence in the death of their travelling companion and t...

Greece, United States

Documentary/fiction

In a timeworn Greek village nestled high in the mountains above an ancient volcano, a group of elderly villagers must move the remains of their ancestors to a mausoleum at the peak of the mountain of Prophet Elias …

Directed by: Kevin Walker, Irene Zah...

Ireland, United Kingdom

Documentary

WE BEG TO DIFFER explores Northern Ireland's underground car community amidst a mental health crisis. The documentary showcases the community's deep bonds, passion for cars as an outlet for personal struggles, and daring spirit all while evading the law.

Dir...

Austria

Experimental

A golfer fails to strike, a soccer team plays against itself and a rally co-driver faces an identity crisis. They are surrounded by an audience unable to act.
Shot in sports video games, the film WORLD AT STAKE turns the ordering principles of victory and defeat upside down...