DES TEUFELS BAD
Austria, Germany

Upper Austria in 1750: Agnes, a young married woman, doesn’t feel at home in her husband’s world. The deeply religious and highly sensitive woman withdraws into herself, moving further and further away from the rural world of work and everyday life. Ultimately, a...

Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden

Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily lif...

PIGEN MED NÅLEN
Denmark, Poland, Sweden

Nominated for European Screenwriter 20242, European Actress 2024 (2x)

Karoline, a young factory worker, is struggling to survive in post WW1 Copenhagen. When she finds herself unemployed, abandoned and pregnant, she meets Dagmar, a charismatic woman runni...

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...

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 peop...

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...

C'È ANCORA DOMANI
Italy

In post-war Rome, a city torn between its newfound liberation and the miserable aftermath of the war, Delia is seemingly resigned to her traditional role of wife and mother. Her husband Ivano is the undisputed master of the family. Delia sees her daughter Marcella’s engag...

Spain

SCREENER AVAILABLE 15 - 28 November

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

Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction nov...

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...

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 woma...

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...

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 freedo...

United Kingdom, United States, France

Nominated for European Screenwriter 2024, European Film 2024

Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself?
You. Only better in every way.
You’ve got to try this product: The Substance.
It changed my life.
Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister past he...

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...

TREI KILOMETRI PANA LA CAPATUL LUMII
Romania

Nominated for European University Film Award 2024

Adi (17) is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta. One night he is brutally attacked on the street, the next day his world is turned upside-down. His parents no longer look at hi...

AKIPLĖŠA
Lithuania

Nominated for European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI 2024

Dreaming of an escape from the bleakness of their hometown, two teens form a unique bond at a local modelling school, where the promise of a better life pushes girls to violate their bodies in increasingly extreme ways.

W...

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...

Italy, France, Belgium

Nominated for European Director 2024, European Film 2024

1944. In Vermiglio, a mountain village where the war is a distant but omnipresent horizon, the arrival of Pietro, a soldier escaping the war, disrupts the dynamics of the local schoolmaster’s large family, changing ...

LJÓSBROT
Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France

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: Heather Millard, Rúnar Rúnarsson, Raym...

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 passag...

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...