ARKOUDOTRYPA

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 boyfrie...

United Kingdom, United States, South Korea

Fiction

Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
Written by: Will Tracy
Produced by: Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorg...

DOSSIER 137

France

Fiction

Stéphanie, a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she finds no evidence of illegitimate police violence, the case takes a personal turn when ...

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 ...

SORDA

Spain

Fiction

Ángela, a deaf woman, is going to have a child with Héctor, her hearing partner. The arrival of the baby triggers a crisis in the couple, leading Angela to face the upbringing of her daughter in a world that is not made for her.

Written & directed by: Eva Libertad
Produced...

United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Fiction

A hopeful young and loving couple, Grace and Jackson, move from New York to an inherited house in the country.
Grace tries to find her identity with a new baby in the isolated environment. Yet as she begins to unravel, it's not in weakness but imagi...

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...

Czech Republic, Germany, Poland

Fiction

Award-winning director Agnieszka Holland is embarking on her most ambitious project to date, a biopic of the iconic 20th-century Czech writer Franz Kafka. Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic, the film will follow the imprint Kafka left on the world from h...

Italy, France

Fiction

Rome, 1980. After her magnum opus ‘The Art of Joy’ has been rejected by all the Italian publishers she sends it to, the writer Goliarda Sapienza ends up in prison for stealing some jewelry, but her encounter with some of the young inmates turns out to be a life-changing ex...

O RISO E A FACA

Portugal, France, Brazil, Romania

Fiction

Sérgio travels to a metropolis in West Africa to work for an NGO as an environmental engineer on a road project between the desert and the jungle. There, he becomes entangled in an intimate yet unbalanced relationship with two inhabitan...

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.

Written & directed by: Jafar Panahi
Produced by:...

Italy

Fiction

Mariano De Santis is the President of the Italian Republic (no connection to any real-life presidents; he is entirely a product of the author's imagination).
A widower and a Catholic, he has a daughter, Dorotea, a legal scholar like himself.
As his term draws to a close, amid une...

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 ...

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...

ELSKLING

Norway

Fiction

Maria juggles with four children and a demanding career while her second husband, Sigmund, travels all the time. One day they get into an ugly argument which led Sigmund to eventually ask her for a divorce.

Written & directed by: Lilja Ingolfsdottir
Produced by: Thomas...

France

Fiction

At the end of summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she’s had relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he files a lawsuit to strip her of their son’s custody. Then begins a struggle of several years for Clémence to defend her right to be a mother and a w...

Spain

Fiction

Vicente, now 76 years old, came out of the closet and left his wife and daughter when he was 50. He has spent the last 25 years living happily with his partner in Maspalomas (Gran Canaria). However, everything is turned upside down when Vicente suffers a stroke that leaves him in ...

DINTI DE LAPTE

Romania, France, Denmark, Greece, Bulgaria

Fiction

Romania, 1989. The twilight of Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship. In a small, isolated town, Maria, a ten-year-old girl, is the last person to witness her sister disappearing in front of her eyes. Torn apart by the loss, she is t...

MIROIRS NO. 3

Germany

Fiction

On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura, a piano student from Berlin, miraculously survives a car crash. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident and now cares for Laura with motherly devotion. When the w...

North Macedonia, Belgium

Fiction

Kolkata, India, August 1948. Teresa, Mother Superior of the convent of the Sisters of Loreto, is anxiously waiting for the letter that will finally allow her to leave her monastery and create a new order in response to the call she has received from God. And ju...

France, Palestine, Germany, Portugal, Qatar, Jordan

Fiction

Gaza, 2007. Yahya, a young student, forges a friendship with Osama, a charismatic restaurant owner with a big heart. Together, they start peddling drugs while delivering falafel sandwiches, but they are soon forced to grapple with a co...

HEMME'NİN ÖLDÜĞÜ GÜNLERDEN BİRİ

Turkey, Germany

Fiction

Having gone bankrupt in Izmir, Eyüp returns to Siverek and begins drying tomatoes with the villagers. Unable to earn his daily wages, he argues with his foreman, Hemme, and the argument escalates into a fight. Driven by anger and despair...