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...

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...

FUORI

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 jewellery, but her encounter with some of the young inmates turns out to be a life-chan...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

United Kingdom, Portugal

Fiction

Portuguese immigrant Aurora works as a warehouse picker in a vast fulfilment centre in Scotland. Trapped between the confines of her workplace and her flatshare, Aurora seeks to resist the loneliness, alienation and ensuing small talk which begin to threaten her...

United Kingdom

Fiction

A timid man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive.

Written & directed by: Harry Lighton
Produced by: Emma Norton, Lee Groombridge, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe
Cinematography: Nick Morris
Editing: Gareth C. Scales
Pro...

ROMERÍA

Spain, Germany

Fiction

Marina, 18, orphaned at a young age, must travel to Spain’s Atlantic coast to obtain a signature for a scholarship application from the paternal grandparents she has never met. She navigates a sea of new aunts, uncles, and cousins, uncertain whether she will be e...

SIRÂT

Spain, France

Fiction

A father and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They’re searching for Mar – daughter and sister – who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freed...

IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN

Germany

Fiction

Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home has been evolving for over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each o...

LA PETITE DERNIÈRE

France, Germany

Fiction

Fatima, 17, the youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path, grappling with emerging desires, her attraction to women, and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family. Starting university in Paris, she dates, ma...

ÁSTIN SEM EFTIR ER

Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, France

Fiction

The film tenderly captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through both playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays the bittersweet essence of faded love and shared memories amidst the cha...

France, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania

Fiction

Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination, upon the desk of the newly appointed local prosecutor, Alexa...

WAS MARIELLE WEISS

Germany

Fiction

Julia and Tobias seem to be the perfect couple. Yet behind the facade and designer kitchen, trouble is brewing. Their fragile balance is shattered when their daughter Marielle suddenly develops telepathic abilities, giving her the power to see and hear everyt...

KEN

France, Israel, Cyprus, Germany

Fiction

Israel, in the aftermath of October 7.
Y., a jazz musician struggling to make ends meet, and his wife Jasmine, a dancer, sell their art, souls and bodies to the elite, and bring pleasure and consolation to a bleeding nation. Soon, Y. is given a missi...