Official Selection

Kismet

A Palestinian immigrant mother who has been separated from her son for years eagerly counts down the days until their long-awaited reunion; her plans are unexpectedly disrupted by a haunting encounter…

Eyelashes

Mohammad, a 27-year-old newcomer to London, pursues his dream of being an actor. The financial sacrifices paired with the cultural differences threaten this journey, challenging his faith every step of the way…

Céremony

In a near-future where perception of minors in distress is heavily filtered, the only survivor of a city erased in an apocalyptic strike, a 12-year-old girl, is interviewed to tell the world what happened. But she holds the key to a darker truth…

Nashville Payphone

Set in Nashville, a payphone becomes a silent observer to four moments of connection across time.

SUMMER 1990

In the summer of 1990, Nathan spends a season in rural Provence, where he forms an unusually deep bond with Nora, a local girl who becomes the closest friend he’s ever had. Eighteen years later, a brief encounter on the Tube pulls him back into everything…

The Hum

This Mockumentary portrays “The Hum”, a cult festival on a remote Scottish isle where locals operate colossal modular synthesizers deep within limestone caves…

Arnaldo Had An Idea

In a dusty pawn shop in Casablanca, Arnaldo has the idea of his life. But without a pencil to record it, he begins a frantic search through chaos, dust, and disbelief. What starts as revelation turns into delirium, a chase through markets and metaphysics…

Dobrina

Lotte Reiniger meets Sergio Leone in this animated short, where desire burns as bright as the desert sun. A brand-new animated short that premiered in June 2025, successfully touring the festival circuit now…

Freedom

Under fascist rule, what is worth saving? And how far will you go to save it?

Other I

In a vast cathedral devoted to a strange, otherworldly deity, a young girl offers gifts that begin as harmless token of devotion but escalate into brutal sacrifices of her own body…

CUPS & BALLS

The world of lab technician Vanja is thrown off balance when his best friend shows up at the fertility clinic with her partner. The fact that they want to conceive a baby using a sample from Vanja’s ex-date causes a game of bruised egos to spiral out of control…

Teodoro

It is the morning after Valentine’s Day. Sole is being accused of the alleged sexual abuse of Teodoro, her teddy bear. Graciela, her maid and friend, is the one who reported her to the police. Agents Justi and Roque must find out what happened in Sole’s house…

Je t’écris / I Write To You

“I Write To You” is a documentary and a comedy that questions us about the language written in our speedy society: has this form of expression completely disappeared or just mutated? Do these changes have an effect on morals?

The Hero’s Childhood

Childhood is a place that never quite leaves us. In this documentary, illustrator Arly Jones sets out on a journey back to the moment, at the age of twelve, when the images that still shape his work first began to emerge…

Hellenotopia

Stavros, an anti-hero, lives with his wife, a femme fatale, and their young daughter. Against the backdrop of a corrupt State and amidst social degradation, he strives to survive stalking on illicit couples on behalf of a seedy low-life…

ISOLA

Joanna, who’s stuck on an island with her disabled and much older husband Oskar, enters into a strange relationship with his caretaker Ada. The two women become entangled in a cat and mouse game with fatal consequences…

Against Your Nature

After a deadly pandemic wipes out the majority of the global population, the modern world is left paralysed. What little is left of humanity is forced to struggle under unstable governments, and a rural, self-sufficient life is the only option to maintain a semblance of normality.

An excess baggage

Sophie hides her unease within the intense bond she shares with her daughter, Lila. When Lila leaves for summer camp, Sophie finds herself alone for the first time, overwhelmed by separation and emotional dependency…

As they pass

It’s 8 p.m. Just as she’s about to leave her apartment, Lise, a freelance graphic designer, receives a phone call from her father. Nothing extraordinary so far… except that he has been dead for two years. He calls to invite her to his birthday…

CLOCKING OUT

A woman wants to finally call it a day after a terribly long day at work. On her way home, a man who appears to be a police officer points out a supposed problem with her car…

Irrevocable Sentence

When a courtroom outcome leaves Alexis -a charismatic dance-school owner- walking free, Andreas, a quiet ex-military musician, refuses to let procedure be the final word. He plans with the precision of a metronome and draws his target into a stark…

Le Phare d’Arundel / Arundel’s Lighthouse

Arundel’s Lighthouse is a poetic parable set in a French city by the sea. When a mysterious woman concerned with mortality shows up at a psychiatrist’s door, the two go on a long journey through time…

PRESCRIPTION

Selena lives with her mother, with her memory. Her brother’s return reveals that her grief has taken an unexpected form. Selena loves her mother more than anything, enough to defy death itself. But how far can love go when it refuses to let go?

The strength of silence

In the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the documentary The Strength of Silence follows the life of Letebirhan, a 17-year-old girl whose life was fractured by war. Kidnapped, a survivor of sexual violence, and left to raise a child born from trauma…

Ghosts

Memories are with us. They stand as objects from the past holding us in the present. We are unable to escape them despite the passing of time. As we attempt to elude history our memories always return and exist as truths in the present…

KOBIKA

“Kobika” drifts between memory and abstraction, moving through images that breathe more than they explain. Guided by voice and silence, it listens to the spaces between gestures. Where echoes, movement, and fragments of sound speak what words cannot…

Reddening

Spheres is an homage to life, a poetic essay that drifts through a series of expanding spheres, each revealing a different layer of our shared reality, from the microscopic to the mythical…

Spheres

A minimalist experimental piece built around form, motion and atmosphere, creating an immersive and meditative cinematic experience.

Sunyata

A sound engineer’s poetic quest to understand the meaning of silence in our noisy world. This contemplative short film invites us to listen deeply to the spaces between sounds—where true presence might be found…

Born to Dance

Nathalie, a young dancer, trapped in a black-and-white world of discipline, battles perfectionism and self-rejection during a solo rehearsal…

Bush

Bush is a fierce, body-positive music video for Iranian-American artist Dornika. Through bold choreography, stylised visuals, and a defiant pop sound…

FOLLOW THIS DOWN

A mantra to help us remember to follow our own path and navigate our own way through a World filled with competing narratives…

L’ABRICOT

Pocket Call’s first music video tells the story of a very special casting call…

The Obelisk

Traveling alone in what appears to be the aftermath of the breakdown of American society, DAVID weaves through the destruction of the rural northeast, desperate for respite from his debilitating mental and physical conditions…

The Village of Wind

A woman named Wind, carrying her timer every day, waits by the lakeside in her village for the hero she envisions in her heart…

Abja and Her Pickled Eggs

With her 40th birthday looming, a single, working-class woman must decide whether to freeze her eggs…

I Owe You A Touch

Following a personal tragedy, teenage “Seif” sets out to cleanse himself, only to find that the path to water is anything but simple…

Moti

One day a dog named Moti turns into a boy. Shocked and confused, Moti’s human masters take him to the hospital to find out what is wrong…

The Third Dream

A dreamer resists interrogation by a relentless doctor determined to extract the truth about his dream. As pressure deepens, memories are altered, erased, and rewritten at will…

Too Far, Too Late

During a short drive between two nearby cities to find medicine, Morteza receives news that changes everything. He chooses not to tell his father and lets the journey continue as planned…

PUNKIE

This documentary is a raw, behind the scenes portrait of stand up comedian and Saturday Night Live star Punkie Johnson, as she battles the chaos of life on the road and fights to protect her authentic artistic voice while confronting a spiraling personal crisis…

THE SAMI SONG OF SURVIVAL: Indigenous Activism on the Northern Frontier

Sami people, based primarily in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, continue their struggles against oppression and colonialism, old and new…

Betrayal

In “Happy City,” children live under strict state supervision. Each night, minors are required to drink a “Goodnight Milk” that ensures deep, uninterrupted sleep. But one evening, 10-year-old Li Lei secretly feeds his milk to a stray cat and stays awake…

Inkubus

Germany in the 17th century: After marrying into a peasant family, Hildegard finds herself caught up in a maelstrom of patriarchal and clerical violence…

Someone’s Watching. Somewhere.

An aspiring Pilates influencer discovers that the security guard of her apartment building is secretly recording intimate moments of the residents – and must choose between exposing the truth or protecting her carefully crafted image…

Tage der Flucht / Days of crossing the border

GDR, 1985. Living under constant threat of exposure and unable to say a proper goodbye, the young lovers Kathi and Ina plan their escape to the West. But as they attempt to cross the border, their plan shatters…

Teresa, Station B

Nurse Teresa must leave her children at home to begin her hospital shift. When her son injures his head, she realizes she cannot leave the ward as the only qualified caregiver. She reaches out to her ex-husband, who steps in but threatens to take custody…

The Beanie

At morning recess, a young schoolboy hesitates at the edge of the schoolyard, where his fears twist the playground into a chaotic battlefield…

Battleship Jean Bart: Race Against the Clock

The Present

The Measure of She

Weight

La Mort de l’Oiseau

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