OUR FILMS
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RIVIERA
by Orfeas Peretzis A dying palm tree, a doomed romance, and a mother who wants to move on. This will be Alkistis’ last summer on the Athenian Riviera. Greece/France, 83', 2024 |
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YEN AND AI-LEE (XIAO YAN YU WU AI-LEE)
by Tom Shu-yu Lin Yen returns to her Hakkanese village in Kaohsiung after serving eight years in prison. Amidst her attempt to reconcile with her widowed mother, the enigmatic and urban Ai-Lee enters. As their fates intertwine, how will they inevitably confront their truths? Taiwan, 107', 2024 |
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WHEN THE PHONE RANG (KADA JE ZAZVONIO TELEFON)
by Iva Radivojević Through an intimate reconstruction of an important phone call, When The Phone Rang investigates dislocation and the nature of remembering. In the protagonist’s eleven year old mind the phone call erases her entire country, history and identity. Serbia/USA, 73', 2024 |
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CONTINENTE (CONTINENT)
by Davi Pretto In a secluded village of southern Brazil, a young woman returns after years as her father, the village’s powerful farm owner, is dying. While she must take over a legacy heavier than it seems, the sole local doctor struggles to protect the inhabitants from a mysterious settlement. Brazil/France/Argentina, 115', 2024 |
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78 DAYS (78 DANA)
by Emilija Gasic When their father is drafted in the military during 1999 NATO bombing in Serbia, three sisters start a hi8 video journal awaiting his comeback. Serbia/Republika Srpska/Bosnia and Herzegovina, 85', 2024 |
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TERRA NOVA, IL PAESE DELLE OMBRE LUNGHE
by Lorenzo Pallotta Antarctica (1988): a ship must escape from the grip of the ice to reach Terra Nova Bay. Italy, 53', 2023 |
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FAMILY PORTRAIT
by Lucy Kerr A sprawling family's futile attempts at capturing a family photo take a dreamlike turn when the matriarch vanishes and one daughter becomes desperate to find her. USA, 75', 2023 |
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DREAMING & DYING (HAO JIU BU JIAN)
by Nelson Yeo Three middle aged friends reunite for the first time in years. Each of them sets out to confess unexpressed feelings but their vacation takes a surprising turn when the undercurrent of their past lives threaten to resurface. Singapore/Indonesia, 77’, 2023 |
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A STRANGE PATH (ESTRANHO CAMINHO)
by Guto Parente A young filmmaker returns to his hometown and attempts to reconnect with his father as the pandemic rapidly accelerates across Brazil. However, their relationship proves to be more complicated with increasingly bizarre phenomena occurring as they get closer. Brazil, 83', 2023 |
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TAXIBOL
by Tommaso Santambrogio Driving around the streets of Cuba, Lav Diaz – the famous Filipino director – and Gustavo Flecha - a talkative Cuban taxi driver – find themselves discussing about politics, migration, social conditions and love; touching many personal stories and experiences, they create an historical affresco of the conditions of their own countries. Italy, 50', 2023 |
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MAMMALIA
by Sebastian Mihăilescu Camil, a man on the brink of losing control, discovers a world of strange rituals and unsettling communities. Romania/Poland/Germany, 88’, 2023 |
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SUMMER TO COME (JÖVŐ NYÁR)
by György Mór Kárpáti Two boys and a girl in a high school summer camp – a year later, following the suicide of one of the boys, the remaining two return to the same place. Hungary, 2022, 73' |
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BANU
by Tahmina Rafaella Accused of being an unfit mother by her influential husband, Banu fights for the custody of her son amid the chaos of the final days of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. Azerbaijan, Italy, France, Iran, 2022, 90' |
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MOUNTAIN ONION (GORNYI LUK)
by Eldar Shibanov About 11-year-old Jabai sells mountain onions alongside the highway and one day he catches his idol trucker having sex with his mom. Jabai and his sister, Saniya, embark on a journey from their small village in Kazakhstan to China, to obtain the only thing that will save their father and help him become a strong man, the ‘Golden Viagra’. Kazakhstan, 2022, 90' |
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LOVE DOG
by Bianca Lucas After finishing a job on a Texas oil rig, John returns to his home town in Mississippi - where he will confront not only his own repressed trauma, but that of a society grieving dying American myths. Poland/Mexico/USA, 2022, 84' |
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SIETE PERROS (SEVEN DOGS)
by Rodrigo Guerrero Ernesto lives with his seven dogs in an apartment building in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. His lonely daily routine revolves around his pets’ needs, his health problems and his money problems. Argentina, 2021, 83' |
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SACRO MODERNO (THE CHILDREN OF SLEEPING GIANT)
by Lorenzo Pallotta Simone is a young man that, even if with hesitations and new awareness, brings forward traditions and memories of a small mountain community that is slowly fading away, while Filippo is trying to distance himself from it, spiritually and mentally. Italy, 2021, 70' |
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LÚA VERMELLA (RED MOON TIDE)
by Lois Patiño In a village where the sea and the moon are near, there was a monster, three witches, many ghosts and a shipwrecked man. Spain, 2020, 84' |
