OUR FILMS
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DOG AND WOLF (PES A VLK)
by Terézia Halamová Rudo is a 25-year-old stripper who has chosen to embrace a life of perpetual partying and sleep deprivation. As he navigates through the chaotic nightlife fueled by drugs and dance, memories of his ex-girlfriend Misha haunt him, reminding him of broken promises and lost connections. Czech Republic, 20', 2025 |
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ACROSS THE RIVER (LI LUN NAVIS)
by Shengjie He Two men start a random conversation after one of them saved the life of the other man's son. Everything seems going well between them as they keep talking by the lake but beneath that calm water there is a surging wave. China, 14', 2025 |
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ALI
by Adnan Al Rajeev In a coastal town, women are not allowed to sing. A teenager joins a singing competition for a chance to move to the city, while hiding his true voice in a sinister way. Bangladesh/Philippines, 15', 2025 |
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CRITICAL CONDITION
by Mila Zhluktenko Inspired by the events around the life of Lev Rebet, Ukrainian author and editor-in-chief of the Munich-based exile newspaper „Ukrainian Independist“, “Critical Condition” portrays the fates of the Ukrainian diaspora in the past and present. Germany, 25', 2025 |
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NO SKATE!
by Guil Sela Paris, 2024 Olympic Games. Isaac is a sandwich man. Cléo is a sandwich woman. One day, Isaac sees Cléo throw a skateboard into the water. France, 24', 2025 |
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MÅSKE I MARTS (MAYBE IN MARCH)
by Mikkel Bjørn Kehlert Somewhere in rural Denmark, a house awaits its farewell. A family holds its breath. And something is slipping away. Denmark, 25', 2025 |
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+10K
by Gala Hernández López Pol is 21 and lives with his grandmother. He dreams of living in Miami and generating 10k€ a month. He attends personal development events, follows online coaches and invests in cryptocurrencies. Pol doesn't know when he'll achieve his goal of becoming the best version of himself. The only thing he knows is that one day, he'll get there. France/Spain, 33', 2025 |
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C'ÉTAIT BIEN (WE HAD FUN)
by Linda Lô Bordeaux, 1987, Christmas Eve. Linda (5), Biram (9) and Roger (20) live away from their mother who stayed in Gabon. While the eldest son treats himself to a weekend getaway, his siblings, left to their own devices, see snow for the first time and put themselves in danger. France, 18', 2025 |
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THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS
by Elham Ehsas Haunted by rising sea levels, a daughter digs up her father’s grave to move his body to higher ground. UK, 15', 2025 |
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LE PRIME VOLTE (THE FIRST TIMES)
by Giulia Cosentino and Perla Sardella Emilia and Caterina write letters to each other revisiting their adolescent memories and earliest experiences at a boarding school in the 1950s. Did they choose the lives they truly wanted, or only those that they dared to imagine? Italy/Spain, 16', 2025 |
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ENTRE TORMENTAS (IN BETWEEN STORMS)
by Fran Zayas After a hurricane ravages his hometown, a grieving man breaks into an off-limits cemetery to rescue the lost remains of his brother. Puerto Rico, 14', 2025 |
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WASSUPKAYLEE
by Pepi Ginsberg Kaylee Hord, a 17-year-old prank video influencer, is the newest member of a popular TikTok content house where she struggles to fit in and pay the rent. But when a new and intense friendship offers the chance of viral fame, Kaylee learns how far she'll go to belong. France/USA, 19', 2025 |
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DEAR MOTHR (KÄRA MOR)
by Theodor Solin Julius returns home to find his mother has replaced him with Albert, a lodger who now occupies his old room—and her affections. As Julius struggles to adapt, hidden tensions resurface, unveiling a dysfunctional family dynamic. Sweden, 13', 2025 |
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THROUGH YOUR EYES
by Nelson Yeo In a discotheques stuck in the 80s, four lives intertwine as each search for connection and meaning amidst the pulsating beats and timeless allure of an era that refuses to fade. Singapore, 20', 2025 |
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SAMMI, WHO CAN DETACH HIS BODY PARTS
by Rein Maychaelson He was born with the peculiar ability to move and remove his body parts. Throughout his life, he shares his body parts to people he loves. Until the day he died, all left from him is a torso with a faceless head. His mother is trying to recollect his body parts. Indonesia, 19', 2025 |
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LITTLE REBELS CINEMA CLUB
by Khozy Rizal Set in 2008, Doddy, a 14 year old boy, tries to recreate an iconic scene of a zombie film with three of his best friends, using a handycam belonging to Anji, his sad and angry emo brother. Indonesia, 17', 2024 |
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UPON SUNRISE (KAD SVANE)
by Stefan Ivancic After losing her job, a single mother engages in petty scams in an attempt to provide for her six-year-old son. Serbia/Spain/Slovenia/Croatia, 15', 2025 |
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PASTA NEGRA
by Jorge Thielen Armand Three Venezuelan women cross the border into Colombia to buy a packet of pasta. Canada/Venezuela/Italy/Colombia, 15', 2025 |
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HIPPOPOTAMI (HE MA)
by JJ Lin In the suburbs of a northern Chinese city undergoing urbanization, a quirky girl who wants to see animals in the zoo is taken for a ride which will forever change her perspective on life. China/Hong Kong, 13', 2025 |
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GRANDMA NAI WHO PLAYED FAVORITES (CHAO SOMNOP CHET)
by Chheangkea During her chaotic family’s Qingming visit, dead Grandma Nai sneaks away from her peaceful afterlife after overhearing that her queer grandson is about to get engaged to a woman. Cambodia/France/USA, 19', 2025 |
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CAUGHT IN 4K
by Adriana Mrnjavac & Nicole Stigler CAUGHT IN 4K: Someone is captured in 4K, high definition, caught red-handed on the internet. Eleven-year-old Ava is home alone. She skilfully presents herself online. Takes Selfies. Dances. Puts on make-up. TOM_X12 likes this. Austria, 15', 2025 |
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BONDI BOY
by Rhavin Banda Radhesh Balasubramanian, a high school student in Sydney’s affluent Bondi, betrays close relationships and his own self worth in order to claw his way up the social ladder. Australia, 11', 2025 |
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AT HOME I FEEL LIKE LEAVING
by Simon Maria Kubiena A young woman returns to her home village after her childlike father had gone missing in the surrounding woods. Throughout her day back home, she is torn between feeling responsible and a deep longing for connection and ease. Germany/Austria, 20', 2025 |
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KATEH GOJEH FARANGI
by Armon Mahdavi A young woman moving into her Brooklyn apartment makes a Persian recipe. USA, 10', 2025 |
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BITTER CHOCOLATE (SHOKOLATE TALKH)
by Sahar Sotoodeh Yasi, a determined 16-year-old girl, has made it to the Capital from her hometown with the excuse of the IELTS exam, to illegally terminate her unwanted pregnancy before time runs out. Iran/Germany, 20', 2024 |
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COMUNQUE BENE
by Beatrice Baldacci How is Lisa's life going? It's hard to say! Twenty-nine years old and the first grey hairs have already sprouted. She still has no certainty in life: part-time jobs, waste-time love affairs and an absent, dysfunctional family. On an ordinary day, an unknown number contacts her on her mobile phone. After fourteen years, someone important to her comes back into her life, asking her for a decisive meeting. Italy, 17', 2024 |
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MAJONEZË
by Giulia Grandinetti Ersekë, Albania. Elyria lives with her family following the strict rules imposed by her father, hiding her anger with obedience. A powerful desire for rebellion grows in her day by day that will lead her to the fulfillment of a bitter, but necessary, act of revolution. Italy, 22', 2024 |
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GARAN
by Mahsum Taskin On the border between two countries, the hopes of a desperate man turns into the fear of losing everything. Turkey, 20', 2024 |
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LA IDEA DE UNA ISLA (THE IDEA OF AN ISLAND)
by Carmen Pedrero Bombs fall down while a mother sings to her daughters. Nature shivers. Houses become empty. 9-year-old Emilia is about to learn that the war around her is not a game anymore. Spain, 19', 2024 |
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LITTLE BIRD
by Sara Schiavone On a December day, “LittleBird”, a young girl, receives an invitation from a classmate. The decorations, the songs and the festive air are the setting for this sad story in which a shy fifteen-year-old experiences the night of her first time. Italy, 14', 2024 |
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MY MOTHER IS A COW (MINHA MÃE É UMA VACA)
by Moara Passoni Left in her aunt’s care on a family ranch at the edge of the burning Brazilian wetland, 12-year-old Mia is desperate for the touch of her mother’s love – but in this volatile natural world, with the impending threat of a deadly Jaguar consuming the family, love comes in unexpected form. Brazil, 15', 2024 |
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THREE KEENINGS
by Oliver McGoldrick Ian is a struggling actor who finds himself in the unconventional role of a professional mourner. As he tours the Northern Irish countryside, his practised mask of apathy begins to slip amongst the humour and heartache of the local funeral circuit. UK/Ireland/USA, 10', 2024 |
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JAMES
by Andrés Rodríguez The loneliness of the city feels immense for an indigenous teen like James, who is fighting for his happiness, innocence, and above all, to not feel abandoned in the urban vastness. Only now James is beginning to realize that building his own path means destroying those of others. Guatemala/Mexico, 20', 2024 |
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ALMOST CERTAINLY FALSE (NEREDEYSE KESINLIKLE YANLIŞ)
by Cansu Baydar Having fled the war in Syria, Hanna and her young brother Nader find themselves staying in a run-down neighbourhood of Istanbul. Hanna spends her days learning nail design in order to earn a living, while dreaming of finding a way to migrate to Europe. When she meets a Turkish guy, Ibo, on a night out, she finds herself trying to balance her identity and desires with the needs of her young brother. Turkey, 20', 2024 |
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400 CASSETTES
by Thelyia Petraki And you dance with all the secret passion you can have. Greece, 14’, 2024 |
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THE NATURE OF DOGS
by Pom Bunsermvicha A family of four and their dog arrive at a seaside hotel in Kui Buri, Thailand. What appears to be an ordinary vacation turns into a series of interactions that betray an unspoken tension in their relationships. The next day, complexities unfold in a cave housing buddha statues. Thailand/USA/Singapore/Hong Kong, 27’, 2024 |
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ON WEARY WINGS GO BY (LINNUD LÄINUD)
by Anu-Laura Tuttelberg A wintry poem about the Nordic nature. The sun moves low and days get shorter. Birds fly South, porcelain animals and insects hide from the freezing wind and snow. Only a small porcelain girl wanders the abandoned landscape with no way out. Estonia/Lithuania, 11’, 2024 |
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ICEBERGS
by Carlos Pereira One night, in the darkness of a numb city, Theo is confronted with his own fragility. Longing for closeness, he travels to the countryside to visit his friend Ida. Germany, 20', 2024 |
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MOTHER IS A NATURAL SINNER
by Hoda Taheri and Boris Hadžija Hoda, an Iranian refugee woman, lives in exile in Germany with her boyfriend, Hadi. Due to an unexpected pregnancy, Hoda starts to examine common beliefs regarding gender roles in a relationship and openly challenges the current patriarchal social norms surrounding feminine bodies and motherhood. Germany/Iran, 15', 2024 |
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TREES PAINTED IN TAR (TRÆER MALET I TJÆRE)
by Casper Rudolf A hunting trip turns into a nightmare, when a teenage boy has to choose between his father's acceptance or his own integrity. Denmark/France, 14', 2024 |
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THE NEW RED CAR (HONG QI CHE)
by Yeung Teung 11-year-old Yangyang goes to visit his father in his mother's new red car, but he needs to keep mother's affair a secret. Seeing his father's deserted farm, Yangyang begins to realize his father's desolation and the uncertain future of his family. China, 17', 2024 |
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NUESTRA SOMBRA (OUR OWN SHADOW)
by Agustina Sánchez Gavier The sky occults bad omens. Where nature is despised, people disappear, trees fall and the sun is devoured. Germany/Argentina, 20', 2024 |
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ELLA SE QUEDA (SHE STAYS)
by Marinthia Gutiérrez Throughout a night out in downtown Tijuana, Laura waits for her destiny to arrive. Mexico, 10', 2024 |
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THREE
by Amie Song At a home gathering, a Chinese woman who has recently moved to the United States to live with her daughter tries to keep her daughter's secrets from her new friends. USA, 15', 2024 |
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ABEL
by Dekel Berenson and Paul Wesley Shaken by a recent breakup, 17-year-old Abel retreats to the mountains to hunt deer. Finding grace in the solitude of nature, but no solace to his pain, he returns home to unexpectedly find comfort in the arms of his aging father, as the two reconnect over their shared sense of loss. USA/UK/Mexico, 15', 2024 |
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ULTRAVIOLET
by Veerle De Wilde A young girl struggles to come to terms with her mother’s psychological problems as she searches for her own female identity. Belgium/Netherlands, 24', 2024 |
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UN PÁJARO VOLÓ (A BIRD FLEW)
by Leinad Pájaro De la Hoz As birds flutter in a large empty coliseum, time and death come together one night. The memory of a friend who is no more invades the mind of Boloy, main player of the Cuban volleyball team, who despite the pain tries to rejoin the morning training.when the boy experiences his first sexual awakening. Colombia/Cuba, 20', 2024 |
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LOS MOSQUITOS
by Nicole Chi A 15-year-old Honduran teen and her younger cousin must forge new bonds in the US and redefine their concept of family. USA/Costa Rica, 14’, 2024 |
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WHERE THE WILD FRANGIPANIS GROW
by Nirartha Bas Diwangkara A loyal assistant in a Balinese ashram is torn between his charismatic guru and innocent recruit. Indonesia, 15', 2023 |
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SPARARE ALLE ANGURIE (SHOOTING WATERMELONS)
by Antonio Donato Federico is on holiday with his father and brother in a summer residence in Sardinia. Their father, Aurelio, is a severe and overtly masculine man who makes Federico feel anxious and inadequate. When a wealthy German family invites them to dinner, Federico discovers he is not so different from his father. Italy/UK, 20', 2023 |
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SEA SALT
by Leila Basma On this hot summer day, 17-year-old Nayla is faced with the same dilemma every Lebanese youngster is faced with today – to leave or to stay. Two men in her life have set ideas about it, but both might wake up to a surprise. Czech Republic/Lebanon, 19’, 2023 |
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CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO DIE
by Sam Manacsa Mila struggles as she remains unpaid at work and a love interest becomes a source of comfort through his constant phone calls. But a promise of hope may also lead to tragedy and sad love songs. Philippines, 17’, 2023 |
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SOLO LA LUNA COMPRENDERÁ (THE MOON WILL CONTAIN US)
by Kim Torres As a magical moon creeps in, different timelines entwine in the mysterious and stagnant town of Manzanillo. Costa Rica/USA, 18’, 2023 |
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A TORTOISE’S YEAR OF FATE (YI ZHI WU GUI DE BEN MING NIAN)
by Yi Xiong A factory worker longing for hope in his impoverished life and trying to liberate himself from his unpromising future. A melancholic tale of modernity and the decay of liberty. China, 20', 2023 |
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THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT THE FIGHT
by Andrea Slaviček Between school trouble, mean girl drama, catchy lyrics, and a mysterious blue car, teenage Lena, sometimes distracted or interrupted, tells us the real story behind The Big Fight. But what isn’t she telling us? Croatia/Spain, 14', 2023 |
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BASRI AND SALMA IN A NEVER-ENDING COMEDY
by Khozy Rizal Basri and Salma, a childless couple who have been married for 5 years. One day they have to attend a family reunion where they are being intimidated and repressed by other family members. Indonesia, 15', 2023 |
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TECHNO, MAMA
by Saulius Baradinskas Nikita loves to listen techno music and dreams to go to Berlin and visit the famous club “Berghain”. His mother Irena doesn’t know about his son’s dreams and soon enough their mutual expectations will clash. Lithuania, 18', 2021 |
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GOLDEN MINUTES (AUKSINĖS MINUTĖS)
by Saulius Baradinskas Driven to the edge by a huge debt and his impending divorce, a poetic accountant decides to kill himself but is rescued by a heart attack. Lithuania, 2019, 10' |
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KOLEKTYVINIAI SODAI (COMMUNITY GARDENS)
by Vytautas Katkus Patriarchal masculinity seems to catch its last breath in the sun. A story about a cold relationship between a father and his son. Their bond, plagued by indifference, disintegrates completely. Lithuania, 2019, 15' |
