Locarno Film Festival 2025

This brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September, 1944. Narration explains to "Timothy" what his family, his neighbors, and his fellow citizens are going through as the war nears its end, and what problems may remain for new Englishmen like Timothy to solve.

The 'Ga' of the title refers to the film maker's mother. The film gathers together this elderly lady's everyday actions to offer an abstract insight into her life.'My mother seemed a good subject for a portrait, (she was there), and I thought it offered a chance to do a sort of 'abstract film', in the sense that it didn't have what you might call 'the grammar of film'. It's mostly discontinuous shots linked just by subject, in one case by colour, only rarely by movement'.

In 1930s Brighton, teenage gangster Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) murders a rival to assert control of his razor gang. He coerces waitress Rose into marriage to secure an alibi, while the tenacious amateur sleuth Ida Arnold (Hermione Baddeley) pursues justice. The story unfolds as a dark morality tale steeped in Catholic guilt, crime, and doomed innocence

A smooth-talking cad marries wealthy older women for their fortunes and murders one, believing he'll inherit everything. When that plan backfires, he targets a savvy widow—but she proves to be his match in this claustrophobic noir thriller.

Emily, a pretty young Irish girl, gets a job on an English farm owned by the Tallent family. The local men take to her but the women don't, objecting to her flirtatious nature with their men and one woman, Bess Stanforth, is especially disturbed by her. When Dan, a man from Emily's past, shows up and accuses her of having tried to kill, him Beth's suspicions are further aroused, and they're confirmed after Dan is found murdered in a local barn. Beth sets out to find out exactly who Emily is and to prove that she murdered Dan.

Classic British drama. A man fresh out of prison and seeking anonymity takes a job with unscrupulous haulage contractors whose drivers are forced to make death-defying runs as part of a money-making scam. He soon comes into conflict with the dangerous Red - the number one driver - and learns something that puts his life in danger.

In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.

A violent fugitive and a mistreated small boy team up to flee from authority.

A naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union.

A young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.

An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.

When a lonely, unappreciated farm-equipment salesman discovers he has only a few weeks to live, he withdraws his savings for a final holiday at a "posh" resort.

Mandy Garland was born deaf and has been mute for all of her life. Her parents believe she is able to speak if she can only be taught, and they enroll her with a special teacher.

A cosmetic salesman sets out to prove to himself and his wife that he is not a failure.

A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.

In London, a Canadian serving prison time for grand theft escapes prison and attempts to retrieve his loot, kept in a bank safety deposit box, but his accomplice takes the security key while he only has the pass code.

After discovering his wife's affair, renowned psychiatrist Dr. Clive Riordan (Robert Newton) kidnaps her lover, keeping him chained in a hidden room within bomb‑damaged London. Believing he's planned the perfect murder, Riordan visits his captive daily—engaging in calculated psychological manipulation—until unexpected complications unravel his scheme

A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.

Residents of a part of London declare independence after they discover an old treaty, which leads to the need for a "Passport to Pimlico".

A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.

When their ship docks the crew disembark as usual to pick up their lives in postwar London. For one of them his petty smuggling turns more serious when he finds himself caught up with a robbery in the City.

In the 1950s days of only BBC television, a wet-behind-the-ears producer has the idea of basing a family drama series on a real-life happily-married actor couple. Unfortunately, he chooses the Fosters, who need the money and so do the show. Actors they may be, but happily married they most surely are not.

A signalman on a quay sees a fight between two men. One of the men is deliberately pushed into the water and the signalman cannot save him, but decides to keep his suitcase which he later finds is full of banknotes with a value of £5000.

A respected psychiatrist, Dr. Christian Faber (Noël Coward), begins an obsessive affair with Leonora Vail (Margaret Leighton), a schoolfriend of his wife Barbara (Celia Johnson). As his passion spirals, it fractures his marriage and leads to tragic consequences, culminating in his suicide.

A former British agent is employed at the Fenton country estate where he aids Fenton's niece in eluding the police after she's unjustly accused of murdering a local gamekeeper.

Made in 1953 by British Transport Films, The Elephant Will Never Forget, directed and written by John Krish, is an 11-minute documentary capturing the final days of London's iconic tram network. It opens with nostalgic street scenes and music hall tunes, follows an elderly couple riding their last tram, and culminates in crowds cheering the final tram's journey into New Cross depot. The film is a poetic, emotional elegy to a fading working-class transport tradition

A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.

Ronnie, earning very little from his own exploits, gathers together a band of villains to carry out a robbery on 'The Flying Scotsman' passenger train. The train is carrying withdrawn bank notes from Scotland to London to be destroyed.

Chaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.

In post-war London, the Lord family's corner shop and home on the South Bank stand in the way of the Festival of Britain's development. Patriarch Henry Lord (Stanley Holloway) and wife Lillian (Kathleen Harrison) defiantly refuse compensation, refusing to budge. Joined by their eccentric relatives, they barricade themselves in against police and civil servants, turning into an overnight cause célèbre before the government relents.

A woman meets a man whose love she rejected years ago.

In Britain, a man with a shady past uses his antiquities shop as a front for smuggled diamonds but his young shop-assistant starts blackmailing him, leading to murder and to a police investigation.

A strangely-garbed and eccentric-acting stranger arrives in a small English town. But, after several days on being in the town, the citizens accept him as a harmless, though a bit daft, member of the community. He then pays a visit to the town's leading citizen and reveals himself as a man with the perfect plan for murder.

A secretary suspects that her employer's three elderly sisters are plotting to kill him after he announces he'll no longer finance their philanthropic endeavors.

When fortune teller Agnes Huston (Jean Kent), known as "Madame Astra," is found murdered, five people—each with a different relationship to her—are interrogated. Through their subjective accounts and flashbacks, conflicting versions of her life and character emerge, culminating in a surprising revelation of the truth

In post-war London, a small boy who blames himself for the accidental death of a friend, falls under the bad influence of a street criminal.

After WWII, ex‑RAF pilot Clem Morgan drifts into a London black‑market gang run from a funeral parlor. Betrayed by its sinister leader Narcy, he's framed for a policeman's murder, imprisoned, and eventually escapes to clear his name and exact revenge

A wife whose goal is power begins a game of manipulation that insidiously destroys her family.

A dying officer tells of a treasure that was hidden in his grandmother's chateau. Years later, members of his Resistance group, led by a ruthless killer obsessed with the treasure, takes the gang back to France to recover it.

The day before a young man is to be executed for killing his girlfriend, his alcoholic father shows up to try to prove his innocence.

An educational short subject dissecting the imbalances in pay between men and women in the early 50s UK,showing the dilemma faced by women teachers, nurses,artists, politicians and factory workers.

A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them, and how they deal with it.

Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.

American detective Whispering Smith is vacationing in London when he's called in to investigate what appears to be the suicide of a young woman. His sleuthing uncovers blackmail, deception, and multiple suspects—including a fiancé and lawyer—leading to a final twist involving a case of mistaken identity and a fatal shooting .

Céline arrives in Armenia for the first time to legalize the death of Arto, her husband. She discovers that he has lied to her, that he fought in the war, usurped his identity, and that his former friends consider him a deserter. A new journey begins for her, as she encounters Arto's past: invalids from the battles of 2020, veterans of the victorious battles of the 90s, hauntings from a war that never ends. A woman chases a ghost, but how do you bury it? Can the dead be saved?

Markos Timoleon, a wealthy Greek businessman, hosts his daughter's 25th birthday party on his private island. Unforeseen events unfold, jeopardizing his power and challenging his life's foundations.

A woman, travelling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl. Hours from the nearest town and with no phone service, she realizes that she is the young girl's only hope.

With a move to the countryside already testing the limits of a couple's relationship, a supernatural encounter begins an extreme transformation of their love, their lives, and their flesh.

An intimate and moving exploration of family, memories, and the reconciliatory power of art.

A virtuous Hong Kong Police Officer must clear his good name when the drug lord he is after frames him for the murder of a dirty cop.

After a deadly rodeo and a stolen kiss, Rosa and her cowboy lover flee across the Italian wilderness, pursued by Buffalo Bill-and the story he refuses to rewrite.

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.

Geneva, April 2015. In the hushed corridors of a luxury hotel, high-tension international negotiations get underway between the United States and Iran, suspected of secretly developing the atomic weapon. Alexandra Weiss, head of the Swiss diplomatic mission, is trying to maintain a fragile balance between the parties operating behind the scenes. The unexpected arrival of her former love, Payam Sanjabi, an Iranian engineer whose life is under threat, will complicate her task dangerously...

A poetic and dramatic exploration set in modern-day Iraq, following a young boy whose imagination crosses paths with ancient Mesopotamian myth, blending reality and legend through the archetype of Gilgamesh

When Fatima leaves her close-knit suburban family to study philosophy in Paris, she finds herself caught between her religious upbringing and the freedom of student life in the city.

An immigrant mother in California's San Gabriel Valley takes desperate measures to help her unstable teenage son as she uncovers his obsession with mass shootings. Inspired by true events.

Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna.

The film travels at the pace of the seasons through the real and fictional story of a region in Portugal, the Alentejo, and the peoples who have lived there. It begins at a present with no memory and travels back in time to the immemorial time, before the invention of writing. Along the way, it crosses more or less distant pasts: the work and life of German archaeologists detained far away from home during WWII, through their archives and letters; the occupation of the land by the rural workers after the revolution in April 1974; stories kept in the collective memory. During this journey we meet women and men, old people and children, shepherds, hunters, beekeepers, archaeologist, teachers and storytellers, and also ruins, dolmens and a thousand-year old olive tree. All contribute, with their memories, believes and knowledge, to compose a poetic, political, multi-layered and polyphonic portrait of the region

Teresa suddenly arrives from Chile in a mountainous sheepherding cooperative. Her arrival disrupts the dynamics of the strictly structured isolated community of shepherds in which her only desire is to fit in.

Sisters Anna and Charlotte have always fought for their mother's attention. As old wounds reopen and suck them back to their family home, they unravel mesmerizing mysteries, including anonymous ashes and their mother's love for a donkey. Will they come to terms with each other?

Set in contemporary Transylvania, the film opens with a Dracula actor fleeing a restaurant show, triggering a chaotic chase by tourists and staff. Parallel stories—some AI-generated—offer diverse takes on the Dracula myth, blending pulp, avant-garde, comedy, action, and political satire in a playful, multi‑layered mosaic

Sports photographer Lisa vanishes without warning, leaving behind a letter asking not to be found. She was last seen photographing rural football fields in remote Georgian villages. Her father, Irakli, unable to accept her disappearance, sets out on a journey to find her. He teams up with Levani, Lisa's enigmatic best friend, and together they travel across the countryside, retracing her steps through quiet villages, meeting kind strangers, and speaking with children playing football along the way.

In 1997, eight-year-old Linda—who has few teeth, a super-rich grandmother, and a dangerously striking mother—finds her world reshaped when she meets two sisters, Azzurra and Marta. Through their friendship, she learns what it means to truly be a child.

A woman and a man throw themselves into a sailing race lasting several days and nights on a large lake. One would like to cross over, yet one cannot, one misses any sign of life, yet life is perceivable in the rushing tide, in the blowing of the wind, in the drifting clouds, in the solitary cry of birds. One must delve deep into oneself and feel the heart-ripping that nature imposes.

Branko obsessively trails his brother through neon-lit Belgrade nights, trying to fathom his unusual behavior. Eventually, he realizes that he himself is the strange one—an observer or apparition. Leaving the city behind, he crosses landscapes and borders toward a special place where every being and thing has a story to share

A film set in a fictional world where there are no longer adults. The kids live without governance and do what they please.

Amin returns home to the South of France and reconnect with his family, childhood friends, his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophelie. He spends time between his parents restaurant, local bars and beaches frequented by girls on holiday.

Ursula and Neda, an East German waitress with a broken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm, both feel trapped and lonely in their precarious lives. One summer evening, Ursula falls for a mysterious musician from the city, while Neda becomes convinced she's recognized an old friend from Tehran in an equally enigmatic street sweeper. The winding paths of chance draw the two women together on an unexpected ghost hunt in the mountains... A romantic adventure film about an unlikely friendship and the longing for another life.

Edith is a curiosity-driven journalist (40) who decides to embark on single motherhood by help of sperm donation. However, the challenges of solo parenting prove to be more daunting than anticipated, and she fears that she is not enough for her son. When the identity of the donor unexpectedly surfaces, Edith decides to seek him out under the false pretence of doing a feature interview of him and his tech company, thereby shaking up not only her own life and emotions but also those of everyone around her.

Stela a 36-year-old woman, has advanced education but struggles to maintain employment.

Adapted from Yoshiharu Tsuge's manga Mr. Ben and his Igloo, A View of the Seaside, Tabi to Hibi follows unexpected encounters between a Japanese man and a visiting Korean woman. Their quiet journey together explores moments of distance and connection, interweaving cultural transience with emotional nuance

An intimate chronicle of the war that devastated South Lebanon, leaving behind scorched land and a wounded community struggling to rebuild and find a semblance of peace.

Masha, a model pursuing her dream job in China, and Misha, a painter working in a morgue, form a profound, tragic relationship.

Rediscovered MiniDV footage from Gaza in 2001 frames the filmmaker's search for a former prison‑mate, accompanied by Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown. As they journey from north to south Gaza, the film evokes memory, loss, and the fleeting beauty of everyday life in a place forever changed

On the Côte d'Azur during a chilly winter, a teenage girl disappears on her birthday. Géraldine, a local council worker, becomes an amateur sleuth amid the swirl of gossip, theories, and whispered secrets. The unexpected return of the missing girl's mother only deepens the intrigue and tension

Three Doberman dogs are holding a group of teen inside the swimming pool of the villa they have snuck into. One of the boys is injured with severe bites. Despite his screams, no one comes to his aid: all the neighbors in the area are at the traditional paella with which they celebrate the beginning of summer in a nearby estate. Those attending this party suffer a strange spell that does not allow them to get into the pool because everyone who swims feels the pain of the teens. It is the eve of San Juan. A ripe day for magic.

In today's Kazakhstan, 17-year-old Mila can no longer bear the chaos of her family life. When she discovers an open-water swimming team led by the enigmatic Vlad, she joins, drawn by the promise of structure and belonging. But when her place is threatened, her fear of losing it starts to grow, and Mila must soon decide how far she's willing to go to preserve the fragile balance she's built.

A family of six settles into their new home on Vancouver Island as internal dynamics are slowly revealed through the eyes of the youngest child.

The heat keeps rising. People grow distant, in curious kinds of solitude. This is where Jonah (28) provides comfort for strangers. But when he finds himself in the role of the father for 9-year-old Nika, his life starts to unravel.

In an imaginary Slovenian industrial town where three best friends live, a chance encounter with a young woman named Fantasy, who is in the process of gender transition, will positively change their lives.

François and Julie, a married couple of 16 years with two children, find their sexual connection waning. In a bid to rekindle intimacy, they decide to open their relationship—exploring polyamory, libertinism, and BDSM. What starts as an experiment turns into a raw, hyperreal, and emotionally "folichonne" journey toward self‑discovery and reconnection

Nico, a lively but stubborn boy from a secular, hyper-connected world, must spend the summer in Sicily with his devout, superstitious aunt who lives in an ancient, technology-free mansion. Their clash between modernity and tradition gradually evolves into a deep, unexpected bond

Lila, a teen of Korean descent in Buenos Aires, journeys on a fishing trip with her father Antonio and his Korean friends across the Pampas. Shifting between Argentina, South Korea, and Paraguay, the film interweaves cultural dislocation, immigrant dreams, and personal memory—tracing Lila's inner discovery and her father's resilient quest

Maria wanders through a seaside town for the burial of an enigmatic neighbor who may or may not have been able to talk to trees. As the nights grow longer, she meets her son and encounters a woodcutter who is afraid of sleep.

Alone in the mountains: Olivia, her Father, and their home. By the foothills, a slaughterhouse, where Father works. When Father disappears Olivia descends the mountains in search of him.

In a dystopian Korean society, a wall segregates Omegas—mutated humans with fins—from regular humans. Omegas are exploited to clean oceans under harsh conditions. One Omega escapes to fulfill his dying father's wish: deliver his fin to the daughter, Mia, who lives disguised among humans. Mia works in a fishing nostalgia shop until a government worker, Sujin, plagued by anti-Omega sentiment, becomes suspicious of her identity

Kim, a woman in her early thirties, struggles to find her footing after a sudden breakup. Living alone in Berlin, she drifts through sleepless days haunted by memories of her youth in Seoul

Hair, Paper, Water... is an intimate correspondence film between two filmmakers, Nicolas Graux in Belgium and Trương Minh Quý in Vietnam, made during the pandemic. They exchange letters in audiovisual form, exploring themes of isolation, identity, and memory. This poetic dialogue moves between personal landscapes, distant homes, and the temporal suspension brought about by confinement.

Gladys, in her fifties, lives on the fringes of society—homeless, without healthcare or bank access. Detached from societal norms, she indulges in dance, alcohol, and casual sex with joyful abandon. One morning, she unexpectedly encounters her high-school friend Eugénie, who gently tries to help her, though Gladys resists.

A poignant documentary exploring the extraordinary bond between director Pippo Delbono and Bobò—Vincenzo Cannavacciuolo—a deaf-mute, illiterate man with microcephaly who lived for over four decades in the Aversa asylum. Delbono discovered Bobò in 1995 and brought him into his theater and film world, capturing archival footage and new material that reveal Bobò's profound poetic presence and transformative impact on Delbono's artistic vision

In the war‑torn Kingdom of Abraxeon, Deathstalker, a lone mercenary, discovers an enchanted amulet on a battlefield and becomes cursed. Hunted by a horde known as the Dreadites and monstrous assassins under a dark sorcerer, he must undertake a perilous quest to lift the curse and save the realm from ancient evil

The surrounding reality has turned into a desert. People at its mercy try to adapt to the situation, each in their own way. The biggest threat to the protagonists wandering in the desert is their own doppelgangers, who seek to destroy the original version of themselves. This is how they get to move to the Metaverse, beyond the reach of meaning and symbolic exchange. The film E deals with the spiritual loneliness of modern human being and creates a modern myth about the greatest tragedy of our time.

In a crumbling industrial world, Mohamed, a steel factory worker, suffers a tragic accident that leaves a piece of metal lodged in his head—one which begins to rust. Demoted to watchman, he uncovers a deep-seated conspiracy tied to the factory's privatization. Gradually transformed into a "man of rust," Mohamed's physical decay mirrors his inner resistance as he fights injustice, eventually sacrificing himself as a symbol of workers' resilience

A woman finds herself trapped in a remote hotel where the violent echoes of her past come alive, blurring the lines between her darkest nightmares and the waking world.

On the same day, two men die hanging from a log a few steps away: Jesus on the cross, Judas on a tree. They are mirror images: one needs the other for destiny to be fulfilled. The facts narrated by the evangelists are told by Judas.

A weathered tribal cop and his new trainee must find a ruthless fugitive, whose return to their rural Indigenous reservation has exposed its darkest secrets and could ignite a violent gang war.

Explores Kerouac's "On the Road" through today's lens, as celebrities and travelers reflect on authentic experiences in our digital age, echoing the novel's timeless search for genuine connection.

Behind the closed doors of an exceptional construction site, the film portrays, in real time, a microcosm of society united by a shared goal: building cinema halls for the next century. It follows architects, carpenters, project managers, Pathé executives, sound designers, and future projectionists—capturing a living portrait of collaboration at the human level.

Legend of the Happy Worker is a human comedy about a simple man who is thrust into power, falls, and finds redemption.

NOVA 78 resurrects the electrifying atmosphere of the Nova Convention of 1978 through restored, never-before-seen archival footage featuring icons like William S. Burroughs, Frank Zappa, and Patti Smith—reimagined as a vibrant cinematic event for contemporary audiences .

A personal and stylistic exploration, Silence delves into themes of identity, absence, and the void—using sparse dialogue and striking visual metaphors to immerse viewers in a contemplative, almost tactile experience of silence

Comprising six short, seemingly absurd stories performed by third-year acting students, the film offers a poignant and fast‑paced artistic reflection on Israel's existential and social landscape amid its 21‑month war with Hamas, responding to the "crazy events of the past two years"

A poetic allegory of the filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese's childhood, an ode to cinema and an inner nod to his mother. Through fragmented narratives and mythic imagery, Mosese crafts a haunting reflection on dislocation and belonging.

Amid Sudan's 2018 revolution, six women find themselves imprisoned, enduring harsh oppression. Their story becomes a powerful testament to resilience, resistance, and the transformative strength of the human spirit.

Two sisters hit the bars on a Friday night and, after being robbed in the dark city, seek help from a witch who promises safe passage home—but by morning, their world has been irrevocably altered

Fatima, a 12-year-old girl abducted by terrorist forces, is randomly chosen and subjected to funeral rites before being sent to a village market wearing an explosive belt set to detonate in ten minutes. As the timer counts down, she embarks on a deep inner journey, reliving memories—especially of her mother, who works at that same market—and confronts the mission imposed upon her.

Maodo, a man in his thirties, returns to Nouakchott after a long trip to resume work as a traveling merchant to support his family. One evening, however, he fails to return home, prompting his wife and son to scour the city for any sign of him.

N'Tjo Deba returns to his ancestral village, Sanko, after his father's death only to find his uncles scheming for the inheritance. As the village's imam also dies, a fierce succession battle erupts among three candidates. Caught in the middle, N'Tjo becomes entangled in religious extremism and community tensions. Through his personal journey, the film explores power, faith, and social cohesion.

In Sana Na N'Hada's Nome, the veteran director from Guinea-Bissau revisits the years of his youth, and the turbulent struggle against the Portuguese colonial army from 1969 to the mid 1970s. His approach is minimal and stylised, yet bursting with lyrical beauty and spiritual mystery. The tale begins in a village far from the armed conflict, observing the daily life of Nome, his mother, and the woman he loves. Nome leaves home to join the guerrillas and becomes a heroic leader – but the personal relationships he has abandoned will return to haunt him during the complicated and confused post-revolutionary period. Nome probes the hopeful, utopian dimension of African revolutionary movements and confronts, with the wisdom of hindsight, the seeds of corruption and betrayal that always existed. But never embraces despair. A special feature of Nome is the archival footage from the time originally shot by Na N'Hada and his comrades. These images do much more than guarantee documentary authenticity – in their very fragility they allow the film to elevate the materiality of scratched, battered frames into a full-blown poetic language. – Adrian Martin

Quirino, 76, has lived all his life in the Cape Verdean ghost village of Ribeira Funda, which was deserted 40 years ago. In 1983, a man was killed by a rock that broke loose following heavy rainfall. As a result, all the villagers moved to nearby Estância de Brás—all except Quirino, that is.
Here in this deep and spectacular valley between the sea and the mighty mountains, Quirino spends his days alone but for the company of a chicken and the radio that is his lifeline to the rest of the world. It is on this majestically shot rocky coastline that he reflects on his own life and on life in general—on how brief our time is here, never knowing our destination.
"Life in Cabo Verde is really hard. It doesn't give any stability. It's like a boat without a keel," he says in this thoughtful and melancholy portrait. Quirino notices that he is becoming increasingly stiff and forgetful. He faces a dilemma: should he stay or should he leave the only place he has ever known, to live out his last days elsewhere?

It follows Eva, who is kidnapped by a stranger and raped. Her aunts agree to a forced marriage, and when she finds a confidant in the man's cousin, she discovers the family's traumatic past.

Ramatoulaye, a 50-year-old teacher married for 25+ years to lawyer Modou Fall, faces emotional upheaval when he takes a second wife—his daughter's best friend. She must navigate tradition, modernity, dignity, and family loyalty in the wake of betrayal.

A rebellious young revolutionary becomes involved with a young Indian-Zanzibari girl escaping an oppressive arranged marriage.

A tight-knit crew of misfit dancers—Fagbo, Pokko, Lighter, Movement, Colos, and Poppy—live for their art in Lagos. But when Fagbo's mother becomes critically ill and their dream is threatened, they must fight for love, identity, and survival in a city that is as harsh as it is hopeful.

Four hundred years ago, freed Black folks braved the Atlantic Ocean to travel to Africa. On arrival, they walked from the shore to a tall cotton tree, where they took respite from their journey.

Three strangers—a meat merchant, a prostitute, and a piano tuner—converge in a late-night Moscow bar and each spin elaborate, likely false, autobiographical tales involving Kremlin connections, cloning conspiracies, and more. Afterward, their fabricated identities manifest in unsettling, sometimes nightmarish consequences, revealing a surreal, oppressive portrait of post-Soviet Russian society.

Jean Calmet, a Latin teacher in Lausanne, is haunted by the ghost of his dominating father following his death. Struggling with guilt and shame, Jean's grip on reality unravels in an unsettling blend of memories, hallucinations, and repression — leading to a tragic conclusion.

Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The older two daughters are the title opposites.

The story of Christian Democrat leader De Gasperi and his struggle to lead Italy in the years after the end of World War Two.

Fighting against pirates at the turn of the 20th century, the Hong Kong navy are failing miserably. It's up to Sergeant Dragon Ma to take matters into his own hands.

An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.

Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.

A couple decide to leave the toxic pollution of their home city of Beirut, hoping to build a utopian existence in a pristine home in the mountains.

An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster.

Arco, 12 years old, lives in a far future. During his first flight in his rainbow suit, he looses control and falls in the past. Iris, a little girl his age from 2075, saw him fall. She rescues him and tries by all means to send him back to his era.

A 14-year-old contortionist in Guinea balances caring for her sick mother and school with her dream of touring with a circus. As pressures mount, she questions her path and searches for her true identity.

A young orphan struggles against his social-activist foster-mother to realize his dream to become a decorated scout like his father.

Filo and Rullo, two inseparable friends, secretly set out to look for Birillo, the dog lost by Filo's father. Their friendship is strong and nothing can stop them, not even the fear of the dark or the gruff mountain man Guelfo Tabacci, who seems to be involved in the dog's disappearance.

At 12 years old, Olivia's daily life is turned upside down overnight. She must get used to a more modest lifestyle and look after her brother Tim on her own. Fortunately, meeting their welcoming and lively neighbours transforms their world into a genuine adventure film! Together, they turn every challenge into a game and every day into an unforgettable moment.

In 1811, Mary Anning, an inquisitive and tenacious 12-year-old girl, spends her days searching for fossils. Her father passed on this passion to her, but her life suddenly changes when he disappears, leaving behind a mysterious drawing and a struggling family. Determined to help her mother and brother, Mary tries to uncover the secret of the drawing. She will discover so much more than just fossils: friendships, adventures, and the very start of palaeontology.

New in town, 11-year-old Hania is bullied for believing in pixies. She becomes friends with an outsider Michal and a real pixie, Sindri, on a quest to prove their existence. Their journey helps Hania face new beginnings and understand the power of friendship.

In WWII's snowy Giant Mountains, children help a French pilot escape by moving him between villages. They face enemy soldiers, traitors, and harsh winter while demonstrating courage and friendship.

The research team led by Consuelo De Moraes is on the verge of discovering florigen - a substance that could make plants bloom instantly. While Florianne Koechlin uncovers that plants "speak" through scents, the artist duo Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger question the boundaries between nature and artificiality. United by their passion for the plant world, the protagonists illuminate the complex interactions between plants, insects and humans.

Dr. Johann Spittler is a neuropsychiatrist in Germany who assists individuals seeking euthanasia. The film delves into the ethical complexity and emotional weight of his work, portraying the profound moral dilemmas and intimate human stories threaded through assisted suicide.

In Sardinia, hidden in almost inaccessible places, inmates serve their sentences by splitting their time between cells and daily work.

She is a creative documentary offering a choral narrative of female workers in one of the largest electronics factories in Bac Ninh, Vietnam, where 80% of the workforce—mostly women—endure grueling 12‑hour day and night shifts. Through poetic and sensorial storytelling, the film traces their lives as mothers, daughters, wives, and migrants, revealing their collective struggle, anonymity, and the harsh realities of exploitation.

Sibiry, a choreographer from Burkina Faso who now lives in Finland, navigates conflicting identities—seen as privileged in his homeland yet considered an outsider in Finland. Through dance, the documentary explores themes of migration, identity, and colonial legacies, and reveals how European filmmakers' presence shapes the lived experiences of West African migrants

Eleven‑year‑old Crowley lives with his father on a Colorado ranch. Though he admires the cowboy life, he feels he's "not quite there yet." The short documentary follows his daily chores—branding, herding, fence‑repairing—and his yearning to prove himself capable and responsible enough to inherit the ranch.

After 100 years of independence, a bold new wave of young Irish artists redefine folk music and reflect over the impact of their colonial history.

An elementary school sports day gets out of hand. A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers. The collective overload shakes an entire society and unfolds into a microcosm of chaos. The cause and effect of violence reverberate in a fragile social construct. A distant view of the everyday.

A family finds it difficult to talk about feelings, love or intimacy. Hiring, selling and repairing excavators requires the attention of the family. Everyone has to pitch in. When the daughter has a fatal accident, the family idyll falls apart. The son would rather go to the USA than take over the company. The father takes a liking to the new choir director and the mother suddenly finds herself alone.

Daughter and father meet in a white room. An innocent conversation about a deal with the Queen reveals: the apparent emptiness is taken up by a stigmatised diagnosis and decades of silence. What begins as a questioning about the past develops into a sincere dialogue in the present. The film questions the boundaries between sick and healthy, right and wrong, strange and familiar and attempts to turn a utopia into a reality.

In 1904, twenty-five-year-old seamstress Frieda Keller kills her five-year-old son. A spectacular court case raises the question of how much victimisation there is in the perpetrator. A profound, true case that characterises the beginnings of the political equality and women's rights movement in Switzerland.

Floria, a dedicated surgical nurse in Switzerland, begins what seems like another routine late shift. But when her understaffed ward faces a sudden shortage, she becomes the sole caregiver for critically ill patients, including a young mother, an elderly man awaiting diagnosis, and a demanding private patient. As stress mounts and tragedy looms, her shift transforms into a relentless race against time.

Forced to flee Bosnia when he was a child, Irvin returns to his homeland. In the same woods where thirty years earlier people took refuge, he decides to build a small village with his own hands. To restore dignity to this place and to the people who died in the war, to heal his wounds, and to fulfill his desire for redemption. But when he is on the River Drina, Irvin does not stop trying to discover what happened, and what could still happen.

The young generation of Iraqis has known little else but war since the US invasion. Although their daily lives differ significantly from those of Western youth, they are united in their pursuit of happiness, freedom, and safety. The film takes a hopeful look into a world little known to audiences

The ten-year-old boy lived through the events of May 1968 hidden away at his grandparents' house, surrounded by his uncles and great-grandmother, all bivouacked around a mysterious hideout. Adapted from the novel by Christophe Boltanski.

Jasmin Gordon's poignant and impeccably crafted feature film debut rattles our perceptions of motherhood and moral integrity with its intimate and complex portrait of a sort of woman who is rarely depicted.

Lea is fixated on finding the subject of her documentary. She goes on the hunt, armed with her camera, and comes across an older man who seems different. Lea thinks she has found her target, but suddenly the roles are reversed. Animation here becomes a means of retracing the unsayable and contending with reality, as a cry of resistance.

In Palermo's Ballarò district, "Quir" is more than a leather goods store—it's a refuge run by Massimo Milani and Gino Campanella, an Italian queer couple together for over 40 years. The documentary intimately portrays their shop as a community hub where LGBTQIA+ individuals gather to share love, life, support, and resistance in one of Italy's most patriarchal regions.

Wisdom of Happiness is a profound, new cinematic exploration of the innermost world of the Dalai Lama, perfectly attuned to our times. In an intimate heart-to-heart, the world's greatest ambassador of compassion invites everyone along for a journey to the source of happiness.

Described as a tightly guarded mystery film, It Was Just an Accident begins with a minor incident that triggers a series of escalating consequences. The narrative delves into the unforeseen ramifications of a seemingly trivial event, exploring themes of fate and the interconnectedness of human actions