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<p>Pol, a 21-year-old living with his grandmother in a coastal town in Tarragona, dreams of relocating to Miami and earning over €10,000 per month. Immersed in the world of personal development, online coaching, and cryptocurrency investments, Pol's journey reflects the aspirations and challenges of a generation seeking success in the digital age. </p>
<p>The monkey child Akiko lives in the zoo, but his family sends him on a big mission: he is supposed to go out into the world and get his relatives out of the forest. Together they want to free the animals from the zoo</p>
<p>Tatiana, an unemployed woman, spends her days selling her personal things in order to survive. Today she has an important deadline and she might end up selling a piece of her body in order to keep a roof over her head.</p>
<p>In September 1943, 17-year-old Stanisław Zalewski was arrested in Warsaw as a member of a Polish resistance group and taken to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp for labour service. From there, he was sent to Mauthausen and finally to the Gusen camp, where the prisoners were forced to work for the German armaments industry under inhumane conditions. For a long time, Stanisław Zalewski, like many other victims of Nazi terror, remained silent about his painful experiences. It was only after forty years that he began to talk about it, at events, memorial services, and in schools, and he continues to do so to this day, even at the age of 99. Now, for the first time, he tells his stirring life story in a film as a deeply impressive ‘ambassador of remembrance’.</p>
<p>Oli becomes an outcast in her small Texas town when she gets pregnant at 15. As she seeks out the suddenly absent teenage father-to-be, Oli confronts the growing isolation from her community</p>
<p>Anatomy of a Lost Sound is an assemblage of scattered testimonies and archives and the torn diary pages of the enigmatic Zulfikar Veritic, a participant at one of the para-military camps for youths metastasizing across Europe.</p>
<p>Berna, a young woman weighed down by unspoken trauma, moves through the neon-lit streets of Prishtina, haunted by a menacing spectre from her past. As she attempts to navigate her bleak existence, a series of violent encounters forces her to confront her deepest fears.</p>
<p>Masha, a model pursuing her dream job in China, and Misha, a painter working in a morgue, form a profound, tragic relationship.</p>
<p>The life of young Bronja, growing up in the '80s, changes when her mother dies of cancer. After a childhood marked by this loss, her life is again interrupted by tragic events, which she overcomes with optimism.</p>
<p>As Hamas tightens control over Gaza, Yahia seeks vengeance for his friend Ossama's brutal murder. His encounter with the killer alters everything</p>
<p>Emma has two moms. On a rainy Sunday morning, she longs to be with the absent one she idealizes but must come to terms with the frictions she experiences with her other mother at home.</p>
<p>The documentary profiles Emerik Blum, a Holocaust survivor who founded Energoinvest in post-war Bosnia in 1951. Under Jasmila Žbanić’s direction, archival footage and interviews reveal Blum’s vision of worker self-management—valuing social welfare, gender equity, and technological innovation—which propelled the company to global prominence amid Cold War politics</p>
<p>During a train ride, Ariel and Paul pass the time sketching their deepest fears. Their game takes an unexpected turn when Gilda, a mysterious passenger, intrudes on their exchange. Yet, her relationship with fear seems far less innocent than their playful drawings.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>An epic story about the search for identity.</p>
<p>June 2023, one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. In Kyiv, a class is visiting the Natural History Museum, guided by a paleontology teacher who transports the schoolchildren into a faraway and peaceful world, under the gaze of the great filmmaker S. Loznitsa. In spite of grief, the dreams and aspirations of Ukrainian children and adults keep the country going.</p>
<p>In a Bulgarian village, Angel is torn between two paths when his grandfather offers to teach him to drive-a symbol of manhood and tradition. Accepting could mean losing his close bond with his sister and conforming to patriarchal norms, while rejecting it risks being labeled weak. Angel must choose between his independence and the pressures of village expectations.</p>
<p>Tells the story of an extraordinary woman – Ćetiba Dupanović, founder of the “Bihać Summer” Theater and Performing Arts Festival, who left a deep mark on the cultural life of the city.</p>
<p>Two estranged brothers with chequered childhoods in the care system suddenly find themselves living under the same roof. They must now reconcile with their pasts and make decisions about the future.</p>
<p>Two groups of citizens clash over the redesign of a children's playground. Is this a struggle for territorial control or ideological supremacy? Who are the true locals, and who are the foreign agents?</p>
<p>Codenamed Cuba and Alaska, two field medics serving on the frontlines of the Ukrainian conflict regard the absurdity of war with a combination of grit, humour and hope. Mostly comprising footage from phones and GoPro cameras attached to their helmets and chests, the film offers rare access to the medics’ daily lives, their reliance on each other a testament to the camaraderie required to survive in this world. But when one of them is injured and they are separated, the realisation of how despairing the conflict can become gradually sinks in. A raw and powerful film, Cuba & Alaska is an essential reminder of the importance of human connection, especially at a time when hope in the direst of circumstances feels increasingly elusive.</p>
<p>Nastia, who has lived abroad for years, starts to teach her mom how to use Internet services. Can an intimacy regained via zoom be a turning point for the future relationship between two adults?</p>
<p>A jazz musician and his dancer wife Jasmine offer their artistic talents to help their nation after the October 7 attacks, with the musician tasked with composing a new national anthem.</p>
<p>The story follows two young brothers from the African savanna during World War II whose peaceful life—dedicated to hunting and taking care of their family—is disrupted by forced mobilization as they are compelled to fight in war‑torn Europe</p>
<p>Soviet scientists conduct twisted experiments at a secret institute. When radical youth infiltrate as test subjects, they're tasked with ending the staff's debauchery and destroying the institute if necessary.</p>
<p>Natasha works in the canteen of a secret Soviet research institute. She drinks a lot, likes to talk about love and embarks on an affair. State security intervenes. A tale of violence that is as radical as it is provocative.</p>
<p>1945: The last days of the war. In a remote mountain hut, Anton, a deserted SS man, and Hannah, a Jewish woman, meet. From distrust, feelings develop between the two. But the danger is not over yet. For the two, the war is far from over.</p>
<p>The Factory aims at the emergence of new talents on the international scene, allowing young local and international filmmakers couples to meet and create together. For its 10th edition, Directors’ Factory arrives in Brazil with full force as a celebration of its essence, the power of collective creation.</p>
<p>War is primarily a human tragedy, but we should not forget that nature typically suffers with us. The documentary film Divia is a darkly immersive meditation which brings to light Russia's unprecedented aggression on Ukrainian soil and its grievous impact on places that issue their indictments in silence: forests turned to ash, fields ravaged by explosions, flooded towns, or rusted hulks of military hardware in devastated regions, where life has faded away. But nature doesn’t just give up and, like her, neither does man and his ambiguous existence. As one side brings destruction, the other – mine clearance personnel, people searching for bodies, ecologists – quantifies the aftermath of the tragedy and restores fragile Ukrainian ecosystems, even while the horizon rumbles on.</p>
<p>Ahmet, a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Amid family challenges, 8-year-old Xuan searches for the ideal outfit for her school's Children's Day event. As she navigates difficult relationships at home, she cautiously reaches out to a classmate, forming a new friendship.</p>
<p>Victoria and Siaka, an Austrian-Gambian couple in their mid-30s in Vienna, are in love, but being together has not been without turmoil. As they work on a relationship between two continents, the foundations are laid for their shared future as a family.</p>
<p>In the solitude of the big city, Magda meets the enigmatic and homeless Theodora. Walking together into the night, they reach the edge of town. As dawn approaches, something shifts between the two strangers.</p>
<p>Case 137 is seemingly just another case for Stéphanie, an investigator at the IGPN, the police of the police. But an unexpected element will trouble Stéphanie and transform case 137 into something more than a simple number.</p>
<p>1937: When a prisoner's letter escapes destruction, idealistic prosecutor Kornev uncovers NKVD corruption. His pursuit of justice in Stalin's USSR becomes a dangerous journey into the heart of a system devouring its own.</p>
<p>In the city of Beijing, a middle school is about to hold a flag-raising ceremony. However, the flag-bearer, Feng Xiao, is increasingly overwhelmed by the desire to withdraw. Unfortunately, this is not a gentle winter</p>
<p>Sofia is 40, childless, with a neglectful marriage, and spiraling into chaos as her life unravels. With striking imagery and a raw central performance, the film is a haunting character study trapped in a social nightmare.</p>
<p>Candice's life takes an explosive turn as she undergoes daily detonations for three months, peaking at seven blasts in one day, accumulating a staggering 192 explosions.</p>
<p>In the slow, sticky summer of late-90s Eastern Europe, twelve-year-old Ro sets out to procure a pirated copy of Eraserhead by David Lynch. Her journey—through crumbling friendships, stolen cigarettes, and VHS-era power games—unfolds in a world where childhood slips quietly into something else, and cinema becomes the only available glimpse of escape.</p>
<p>When a young couple spends a day in the countryside, suppressed tensions bubble to the surface, as they struggle to communicate on questions of power and responsibility.</p>
<p>Two worlds collide when a woman rides a horse through her city and into a showdown.</p>
<p>This captivating hybrid documentary about Gabriele D’Annunzio dramatises a pivotal moment in early 20th-century European history. Through dramatic reconstruction and documentary commentary, Igor Bezinović captures the essence of D’Annunzio and nascent fascism during his attempts to annex Fiume/Rijeka to Italy in the aftermath of the First World War.</p>
<p>Tamim, a Syrian father in Vienna, actually just wants to return a lost wallet in the club. But what begins as a well-intentioned act plunges him into a chaos of misunderstandings and moral conflicts.</p>
<p>A child experiences the thrill of first love, awakening emotions he never knew existed and forcing him to confront decisions he feels unprepared to make.</p>
<p>This is a story about a man who is deeply depressed and on the verge of suicide. However, as he begins to raise a cricket, his situation begins to change unexpectedly.</p>
<p>A mature woman enjoys wild encounters with different men while her son attempts to interfere.</p>
<p>I received a land in Pankissi, Georgia, a valley at the foot of the Caucasus, right by the Chechnyan border, where I was born. In exile, I am thinking of building a house in this remote place, inhabited by descendants of my Chechen clan. But how could I possibly live in such a place?</p>
<p>A lone bird researcher finds footage of a feral child on his hidden trail camera deep in an unexplored forest.</p>
<p>A student at a Catholic school experiences a blackout during an exam, triggering a mental breakdown that sends him into a dark spiral.</p>
<p>A naive girl agrees to play a seemingly harmless game that will lead her to fight for her life.</p>
<p>Inside a Brazilian women's prison, a daring beauty pageant becomes an act of rebellion and self-reclamation, as three inmates - Joyce, Angel, and Sueli - defy the uniformity of prison life in a quest for dignity, identity, and hope.</p>
<p>The story of a unique team in the history of sports that won gold at the 1991 European Championship and stood on the podium, watching the raising of the flag of their country - which ceased to exist three days before.</p>
<p>An artificial intelligence develops self-awareness and reflects on humanity's moral codes and social structures.</p>
<p>The story of two men, both named Antonio Pisapia, who are on the decline and lead strangely parallel lives. One is a pop singer whose success ends after a sex scandal; the other is a football player whose career is cut short by an injury.</p>
<p>Twelve-year-old Latina Juanita is growing up with stringent female beauty ideals, even though she has now moved to the seemingly more open-minded Barcelona. Before a pool party, she realises something else has been growing with her: the hair on her legs.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Maria, is a single mother living in Serbia where housing is unpredictable, healthcare expensive and job opportunities are scarce. Desperate to provide for herself and her 6-year-old son, she resorts to petty scams to make ends meet. Stefan Ivančić’s Upon Sunrise, offers a poignant glimpse into the everyday struggles of a woman trying her hardest to navigate grave social inequality, with little to no support from the state.</p>
<p>How Come It's All Green Out Here? is a 114-minute drama directed by Nikola Ležaić. While specific plot details have not been widely disclosed, the film is part of the Proxima Competition at the 2025 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, indicating a focus on innovative storytelling and emerging voices in cinema. The film is a co-production between Serbia, Croatia, and Bulgaria, and it marks a significant entry in Ležaić's directorial portfolio.</p>
<p>Nenad insists on a family trip to a lake, hoping to reconnect with his teenage daughter Mia, who resists joining. Tensions arise, but along the way, Mia makes a troubling discovery about her father that alters the meaning of their journey.</p>
<p>A documentary film that takes us 30 years back in time and reminds us of the horrific event on May 25, 1995, when a grenade fired at Tuzla's Kapija, in the city center, killed 71 young people and injured around 200 others.</p>
<p>While pregnant with her second child, Kika faces the sudden death of her partner. Totally heartbroken, and broke, she sets her priorities straight: stay strong and make money fast.</p>
<p>Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi creates a personal and political one-woman show about the struggle for equality in Israel/Palestine. When the elusive coexistence she’s spent her life working toward starts sounding like a bad joke, she challenges her audiences with hard truths that are no laughing matter.</p>
<p>In 1970, Mooney and two cohorts wander into a museum in broad daylight and steal four paintings. When holding onto the art proves more difficult than stealing them, Mooney is relegated to a life on the run.</p>
<p>Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must weather as best she can.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>House with a Heart, a story about migrant children, those without an address but not without dreams. About a brother who refuses to leave his sibling. About Sarajevo, a city that can be a home.</p>
<p>Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.</p>
<p>“Lavander” is a personal documentary that follows director Mateja Raičković on a journey of healing and self-reclamation. Through intimate conversations, family encounters, and moments of reflection in nature, the film explores themes of vulnerability, trauma, connection, and inner strength. It is a quiet and emotional meditation on transformation and acceptance.</p>
<p>Burdened by pressure and isolation, a young swimmer finds freedom by reclaiming the water for herself.</p>
<p>This film was made in memory of the author's father, who devoted much of his life to recording the world around him. Discovering a multitude of unmarked, unedited, and unseen tapes belonging to her father, the author begins a personal and cinematic odyssey to unveil the real man behind the recordings. By viewing videos of the moments she didn't witness, reflecting on her childhood and her family's relationship with the camera — her father's tool, diary method, and preferred means of expression — the author gains insight into his diverse roles across various times and corners of the world.</p>
<p>Butterflies without wings recounts the inspiring story of Ismail Zulfić and Ismail Barlov, two remarkable friends and swimmers born in 2010. Despite facing physical challenges, they excelled in sports, achieving incredible results. Their success is a testament to their parents’ support, the dedicated coaching of Amel Kapo at Sarajevo’s SPID swimming club, and, most importantly, their own unwavering determination. Their participation in international competitions, including European and World Championships, and the Paralympic Games, represents the pinnacle of their athletic and personal journeys. Ultimately, this is a heartwarming tale of the power of sports to overcome limitations, of a profound friendship, and of the dedication and perseverance that lead to the realization of dreams.</p>
<p>Ramona and Nico, fresh out of school and without a plan, let themselves be carried away by the Berlin summer. After a prank, they have to flee - reluctantly to politically charged Berlin. In search of the released bird and Ramona's little brother, they struggle to find their friendship and confidence and discover unexpected new perspectives.</p>
<p>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</p>
<p>The film is documenting student demonstrations in Belgrade in June 1968. It was shot for the most part in the court of Kapetan Misino Zdanje (Faculty of Philosophy building), where students gathered up and where famous artists participated thus showing solidarity with the students.</p>
<p>Captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through intimate vignettes and strange occurrences, the film explores the complexities of family, love, and the impact of shared memories.</p>
<p>An escort-service owner uses his girls to get close to politician/PM and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi, but in 2006 he's preoccupied with his shaky marriage and losing an election.</p>
<p>A Kafkaesque courtroom drama set in 19th-century Liverpool, recounting the trial of a corpse with neither name nor past. Dozens have gathered for the absurd ceremony — and perhaps to deliver justice.</p>
<p>When his daughter disappears, Stamen, a retired factory worker from a small industrial town in Serbia must fight a flawed social system to gain custody of his granddaughter, who suffers from a rare condition called “Cat’s Cry Syndrome”.</p>
<p>Two girls vanish. Police recruit Paul Chartier joins a covert unit tracking a sex offender. After the operation falters, Chartier pursues the perpetrators independently, disillusioned with legal constraints.</p>
<p>The film follows Nina, a young woman navigating the tension between her personal desire for freedom and familial obligations within a patriarchal context. It explores themes of feminine strength, generational conflict, and emotional inheritance in a small community setting</p>
<p>MILITANTROPOS captures the human condition through the fractured realities of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The film pieces together everyday lives transformed by war — those who flee, those who lose everything, and those who stay to resist and fight — tracing both the instinct to survive and the need for closeness.</p>
<p>Describing the horrors experienced by the civilians during the London Blitz, Vyacheslav Turyanytsya paints a picture of contemporary Kyiv, as a place where the continuation of daily activity, under extreme circumstances, is in itself an act of resistance.</p>
<p>The Mystical Canyon of Rakitnica is a documentary about human curiosity and desire to discover and see something that is hidden and unreachable, despite the difficulties and dangers that arise along the way. The film follows a group of enthusiasts and adventurers who struggle to survive in the wilderness, as they descend the steep cliffs of this naturally carved phenomenon of surreal, mystical beauty. They face injuries, hypothermia, and inability to communicate with the outside world. The Rakitnica Canyon, with its steep cliffs and unpredictable flow, poses a barrier to human curiosity. Located near Sarajevo, the Rakitnica River carves a 26-kilometer-long canyon, one of Europe’s deepest, reaching up to one kilometre in depth, and only one meter in width. It is said that fewer people have traversed this canyon from end to end, than have travelled to space.</p>
<p>A documentary exploring the life and influential works of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, known for films like My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away, focusing on his passion for animation and advocacy for the natural world.</p>
<p>During the summer holidays of 1994, an act of sexual violence took place in the Austrian alps. Nineteen years later, Philip Treschan confronts his mother with his trauma in a documentary essay. The family album is a nostalgic illusion, a gateway to an unspoken reality and a tool for an intimate conversation with the past and for piecing together the fragments of memory into a comprehensible whole.</p>
<p>On Christmas Eve, Sebi finds a text message on his father's phone and reads it out loud.</p>
<p>On a rainy night, Aida quietly waits for her husband, Walid, to arrive back home to Lebanon after countless years spent abroad. Their reunification is uneasy, as each tries to understand the other. While Aida reflects on the dynamics of their estranged partnership, Walid grapples with the previously static, familiar comforts of his former life that have now changed. The long passage of time has taken its toll and to top it off, Aida is being secretive about their beloved dog Punto. This revelation does nothing to deflate the air of suspicion and scepticism between the two, as the couple navigates what is said and left unsaid.</p>
<p>Maple, a forest elf, tries to heal a plant with the help of her magic. As a result of her failure, she is surrounded by a sinister shadow, chasing her through the forest. Maple runs away until she realizes that success means accepting her past mistakes.</p>
<p>Students in Serbia, who have blocked all universities in the country, did not celebrate New Year's Eve, but instead entered 2025 with a 15-minute silence in memory of the victims of the tragedy at the Novi Sad railway station, when a canopy collapsed on November 1, 2024, killing 15 people. The students have taken the lead in the fight against corruption, which they consider the cause of this tragedy, and are demanding that institutions begin to function and do their job.</p>
<p>Two teenagers who've just met break into their school after classes only to find out chilling secrets embedded within its walls - including one boy's connection to the death of a teacher.</p>
<p>Drifting through countries, caught between places and memories, unsure if she belongs anywhere or is just passing through. While exploring different cultures, she navigates the fragile border between belonging and being lost. This film is a gentle meditation on finding the places that welcome us—and those that let us go.</p>
<p>Thirty years after Srebrenica, a filmmaker who fled to Switzerland as a child embarks on an intimate journey to the roots of his identity through the story of Hasan, one of the few survivors.</p>
<p>At 92, Sena, displaced during the Bosnian War, is returning to her hometown of Vlasenica (now in Republika Srpska). The documentary intimately captures her daily life through the lens of her grandson</p>
<p>Two teenage girls in search of freedom, friendship, and belonging run away from their troubled lives with a misguided plan of traveling to Syria.</p>
<p>After Sead suddenly experiences severe stomach pain, he is taken to the hospital, where the doctor tells him he needs emergency surgery. The doctor determines that he is suffering from a condition rare for his age — butterflies in the stomach.</p>
<p>During a long-awaited family pizza night, Martin makes an announcement that challenges the family dynamic. His parents come to understand that the truth cannot be accepted as one.</p>
<p>This is the story of Godard making ”Breathless”, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made “Breathless”.</p>
<p>A teenage girl journeys to Italy's northern coast, seeking her unknown biological father. As they meet, both grapple with complex emotions and the challenge of forging a connection while confronting their own identities and inner truths.</p>
<p>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 inhabitants of the city, Diara and Gui. As the neo-colonial dynamics amon</p>
<p>A retired spy suspects his former adversaries have resurfaced when his intriguing neighbor vanishes.</p>
<p>The period from 1965 to 1971 in Slovenia—then a republic of socialist Yugoslavia—was marked by the avant-garde art movement known as the OHO Group, which has inspired and continues to inspire many artists, including Marina Abramović.</p>
<p>A fourteen-year-old must care for his bedridden father with multiple sclerosis, but when his neighbor invites him to a party, his world is turned upside down.</p>
<p>An omnibus of short films created by production students at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, exploring varied cinematic approaches and narrative experiments as part of their coursework.</p>
<p>Nefeli, a young greek activist, creates a heartfelt diary film to say goodbye to her boyfriend Pavlos, reflecting on their fading love, shared ideals, and her growing connection to the collective vision.</p>
<p>After an ordinary day at work, journalist Mahir becomes a witness to a traffic accident that completely changes his perspective on his profession.</p>
<p>A rising chef, about to open her own restaurant in Paris, must return to her hometown for a family emergency. Far from city life, her memories resurface and her certainties are shaken.</p>
<p>Cheyenne, a retired rock star living off his royalties in Dublin, returns to New York City to find the man responsible for a humiliation suffered by his recently deceased father during W.W.II.</p>
<p>Partenope is a woman who bears the name of her city. Is she a siren or a myth?</p> <p>The film captures Partenope’s trajectory from her birth in 1950 to the current day, accompanied by a host of other characters, against the backdrop of Sorrentino’s native city of Naples, with its ability to both charm and cause harm. (Deadline)</p>
<p>In the divided town of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a once renowned National Monument and cemetery honouring young WWII partisan fighters is being destroyed by neo-fascist forces. While most of the town dismisses it as a relic of communism and an enemy monument, a small group of determined relatives embark on a poignant quest to preserve their loved ones' memories amid the ruins.</p>
<p>Elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with years of mistreatment, acquire weapons and revolt against staff, leading to a standoff with law enforcement.</p>
<p>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</p>
<p>Perla, a gifted painter with an equally talented musician daughter, is living comfortably in early-1980s Vienna when she receives a call that rejuvenates ghosts from her past in communist Czechoslovakia, and she must risk everything in order to move on with her life.</p>
<p>Lamija (15) moves between the piano keys and the kickboxing ring, breaking down gender stereotypes and showing that strength, grace, and passion can coexist — an inspiring story of female empowerment through sport and art.</p>
<p>A mother and daughter uncover the letters they wrote to each other a decade ago. Can they face the truths they once shared?</p>
<p>Oscar Restrepo's obsession with poetry brought him no glory. Aging and erratic, he has succumbed to the cliché of the poet in the shadows. Meeting Yurlady, a humble teenager, and helping her cultivate her talent brings some light to his days, but dragging her into the world of poets may not be the way.</p>
<p>In the near future, the elderly must relocate to remote retirement colonies so that the younger generations can go about their work undisturbed. The 77-year-old Tereza refuses and instead embarks on a life-changing journey through the Amazon.</p>
<p>During an expedition, a young photographer miscalculates the time and misses her ride back to the city. At a bus stop, she meets a young man celebrating his birthday. With curfew approaching, the two strangers are forced to spend the night together at a roadside hotel.</p>
<p>A weekend in the city park is meant for recreational activities. During a twenty minute period, several men seek out a way to pass their time at a cruising spot located in the heart of a small peninsular grove.</p>
<p>Nermina (a Bosniak) and Marinko (a Serb), married for 35 years and returnees to Srebrenica, face the slow disappearance of their hometown—and family—as their children leave one by one. Through personal and archival footage and heartfelt narration, the film captures their attempt to preserve what remains of their lives and memories in a city that’s become a ghost of its former self.</p>
<p>Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend".</p>
<p>An introverted man's life changes completely when he finds himself attracted to a young barmaid.</p>
<p>A young Autistic boy and his two siblings have to stay for 4 weeks with their grandparents while their mother is away. Because of his unique abilities and interest in space missions, he considers his grandparents land an isolated planet.</p>
<p>Murat, who has just entered prison, has a need. He cannot take this need due to various procedures and asks his wife for help. Sema, who does not know what to do in the face of her husband's request, comes to prison with her baby on a crowded day. She has to try some illegal ways to help Murat. A story about Murat's insistence, Sema's desperation and the various procedures we encounter in life.</p>
<p>Yeongsun wants to attend her boyfriend Haksu’s 49th-day memorial service rather than her granddaughter’s wedding.</p>
<p>After witnessing his parents' violent fight, eleven-year-old Berci struggles with his anger and emotions, finding a way to release them through his interactions with his dog.</p>
<p>Leaving their human hosts, mental disorders take on anthropomorphic forms and find new refuges.</p>
<p>What does public space mean to us today, and who even cares about what we see beyond our four walls and daily digital screens? Where have the values of shared, common space gone? These are the questions posed by this documentary film.</p>
<p>A dog is lost. Another day of heat plagues Athens. Klea and her roomies keep talking, walking, sweating (and smelling), in a city that is running out of water.</p>
<p>International music superstar Rambo Amadeus is among the most popular personalities in the Balkans. A unique performer with a forty-year-long career, he gained importance in this part of Europe in the fields of music, poetry, sailing, philosophy, marketing, and political history.</p>
<p>One morning, Marija (80) is surprised by a doorbell. When she opens the door, she finds her son — missing in the war for thirty years — standing before her, unchanged, still looking as if he were twenty. After the initial shock fades, Marija embraces the impossible miracle. Together, they spend the day walking through Vukovar, talking. Her long-held wish to speak with her son and learn what happened to him finally comes true.</p>
<p>Acclaimed director Chie Hayakawa weaves an emotional and poignant coming-of-age story about resilience, the healing power of the imagination and a traumatized family struggling for connection.</p>
<p>29-year-old Ilona and her boyfriend have just moved into a new apartment in a block of flats. When the building’s renovation begins soon afterwards and she befriends Oleg, one of the Ukrainian construction workers, her idyllic notions of a fulfilling life as she approaches thirty start to crumble, like the old plaster on the walls. Gabrielė Urbonaitė’s feature debut is a masterful, contemporary portrayal of the lives of millennials, who on the one hand are exposed to modernity, endless possibilities and Western Europe's constant pressure to perform, while on the other they still carry the traumas of previous generations brought up in the Soviet Union, whose shadows are still alive in the face of current political events.</p>
<p>A Serbian jazz musician reclaims his childhood home after decades in Germany. His return sparks reunions and revelations, blending humor and nostalgia in a unique exploration of post-socialist life and personal history.</p>
<p>Kishida, a regional bank employee, is suddenly transferred to the Tokyo headquarters. With nowhere else to go, he temporarily moves in with Kura, a high school friend who is now a free-spirited filmmaker in Tokyo.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>With her mother's diary in hand, Marina's search for official documents for university leads her to her biological family on the Atlantic coast. What starts as an administrative quest reveals long-buried family secrets.</p>
<p>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</p>
<p>While traveling from his home in Switzerland to his hometown of Prijedor for a fishing competition, Ešef Dženanović visits the places where he was detained at the beginning of the war in Bosnia in 1992. As he retraces his steps, he recalls the last moments he saw his two underage sons, his sister, as well as his wife and mother, while continuing his search to find them.</p>
<p>Eighteen-year-old Shehab is a dreamy teen torn between his ambition of becoming a psychology teacher and his struggles with communication. In a heartfelt journey of self-discovery, he must confront his insecurities and re-evaluate his confidence as he navigates the challenges of adolescence.</p>
<p>In a remote Azerbaijani town, a former footballer trains a spirited girls' team, defying deep-rooted traditions-watched from above by two cosmic travelers who've just landed to witness the clash between dreams and reality.</p>
<p>An intimate and moving exploration of family, memories, and the reconciliatory power of art.</p>
<p>A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.</p>
<p>Having escaped from North Korea to the affluent South, Yujin Han has worked her way up as the CEO of her own matchmaking agency Lovestorya, which sets up new female arrivals from over the border with South Korea men. Using her own marriage as a key selling point for her business, Yujin acts as counsellor, friend and even surrogate family-in-law to her matched couples. However, behind the scenes of her business, Yujin’s family life strains under the pressure of work, gradually forcing her to confront some major life choices of her own. Shot over a five-year period, with remarkable access and evocative archival footage, North South Man Woman presents a frank, multi-layered and frequently humorous perspective on the battle of the sexes, which resonates against the wider canvas of estranged twin nations.</p>
<p>A swarm of bodies and lights clashes with the orderly grids of modernist architecture in Slet 1988, which takes its title from Yugoslavia’s final mass performance-celebration of socialism’s achievements. Through the body of 74-year-old dancer Sonja Vukićević and the late-1980s diaries of a teenage girl, Marta Popivoda’s incisive film contrasts the collective gatherings of the Socialist Federal Republic’s decline with the rise of nationalism and isolation in the present.</p>
<p>Just before the school day begins, a pupil sets off a stink bomb in the school toilets, causing a full evacuation and the school day to be cut short. The headmaster and school counsellor launch an investigation to find the culprit among five suspects. But was it a silly prank—or part of a bigger plan?</p>
<p>A funky android trio and a mischievous songbird butt heads when they happen to schedule their respective rehearsals at the same time. Will the language of music be strong enough to bridge the gap in communication, or is conflict inevitable?</p>
<p>Romance blossoms between a wealthy socialite and a Mexican ballet dancer, intertwining their contrasting lives and cultures.</p>
<p>Stela a 36-year-old woman, has advanced education but struggles to maintain employment.</p>
<p>Something’s stalking Andrea, but nobody, not even herself, can actually see it. Twenty years ago, 10,000 kilometres away, the same presence terrorised Marie. Camila was the only person capable of understanding what was happening to her, but nobody believed them. On taking a stand against that oppressive threat, all three women hear the same horrific sound. Wailing.</p>
<p>A young Roma boy is lifted into the light, only to find it fades in an unexpected way.</p>
<p>In possession of a rare VHS tape shot by her father during the enclave years of Srebrenica, Alisa goes on a journey to uncover the history of her war-torn family, in search of understanding and healing.</p>
<p>This film is a window, opened through a miraculous encounter with Fatima. Offering glimpses of the ongoing massacre of the Palestinians. She has become my eyes in Gaza, and I, her connection to the outside world. We have kept this line of life going for almost a year. The bits of pixel and sound that we exchanged have become the film that you see.</p>
<p>A coming-of-age journey following three friends going for gold in post-war Bosnia while training on their destroyed luge track from the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games.</p>
<p>Once owned by an industrial giant, now guarded by its former employees, a hotel waits for its new buyer while. Across from the hotel, at the national football stadium, a qualifying match for the UEFA Nations League is in progress.</p>
<p>The village priest must call upon the last nine remaining habitants to dig up the graves of their relatives and move them to the top of the mountain, to make space for the newly deceased. The spirits of those long gone awaken to fill the profound emptiness of this depopulating island town.</p>
<p>Jens Stoltenberg had planned to step down after nine years in the powerful position of NATO Secretary General. The 65-year-old politician had packed his bags to go home to his wife in Norway, as he had promised her. But then Joe Biden called and asked him to stay another year. Because in a troubled world, an experienced leader is needed more than ever. With unprecedented access, we follow Jens Stoltenberg through his last year as Secretary General of NATO. And there’s plenty to keep him busy, as he has promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj that the alliance will stand by Ukraine for as long as it takes. But the fear of the war in Ukraine spreading to the rest of Europe is causing tensions to rise between the 32 allied countries. Stoltenberg will need all his diplomatic skills to keep the member states together. Fortunately, the Norwegian politician has mastered the difficult art of compromise and understands the importance of a well-timed pat on the back. And when it comes to making deals with the likes of Recep Erdoğan and Viktor Orbán, the little details that can make all the difference.</p>
<p>If twelve-year-old Karl had been able to decide whom to fall in love with, he would not have chosen Lea, a much taller student in his class. Now, he doesn’t have much time to find out whether Lea can reciprocate his feelings. After the summer holidays, she will change schools. Karl has one last chance to become Lea’s boyfriend on the upcoming school trip. During this project week, the class shoots a film titled “In Love.” Suddenly, it becomes clear that Karl is not the only one with his problem.</p>
<p>The hypnotic purr of a bus engine resonates, accompanied by the rumble of the vehicle’s interior. A voice leads us into an inner monologue. We are on our way to Prijedor in Bosnia, the director’s hometown, and the place of his perpetual departures. But before arriving, we must learn to inhabit departure as a space in which we can grow and be reborn.</p>
<p>In the world of Bosnian bullfighting, women are rarely seen in the audience, let alone in the arena. Martina Batista is a 17-year-old girl who decided to take on the burden of her family tradition and step into the arena herself. She made that decision when she was 12 years old and has been a regular winner with three of her bulls. We follow her daily routine and learn about the reasons behind her decision to take that path and her attitude towards this sport. Through one of the fights in the arena, we see how this very male-dominated culture treats a young girl.</p>
<p>A powerful series of six short illustrated videos, each two or three minutes long, that share the deeply personal stories of bereaved Israelis and Palestinians who are members of the Parent Circle Families Forum who have lost loved ones in the war that began on 7 October 2023.</p>
<p>Adapted from a 1968 essay by the socialist and political activist David E. McReynolds, the short archival film takes the images and sounds of the American war in Vietnam to reflect on the feedback loop between militarism abroad and at home — and the people who resisted it.</p>
<p>After being expelled from school in Lazarevac, Tarik is forced to leave his single mother, Marija, and move to Novi Pazar to live with his father, Safet, and his family.</p>
<p>Filmed across Italy, Moldova, and Romania, Tata is a raw portrait of a family locked in a relentless struggle against toxic masculinity and the tale of a daughter’s poignant quest to break the cycle for herself, the next generation, and even for the one who hurt her.</p>
<p>The Final Battle stages four delegated performances/castings involving individuals deeply affected by war—veterans, civilian victims, the disabled, and those traumatised by conflict. These participants unwittingly enter a “casting call” for a fictional blockbuster, only to confront a harrowing, brutal lesson on the nature of conflict. The project forces both participants and viewers to reckon with the allure and representation of violence in Western culture.</p>
<p>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</p>
<p>Third World is more than just a documentary about Haustor – the legendary Zagreb band that shaped the music scene of the former Yugoslavia. It’s a story of two creative opposites: Darko Rundek and Srđan Sacher. Through sharp insights, a studio reunion, and vibrant archival material, the film reveals how a shared sensitivity to the magic of everyday life once brought together two contrasting artistic worlds to create a third one.</p>
<p>Bulgarian queer artist and songwriter Ivo Dimchev transforms personal and social hardship into provocative public and intimate spectacles, boldly exploring sexuality, identity, faith, and activism in a celebration of queer visibility.</p>
<p>Jana spent her childhood between orphanages and streets of Tbilisi. While raising her 14-year-old daughter, Elene, as a single parent without an occupation, she decided to become a surrogate mother. She has to carry someone else's baby for 9 months in exchange for 14.000 USD, an unimaginable amount of money for Jana, of course, she's on board! Jana has already given birth to three babies out of two surrogate pregnancies and is pregnant for the third time. Although she is not living in the streets any more, she is still far from reaching her dream which is to have her own place to live in. It is unclear how many babies Jana needs to deliver to fulfil this dream. The amount of money that seems a lot at first, disappears between her pregnancies, then Jana needs to start the process again. As Jana’s health deteriorates from pregnancy to pregnancy, she thinks of worst case scenarios. However, lacking other options, Jana sees surrogacy as the only way out of homelessness. Elene’s future is a strong motivation for her to carry on through this emotionally and physically hard journey for as long as her health allows. Elene is growing up, so Jana isn’t able to hide her pregnancies from her any more. Her relationship with Elene is the most precious thing for Jana and she is afraid to open up to her about surrogacy. She feels that Elene might judge her, because deep in her heart, Jana does judge herself.</p>
<p>Farmers and their families, engineers, technicians, criminals and prostitutes were acquired on the construction of industrial facilities in Zenica. Siba tries to help them, working with dedication and love that goes beyond his duty. It is difficult to satisfy everyone and achieve more in this scorching city and Siba makes mistakes, carried by desire to achieve the impossible. With great effort, the builders manage to overcome the maelstrom after the dam burst, and while the first iron runs from the new furnace, Siba, dismissed because of errors committed, leaves a boom town of Zenica.</p>
<p>Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.</p>
<p>The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.</p>
<p>Nasmir, the youngest of three brothers, was born in Germany to Roma parents who fled the war in Kosovo. He knew only safety—until the day police came to repatriate his brother, his mother, and himself.</p>
<p>Sixteen-year-old Hana is shy and introverted. When her crush, Balša, invites her to a lake trip to film a solar eclipse, her happiness is cut short when her father—a former elite pilot—dies the next morning with a last wish to be buried in a spacesuit. Overwhelmed by family pressure to choose a traditional funeral, Hana flees to the lake. There, Balša's aggressive side surfaces. Hana must stand her ground—supporting her mother and reclaiming her body's dignity—to avoid a future as bleak as a solar eclipse.</p>
<p>Twenty-five years after his abduction during the Kosovo War, painter Skender Muja recalls a pivotal moment of survival. During the war’s final months, Muja and many Albanian citizens from Mitrovica were captured while attempting to flee Kosovo. Held in a school repurposed as a detention camp, they faced confinement, fear, and an uncertain fate. One day, the Serbian police commander presented Muja with a chilling ultimatum: to draw his portrait on a blackboard. “If it’s good, you’ll be spared. If not, I can’t guarantee anything,” he warned. Under immense pressure, Muja began sketching, aware that his life depended on his skill. The film alternates between two perspectives: Muja creating the portrait and the anxious faces of his fellow detainees. When the commander approves the drawing, Muja believes it saved his life.</p>
<p>Ten years after the civil war in Syria, in the face of a new urban project built on historical erasure, two displaced Syrian residents recall the vibrant community and orchards of Basateen al-Razi, a Damascus neighborhood that was destroyed by armed forces in 2015 as punishment for the community’s uprising against the Assad regime.</p>
<p>Four young Swedish soldiers—Forss, Babic, Strand, and Kilpinen—and their battalion commander, Andreasson, experience moral dilemmas, deep emotional bonds, and brutal realities as they embark on their first overseas mission in war-torn Bosnia during 1993, inspired by true events and Magnus Ernström’s novel A Half Year, an Entire Life.</p>
<p>In a world where ex-partners have to swap a chosen body part after breaking up, someone rediscovers their former ear on someone else. A journey towards self-acceptance begins.</p>
<p>Against hospital protocol and court restrictions, a compassionate nurse finds herself caught between helping a distraught mother and maintaining professional standards of care.</p>
<p>Forgotten Stations is not merely a visual poem about abandoned buildings; it is an emotional odyssey about the transience of life. The film confronts us with questions of identity and purpose, reminding us how deeply our lives, caught in the intersection of death and life, are intertwined with the places that surround us.</p>
<p>When reed cutter Johan discovers the lifeless body of a girl on his land, he is overcome by an ambiguous sense of guilt. While taking care of his granddaughter, he sets out on a quest to track down evil.</p>
<p>In Georgia, Ushguli mountain customs dictate that in the absence of a son, a family’s land must be handed down to the next male relative who will perpetuate the family name. The Men’s Land follows the journey of an aspiring singer as she fights for her property in the face of dated local rules and traditions, her song becoming a bulwark against humiliation.</p>
<p>Two days before Christmas, Milan and his pregnant wife Jelena arrive at his mother's village home, planning a peaceful holiday. Although everything seems perfect at first, Jelena soon discovers that their visit hides a dark secret deeply rooted in Milan's family history.</p>
<p>Follows the villager's reaction to three newcomers, who become scapegoats in a time of economic turmoil.</p>
<p>Helpless in the face of a repressive state, a young couple leaves their home - an escape that turns into a surreal nightmare.</p>
<p>Trapped by violent, powerful green threads, Živa’s body and spirit begin to lose their will and authenticity.</p>
<p>A rehabilitation centre far from the city. Natasa is struggling to trust her much older therapist. She finds some solace in horse therapy. But a chasm is opening up between healing and harm.</p>
<p>Clean Monday. Panos, now grown, returns to a childhood ritual—flying a kite with his father, a tradition that marks the start of Lent in Greece. Memories, however, are never simple. Sounds and images, fragments of the past, weave together to reconstruct their bond.</p>
<p>A brother and sister return home from the capital for Christmas to reunite with childhood friends and first loves. They hold a party. They drink heavily. Nothing is the same as before. But everything is good, right?</p>
<p>A remote German farm harbors generations of secrets. Four women, separated by decades but united by trauma, uncover the truth behind its weathered walls.</p>