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The tumultuous love story between two cinema stars at the height of their glory: Yves Montand and Simone Signoret. Soulmates bound by an unshakable love, they are forever haunted by Montand’s passionate affair with Marilyn Monroe. Immersed in the charm of old Paris—with its smoky cafés, bohemian nights, and timeless romance—the film captures the spirit of a lost era, where love, betrayal, and passion unfold like in a classic French film. Based on a true story.
Narrative Feature
Country: France
Runtime: 01:58:00
Director and writer: Diane Kurys
Key Cast: Roschdy Zem, Marina Foïs
Cecilia is a twenty-year-old extraordinary violinist who spent all her life at the Pietà, the largest orphanage in Venice and an institution that initiates the brightest orphans to the study of music. But girls are allowed to perform, hidden behind a grate, for an audience of wealthy patrons who finance the hospital.
One day, a new violin teacher joins the orphanage. His name is Antonio Vivaldi.
Narrative Feature
Country: France, Italy
Runtime: 01:48:00
Director and writer: Damiano Michieletto
Producers: Indigo Films, Warner Bros Ent. Italia
Key Cast: Tecla Insolia, Michele Riondino, Andrea Pennacchi, Fabrizia Sacchi, Hildegard de Stefano
Rapidly running out of life-saving insulin, diabetic GREG must hitch a ride from Brooklyn to Canada with his (recent) ex-fiance MARI. As Greg spirals, dangerously neglecting his health, he’s carried along by an eclectic group of fellow healthcare refugees (THE CARAVAN) in search of hope. Or medicine. Ideally both.
Narrative Feature
Country: United States
Runtime: 01:22:00
Director and writer: Jefferson White
Producers: Sharina Martin
Key Cast: Reed Birney, Constance Shulman, Doug Harris, Kathiamarice Lopez, Sharina Martin, Kristin Villanueva
KARLA tells the true story of a 12-year old girl in Munich 1962 who takes the courageous step of filing a complaint against her father, seeking protection from his years of abuse.
As she navigates the legal system, she forms a unique bond with Judge Lamy, who becomes her beacon of hope. Karla’s reluctance to reveal the full extent of her suffering gradually forces Judge Lamy to give her the freedom to tell her story on her terms, putting his own career at risk.
One day, a new violin teacher joins the orphanage. His name is Antonio Vivaldi.
Narrative Feature
Country: Germany
Runtime: 01:40:00
Director: Christina Tournatzes
Writer: Yvonne Görlach
Producers: Jamil Wenske, Melanie Blocksdorf
Key Cast: Elise Krieps, Rainer Bock, Imogen Kogge, Torben Liebrecht, Katharina Schüttler
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A super famous travel influencer, Santa Zeta, uses her social media as a cover to travel the world hunting pedophiles, obsessed with finding her little sister’s killer.
Narrative Feature
Country: Spain
Runtime: 01:57:00
Director and writer: Antonio Munoz de Mesa
Producer: Jordi Monedero Roiz
Key Cast: Nekane Otxoa, Arlette Torres, Iván VIllanueva, África Girón, Izoko
A mother’s search for her missing teenage son uncovers mass murder and a conspiracy of silence on America’s doorstep. The mystery isn’t who did the killings but why the US and Mexico are blocking justice from being served.
Documentary Feature
Country: United States
Runtime: 01:43:35
Director: Andrew B Glazer
Producers: Andrew B Glazer, Weston Phippen
Misha, a photographer, uses his grandfather’s camera to recreate a family album, bridging the gap to a man he never met. Exploring absent father figures, he reclaims spaces once denied to his family. Through his lens, secrets and violence surface, yet memory’s fluidity offers a chance for redemption.
Documentary Feature
Country: Ecuador
Runtime: 01:18:00
Director: Misha Vallejo Prut
Writers: Misha Vallejo Prut, Mayfe Ortega Haboud
Producer: Mayfe Ortega Haboud, Isabela Parra Puente, Darío Aguirre Guevara Tiempo
Key Cast: Luz Elvira Vallejo, Jorge Vallejo, Andrés Cornejo Pinto, Christian Mejía Rodriguez, Emile Plonski Egas,
Arriving at Roma’s Termini Station from Poland with 50 euros in his pocket, Damian makes his home atop an ancient Roman tower across from the station, conducting his search for love and family with contagious vitality all the while wielding a dangerously violent energy to all who surround him.
Documentary Feature
Country: Italy
Runtime: 01:26:00
Directors and writers: Gregorio Sassoli, Alejandro Cifuentes
Producers: Gregorio Sassoli, Guendalina Folador
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Driven by a recurring urge to encounter strangers with her camera, the filmmaker begins to film her solitary Greek Cypriot neighbour Pete in the tower block in North London where they both live. Around the same time, her father in Denmark receives a cancer diagnosis requiring her to spend more time with him.
Documentary Feature
Country: United Kingdom
Runtime: 01:06:00
Director: Therese Henningsen
Key Cast: Peter Petrou, Povl Christian Henningsen
INUNDATION is a poetic short film about the 11-year-old KINAN who lives with a fear of water after a traumatic experience during his escape from Syria. While his father HASAN works hard to build a new life in the Netherlands, Kinan clings to warm memories of home and refuses to accept his new surroundings. When Kinan is confronted with his trauma during his first swimming lesson, he realizes that he must overcome his fear to move forward in life.
Short Narrative
Country: Netherlands
Runtime: 00:14:47
Director and writer: Ilia ten Böhmer
Producer: Charlotte Spronk
Key Cast: Ali Doghem, Issam Almiski, Maya Jaber, Roos Bottinga, Noël Keulen, Moshe ter Riet
Kari, an indigenous girl who is afraid to laugh, meets Kera, who shares with her the myth of Kiraparamia, a woman punished by the gods for laughing at her husband. Kera reinterprets this and tells her that laughing set her free. Inspired, Kari uses laughter to confront those who bother her.
Short NarrativeCountry: Colombia
Runtime: 00:13:33
Director and writer: Irati Dojura Landa Yagarí
Producer: Laura Giraldo Mira
Key Cast: Heluney Nerio Niaza, Wayra Andrea AguilarTascón, Escolástica Yagarí Gónzalez, Kipara Niaza
On the day of Reagan’s inauguration, a $100 bill travels through the underbelly of 1981 New York City.
Short Narrative
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:25:00
Director: Tony Mucci
Writers: Tony Mucci, David Mazouz
Producers: Scott Aharoni, Bryan Schmier, Tony Mucci, Tony Argento, David Mazouz
Key Cast: Francesca Scrosese, George DeNoto, Claudia Robinson, Jaxon Cain, David Mazouz, Tyler “HOOK” Senerchia
Amidst the mournful drive to a funeral, Maya wrestles with the burden of grief and the weight of guilt, while her partner senses an unspoken distance growing between them. Within the shadows of uncertainty, they’re forced to confront what remains unsaid.
Short Narrative
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:19:00
Director: Matty Peacock
Writers: Matty Peacock, Taylor Keokkeok
Producers: Jordan Vernes, Matty Peacock
Key Cast: Deb Never, Noa Fisher, Eli Brown
Denied the coveted set menu for dining alone at a famously exclusive restaurant, Frances strikes an unexpected deal with a stranger to access both the menu and a night of peace and solitude.
Short Narrative
Country: Australia
Runtime: 00:12:48
Director: Lindsay McDonald
Writers: Lindsay McDonald, Roslyn Zhang, Neisha Dallamora
Producers: Neisha Dallamora, Denis Curnow
Key Cast: Kathryn Hartman, Stephen Madsen, Bryn Chapman Parish, Emma Kew, Jonathan Lagudi
Two women, two generations, one shared trauma. One has been silent for over thirty years, the other for ‘only’ a year and a half. Where one retreats further into silence after a confrontation, the other finds the courage to break it.
Short Narrative
Country: Netherlands
Runtime: 00:16:51
Director and writer: Marnie Blok
Producer: Ellen Havenith
Key Cast: Henrianne Jensen, Sigrid ten Napel, Van Den Dop Tamar
When a centerfold suffers a breakdown on her partner’s birthday, she must outwit her SmartHome on a blood-soaked path to having her own cake and eating it, too.
Short Narrative
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:17:13
Director: Alyssa Cody Garcia
Writers: Alyssa Cody Garcia, Simona Galant
Producer: Simona Galant
Key Cast: Lacey Claire Rogers, Chad Doreck, Justin Usle, Kristen DiMercurio
In a dark, overheated room, 9 young apprentice actors await the results of the final round of the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique. The unbearable wait will eventually provoke the most atrocious collective madness, the kind that destroys everything in its path, including those who started it.
Short Narrative
Country: France
Runtime: 00:26:12
Director and writer: Iliana Belkhadra
Producer: Alexis Bougon
Two hustlers in the Louisiana marshlands stumble upon a crab trap that surfaces cash in exchange for body parts. As greed overtakes reason, a ghostly medieval narrator reveals their descent as part of an ancient, mythic cycle of power and sacrifice.
Short Narrative
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:10:18
Director and writer: Clayton Nepveux iii
Producers: Clayton Nepveux iii, Miles Doleac
Key Cast: Jeren Mitchell, Martin “bats” Bradford, Michaela Lian
Ingrid, a single mother living with her daughter and grandmother in an eastern Slovak village where Roma face stigma, becomes a professional parent to a Roma girl to survive.
Short Narrative
Country: Romania, Slovakia
Runtime: 00:14:30
Director: Erik Jasaň
Writers: Erik Jasaň, Marta Parlatore
Producer: Erik Jasaň, Marian Crisan
Key Cast: Ela Lehotská, Oľga Solárová, Klára Sviteková, Mariana Kroková, Andrej Šoltés
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Seven’s a downtrodden Junior Creative at a cosmic agency that creates worlds. When he’s unexpectedly gifted the opportunity to create his dream world, he finds himself in a life or death race against the clock to overcome his creative block before his head explodes.
Short Narrative
Country: United Kingdom
Runtime: 00:15:00
Director, writer: Edem Wornoo
Producer: Danielle Goff
Key Cast: Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Kiran Sonia Sawar, Tom Forbes, Kobna Holbrook-Smith
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Felix, a young man from Brussels, dresses as a knight each day to walk the streets of modern-day Brussels. Gradually, he becomes a social icon, aptly called Cichotte, both in public and online, where he livestreams to an ever-growing audience. Lucy, his neighbour, begins to take notice.
Short Narrative
Country: Belgium
Runtime: 00:15:27
Director: Pieter Crauwels
Key Cast: Felix Heremans, Nell Geeraerd
The filming of the club’s movie is over, and Minho is now sorting through the moving boxes he had put off until now. Having only focused on what he wanted to see, Minho now faces the reality that has slowly crept closer. What is he sorting through in this moment?
Short Documentary
Country: Republic of Korea
Runtime: 00:13:00
Director: Minho Kim
Producer: Sebin Kim
Key Cast: Minho Kim
In her high school’s 1940s archives, philosophy teacher Isabelle discovers traces of Eva Freud, Sigmund Freud’s granddaughter. Her investigation reveals, between Nice, Paris, Marseille and Washington, a tragic story that resonates with the life experiences of today’s French, Georgian and Ukrainian high school students.
Short Documentary
Country: Francia
Runtime: 00:49:02
Directors and WQriters: Isabelle Sieurin, Arthur Quaranta
Producer: De Gaulle Eid
In Iran, to be a woman is to be born in resistance. In this intimate self-portrait documentary, Sahara Moeini tells her story—and that of millions of others: a childhood under surveillance, a youth scarred by fear, a life shaped by revolt. Made of personal archives, found footage, and memory, Born a Soldier is a cry against erasure, and a tribute to those who refuse to bow.
Short Documentary
Country: Iran
Runtime: 00:19:00
Director: Sahara Moeini
Markus – whose great-great-great-grandfather invented the nutcracker – makes nutcrackers for a living, as did each of his forefathers between him and the great inventor. Markus discusses his life decisions.
Short Documentary
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:09:25
Director: Jack Raese
Key Cast: Markus and Tristan Füchtner
Tens of thousands of ultra-orthodox Jewish schoolchildren in Brooklyn are being robbed of a legally-mandated education in English, math, science and history. As a result, they graduate without knowing who George Washington was or that the earth moves around the sun — and find it difficult or impossible to become independent adults.
Short Documentary
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:39:59
Director: Joe Kolman
Producers: Joe Kolman, Elana Sigall
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15-year-old Barbara leaves behind the Venezuelan crisis and embarks on a journey to traverse South America, seeking better life conditions in Chile. She recalls the night she crossed the Andean Plateau at 4,000 meters above sea level, struggling against biting cold and exhaustion but guided by a spiritual presence that wanders like the wind.
Short Documentary
Country: Brazil, Chile, Colombia
Runtime: 00:17:10
Director: Matías Rojas Valencia
Writer and producer: Françoise Nieto-Fong
Key Cast: Bárbara Flores
In a world that values smooth edges, Jade is a jagged soul—unapologetically unique, constantly rubbing against the grain of society’s expectations.
Experimental
Country: Japan
Runtime: 00:07:33
Director, writer, producer: Becca Willow Moss
In a British-Ghanaian household bound by tradition and religion, a young girl lives under the oppressive control of her abusive father. At the family dinner table, heated arguments reveal the deep rift between them as they confront the scars of their shared history.
Experimental
Country: United Kingdom
Runtime: 00:09:52
Director: Daniel Gurton
Producer: Harriet Thomas
Key Cast: Kwame Asafo-Adjei, Catrina Nisbett
Neva was born blind but has a surgery as a teenager to see for the first time. She finds the experience difficult and confusing but is guided by her surgeon and psychologist. She falls in love with color and slowly begins to engage with her new sense. Based on real case studies, Agnosia is a first-person visual interpretation of what it might seem like to see for the first time.
Experimental
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:27:52
Director, writer, producer: James Autery
Key Cast: Asia Sosnowski, Jonathan Hyland, John Rosenthal, Lisa Hatch
Babyspice begins where everything starts to crack. It’s the story of a person — of a generation — teetering in the aftermath of a rupture, as the world slowly unravels around them. Rather than fleeing from pain, they choose to face it, move through it, transform it. In a society that hides its wounds instead of healing them, they search for another, more honest path.
Experimental
Country: Belgium
Runtime: 00:20:13
Director: Anouk Rubens
Key Cast: Juliette Moro, Malou Mullier
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Nsala plays with colonial archives and contemporary footage to fictionally recount the story of a couple recruited to work in a mine under colonial rule. Rather than simply interpreting a life suspended in a colonial archival image, this film attempts to transcend the past by blending reality and imagination.
Experimental
Country: Democratic Republic of Congo
Runtime: 00:10:13
Director: Mickael-Sltan Mbanza
Producer: Petna Ndaliko katondolo
A collection of segments about how the one-child policy affects individuals who experienced it firsthand. Stories about abandoned daughters, privileged sons, and fractured families.
Animation
Country: Netherlands
Runtime: 00:03:38
Director: Afan Zeng
At the end of a long and hard day’s work, Puustinen receives a few coins as a reward. Puustinen immediately goes on a spree. Matti keeps growing, and Puustinen tries desperately to please Matti.
Animation
Country: Finland
Runtime: 00:10:04
Director: Päivi Hirsiaho
“Sundays with Beatrice” presents a deceptively warm portrait of an elderly woman recounting her Sunday routine. But something contrasts with her gentle delivery.
Animation
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:01:56
Director: Hunter Fine
The history of Latin America has been written in blood, but also in pride.
Animation
Country: Canada
Runtime: 00:07:49
Director: Yaimel Lopez Zaldivar
Producer: BC Art Council
In the sea, a man swims.
As he does, memories come to the surface.
From his early childhood to his life as a man, all his memories are linked to water. Some are happy, some glorious, some traumatic.
This story will be that of his last swim.
Animation
Country: France
Runtime: 00:15:00
Director: Florence Miailhe
Producer: Ron Dyens
Timely and relevant, Zanana is an experimental animated documentary that covers the dehuminization and survivors guilt unique to the palestinian experience.
Animation
Country: Norway
Runtime: 00:05:55
Director: Islam Qraiqe
Key Cast: Ibrahim Qraiqe, Majd Musleh, Islam Qraiqe
When the children of a quaint Parisian village are terrorized by a sinister threat, a remarkable dog emerges as the unlikely hero, until a shocking revelation changes the town forever. Inspired by real events.
Animation
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:13:02
Director and Writer: Jon Portman
Producers: Andrew Ackerman, Doug Rogers, Sandi Todorovic
Key Cast: Hannah McKechnie, Christian Johansen, Henry Schrader, Mary-Alice Farina, Jerome Charvet