France 2024 — Directed by: Benoit Méry — 15 min — Spoken languages: French, Swedish, English — Subtitles: English, French — Production Company: GREC - Groupe de Recherches et d'Essais Cinématographiques — Producer: Anne Luthaud — DoP: Louis Hanquet
Deep in Hellfest, music gradually takes possession of metalheads.
Slovenia, Austria, Poland, Italy, Serbia 2024 — Directed by: Maja Doroteja Prelog — 87 min — Spoken language: Slovenian — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Cvinger Film — Coproduction Companies: Zena Film, Agresywna Banda, Wake Up Films
After beating a terminal diagnosis, Blaž embarks on a celebratory bike tour across Italy—filmed by his partner Maja. But as the journey unfolds, the camera turns inward, revealing a raw and intimate portrait of love, identity, and transformation.
Spain 2024 — Directed by: Jesús Minchon, Marta Aguilella, Arnau Belloc — 20 min — Production: UAB- Máster Documental Creativo
When 85-year-old Paquita opens the door to Temi, a talking robot sent by the city of Barcelona, an unlikely companionship begins—raising the question: can a machine ease the most human of struggles—loneliness?
North Macedonia 2024 — Directed by: Bojan Tanturovski — 74 min — Spoken language: Macedonian — Subtitles: English — Production Company: OXO Production — Producer: Ilija Tiričovski
After 35 years of gardening on an uninhabited public land near the river Vardar, the last urban guerilla gardeners in Skopje are faced with eviction. As the city expands, they are forced to seek another land.
TODAY IS TOMORROW'S YESTERDAY — Germany 2024 — Directed by: Jonas Neumann — 82 min — Spoken languages: German, Ukrainian, Hebrew — Subtitles: German, English — Producer: Michael Kalb — Production Company: Michael Kalb Filmproduktion — Photography: Pius Neumaier & Carla Muresan — Editing: Robert Vakily — Sound: Cornelia "Nelly" Böhm
Eighty years after Dachau’s liberation, the fight against forgetting has never been more urgent. Today is Tomorrow’s Yesterday follows the last survivors and the memorial site as they confront rising far-right attacks and the fading memory of Nazi terror.
HE'LL RISE UP — France 2024 — Directed by: Laura Chatenay-Rivauday — 34 min — Spoken language: French — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Les Ateliers Varan
Alix is a young singer from Martinique. In Paris, he follows the path of his operatic dreams. Step by step, between harmony and discordance.
Spain 2024 — Directed by: Paula Vélez — 12 min — Spoken language: Catalan — Subtitles: English — Production: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Isabelle is a story of survival after a snatched motherhood, which confronts us with the protagonist’s routine, marked by an unexpected, abrupt and untimely absence. Motherhood, as a permanent and irreversible condition, opens the door to love, but also to suffering. Everyone has their own: it cannot be shared or explained, only soothed with wet towels and words of comfort. Parents who lose a child become ghosts: everyone feels them, even sees them, but they’re no longer there.
HIS PARENTS — Germany 2024 — Directed by: Katharina Köster, Katrin Nemec — 81 min — Spoken language: German — Subtitles: English — Producer: Isabelle Bertolone, David Armati Lechner, Trini Götze — Production Company: Trimafilm — Co-Production: ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel — Script: Katharina Köster, Katrin Nemec — Photography: Tobias Tempel — Editing: Miriam Märk — Sound: Björn Rothe — Music: Cico Beck
When their son is convicted as a serial killer, Ulla and Didi Högel must confront the unthinkable and find a way to keep living—with love, grief, and guilt.
SIRENS OF DIEPPE — France 2024 — Directed by: Nicolas Birkenstock, Nicolas Engel — 52 min — Spoken language: French — Subtitles: English, French — Production Company: Dryades Films — Producer: Claire Babany, Eléonore Boissinot — Co-production: Pictanovo
Germany 2024 — Directed by: Denis Pavlovic — 90 min — Spoken languages: German, English, Spanish — Subtitles: German, English — Producers: Denis Pavlovic & Julia Meyer-Pavlovic — Production Companies: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg & Glass Frog Films — Photography: Michael 'Midge' Throne — Editing: Julia Meyer-Pavlovic — Sound: Max Hartstang, Marieke Czogalla — Music: Christian Bluthardt, Yvy Pop, Marvin Gerstmeier
In the fading paradise of the Canary Islands, a retired couple—now living apart but still bound by history—navigates loneliness, illness, and lost love in a tender, unvarnished search for meaning after the end of work.
MANHOOD — Germany 2024 — Directed by: Tobit Kochanek — 71 min — Spoken language: German — Subtitles: English — Producers: Tobit Kochanek, Britt Abrecht — Production Company: Filmakademie Baden Württemberg — Photography: Dennis Banemann — Editing: Tim Kraushaar — Sound: Rachel Oker — Music: Philipp Lust
Every Monday in Berlin’s Görlitzer Park, a group of men come together to play football—and reflect on masculinity, heartbreak, and midlife crisis, forming a brotherhood as raw and endearing as the game itself.
SIMPLY DIVINE — France 2024 — Directed by: Melody Boulissere, Bogdan Stamatin — 15 min — Spoken language: Romanian — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Novanima Productions — Producer: Marc Faye
Accompanied by beautiful oil painting-style animations and archive footage, 91-year-old Nușa talks about a relationship she had with a soldier when she was young. She lost contact with him while he was at the front, but has never forgotten him.
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