FREIGHT — Switzerland 2025 — Directed by: Max Carlo Kohal — 80 min — Production Company: Dynamic Frame GmbH — Producer: Nicole Ulrich — Co-Production: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
In a world of stapling containers, 16-year-old Rudmer dreams of becoming a barge ship captain, toughening in an ever-changing surrounding.
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.
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.
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.
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
In the gritty charm of Dieppe, a defiant drag cabaret called La Sirène à Barbe fights to survive, powered by glitter, grit, and unshakable solidarity.
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
91-year-old Nușa recalls a lost wartime love in this tenderly animated reflection on memory and longing.
I WOULD RATHER BE A STONE — Croatia 2024 — Directed by: Ana Hušman — 24 min — Spoken language: Croatian — Subtitles: English — Producer: Ana Hušman
In Croatia’s remote region of Lika, where war, poverty, and emigration have long shaped the land and its people, a massive reservoir project transforms the landscape once more—told through the voice of Little Jela, echoing a generation’s memories, struggles, and hopes.
LIFE IS LIKE THAT AND NOT OTHERWISE. — Germany 2024 — Directed by: Lenia Friedrich — 13 min — Production: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln — Producer: Lenia Friedrich
An animated documentary for a very old neighbour – a cinematic declaration of love.
Germany, Tanzania, United Republic of 2024 — Directed by: Kokutekeleza Musebeni — 29 min — Production: University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) — Producer: Seren Şahin
In an Afrofuturistic future free from wars and discriminations, a young black woman receives memories from our present and must decide whether to inherit or erase the trauma of her ancestors. A hybrid film journey between an Afrofuturistic future and a documentary-style narrative of the director's life, as the child of a German and a Tanzanian.
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