YOUR FATHER AND I DON'T USUALLY TALK ABOUT SUCH THINGS... — Hungary 2024 — Directed by: Dávid András Szabó — 13 min — Spoken language: Hungarian
A filmmaker turns the camera toward his parents to unravel the love, frustration, and asymmetry that shaped their marriage and his own place within it.
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.
SONGS FROM PEOPLE'S ISLAND — Hungary, United Kingdom 2024 — Directed by: Danijar Bíró — 25 min — Producer: Danijar Bíró — Production Company: Triad Visions
A musical portrait of Budapest’s transforming rust belt, seen through the eyes of a homeless islander witnessing gentrification on People’s Island.
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.
HATCHERY - DARE TO GROW WINGS — Hungary 2024 — Directed by: Máté Fuchs — 94 min — Spoken language: Hungarian — Subtitles: Hungarian, English — Production Company: Little Bus Company — Producers: Krisztina Meggyes, Mátis Inez
In Budapest’s factory outskirts, Mariann an autistic woman dreaming of independence, builds an unlikely future by breeding insects for sustainable protein. A five-year journey of setbacks, tenderness, and hard-won autonomy.
THE DAUGHTER OF BOTH WOMEN — Spain 2024 — Directed by: Malena Montiel Rodríguez, Iona E. Quesada, Alejandra López Puebla, Nhoa Carmona Aguilar — 14 min — Spoken language: Catalan — Subtitles: Spanish, English — Production: UAB - Master Creative Documentary
Iona, raised by two mother friends, narrates her adolescence through her life diaries.
THE WATCHMAN — France, Belgium 2024 — Directed by: Lou du Pontavice, Victoire Bonin — 77 min — Spoken language: Chinese (Mandarin) — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Hutong Productions — Producers: Lucie Rego, Pauline Tran Van Lieu
A security guard and a concierge in a luxury hotel, project a dream life onto their only son, a music student in China. When he moves to Estonia to attend a prestigious conservatory, his parents must find ways to deal with his absence.
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.
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