APARÍCIO – Brazil
Edmundo Clairefont
A Brazilian town that doesn’t exist on any map. A ritual that returns every few years to claim the chosen. A history that refuses to stay buried.
APNEA – Brazil
João Costa Van Hombeeck, Aline Portugal
On Rio de Janeiro’s coveted southern coast, a fisherman’s son investigates his father’s disappearance at sea as a luxury development forever changes his community.
CARNIFICINA – Brazil
Ninna Fachinello, Mariana Queiroz
When a seasoned detective is transferred to investigate a trivial disappearance, she uncovers a serial pattern of murdered men — and an underground network of women killing their abusers.
COPACABANA GIRLS – Brazil
Gabrielle Siqueira
Two struggling college students who scam foreign tourists in Rio accidentally kidnap a British traveler after a robbery goes wrong, forcing their friendship to survive a spiral of guilt and bad choices.
DEAR RIVER PHOENIX – Brazil
Emanuel Schulman Muniz, Milena Mendonça Décourt
Brazil, 1991. Seventeen-year-old Marina and her movie-obsessed friends spend their final year of high school shooting short films with a VHS camera. As graduation nears and their separation becomes inevitable, they decide to make one last home movie before life pulls them apart.
DEFENDERS – Poland
Joanna Bakoń
When a secret Soviet super-serum is stolen, NATO reunites the forgotten superheroes of the former Eastern Bloc. Hunting for the formula, they rediscover the family they once became.
ELECTRICITY – Bulgaria
Ivaylo Minov, Vanya Rainova
In late-90’s Sofia, a lonely vacuum cleaner salesman becomes the accidental messiah of a residential block after a comatose boy sparks a miracle.
F – Lithuania
Anna Chepaitene, Tanya Leonova
After serving time for killing the town's golden boy, a former beauty queen reopens the scene of the alleged crime as a women-only bar.
FIAMMETTA – Italy
Sabrina Semidei
A pioneering female pilot on a work assignment meets the daughter she lost to adoption years ago and fights for the women's right to contraception on the island of Valicella.
FILMAKING DEMANDS SACRIFICE – Germany
Oleg Khristoliubskii, Polina Borodina
A production intern discovers: a legendary director is a vampire feeding on filmmakers. To expose her, he must persuade the film’s rising star to sacrifice the career of her dreams.
FINK – Germany
Katharina Bischof, Britta Schwem
When an unidentified young woman who was investigating a human trafficking network is found murdered, midwife NANNETTE FINK (60) recognizes her as the baby she secretly gave a new identity 25 years earlier. With her daughter and her grandson, both police officers, trying to track down the truth, Nannette must choose between protecting several lives she once saved or exposing a series of crimes that could destroy her family.
FIRST DAY – Luxembourg
Gintare Parulyte, Deborah Pierre-Bloch
Across Luxembourg, six strangers begin new jobs, their paths crossing as each ordinary first day becomes the beginning of a new life.
FOR THE RECORD – Enrico Pacciani
Enrico Pacciani
Turin, 1995: prosecutor Giulia Arrighi interrogates an informant on a missing weapons case, but his depositions soon lead to murders no one was looking for. As the investigation spirals from vast conspiracies to intimate betrayals, Giulia must face an unforeseen truth, and live with the cost.
JOSÉ IGNACIO – Uruguay
Debora de Sola Habsburg, Juan Pablo Domenech
A premium serialized drama series set in an old fishing village on the Uruguayan coast that becomes one of South America’s most exclusive resorts during the summer.
LENY: WHAT HAPPENED? - Brazil
Fernanda Terepins
Leny, an extraordinary singer whose body defies every industry standard, fights to be heard in a Brazilian music business that applauds her voice while refusing to make room for her.
METROPOLIS – Mexico
Antonella Parolini Arroyo
Nadia, a washed-up painter, Elías, a sex addicted performance artist and Ximena, a recently deported tattoo artist, compete for an art grant that could save them from disgrace.
MURDER IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN – South Africa
Berdene Burger, Zoë Laband
When a guest is murdered at her new B&B, a recently widowed French adventurer must expose a Nazi artsmuggling conspiracy before she realises the killers are sleeping in her spare room.
NORTH STAR – Netherlands
Alina Noordenbos
After a sudden divorce, 58-year-old former music producer Jan tries to prove she has not run out of time by finally launching North Star, the boyband she abandoned decades ago.
OUR CLOSETS – Poland
Rafal Wojtczak, Tomasz Śliwiński
After a bizarre accident leaves him attracted to men, a husband and father unravels the life he built, forcing his family to face what each has hidden in their own closet.
PAPER WINGS – Italy
Alessandro Montali, Sofia Spotti
In a fading coastal town awaiting a major redevelopment, a teenage boy disappears. As his friends search for the truth, they uncover a system designed to keep it buried.
PLAYING DEAD – USA
Tessa Joy Parker, Laura Carnet
Refusing to accept the passing of her best friend, a puppet-maker enters her pet’s corpse into an Ugliest Dog Contest to pull the strings of death and save herself from letting him go.
ROTATION – Ukraine
Marysia Nikitiuk, Karina Pustovalov
After a disastrous combat mission, a young FPV drone pilot is forced to leave the frontline and return to Kyiv, where he falls in love with a talented fashion designer who, like him, fears true intimacy. In a world where war has turned survival into a way of life, they struggle to learn how to love again.
SEVERED – Montenegro
Ruslan Iakovlev, Oleg Kirillov
A small town on the border of France, Italy, and Switzerland becomes the target of a drone attack of unknown origin. Over the course of several days, both the local residents and visiting tourists are forced to survive in a game with no rules.
SILENT MEADOW – Switzerland
Roxana Stroe, Sereina Hatt
At an elite Swiss boarding school, a withdrawn Chinese student and a reckless old-money heir find in each other the tenderness their worlds denied them, until fear turns desire into public betrayal.
THE ANTHILL – Brazil
Ligia Agreste
A 42-year-old obsessive and controlling television director has a second chance to fulfill her dreams when she gets to direct Brazil's major reality TV show.
THE BURIED CITY – Brazil
Uirá Catani
Belo Horizonte, 1953. When a notorious unsolved murder returns as a sensational public trial, a young courthouse typist begins her own investigation – and slowly comes to suspect the one man no one else could ever accuse: her own father.
THE EXCHANGE – Italy
Gaetano Ghiura, Patricia Salom
In Coimbra, five Spanish students and one Italian Erasmus student arrive chasing freedom, friendship, and the promise of a perfect year abroad - but living away from home for the first time throws them into a pressure-cooker environment, where independence, loneliness, desire, mental health, and trauma collide, forcing them to grow up faster than they expected.
THE FATHER – Brazil
Thais Fonseca, Julia Bock
When a young girl learns that her beloved father killed one of Brazil’s greatest writers, she begins a lifelong journey to reconcile the man she loves with the man history condemned.
THE FLIGHT – Slovenia
Rahela Jagric Pirc, Ana Jerman Obreza
At the moment of boarding a plane, two former lovers meet unexpectedly. During a cross Atlantic flight home, old memories, new fantasies and illusions reveal the invisible ties that still bind them.
THE RESURRECTIONISTS – US
Anna Richards
In 1820s Edinburgh, a female bodysnatcher and an ambitious German medical student sell stolen corpses until they're implicated in a series of murders.
THE SUPPLICANT – Brazil
Natália Maia, Samuel Brasileiro
Brazil, 1865. Angela's struggle to secure a military pension after her husband's death during the Paraguayan War becomes a journey towards independence from a conservative society.