@AURORA LENARD - Spain
Carlota Bravo Reta, Inés Blázquez Escribano
In the ultra-sensitive Atlantic, two girls follow the trail of a woman who doesn’t exist and that films images controlled by a corporation; as if cinema was the only way to survive time.
14 IN FEBRUARY - Australia
Victoria Singh-Thompson
A woman starts teaching and finds herself haunted by her own adolescence, as slowly she uncovers that the teacher who made her feel chosen was not who she thought he was.
ALMOST, LIKE - Philippines
Michaela Tadena
Years after a university project changes their lives, two conservationists reconnect for an ambitious collaboration that brings them back to a shared love for nature.
ANOTHER SUNNY DAY - Colombia
Maria Gamboa
Lucía’s reckless spending has ruined her marriage and destroyed her ability to hold her family together. Her addiction to debt is exposed by her daughter Virginia. Unless Lucía comes to terms with her behavior, she will lose the two people she loves most in the world.
BEHIND THE TREES IT RAINS - Germany
Florinda Sakura Frisardi
Madda is in her thirties and is left by her partner. Raissa is thirteen and looks after her siblings while her mother is away. The two strike up an unlikely friendship and form their own imperfect family.
BENEATH THE ZAFRON SKY - United Arab Emirates
Sayed Mousavi
A fathers short term sacrifice for a long term success traps his family in a harsher reality.
BURY ME - Egypt
Miral Elfakharany, Reem Morsi
When her neighbor is found dead and recorded as “UNKNOWN,” Hasnaa Ibrahim, a meticulous Egyptian housekeeper/recently undocumented medical student in her 20s, responds with clinical precision, building a system to guarantee her own burial is properly documented. As she methodically navigates religious institutions,commercial services, and alternative burial philosophies, she discovers she has been solving the wrong problem.What she needs is not a plan for death, but people who would notice if she were gone.
COLLISION - Lithuania
Agne Gusakovaite
Two strangers living separate lives in different cities slowly move toward the same moment under the same sky, guided by a silent constant –the Polar Star.
FALLEN ANGEL, DEVIL CONCUBINE - Jamaica
Analisa Chapman, Nadean Rawlin
Set in 1980s Jamaica, two elderly women, fight over the crumbling house they share, while confronting buried traumas and struggling to survive in a world that has abandoned them.
FARADAY CAGE - Brasil
Inaê Luz Rocha
Following clues from a magazine article, past and present intertwine as Charlotte tries to find the whereabouts of her first love and her own will to live.
FOLLOW 4 FOLLOW - Denmark
Rikke Louise Schjødt, Clara Jantzen Kreinøe
In Copenhagen, a kind-hearted business student, IDA (24), is drawn into the orbit of a glamorous influencer who turns empathy into a performance, until a Russian hybrid attack reveals everyone’s true essence.
HOLY COW - Morocco
Asmae El Moudir
Holy cow is the story of Madani ,28, who, after years of unemployment, finally gets his first job as a truck driver transporting cattle for the Rabat slaughterhouses.
HOMESTAY - New Zeland
Mia Maramara, Morgan Leigh Stewart
A Filipino nurse is trapped between losing her job and losing her sanity when she’s pressured to abuse an experimental procedure that uncovers memories her patient might have buried for a reason.
I’D RATHER DRIVE THAN FALL IN LOVE - Netherlands
Martine Bakker
In this romantic dramedy, a sharp, quick-witted presentation coach with a fear of driving (SARAH, 35) must get her driver’s license after she inherits a car. Along the way, she’s forced to confront her childhood trauma, a megalomaniac female driving instructor, and a potential love interest, while wondering whether she’s truly afraid of the road or of intimacy.
KRISSY - New Zeland
Steph Jowett, Tilly Robba
The reclusive daughter of a funeral director fabricates photos of a perfect social life with three dead bodies in a desperate attempt to impress and win back her ex best-friend.
MANNISH BOY - Sweden
Kristina Wibom, Michael Rendell
When a thirteen-year-old boy’s foreskin stands between him and his bar mitzvah, he decides to take manhood into his own hands.
MY JOY IS HEAVY - Germany
Hanna Doose, Katarina Schröter
When a self-destructive mother leaves her son and disappears on a road trip through a broken America, new bonds at a Lakota Sioux reservation lead her to face herself.
NOMVULA - South Africa
Zikethiwe Ngcobo, Sibusiso Khuzwayo
In a South African coastal village in the 1950s, resides Nomvula, a spirited 15-year-old girl. Amidst the village’s timeless traditions and unwavering customs, Nomvula’s fiery determination sets her apart from her peers.
NUUSIKU – France/Namibia
Jérémie Palanque, Laudika Yandangi Hamutenya
Driven to uncover her people’s erased pre-colonial spiritual history, Nekomba enters into a village trapped between past and present, where she falls for an intended sacrifice and must choose between saving her lover or preserving her forgotten culture.
PORCELAIN - Italy
Walter De Majo, Francesco Segrè
Obsessed with her severe acne, Eva embarks on a supernatural metamorphosis that slowly turns her into a doll, only to discover that perfection comes at the cost of her humanity.
RAY OF LIGHT - Thailand
T Hantaweewatana, Nontawat Numbenchapol
Pushed to the edge by a grave injustice, a young actress consumes her dark on-screen persona, bringing fiction into reality to reclaim the stolen humanness of herself and her crew.
RITA’S RIVER - France
Dina Dziraeva
A guilt-ridden girl Rita flees to a river island after shaming her family. While they search, she must survive and discover that love doesn't have to be earned.
SANTA LIBERATA - Italy
Alice Palchetti, Samuele Galli, Laura Raccanelli
Emi, 19, returns to Trieste and no longer fits their former self. Through love, theatre, and a divided beach, they begin giving voice to their own truth.
THE AGENT - Albania
Dionis Prifti, Enton Lazaj
A real estate navigates the thin line between professional ambition and compassion, ultimately challenging the norms of the unethical business world that often forgets the lives behind the transactions.
THE CREMATION - USA
Bruno Avello-Trilles
During Valencia’s Fallas, as giant sculptures burn to welcome spring, a cult hijacks the ritual to carry out a human purge, burning the city’s ‘parasites’ as the crowds cheer.
THE ECHO AND THE BANNER - Portugal
Tomás Atáide
A Lisbon nobody joins an ultras crew to be seen. After his best friend is killed, a revenge banner-heist drags him into a fatal spiral.
THE PULSE - Greece
Katerina Niniou
On his last night in Athens, Jo meets the captivating Iris. The intensity of their encounter forces him to choose between his secure daily life or surrendering to the magnetic pull of the unknown.
THE SIMPLE THINGS - Spain
Patricio Mosse, Julieta Steinberg
When his best friend dies in his sleep, a young Argentine adrift in northern Argentina must face his grief, an uncontrollable love, and a past he thought he'd left behind.
THE SLACKERS - Italy
Francesco Alessandro Cogliati
Milan. Eleonora and Mafalda, twenty-nine, roommates, precarious and inseparable, strive to survive, reshaping the eviction of their beloved home into an intimate act of resistance.
THE STOLEN - Japan
Fumiya Hayakawa
Masashi, a professional thief, returns to his hometown with his crew to commit a crime, only to find his own family’s home has been taken over by a family of foreigners. While trying to reclaim what he believes is his, he sets off a chain of violence that will cost him everything.
THE UNREADING - Türkiye
Müge Manus, Serdar Dönmez
For years, Birsen has comforted her loneliness with the fragile hope she reads in coffee grounds. But when Eda, her old neighbor, stands before her door, she brings back a suppressed past… and the brutal truth of violence.
WITHOUT - Spain
Elizaveta Okulova, Mikhail Chernikov
In a small Basque village, a grieving couple – a Basque artist and a Russian writer – navigate their shattered bond after the sudden death of their eleven-year-old son.