TFL Next - Feature Film 2026

The workshop is treatment-based - which means that focuses exclusively on treatment development - ensuring that participating writers develop their feature film projects with the support from experienced mentors and dedicated story editors trainees (this is a succulent news of this edition!), who will also be selected for this specific purpose.

If you are interested in the TFL Next Feature Film call for applications for story editors please visit the dedicated page. 

The workshop is divided into 2 development sessions:

-a first 5 day-long session, where the selected project teams discuss their work in group sessions and individual meetings with their tutors and story editors trainees.

-then, the project teams have 3 weeks to rework their materials.
- a second 4 day-long session, where participants share and discuss their work again in group and individual meetings with their mentors and story editor trainees.

Feature film projects at an early development stage presented by international scriptwriters or writers/directors together with a producer (if on board) will be selected and divided in small groups. Each of them is guided by a tutor with a wide international experience as a script consultant and a selected story editor trainee who will join a specific group, to support the metor and the teams in the writing process.

SPRING WORKSHOP
1^st session: 4^th – 8^th May 2026
2^ndsession: 1^st – 5^th June

AUTUMN WORKSHOP
Group A:
1^st session: 28^th September - 2^nd October
2^nd session: 26^th-30^th October

Group B:
1^st session: 12^th-16^th October
2^nd session: 9^th-13^th November

A LOVE STORY - Spain
Natividade Juncal Portas, Sonia Méndez
Manuela has to place her husband Lauro, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, in a care home. There she meets Daniel, an optimistic and cheerful man who looks after his wife, who has the same illness. Between the pain of loss and the hope of a second chance, Manuela discovers that it is never too late to fall in love again.

ALL THE HOURS WE KEEP - Austria
Bárbara Wolfram
While others go on vacation, thirteen-year-old Jenny has to accompany her parents, Walter and Petra, on a multi-day truck delivery trip from Vienna to Tunis. Driven by telematics systems and constant performance pressure, she witnesses how work stress, debt, and inhumane working conditions grind her parents down. What she experiences is something she can no longer shake off.

ANIMAL INSTINCT - ITALY/UK
Vittoria Rizzardi Peñalosa, Ilaria Marchetti
After discovering her estranged father has returned to town with a new family, Gemma, anisolated teenager, kidnaps himtoget the answers she believes he owes her.

BLESS ME, MOM - Dominican Republic
Teo Feliz, Josías Dominguez
A Dominican debt collector trying tol eave his violent  past behind falls in love with a young widow who owes fifty thousand dollars to the ruthless loan shark he works for...His own mother.

BLIND SPOTS - The Netherlands
Alina Noordenbos
A countryside reunion of four couples spirals into an absurd and painful group therapy when apsychotherapist among them begins exposing the blind spots they cannot see in themselves.

BREASTS - Argentina / Mexico
Angelica Germanetti
In a rural town in Argentina where everyone watches and judges eachother, a shy 17-year-old girl becomes obsessed with getting breast implants, believing they will finally make her worthy of being seen.

CUERPOS - Poland / UK
Amanda Orzechowska, Reiff Gaskell
A young pregnant maid must survive the collapse of a household in post Civil WarSpain, after killing her mistress on her first day on the job.

DISNEY ON CRACK - The Netherlands
Shamira Raphaëla, Medi Broekman
Fifteen-year-old Robin fights to protect her twelve-year-old sister Harmony from a collapsing worldof addiction, crime, and bureaucracy. Survival demands ingenuity, loyalty, and sacrifice, butRobin’s ultimate goal is to preserve Harmony’s innocence and her dream of a safe, pink home.

DJAN - Serbia / Türkiye
Semyon Ryabukha
Djan, the right-hand man of a criminal leader from the Kyrgyz diaspora in Istanbul, tries toprotect his friend from being killed by relatives over suspicions of homosexuality.

DON'T CRY, DARLING - North Macedona / Serbia
Radovan Petrovic, Katarina Mitrovic
A family’s life unravels after their daughter mysteriously disappears, revealing the painful cost of patriarchal tradition and silence.

ELECTRIC SHEPARD - Slovenia
Ela Božič, Klemen Dvornik
In 1980, a young priest must tend his missing brother’s flock in the remote Posočje mountains,facing vengeful shepherds, hungry wolves and the arrival of an electric fence.

FALOPIA - Paraguay
Tania Cattebeke, Mariana Pineda
After discovering she has endometriosis, Ale (30), a Paraguayan woman, must navigate a hostile healthcare system to get surgery and relieve her pain.

FAR BEYOND - Türkiye
Ersin Ercin
After the sudden loss of their mother, the lives of two young sisters are shaken when the womantheir father marries enters their world. When the father eventually leaves home, the woman and thechildren begin to explore the possibility of becoming a family together.

FAREWELL TO THE VOID - Mexico
Humberto Flores Jáuregui, Karla D. Oceguera
A young man travels to the capital to finally meet his father, only to discover he is dead.With nowhere else to go, Manuel stays with the widow and daughter he left behind,slowly uncovering the truth about them, his death, and ultimately about himself.

G&M4EVER<3 - Italy
Marco Scannicchio, Alessandra Sambuchi
When a routine accident uncovers a deeper conspiracy, best friends and fellow officers Martaand Ginevra finally seize the chance to become the guardians of justice they were meant to be.

GRAVITY AND GRACE - Spain
Noelia Rodríguez Deza, Robert Kerr
When the lives of three women from different generations intersect, a friendship arises that drives them to confront their traumas of violence and abuse.

HEAR WHAT YOU REMEMBER - Azerbaijan / Türkiye
Turkan Huseyn, Fahriye Ismayilova
To provide the key testimony in a murder trial, a woman must reconstruct a suppressed memory while fighting the manipulative forces around her.

HONEY FROM A WEED - Italy
Manuel Marini
In a masseria in the countryside of Salento, an English writer gathers family and friends for a late-summer feast that becomes a collective ritual about life and death.

HOTSPOT - THREE WEEKS IN EUROPE - Italy
Antimo Campanile, Angelo Farina
In the chaotic Lampedusa refugee hotspot, a disillusioned Italian mediator and a Guinean migrant forge an unexpected bond, finding the strength to challenge a broken system and change their lives forever.

HOW TO CATCH A MERMAID - Germany
Anke Sabrina Beermann, Harvey John
When a teenage refugee loses her sister to adoption, she becomes convinced that the sea holds the truth about their missing mother– and that a mermaid may be the key to finding her.

I HATE PINK - Mongolia
Enkhtugs Altangerel, Nomin-Erdene Gereltuya
A reclusive taxi driver, struggling to save for an apartment down-payment, overhears a passenger's phone call and seizes an opportunity to extort money, sparking caos in her life.

INSHALLAH, BABY - Germany
Bianca Pick
When a teenage girl converts to Islam, her parents are thrust into a crisis that challenges their values, reshapes their relationship, and teaches them to trust in life.


MASHA - Switzerland
Camille Briffod, Anthony Bekirov
A Swiss social worker, withdrawn from the world behind her camcorder, loses her grip on realitywhile accompanying a young Moldovan actress who is a victim of human trafficking.

TEMPLE VEIL - UK
Julie Mayhew
When two estranged adult sisters meet to divide their late father’s estate, it descends into a bloody battle over who takes possession of their shared childhood memories.

THE SKIN I LEAVE BEHIND - UK
When her daughter is diagnosed with a deadly genetic disease, Mariam must find the father—an anonymous man from a buried trauma she’s never spoken of. As time runs out, she’s forced to confront family shame, social stigma, and the truth of her past to save her child.

THE VOICE OF MY FATHER - Germany
Pedram Sadough
After the fall of Iran’s regime, a Berlin court interpreter hears her father’s voice on arecording in an assassination case — and becomes what she once hoped to expose.

TO MY FRIEND, LILITH - France / Portugal
Polina Berestovaia, Anastasia Veber
A war separates two ten-year-old friends. Ida moves to France with her mother to reunite withLilith, but learns on arrival that the girl has died in a plane crash.


NITERÓI-RIO - Brazil
Angelo Defanti, Barbara Defanti
On the day a family moves from Niterói to Rio de Janeiro, the city they are leaving enterstheir home one last time through the strangers hired to empty the apartment.

@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.

ALIVE – Kosovo
Rebeka Qena
When a retired teacher must prove she is still alive to reclaim her pension, an unexpected bond with a lost teenage thief is formed - and together they confront a system that has quietly erased them.

BERGHOF – Poland
Adrianna Rędzia
For Iga, a 21-year-old woman from Poland, Kongsvinger prison in Norway was supposed to be a place where life ends. But there, everything began. 

BLACK EGG – Netherlands
Tom Geraedts
A young healer absorbs others’ pain through touch, birthing it as eggs. When she falls for an actress who refuses healing, she crosses an unforgivable line to make herself needed.

BLOOMER PANTIES – India
Supreet Kaur
When 11-year-old Hunar gets her first period in a town where it suddenly becomes forbidden for her to go near boys, she embarks on a mission to stop it. Armed with rumours, misinformation, and the desperate belief that undoing womanhood is the only way she’ll be allowed to play her sport, cricket, again and win her childhood back.

CHAT - UNIVERSE – Israel, Russia
Konstantine Bogoslavsky, Ekaterina Guzema
A sixteen-year-old girl in a Russian industrial city sells worn socks to fetishists online, quietly mapping the fault lines of the adults around her. When her small business accidentally exposes the hidden life of her father's wealthy best friend, she must reckon with what it means to have value — declared or otherwise.

DON'T ASK ME WHY I HATE AUGUST – Greece
Ioanna Tsilili
When a 39-year-old enologist loses her unborn child, the life she never chose begins to crumble. Returning to the teen years that shaped her, she decides whose life she will live.

EVERYTHING I EVER DREAMED OF – United Kingdom, Germany
Thea Elmsley, Lisa Vicari
Whilst preparing for a star-making classical music performance, an isolated and burnt out Ava is plagued by horrifying nightmares. Seeking relief, she turns to lucid dreaming to escape - only to lose herself in its seductive pull as her sleeping world starts bleeding into real life, ultimately threatening her sanity.

IF THE FASCIST ARE ME – Russia
Valeria Vins
In wartime Ukraine, a Russian screenwriter’s silence for safety backfires. As her life crumbles, she must find her voice in a world that refuses to hear her.

ISTINA – Spain, Italy
Jaume Vilalta, Valentina Monteghepardi
Istina, at 18 years old, struggles to find maturity between her two great passions: her love for Daniel, her former teacher in his sixties, and her fascination with Russia.

LA DAUPHINE – Russia, Bulgaria
Evgeniya Rudyuk, Maria Ivanova
The daughter of a Bulgarian dictator embarks on a radical spiritual journey challenging communist ideology, until it leads to her sudden and controversial death.

LAKE DIAMOND – Argentina
Eugenio canevari, Felipe Yaryura
Sent to sabotage environmentalists under the guise of nature photography, a Frenchman’s double life spirals into a web of guilt and lies following a fatal accident.

LYDIA – Russia
Polina Borodina
German couple decides to take in an adult refugee to test whether they’re ready to have a child — but the arrangement slowly begins to unravel their relationship.

MUSIC WITHIN ME – Turkmenistan
Nabat Shir
In a coastal Turkmen town, a young composer flees an arranged marriage to pursue music, but after an accident alters her perception of sound, she must turn the distorted noise of the world into a piece of music no one can take from her.

NISA – United Kingdom, India
Neeraj Churi, Ambarien Alqadar
After her marriage collapses, 24-year-old Fiza returns to her mother’s home seeking refuge, only to discover she is an outsider in the place she once called home.

NOT A LOVE STORY – Albania
Renis Hyka
Struggling with urgent financial problems, Lena agrees to spend time beside an elderly man for companionship. When he collapses from a heart attack, she must confront fear, guilt, and impossible choices.

NUTSA.LOVE – Georgia
Elene Margvelashvili, Irine Jordania
Nutsa, a young woman on the autism spectrum, and Guram, a young man newly released from prison form a fragile bond, daring to bloom in a city which once erased their existence.

OLIVIA GIRALDI – Italy
Isabella Gallo
Scarred but suddenly famous after a factory accident, a young worker is asked to become the face of the fast fashion giant tied to her trauma.

ONE MORE TIME – Poland
Michał Krzywicki
Transported through time by a malfunctioning hairdryer, a seventy-year-old woman tries to fight her younger self for the love of the man she once lost.

PROMISED LAND – Italy, Brazil
Victoria Fiore, Claudia Chakmati
South Lebanon, 2024. When a missile attack leaves their mother missing, Naima (16) leads her two sisters across Lebanon in search of the land their mother had always promised — the Iguassu waterfalls of Brazil. But the further they travel, the more the home Naima meant to escape begins to call her back.

SOTTO VOCE – Spain
Lucía Seriñán Mejuto
After a car accident kills her mother and steals her voice, a celebrated soprano must confront the identity built around perfection before returning to the stage that made her famous.

SUN, OUTRO – France
Noemie Nakai
In a world bathed in the purple light of a decaying sun, a middle-age couple waits for the world to end. But as the sun takes its time to die, the relationship unravels, revealing long-buried grief, guilt and resentment.

THE ANGER OF THE SEA – Mexico
Fernanda G. Estrada
During a long-awaited trip, 9-year-old Azul experiences her first encounter with the sea as she tries to adapt to a family vacation full of noise, emotions, and secrets.

THE LIVE – Switzerland, Italy, France
Vincenzo Aiello, Charles Brepsant
An influencer is taken hostage during a live stream by a grieving couple determined to force her to confess, in front of millions of viewers, her responsibility for the death of their daughter.

THE WHOLE TOOTH – Nigeria, United Kindom
David Ikeata, David Ledger
Two best friends – a Dunian Brit and a White Brit – search across London for the hidden tooth of an African independence leader who was assassinated 60 years.

RAMONA – Brazil
Camila de Ilhéus
A Brazilian immigrant publicist subjects herself to a nanotech science experiment for one of her clients, and comes home to find her fiancé missing. As she learns that her wife-to-be, who is a U.S. citizen, was taken by the government in a reckless immigrant crackdown, the nanotech malfunctions, giving her superpowers. 

UGO – Italy
Elia Bei
Confined in a brutal mental asylum in the late 1960s, a man forms a fragile bond with a woman. As psychiatric institutions begin to open their doors, that impossible love becomes the thread that carries him through an entire lifetime.

ATTIS – Italy
Filippo Tentori
A new Latin teacher assigns Flavio, a bullied teenager, and his classmates a research project on an obscure myth tied to the suicide of a former student - but the legend comes to life.

IN LIMBO – Russia
Nikita Efimov
A Russian émigré in Paris, stuck in a personal crisis, avoids making decisions by diving into a dubious scheme she believes could solve all her problems at once.

INFINTE DESIRE – Slovenia
Riley Pesjak Richardson
While “Uncle Sam,” the director of a youth center, searches for a teenage boy who’s missing from school, his partner Inês casts his old friend Miguel in her production of Othello.

IT'S NOT GOOD FOR YOU – Turkey
Okan Erünsal, Aslı Töre
The fragile existence of Ercek Village built on years of collective forgetting, begins to shatter when a thawing lake magically awakens long-buried memories.

KILL THE CUCKOO – Russia
Aleksei Belov
1909, a Spanish mountain border garrison: a young lieutenant confronts a ruthless acting commander who turns maintaining discipline into a witch hunt. The ritual of shooting a cuckoo with a single live bullet, forces him to choose between confessing everything or becoming an accomplice.

KNUT, BRUNO, PANDA – Germany
Claudia Tuyet Scheffel, Laurian-Luis Schymura,
A Vietnamese-German zookeeper in Hamburg, bound more closely to a polar bear than to any human, travels to Czechia for the funeral of the father she never had and meets the brother she never knew.

LADY LAZARUS – Mexico
Miguel Guzman, Martín Cortés
Silvia, an art restorer, destroys her entire life to die peacefully in Paris. She survives by mistake and must rebuild everything she destroyed, including herself.

LAURA – Brazil
Camila Nunes, Simone Spoladore
Laura is an award-winning actress invited to star in a new film by the director who launched her career. The start of filming triggers a psychotic episode, memories, and hallucinations as she seeks to heal trauma from toxic relationships.

LEARNING HOW TO RUN – Netherlands
Fleur Bax, Nicky Onstenk
When Hilde is forced to confront the consequences of her father Theo’s exposure to a toxic chemical during his railway days, she must face anxiety she’s been avoiding herself.

MAKE YOUR DOLL – Ecuador
Paula Estrada, Grace Serrano Carmona
Behind the vitrines of a city that once dreamed of perfection, Ana, a defective doll discovers her own gaze.

MOON 1969 – India
Rohit Pathak, Moin Khan
In 1969, as the world celebrates the moon landing, a villager in rural India decides to build his own rocket, challenging caste hierarchy and social destiny.

MY LANTERN – Philippines, Germany
King Louie Paolomo, Frederik Ehrhardt
In 1994 Germany, two Filipino brothers are sent to live with their grandparents while their father lies gravely ill. As Christmas nears, the youngest pours his hope into building a traditional parol lantern, convinced its light might guide his father home.

NEGATIVE SPLIT – Poland
Matt Balcerek, Paulina Jaskiewicz
A scholarship-bound high school swimmer is pushed to the edge by a new coach whose radical training redefines what it means to win.

PERHAPS, PERHAPS, PERHAPS – Spain
Alejandro Marìn Jiménez, Carmen Garrido Vacas
After a romantic breakup, Leo, an aspiring columnist raised in a family obsessed with History, imagines three alternative lives shaped by when, how and where she experienced love.

RELIEF – Spain
Cristian Beteta, Marta Ramírez
When their pregnant daughter is betrayed in her marriage, Loïc and Manon sense that something dark is closing in on their family. What starts as concern soon becomes an unrelenting pursuit of justice… and revenge.

SHRIEKING PEACOCKS – UK
Jessica Palmarozza, Oliver Vilas
A neo-noir set amongst the party beaches and murky backwaters of Goa, following the mysterious disappearance of a young traveller, Nina. Local detective Rohit grows suspicious of enigmatic Lea and her boyfriend, Carlo, but finds himself chasing ghosts.

THE LAST ROAD – Romania
Paul Decu, Corina Maria Slăvilă
Two brothers escape a violent father, take very different paths, and face a final, lost chance at reconciliation.

THE LAW OF THE EXCLUDED MIDDLE – Germany
Alexandra Sokolovskaya, Mikhail Sokolovskij
A logic professor faces an impossible choice when her husband betrays her and their country.

THE MIRROR MOTHERS – Spain
Mar Castel, Giovanna Ribes
An elderly woman, bound to caring for her paralyzed husband, suffers an accident that forces her daughter to return home. Their coexistence stirs up longburied memories of the dark past of her marriage.

THE SANTOPAZIOS – Italy
Francesca Staasch, Simone Pitorri
Priscilla inherits a fortune from a father she never knew, along with a bunch of dysfunctional relatives. But the inheritance is in jeopardy and they will have to join forces save it.

WE SHINE BRIGHT LIKE THE MERCEDES STAR – Luxembourg
Alexandra Kurt
A 18-year-old from rural Bavaria escapes to Berlin with her aunt and baby son, chasing a fresh start and respect in the city’s rap scene. But as she hustles between tower blocks and German rap culture, the past she tried to leave behind keeps threatening the future she’s fighting for.

WE’RE NOT DEAD YET – Brazil
Vitória Fallavena, Amanda Amorim
A 75-year-old widow is forced to confront the desires she has repressed for decades when her lifelong best friend leaves her husband, and her granddaughter openly embraces her sexuality.

WILT – Russia, Polanda
Alena Baklanova, Gosia Piaskowska
A grieving dock worker in the decaying port of Genoa begins a secret night-time relationship with a mysterious young man who seems to exist only for her.

WOMB STATE – Japan
Takafumi Sakabe, Kanako Fujita
In a near future where human life has become an industry, a surrogate mother flees a state-run facility after learning the fetus she carries is to be harvested for organs.

YAGUARETÉ OF THE SPIRIT – Argentina
Arturo Spano
While logging and fires devastate the Paraná rainforest, in the Yriapú community Father Sunu tirelessly searches for the plants needed to cure his seven-year-old daughter, Panambi.