A21 (FRANCE)
Mathilde Hauducoeur (writer), Tomás Pinzon Lucera (co-writer), Ana Perromat (co-writer)
As an act of personal revenge, best friends Rose and Ines steal Queen Marie Antoinette’s slipper, igniting a national revolution.
AGES OF FLORA (TAIWAN)
Angel I-Han Teng (writer-director), Yu-Hao Su (producer)
Two estranged women, a perfume designer and a lawyer, reconnect after 15 years when one seeks help for her ailing mother, rediscovering their deep bond through flashbacks of conflict, romance, and shared history, ultimately finding strength and renewal in the power of scent and motherhood.
ANOINTED (ISRAEL-RUSSIA)
Bella Rinsky (writer), Alla Turovskaja (co-writer)
The story follows the early days of King David, his rise to power, and everything he loses and gains along the way.
ARMY OF SAINTS (ITALY)
Matteo Cerami (writer), Elisa Ripamonti (development assistant)
To save his son from hell’s flames, a punisher of the Inquisition strives to make him a saint, but ends up burning him at the stake.
BROKEN FRENCH (RUSSIA)
Sofia Rimskaya (writer), Mia Nikoloska (co-writer)
Two young Eastern European women chase their Western European dream life in France, but nothing seems to be as they imagined. The hardships persist, but so do they.
CASUS (BELGIUM)
Vicky Van Hemelrijck (writer)
MANU (23), a senior criminology student, is faced with her own violent past as she interns as a social worker for households with domestic violence.
FAR (ICELAND)
Dóra Jóhannsdóttir (writer-director-producer), Elisabete Fortes (writer)
Eva, a black single mother of two, starts driving a taxi in Reykjavik, Iceland, while struggling to find her way, as the same traffic rules don’t apply to everyone.
LESTRANGE (AUSTRALIA)
Jessica Tuckwell (writer)
An enduring sibling bond, a fractured family, a zero-to-hero coming of age,and a complicated love affair, told within a spy mystery framework.
LITHIUM (UK)
Noemi Nakai (writer)
The interlocked destinies of four people across six countries, each relentlessly chasing and being chased by the curse of the white gold: lithium.
JOHNSON (SPAIN)
Cordelia Alegre (writer), Claudia Aragón (co-writer)
Mr. Johnson is a TV series about Narci´s, a bored airport worker who accidentally steals a suitcase and becomes addicted to identity thef.
OFFSHORE (AUSTRIA)
Laura Nasmyth (writer)
A group of libertarian tech moguls barricade themselves on a former prison island and start arming themselves to the teeth, afraid of governmental constraints and societal meltdown... all the while being served by a silent army of disillusioned staff.
PERPETUAL MOTION (BRAZIL)
Leon Barbero (writer), Natalia Sellani (co-writer)
A trance music festival and a forensic hospital are intertwined by an enigma that transcends the barriers of science and perception.
SALIE’S (GERMANY)
Katja Sallay (writer-creator), Michele Gentile (writer-creator)
In 1945 in bombed out Mannheim, Germany, Holocaust survivor Yossi Braumann founds the first post-war nightclub to share this heartbeat rhythm of the "new music" he originally picked up at the American GIs in town. Against all odds has to endure, he’ll come to terms with his own past and “Salie’s” becomes a symbol of hope and painful rebirth amidst the ruins of a new colorful generation.
SEVENTIN (CROATIA)
Andrea Slavicek (writer), Ivor Martinic (co-writer)
While we observe Lu, a charismatic and undemanding individual striving to piece together his life, he is being followed by his incarnated fears. Despite Lu having his own plans, they diligently work in direct opposition, aiming to make the outcome the worst possible for him - and they do so in a very creative way.
THE CITY OF SMILES (BRAZIL)
Daniel van Hoogstraten (producer), Gabriela Capello (writer)
A city is taken over by a government that prohibits sadness in a dictatorship disguised as an utopia.
THE EVE (UKRAINE)
Oleskii Sobolev (writer-director), Olga Zhuzhenko (producer)
Six months before the war, a Kyiv student's near-death experience unveils his future. Now, he must save a woman des>ned to die at the onset of an invasion no one believes.
THE OCCIDENTALISTS (QATAR)
Abdulelah Aljawarneh (writer)
The Occidentalists follows two friends, Mohammed and Nawal, as they try to find their place in a world that views them with suspicion.
THE PEOPLE I EAT (ITALY)
Ilaria Fravolini (writer)
Betina is a frustrated teenage girl forced into a life of marginalization and lies because she must hide her cannibal nature: she can only eat human flesh and blood. But when her harm-free food source gets interrupted and she discovers the other people like her do exist, things take a different turn in Betina’s life.
THE STORY OF A VIRGIN GHOST (SOUTH KOREA)
Yoo K. Lee (writer), Hugo Paradis (co-writer)
In the late 90s, a Korean family with two daughters relocates to France. However, turns out that the girls aren't the only ones uprooted from their familiar lives in Seoul. A Virgin Ghost who has been haunting the family for many years also awakens and finds herself a stranger in the City of Lights…
THE STRANGE GRIMM (GERMANY)
Steffen Gerdes (producer), Florens Huhn (writer)
To prove himself to his famous brothers, Ferdinand embarks on an adventure to hunt for untold fairy tales throughout Europe.