OUT OF COMPETITION:
LANDMARKS by Lucrecia Martel (Argentina) | TFL Co-Production Fund (€ 50,000)
A leaked video of the 2009 murder of Indigenous leader Javier Chocobar during a land dispute in northern Argentina sets justice in motion. Nine years later, the trial begins and the film weaves courtroom footage with community voices and images to uncover the deep colonial roots of land dispossession.
ORIZZONTI:
GRAND CIEL by Akihiro Hata (Japan) | ScriptLab 2018
Vincent works the night shift on the construction site of a futuristic district. When a worker goes missing, Vincent and his colleagues suspect that their superiors are covering up an accident. But soon another worker disappears.
MILK TEETH by Mihai Mincan (Romania) | FeatureLab 2023, TFL Production Award (€ 40,000)
In the final days of Ceaușescu’s Romania, a ten-year-old girl becomes the last witness to her sister’s mysterious disappearance — and must find the courage to grow up in a collapsing world.
A round of applause also to two TFL alumni and an alumna for their new titles: Duse by Pietro Marcello (Competition), Orphan by László Nemes (Competition) and Un anno di scuola by Laura Samani (Orizzonti).
GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI:
PAST FUTURE CONTINUOUS by Firouzeh Khosrovani and Morteza Ahmadvand | TFL Co-Production Fund 2024
A woman has fled Iran after the Islamic Revolution and has never gone back; she can only observe her parents on the security cameras installed in their home in Tehran. The reality of this digital connection is the heart of the film.
A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD by Cyril Aris | Red Sea Labs – The Lodge 2021
The film spans three decades of Lebanese history, placing at the forefront a romantic relationship between a man and a woman born the same day during the bombings, then separated, and only much later reunited, by chance. Alternating light-hearted moments and flashes of deep melancholy, the film is about their stubborn attempts to believe in love and to stay human while the world all around them collapses.