Little Trouble Girls and Dragonfly
Cuerpo Celeste
(Country: Italy, France, Chile; Year: 2025; Director: Nayra Ilic; Writer: Nayra Ilic; Stars: Mariana Loyola, Daniela Ramírez, Néstor Cantillana, Nicolás Contreras, Helen Mrugalski)
Celeste is a carefree 15-year-old coming of age after the fall of Pinochet when her life changes drastically and unexpectedly.
World premiere
Dragonfly
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Paul Andrew Williams; Writer: Paul Andrew Williams; Stars: Brenda Blethyn, Andrea Riseborough, Jason Watkins, Elliot Benn, Sandra Huggett, Lolly Jones)
When Colleen volunteers to care for her
elderly neighbor Elsie, the two quickly bond. But beneath the pleasantries,
motives start to be questioned leading to a devastating series of events.
World premiere
Happy Birthday
(Country: Egypt; Year: 2025; Director: Sarah Goher; Writer: Mohamed Diab, Sarah Goher; Stars: Nelly Karim, Hanan Motawie, Hanan Youssef, Doha Ramadan)
Eight-year-old maid Toha goes to great lengths to ensure that her best friend Nelly, the daughter of her wealthy employer, has a successful birthday party.
World premiere
Little Trouble Girls
(Kaj ti je deklica)
(Country: Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia; Year: 2025; Director: Urska Djukic; Writer: Urska Djukic, Marina Gumzi; Stars: Jara Sofija Ostan, Mina Svajger, Sasa Tabakovic, Natasa Burger, Marko Mandic, Lotos Sparovec, Sasa Pavcek, Branko Zavrsan, Casson Matia, Popovic Stasa, Frlic Spela, Tomazin Irena, Strle Mateja)
During a weekend of rehearsals with the school choir at a convent, an introverted teenager begins to view the world from a new perspective.
North American premiere
My Father’s Son
(Country: China, France; Year: 2025; Director: Qiu Sheng; Writer: Qiu Sheng; Stars: Ko Chia-Yen, Alice Ko, Yang Song, Anke Sun, Ning Sun, Jiali Zhao, Chenjie Tong)
A father’s complicated legacy lives on in his son’s memories - and an AI boxing model.
World premiere
People And Meat
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Yang Jong-hyun; Writer: Namoo Lim; Stars: Jang Yong, Ye Su Jeong, Keun-hyong Park)
Three broke and lonely senior citizens reinvent themselves as the infamous “dine and dash trio” in a
gambit to eat free across Seoul.
World premiere
Pinch
(Country: India; Year: 2025; Director: Uttera Singh; Writer: Adam Linzey, Uttera Singh; Stars: Sunita Rajwar, Geeta Agrawal Sharma, Uttera Singh, Badri Chavan, Nitesh Pandey, Sapna Sand, Rajiv Nema, Ranjana Tiwari)
When Maitri, an aspiring travel blogger, is groped by her landlord while traveling to a festival, she impulsively takes retributive steps. The ramifications rock her tight-knit community.
World premiere
Reflection In A Dead Diamond
(Reflet Dans Un Diamant Mort)
(Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, France; Year: 2025; Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani; Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Koen De Bouw, Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Barbara Hellemans, Thi Mai Nguyen, Céline Camara, Kezia Quintal)
When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.
North American premiere
A Second Life
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Laurent Slama; Writer: Thomas Keumurian, Laurent Slama; Stars: Alex Lawther, Agathe Rousselle, Jonas Bachan, Suzy Bemba)
A hearing-impaired American and a free-spirited tourist form an unlikely friendship amid the buzz of Paris during the Olympic games.
World premiere
The Square
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Kim Bo-sol; Writer: Kim Bo-sol; Stars: Jeon Woon-jong, Lee Ga-young, Lee Chan-yong, Lee Yoo-jun)
Animated romantic drama sses a young Swedish diplomat and North Korean traffic officer fall in illicit love, but as his posting to the Embassy in Pyongyang draws to a close, they must make an impossible decision.
World premiere
Twelve Moons
(Doce Lunas)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2025; Director: Victoria Franco; Writer: Victoria Franco; Stars: Ana de la Reguera, Enrique Arreola, Zamia Fandiño, Javier Sepulveda, Sebastian Silveti)
Sofia is 40, childless, with a neglectful marriage, and spiraling into chaos as her life unravels.
World premiere
The Wolf, The Fox And The Leopard
(Country: Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ireland, Croatia, Taiwan; Year: 2025; Director: David Verbeek; Writer: David Verbeek; Stars: Marie Jung, Nicholas Pinnock, Jessica Reynolds, Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, Naomi Kawase, Eoin Duffy, Alessia Raschella, Robert Beg)
A feral girl who has spent her life living among wolves is taken on an odyssey through contemporary human life while the threat of climate apocalypse looms.
World premiere