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DJ Ahmet and Wild Foxes

Beef (Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Ingride Santos)

A young rapper must confront her mother to succeed in the world of freestyle.

Bidad (Bezpráví) (Country: Iran; Year: 2025; Director: Soheil Beiraghi; Writer: Soheil Beiraghi; Stars: Sarvin Zabetian, Amir Jadidi, Leili Rashidi)

Seti loves music and singing, and she yearns for her voice to be heard. But in Iran, it is against the law for women to perform in public, and so the young girl decides to engage in her own personal protest. The street becomes her stage, and random passers-by become her enthusiastic audience.

Christy (Country: Ireland; Year: 2025; Director: Brendan Canty; Writer: Alan O'Gorman; Stars: Danny Power, Diarmuid Noyes, Emma Willis, Alison Oliver, Helen Behan, Chris Walley, Cormac De Bhál)

Two estranged brothers with chequered childhoods in the care system suddenly find themselves living under the same roof.

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DJ Ahmet (Country: North Macedonia, Czechia, Serbia, Croatia; Year: 2025; Director: Georgi M Unkovski; Writer: Georgi M Unkovski; Stars: Arif Jakup, Agush Agushev, Aksel Mehmet, Dora Akan Zlatanova, Selpin Kerim, Atila Klince)

Ahmet, a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia find refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and first love.

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The Girl Who Stole Time (Country: China; Year: 2025; Director: Yu Ao, Zhou Tienan; Stars: Liu Xiaoyu, Wang Junkai, Zhou Shen, Huang Bo)

A cheerful girl from a fishing village, obtains a mysterious pendant, the Time Dial, which gives her the power to control time. But her new ability attracts danger, including an assassin.

Kevlar Soul (Country: Sweden, Norway, Finland; Year: 2025; Director: Maria Eriksson-Hecht)

Alex and Robin are inseparable brothers, growing up in a small Swedish town under the domestic terror of their violent alcoholic father but when Alex sees an opportunity to break free trouble looms.

Olivia And The Invisible Earthquake (Country: Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Chile, France; Year: 2025; Director: Irene Iborra, Irene Iborra Rizo)

Twelve-year-old Olivia, her little brother Tim, and their mother are forced to leave their apartment and move to a new neighbourhood. In an attempt to shield Tim from the distress of the situation, Olivia convinces him that it is all part of a film.

The Prank (Country: Germany, Switzerland; Year: 2025; Director: Benjamin Heisenberg)

A prank gone wrong. A day gone mad. And one last trick to make it right.

Skiff (Country: Belgium, Netherlands; Year: 2025; Director: Cecilia Verheyden)

Teenage tale of first love.

Wild Foxes (La Danse des Renards) (Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Valery Carnoy; Writer: Valery Carnoy; Stars: Samuel Kircher, Yoann Blanc, Jean-Baptiste Durand, Frédéric Clou, Faycal Anaflous)

At a sports boarding school, talented young boxer Camille is knocked back by an accident that starts to make him question his place inside the ring.

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