God Will Not Help and Dry Leaf
Desire Lines
(Linije želje)
(Country: Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Netherlands, Croatia, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Dane Komljen; Writer: Dane Komljen, Tanja Šljivar; Stars: Ivan Čuić, Branka Katić, Petja Golec Horvat, Rok Juričić)
Branko obsessively trails his brother through neon-lit Belgrade nights, trying to fathom his unusual behaviour. On this path, Branko realises that he is the strange one, an observer, an apparition. Branko keeps walking and leaves the city behind, crossing landscapes and borders on his way to a very special place where everyone and every thing has a story to share.
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Donkey Days
(Country: Netherlands, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Rosanne Pel; Writer: Rosanne Pel; Stars: Jil Krammer, Susanne Wolff, Hildegard Schmahl, Amke Wegner, Carla Juri)
Sisters Anna and Charlotte have always fought for their mother’s attention. As old wounds reopen and suck them back to their family home, they unravel mesmerising mysteries, including anonymous ashes and their mother’s love for a donkey. Will they come to terms with each other?
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Dracula
(Country: Romania, Austria, Luxembourg; Year: 2025; Director: Radu Jude; Writer: Radu Jude; Stars: Adonis Tanța, Oana Maria Zaharia, Gabriel Spahiu, Ilinca Manolache, Alexandru Dabija, Andrada Balea, Doru Talos, Serban Pavlu, Lukas Miko, Neil Young. Alexandra .Harapu.)
Gonzo exploration of the Vlad the Impaler mythos.
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Dry Leaf
(Country: Germany, Georgia; Year: 2025; Director: Alexandre Koberidze; Writer: Alexandre Koberidze; Stars: David Koberidze, Irina Chelidze, Giorgi Bochorishvili, Otar Nijaradze, Vakhtang Panchulidze)
A father goes looking for his missing photographer daughter across rural Georgia.
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God Will Not Help
(Bog neće pomoći)
(Country: Croatia, Italy, Romania, Greece, France, Slovenia; Year: 2025; Director: Hana Jušić; Writer: Hana Jušić; Stars: Manuela Martelli, Ana Marija Veselčić, Filip Đurić, Mauro Ercegović Gracin, Nikša Butijer)
A Chilean woman acts as a catalyst in a Croatian shepherd family after she arrives claiming to be the wife of their dead brother.
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Two Seasons, Two Strangers and Dracula
The Lake
(Le Lac)
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2025; Director: Fabrice Aragno; Writer: Fabrice Aragno; Stars: Clotilde Courau, Bernard Stamm)
With everything they’ve got, a couple throws themselves into a sailing race lasting several days and nights on a large lake.
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Mare's Nest
(Country: UK, France; Year: 2025; Director: Ben Rivers; Writer: Ben Rivers, based on play The Word for Snow by Don DeLillo; Stars: Aonan Yang, Andreas Mendritzki, Fabrizio Polpettini, François Bonenfant)
A child's adventures in an adult-free world.
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Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due
(Year: 2025; Director: Abdellatif Kechiche; Writer: Abdellatif Kechiche)
Third in the Mektoub, My Love trilogy sees a soap star and her husband thrown into the mix.
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Mosquitoes
(Le Bambini)
(Country: Italy, Switzerland, France; Year: 2025; Director: Valentina Bertani, Nicole Bertani; Writer: Maria Sole Limodio, Valentina Bertani, Nicole Bertani; Stars: Mia Ferricelli, Agnese Scazza, Petra Scheggia, Clara Tramontano, Milutin Dapčević, Cristina Donadio, Jessica Piccolo Valerani, Matteo Martari)
1997 Linda is eight years old, has few teeth, a very rich grandmother and a beautiful, dangerous and disruptive mother. It will be the encounter with two peers, sisters Azzurra and Marta, that will teach her how to become a child.
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Phantoms Of July
(Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Julian Radlmaier; Writer: Julian Radlmaier; Stars: Clara Schwinning, Maral Keshavarz, Henriette Confurius, Paula Schindler, Ghazal Shojaei, Kyung-Taek Lie, Buksori Lie, Marlene Hauser, Jérémie Galiana)
An East German waitress with a broken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm dream of another life and end up on a ghost hunt in the mountains.
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Mare's Nest and Solomamma
The Seasons
(As Estações)
(Country: Portugal, France, Spain, Austria; Year: 2025; Director: Maureen Fazendeiro; Writer: Maureen Fazendeiro; Stars: Simão Ramalho, Cláudio da Silva, Ana Potra, Manuel Leitão, António Sozinho)
The film travels, through the seasons, through the real and invented history of a region of Portugal, Alentejo, and the people who inhabited it. It begins in the present of childhood without memory and ends in an immemorial time before writing.
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Solomamma
(Country: Norway, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Finland; Year: 2025; Director: Janicke Askevold; Writer: Janicke Askevold; Stars: Lisa Loven Kongsli, Herbert Nordrum, Trude-Sofie Olavsrud Anthonsen, Celine
Engebrigtsen, Stine Fevik, Nasrin Khusrawi, Rolf Kristian Larsen, Pål Richard Lunderby, Kaveh
Tehrani)
When a single mother discovers the identity of her sperm donor, her pursuit of truth blurs
the boundaries between love, ethics, and self-deception.
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Sorella Di Clausura
(Country: Romania, Serbia, Italy, Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Ivana Mladenović; Writer: Ivana Mladenović, Adrian Schiop, Momir Milošević; Stars: Katia Pascariu, Cendana Trifan, Miodrag Mladenović, Arnold Kelsch, Cătălin Dordea, Adrian Radu)
Romantic melodrama parody set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis.
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Tales Of The Wounded Land
(Country: Lebanon; Year: 2025; Director: Abbas Fahdel)
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Two Seasons, Two Strangers
(Year: 2025; Director: Sho Miyake; Writer: Sho Miyake, based on the manga Mr. Ben and his Igloo, A View of the Seaside by Yoshiharu Tsuge.; Stars: Eun Kyung Shim, Yuumi Kawai, Mansaku Takada, Shiro Sano, Shinichi Tsutsumi)
A scriptwriter is processing what is happening in her life. She meets an innkeeper while traveling.
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Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due and Mosquitoes
White Snail
(Country: Austria, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter; Writer: Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter; Stars: Marya Imbro, Mikhail Senkov)
A Belarusian model dreaming of a career in China finds herself drawn to a mysterious loner who works the night shift at a morgue. A fragile love story.
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With Hasan In Gaza
(Country: Palestine, Germany, France, Switzerland; Year: 2025; Director: Kamal Aljafari)
What began as a search for a former prison mate from 1989 - a man lost to time and war - led to an unexpected road trip from the north to the south of Gaza, accompanied by Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown. Documentary made from footage shot by the documentarian 21 years ago.
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