Redoubt and Weightless
Aro Berria
(Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Irati Gorostidi Agirretxe; Stars: Maite Muguerza, Jon Ander Urresti, Aimar Uribe, Edurne Azkarate, Óscar Pascual)
San Sebastian, 1978. The workers at the water meter factory hold an assembly to discuss a strike, which ultimately fails. Disappointed, the most non-conformist workers turn their aspirations for radical transformation towards more intimate spheres. Some leave the factory to join an isolated community in the mountains.
As We Breathe
(Aldigimiz Nefes)
(Country: Turkey, Denmark; Year: 2025; Director: Seyhmus Altun; Writer: Seyhmus Altun; Stars: Hakan Karsak, Sacide Tasaner, Rüzgar Usta, Defne Zeynep Enci)
When smoke from a chemical fire engulfs her village, Esma must help her father handle emerging and existing problems in a raw portrayal of a rural Anatolian family.
Bad Apples
(Country: Iceland; Year: 2010; Director: Hallur Om Arnasson)
A schoolgirl is accused of arson and fraud.
Before The Bright Day
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2025; Director: Tsao Shih-Han; Stars: Chen Hsuan-Li, Wu Kang-Ren, Sun May, Cheng Yu-Chieh)
Chou, a sensitive teen craving independence, struggles as the 1996 Taiwan Strait crisis hits his family's finances and worsens tensions at home. He secretly works at a billiard hall, forming a bond with gang leader Button, but faces setbacks like Button's enlistment and peer conflicts.
Dance Of The Living
(La Lucha)
(Country: Spain, Colombia; Year: 2025; Director: José Alayón; Stars: Yazmina Estupiñan, Tomasín Padrón, Inés Cano, Sara Cano, Aridany Pérez)
On the arid island of Fuerteventura, Miguel and his daughter Mariana try to move on after his wife dies, a loss that has cast them both adrift. Canarian wrestling is their refuge, their way to make a place for themselves in the world.
Foreign Lands
(Country: Russia; Year: 2025; Director: Anton Yarush, Sergey Borovkov)
Anton, a successful Russian director in his late thirties, feels hollow despite his career, relationship, and friends. Obsessed with casting the perfect actress for his deeply personal film, he flees to foreign lands, trapped in an exhausting, relentless routine until an unexpected connection offers hope.
If We Don't Burn, How Do We Light Up The Night
(Si no ardemos, cómo iluminar la noche)
(Country: Costa Rico, Mexico, France; Year: 2025; Director: Kim Torres; Stars: Lara Yuja Mora, Keylin Delgado Arguedas, Valentina Chaves Jimenez, Teresa Sánchez, Michelle Jones, Juan Luis Araya, Jose Gabriel Guzmán Rodríguez, Luis Carlos Canhoto Baptista da Silva, Sebastián Sánchez Soza)
At the age of thirteen, Laura feels trapped in her new family. Just as she starts accepting her new life surrounded by sprawling forests and palm plantations, she learns that the village hides a dark secret that preys on the women she loves most.
Nighttime Sounds
(Ni de yan jing bi tai yang ming liang)
(Country: China; Year: 2025; Director: Zhang Zhongchen; Stars: Aline Chen, Li Yanxi, Gu Hanru)
The Song dynasty stone statues, dating back 800 years, stand in the wheat fields of Maozhuang Village. Eight-year-old Qing lives in this village with her mother, Hongmei, while her father works away from home all year round. On the way to school, she meets a ghost-like white child who has come to find his missing mother. With the child's arrival, Qing starts to sense whispering under the stone statues as her mother's secret past begins to reveal itself.
Redoubt
(Värn)
(Country: Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Poland, Finland, UK, Switzerland; Year: 2025; Director: John Skoog; Stars: Denis Lavant, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Livia Millhagen, Aron Skoog)
At the peak of the Cold War, farm worker Karl-Göran Persson starts fortifying his house. He gathers scrap metal and casts it into the walls to build a fortress meant to protect himself and his neighbours setting him on the path to conflict with his community
Shape Of Momo
(Chhora jastai)
(Country: India, South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Tribeny Rai; Stars: Gaumaya Gurung, Pashupati Rai, Shyama Shree Sherpa, Rahul Mukhia, Janaki Kadayat)
Bishnu returns to her Himalayan village after quitting her job, only to face mounting family pressures and societal expectations.
The Son And The Sea
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Stroma Cairns; Writer: Stroma Cairns, Imogen West; Stars: Jonah West, Stanley Brock, Connor Tompkins, Grant Lindsay, Lewis Tompkins, Billie Tompkins)
When Jonah and his best mate Lee take a trip to the Northeast coast of Scotland, they meet Charlie and learn that connection goes beyond words, and joy can be found despite loss.
Weightless
(Vaegtloes)
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2025; Director: Emilie Thalund; Writer: Marianne Lentz; Stars: Marie Helweg Augustsen, Ella Paaske, Joachim Fjelstrup)
A girl finds boundaries tested and broken on a trip to summer camp.
White Flowers And Fruits
(Shiro no kajitsu)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Yukari Sakamoto; Stars: Miro, Anji Ikehata, Nico Aoto, Mugi Kadowaki)
Ghost story set in an all-girls Christian boarding school.
