The Bad Son
(El Mal Hijo)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Jaime Lorente; Writer: Salvador S Molina; Stars: Miguel Ángel Puro, Susi Sánchez, Hugo Arbues, Óscar de la Fuente, Abel de la Fuente)
When 11-year-old Ruben’s father mysteriously disappears, the boy has to move in with his grandmother, a woman he barely knows.
Section opening film
The Ballet Lesson
(Country: Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Kazuya Murayama)
In a provincial Japanese town, Japanese-Russian siblings Nikita and Nina live an isolated life with their Russian grandparents, knowing their absent parents only through stories. When their father Nikolai suddenly returns, he takes them on a journey to see their mother Yuki, a Japanese ballet dancer.
Body Of Glass
(Country: Germany, France; Year: 2026; Director: Naëmi Ada; Stars: Soma Pysall, Elise Tilloloy, Manuel Severin, Younès Boucif)
After a violent incident with her controlling partner Felix, dancer Tian flees their shared life in Marseille. Isolated and desperate for connection, she infiltrates the grieving circle of a young man she never knew.
Cute
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2026; Director: Marlene Emilie Lyngstad; Writer: Marlene Emilie Lyngstad, Emilie Koefoed Larsen; Stars: Jan Gunnar Røise, Gina Jaqueline, Kitt Maiken Mortensen)
Troubled by forbidden feelings for his seven-year-old stepdaughter, Richard decides to leave his girlfriend. He retreats to his childhood home but his self-imposed exile is disrupted by the childlike presence of his mother's caregiver, Stella. He soon discovers her double life as a Lolita camgirl, and the two develop a transgressive surrogate father-daughter relationship.
Erratics
(Bloques erráticos)
(Country: Chile, France, Argentina; Year: 2026; Director: Thomas Woodroffe; Writer: Valeria Hofmann, Thomas Woodroffe, Antonio Luco; Stars: Denis Lavant, Daniel Muñoz)
Freeing himself after spending a hundred years trapped in a glacier, the ghost of the filmmaker Lucien Castelnau wanders through a futuristic Patagonia, where technological progress clashes with forgotten stories.
February, Seven Days
(Country: Germany, Austria; Year: 2026; Director: Tatjana Moutchnik; Writer: Tatjana Moutchnik; Stars: Sergey Korshikov, Mariia Shtofa, Volodymyr Holosniak, Arsenii Markov, Moisej Bazijan, Daria Guitbout, Anastasiya Kasilova)
Two different notions of family identity clash when a man from Odesa and his son visit his brother in Germany for the funeral of their mother, the day before the Ukraine war breaks out.
Florid
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Billy Lumby; Stars: Jonathan Jules, Saskia Chana, Abdul Basith, Unknown T, Clare Holman, Jennifer Greenidge, Marlon Bravi)
A young man in the care system tries to juggle his musical aspirations and mental health issues.
Section closing film
Lovers Sleep Alone
(Country: Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Massih Parsaei; Writer: Massih Parsaei; Stars: Pooyesh Frozandeh, Ava Darvishi, Marcel Kohler, Wolfgang Webeto, Ann-Kristin Reyels, Florens Schmidt)
Iman has built his life in Berlin around absence. From his family, from Iran, from being known. He fills the silence with work, invented stories, and nights with a man he meets for sex in the park. When his cousin, whom he barely knows, arrives from Tehran for a brief visit, what he left behind quietly finds its way back to him.
Morro
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2026; Director: Rodrigo García Saiz; Stars: Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Anna Diaz, Ernesto Meléndez)
Mateo is a small-town vet. Since his son died, he has lived a life of silent routines and nameless guilt. This fragile balance is broken when Mateo has to heal Morro, the local capo’s injured dog.
Mugalim
(Country: Kazakhstan; Year: 2026; Director: Ayana Nurdinova; Stars: Oljas Dalelkhan, Rustem Zhanyamanov, Shynar Janysbekova, Olga Landina, Gulnara Dusmatova, Akif Petrov, Madina Yesmanova, Anna Starchenko, Ruslan Duysembekov)
Zhandos, a music teacher, lives in the small town of Balkhash and dreams of moving to a big city. He is loved by his students, and the school turns a blind eye to his side jobs. When a patron nostalgic for his hometown arrives, Zhandos is given the chance to leave and must decide what matters more: the art within him, or himself within art.
My Father's Shoes
(Obuvkite na bashta mi)
(Country: Bulgaria, France; Year: 2026; Director: Hristo Simeonov)
Mima has grown up in the shadow of her father's absence, raised by her uncompromising mother, Boyka. When news of his death arrives and his body returns to their village, recognition becomes both duty and dilemma. As Boyka refuses to face the man she once loved, mother and daughter confront a silent past, forcing Mima to decide what it means to inherit a life she never chose.
This Solitude
(Country: Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Javier Giner; Writer: Luisa Matienzo, Javier Giner; Stars: Oriol Pla, Marina Salas, Gemma Martínez, Kai Etxaniz, Itziar Lazkano, Ione Irazabal, Miren Gaztañaga, Mikel Bustamente, Ainhoa Artetxe, Fernando Guallar, Eneko Sagardoy, Omar Ayuso)
Leo and Lorea have loved one another. Maybe they still do. But something in them has broken. After five years, their relationship is done. He looks after his sick father, trapped between responsibility and an emotional void that weighs him down. She, caught up in poorly-paid jobs and personal crises, tries to get her life back on track without really knowing where to begin.
Will You Still Be My Friend
(Country: Taiwan, Singapore; Year: 2026; Director: Lu Po-shun; Writer: Lu Po-shun, Chen Chia-ping; Stars: Lu Yi-ching, Lung Tien-hsiang, Chang Tsai-hsing, Kate Pang, Andie Chen, Aloysius Looi, Jaden Wang)
Amid an escalating feud in a rural Taiwanese village, a boy struggles to protect his secret friendship with his Singapore-raised best friend as adult conflicts threaten to tear them apart.
The World Before
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2026; Director: Yoon Dan-bi; Writer: Yoon Dan-bi; Stars: Sim Su-bin, Kim Eo-jin)
A teenager who has never left the island where she was born, begins a love affair.
