1001 Frames and Mare's Nest
1001 Frames
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Mehrnoush Alia; Writer: Mehrnoush Alia; Stars: Mohammad Aghebati, Shayesteh Sajadi)
In the studio of a well-known director, female actors audition for the role of Scheherazade in A Thousand and One Nights. But the women gradually realise that the director has more in mind than just casting the leading role.
Agon
(Country: Italy, US, France,; Year: 2025; Director: Giulio Bertelli)
Agon tracks three women athletes, specialists in judo, fencing, and shooting, as they prepare for the fictional Ludoj 2024 Games.
Balearic
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2025; Director: Ion de Sosa; Writer: Ion de Sosa, Juan González, Chema García Ibarra, Julián Génisson, Lorena Iglesias; Stars: Lara Gallo, Elias Hwidar, Ada Tormo, Paula Gala, María Llopis, Luka Peros, Christina Rosenvinge, Sofía Asencio, Manolo Marín, Moisés Richart, Lorena Iglesias, Julián Génisson, Pili Guerra, Federico Madrid, Héctor Arnau, Marta Bassols, Zorion Eguileor)
Three dogs are holding a group of teens inside the swimming pool of the villa they have snuck into. One of the boys is injured with severe bites. Despite his screams, no one comes to his aid. Those attending this party suffer a strange spell that does not allow them to get into the pool because everyone who swims feels the pain of the teens. It is the eve of San Juan. A ripe day for magic.
Barrio Triste
(Country: Colombia, US; Year: 2025; Director: Stillz; Writer: Stillz; Stars: Juan Pablo Baena, Samuel Velázquez, Tomás Tinoco Higuita, Samuel Andrés Celis, Brahian Acevedo, Estiven Salazar,Brayan Erlín García, José Arley Marín González, Samuel Ruiz)
Teenagers steal a camera to record their lives.
Before/After
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Manoël Dupont)
Two thirty-year-old loners discover, following a chance encounter, their shared desire to see their reflections in the mirror differently and decide to embark on a journey together from Belgium to Istanbul (in the days after Erdogan’s recent re-election) to undergo hair transplant procedures.
Don't Let The Sun and The Chronology Of Water
The Chronology Of Water
(Country: US, France, Latvia, Spain, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Kristen Stewart; Writer: Kristen Stewart, Lidia Yuknavitch; Stars: Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Jim Belushi, Tom Sturridge, Charlie Carrick, Jeremy Ang Jones, Earl Cave, Michael Epp, Susannah Flood, Kim Gordon, Alexander Johnson, Anton Lytvynov, Esme Allen, Hal Weaver, Alina Lytvynova)
A troubled young woman escapes an abusive childhood, family tragedy and addiction issues by slowly finding her creative voice as a writer.
Don't Let The Sun
(Country: Switzerland, Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Jacqueline Zünd; Writer: Jacqueline Zünd, Arne Kohlweyer; Stars: Levan Gelbakhiani, Maria Pia Pepe, Agnese Claisse, Karidja Touré, Cecilia Bertozzi)
A man who is hired to be a father figure for a young girl begins to forge an unexpected connection.
Female
(Country: Greece; Year: 2025; Director: Konstantinos Menelaou)
Alice was an iconic figure in Greek film and theater, an enigmatic pop culture phenomenon, a woman trapped between her public image and her personal reality. Through a multifaceted approach, the film unveils the truth behind her meticulously constructed persona.
Kingdom
(Country: Poland; Year: 2025; Director: Michał Ciechomski)
The ties between two brothers are put to the test, as the noose of war tightens around their family.
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.
Special screening
Last Night I Conquered The City Of Thebes
(Country: Spain, Portugal; Year: 2025; Director: Gabriel Azorín)
A group of Portuguese friends crosses the border into Spain to wander through the ruins of a Roman baths.
Little, Big, And Far
(Country: US, Austria; Year: 2024; Director: Jem Cohen; Stars: Mario Silva)
An astronomer named Karl, who has been re-evaluating his work and life after turning 70, travels to a mountaintop on a Greek island in search of the darkest sky against which to view the cosmos.
Special screening
MACDO
(Country: Mexico, Greece; Year: 2025; Director: Racornelia; Writer: Racornelia; Stars: Joaquín del Paso, Racornelia, Adolfo Jimenez Castro, Giovanna Duffour, Alicia Campillo, Eduardo Campillo)
Christmas Eve in late 1990s Mexico City, the film unveils the hidden tensions beneath a seemingly warm gathering.
Special screening
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.
Special screening
Memory Of Princess Mumbai
(Country: Kenya, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia; Year: 2025; Director: Damien Hauser; Writer: Damien Hauser; Stars: Shandra Apondi, Ibrahim Joseph, Samson Waithaka)
In 2093, filmmaker Kuve visits Umata to document life after a war banned modern tech. Local filmmaker Mumbi challenges him to create without AI and shows him the beauty in the everyday.
Special screening
Partition
(Country: Lebanon, Palestine, Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Diana Allan)
Fuses archival footage from the British occupation of Palestine with audio recordings of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, tracing lines of continuity left by seismic displacement.
Special screening
Regan
(Country: Greece; Year: 2025; Director: Panos Katsimperis)
A troubled young woman, an artist and a painter, gives birth to a deformed infant, following an unwanted pregnancy forced upon her. She now has to come in terms with herself, living in two parallel realities.
Zealotis
(Country: Greece; Year: 2025; Director: Stelios Repanis)
Iosif and Vicky go to his parents' house to clean it. He meets Antonis, a wanderer, with whom he develops a strange relationship. Vicky discovers signs of his dead mother in the house.
