Projects 2025
AGITATIONS
Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter
Iceland
There is a rift in the life of a young girl; the family drifts apart, even the earth is shaking.
ALBANIA, MON AMOUR
Filip Jembrih
Slovenia
In the span of a single day, a couple’s relationship unravels as one of them prepares to marry an Albanian man for money so he can obtain a green card.
BUCK MOON
Frank van den Bogaart
Belgium
The progressive Noa returns to his hometown for a male-only folkloric festival in a desperate bid to save his friendship with the estranged Sem. There he uncovers a hidden truth in the ancient village-myth that could either heal their fractured bond or destroy the fragile connection they still share.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Macha Ovtchinnikova
France
Diane comes to Belarus to interview Marina, the sister of two young men sentenced to death for murder. A strange and intimate connection develops between the two women, two mothers who suffer from violence, leading Diane to the depths of her own guilt.
CLOSING TIME
Sara Jurinčić
Croatia
Late-shift workers are frozen in the dim flicker of the neon night lights. Framed by the street shop windows and touchingly unprotected from the passerby’s gaze. As reality starts to glitch, the sides of the window switch and the inequality of immigrant workers comes to light.
IN THE NAME OF UKRAINE
Vyacheslav Turyanytsya
Ukraine
A police officer goes undercover to a private sex party to obtain video evidence that can be used against the party organizers for allegedly running a place of debauchery.
INSIDE
Dorota Vlnová
Slovakia
In a society full of prejudices, several women find a common inner space to share the feelings that abortion has left them with.
MEMORIES OF BEYOND
Alicia Mendy
Switzerland
When Elizo loses his mother, demons invade his world. Grief-ridden, Elizo discovers that by touching one of them, he is transported to the afterlife, where he is reunited with his mother. But this comes at a price. Will he be able to choose his path?
MOTHER NATURE
Barbara Anastacio
Portugal
Mia, a successful 38-year-old data scientist yearning for more, turns to 'Mother Nature,' a DNA-matching app to find the perfect sperm donor before her fertility window closes. But as her day spirals into a series of absurd encounters with the app's top matches, her carefully calculated plan gives way to messier human truths.
NOBODY SAID ANYTHING
Tamara Todorović
Serbia
On a cold winter night in a residential block, a group of mothers gathers to confront the brutal act committed by their 11-year-old daughters, igniting a storm of female anger and exposing the raw, unspoken struggles of control, shame, and responsibility.
THINGS THAT CAN RUIN A PICNIC
Hanna Hovitie
Finland
A couple’s perfect picnic date starts to fall apart when the topic of having kids gets brought up.
VATERLAND
Berthold Wahjudi
Germany
Revolving around the sibling dynamics between a German-Indonesian pair of brother and sister, VATERLAND discusses dynamics of othering and belonging for mixed-raced people in four distinct chapters.