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Cinema from Central and Eastern Europe at its best. It's about high politics and identity formation, growing up and rebellion, war and peace, migration and homeland – the ten films from a total of 16 production and co-production countries competing for the coveted Lubinas this year show what moves Eastern Europe and, therefore, us too. Formally diverse, the programme offers magical realism and everyday chronicles, epic cinema and contemplation, social drama and absurd comedy, arthouse and Bollywood echoes.

BEAUTIFUL EVENING, BEAUTIFUL DAY

LIJEPA VEČER, LIJEP DAN

Ivona Juka
HR/PL/CA/CY/BA / 2024 / 137 min

Yugoslavia, 1957. Lovro, Nenad, Stevan, and Ivan, former partisans, are pursuing careers at the state film studio. They are gay however, their backgrounds too bourgeois, and their films too critical. Political pressure sees them end up on the ...

IDA WHO SANG SO BADLY EVEN THE DEAD ROSE UP AND JOINED HER IN SONG

IDA, KI JE PELA TAKO GRDO, DA SO ŠE MRTVI VSTALI OD MRTVIH IN ZAPELI Z NJO

Ester Ivakič
SI/HR / 2025 / 109 min

Can a song bring back the dead? Ida firmly believes so – after all, it once worked with her grandmother. It’s just too bad her audition for the school choir was such a disaster. How is she now supposed to ensure her grandmother's survival? A ...

MAYFLIES

PIPÁS

Emília Goldberg
HU / 2025 / 90 min

Hungary, 1930: Piper Steve – an assassin born as a woman – is on death row awaiting execution when he meets Irma, the prison chaplain's daughter. A forbidden love blossoms between the two – and yet time is running out. #drama #friendship #rebels

ORPHAN

ÁRVA

László Nemes
HU/UK/DE/FR / 2025 / 132 min

A dark coming-of-age epic about myth and truth. Andor lives in the belief that he is the son of a missing Jewish father. When, one day, a brutal butcher claims to be his true father, a bitter battle of David versus Goliath begins. #coming-of-age ...

OUR FATHER

OČE NAŠ

Goran Stanković
RS/IT/HR/MK/ME/BA / 2025 / 90 min

Going cold turkey in a Serbian Orthodox monastery. Dejan tries to overcome his addiction by means of faith. Behind the monastery walls however, Father Branko rules with an iron fist. When a video of his brutal punishments goes viral, Dejan is forced ...

SUMMER SCHOOL, 2001

LETNÍ ŠKOLA, 2001

Dužan Duong
CZ / 2025 / 103 min

After ten years in Vietnam, seventeen-year-old Kien returns to Cheb, in the Czech Republic, in the summer of 2001. The arrival of the quiet teenager with his striking bright red hairstyle not only unleashes long-suppressed conflicts within his ...

THUS SPOKE THE WIND

ԱՅՍՊԵՍ ԱՍԱՑ ՔԱՄԻՆ

Maria Rigel
AM / 2025 / 92 min

The taciturn Hayk grows up on his aunt's farm in the Armenian countryside. When his mother Anahit returns home, she finds herself treated like a stranger: too rebellious, too emancipated, too different. Hayk absorbs the growing tensions with the ...

TRIUMPH

ТРИУМФ

Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
BG/GR / 2024 / 98 min

Make Bulgaria Great Again: In post-communist Bulgaria of the 1990s, a secret military unit is tasked with recovering an alien capsule. In fulfilling this mission, the country is to "lead humanity to victory." Led by a clairvoyant and a telepathic ...

WROOKLYN ZOO

Krzysztof Skonieczny
PL/US / 2024 / 128 min

Kosa is the king of Wrocław's skater scene. When he falls in love with Romani girl Zora, his aspirations for life take on a completely new direction. In Wrocław of the 1990s, magic and skinheads collide, as do youthful light-heartedness and social ...

TO THE VICTORY!

ЗА ПЕРЕМОГУ!

Valentyn Vasyanovych
UA/LT / 2025 / 107 min

Ukraine one year after the war. They celebrate victory, and yet the population is dwindling, or never returned. Those who remain try to make the best of it. Among them is arthouse director Roman, who also has to cope with his pubescent son. A ...