A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT
JOSSAIN ON VALO JOKA EI SAMMU
Lauri-Matti Parppei
FI/NO / 2025 / 108 min
Music prodigy Pauli, an acclaimed flautist in his younger years, finds himself back at home, in the countryside with his parents; he is suffering from depression. That is until he meets his old childhood friend Iiris, who now makes experimental ...
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COEXISTENCE
COEXISTENCE
Andrey Proskuryakov
IL/RU / 2025 / 75 min
In postwar Königsberg, displaced East Prussians and arriving Soviet settlers were forced to live side by side, bound by loss and survival. Through interviews, archives, and stage fragments, this documentary explores the fragile encounters across ...
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DAD‘S LULLABY
ТАТОВА КОЛИСКОВА
Lesia Diak
UA/RO/HR / 2024 / 78 min
Not the Same Anymore: Serhiy returns from the war, and the family reunion coincides with his birthday. He attempts to make up for his long absence, and his love for his children becomes evident through countless small gestures. Yet the trauma of war ...
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HOMELAND
BEIT AVI
Dani Rosenberg
IL / 2008 / 39 min
1948. Suddenly a soldier. Shoah survivor Lolek had been intending to go to Haifa to search for his sweetheart, instead however he ends up on a remote Israeli military post: desert, rocks, the blazing sun, and a ruthless commander. Rather than a ...
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HONEYMOON
Медовий місяць
Zhanna Ozirna
UA / 2024 / 84 min
Newly married, Taras and Olya celebrate moving into their new apartment, unaware that it is the evening before the Russian war of aggression. Their residential complex is occupied overnight, the Russian army sets up quarters in the same building. The ...
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KANTO
KANTO
Ensar Altay
TR / 2024 / 102 min
A family crisis with toxic consequences: Sude is now 45, her children are old enough to take care of themselves. Time to start thinking about herself. At this very point her husband's demented mother shows up, a guest at once uninvited and in need of ...
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MAGDALENA HAUSEN: FROZEN TIME
MAGDALENA HAUSEN: FROZEN TIME
Yannis Karpouzis
GR/DE / 2025 / 25 min
A fictional biography of a photographer who has witnessed and captured political upheavals in Europe since the 1960s. But her real artistic project is photographing the wind. With lovingly staged pseudo-documentary snapshots from different eras, ...
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OF DOGS AND MEN
AL KLAVIM VEANASHIM
Dani Rosenberg
IL / 2024 / 82 min
In the aftermath of the attacks of October 7, 16-year-old Dar returns to her kibbutz, now destroyed, in search of her missing dog. There she is silent witness to the scars of the ongoing conflict. Calmly captured, this haunting feature film tells a ...
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ORDINARY CITIZEN
ORDINARY CITIZEN
Kornii Hrytsiuk
UA / 2024 / 52 min
Over several days, director Kornii Hrytsiuk spoke with Russian prisoners of war in a Ukrainian prison. He asked them about their reasons for going to war, their feelings of guilt, and their lives before the war. What remains is a paralyzing ...
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STEALING LAND
ZEMLJO KRAST
Žiga Virc
AT/SI / 2025 / 70 min
The pandemic is now over, and two modern couples of helicopter parents meet. Whilst the children have been best friends since kindergarten, this quartet of parents is more a forced partnership than anything else. And when someone utters the word ...
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SONGS OF DUOLAN
SONGS OF DUOLAN
Sakhamin Trofimov
FR/GE / 2024 / 21 min
Far from home: In order to escape mobilisation, Duolan left Russia for Georgia, wherehe now works as a sushi chef. And yet he longs for the mountains, lakes, food, and songs of Yakutia, where his family still lives and where he sees his future. In ...
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TEMO RE
თემო რე
Anka Gujabidze
GE / 2025 / 50 min
Tbilisi from the perspective of a motorcycle courier, who delivers to every corner and social circle of the Georgian capital. Though Temo is an actor, he earns his living on his scooter. From individual images, photographer Anka Gujabidze assembles ...
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THE LAST PROMETHEUS OF DONBAS
ОСТАННІЙ ПРОМЕТЕЙ ДОНБАСУ
Anton Shtuka
UA / 2025 / 100 min
A power plant in the crosshairs. Just a few kilometers from the front line stands a thermal power plant in the city of Kurakhove, the last remaining operational power plant in Donbas. Out of a sense of responsibility for their country, the workers ...
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THE VISITOR
THE VISITOR
Vytautas Katkus
LT/NO/SE / 2025 / 115 min
A home in a foreign land: Danielus, a young Lithuanian, leaves his family in Norway to sell his deceased parents' apartment, located on the Lithuanian Baltic Sea. Back in his former homeland, he attempts to revive old friendships: The once familiar ...
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THIS IS A ROBBERY!
TO JE ROP!
Gregor Andolšek
SL / 2024 / 82 min
A misadventurer makes the acquaintance of an angry citizen: Rajko, who makes the rounds of shopping malls as a magician, breaks his arm. To survive the next few months, he needs money that his insurance company refuses to pay out. And then insurance ...
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THE TIE
CRAVATA
Bogdan Ilieșiu
RO / 2025 / 20 min
A mysterious man, a seductive woman—and a game that quickly gets out of hand. In Bogdan Ilieșius's sophisticated short film, the perspective shifts in every scene: Who is seducing whom, who is playing with whom—and where is the line between ...
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SWEET HOURS
SWEET HOURS
Orsolya Orbán
RO/HU / 2024 / 33 min
Erika runs away—from her family, her past, and herself. Her only friend is the old man she cleans for. But then the past comes knocking relentlessly at her door.
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THE ROAD HOME
DRUMUL SPRE CASA
Marian Fărcuț
RO / 2025 / 16 min
One car, two men, and a lot of alcohol: what begins as a nighttime ride soon turns into a crazy odyssey through the Transylvanian hinterland. With a healthy dose of dry humor, Marian Fărcuț tells the story of an encounter between a Romanian and a ...
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OEDIPUS' MORNING
OEDIPUS' MORNING
Eszter Tompa
RO / 2024 / 17 min
A daughter bursts into the bedroom and catches her father in flagrante with a famous actor in bed. Unfortunately, she wants to become an actress herself. When her grandfather enters the room, the family madness is complete.
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OUR TENDER MOMENT
OUR TENDER MOMENT
Zsófia Polacsek
RO/HU / 2024 / 20 min
With his motorcycle roaring and plenty of defiance, Balázs sets off on his journey into nowhere—until Zsuzsi appears. She wants to go to the Danube, he wants peace and quiet. But the wind in their hair and a day full of detours propel them into a ...
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MEMORIAL / LIQUIDATION
МЕМОРИАЛ / ЛИКВИДАЦИЯ
Taisiya Krugovykh, Vasily Bogatov
ARM/FR / 2025 / 60 min
The Russian NGO Memorial was founded with the aim of examining human rights abuses committed during the Stalinist period. In the course of a show trial carried out in 2021 in Russia, the organisation was "liquidated". This is the chronicle of its ...
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MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN
MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN
David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin
DK/CZ / 2025 / 90 min
A teacher from a small town in the Ural Mountains documents the rapid militarisation of his school following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. His lively, sincere and at times humorous video diary offers a rare glimpse inside Russia, a portrait of quiet ...
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PEACE WEAVING: PEACEMAKER
FRIEDENFLECHTEN: MIROTVORAC
Ivan Ramljak
HR / 2025 / 100 min
1991, Slavonia in the run-up to the Yugoslav Wars: The conflict between Serbia and Croatia escalates, claiming the life of a prominent Croatian victim. Josip Reihl-Kir, police chief of Osijek and mediator between the two sides, is assassinated. ...
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PEACE WEAVING: SNOW
FRIEDENFLECHTEN: SNIJEG
Aida Begić
BA / 2008 / 100 min
In Slavno, a village in eastern Bosnia, only six women, an old man, and five children remain after the war. Everyone else is missing. How are they to cope with the grief over the disappearance of relatives and neighbours, and with the time that ...
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OUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE
НАШ ДІМ ГОРИТЬ
Alice Biletska
UA / 2025 / 94 min
Sofia, a promising young LA-based musician, returns to her home-town of Kyiv for the first time in four years. Her brother is getting married, the tables are heaving with food, everyone is there, including her ex-boyfriend. And then, suddenly, the ...
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LEBEN IM NETZ
LEBEN IM NETZ
Nestor Hryshyn
DE / 2025 / 11 min
The teenager plays video games and gambles, his mother despairs. Both in Ukrainian and Lower Sorbian. And suddenly, real life intervenes. Winner of the Film Promotion Award/Filmowe spěchowańske myto ‘Akcija!’, jointly awarded by the School for ...
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