The film serves as a metaphor for a country that holds the potential for paradise, were it not for the circumstances that make such a reality impossible.
Mo Harawe
Tribe
"The realities of women’s lives in Iran have hardly ever been told, and yet this is a playful tale about hope and joy in life as well as the absurdity of death."
Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha
”My whole life, Istanbul and its inhabitants have held a special place in my heart and I’m very excited to soon be able to share these rooms and places with an audience.”
Levan Akin
"The predominant dialogue on race and colour is a western, black vs. white dialogue. I wanted to address it from a South Asian perspective."
Dibakar Das Roy
" My artistic drive is all about addressing stereotypes and preconceived notions."
Isabella Eklöf"
"With no sight of a future, we risk drowning into the past."
Leonor Teles
"I wanted to tell a story about a couple that does everything to fit in, and what happens when one of them isn’t interested in that anymore."
Ernst de Geer
“Growing up felt like dancing on the thin line between longing for independence and a sense of belonging. A shimmering state of uncertainty.”
Anna Roller
"Etero is an intuitive feminist facing the clash of passion and emancipation"
Elene Naveriani
"I wanted to share cinematic memories of that - not so distant - part of everyone's youth"
Zihan Geng
"My characters are trying to find their voice. Their experiences are familiar to me, I can deeply relate to them."
Malika Musaeva
“I want to show how a supernatural event can create disruption in society.”
Sofia Alaoui
“I was thinking a lot about intimacy and how it is developed between two people.”
Marija Kavtaradze
“Life can be hostile, unpredictable or truly spectacular. Like a wild tiger."
Andrei Tănase
“I’m interested in showing a colorful society – not everyone is rich, not all couples are heterosexual and certainly, not everybody is happy.”
Cristina Grosan
“The film is a nightmare about ferocity.”
Patricia Mazuy
From the 2022 Nobel Laureate author of The Years, Happening and Simple Passion.
Annie Ernaux
From the 2022 Nobel Laureate author of The Years, Happening and Simple Passion.
David Ernaux-Briot
“It all starts from a photograph. It shows my mother holding my hand at the edge of a wooded area. Behind us is a sunny landscape, but what lies ahead of us?”
Jasmine Trinca
“Pepe’s unshakable optimism grows to comical proportions, but beneath this simplicity lies a more complex, dreamlike universe.”
Mikko Myllylahti
“I was longing to see these new types of family constellations and depict how patterns are difficult to break.”
Lovisa Sirén
“Erasing Frank is an attempt to redefine direct cinema and social drama. I want to let the audience go through raw experience in a deshumanized orwellian reality.”
Gábor Fabricius
“Moneyboys may deal with a very specific situation, the migration of a young man from rural China, but for me it is a universal story about interpersonal relationships that could happen in many places around the world.”
C.B. Yi
“We are all branded at birth by social judgments. Some people succeed in escaping them, but that does not prevent determinism developing. In this film, I want to explore the necessity of leaving.”
Samuel Theis
“The only way to be free is to accept the absurdity of life. Freedom is not to climb up, freedom is to let go.”
Juho Kuosmanen
“The story lays on gentle humor and well observed everyday details of the family life.”
Michaela Pavlátová
"Ballad of a White Cow tells the story of the victims and the ones that have suffered from injustice. The people whose lives were fully transformed by the death of an innocent person.”
Behtash Sanaeeha
"Ballad of a White Cow tells the story of the victims and the ones that have suffered from injustice. The people whose lives were fully transformed by the death of an innocent person.”
Maryam Moghaddam
"What a short story collection is in literature, WE aims to be in film. A succession of stories and portraits threaded together over a territory that is fractured despite the suburban rail link running across it.”
Alice Diop
"Together with the leading cast we created a crossroads of our fantasies and nightmares" on love, sexuality and ambitions."
Hannaleena Hauru
"After four years spent in this housing project, prior to its destruction we wanted to re enchant the place, which has had a powerful impact on so many lives, including our own."
Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh
"I wanted to capture the insecurities of adolescence, as well as the ecstatic mood that comes shortly after having graduated from high school, when you feel the world is at your feet and you’re going to seize it NOW!"
Ilker Çatak
"I wanted to see, if it would be possible for a young couple to build a future without ignoring the past."
Shirel Peleg
"In Luxor you can almost hear the temple walls talk because people prayed there for thousands of years, which makes it the perfect setting for a film about birth and rebirth and second chances."
Zeina Durra
Directed by Kirsikka Saari, Miia Tervo, Elli Toivoniemi, Jenni Toivoniemi, Reetta Aalto, Anna Paavilainen, Alli Haapasalo
Various
We want to explore the culture which enables harassment and gender unequality. The viewer - regardless of gender - will feel what women feel to be alert all times
Various
"In Japanese bondage, ropes are a tool that women use to express themselves. That’s what I wanted to explore in this documentary."
Jean-Armand Bougrelle
Through my documentary experiences, I always have the desire to share the voices of those who reinvent, in the margins, their bodies in motion.
Camille Ducellier
Shock waves is a collection of four films made for TV by four renowned Swiss directors.
Lionel Baier
Shock waves is a collection of four films made for TV by four renowned Swiss directors.
Ursula Meier
Shock waves is a collection of four films made for TV by four renowned Swiss directors.
Jean-Stéphane Bron
Shock waves is a collection of four films made for TV by four renowned Swiss directors.
Frédéric Mermoud
"Ceniza Negra is about a child’s strength while she deals with the experience of death as a way of understanding life. A search for finding the magic in mourning hidden in the daily and the invisible."
Sofía Quirós Ubeda
"I wanted to explore how a great encounter can lead you to be bold and free."
Levan Akin
THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE
Directed by
Mo Harawe
Produced by
FreibeuterFilm, Kazak Productions, NiKo Film, Maanmaal CC
THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE
My film serves as a metaphor for a country that holds the potential for paradise, were it not for the circumstances that make such a reality impossible.
THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE
THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE
THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE
MY FAVOURITE CAKE
Directed by
Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha
Produced by
Filmsazan Javan, Behtash Sanaeeha, Caractères Productions, Hobab, Watchmen Productions
MY FAVOURITE CAKE
"The realities of women’s lives in Iran have hardly ever been told, and yet this is a playful tale about hope and joy in life as well as the absurdity of death."
MY FAVOURITE CAKE
MY FAVOURITE CAKE
MY FAVOURITE CAKE
MY FAVOURITE CAKE
MY FAVOURITE CAKE
MY FAVOURITE CAKE
CROSSING
Directed by
Levan Akin
Produced by
French Quarter Film, Easy Riders Films, Adomeit Film
CROSSING
”My whole life, Istanbul and its inhabitants have held a special place in my heart and I’m very excited to soon be able to share these rooms and places with an audience.”
CROSSING
CROSSING
CROSSING
CROSSING
CROSSING
DILLI DARK
Directed by
Dibakar Das Roy
Produced by
Reeligion Films LLP
DILLI DARK
"The predominant dialogue on race and colour is a western, black vs. white dialogue. I wanted to address it from a South Asian perspective."
DILLI DARK
DILLI DARK
KALAK
Directed by
Isabella Eklöf
Produced by
Manna Film
KALAK
" My artistic drive is all about addressing stereotypes and preconceived notions."
KALAK
KALAK
BAAN
Directed by
Leonor Teles
Produced by
Uma Pedra no Sapato
BAAN
Leonor Teles
"With no sight of a future, we risk drowning into the past."
BAAN
BAAN
Filipa Reis
THE HYPNOSIS
Directed by
Ernst de Geer
Produced by
Garagefilm International, Film I Väst AB, Mer Film, Totem Atelier
THE HYPNOSIS
Ernst de Geer
"I wanted to tell a story about a couple that does everything to fit in, and what happens when one of them isn’t interested in that anymore."
THE HYPNOSIS
THE HYPNOSIS
Mimmi Spång, Garagefilm International
DEAD GIRLS DANCING
Directed by
Anna Roller
Produced by
Kalekone, Totem Atelier
DEAD GIRLS DANCING
Anna Roller
“Growing up felt like dancing on the thin line between longing for independence and a sense of belonging. A shimmering state of uncertainty.”
DEAD GIRLS DANCING
DEAD GIRLS DANCING
Katharina Kolleczek and Lea Neu, Kalekone
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY
Directed by
Elene Naveriani
Produced by
Alva Film, Takes Film
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY
Elene Naveriani
"Etero is an intuitive feminist facing the clash of passion and emancipation"
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY
Ketie Danelia, Alva Film
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY
Ketie Danelia, Takes Film
A SONG SUNG BLUE
Directed by
Zihan Geng
Produced by
The Seventh Art Pictures
A SONG SUNG BLUE
Zihan Geng
"I wanted to share cinematic memories of that - not so distant - part of everyone's youth"
A SONG SUNG BLUE
A SONG SUNG BLUE
Liang Jing
A SONG SUNG BLUE
Jane Zheng
A SONG SUNG BLUE
Justine O.
THE CAGE IS LOOKING FOR A BIRD
Directed by
Malika Musaeva
Produced by
Hype Studios, Sokurov.fund
THE CAGE IS LOOKING FOR A BIRD
Malika Musaeva
"My characters are trying to find their voice. Their experiences are familiar to me, I can deeply relate to them."
THE CAGE IS LOOKING FOR A BIRD
THE CAGE IS LOOKING FOR A BIRD
Ilya Stewart, Hype Studios
ANIMALIA
Directed by
Sofia Alaoui
Produced by
Wrong Films, Srab Films
ANIMALIA
Sofia Alaoui
“I want to show how a supernatural event can create disruption in society.”
ANIMALIA
Sofia Alaoui
ANIMALIA
Margaux Lorier - Wrong Films
ANIMALIA
Christophe Barral - Srab Films
ANIMALIA
Toufik Ayadi - Srab Films
SLOW
Directed by
Marija Kavtaradze
Produced by
M-Films
SLOW
Marija Kavtaradze
“I was thinking a lot about intimacy and how it is developed between two people.”
SLOW
Marija Kavtaradze
SLOW
Marija Razgute - M-Films
DAY OF THE TIGER
Directed by
Andrei Tănase
Produced by
Tangaj Productions
DAY OF THE TIGER
Andrei Tănase
“Life can be hostile, unpredictable or truly spectacular. Like a wild tiger."
DAY OF THE TIGER
Andrei Tănase
DAY OF THE TIGER
Anamaria Antoci - Tangaj Prod
ORDINARY FAILURES
Directed by
Cristina Grosan
Produced by
Xova Films
ORDINARY FAILURES
Cristina Grosan
“I’m interested in showing a colorful society – not everyone is rich, not all couples are heterosexual and certainly, not everybody is happy.”
ORDINARY FAILURES
Cristina Grosan
ORDINARY FAILURES
Marek Novak - Xova Films
SATURN BOWLING
Directed by
Patricia Mazuy
Produced by
Ex Nihilo
SATURN BOWLING
Patricia Mazuy
“The film is a nightmare about ferocity.”
SATURN BOWLING
Patricia Mazuy
SATURN BOWLING
Patrick Sobelman - Ex Nihilo
THE SUPER 8 YEARS
Directed by
Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot
Produced by
Les Films Pélleas
THE SUPER 8 YEARS
Annie Ernaux
From the 2022 Nobel Laureate author of The Years, Happening and Simple Passion.
THE SUPER 8 YEARS
THE SUPER 8 YEARS
David Ernaux-Briot
THE SUPER 8 YEARS
David Thion - Les Films Pélleas
MARCEL!
Directed by
Jasmine Trinca
Produced by
Cinemaundici, Totem Atelier
MARCEL!
Jasmine Trinca
“It all starts from a photograph. It shows my mother holding my hand at the edge of a wooded area. Behind us is a sunny landscape, but what lies ahead of us?”
MARCEL!
Jasmine Trinca
MARCEL!
Olivia Musini - Cinemaundici
THE WOODCUTTER STORY
Directed by
Mikko Myllylahti
Produced by
Aamu Film Company
THE WOODCUTTER STORY
Mikko Myllylahti
“Pepe’s unshakable optimism grows to comical proportions, but beneath this simplicity lies a more complex, dreamlike universe.”
THE WOODCUTTER STORY
Mikko Myllylahti
THE WOODCUTTER STORY
Emilia Haukka - Aamu
THE WOODCUTTER STORY
Jussi Rantamäki - Aamu
MAYA NILO (LAURA)
Directed by
Lovisa Sirén
Produced by
[sic] Film
MAYA NILO (LAURA)
Lovisa Sirén
“I was longing to see these new types of family constellations and depict how patterns are difficult to break.”
MAYA NILO (LAURA)
Lovisa Sirén
MAYA NILO (LAURA)
Siri Hjorton Wagner - [sic] Film
ERASING FRANK
Directed by
Gábor Fabricius
Produced by
Frank Film
ERASING FRANK
Gábor Fabricius
“Erasing Frank is an attempt to redefine direct cinema and social drama. I want to let the audience go through raw experience in a deshumanized orwellian reality.”
ERASING FRANK
Gábor Fabricius
MONEYBOYS
Directed by
C.B. Yi
Produced by
KGP Filmproduktion GMBH, Zorba Group
MONEYBOYS
C.B. Yi
“Moneyboys may deal with a very specific situation, the migration of a young man from rural China, but for me it is a universal story about interpersonal relationships that could happen in many places around the world.”
MONEYBOYS
C.B. Yi
MONEYBOYS
Guillaume de la Boulaye - Zorba
SOFTIE
Directed by
Samuel Theis
Produced by
Avenue B Productions
SOFTIE
Samuel Theis
“We are all branded at birth by social judgments. Some people succeed in escaping them, but that does not prevent determinism developing. In this film, I want to explore the necessity of leaving.”
SOFTIE
Samuel Theis
SOFTIE
Caroline Bonmarchand, Avenue B
COMPARTMENT N°6
Directed by
Juho Kuosmanen
Produced by
Aamu Film Company
COMPARTMENT N°6
Juho Kuosmanen
“The only way to be free is to accept the absurdity of life. Freedom is not to climb up, freedom is to let go.”
COMPARTMENT N°6
Juho Kuosmanen
COMPARTMENT N°6
Jussi Rantamäki - Aamu
COMPARTMENT N°6
Emilia Haukka - Aamu
MY SUNNY MAAD
Directed by
Michaela Pavlátová
Produced by
Negativ, Sacrebleu Production, BFILM
MY SUNNY MAAD
Michaela Pavlátová
“The story lays on gentle humor and well observed everyday details of the family life.”
MY SUNNY MAAD
Michaela Pavlátová
MY SUNNY MAAD
Petr Oukropec - Negativ
MY SUNNY MAAD
Ron Dyens - Sacrebleu
MY SUNNY MAAD
Peter Badac - BFILM
BALLAD OF THE WHITE COW
Directed by
Behtash Sanaeeha, Maryam Moghaddam
Produced by
Caractères Productions
BALLAD OF THE WHITE COW
Behtash Sanaeeha
BALLAD OF THE WHITE COW
Maryam Moghaddam
"Ballad of a White Cow tells the story of the victims and the ones that have suffered from injustice. The people whose lives were fully transformed by the death of an innocent person.”
BALLAD OF THE WHITE COW
B. Sanaeeha, M. Moghaddam
BALLAD OF THE WHITE COW
Etienne de Ricaud - Caractères
WE
Directed by
Alice Diop
Produced by
Athénaîse
WE
Alice Diop
"What a short story collection is in literature, WE aims to be in film. A succession of stories and portraits threaded together over a territory that is fractured despite the suburban rail link running across it.”
WE
Alice Diop
WE
Sophie Salbot - Athénaîse
FUCKING WITH NOBODY
Directed by
Hannaleena Hauru
Produced by
Aamu Film Company
FUCKING WITH NOBODY
Hannaleena Hauru
"Together with the leading cast we created a crossroads of our fantasies and nightmares" on love, sexuality and ambitions."
FUCKING WITH NOBODY
Hannaleena Hauru
FUCKING WITH NOBODY
Emilia Haukka - Aamu
FUCKING WITH NOBODY
Jussi Rantamäki - Aamu
GAGARINE
Directed by
Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh
Produced by
Haut et Court
GAGARINE
Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh
"After four years spent in this housing project, prior to its destruction we wanted to re enchant the place, which has had a powerful impact on so many lives, including our own."
GAGARINE
Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh
GAGARINE
Carole Scotta - Haut et Court
GAGARINE
Julie Billy - Haut et Court
STAMBUL GARDEN
Directed by
Ilker Çatak
Produced by
Flare Film
STAMBUL GARDEN
Ilker Çatak
"I wanted to capture the insecurities of adolescence, as well as the ecstatic mood that comes shortly after having graduated from high school, when you feel the world is at your feet and you’re going to seize it NOW!"
STAMBUL GARDEN
Ilker Çatak
STAMBUL GARDEN
Gabriele Simon - Flare Film
STAMBUL GARDEN
Martin Heisler - Flare Film
KISS ME BEFORE IT BLOWS UP
Directed by
Shirel Peleg
Produced by
Fireglory Pictures
KISS ME BEFORE IT BLOWS UP
Shirel Peleg
"I wanted to see, if it would be possible for a young couple to build a future without ignoring the past."
KISS ME BEFORE IT BLOWS UP
Shirel Peleg
KISS ME BEFORE IT BLOWS UP
Christine Gunther, Chevy Chen - Fireglory
LUXOR
Directed by
Zeina Durra
Produced by
Film Clinic
LUXOR
Zeina Durra
"In Luxor you can almost hear the temple walls talk because people prayed there for thousands of years, which makes it the perfect setting for a film about birth and rebirth and second chances."
LUXOR
Zeina Durra
LUXOR
Mohamed Hefzy - Film Clinic
FORCE OF HABIT
Directed by
Various
Produced by
Tuffi Films
FORCE OF HABIT
Various
Directed by Kirsikka Saari, Miia Tervo, Elli Toivoniemi, Jenni Toivoniemi, Reetta Aalto, Anna Paavilainen, Alli Haapasalo
FORCE OF HABIT
We want to explore the culture which enables harassment and gender unequality. The viewer - regardless of gender - will feel what women feel to be alert all times
FORCE OF HABIT
Kirsikka Saari
FORCE OF HABIT
Elli Toivoniemi - Tuffi Films
BOUND
Directed by
Jean-Armand Bougrelle
Produced by
Assemblage
BOUND
Jean-Armand Bougrelle
"In Japanese bondage, ropes are a tool that women use to express themselves. That’s what I wanted to explore in this documentary."
BOUND
Jean-Armand Bougrelle
BOUND
Alexandre Bartholo - Assemblage
GENDER DERBY
Directed by
Camille Ducellier
Produced by
Flair Production
GENDER DERBY
Camille Ducellier
Through my documentary experiences, I always have the desire to share the voices of those who reinvent, in the margins, their bodies in motion.
GENDER DERBY
Camille Ducellier
GENDER DERBY
Romain Bonnin - Flair Prod
SHOCK WAVES
Directed by
Various
Produced by
Bande A Part Films
SHOCK WAVES
Lionel Baier
SHOCK WAVES
Ursula Meier
SHOCK WAVES
Frédéric Mermoud
SHOCK WAVES
Jean Stephane Bron - Bande A Part
Shock waves is a collection of four films made for TV by four renowned Swiss directors.
SHOCK WAVES
CENIZA NEGRA
Directed by
Sofía Quirós Ubeda
Produced by
Sputnik Films
CENIZA NEGRA
Sofía Quirós Ubeda
"Ceniza Negra is about a child’s strength while she deals with the experience of death as a way of understanding life. A search for finding the magic in mourning hidden in the daily and the invisible."
CENIZA NEGRA
Sofía Quirós Ubeda
CENIZA NEGRA
Mariana Murillo - Sputnik Films
AND THEN WE DANCED
Directed by
Levan Akin
Produced by
French Quarter Film
AND THEN WE DANCED
Levan Akin
"I wanted to explore how a great encounter can lead you to be bold and free."
AND THEN WE DANCED
Levan Akin
AND THEN WE DANCED
Mathilde Dedye - French Quarter Film
FreibeuterFilm
Sabine Moser
FreibeuterFilm
Oliver Neumann
Filmsazan Javan
Gholamreza Mousavi
Behtash Sanaeeha
Caractères Productions
Etienne de Ricaud
Hobab
Peter Krupenin
Watchmen Productions
Christopher Zitterbart
French Quarter Film
Mathilde Dedye
Easy Riders Films
Nadia Turincev
Easy Riders Films
Omar El Kadi
Adomeit Film
Katja Adomeit
Reeligion Films LLP
Udayan Das Roy
Manna Film
Maria Møller Kjeldgaard
Uma Pedra no Sapato
Filipa Reis
Garagefilm International
Mimmi Spång
Kalekone
Katharina Kolleczek and Lea Neu
Alva Film
Thomas Reichlin
Takes Film
Ketie Danelia
Liang Jing
Jane Zheng
Justine O.
Hype Studios
Ilya Stewart
Wrong Films
Margaux Lorier
Srab Films
Christophe Barral
Srab Films
Toufik Ayadi
M-Films
Marija Razgute
Tangaj Productions
Anamaria Antoci
Xova Films
Marek Novak
Ex Nihilo
Patrick Sobelman
Les Films Pélleas
David Thion
Cinemaundici
Olivia Musini
Aamu Film Company
Emilia Haukka
Aamu Film Company
Jussi Rantamäki
[sic] Film
Siri Hjorton Wagner
Frank Film
Gábor Fabricius
Zorba Group
Guillaume de la Boulaye
Avenue B Productions
Caroline Bonmarchand
Aamu Film Company
Jussi Rantamäki
Aamu Film Company
Emilia Haukka
Negativ
Petr Oukropec
Sacrebleu Production
Ron Dyens
BFILM
Peter Badac
Caractères Productions
Etienne de Ricaud
Athénaîse
Sophie Salbot
Aamu Film Company
Emilia Haukka
Aamu Film Company
Jussi Rantamäki
Haut et Court
Carole Scotta
Julie Billy
Flare Film
Gabriele Simon
Flare Film
Martin Heisler
Fireglory Pictures
Christine Gunther, Chevy Chen
Film Clinic
Mohamed Hefzy
Tuffi Films
Elli Toivoniemi
Assemblage
Alexandre Bartholo
Flair Production
Romain Bonnin
Bande A Part Films
Jean Stephane Bron
Sputnik Films
Mariana Murillo
French Quarter Film
Mathilde Dedye