"For me, grief isn’t a linear emotion, I wanted to depict this experience — the steps we take to accept the passing of a loved one."
Sofia Bohdanowicz
"For me, grief isn’t a linear emotion, I wanted to depict this experience — the steps we take to accept the passing of a loved one."
Sofia Bohdanowicz
“I wanted to portray ordinary citizens, whose gestures make a revolutionary utopia possible. ”
Hind Meddeb
"I made the movie thinking about young people afraid to pursue their passion: once you find what feels like "home", you must never let it go."
Carolina Pavone
"I wanted to create a mind-boggling cinematic experience using only analog effects. Seeing all the sounds, including foley live in sync with the screen is pure magic."
Juho Kuosmanen
"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
"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
Directed by
Sofia Bohdanowicz
Produced by
Aonan Yang, Andreas Mendritzki, Sofia Bohdanowicz, Priscilla Galvez
"For me, grief isn’t a linear emotion, I wanted to depict this experience — the steps we take to accept the passing of a loved one."
Directed by
Hind Meddeb
Produced by
Abel Nahmias, Michel Zana, Alice Ormières, Taoufik Guiga
“I wanted to portray ordinary citizens, whose gestures make a revolutionary utopia possible. ”
Directed by
Carolina Pavone
Produced by
Marta Donzelli, Nanni Moretti, Gregorio Paonessa
"I made the movie thinking about young people afraid to pursue their passion: once you find what feels like "home", you must never let it go."
Directed by
Juho Kuosmanen
Produced by
Aamu Film Company, Otso Film
"I wanted to create a mind-boggling cinematic experience using only analog effects. Seeing all the sounds, including foley live in sync with the screen is pure magic."
Directed by
Mo Harawe
Produced by
FreibeuterFilm, Kazak Productions, NiKo Film, Maanmaal CC
"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."
Directed by
Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha
Produced by
Filmsazan Javan, Behtash Sanaeeha, Caractères Productions, Hobab, Watchmen Productions
"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."
Directed by
Levan Akin
Produced by
French Quarter Film, Easy Riders Films, Adomeit Film
”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.”
Directed by
Dibakar Das Roy
Produced by
Reeligion Films LLP
"The predominant dialogue on race and colour is a western, black vs. white dialogue. I wanted to address it from a South Asian perspective."
Directed by
Isabella Eklöf
Produced by
Manna Film
" My artistic drive is all about addressing stereotypes and preconceived notions."
Directed by
Leonor Teles
Produced by
Uma Pedra no Sapato
Leonor Teles
"With no sight of a future, we risk drowning into the past."
Filipa Reis
Directed by
Ernst de Geer
Produced by
Garagefilm International, Film I Väst AB, Mer Film, Totem Atelier
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."
Mimmi Spång, Garagefilm International
Directed by
Anna Roller
Produced by
Kalekone, Totem Atelier
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.”
Katharina Kolleczek and Lea Neu, Kalekone
Directed by
Elene Naveriani
Produced by
Alva Film, Takes Film
Elene Naveriani
"Etero is an intuitive feminist facing the clash of passion and emancipation"
Ketie Danelia, Alva Film
Ketie Danelia, Takes Film
Directed by
Zihan Geng
Produced by
The Seventh Art Pictures
Zihan Geng
"I wanted to share cinematic memories of that - not so distant - part of everyone's youth"
Liang Jing
Jane Zheng
Justine O.
Directed by
Malika Musaeva
Produced by
Hype Studios, Sokurov.fund
Malika Musaeva
"My characters are trying to find their voice. Their experiences are familiar to me, I can deeply relate to them."
Ilya Stewart, Hype Studios
Directed by
Sofia Alaoui
Produced by
Wrong Films, Srab Films
Sofia Alaoui
“I want to show how a supernatural event can create disruption in society.”
Sofia Alaoui
Margaux Lorier - Wrong Films
Christophe Barral - Srab Films
Toufik Ayadi - Srab Films
Directed by
Marija Kavtaradze
Produced by
M-Films
Marija Kavtaradze
“I was thinking a lot about intimacy and how it is developed between two people.”
Marija Kavtaradze
Marija Razgute - M-Films
Directed by
Andrei Tănase
Produced by
Tangaj Productions
Andrei Tănase
“Life can be hostile, unpredictable or truly spectacular. Like a wild tiger."
Andrei Tănase
Anamaria Antoci - Tangaj Prod
Directed by
Cristina Grosan
Produced by
Xova Films
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.”
Cristina Grosan
Marek Novak - Xova Films
Directed by
Patricia Mazuy
Produced by
Ex Nihilo
Patricia Mazuy
“The film is a nightmare about ferocity.”
Patricia Mazuy
Patrick Sobelman - Ex Nihilo
Directed by
Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot
Produced by
Les Films Pélleas
Annie Ernaux
From the 2022 Nobel Laureate author of The Years, Happening and Simple Passion.
David Ernaux-Briot
David Thion - Les Films Pélleas
Directed by
Jasmine Trinca
Produced by
Cinemaundici, Totem Atelier
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?”
Jasmine Trinca
Olivia Musini - Cinemaundici
Directed by
Mikko Myllylahti
Produced by
Aamu Film Company
Mikko Myllylahti
“Pepe’s unshakable optimism grows to comical proportions, but beneath this simplicity lies a more complex, dreamlike universe.”
Mikko Myllylahti
Emilia Haukka - Aamu
Jussi Rantamäki - Aamu
Directed by
Lovisa Sirén
Produced by
[sic] Film
Lovisa Sirén
“I was longing to see these new types of family constellations and depict how patterns are difficult to break.”
Lovisa Sirén
Siri Hjorton Wagner - [sic] Film
Directed by
Gábor Fabricius
Produced by
Frank Film
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.”
Gábor Fabricius
Directed by
C.B. Yi
Produced by
KGP Filmproduktion GMBH, Zorba Group
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.”
C.B. Yi
Guillaume de la Boulaye - Zorba
Directed by
Samuel Theis
Produced by
Avenue B Productions
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.”
Samuel Theis
Caroline Bonmarchand, Avenue B
Directed by
Juho Kuosmanen
Produced by
Aamu Film Company
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.”
Juho Kuosmanen
Jussi Rantamäki - Aamu
Emilia Haukka - Aamu
Directed by
Michaela Pavlátová
Produced by
Negativ, Sacrebleu Production, BFILM
Michaela Pavlátová
“The story lays on gentle humor and well observed everyday details of the family life.”
Michaela Pavlátová
Petr Oukropec - Negativ
Ron Dyens - Sacrebleu
Peter Badac - BFILM
Directed by
Behtash Sanaeeha, Maryam Moghaddam
Produced by
Caractères Productions
Behtash Sanaeeha
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.”
B. Sanaeeha, M. Moghaddam
Etienne de Ricaud - Caractères
Directed by
Alice Diop
Produced by
Athénaîse
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.”
Alice Diop
Sophie Salbot - Athénaîse
Directed by
Hannaleena Hauru
Produced by
Aamu Film Company
Hannaleena Hauru
"Together with the leading cast we created a crossroads of our fantasies and nightmares" on love, sexuality and ambitions."
Hannaleena Hauru
Emilia Haukka - Aamu
Jussi Rantamäki - Aamu
Directed by
Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh
Produced by
Haut et Court
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."
Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh
Carole Scotta - Haut et Court
Julie Billy - Haut et Court
Directed by
Ilker Çatak
Produced by
Flare Film
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!"
Ilker Çatak
Gabriele Simon - Flare Film
Martin Heisler - Flare Film
Directed by
Shirel Peleg
Produced by
Fireglory Pictures
Shirel Peleg
"I wanted to see, if it would be possible for a young couple to build a future without ignoring the past."
Shirel Peleg
Christine Gunther, Chevy Chen - Fireglory
Directed by
Zeina Durra
Produced by
Film Clinic
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."
Zeina Durra
Mohamed Hefzy - Film Clinic
Directed by
Various
Produced by
Tuffi Films
Various
Directed by Kirsikka Saari, Miia Tervo, Elli Toivoniemi, Jenni Toivoniemi, Reetta Aalto, Anna Paavilainen, Alli Haapasalo
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
Kirsikka Saari
Elli Toivoniemi - Tuffi Films
Directed by
Jean-Armand Bougrelle
Produced by
Assemblage
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."
Jean-Armand Bougrelle
Alexandre Bartholo - Assemblage
Directed by
Camille Ducellier
Produced by
Flair Production
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.
Camille Ducellier
Romain Bonnin - Flair Prod
Directed by
Various
Produced by
Bande A Part Films
Lionel Baier
Ursula Meier
Frédéric Mermoud
Jean Stephane Bron - Bande A Part
Shock waves is a collection of four films made for TV by four renowned Swiss directors.
Directed by
Sofía Quirós Ubeda
Produced by
Sputnik Films
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."
Sofía Quirós Ubeda
Mariana Murillo - Sputnik Films
Directed by
Levan Akin
Produced by
French Quarter Film
Levan Akin
"I wanted to explore how a great encounter can lead you to be bold and free."
Levan Akin
Mathilde Dedye - French Quarter Film
Green Ground Productions
Aonan Yang
Green Ground Productions
Andreas Mendritzki
Maison du bonheur
Sofia Bohdanowicz
Silent Tower
Priscilla Galvez
Echo Films
Abel Nahmias
Blue Train Films
Michel Zana
Surprise Alley
Alice Ormières
My Way Productions
Taoufik Guiga
Vivo Film
Marta Donzelli & Gregorio Paonessa
Sacher Film
Nanni Moretti
Aamu Film Company
Jussi Rantamäki
Aamu Film Company
Emilia Haukka
Otso Film
Otto Kylmälä
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