NEW:VISION AWARD

Aerial

A ritualistic and dizzying audio-visual poem, following singer Lei Lowe on an eruptous pilgrimage through ancient Sicilian landscapes where she communes with the Earth in search of emancipation.

Aida Berisha / Denmark & Italy / 2026 / World Premiere

Boy Cried Wolf

Performative video work recorded in an underground tunnel, where an artist explores authority, obedience, and whether wolves are actually harmless.

Max Göran / Germany & Sweden / 2026 / World Premiere

City of Light

The earth beneath Paris is a twilight world of fungi, data centers, and secret communities that meet in silence beneath the city. An underground network of connections is mapped out in a dark film.

Joséphine Privat / Frankrig / 2025 / International Premiere

Compact Disc

After years of silence, the director and his friends return to fragments of a shared youth shaped by imprisonment, revisiting memory, friendship, and the images that refuse to settle.

Rico Wong / Hong Kong & United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere

Fallen Noon

A fragmented love, a fallen system, a drifting city: in the quiet unrest of Hanoi’s youth, memory flickers; tired, persistent, and endlessly returning.

Kieu Anh Phuong Nguyen / France & Vietnam / 2026 / World Premiere

here and not here

A cinematic diary from the West Bank and the Golan Heights – places caught between occupation, oppression, and a lived, collective experience.

Andrea Zimmerman / Palestine & United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere

Jirapo

A beautiful Colombian film that draws parallels between native bee species, the country's colonial past, and a female biologist's family history.

María Rojas Arias / Colombia & Portugal / 2025 / European Premiere

Local Sensations

An elegant and thought-provoking film shot in graceful black-and-white images that move from room to room in an exploration of location, architecture, and monuments.

Tulapop Saenjaroen / Thailand / 2026 / European Premiere

Nurses come and go, but none for me

His father's diaries from his final months in hospital, minimalistically staged by artist Ed Atkins and by Steven Zultanski as a performative film in two acts.

Ed Atkins & Steven Zultanski / United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere

Pacífico

Pacífico is the name of a region, but also that of a force. A land where music accompanies life, where one can be reborn.

Daniel Duque / France & Colombia / 2026 / World Premiere

Penkelemes

Onyeka Igwe’s new film work is a post-colonial analysis that unfolds the complex history of a university in Nigeria, built under imperial rule.

Onyeka Igwe / Nigeria & United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere

Phantoms

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film featuring Tilda Swinton visits her at her family's home in the Scottish countryside, allowing two images to overlap in a simple but immensely suggestive gesture.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Netherlands & Thailand / 2025 / International Premiere

The Futora

Connecting traces of hypnagogia, fragmented geography and childhood sci-fi media, through senses of time belonging to translucent dreams, shadows, fantasies and family owned workshops. the images drift into the peripheral glimmers of a nocturnal city and slip into another world.

Yuqing Lin / China & United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere

The Park (Dancing on the Rubble of Empire)

Over two long summers, this film spends time at a community park in London and asks what it means to celebrate, play, and belong amid the rubble of empire.

Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shah / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere

They (no longer) remember

A silent visual poem dedicated to the artist's grandfather, who seeks answers and finds new questions in the organic surroundings.

Hira Nabi / Pakistan / 2026 / World Premiere

This suffocating now

Vika Kirchenbauer’s essayistic video work examines the political currents in contemporary Germany, where censorship of critical voices is becoming increasingly repressive.

Vika Kirchenbauer / Germany / 2026 / International Premiere

ti y l tt e dr ps ff sp c

Field recordings of the Atacama desert of Chile and analogue 8mm images explore the grainy, silent textures of sand, dust and noise.

Anne Gry Friis Kristensen / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere

Your Cards Are Bleeding

A performative work of fiction set in a contemporary time, where both reality and fiction itself crack open in small, unsettling ways as a couple attempts to help an absent friend move house.

Kåre Frang / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere