Films

Black Snow

A Siberian mother-of-three finds herself under the aggressive scrutiny of the Russian authorities when she steps up as a citizen journalist and uncovers a huge coal scandal. A revealing journalistic thriller with deep personal consequences.

Alina Simone / United States / 2024 / World Premiere

Can’t Feel Nothing

An eye-opening film about numbness in the age of social media. The diagnosis is alarming, but it is made with understated humour and energy by director David Borenstein, himself a screen zombie in digital rehab.

David Borenstein / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere

Daughter of Genghis

A seven-year odyssey through Mongolia's underworld with nationalist gang leader, hardcore feminist and single mum Gerel, who wears a black balaclava and fights for a racially pure Mongolia and to look after her son Temuulen.

Kristoffer Juel Poulsen, Christian Als & Knud Brix / Denmark, Sweden & France / 2024 / World Premiere

Democracy Noir

Three brave women are fighting to expose the corruption and incremental destruction of democracy in Viktor Orbán's Hungary - a white nationalist regime that is the envy of authoritarian movements around the world. 

Connie Field / United States, Germany & Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere

Lie To Me

They promised a digital revolution of the financial market. It all turned out to be one of the biggest scams in history, but 10 years and countless scandals later, OneCoin is still in action. A docu-thriller about psychology and manipulation in a crypto-age.

Baar Tyrmi / Norway / 2024 / International Premiere

Limits of Europe

A Czech journalist goes undercover in the European market for cheap labour. But documenting the outrageous conditions and social inequality on her own body while her family waits for her to return home comes at a personal cost.

Apolena Rychlíková / Czech Republic, Slovakia & France / 2024 / World Premiere

Night of the Coyotes

To avoid becoming a ghost town, a Mexican village invents a role-playing game that offers tourists the chance to experience an authentic illegal migration across the US border, complete with gangsters and border police.

Clara Trischler / Germany & Austria / 2024 / World Premiere

Stray Bodies

Involuntary body related travelling is on the rise in Europe, with women crossing EU borders to reclaim the right to their own bodies. Abortion and artificial insemination are just two items on the list in a film that maps the continent.

Elina Psykou / Greece, Switzerland, Italy & Bulgaria / 2024 / International Premiere

The Battle for Laikipia

Drought, politics and colonial history collide in a stormy and unpredictable conflict between Kenyan cattle herders and white ranchers in the vast African country. A complex and wise film about the consequences of climate change.

Daphne Matziaraki & Peter Murimi / United States & Kenya / 2024 / International Premiere

Union

The employees at an Amazon warehouse start a union against all odds, but internal divisions and powerful opponents makes the fight for rights and decent conditions a long and hard one.

Brett Story & Stephen Maing / United States / 2024 / International Premiere