Films

A Life Illuminated

On an expedition in the deep sea with marine biologist Dr. Edie Widder, who is on a mission to document the luminescent life forms that live in the dark - a sight no one has ever seen on film before.

Tasha Van Zandt / United States / 2025

A Song Without Home

After 11 years locked up in her family home, Adelina flees from a Georgian village to Vienna in the hope of finding the freedom to be herself. But even in exile, the chains of the past prove difficult to break free from.

Rati Tsiteladze / Georgia & United States / 2026 / World Premiere

Aanikoobijigan [ancestor / great-grandparent / great-grandchild]

The battle for the earthly remains of Indigenous peoples is both bureaucratic and spiritual in a highly topical film by two members of the New Red Order artist collective.

Adam Khalil & Zack Khalil / United States / 2026 / European Premiere

Adam’s Apple

A mother has followed her transgender teenager through a camera lens for two decades. A touching, intimate, and eye-opening account of parents, children, and butterflies spreading their wings.

Amy Jenkins / United States / 2026 / International Premiere

American Doctor

When three American doctors - Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian - enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.

Poh Si Teng / United States, Palestine, Malaysia & Denmark / 2026 / International Premiere

An Eye For an Eye

An Iranian woman sentenced to death for killing her abusive husband fights for her life in a nerve-racking courtroom thriller about life, death and the very real price of forgiveness.

Tanaz Eshaghian & Farzad Jafari / United States, Iran & Denmark / 2025

Barrio Triste

Banger of the year! A breathless and trippy hybrid film sensation, shot on a VHS tape in Medellín by four young punks. Produced by Harmony Korine and featuring a new score by Arca.

STILLZ / Colombia & United States / 2025

Bouchra

An animated autofiction from Morocco, in which a queer filmmaker calls home from NYC to her mother in Casablanca to talk things out. Truly original, and truly cool.

Meriem Bennani & Orian Barki / Italy, Morocco & United States / 2025

Boy George & Culture Club

The story of one of the most groundbreaking pop bands of the 1980s is a dramatic journey filled with internal infatuation, secret homosexuality, and destructive heroin abuse.

Alison Ellwood / United States & United Kingdom / 2025

Dreaming of Serenada

Danish-Ugandan Luba returns to her father’s rainforest in Uganda to save what is on the brink of being lost. A personal story about climate struggle, identity, and belonging.

Katrine Weber / Uganda, Denmark & United States / 2026 / World Premiere

Everyone Is Lying To You For Money

If you've bought cryptocurrency in the hope of easy money, you should watch Ben McKenzie's entertaining and eye-opening film, which is to cryptocurrency what ‘The Big Short’ was to the financial crisis.

Ben McKenzie / United States, El Salvador & United Kingdom / 2025 / European Premiere

Ghost Elephants

German film legend Werner Herzog is back. This time, he has joined an expedition into the jungles of Angola to search for a mysterious herd of giant ghost elephants.

Werner Herzog / United States / 2025

Hell’s Army

A dissident Russian journalist chases the world’s most feared mercenary army, Wagner, across the globe as she races to unmask a new model of violence that is transforming the world for all of us.

Richard Rowley / Ukraine, Syria, Central African Republic, Lithuania & United States / 2026 / World Premiere

Holding Liat

The winner of last year's Berlinale award for best documentary is a complex portrait of how a Jewish family's tragedy on October 7 turns into a pawn in a geopolitical game.

Brandon Kramer / United States / 2025

In the Current Of Being

A haptic VR experience chronicling the harrowing journey of a survivor of electroshock conversion therapy.

Cameron Kostopoulos / United States & France / 2025 / Danish Premiere

Jaripeo

Behind the hypermasculine rituals of a Mexican rodeo show a hidden queer desire pulsates. A festival hit about performative masculinity and the longings of the subconscious.

Efraín Mojica & Rebecca Zweig / United States, Mexico & United Kingdom / 2026

Just Look Up

Michael Greenberg is a defiant young visionary and climate activist in the US. With the timing of a stand-up comedian, lightning intelligence, and the charisma of a young Bob Dylan, he is rallying a generation in the fight for a livable future.

Emma Wall & Betsy Hershey / United States & Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere

Kikuyu Land

A Kenyan journalist returns to her ancestral home to cover a legal battle between multinational corporations and the country's indigenous people, but must confront her own family's role.

Bea Wangondu & Andrew H. Brown / United States & Kenya / 2026 / International Premiere

King Hamlet

Filmmaker Elvira Linds returns with a deeply personal portrait of her husband, actor Oscar Isaac, who is facing the most difficult role of his life.

Elvira Lind / United States & Denmark / 2025 / International Premiere

Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie

The world-renowned author, who survived a brutal assassination attempt, confronts his past in a deeply personal account of the struggle for freedom of expression by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney.

Alex Gibney / United States / 2026 / International Premiere

Landmarks

The murder of a defenseless leader of an indigenous people draws parallels to decades of land theft and centuries of colonialism in Lucrecia Martel's documentary debut.

Lucrecia Martel / Argentina, United States, Mexico, France, Netherlands & Denmark / 2025

My Father and Qaddafi

A Libyan diplomat disappears under mysterious circumstances after breaking with Gaddafi. Decades later, his daughter seeks the truth about her father's disappearance and a brutal regime.

Jihan / Libya & United States / 2025

Newport and the Great Folk Dream

Calling all fans of ‘A Complete Unknown’! Join us on a kaleidoscopic journey through the Newport Folk Festival in the years 1963–66, culminating in Bob Dylan's landmark electric performance.

Robert Gordon / United States / 2025

No Place at Home

'No Place at Home' follows a mother and her trans teen deciding to leave the US after gender-affirming care restrictions, allowing us to feel the pain of leaving their world behind.

Sam Wolson & Lilli Carré / United States / 2025 / Danish Premiere

Powwow People

From dawn to dusk, filmmaker Sky Hopinka depicts a powwow where Native Americans gather to celebrate their community and shared history.

Sky Hopinka / United States / 2025

Stormbound

Visually stunning IMAX film about the world's most powerful tornadoes and hurricanes – depicted from the inside by a photographer who is himself living on borrowed time. A sublime experience with an unexpected love story at its dark heart.

Miko Lim / United States / 2025 / International Premiere

Summer Tour

Let your hair down and join an acid-fueled road trip through the summer with two young ‘Deadheads’ as they follow Grateful Dead on their final tour.

Mischa Richter / United States / 2025

Sun Ra: Do The Impossible

Space is the place! A colorful portrait of the visionary jazz composer who shaped both jazz and black Americans' self-image with his bold visions for music and humanity.

Christine Turner / United States / 2025

The AI Doc: How I Became an Apocaloptimist

AI is changing the world as we know it. An Oscar-winning director asks all the questions that keep him awake at night in a compelling and urgent film with great creative energy.

Daniel Roher & Charlie Tyrell / United States / 2026 / International Premiere

The Ballad of Judas Priest

Put on your studded belt and leather vest! 50 entertaining years of rock history with the iconic heavy metal legends that changed the sound and style of heavy metal forever.

Sam Dunn & Tom Morello / United States / 2026

The Great Experiment

A cinematic time capsule depicting one of the most volatile eras of American history - a historical record, non-fiction experiment, and intimate observation of the state of American democracy.

Stephen Maing & Eric Daniel Metzgar / United States & Mexico / 2026 / International Premiere

The History of Concrete

The man behind the beloved HBO series ‘How To with John Wilson' makes his feature film debut with a hilarious and quirky exploration of a fundamental element of city life: concrete.

John Wilson / United States / 2026 / International Premiere