Films

Lost for Words

The year's most beautiful natural experience on the big screen is also a poetic film about the power of language to re-enchant the world around us. Based on Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris' bestseller.

Hannah Papacek Harper / France & United Kingdom / 2025 / World Premiere

Love, Z

Generation Z takes the floor in this year's definitive generation portrait. Twelve young people share their thoughts and feelings about love in our time.

Anna-Sofie Uth Juncker / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere

Lowland Kids

The waters are rising in the American South. Two young people watch the only world they know disappear before their eyes in a sensuous film about leaving childhood behind.

Sandra Winther / Denmark & United States / 2025 / World Premiere

Matabeleland

In the shadow of a forgotten massacre, an immigrant haunted by his father’s unburied spirit sets out to break a family curse, confronting both past horrors and his own troubled legacy.

Nyasha Kadandara / Zimbabwe, Kenya & Botswana / 2025 / World Premiere

Memory Wars

Can we trust our own memories? An American psychologist with expertise in the brain's ability to make up its own truths takes us into her fascinating field of research.

Hendrik Löbbert / Germany / 2025 / World Premiere

My Dear Théo

In a series of letters to her young son, a mother, soldier and filmmaker documents her thoughts from the Ukrainian frontline. A deeply moving and existential film of unimaginable courage.

Alisa Kovalenko / Poland, Czech Republic & Ukraine / 2025 / World Premiere

Nobody’s Angel

The five women in the Danish band Miss B. Haven rocked the 1980s at a time when men still had a monopoly on rock, but where a new movement was taking shape.

Torben Skjødt Jensen / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere

Observer

Can we observe the world without affecting it? An adventure in eight chapters from around the world where a group of professional scientists taking part in a playful, philosophical experiment.

Ian Cheney / United States / 2025 / World Premiere

Open Call

A witty satire on public art and culture, as the citizens of Oslo are invited to celebrate the city’s 400th anniversary. Things don’t quite go according to plan.

Sille Storihle / Norway / 2025 / World Premiere

Portrait of a Confused Father

An unusual father/son story takes an unexpected and tragic turn in a film shot over 20 years, that turns into a (self-)portrait of a Norwegian filmmaker in the biggest crisis of his life. 

Gunnar Hall Jensen / Norway / 2025 / World Premiere

Red Forest

A growing group of anarchists establish an eco-activist, anti-capitalist community in a French forest. But the state has other plans. A cinematic, revolutionary film about freedom and ideals.

Laurie Lassalle / France / 2025 / World Premiere

Sanatorium

At a colossal ex-Soviet wellness center in Odesa, both patients and staff search for health, happiness and love while the war echoes through the lime green corridors.

Gar O'Rourke / Ireland, Ukraine & France / 2025 / World Premiere

Take the Money and Run

The (art)work of a genius or simple theft? Artist Jens Haaning made headlines around the world when he pocketed a fortune in protest against the conditions of the art world - and exhibited his action as a work of art.

Ole Juncker / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere

The Castle

Three children transform an abandoned building in the middle of Palermo into a secret fantasy world. A charming Sicilian adventure with a bittersweet aftertaste.

Danny Biancardi, Virginia Nardelli & Stefano La Rosa / France & Italy / 2025 / World Premiere

The Encampments

The occupation of Columbia University by pro-Palestinian students made waves around the world. A film about power and resistance in the 21st century.

Michael T. Workman & Kei Pritsker / United States / 2025 / World Premiere

The End of the Internet

From a squat in Berlin through a futuristic Taiwan to the Brazilian rainforest. Around the world, hacktivists are fighting a shadow war for an internet beyond the influence of tech giants.

Dylan Reibling / Canada / 2025 / World Premiere

The Eukrainian

Working in the corridors of power with Ukraine's young Minister for the EU and NATO in a film about ideals, diplomacy and international grand politics.

Viktor Nordenskiöld / Sweden, France, Ukraine & Belgium / 2025 / World Premiere

The Father, The Sons and The Holy Spirit

Two brothers reunite after a multi-million inheritance dispute in a film about blood, bonds and breakups - and about how hard it is to escape your own family.

Christian Sønderby Jepsen / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere

The Forest that Breathes Us

A VR journey immersing participants in the sensory lives of a Douglas fir, a coyote, and a humpback whale, inviting reconciliation with the more-than-human world as active collaborators in life.

Jennifer Abbott / Canada / 2025 / World Premiere

The Gardener, the Buddhist & the Spy

Cynical spy for the asbestos industry or a whistleblower facing a miscarriage of justice? Judge for yourself in a film about deception and manipulation, where one twist leads to another.

Håvard Bustnes / Norway, Germany & United Kingdom / 2025 / World Premiere

The Golden Spurtle

Welcome to the Oatmeal World Cup - and if that sounds gray and boring, think again! A warm and genuinely funny Scottish film about finding the greatest meaning in the smallest things.

Constantine Costi / United Kingdom & Australia / 2025 / World Premiere

The Ground Beneath Our Feet

A warm, human film from an elderly home in Reykjavík with a poetic eye for the small mysteries and miracles of everyday life - and a great love for life itself, as long as it lasts.

Yrsa Roca Fannberg / Iceland & Poland / 2025 / World Premiere

The Helsinki Effect

Hundreds of hours of archival footage from a historic Cold War summit is rolled out with ironic wit and a sharp political eye for the human drama on the grand, diplomatic stage.

Arthur Franck / Finland, Germany & Norway / 2025 / World Premiere

The Last Ambassador

What do you do as an ambassador for Afghanistan when the Taliban take power and you are a feminist? You fight back - at least if you're Manizha Bakhtari.

Natalie Halla / Austria / 2025 / World Premiere

The Last Misfits by The Golden River

A picturesque documentary western from the cold north, where the last gold miners search for happiness and riches in the Finnish wilderness.

Juho-Pekka Tanskanen / Finland / 2025 / World Premiere

The Lions By The River Tigris

Cultural heritage is the invisible casualty of any war. ISIS left Mosul in ruins after liberation. Today, a fisherman, a musician and a collector struggle to preserve what remains of the city's soul.

Zaradasht Ahmed / Norway & Netherlands / 2025 / World Premiere

The More Naked We Dare to Be

Danish auteur Jon Bang Carlsen takes stock of his life's work, the art of cinema and life itself in a film that stretches from the west coast of Denmark to the red desert sands of Arizona. 

Jon Bang Carlsen / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere

The Nicest Men on Earth

If Denmark is the best country in the world to be a woman, what does that mean for its men? A tender and humorous group portrait of the soft, modern men who live alongside the strong Danish women. 

Josefine Exner & Sebastian Gerdes / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere

The Ox Road

Prince Joachim and author Steffen Jacobsen are on a hike through Jutland, bringing with them their own life stories. A beautiful nature film with words of wisdom along the way.

Jesper H. Grand / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere

The Silence in my Heart

A Black woman's journey through her own history becomes a beautiful and redemptive film about finding yourself after a lifetime of searching. 

Lene Kamm / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere

The Sound of Love Letters

The frontman of the successful Danish band Ganger writes an album based on his parents' love letters, while rewriting his own life story in a charming and musical tale from the Danish West Coast.

Tammes Bernstein / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere

TV-2: Kys det satans liv

Irony is reined in and truths are revealed in a warm and openhearted film about Denmark's oldest (and in their own words most boring) band.

Jesper Skaaning / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere