Films
Housewife of the Year
It was a different time! The female contestants on an Irish TV show with an iconic gentleman host look back on a beige-coloured chapter in TV history. More than entertaining kitsch, and with some delightfully quick-witted ladies in the winning role.
Ciaran Cassidy / Ireland / 2024 / World Premiere
Hunt for the Oldest DNA
Led by star scientist Eske Willerslev, a team of researchers are sequencing DNA from before the Ice Age for the first time in history. A project that could revolutionise our understanding of the history of life itself.
Niobe Thompson / Canada & United States / 2024 / World Premiere
I Shall Not Hate
A Canadian-Palestinian doctor's mission of tolerance and forgiveness is put to the ultimate test when he loses his three daughters. Meet a Nobel-nominated bestselling author from Gaza whose greatest adversary is hate itself.
Tal Barda / Canada & France / 2024 / World Premiere
Immortals
A feminist who sneaks out of the house dressed as a man and a filmmaker who uses his camera as a weapon. Milo and Khalili are two young Iraqis who risk their lives for freedom and the future in an unusual and cinematic film about life in Baghdad.
Maja Tschumi / Switzerland & Iraq / 2024 / World Premiere
Invisible People
An atmospheric trip to Japan in an existential and expressive film where the nightmarish butoh dance becomes the prism through which the forces of life express themselves. The hideous and the sublime meet and strange micro-connections emerge.
Alisa Berger / France & Germany / 2024 / World Premiere
KIX
Handheld skate video meets hardcore social realism in a sensational film with the energy of a three-chord punk song and an unruly group of street kids in front of the camera, shot over 12 wild years of their young lives.
Bálint Révész & Dávid Mikulán / Hungary, France & Croatia / 2024 / World Premiere
Laughing Day
A quirky hybrid film that employs understated humour and spontaneous encounters to explore the healing power of conversation and its ability to break down both internal and external boundaries.
Lars Emil Leonhardt & Brendan Cooney / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Life and Other Problems
The meaning of life, death and everything else? The possible answers are plenty in Max Kestner's adventurous film, which starts when the death of a giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo goes viral from Hollywood to Chechnya.
Max Kestner / Denmark, Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World 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
Magic Mud
Star geologist Minik Rosing loves mud. Especially Greenlandic mud, also known as glacial rock flour - but can he prove that this magical mud can really save both the climate and solve global inequality?
Jakob Gottschau / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Marching in the Dark
The widows come together to break the vicious cycle of debt and climate related chaos in Indian agriculture that has pushed their desperate husbands to kill themselves - and leave them with the debt. A powerful and compelling film about solidarity between sisters.
Kinshuk Surjan / Belgium, Netherlands & India / 2024 / World Premiere
Mina and The Radio Bandits
There's more than cops and robber stories at stake in this heartbreaking and dramatic film about Norwegian Mina with the kind heart who starts a radio station for (and with) prison inmates. Can she find the line between life and work when an unexpected tragedy strikes?
Kari Anne Moe / Norway / 2024 / World Premiere
Motherboard
Joys, sorrows and life's great tragicomedy in a video diary about motherhood and much more, recorded over nearly 20 years by award-winning British director Victoria Mapplebeck. A deeply personal and completely unsentimental film.
Victoria Mapplebeck / United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere
My First Film
A 20-something filmmaker embarks on making her first film with a group of friends. A meta-indie deconstruction of cinema itself, based on director Zia Anger's own experiences and on her live performance of the same name.
Zia Anger / United States / 2024 / World Premiere
Night of Nights
A nocturnal and semi-surrealistic science fiction portrait of life in two Asian megacities after 2020, shot at night with an hypnotic intensity and with the lens pointing to the future.
Truman / United States / 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
Once Upon a Time in a Forest
Biodiversity and generation gaps collide in a politically urgent and thoughtful film about two young activists' fight to save the vast Finnish forests. Is it still civil disobedience when you know you have both history and the future on your side?
Virpi Suutari / Finland / 2024 / World Premiere
Our Father Wears a Sun
A brother and sister's loving, poetic and personal film poem to their late father, Danish actor Søren Spanning.
Jasper Spanning & Rosalinde Mynster / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Palm Oil in the Land of Orangutans
Copenhagen Zoo is partnering with a palm oil plantation in Borneo to shift production in a sustainable direction.
Dan Säll / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Phantoms of the Sierra Madre
Three men embark on a boyhood dream of a Western adventure in search of a lost Apache tribe in Mexico, but end up in a very different place than they had planned. A thought-provoking film about being out of place - and about realising it along the way.
Håvard Bustnes / Norway, Finland, United States & Mexico / 2024 / World Premiere
Preemptive Listening
Sound and film art on innovative wavelengths in a work that explores the function and iconic value of the siren in a time of overlapping natural and man-made disasters. A participatory piece with contributions from 20 different sound artists.
Aura Satz / United Kingdom & Finland / 2024 / World Premiere
Silent Trees
A 16-year-old Kurdish refugee girl is stranded in an icy pine forest between Belarus and Europe with her family in a dirty political power play. She has only one choice: to grow up in an instant and save her family.
Agnieszka Zwiefka / Poland, Germany & Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Sofina
Live recordings, everyday notes and vocal music intertwine in an audiovisual project where every digital line and musical note are creative expressions of a shared grief.
Albert R. Hildebrand & Tobias Laust Hansen / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Tell Them About Us
A group of delightful teenage girls who have all fled to Germany find their own creative ways to overcome hidden discrimination in a film about friendship, sisterhood and living your dreams.
Rand Beiruty / Germany & Jordan / 2024 / World Premiere