Films
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
Music
Angela Shanelec's enigmatic and elliptical reinterpretation of the myth of King Oedipus is one of the greatest works of the past year. A deeply original highlight in the artistic career of one of the most singular names in European cinema.
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
No Other Land
The alliance between a young Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank and an Israeli journalist provides a unique and human insight into a decades-old conflict, as the two fight against the forced expulsion of the Masafer Yatta community. A film created by a Palestinian-Israeli collective.
Rachel Szor, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra & Hamdan Bilal / Palestine / 2024 / International Premiere
Nocturnes
The night is buzzing with life in the dense jungles of the mountains on the border between India and Bhutan, where two local biologists study a microcosm of moths. A deep, atmospheric film sensation with an exceptional sound design.
Anupama Srinivasan & Anirban Dutta / India & United States / 2024
Of Caravan and the Dogs
Putin had been preparing his country for the big war long before it started. A group of independent Russian journalists and activists face severe punishment and end up facing personal and political dilemmas in Askold Kurov’s couragous and critical film.
Askold Kurov & Anonymous 1 / Germany / 2024
Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird
Friendship, love and rock n' roll! The lives of the pioneering rock bands At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta, authentically and honestly portrayed on video through a lifetime by the two childhood friends at the front of the stage.
Nicolas Jack Davies / Germany & United Kingdom / 2023 / International 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
Sandra Ignagni, Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner / Canada, France, Italy, United Kingdom & Netherlands
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
Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin
10 years in the turbulent life of the British rock n' roll poet as a singer in The Libertines and Babyshambles, and as a regular in the tabloids. The struggle to quit the drugs is the untold chapter in the story of Pete Doherty - until now.
Katia De Vidas / France & United Kingdom / 2023
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
Polish Prayers
A young, ultra-conservative man on the black-clad Catholic right suddenly discovers the colours of the rainbow and starts sawing at the ideological branch he was so securely perched on.
Hanka Nobis / Switzerland & Poland / 2022
Power
A sharp and thought-provoking essay on power, race and class. Yance Ford's analysis of the dark history of policing in the US is a highly topical and ever relevant deep dive into one of society's institutions.
Yance Ford / United States / 2024 / International 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
Queer Utopia: Act I Cruising
A retired playwright is losing his memories and seeks companionship on a transformative journey to reconstruct and preserve fragments of his cherished remembrances.
Realm of Satan
Talking crows, red velour and black Lamborghinis. Get a rare glimpse into the life of a Satanist in a stylish and suitably mischievous film that challenges our expectations of the alternative philosophy.
Scott Cummings / United States / 2024 / International Premiere
Reas
A creative queer musical where the former inmates of a women's prison in Buenos Aires rewrite their own life stories and perform them as vogue and song numbers about trading cigarettes for friends and dreaming of freedom.
Lola Arias / Argentina, Germany & Switzerland / 2024
Rehab (From Rehab)
How can a building become part of the treatment in physical and mental rehabilitation? A film about architecture, bodies and universal design that could revolutionise the way we shape our shared spaces.
Louise Lemoine & Ila Bêka / France & Switzerland / 2023