Films

A Poem for Little People

The unlikely but close friendship of two elderly women brings to life a cinematic poem about courage and resistance during wartime, while a young man and his team of volunteers struggle to get people away from the frontline in Eastern Ukraine.

Ivan Sautkin / Ukraine, Lithuania & United Kingdom / 2023 / International Premiere

Blueberry Dreams

A warm and understatedly humourous film about a Georgian family's project to start a blueberry farm in an area where old conflicts rumble underground. A young film from the old world, where the family's two sons dream of a different future.

Elene Mikaberidze / Georgia, France, Belgium & Qatar / 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

Invisible Nation

With unrestricted access to Taiwan's current president, we follow the tenure of Tsai Ing-wen, the country's first female head of state, during a time of great political tension between East and West. A competent and charismatic defender of democracy.

Vanessa Hope / United States & Taiwan / 2023

Israelism

Two young American Jews are raised to love Israel unconditionally, but their lives take a sharp left turn when they experience the plight of the Palestinians. A film about Jewish identity on both sides of the generation gap.

Erin Axelman & Sam Eilertsen / United States / 2023

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

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

The Black Garden

With cinematic brushstrokes and few words, a bleak story is told of three generations living in the shadow of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. A brilliantly orchestrated study in how conflicts recreate themselves.

Alexis Pazoumian / France & Belgium / 2024 / World Premiere

The Flats

A run-down Belfast housing estate becomes a haunted inner landscape in a dark, cinematic film where the echoes of the conflict in Northern Ireland still reverberate in the corridors. An aging man on his final, existential mission confronts the ghosts of the past.

Alessandra Celesia / France, United Kingdom, Ireland & Belgium / 2024 / World Premiere