Our competition for emerging, international artists and filmmakers.
The Nights Still Smell Of Gunpowder
A hypnotic film debut from Mozambique, where a young director visits his grandmother's village to measure the depths of her memories. Each moment is staged as a drama in itself in a dark and disquieting piece of cinema.
Inadelso Cossa / Mozambique, France, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands & Norway / 2024 / International 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
Sting Like a Bee
A warmhearted and beautiful hybrid film about a group of Italian teenagers flirting their way through the summer on their three-wheeled, self-styled Piaggio Ape mopeds. Love, sex and young dreams come together in a film-within-the-film about the young heroes.
Leone Balduzzi / Italy / 2023 / International Premiere
G – 21 scenes from Gottsunda
The Swedish gang conflict seen from the inside over five years by a filmmaker who is at home portraying one of Sweden's most dangerous areas, which he is now moving out of. A poetic and existential film about life, death and brotherhood.
Loran Batti / Sweden & Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Grand Me
A 9-year-old Iranian girl plans to sue her parents after their bitter divorce in a lively and bittersweet film directed by her aunt. A lively contribution to the great Iranian tradition of films about the world of children.
Atiye Zare Arandi / Belgium & Iran / 2024 / World Premiere
To be an Extra
A charismatic young woman's intelligent film about making the leap from supporting roles in German TV dramas to play the leading role in her own life. A courageous piece of performative autofiction which invents its own rules as it unfolds.
Henrike Meyer / Germany / 2024 / World Premiere
Eros
Brazil's love motels are a sexual haven where fantasy becomes reality. When the filmmaker's own date never shows up, she gets a fresh idea for a film instead. The result is a kaleidoscopic insight into a parallel world of human desire.
Rachel Daisy Ellis / Brazil / 2024 / 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
Appearances
An atmospheric and dreamy picture poem from Argentina's vast La Pampa region, where ancient stories of spirits are evoked in dark and evocative images between reality and the beyond.
Nicolás Onischuk / Argentina / 2023 / International Premiere
La Base
Social-realist sci-fi from the taxi centre around a Paris airport that looks more like a run-down space base where an incredible cast of characters cross each other's paths.
Vadim Dumesh / France / 2023 / International Premiere
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
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
Death of a Saint
A Danish director travels to Uganda to find out what happened the Christmas Eve her mother lost her life. A personal and life-affirming film about family, motherhood and confronting the past.
Patricia Bbaale Bandak / Denmark / 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