PARA:FICTIONS
New section for cinematic features in the field between documentary, fiction and beyond.
Caught by the Tides
Hailed as one of the best films of the year since its premiere at Cannes. Chinese auteur Jia Zhang-ke is back with a poetic masterpiece shot over 20 years as a woman searches for her missing husband.
Zhang-Ke Jia / China / 2024
Fire of Wind
A mythological and enchantingly beautiful story from the hot, southern Portuguese vineyards, where harvesting farmers hang out high in the oak trees to avoid a ravenous bull.
Marta Mateus / Portugal, Switzerland & France / 2024
Grand Tour
Melancholic and imaginative expedition across the Asian continent in the name of love. A new cinematic milestone from the freely imaginative Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes.
Holy Electricity
Fiction and social realism merge in an imaginative film from Georgia, where a young man and his uncle come up with a bright idea: they are going to get rich selling neon crosses.
Tato Kotetishvili / Georgia & Netherlands / 2024
Kontinental ’25
A pitch-black comedy from Transylvania where a woman's guilty conscience sends her on a tour of an ex-socialist universe of religion, nationalism and questionable morals.
Radu Jude / Romania / 2025
Mika Ex Machina
Free-wheeling docu-comedy about two Parisian women trying to figure out who is behind the sabotage of their motorbike. A mischievous play with form, fiction and your expectations.
Mika Tard & Deborah Saïag / France / 2025
The Shipwrecked Triptych
Three short stories, imagining the human experience with visionary power and dark humour. Danish-Turkish artist Deniz Eroglu's debut film is work of a deeply inventive and original spirit.
Deniz Eroglu / Germany / 2025
The Wolves Always Come at Night
Magnificent and cinematic docu-western set in Mongolia, where a young shepherd couple and their four children fight an epic battle against the elements to stay in the world they know.
To a Land Unknown
Two Palestinian refugees stranded in Athens dream of Northern Europe. By day they hustle to survive, by night they disappear into drugs and poetry. Mahdi Fleifel's Cannes hit is a feature film rooted deep in reality.
Mahdi Fleifel / United Kingdom, Palestine, France, Greece, Netherlands, Qatar & Saudi Arabia / 2024
When The Phone Rang
Memories of ex-Yugoslavia meet autofiction in a critically acclaimed film about an 11-year-old girl who receives a series of mysterious phone calls that change her life.
Iva Radivojević / Serbia & United States / 2024