Projects 2025
AGITATIONS
Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter
Iceland
A young girl’s family is torn apart by her parents’ clashing worldviews. As she tries to repair this rift in her life, the earth begins to tremble.
ALBANIA MON AMOUR
Filip Jembrih
Slovenia
In a coastal Albanian town, young love between two women unravels over the course of a single day — as one prepares to marry a local man for money.
BUCK MOON
Frank van den Bogaart
Belgium/The Netherlands
Seeking to reconnect with his childhood best friend, the progressive Noa returns to his hometown for the mythical and male-only Buck Moon festival.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Macha Ovtchinnikova
France
An intimate connection between France and Belarus, between two mothers who suffer from violence and guilt.
CLOSING TIME
Sara Jurinčić
Croatia
Street shop workers stuck in an endless closing shift. As reality distorts, window sides switch, and inequality of immigrant workers comes to light.
IN THE NAME OF UKRAINE
Vyacheslav Turyanytsya
Ukraine
An undercover police officer walks the line between duty and desire while gathering video evidence at a private sex party.
INSIDE
Dorota Vlnová
Slovakia
In a society full of prejudice, several women find a common inner space to share the feelings that abortion has left them with.
MEMORIES OF THE BEYOND
Alicia Mendy
Switzerland
Casamance, Senegal 1980. After brutally losing his mother, Elizo discovers he can visit her in the afterlife. However, these journeys are slowly destroying his life and memories.
MOTHER NATURE
Barbara Anastácio
Portugal/USA
When an app promises Mia her genetically ideal sperm donor, her journey to meet her top matches spirals into absurd encounters and a reckoning with herself.
NOBODY SAID ANYTHING
Tamara Todorović
Serbia
A group of mothers gather to confront the brutal act committed by their daughters, igniting a storm of female anger.
THINGS THAT CAN RUIN A PICNIC
Hanna Hovitie
Finland
A thirtysomething couple’s dreamy picnic date starts to turn into a nightmare when the topic of having kids gets brought up.
VATERLAND
Berthold Wahjudi
Germany/Indonesia
When the German-Indonesian Yanto (late 20s) travels to Yogyakarta to visit his younger sister, feelings of envy arise as she fits in better than he does.
