A chance reunion with a childhood friend forces an introverted young man to confront the dark desires he has spent years trying to suppress.

When German-Indonesian Yanto visits his younger sister in Yogyakarta, he expects a simple reunion – until he realizes she belongs more effortlessly than he ever has. As envy and dissonance between siblings surface, Yanto’s journey becomes a bittersweet exploration of mixed-race identity.

Karol, a Warsaw-based driver of Ethiopian descent, is brutally assaulted on his way to Białowieża and illegally pushed across the border. Wandering through the border forest, he experiences the reality of migrants trapped between systems of violence.

In a small village in the Ukrainian countryside, Nina, a grandmother deeply attached to her land, welcomes her granddaughter Yana for what appears to be a simple holiday. In reality, she is trying to hide the war that is ravaging the country from her granddaughter by creating an imaginary world where everything is fine.

Fifteen-year-old Cas poses for his school’s trainee teacher and amateur photographer Jard. When he becomes painfully aware of the power imbalance between them, he seeks to reverse their dynamic.

Ten-year-old Great Demon is a whirlwind of mischief and imagination, leaving chaos and laughter in his wake. But beneath his wild antics lies a quiet loneliness. One ordinary day, a strange new friend named Ke appears out of nowhere, turning Great Demon’s world upside down.

Ira Melnichenko, a young Ukrainian refugee in Switzerland with her brother, creates a doll in her own image, through which she revisits the story of a family torn apart by the death of her father, a 2D animator in Kyiv, destroyed by alcohol and dereliction.

Set in a divided British seaside town, ten-year-old Ruby forms an unlikely friendship with Hasset, an asylum seeker living in a local hotel, as one summer of freedom collides with the threat of rising anti-migrant protests.

One summer, a twelve-year-old girl works at her grandma’s bistro, full of strange adults.

An abandoned factory site. Twelve-year-old Hannes pushes his little brother Oli into increasingly dangerous tests of courage with a bow and arrow. When he puts them both in a life-threatening situation, his power begins to crumble.

Joakim, a young, compassionate caregiver working in a dementia ward, navigates the emotional toll of his work as he learns to accept the limits of his ability to help.

A young Polish man, Osa, lives in the slums of Mumbai, where he falls in love with Sapna, a teenage dancer from a poor family. When Sapna's father tries to sell her to a brothel, the couple is forced on a desperate run across India.

At a reception held in honor of his late wife, André, an elderly man whose memory is failing, tries to reconnect with his past and those around him.

After Giovanna's death, Ivan clings to her gestures, objects, and rituals. What begins as a tribute gradually turns into an obsession, until it blurs the boundaries between identity, love and memory.

Jak, a young Haitian migrant, must reach the U.S. border with his father, but his mother’s disappearance forces him to choose between continuing or confronting the past.

Forced to track down his runaway, dialysis dependent grandfather, a struggling art student is pulled into an absurd road trip to catch a legendary fish journey that brings him face to face with the old man’s fading past, and his own stalled life.

After yet another failed review interview at the Ministry of Labor and Productivity, the visual artist Ultimo, sinks into an existential crisis. When he is ultimately declared a “ marginal worker, ” he embarks on a radical metamorphosis.

Piotr is 24 years old and has just met the woman of his life. As usual, he comes to tell his mother about it. At first, he does not notice that the roles are just turning and now she will need him.

Vanessa, 21, lives with her brother Diego, 20, who has a disability, and their father Antonio, a strong-willed Gypsy man. The happy, well-oiled routine of this trio is disrupted by Diego’s sexual awakening. While Antonio is proud to introduce his son to a virile form of masculinity, Vanessa realizes that her brother prefers men.

La Foudre, a social media vigilante, becomes famous through his punitive raids livestreamed on the internet. But spectacle justice doesn't come without risks...

Eva flies back from France expecting a simple funeral. What she gets is a hunchbacked grandma, a furious village priest, and a coffin that just won’t fit.

Agathe, married with two children, receives a text message for Valentine's Day inviting her to a hotel room.

After a failed performance, Luka, a young stand-up comedian, meets a mysterious girl in a bar. They quickly find common ground, and she spends the night at his place. They talk about their loneliness, pain, and personal losses, all while trying to maintain an emotional distance from one another. But when all the necessary words finally run out – silence falls.

During a live national television interview, Veronica, a celebrated and admired actress, struggles to uphold the image of a perfect life while her inner world fractures under the weight of private abuse. Trapped between silence, fear, and a sudden panic attack, she must decide whether to continue performing the illusion—or break the cycle in front of everyone.

In rural Spain, ten-year-old Pablo loves spending time at his granny’s countryside home, playing with his younger sister Alba and his best friend Martín. But everything changes when Martín pressures him to betray his family, leaving Pablo to question where he truly belongs.

Murat, who has just been imprisoned, asks for a request to his wife Sema, which is against the procedures. Sema cannot stand her husband’s pressure and tries to get Murat’s request into the prison by illegal means. But the prison has excessive precautions.

Elisha wakes to a crumbling reality. The wind never stops blowing, the sand keeps accumulating, burying everything. Medea arrives, his long-lost love, elegant and alive, trying to reach through.

When a Ukrainian factory worker finds a mysterious object hidden in an abandoned workshop, he must choose between the safety of the life he knows and the dream he has never dared to pursue.

In Hindi, Aasmani means that shade of light blue which is the color of the sky. To Smita, a spunky woman in her sixties, her steadfast companion of over five decades, a powder blue vintage FIAT called Aasmani is the very sky that shaped her life. But now she struggles with the choice of selling her beloved vintage car, Aasmani, when her 10 year old granddaughter, Tiya, steps up to save the day.

19th century rural family discover a catchy song that is broadcasted from the future through the family children after they are accidentally fed some mouldy bread. It is a story about greed, and how gold fever can make a man blind to true treasures in life, eventually breaking a family.

A group of women wearing traditional mourning clothes arrives at a mansion to take part in a funeral ritual.

The film examines the generation who never expected to become senior citizens in the face of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and decades of oppression, who now find themselves trailblazers again as the first openly LGBTQ seniors.

When single Missy (39), fresh from heartbreak and desperate to conceive, discovers a world of free sperm, she dives right in. But semen with no strings attached is scuppered when newbie Patrick (40) unwittingly breaks the rules of the game.

A few years after fleeing Ukraine following the Russian invasion, a boy returns home via a robotic dog, his mechanical avatar, which he controls from his room in Poland. Through this remote presence, he relives memories and reconnects with his past — a connection that now depends on a fragile video stream that could be cut off at any moment.

After Russia’s invasion, Yaroslav moves to Kyiv with his girlfriend to study, leaving his family in Donetsk. His brother Sashko stays with their parents as their grandmother falls gravely ill. Two years later, the family reunites, but illness and unspoken tensions keep them apart.

A young man is torn between his passion for the saxophone and figure skating, as his coach puts increasing pressure on him to become like the skater’s idol — Salvador.

Swimming in the sea, silent meals, attempts to hold on to intimacy — this is how the couple spends the final days of their relationship at an old summer house on the Caspian shore. Years later, the man lives alone in the house he once built beside that same summer place. The fig tree and the sea remain the same. Simple tastes and moments remind that life goes on. And solitude can be a conscious choice.

An attempt to make a film about a Ukrainian family in the Kartvelian village of Kormagali turns into a search for a house whose existence even the locals doubt.

Heorhiy and Yaryna return to their home, liberated after de-occupation, which had been occupied by Russian forces. Through the lens of a booby trap left behind, the film explores how the couple attempts to rebuild their lives, gradually distancing themselves from the surrounding war.

Zyma, an exhausted Ukrainian soldier, leaves the war and his unit without authorization. He has decided to return home, but the road turns into a space of pressure, where every phone call forces him to justify his choice again and again.

On Easter Sunday in Kyiv, two soldiers from the army recruitment office drive slowly through the streets, watching men who might be called to serve. Their search leads them to a young man who has stepped out only to buy food for his cat. He may try to avoid their gaze, but yet on this holy day, nothing is as simple as it first appears.

After the owner leaves, a cat conflict begins to brew in the apartment, passions flare up, and it is unknown what this will lead to.

At the center of the story is Tatarin, the battalion’s senior sergeant and instructor. He appears as a harsh and uncompromising authority figure, shaping civilians into soldiers through relentless discipline and pressure. Yet behind the commands, the shouting, and the ritual of military training emerges a man carrying a different burden: the responsibility of preparing others for a reality in which mistakes can be fatal.

When the soldier Ivan appears on the doorstep of his parents’ house, his brother is faced with a dilemma: to fulfill his last wish or to do as tradition dictates.

At noon, in the shade of riverside trees — as if in the middle of life — you lose something. Yet love is as strong as the river.

A spacious apartment on the third floor is the only one with the lights on. Clinking glasses, chatter, and laughter. It’s a classmate reunion. They are going to hang till dawn, just as they did on their prom night. And it all goes well until people start disappearing without leaving a trace.

Two graduates studied side by side for four years, afraid to confess their feelings to each other, until graduation day arrived...

While waiting for the results of the Molodist Film Festival selection, queer film director and bachelor’s graduate Tim has not-so-pleasant encounters in Kyiv with his friends, relatives and colleagues, who became part of his 30-minute thesis film.

Two friends travel together, each filming with a different camera and a different perspective. Along the way they are repeatedly forbidden to record what might be considered of military importance.

A host for HOME TV finds herself in the heart of life on Kyiv’s central streets. Asking locals, displaced people, and visitors of the capital “what is home?”, she comes across different views and circumstances. The collage of answers gradually blurs the question itself, leaving her face-to-face with her own search.

55-year-old Yuriy is a driver for the "On the shield" mission, which retrieves the bodies of fallen soldiers from the battlefield. This time, together with his colleague, he is heading to Pokrovsk to pick up the body of a 25-year-old man, someone just like his missing son, who is also a soldier.

On a final walk with her terminally ill mother, the filmmaker sees a blossoming tree and says she would like to become it. Her mother asks only: “When?”

Mariia's patronymic, a middle name based on her father's name, has been lost from her international documents. For better or for worse.

Sasha is overwhelmed by problems and melancholy. Inspired by memories of the past, she tries to escape everything, returning from Manchester to Kyiv to visit her mother and try to mend a long-lost relationship. However, things don’t unfold as she had hoped from the moment she steps through the door.

the film frames four symbols near the Bessarabsky Market in Kyiv.

15-year-old Lisa finds an old video camera and begins filming an ordinary, sobering winter morning in the apartment of her friend Maxim, who is clearly in love with her.

A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.

One year after Jessie’s death, her mother and sister take in her ex-boyfriend, the boy the whole world secretly blames for her death. When the unlikely trio leave for Tenerife, a family trip that never happened, past and present start to overlap.

A guitarist who devoted his life to music loses the most precious thing he had in a single night — his HEARING.

Giving a pledge to the victim to find the killer, the police officer uses the girl as bait to search for someone who may never appear.

Edik doesn’t see Dasha, so she became invisible to achieve love.

The girl finds out that she doesn't even have anyone to do her literature assignment with, but behind the prism of such a "simple" problem lies much more than a grade in the diary. Insufficient communication with peers, problems with her mother, cruelty from adults leads to irreparable consequences, from which young children suffer and who solve problems as best they can.

An obsessed director, filming a modern adaptation of "Carmen, " falls in love with the lead actress and gradually blurs the line between cinema and reality, turning the filming studio into an arena of jealousy and self-destruction.

A mysterious young woman asks Vitalik to let her catch a fish and promises to grant any wish he desires. But when his dream comes true, it turns out to be nothing like he imagined.

The Poet’s dream, in which he moves through cityscapes, endless corridors, and rows of repetitive window bars—reciting his own verses and wandering through his own thoughts—while visualizing mental constraints and the "closed windows" that isolate him from the true, sincere love lying just beyond them.

A young artist, raised under uncompromising expectations of perfection, lives under the constant pressure of self-criticism. After an emotional breakdown, she falls asleep and, in a dream, returns to her childhood, where she relives her past and, for the first time, sees it through different eyes.

A dark reinterpretation of The Ugly Duckling set in the world of contemporary dance. Anna is a quiet and constantly devalued girl, humiliated by her coach, parents and successful peers. She lives in the shadow of Sophia — the star of the troupe and the embodiment of perfection. Gradually, admiration turns into obsession. On the day of the premiere, Anna makes a fatal decision to finally take the place she believes belongs to her. Her triumphant performance becomes an act of liberation — and at the same time, a crime applauded by the entire audience.

Alice gets into an asylum for the mentally ill called "Wonderland." There, for the first time in her life, she encounters truly sick people and unusual rules, breaking which is a much bigger problem than Alice might think.

Loco wakes up in bed with a stranger. They turn to a therapist for help. Suddenly, after an argument, Loco dreams of his wife. When he wakes up, he finds a terrifying creature in the bathroom.

The girl forbids the boy from opening the blue folder, but temptation gradually turns his life into a nightmare.

Historically, war has been regarded as a man’s domain, making the presence of women on blood-soaked battlefields all the more heroic. Yet neither men nor women, nor humanity as a whole, have managed to make any previous war the last one. The Doomsday Clock keeps ticking forward, and there is no reason to stop its second hand.

The story of three women who are undergoing a transformation of their lives due to the events caused by the Great War. Yaryna is looking for her fiancé, who is probably in Russian captivity, and volunteering for the East. Kateryna is adapting her family's routine after her military husband's leg amputation. Daria is building her life after losing her husband in the war.

In a Russian-occupied town in southeastern Ukraine, where burying the dead has been forbidden, the church of a young priest, Andriy, has been turned into a morgue for executed Ukrainian civilians. As the occupation tightens its grip, Andriy quietly begins to resist, secretly returning the bodies to their families at great personal risk.

Young Ukrainians from the frontline town of Mariinka face a decade of war that divides their families and violently changes the course of their lives.

Caught in the heart of Russia’s war against Ukraine, civilians in Donbas face an unbearable choice: flee their homes or stay and risk their lives every day. The film explores their painful dilemmas and the extraordinary courage of volunteers who risk their own lives to evacuate people and rescue their animals.

At the height of her music career, Maja falls apart and has to step away from her ambitions. Depressed and broke, she moves back home with her mother and works part-time at a local high school. Far from the spotlight, wrapped in everyday kindness, she slowly finds her way back to life.

Three fathers chaperone their teenage daughters on a rowdy school trip to a remote island. As buried memories resurface, games turn into power struggles — and power into violence. Soon no one can tell: who is in charge, and who is in danger?

The great war — in all its manifestations of death and the thirst for life, the sorrow of loss and the happiness of those who survived, the relationships between friends and enemies, children and parents, people and animals, entire worlds — cannot be captured in a single story. That is why this film will unfold in several novellas, united by the theme of war that has become our life.

Drogo, a young lieutenant, is assigned to the defense of an isolated fortress in a mountainous desert region. The garrison’s mission is to fight off any attacks by the Tartars. In reality though, the real enemy is time, sapping their lives and vitality as they wait for an enemy that never shows up.

In a remote mountain village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave their home and climb to a mountaintop to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.

A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.

Mariia's patronymic, a middle name based on her father's name, has been lost from her international documents. For better or for worse.

15-year-old Lisa finds an old video camera and begins filming an ordinary, sobering winter morning in the apartment of her friend Maxim, who is clearly in love with her.

the film frames four symbols near the Bessarabsky Market in Kyiv.

On a final walk with her terminally ill mother, the filmmaker sees a blossoming tree and says she would like to become it. Her mother asks only: “When?”

55-year-old Yuriy is a driver for the "On the shield" mission, which retrieves the bodies of fallen soldiers from the battlefield. This time, together with his colleague, he is heading to Pokrovsk to pick up the body of a 25-year-old man, someone just like his missing son, who is also a soldier.

Sasha is overwhelmed by problems and melancholy. Inspired by memories of the past, she tries to escape everything, returning from Manchester to Kyiv to visit her mother and try to mend a long-lost relationship. However, things don’t unfold as she had hoped from the moment she steps through the door.

Two friends travel together, each filming with a different camera and a different perspective. Along the way they are repeatedly forbidden to record what might be considered of military importance.

A host for HOME TV finds herself in the heart of life on Kyiv’s central streets. Asking locals, displaced people, and visitors of the capital “what is home?”, she comes across different views and circumstances. The collage of answers gradually blurs the question itself, leaving her face-to-face with her own search.

Two graduates studied side by side for four years, afraid to confess their feelings to each other, until graduation day arrived...

While waiting for the results of the Molodist Film Festival selection, queer film director and bachelor’s graduate Tim has not-so-pleasant encounters in Kyiv with his friends, relatives and colleagues, who became part of his 30-minute thesis film.

A spacious apartment on the third floor is the only one with the lights on. Clinking glasses, chatter, and laughter. It’s a classmate reunion. They are going to hang till dawn, just as they did on their prom night. And it all goes well until people start disappearing without leaving a trace.

When the soldier Ivan appears on the doorstep of his parents’ house, his brother is faced with a dilemma: to fulfill his last wish or to do as tradition dictates.

At noon, in the shade of riverside trees — as if in the middle of life — you lose something. Yet love is as strong as the river.

On Easter Sunday in Kyiv, two soldiers from the army recruitment office drive slowly through the streets, watching men who might be called to serve. Their search leads them to a young man who has stepped out only to buy food for his cat. He may try to avoid their gaze, but yet on this holy day, nothing is as simple as it first appears.

After the owner leaves, a cat conflict begins to brew in the apartment, passions flare up, and it is unknown what this will lead to.

Zyma, an exhausted Ukrainian soldier, leaves the war and his unit without authorization. He has decided to return home, but the road turns into a space of pressure, where every phone call forces him to justify his choice again and again.

At the center of the story is Tatarin, the battalion’s senior sergeant and instructor. He appears as a harsh and uncompromising authority figure, shaping civilians into soldiers through relentless discipline and pressure. Yet behind the commands, the shouting, and the ritual of military training emerges a man carrying a different burden: the responsibility of preparing others for a reality in which mistakes can be fatal.

An attempt to make a film about a Ukrainian family in the Kartvelian village of Kormagali turns into a search for a house whose existence even the locals doubt.

Heorhiy and Yaryna return to their home, liberated after de-occupation, which had been occupied by Russian forces. Through the lens of a booby trap left behind, the film explores how the couple attempts to rebuild their lives, gradually distancing themselves from the surrounding war.

A few years after fleeing Ukraine following the Russian invasion, a boy returns home via a robotic dog, his mechanical avatar, which he controls from his room in Poland. Through this remote presence, he relives memories and reconnects with his past — a connection that now depends on a fragile video stream that could be cut off at any moment.

A young man is torn between his passion for the saxophone and figure skating, as his coach puts increasing pressure on him to become like the skater’s idol — Salvador.

After Russia’s invasion, Yaroslav moves to Kyiv with his girlfriend to study, leaving his family in Donetsk. His brother Sashko stays with their parents as their grandmother falls gravely ill. Two years later, the family reunites, but illness and unspoken tensions keep them apart.

Swimming in the sea, silent meals, attempts to hold on to intimacy — this is how the couple spends the final days of their relationship at an old summer house on the Caspian shore. Years later, the man lives alone in the house he once built beside that same summer place. The fig tree and the sea remain the same. Simple tastes and moments remind that life goes on. And solitude can be a conscious choice.

Set in late-1980s Ukraine, this black-and-white psychological drama follows a young man unable to find his place in Soviet society. This alienation leads many to dismiss him as insane. Driven to the edge, he decides to cross the border illegally, to escape the bleakness of his reality, throwing one last challenge at an oppressive regime.

The film ridicules the overwhelming fascination with oriental martial arts, philosophy, paraphernalia. The forces of evil—a little man, his nephew, girl and ninja—steal the Holy Lily from the monastery. Matsuoka, together with his friend, overcomes fantastic difficulties in the fight against the forces of evil and releases Lily.

Based on the diaries of Oleksandr Dovzhenko. As an artist paints the "Last Supper" for a local church, the peasants feel a special sense of pride seeing themselves immortalized as saints. However, this artistic choice does not sit well with the newly established revolutionary authorities.

A Ukrainian female soldier and five male soldiers recount the horrors they witnessed and endured on the front line, and their difficult struggle to return to a normal life. The result is a poignant portrait of a generation forced to live with the psychological consequences of a war imposed upon them, and of a society that will continue to bear this burden for a long time to come.

Roya, an Iranian teacher imprisoned for her political beliefs, is faced with a choice: make a forced televised confession, or remain confined to her 3-square-meter cell.

Pegah Ahangarani traces her life through five portraits of relatives and mentors. Using personal archives, home videos, protests, and newspapers, she chronicles over 40 years of Iranian history from 1979 to 2026.

It is March 1978 in the suburbs of Nantes. Jacques is marrying Martine. For the two of them, it's a marriage of love. But can love heal the wounds of childhood?

01 Psychoville (2004) 2’

One day in the life of the Sykhiv district.

02 Sorry (2005) 3’

Music video on Vika Vradiy’s song.

03 There is hope (2005) 5’

At the concert of Mad Heads in the Park of Culture (Lviv) in June 2005.

04 At the Barvy club in Kyiv (2006) 4’

Unplanned concert of an unexisting band at the unfound club.

05 750 (2020) 8’

Celebrating 750th birthday of Lviv in 2006.

06 bodiless lovers (2008) 12’

Post-rock in stop-motion.

07 livemusic (2021) 6’

Drum’n’bass party in Kamianske in 2007.

08 signs (2020) 2’

A night ride on the Bohdanivska street in Lviv.

09 Autoportrait (2011) 5’

Portrait of an automobile accompanied by the song of Kyiv’s band 2sleepy “the fog”.

10 Transience (2007) 13’

Travelogue about passage of time.

11 Take me to the sea (2012) 3’

Music video for Lviv’s band Sparkle Dream.

12 Farewell (2011) 2’

Short film about two shirts in love.

1617, Las Islas Filipinas. The Spanish friar, Father Enciso, the encomendero of one of the islands, rules with unrelenting toughness and an insatiable libido to tame the savages.

A cinematic parable about old Levko Serdiuk, who lives in a postwar village and tends to the communal well. Yet, his dedication goes unappreciated. However, an unexpected visit from his family prompts him to symbolically rise from his coffin. Against the backdrop of this intimate drama, the village itself is transforming as modernity ruthlessly intrudes upon the traditional way of life, bringing electric poles, an iron windmill, and airplanes in the sky.

Snow falls from bright skies as a town prepares for Queen Lovisa's wedding to Amir the fool. The celebration is interrupted when the former tyrant's mother Amalia arrives with her soldiers.

Tiana and her family seek refuge in Mateo and Tomas’ village, but the polluton they are fleeing from will catch them up here, too. Along with their dog Nube, the three children embark on a perilous adventure to discover what is poisoning the rivers.

A 16 year-old girl in a small seaside town in Wales in 1999 becomes convinced her father was abducted by aliens. Alongside her skeptical best friend she enlists a local UFO expert to solve the mystery

Callie and Minnie’s relationship is suddenly upended at the start of the summer before their senior year of high school. Left rudderless without her charismatic best friend, Minnie starts to form a complicated friendship with Callie’s mother.

With a football at his feet and a heart that doesn’t fit the lines drawn for him, a boy watches the place, where he feels whole, beginning to slip away.

On a hot summer day, a girl ignored by her parents meets her favorite actress Billie King, leading her to self-discovery. A gentle story of finding your place and following your dreams.

Late 1970s Manila, under dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Aggrieved by the inescapable corruption around her, a police detective, Dahlia, secretly commits a heist.

Music documentary featuring 7 Ukrainian gothic bands filmed during the legendary festivals "Children of the Night" and "Nekropolis". Based on my own archival footage from 2005 that I rediscovered and edited in 2026, GOTHIC IS SERENITY aims to showcase a rarely seen alternative aspect of Ukrainian music expressed through dark and melancholic esthetics.

Hatixhe and Shaban, a couple in their 40s, live in a village in Kosovo with three daughters and share the household with Shaban’s two brothers and their mother. They make a living with their 12 cows. They get by reasonably well until one day the cows get stolen by their own brother and they are forced to move to Pristina, looking for work and a place to stay. A journey into a hypercapitalist society begins.

Mira is a solitary woman of few words. She travels the roads meeting desperate people with whom she seems to have forged strange death pacts. With no apparent destination, she meets Madeleine and Ludo, two free-spirited hedonists living deep in the forest. Taking a break from her missions and unsettled by a sudden encounter with an excessive and intriguing young man, she uses this stopover to question her wandering life and reassess her dark agreements.

The film shows nighttime interviews with 24 Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers, shot on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, revealing in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Despite not having had a theatrical release in Israel, the film caused political controversy there due to its accounts of the country's actions in Gaza.

After his teenage son Krzysztof goes missing in May 2023, Daniel Dyminski searches Poland’s Vistula River, torn between fear that his son is dead and hope that he is alive. CCTV shows Krzysztof standing on a bridge, but not whether he jumped, and Daniel keeps investigating long after the police stop searching.

As the First World War drags on, Pierre, a soldier newly arrived at the front, is eager to prove himself. Behind the lines, he meets Francis, who decides to lift the spirits of his comrades by putting together a theater show. While the violence continues, both men try to find ways to escape the brutality of war, even if only for a moment.

A young, racialized director struggles to make his debut film turn into a docu-satire with a political punch that takes you by surprise.

Sasha, a Ukrainian refugee living in Paris, travels home to commemorate the death of her grandmother.

Freed from a glacier after one hundred years, the ghost of filmmaker Lucien Castelnau drifts across a futuristic Patagonia, where technological progress collides with forgotten histories. Unable to find peace while his unfinished cinematic legacy remains unseen, he wanders through a world that has erased him, searching for a place in history—and for the audience that might finally bring his lost work back to life.

An armchair mystery in which the life of a reclusive academic collides with the story of a clandestine technology that can photograph the past.

Codependent twin musicians have one night to find three things: love, a song, and their father — a 99-year-old Beat Generation poet, the last of his kind.

Two centuries after the historic crossing of the Andes that led to South America’s liberation from Spanish colonization, a group of engineers and Andean muleteers embark on an expedition across the mountains to liberate a robot.

As a young filmmaker comes of age behind a camera, she turns it on her own community and unearths stories of sexual assault experienced by her mother, her peers, and eventually herself. Along the way, she meets survivors, perpetrators, and experts. Together, they explore the gray areas of sex, power, and consent, seeking to break cycles of harm and uncover radical possibilities for healing.

WAR HAS NO CHILDREN is a documentary composed of four stories exploring what it means to be a child during war. In this environment war becomes part of everyday life, and childhood becomes fragile and vulnerable.

Eat cauliflower with mayonnaise. Sort through papers. Take care of the chickens. Feed the metastases. Learn poems. Drink beer. Prepare his family. Although doctors gave him three years to live, Yann Patou lived with cancer for 18 years. As death approaches, Yann tries to keep smiling and constantly reminds me that we must “hurry up and live”.

A son returns to face the silence of his father—once a mujahideen fighter, later a spiritual leader and poet—and through their fragile journey of reconnection, discovers that even the hardest hearts can hide the deepest longing for love.

A filmmaker in crisis sets out to find the last lighthouse keepers. What begins as a journey across the land becomes a journey within, where the act of filming merges with their fading stories – an ode to a disappearing way of life.

Without anyone knowing, Markku has been creating art for the last 34 years in his house. In the director's childhood, they lived wall to wall and were close, but then Markku moved away, disappearing from her life.

Every day, pilgrims, wanderers and seekers arrive in a Sufi town carrying grief, hope and longing. Drawn together by music and devotion, they surrender themselves to a shared state of trance.

Follows Adelina, a young trans woman who flees to Vienna after 11 years of confinement in a Georgian village. As she builds a new life, a past that refuses to release her continues to shape her sense of belonging.

Jak, a young Haitian migrant, must reach the U.S. border with his father, but his mother’s disappearance forces him to choose between continuing or confronting the past.

At a reception held in honor of his late wife, André, an elderly man whose memory is failing, tries to reconnect with his past and those around him.

After Giovanna's death, Ivan clings to her gestures, objects, and rituals. What begins as a tribute gradually turns into an obsession, until it blurs the boundaries between identity, love and memory.

A young Polish man, Osa, lives in the slums of Mumbai, where he falls in love with Sapna, a teenage dancer from a poor family. When Sapna's father tries to sell her to a brothel, the couple is forced on a desperate run across India.

Forced to track down his runaway, dialysis dependent grandfather, a struggling art student is pulled into an absurd road trip to catch a legendary fish journey that brings him face to face with the old man’s fading past, and his own stalled life.

Set in a divided British seaside town, ten-year-old Ruby forms an unlikely friendship with Hasset, an asylum seeker living in a local hotel, as one summer of freedom collides with the threat of rising anti-migrant protests.

Ten-year-old Great Demon is a whirlwind of mischief and imagination, leaving chaos and laughter in his wake. But beneath his wild antics lies a quiet loneliness. One ordinary day, a strange new friend named Ke appears out of nowhere, turning Great Demon’s world upside down.

One summer, a twelve-year-old girl works at her grandma’s bistro, full of strange adults.

Joakim, a young, compassionate caregiver working in a dementia ward, navigates the emotional toll of his work as he learns to accept the limits of his ability to help.

Ira Melnichenko, a young Ukrainian refugee in Switzerland with her brother, creates a doll in her own image, through which she revisits the story of a family torn apart by the death of her father, a 2D animator in Kyiv, destroyed by alcohol and dereliction.

An abandoned factory site. Twelve-year-old Hannes pushes his little brother Oli into increasingly dangerous tests of courage with a bow and arrow. When he puts them both in a life-threatening situation, his power begins to crumble.

When German-Indonesian Yanto visits his younger sister in Yogyakarta, he expects a simple reunion – until he realizes she belongs more effortlessly than he ever has. As envy and dissonance between siblings surface, Yanto’s journey becomes a bittersweet exploration of mixed-race identity.

In a small village in the Ukrainian countryside, Nina, a grandmother deeply attached to her land, welcomes her granddaughter Yana for what appears to be a simple holiday. In reality, she is trying to hide the war that is ravaging the country from her granddaughter by creating an imaginary world where everything is fine.

Fifteen-year-old Cas poses for his school’s trainee teacher and amateur photographer Jard. When he becomes painfully aware of the power imbalance between them, he seeks to reverse their dynamic.

A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.

One year after Jessie’s death, her mother and sister take in her ex-boyfriend, the boy the whole world secretly blames for her death. When the unlikely trio leave for Tenerife, a family trip that never happened, past and present start to overlap.

A guitarist who devoted his life to music loses the most precious thing he had in a single night — his HEARING.

Giving a pledge to the victim to find the killer, the police officer uses the girl as bait to search for someone who may never appear.

Edik doesn’t see Dasha, so she became invisible to achieve love.

The girl finds out that she doesn't even have anyone to do her literature assignment with, but behind the prism of such a "simple" problem lies much more than a grade in the diary. Insufficient communication with peers, problems with her mother, cruelty from adults leads to irreparable consequences, from which young children suffer and who solve problems as best they can.

An obsessed director, filming a modern adaptation of "Carmen, " falls in love with the lead actress and gradually blurs the line between cinema and reality, turning the filming studio into an arena of jealousy and self-destruction.

A mysterious young woman asks Vitalik to let her catch a fish and promises to grant any wish he desires. But when his dream comes true, it turns out to be nothing like he imagined.

The Poet’s dream, in which he moves through cityscapes, endless corridors, and rows of repetitive window bars—reciting his own verses and wandering through his own thoughts—while visualizing mental constraints and the "closed windows" that isolate him from the true, sincere love lying just beyond them.

A young artist, raised under uncompromising expectations of perfection, lives under the constant pressure of self-criticism. After an emotional breakdown, she falls asleep and, in a dream, returns to her childhood, where she relives her past and, for the first time, sees it through different eyes.

A dark reinterpretation of The Ugly Duckling set in the world of contemporary dance. Anna is a quiet and constantly devalued girl, humiliated by her coach, parents and successful peers. She lives in the shadow of Sophia — the star of the troupe and the embodiment of perfection. Gradually, admiration turns into obsession. On the day of the premiere, Anna makes a fatal decision to finally take the place she believes belongs to her. Her triumphant performance becomes an act of liberation — and at the same time, a crime applauded by the entire audience.

Alice gets into an asylum for the mentally ill called "Wonderland." There, for the first time in her life, she encounters truly sick people and unusual rules, breaking which is a much bigger problem than Alice might think.

Loco wakes up in bed with a stranger. They turn to a therapist for help. Suddenly, after an argument, Loco dreams of his wife. When he wakes up, he finds a terrifying creature in the bathroom.

The girl forbids the boy from opening the blue folder, but temptation gradually turns his life into a nightmare.

Historically, war has been regarded as a man’s domain, making the presence of women on blood-soaked battlefields all the more heroic. Yet neither men nor women, nor humanity as a whole, have managed to make any previous war the last one. The Doomsday Clock keeps ticking forward, and there is no reason to stop its second hand.

The story of three women who are undergoing a transformation of their lives due to the events caused by the Great War. Yaryna is looking for her fiancé, who is probably in Russian captivity, and volunteering for the East. Kateryna is adapting her family's routine after her military husband's leg amputation. Daria is building her life after losing her husband in the war.

In a Russian-occupied town in southeastern Ukraine, where burying the dead has been forbidden, the church of a young priest, Andriy, has been turned into a morgue for executed Ukrainian civilians. As the occupation tightens its grip, Andriy quietly begins to resist, secretly returning the bodies to their families at great personal risk.

Young Ukrainians from the frontline town of Mariinka face a decade of war that divides their families and violently changes the course of their lives.

Caught in the heart of Russia’s war against Ukraine, civilians in Donbas face an unbearable choice: flee their homes or stay and risk their lives every day. The film explores their painful dilemmas and the extraordinary courage of volunteers who risk their own lives to evacuate people and rescue their animals.

At the height of her music career, Maja falls apart and has to step away from her ambitions. Depressed and broke, she moves back home with her mother and works part-time at a local high school. Far from the spotlight, wrapped in everyday kindness, she slowly finds her way back to life.

Three fathers chaperone their teenage daughters on a rowdy school trip to a remote island. As buried memories resurface, games turn into power struggles — and power into violence. Soon no one can tell: who is in charge, and who is in danger?

The great war — in all its manifestations of death and the thirst for life, the sorrow of loss and the happiness of those who survived, the relationships between friends and enemies, children and parents, people and animals, entire worlds — cannot be captured in a single story. That is why this film will unfold in several novellas, united by the theme of war that has become our life.

Drogo, a young lieutenant, is assigned to the defense of an isolated fortress in a mountainous desert region. The garrison’s mission is to fight off any attacks by the Tartars. In reality though, the real enemy is time, sapping their lives and vitality as they wait for an enemy that never shows up.

In a remote mountain village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave their home and climb to a mountaintop to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.

A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.

Mariia's patronymic, a middle name based on her father's name, has been lost from her international documents. For better or for worse.

15-year-old Lisa finds an old video camera and begins filming an ordinary, sobering winter morning in the apartment of her friend Maxim, who is clearly in love with her.

the film frames four symbols near the Bessarabsky Market in Kyiv.

On a final walk with her terminally ill mother, the filmmaker sees a blossoming tree and says she would like to become it. Her mother asks only: “When?”

55-year-old Yuriy is a driver for the "On the shield" mission, which retrieves the bodies of fallen soldiers from the battlefield. This time, together with his colleague, he is heading to Pokrovsk to pick up the body of a 25-year-old man, someone just like his missing son, who is also a soldier.

Sasha is overwhelmed by problems and melancholy. Inspired by memories of the past, she tries to escape everything, returning from Manchester to Kyiv to visit her mother and try to mend a long-lost relationship. However, things don’t unfold as she had hoped from the moment she steps through the door.

Two friends travel together, each filming with a different camera and a different perspective. Along the way they are repeatedly forbidden to record what might be considered of military importance.

A host for HOME TV finds herself in the heart of life on Kyiv’s central streets. Asking locals, displaced people, and visitors of the capital “what is home?”, she comes across different views and circumstances. The collage of answers gradually blurs the question itself, leaving her face-to-face with her own search.

Two graduates studied side by side for four years, afraid to confess their feelings to each other, until graduation day arrived...

While waiting for the results of the Molodist Film Festival selection, queer film director and bachelor’s graduate Tim has not-so-pleasant encounters in Kyiv with his friends, relatives and colleagues, who became part of his 30-minute thesis film.

A spacious apartment on the third floor is the only one with the lights on. Clinking glasses, chatter, and laughter. It’s a classmate reunion. They are going to hang till dawn, just as they did on their prom night. And it all goes well until people start disappearing without leaving a trace.

When the soldier Ivan appears on the doorstep of his parents’ house, his brother is faced with a dilemma: to fulfill his last wish or to do as tradition dictates.

At noon, in the shade of riverside trees — as if in the middle of life — you lose something. Yet love is as strong as the river.

On Easter Sunday in Kyiv, two soldiers from the army recruitment office drive slowly through the streets, watching men who might be called to serve. Their search leads them to a young man who has stepped out only to buy food for his cat. He may try to avoid their gaze, but yet on this holy day, nothing is as simple as it first appears.

After the owner leaves, a cat conflict begins to brew in the apartment, passions flare up, and it is unknown what this will lead to.

Zyma, an exhausted Ukrainian soldier, leaves the war and his unit without authorization. He has decided to return home, but the road turns into a space of pressure, where every phone call forces him to justify his choice again and again.

At the center of the story is Tatarin, the battalion’s senior sergeant and instructor. He appears as a harsh and uncompromising authority figure, shaping civilians into soldiers through relentless discipline and pressure. Yet behind the commands, the shouting, and the ritual of military training emerges a man carrying a different burden: the responsibility of preparing others for a reality in which mistakes can be fatal.

An attempt to make a film about a Ukrainian family in the Kartvelian village of Kormagali turns into a search for a house whose existence even the locals doubt.

Heorhiy and Yaryna return to their home, liberated after de-occupation, which had been occupied by Russian forces. Through the lens of a booby trap left behind, the film explores how the couple attempts to rebuild their lives, gradually distancing themselves from the surrounding war.

A few years after fleeing Ukraine following the Russian invasion, a boy returns home via a robotic dog, his mechanical avatar, which he controls from his room in Poland. Through this remote presence, he relives memories and reconnects with his past — a connection that now depends on a fragile video stream that could be cut off at any moment.

A young man is torn between his passion for the saxophone and figure skating, as his coach puts increasing pressure on him to become like the skater’s idol — Salvador.

After Russia’s invasion, Yaroslav moves to Kyiv with his girlfriend to study, leaving his family in Donetsk. His brother Sashko stays with their parents as their grandmother falls gravely ill. Two years later, the family reunites, but illness and unspoken tensions keep them apart.

Swimming in the sea, silent meals, attempts to hold on to intimacy — this is how the couple spends the final days of their relationship at an old summer house on the Caspian shore. Years later, the man lives alone in the house he once built beside that same summer place. The fig tree and the sea remain the same. Simple tastes and moments remind that life goes on. And solitude can be a conscious choice.

Set in late-1980s Ukraine, this black-and-white psychological drama follows a young man unable to find his place in Soviet society. This alienation leads many to dismiss him as insane. Driven to the edge, he decides to cross the border illegally, to escape the bleakness of his reality, throwing one last challenge at an oppressive regime.

The film ridicules the overwhelming fascination with oriental martial arts, philosophy, paraphernalia. The forces of evil—a little man, his nephew, girl and ninja—steal the Holy Lily from the monastery. Matsuoka, together with his friend, overcomes fantastic difficulties in the fight against the forces of evil and releases Lily.

Based on the diaries of Oleksandr Dovzhenko. As an artist paints the "Last Supper" for a local church, the peasants feel a special sense of pride seeing themselves immortalized as saints. However, this artistic choice does not sit well with the newly established revolutionary authorities.

A Ukrainian female soldier and five male soldiers recount the horrors they witnessed and endured on the front line, and their difficult struggle to return to a normal life. The result is a poignant portrait of a generation forced to live with the psychological consequences of a war imposed upon them, and of a society that will continue to bear this burden for a long time to come.

Roya, an Iranian teacher imprisoned for her political beliefs, is faced with a choice: make a forced televised confession, or remain confined to her 3-square-meter cell.

Pegah Ahangarani traces her life through five portraits of relatives and mentors. Using personal archives, home videos, protests, and newspapers, she chronicles over 40 years of Iranian history from 1979 to 2026.

It is March 1978 in the suburbs of Nantes. Jacques is marrying Martine. For the two of them, it's a marriage of love. But can love heal the wounds of childhood?

01 Psychoville (2004) 2’

One day in the life of the Sykhiv district.

02 Sorry (2005) 3’

Music video on Vika Vradiy’s song.

03 There is hope (2005) 5’

At the concert of Mad Heads in the Park of Culture (Lviv) in June 2005.

04 At the Barvy club in Kyiv (2006) 4’

Unplanned concert of an unexisting band at the unfound club.

05 750 (2020) 8’

Celebrating 750th birthday of Lviv in 2006.

06 bodiless lovers (2008) 12’

Post-rock in stop-motion.

07 livemusic (2021) 6’

Drum’n’bass party in Kamianske in 2007.

08 signs (2020) 2’

A night ride on the Bohdanivska street in Lviv.

09 Autoportrait (2011) 5’

Portrait of an automobile accompanied by the song of Kyiv’s band 2sleepy “the fog”.

10 Transience (2007) 13’

Travelogue about passage of time.

11 Take me to the sea (2012) 3’

Music video for Lviv’s band Sparkle Dream.

12 Farewell (2011) 2’

Short film about two shirts in love.

1617, Las Islas Filipinas. The Spanish friar, Father Enciso, the encomendero of one of the islands, rules with unrelenting toughness and an insatiable libido to tame the savages.

A cinematic parable about old Levko Serdiuk, who lives in a postwar village and tends to the communal well. Yet, his dedication goes unappreciated. However, an unexpected visit from his family prompts him to symbolically rise from his coffin. Against the backdrop of this intimate drama, the village itself is transforming as modernity ruthlessly intrudes upon the traditional way of life, bringing electric poles, an iron windmill, and airplanes in the sky.

Snow falls from bright skies as a town prepares for Queen Lovisa's wedding to Amir the fool. The celebration is interrupted when the former tyrant's mother Amalia arrives with her soldiers.

Tiana and her family seek refuge in Mateo and Tomas’ village, but the polluton they are fleeing from will catch them up here, too. Along with their dog Nube, the three children embark on a perilous adventure to discover what is poisoning the rivers.

A 16 year-old girl in a small seaside town in Wales in 1999 becomes convinced her father was abducted by aliens. Alongside her skeptical best friend she enlists a local UFO expert to solve the mystery

Callie and Minnie’s relationship is suddenly upended at the start of the summer before their senior year of high school. Left rudderless without her charismatic best friend, Minnie starts to form a complicated friendship with Callie’s mother.

With a football at his feet and a heart that doesn’t fit the lines drawn for him, a boy watches the place, where he feels whole, beginning to slip away.

On a hot summer day, a girl ignored by her parents meets her favorite actress Billie King, leading her to self-discovery. A gentle story of finding your place and following your dreams.

Late 1970s Manila, under dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Aggrieved by the inescapable corruption around her, a police detective, Dahlia, secretly commits a heist.

Music documentary featuring 7 Ukrainian gothic bands filmed during the legendary festivals "Children of the Night" and "Nekropolis". Based on my own archival footage from 2005 that I rediscovered and edited in 2026, GOTHIC IS SERENITY aims to showcase a rarely seen alternative aspect of Ukrainian music expressed through dark and melancholic esthetics.

Hatixhe and Shaban, a couple in their 40s, live in a village in Kosovo with three daughters and share the household with Shaban’s two brothers and their mother. They make a living with their 12 cows. They get by reasonably well until one day the cows get stolen by their own brother and they are forced to move to Pristina, looking for work and a place to stay. A journey into a hypercapitalist society begins.

Mira is a solitary woman of few words. She travels the roads meeting desperate people with whom she seems to have forged strange death pacts. With no apparent destination, she meets Madeleine and Ludo, two free-spirited hedonists living deep in the forest. Taking a break from her missions and unsettled by a sudden encounter with an excessive and intriguing young man, she uses this stopover to question her wandering life and reassess her dark agreements.

The film shows nighttime interviews with 24 Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers, shot on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, revealing in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Despite not having had a theatrical release in Israel, the film caused political controversy there due to its accounts of the country's actions in Gaza.

After his teenage son Krzysztof goes missing in May 2023, Daniel Dyminski searches Poland’s Vistula River, torn between fear that his son is dead and hope that he is alive. CCTV shows Krzysztof standing on a bridge, but not whether he jumped, and Daniel keeps investigating long after the police stop searching.

As the First World War drags on, Pierre, a soldier newly arrived at the front, is eager to prove himself. Behind the lines, he meets Francis, who decides to lift the spirits of his comrades by putting together a theater show. While the violence continues, both men try to find ways to escape the brutality of war, even if only for a moment.

A young, racialized director struggles to make his debut film turn into a docu-satire with a political punch that takes you by surprise.

Sasha, a Ukrainian refugee living in Paris, travels home to commemorate the death of her grandmother.

Freed from a glacier after one hundred years, the ghost of filmmaker Lucien Castelnau drifts across a futuristic Patagonia, where technological progress collides with forgotten histories. Unable to find peace while his unfinished cinematic legacy remains unseen, he wanders through a world that has erased him, searching for a place in history—and for the audience that might finally bring his lost work back to life.

An armchair mystery in which the life of a reclusive academic collides with the story of a clandestine technology that can photograph the past.

Codependent twin musicians have one night to find three things: love, a song, and their father — a 99-year-old Beat Generation poet, the last of his kind.

Two centuries after the historic crossing of the Andes that led to South America’s liberation from Spanish colonization, a group of engineers and Andean muleteers embark on an expedition across the mountains to liberate a robot.

As a young filmmaker comes of age behind a camera, she turns it on her own community and unearths stories of sexual assault experienced by her mother, her peers, and eventually herself. Along the way, she meets survivors, perpetrators, and experts. Together, they explore the gray areas of sex, power, and consent, seeking to break cycles of harm and uncover radical possibilities for healing.

WAR HAS NO CHILDREN is a documentary composed of four stories exploring what it means to be a child during war. In this environment war becomes part of everyday life, and childhood becomes fragile and vulnerable.

Eat cauliflower with mayonnaise. Sort through papers. Take care of the chickens. Feed the metastases. Learn poems. Drink beer. Prepare his family. Although doctors gave him three years to live, Yann Patou lived with cancer for 18 years. As death approaches, Yann tries to keep smiling and constantly reminds me that we must “hurry up and live”.

A son returns to face the silence of his father—once a mujahideen fighter, later a spiritual leader and poet—and through their fragile journey of reconnection, discovers that even the hardest hearts can hide the deepest longing for love.

A filmmaker in crisis sets out to find the last lighthouse keepers. What begins as a journey across the land becomes a journey within, where the act of filming merges with their fading stories – an ode to a disappearing way of life.

Without anyone knowing, Markku has been creating art for the last 34 years in his house. In the director's childhood, they lived wall to wall and were close, but then Markku moved away, disappearing from her life.

Every day, pilgrims, wanderers and seekers arrive in a Sufi town carrying grief, hope and longing. Drawn together by music and devotion, they surrender themselves to a shared state of trance.

Follows Adelina, a young trans woman who flees to Vienna after 11 years of confinement in a Georgian village. As she builds a new life, a past that refuses to release her continues to shape her sense of belonging.

Jak, a young Haitian migrant, must reach the U.S. border with his father, but his mother’s disappearance forces him to choose between continuing or confronting the past.

At a reception held in honor of his late wife, André, an elderly man whose memory is failing, tries to reconnect with his past and those around him.

After Giovanna's death, Ivan clings to her gestures, objects, and rituals. What begins as a tribute gradually turns into an obsession, until it blurs the boundaries between identity, love and memory.

A young Polish man, Osa, lives in the slums of Mumbai, where he falls in love with Sapna, a teenage dancer from a poor family. When Sapna's father tries to sell her to a brothel, the couple is forced on a desperate run across India.

Forced to track down his runaway, dialysis dependent grandfather, a struggling art student is pulled into an absurd road trip to catch a legendary fish journey that brings him face to face with the old man’s fading past, and his own stalled life.

Set in a divided British seaside town, ten-year-old Ruby forms an unlikely friendship with Hasset, an asylum seeker living in a local hotel, as one summer of freedom collides with the threat of rising anti-migrant protests.

Ten-year-old Great Demon is a whirlwind of mischief and imagination, leaving chaos and laughter in his wake. But beneath his wild antics lies a quiet loneliness. One ordinary day, a strange new friend named Ke appears out of nowhere, turning Great Demon’s world upside down.

One summer, a twelve-year-old girl works at her grandma’s bistro, full of strange adults.

Joakim, a young, compassionate caregiver working in a dementia ward, navigates the emotional toll of his work as he learns to accept the limits of his ability to help.

Ira Melnichenko, a young Ukrainian refugee in Switzerland with her brother, creates a doll in her own image, through which she revisits the story of a family torn apart by the death of her father, a 2D animator in Kyiv, destroyed by alcohol and dereliction.

An abandoned factory site. Twelve-year-old Hannes pushes his little brother Oli into increasingly dangerous tests of courage with a bow and arrow. When he puts them both in a life-threatening situation, his power begins to crumble.

When German-Indonesian Yanto visits his younger sister in Yogyakarta, he expects a simple reunion – until he realizes she belongs more effortlessly than he ever has. As envy and dissonance between siblings surface, Yanto’s journey becomes a bittersweet exploration of mixed-race identity.

In a small village in the Ukrainian countryside, Nina, a grandmother deeply attached to her land, welcomes her granddaughter Yana for what appears to be a simple holiday. In reality, she is trying to hide the war that is ravaging the country from her granddaughter by creating an imaginary world where everything is fine.

Fifteen-year-old Cas poses for his school’s trainee teacher and amateur photographer Jard. When he becomes painfully aware of the power imbalance between them, he seeks to reverse their dynamic.