International Competition Program

Student Films

The boldest work by film-school students from around the world — first steps by directors who will shape the language of cinema tomorrow.

International Competition Program

Short Films

Short films by emerging professional directors: concise, precise and surprising stories that fit a whole world into a few minutes.

International Competition Program

Full-length Films

Debut feature films — the heart of the Molodist competition: new names in world cinema, discovered first in Kyiv.

National Competition Program

Short Film Competition

The year's best Ukrainian short films — a fresh perspective from a new generation of Ukrainian filmmakers.

Alternative Competition

Documentary Competition

Documentary cinema that explores reality unvarnished: personal stories, urgent themes and new forms of storytelling.

Alternative Competition

Teen Screen

Films about and for teenagers — on growing up, friendship, first love and finding yourself.

Non-Competition Program

Ukrainian Premieres

New Ukrainian films that audiences will see on the big screen for the first time at Molodist.

Non-Competition Program

Festival of Festivals

The year's key films from the world's leading film festivals — on the big screen in Kyiv.

Non-Competition Program

Midnight Special

Genre, strange and provocative cinema for those who aren't afraid of late-night screenings.

Non-Competition Program

FORMA

Experimental cinema that tests the limits of form, sound and image.

Non-Competition Program

Scandinavian Panorama

A selection of contemporary Nordic cinema — restrained, profound and visually refined stories.

Retrospectives & In Memoriam

Century

A retrospective marking the centenaries of great filmmakers — classics worth seeing on the big screen.

Special Events & Satellite Projects

Special Events

Special screenings, filmmaker encounters and the festival's satellite projects — features and shorts.

Ceremonies

Opening Film

The film that opens the 55th edition of Molodist.

Ceremonies

Closing Film

The film that closes the festival after the awards ceremony.

Programme

UA short films competition

Programme films

Homecoming

Homecoming

Roman Khimei, Yarema Malashchuk

Ukraine
2026
19’

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.

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Glass Castles

Glass Castles

Herman Serzhanov

Ukraine
2025
22’

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.

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High Frequency

High Frequency

Andrii Kokura

Ukraine, France, Japan
2026
10’

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.

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Fig

Fig

Novruz Hikmet

Azerbaijan, Ukraine
2026
16’

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.

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Where is the Ukrainians’ house?

Where is the Ukrainians’ house?

Daria Holosko

Ukraine, Georgia
2025
10’

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.

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In her arms

In her arms

Roman Volosevych

Ukraine
2026
20’

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.

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Come Back

Come Back

Anton Proza

Ukraine
2026
9’

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.

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Easter Day

Easter Day

Mykola Zasieiev

Ukraine, France
2025
17’

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.

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Don't be naughty

Don't be naughty

Artem Kuznetsov

Ukraine
2026
5’

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.

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A Day in the Life of Tatarin

A Day in the Life of Tatarin

Artem Iurchenko

Ukraine
2026
17’

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.

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Swear to Me

Swear to Me

Khrystyna Braslavska

Ukraine
2026
15’

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.

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On a Stringer

On a Stringer

Oleksandr Roshchyn

Ukraine
2026
14’

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.

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Before Dawn

Before Dawn

Julia Galeta

Ukraine, USA
2026
11’

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.

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Graduation 2026

Graduation 2026

Sofiia Fedoryshyna, Eva Emelianova

Ukraine
2026
21’

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

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Giant

Giant

Vadim Mochalov

Ukraine
2026
17’

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.

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I Do Not See When Shooting

I Do Not See When Shooting

Anastasiia Stetsenko

Ukraine
2026
16’

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.

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HOME TV

HOME TV

Sophia Gera

Ukraine
2025
27’

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.

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On the shield

On the shield

Oksana Artemenko

Ukraine
2026
24’

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.

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The Foreboding

The Foreboding

Oleksandra Pletenetska

Ukraine
2025
7’

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?”

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Patronymic

Patronymic

Mariia Ponomarova

Netherlands, Ukraine
2026
22’

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

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Inside

Inside

Dariia Lukasheva

Ukraine
2026
21’

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.

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vortex

vortex

Henyk Zaiats, Volodymyr Prylutskyi

Ukraine
2026
7’

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

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your_tomorrow_will_never_come.mp4

your_tomorrow_will_never_come.mp4

Artemii Zharii

Ukraine
2026
19’

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.

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ST 1

Block 1

Block films

Bitter Kiss

Bitter Kiss

Hasan Ege Çalışkan

Netherlands, Türkiye
January 1, 2026
28'

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

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"Vaterland" Or A Bule Named Yanto

"Vaterland" Or A Bule Named Yanto

Berthold Wahjudi

Germany, Indonesia
January 1, 2026
25’

When German-Indonesian Yanto visits his younger sister in Yogyakarta, he expects a simple reunion – until he realises 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.

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Restricted Area

Restricted Area

Jan Górecki

Poland
January 1, 2026
16'

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.

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The Flowers of Malva

The Flowers of Malva

Anna Lys, Rémy Berlemont, Alice Hamel, Chen-Yun Hu, Ludivine Lebourg, Estelle Martin, Agathe Ribout

France
January 1, 2025
7’

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.

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Shutterspeed

Shutterspeed

Jasper De Maeseneer

Belgium
January 1, 2025
25’

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.

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ST 2

Block 2

Block films

The Bright Hours

The Bright Hours

Yeh Chia-chen

Taiwan
January 1, 2026
20'

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.

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Reminiscence

Reminiscence

Iryna Melnychenko

Switzerland
January 1, 2025
25'

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.

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White-Knuckle Summer

White-Knuckle Summer

Jason Hogan

UK
January 1, 2026
20'

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.

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The Bistro

The Bistro

Skaistė Bartkutė

Lithuania
January 1, 2026
12'

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

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Rabbit Heart

Rabbit Heart

Stella Fachinger

Germany
January 1, 2026
13’

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.

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Sundown

Sundown

Jérémie Jayraj Itty, Inna Soroka, Julia Estrada Torres, Sammi Khuu

Switzerland
January 1, 2026
7'

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.

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ST 3

Block 3

Block films

Kamathipura Express

Kamathipura Express

Leon Korzynski

Poland
2026
30’

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.

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Un verre de souvenir

Un verre de souvenir

Louis Marguerite

France
2025
13'

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

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La Forma Cannibale

La Forma Cannibale

Ginevra Solaroli

Italy
2025
16’

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.

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Meat

Meat

Adolfo Margulis

Mexico
2026
17'

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.

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C'est La Vie

C'est La Vie

Zheng Zihan

China
2026
30'

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.

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SH 1

Block 1

Block films

The Man Without Qualities

The Man Without Qualities

Sofia Romano

Belgium
January 1, 2026
22'

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.

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The Cut

The Cut

Julia Staniszewska

Poland
January 1, 2025
14’

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.

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Diego

Diego

Mélissa Silveira

France
January 1, 2025
25'

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.

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Thunder

Thunder

Mauricio Carrasco Tolosa

France
January 1, 2026
24'

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

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Auntie Lica The Hunchback

Auntie Lica The Hunchback

Paul-Razvan Macovei

Romania
January 1, 2025
15’

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.

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SH 2

Block 2

Block films

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day

Anton Iffland Stettner

Belgium
January 1, 2026
20’

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

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Silence

Silence

Pavlo Shpegun

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
15’

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.

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The Buzz

The Buzz

Kate Del Castillo

Mexico
January 1, 2026
13'

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.

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Gallina

Gallina

Fernando Reinaldos

Spain
January 1, 2025
16’

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.

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Procedure

Procedure

Rabia Özmen

Türkiye
January 1, 2025
18'

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.

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Sand

Sand

Shahaf Sinai, Eyal Roe

Israel, Ukraine, USA
January 1, 2026
20’

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.

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SH 3

Block 3

Block films

Another Day In The Metal Box

Another Day In The Metal Box

Gleb Feldman

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
19'

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.

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Aasmani

Aasmani

Sayani Gupta

India
January 1, 2026
30’

In Hindi, Aasmani means that shade of light blue which is the colour 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.

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Breadsong

Breadsong

Katariina Aule

Estonia
January 1, 2025
16'

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.

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Mourners

Mourners

Rebeca Arnal

Spain
January 1, 2025
7'

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

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Welcome to Tool Shed

Welcome to Tool Shed

Andrew Klaus-Vineyard, Daniel Talbott

USA
January 1, 2026
22'

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.

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Conception Game

Conception Game

Natalie Arle-Toyne

UK
January 1, 2025
8’

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.

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UA 1

Block 1

Block films

Homecoming

Homecoming

Roman Khimei, Yarema Malashchuk

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
19’

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.

About the film →
Glass Castles

Glass Castles

Herman Serzhanov

Ukraine
January 1, 2025
22’

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.

About the film →
High Frequency

High Frequency

Andrii Kokura

Ukraine, France, Japan
January 1, 2026
10’

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.

About the film →
Fig

Fig

Novruz Hikmet

Azerbaijan, Ukraine
January 1, 2026
16’

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.

About the film →
Where is the Ukrainians’ house?

Where is the Ukrainians’ house?

Daria Holosko

Ukraine, Georgia
January 1, 2025
10’

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.

About the film →
In her arms

In her arms

Roman Volosevych

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
20’

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.

About the film →
UA 2

Block 2

Block films

Come Back

Come Back

Anton Proza

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
9’

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.

About the film →
Easter Day

Easter Day

Mykola Zasieiev

Ukraine, France
January 1, 2025
17’

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.

About the film →
Don't be naughty

Don't be naughty

Artem Kuznetsov

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
5’

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.

About the film →
A Day in the Life of Tatarin

A Day in the Life of Tatarin

Artem Iurchenko

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
17’

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.

About the film →
Swear to Me

Swear to Me

Khrystyna Braslavska

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
15’

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.

About the film →
On a Stringer

On a Stringer

Oleksandr Roshchyn

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
14’

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.

About the film →
UA 3

Block 3

Block films

Before Dawn

Before Dawn

Julia Galeta

Ukraine, USA
January 1, 2026
11’

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.

About the film →
Graduation 2026

Graduation 2026

Sofiia Fedoryshyna, Eva Emelianova

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
21’

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

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Giant

Giant

Vadim Mochalov

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
17’

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.

About the film →
I Do Not See When Shooting

I Do Not See When Shooting

Anastasiia Stetsenko

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
16’

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.

About the film →
HOME TV

HOME TV

Sophia Gera

Ukraine
January 1, 2025
27’

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.

About the film →
UA 4

Block 4

Block films

On the shield

On the shield

Oksana Artemenko

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
24’

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.

About the film →
The Foreboding

The Foreboding

Oleksandra Pletenetska

Ukraine
January 1, 2025
7’

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?”

About the film →
Patronymic

Patronymic

Mariia Ponomarova

Netherlands, Ukraine
January 1, 2026
22’

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

About the film →
Inside

Inside

Dariia Lukasheva

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
21’

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.

About the film →
vortex

vortex

Henyk Zaiats, Volodymyr Prylutskyi

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
7’

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

About the film →
your_tomorrow_will_never_come.mp4

your_tomorrow_will_never_come.mp4

Artemii Zharii

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
19’

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.

About the film →

SE

Debut Association

Block films

Patronymic

Patronymic

Mariia Ponomarova

Netherlands, Ukraine
January 1, 2026
22’

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

About the film →
your_tomorrow_will_never_come.mp4

your_tomorrow_will_never_come.mp4

Artemii Zharii

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
19’

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.

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vortex

vortex

Henyk Zaiats, Volodymyr Prylutskyi

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
7’

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

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The Foreboding

The Foreboding

Oleksandra Pletenetska

Ukraine
January 1, 2025
7’

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?”

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On the shield

On the shield

Oksana Artemenko

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
24’

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.

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Inside

Inside

Dariia Lukasheva

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
21’

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.

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I Do Not See When Shooting

I Do Not See When Shooting

Anastasiia Stetsenko

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
16’

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.

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HOME TV

HOME TV

Sophia Gera

Ukraine
January 1, 2025
27’

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.

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Graduation 2026

Graduation 2026

Sofiia Fedoryshyna, Eva Emelianova

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
21’

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

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Giant

Giant

Vadim Mochalov

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
17’

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.

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Before Dawn

Before Dawn

Julia Galeta

Ukraine, USA
January 1, 2026
11’

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.

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Swear to Me

Swear to Me

Khrystyna Braslavska

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
15’

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.

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On a Stringer

On a Stringer

Oleksandr Roshchyn

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
14’

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.

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Easter Day

Easter Day

Mykola Zasieiev

Ukraine, France
January 1, 2025
17’

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.

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Don't be naughty

Don't be naughty

Artem Kuznetsov

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
5’

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.

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Come Back

Come Back

Anton Proza

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
9’

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.

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A Day in the Life of Tatarin

A Day in the Life of Tatarin

Artem Iurchenko

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
17’

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.

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Where is the Ukrainians’ house?

Where is the Ukrainians’ house?

Daria Holosko

Ukraine, Georgia
January 1, 2025
10’

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.

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In her arms

In her arms

Roman Volosevych

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
20’

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.

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Homecoming

Homecoming

Roman Khimei, Yarema Malashchuk

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
19’

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.

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High Frequency

High Frequency

Andrii Kokura

Ukraine, France, Japan
January 1, 2026
10’

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.

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Glass Castles

Glass Castles

Herman Serzhanov

Ukraine
January 1, 2025
22’

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.

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Fig

Fig

Novruz Hikmet

Azerbaijan, Ukraine
January 1, 2026
16’

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.

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Кордон на замку

Кордон на замку

Serhii Lysenko

Ukraine (USSR)
January 1, 1988
41’

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.

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A faded sakura in my garden, you walk past me again

A faded sakura in my garden, you walk past me again

Oleh Chornyi

Ukraine
January 1, 1993
31’

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.

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The Death of the Gods

The Death of the Gods

Andriy Donchyk

Ukraine (USSR)
January 1, 1988
29’

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.

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Seven Circles of Hell

Seven Circles of Hell

Andrzej Klamt, Frank Amann

Germany
January 1, 2026
94’

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.

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Roya

Roya

Mahnaz Mohammadi

Germany, Luxembourg, Czechia, Iran
January 1, 2026
93’

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-metre cell.

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Rehearsals for a Revolution

Rehearsals for a Revolution

Pegah Ahangarani

Czechia, Spain, Iran
January 1, 2026
101’

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.

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Orange Flavored Wedding

Orange Flavored Wedding

Christophe Honore

France
January 1, 2026
115’

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?

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MUSIC WITH IMAGES or FILMS WITHOUT WORDS

MUSIC WITH IMAGES or FILMS WITHOUT WORDS

Natalia Ilchuk

Ukraine
January 1, 2004
85’

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.

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Let us through, dear ancestors

Let us through, dear ancestors

Lav Diaz

Philippines
January 1, 2026
151’

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.

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A Well for the Thirsty

A Well for the Thirsty

Yurii Illienko

Ukraine (USSR)
January 1, 1987
73’

A cinematic parable about old Levko Serdiuk, who lives in a post-war 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.

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The Crown Prince And The Return Of The Tyrant

The Crown Prince And The Return Of The Tyrant

Tord Danielsson

Sweden
January 1, 2025
87'

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.

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The Newcomers

The Newcomers

Rodrigo Plá

Mexico, Spain
January 1, 2026
80'

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.

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Out there

Out there

Simon Ryninks

United Kingdom
January 1, 2026
90'

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

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Mouse

Mouse

Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson

USA
January 1, 2026
120'

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.

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Feito Pipa

Feito Pipa

Allan Deberton

Brazil
January 1, 2026
93'

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.

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Everyone's Sorry Nowadays

Everyone's Sorry Nowadays

Frederike Migom

Belgium, Netherlands, Germany
January 1, 2026
87'

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.

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Moonglow

Moonglow

Isabel Sandoval

Philippines, Taiwan, Japan
January 1, 2026
108’

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

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Gothic Is Serenity

Gothic Is Serenity

Natalia Ilchuk

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
50’

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.

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Shame and Money

Shame and Money

Visar Morina

Germany, Kosovo, Slovenia, Albania, North Macedonia, Belgium
January 1, 2026
130’

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.

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Nobody’s Violence

Nobody’s Violence

Denis Côté

Canada
January 1, 2026
118’

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.

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NAZA

NAZA

Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor

USA, United Kingdom
January 1, 2026
77’

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.

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CLOSURE

CLOSURE

Michał Marczak

Poland, France
January 1, 2026
105’

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.

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Coward

Coward

Lukas Dhont

Belgium, France, Neatherlands
January 1, 2026
120’

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 theatre show. While the violence continues, both men try to find ways to escape the brutality of war, even if only for a moment.

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This is Not a French Film

This is Not a French Film

Tom Adjibi

Belgium, France
January 1, 2026
80’

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

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Leleka

Leleka

Harald Hutter

Canada, France, Spain, Ukraine, USA
January 1, 2025
91’

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

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Erratics

Erratics

Thomas Woodroffe

Chile, France, Argentina
January 1, 2026
92’

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.

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Chronovisor

Chronovisor

Jack Auen, Kevin Walker

USA
January 1, 2026
99’

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

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Brother Verses Brother

Brother Verses Brother

Ari Gold

USA
January 1, 2025
91’

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.

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Yastay

Yastay

Paula Gaetano Adi

Argentina
January 1, 2026
69’

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.

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Watch You Rise

Watch You Rise

Isabella Grace Cohn

USA
January 1, 2026
84’

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.

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War Has No Children

War Has No Children

Dmytro Todoriuk

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
97’

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.

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The End Date

The End Date

Noé Reutenauer

Belgium
January 1, 2025
70’

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”.

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Paikar

Paikar

Dawood Hilmandi

Netherlands, Afghanistan
January 1, 2025
97’

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.

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Even If We Are Islands

Even If We Are Islands

Cristina Rodríguez Paz

Spain
January 1, 2025
79’

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.

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Days of Wonder

Days of Wonder

Karin Pennanen

Finland, Denmark, Norway
January 1, 2025
87’

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.

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As Light as Air

As Light as Air

Umair Bilal

Pakistan
January 1, 2026
65’

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.

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A Song Without Home

A Song Without Home

Rati Tsiteladze

Austria, Denmark, Georgia, USA
January 1, 2026
75’

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.

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Meat

Meat

Adolfo Margulis

Mexico
January 1, 2026
17'

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.

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Un verre de souvenir

Un verre de souvenir

Louis Marguerite

France
January 1, 2025
13'

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

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La Forma Cannibale

La Forma Cannibale

Ginevra Solaroli

Italy
January 1, 2025
16’

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.

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Kamathipura Express

Kamathipura Express

Leon Korzynski

Poland
January 1, 2026
30’

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.

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C'est La Vie

C'est La Vie

Zheng Zihan

China
January 1, 2026
30'

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.

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White-Knuckle Summer

White-Knuckle Summer

Jason Hogan

UK
January 1, 2026
20'

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.

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The Bright Hours

The Bright Hours

Yeh Chia-chen

Taiwan
January 1, 2026
20'

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.

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The Bistro

The Bistro

Skaistė Bartkutė

Lithuania
January 1, 2026
12'

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

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Sundown

Sundown

Jérémie Jayraj Itty, Inna Soroka, Julia Estrada Torres, Sammi Khuu

Switzerland
January 1, 2026
7'

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.

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Reminiscence

Reminiscence

Iryna Melnychenko

Switzerland
January 1, 2025
25'

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.

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Rabbit Heart

Rabbit Heart

Stella Fachinger

Germany
January 1, 2026
13’

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.

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"Vaterland" Or A Bule Named Yanto

"Vaterland" Or A Bule Named Yanto

Berthold Wahjudi

Germany, Indonesia
January 1, 2026
25’

When German-Indonesian Yanto visits his younger sister in Yogyakarta, he expects a simple reunion – until he realises 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.

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The Flowers of Malva

The Flowers of Malva

Anna Lys, Rémy Berlemont, Alice Hamel, Chen-Yun Hu, Ludivine Lebourg, Estelle Martin, Agathe Ribout

France
January 1, 2025
7’

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.

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Shutterspeed

Shutterspeed

Jasper De Maeseneer

Belgium
January 1, 2025
25’

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.

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Restricted Area

Restricted Area

Jan Górecki

Poland
January 1, 2026
16'

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.

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Bitter Kiss

Bitter Kiss

Hasan Ege Çalışkan

Netherlands, Türkiye
January 1, 2026
28'

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

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Welcome to Tool Shed

Welcome to Tool Shed

Andrew Klaus-Vineyard, Daniel Talbott

USA
January 1, 2026
22'

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.

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Mourners

Mourners

Rebeca Arnal

Spain
January 1, 2025
7'

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

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Conception Game

Conception Game

Natalie Arle-Toyne

UK
January 1, 2025
8’

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.

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Breadsong

Breadsong

Katariina Aule

Estonia
January 1, 2025
16'

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.

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Another Day In The Metal Box

Another Day In The Metal Box

Gleb Feldman

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
19'

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.

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Aasmani

Aasmani

Sayani Gupta

India
January 1, 2026
30’

In Hindi, Aasmani means that shade of light blue which is the colour 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.

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Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day

Anton Iffland Stettner

Belgium
January 1, 2026
20’

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

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The Buzz

The Buzz

Kate Del Castillo

Mexico
January 1, 2026
13'

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.

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Silence

Silence

Pavlo Shpegun

Ukraine
January 1, 2026
15’

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.

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Sand

Sand

Shahaf Sinai, Eyal Roe

Israel, Ukraine, USA
January 1, 2026
20’

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.

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Procedure

Procedure

Rabia Özmen

Türkiye
January 1, 2025
18'

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.

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Gallina

Gallina

Fernando Reinaldos

Spain
January 1, 2025
16’

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.

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Thunder

Thunder

Mauricio Carrasco Tolosa

France
January 1, 2026
24'

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

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The Man Without Qualities

The Man Without Qualities

Sofia Romano

Belgium
January 1, 2026
22'

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.

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The Cut

The Cut

Julia Staniszewska

Poland
January 1, 2025
14’

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.

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Diego

Diego

Mélissa Silveira

France
January 1, 2025
25'

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.

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Auntie Lica The Hunchback

Auntie Lica The Hunchback

Paul-Razvan Macovei

Romania
January 1, 2025
15’

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.

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Where To

Where To

Assaf Machnes

Israel, Germany
January 1, 2026
95’

A Palestinian Uber driver and a lost young Israeli cross paths during multiple taxi rides through Berlin, leading to unexpected moments that blend humor and heartache as their journeys unfold.

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Trial of Hein

Trial of Hein

Kai Stänicke

Germany, Switzerland
January 1, 2026
122’

After 14 years, Hein returns to his island village, but the community doesn't recognize him and demands a trial to prove his identity.

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Our Father

Our Father

Goran Stankovic

Serbia, Italy, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina
January 1, 2025
89’

Dejan, a drug addict, is undergoing rehabilitation at a monastery. Gradually, he becomes the right-hand man of the priest who runs the commune. When the priest takes his methods too far, Dejan has to choose between protecting the system and the truth.

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Lemonade

Lemonade

Kim Bartley

UK, Ireland
January 1, 2026
111’

Teenage Danny makes a life-altering mistake, then reunites with Josh, a social worker whose past errors once separated them. Josh mentors Danny through first love and loss, teaching him that true family are those who believe in you.

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Flesh & Fuel

Flesh & Fuel

Pierre le Gall

France, Poland
January 1, 2026
90’

A lonely French trucker's routine life on the road takes an unexpected turn when he encounters a Polish driver. As feelings develop, he struggles to balance his demanding job with a chance at love, determined to make their connection work.

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Filipiñana

Filipiñana

Rafael Manuel

Philippines, Singapore, United Kingdom, Netherlands, France
January 1, 2026
100'

While working at an elite country club outside Manila, a 17-year-old Ilocana worker uncovers the violent truths of her workplace, her country, and her own past after attempting to return a lost golf club to the club’s president.

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Camouflage

Camouflage

Mykyta Gibalenko

Germany, Ukraine
January 1, 2026
102’

22-year-old Vitalik dreams of starting a new life in Germany, leaving his mother Tetiana and sister Zhenya behind in Ukraine. When Russia launches its full-scale invasion, everything changes: Vitalik’s family is forced to flee and join him in Germany. Along with them come old conflicts and unresolved emotions—things no distance from the war can ever erase.

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