THE FALLING HOUSE
Facing imminent eviction on the outskirts of Tehran, a prison guard struggles with corruption charges and discovers his eldest daughter plans to leave the country for a modelling career. His attempts to stop her lead to deep family conflict. Directed by Mohsen Gharaei, the film is crafted with a tight script and sharp editing. As […]
3 WEEKS AFTER
Three weeks after a teenager takes his own life, his classmates leave Serbia for a school trip to Bulgaria—as if life could simply go on. But when their bus breaks down and they are stranded in an isolated mountain hotel, the silence surrounding his death begins to crack. Who bullied him? Who watched? Who looked […]
DUA
Set in late-1990s Prishtina during the escalating ethnic tensions of a “war before the war,” thirteen-year-old Dua navigates puberty, community upheaval, and a parallel underground education system. After an incident shakes her community and she becomes a target of rising violence, Dua bonds with a fearless girl named Maki, discovering unexpected resistance as the threat […]
OASIS
When a viral video of a student threatening classmates sparks escalating violence, three crushed outcasts take refuge in a nearby forest. Inspired by the 2009 Winnenden school shooting near the director’s own school, this raw debut feature explores the deep fears of youth left out in the cold. In the woods, play hardens into ritual […]
A BIT OF LIGHT
Following the closure of his clinic for treating wounded protestors, Arash decides to end his life and sets out to say goodbye. At first, the premise of a doctor choosing this path, yet visiting his family beforehand to announce his intention, feels entirely counterintuitive. One naturally asks how any family could simply allow such a […]
THE GUEST
A joyful family celebration begins to unravel the moment Karl’s estranged mother, Vibeke, arrives uninvited. At a luxury seaside hotel, Karl and his wife Emilie are preparing to celebrate their baby son when Vibeke’s sudden reappearance reopens years of anger, guilt and resentment. As the weekend unfolds, old family roles snap back into place and […]
A WAR ON WOMEN
A War on Women tells fifty years of female resistance through private footage, testimonies, and clandestinely filmed images in Iran.Four generations of women have challenged the regime of the Ayatollahs and the control imposed over their bodies and lives, transforming oppression into a movement capable of enduring revolution, repression, and exile.Activists, mothers, actresses, prisoners, and […]
PAISAN
THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN KABONGA
Ashraf “Kabonga” is the founder of Egypt’s first wrestling entertainment team and the driving force behind a dream that most people considered impossible. For more than a decade, he has transformed a modest town on the outskirts of Ismailia into an unlikely stage for homemade wrestling spectacles, where children cheer, families gather, and ordinary life […]
ALL ABOUT CORINNE
Corinne Maclou (Isabelle Huppert) is a background actor. She dreams of one day being more than an extra and stays confident her breakthrough is right around the corner.When she meets famous actress Sandrine Kiberlain, whom she befriends, Corinne hopes to achieve her goal. But will she be welcomed into the respectable family of French cinema?