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In a Lisbon techno club, Abdul, an immigrant worker on his very first shift, is on a video call with his wife Aliyah, who is going into labor and urging him to be present, while his new boss Maria desperately calls for his help. Caught between work’s demands and his son’s birth, Abdul grapples with the fear of losing his job and the challenge of becoming a father from afar, and fights with his strict father-in-law for his right to perform the sacred tradition of reciting the Adhan for his newborn son. The film Prayer, which explores the intersection of tradition, fatherhood, and the struggles of undocumented immigrant labor, is based on the autobiographical story of its screenwriter, Deo Mahameru. The project was created as a student film within the KinoEyes Joint European Film Masters at Lusofona University in Lisbon.

Haruhiko Nakayama is vice principal at a Japanese school, where he takes care of everything and dreams of finally becoming principal. But after a teacher no longer turns up for lessons, Nakayama has to teach a primary school class again after more than 20 years. He encounters such great challenges that he soon begins to doubt his profession.

Inspired by true events and set in the heart of Ireland's 1990s rave movement, two young men find themselves forever changed by one electrifying, life-altering rave. As the pulsating beats and euphoric energy consume them, they embark on a journey of self-discovery, friendship, and rebellion, seeking to redefine themselves within the underground cultural revolution of house music, where freedom, identity, and the power of sound collide.

Lorenzo runs away from Seville rejecting emotionally detached and traditional dynamics. After a year studying in Salamanca he returns looking for the love he left behind.

Floyd decides to visit the man who murdered his daughter a week before he's sent to the chair.

Piero and Elisabetta loved each other very much, despite the opposition of her parents, and had three children with whom they formed a seemingly indissoluble unit. But when the eldest, Flavio, loses his life in an accident, the family falls apart: Elisabetta and Piero glare at each other and exchange ferocious jokes, unable to overcome that tragic event and not blame each other. It is the two remaining children, Dennis and Sara, who convince them to celebrate Christmas together in Cortina d'Ampezzo, the town where their maternal grandparents own a luxurious chalet. The two children have a plan, which will however be abruptly interrupted by an unexpected event. All the family dynamics will be called into question, and will keep everyone in suspense for a long night of waiting and reflections on the past.

A young woman in pre-revolution Iran is caught between the traditional values of her small village and her own yearnings for independence and individuality. Her persistent refusal of marriage proposals coupled with her unseemly removal of her hood causes her family to seek the help of an exorcist, convinced she must be possessed by evil spirits. Made surreptitiously in 1977 just as the Ayatollah Khomeini regime was coming to power, a rough cut of ‘The Sealed Soil” was smuggled out of Iran by the director in a false-bottomed suitcase, and taken to the U.S., where she completed her final cut. The film has never been seen in Iran.

Joe, a young writer, embarks on writing his second book after the runaway success of his first. But Joe is quickly overwhelmed by the remarks of those close to him, remarks that will eventually obsess him until he can no longer turn back...

After nearly thirty years apart, three friends reunite at a funeral to reflect on life's trivialities and the inevitability of death.

A raw short drama about a couple forced to stay one more night together after a bitter breakup. This film was completely improvised.

Two sisters come to their "shelter" for the summer. Here, at their grandmother's house, each of them is hiding from an important decision. One is hesitant about moving to Australia, while the other is trying to figure out her relationship. The old house, the overgrown apple garden, the warm evenings by the fire — everything seems frozen in time... But summer can't last forever.

A twelve-year-old boy hands over his older brother to local hooligans. Struggling with guilt over his betrayal, he tries to make amends.

After laughter, flirting, and dancing at the bar, Finna accepts Carlos' invitation—a friend of her younger brother's—to go to his house. She falls asleep right away and would never have expected that the person she spent the night with would rape her the next morning.

Miquel moves to a town in the Spanish countryside. He is there to work in an industrial mill, ran by siblings María and Ángel. María, who dislikes her work and the neighbours she has to do business with, finds in Miquel a person similar to her.

Sylvester, a young man in his 20s, faces a challenge from friends that forces him to confront his fears and insecurities. Along the way, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery, learning to embrace his individuality, find peace in solitude, and appreciate the value of self-love and genuine connections.

At an indoor playground, 19-year old Anja has been hired to play a princess at a birthday party of a celebrity’s daughter. But when Anja shows more interest in the famous father than in the children, the situation soon becomes uncomfortable.

Ambar is a young mother who is forced to work in a sand mine after her husband mysteriously vanishes. But what she faces is not just the harshness of life, but also the intangible horrors that evoke old wounds and trauma.

Two brothers rob a truck full of smartphones in a desperate attempt to escape their lives.

Thibaut, 40, raises his 7-year-old son, Gabriel, whom he adopted in Africa, alone. Faced with the crisis his son is going through, he decides to return with him to Senegal in search of the biological mother, Yawa, whom he once knew.

In a society where witches are hated, Yeongeun has been living in hiding from the outside world with her daughter Roo, who is actually a plant-like monster born from her mother’s creation. Sadly, she decides to undo her daughter’s curse, but Roo ultimately decides to fulfill her true destiny. They go on a personal and emotional journey in which they’ll find a new land, where Roo will take root as a tree.

A teenage girl and her older sister fight over their late mother's camera, and who has the right to remember her.

After the disappearance of all the people at a Halloween party, Olivia will try to find out the whereabouts of her ex-boyfriend, Oliver, to mend her relationship with him. Along the way she will meet Alex, a man dressed as Frankenstein, and a ghost who will stalk her in her most vulnerable moments.

In a dystopian society, Mariam, like all citizens, receives a government call precisely 24 hours before her predetermined death informing her of her final day.

Zhao Dachun is a well-known local "psychic" in the Northeast. In order to popularize fortune telling, he engages in metaphysics on the surface, but privately joins forces with his younger brother Biao to help fortune tellers truly solve practical problems, leading to many amusing situations. Later, he becomes obsessed with money and gets involved in the feudal magic scam. When he comes to his senses, he exposes the criminals’ conspiracy.

Barni, the debut feature by Mohammed Sheikh, tells the poignant story of a nine-year-old girl who disappears after a wedding celebration in a quaint Somali village. Her 18-year-old sister, Amina, along with friends Hirsi and Geedi, embark on a courageous journey to the city to find her. The film explores the strength of family bonds, solidarity in adversity and the resilience of children in challenging social contexts. Through authentic storytelling, natural performances and a strong visual style, the film aims to immerse audiences in a world not often seen on screen. Barni looks at daily life and the struggles faced by Somali communities. Its power lies in transforming a tragic disappearance into a celebration of courage, loyalty and humanity.

Every year, on the anniversary of their parents’ death, Cynthia, Bryce, and Miles gather at the family summer home to reminisce and have brunch at their parents’ favorite restaurant. But the siblings have never fully gotten along, and to make matters worse, Cynthia is in a financial rut this year. When she proposes to sell the summer house, Bryce pushes back with full force. The two turn to Miles for the deciding vote, but Miles doesn’t care all that much about the house: he is hung up on the fact that his longtime girlfriend, Gabby, recently left Thus, the weekend unfolds with the siblings’ relationships unravelling into dramatic, conflicted fever dreams of self-identity, broken bonds, and repressed love.

When 6-year-old Luce starts school, she realizes that her father Thierry is mentally impaired. Until the start of school, the father-daughter team lived in seclusion in the forest. Her class teacher takes care of Luce.

Yug Kaushal, a 27-year-old, leaves behind his small-town roots in Kannauj and moves to Delhi. Always cribbing about his parent not adapting to the modern lifestyle and more urban way of living their life, Yug gets the shock of his life when the senior Kaushals consider mutual separation as the situation spirals into chaos.

Amidst a volatile blend of religious strife, suppressed sexualities, and divine sermons in an Indian town, a teenage inter-faith couple—one of whom is innocently entangled in a fundamentalist group, dream an illusive American Dream.

FADE IN: The open ocean, 1974. Filming is delayed…again. The lead actors—theatre veteran Robert Shaw and young Hollywood hotshots Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider—are crammed into a too-small boat, entirely at the mercy of foul weather and a faulty mechanical co-star. Alcohol flows, egos collide, and tempers flare on a chaotic voyage that just might lead to cinematic magic…if it doesn’t sink them all.

A week after the Spring Moon, two witches (a floral spell-caster and one whose powers are unknown) from different antagonistic families are put into separate races against time in search for the floral witches missing UnGuarded sister, potentially taken by the other's dangerous estranged family. Truths are revealed if they can put their differences aside for the same want.

Cecília, a depressed aspiring writer, comes home to spend the night with her dear friend Helena. But as she confesses her torment, her apartment becomes haunted and the two of them are preyed upon by a powerful Entity that traps them in a repeated cycle of pain.

Through letters with a friend in prison, a filmmaker sets out to realize a boys’ love script unfolding behind bars. But as he moves from Berlin to Tokyo to Kaohsiung, the project begins to blur—between fiction and fear, between freedom and its illusion.

Before a crucial tennis championship, Leo encounters his former coach, who physically abused him nearly ten years ago. Leo, who has been struggling with mental health problems since then, threatens to spiral out of control, caught between the tennis court and the gambling halls.

When Aoi and Kiichi, high schoolers in Kurashiki city, come across their friend Beniko trying to calm down her autistic brother Kyosuke, Aoi tries to help and makes the promise to shoot fireworks from Mount Tsurugata in the Bikan Historical Quarter. Upon hearing this, Beniko gets upset herself because she doesn’t believe this promise will be kept but Aoi becomes determined to make it happen. As surrounding adults see these young people put their spirits into this task, they are moved and the fireworks take on a greater meaning.

Magical, autonomous, all-powerful… Artificial intelligences feed our dreams as well as our nightmares. But while tech giants promise the advent of a new humanity, the reality of their production remains totally hidden. While data centers are concreting landscapes and drying up rivers, millions of workers around the world are preparing the billions of data that will feed the voracious algorithms of Big Tech, at the cost of their mental and emotional health. They are hidden in the belly of AI. Could they be the collateral damage of the ideology of “Longtermism” that has been brewing in Silicon Valley for several years?

A lonely and sad guy tries to be happy, but constantly fails for some reason...

The growth and struggles of Akari, a third-generation Korean born the year of the Great Hanshin Earthquake. A post-disaster story based on people living in Kobe.

An ex-championship boxer turned sports gambling addict finds himself in the crosshairs of a vicious gang.

In a Russian country house, two boys, Anton and Zhenya, shoot air rifles at bottles. Anton suddenly fires at a cat, shocking Zhenya. Their friendship becomes strained. That evening, Anton's father takes them to the river and recalls his own childhood, when he built a forest shelter together with a friend. As night falls, Anton tries to reconcile, but Zhenya rejects his friendship. The next day, at the bus stop, they part without speaking, their silence filled with unspoken tension and guilt.

Robin breaks up with Venus, leading to more dire consequences than either thought possible.

Giada and Carlo have been a couple for many years, both artists. He is a writer looking for a new story to tell, she is a dancer struggling as she directs her first experimental dance show. When Peter Drago comes into their lives, neither can imagine how much everything is about to change. Carlo is fascinated by him, finding in him a new creative inspiration, while Giada is increasingly restless, fearing that her past may come back to surface. But the truth always finds a way to emerge.

In the middle of Sherman's March, in eastern Georgia, Confederate infantry, cavalry, and artillery make a bold stand against the overwhelming numbers of the Union army as it tears across Georgia.

An older brother, in the midst of his dreams, must choose between achieving his future or prioritizing his sense of responsibility as the backbone of the family.

A picture-perfect influencer couple eagerly anticipates the arrival of their unborn son, Asher, as cracks appear in their seemingly flawless façade.

Jeru wants his band to be a success. But when he meets Bethari, their romance puts his dreams at risk as her royal family seeks to sabotage their lives.

Alice von Trota returns to her father’s manor in Latvia in 1919 to sell it and start a new life. She meets the hostile resistance of the local workers and discovers she has been lured into a carefully tailored trap set by a demonic lawyer, a decadent underground organisation and its necrophile leader. While escaping the clutches of her “helpers”, she meets some silent-cinema enthusiasts and learns to use the cinematograph as a tool for healing and self-discovery, as a weapon against her enemies and as a way to create a masterpiece.

As the Spring Festival nears, 20-year-old Lu Youran finds hidden secrets about her deceased father while selling his car at her mother’s urging.

Alex is an unsuccessful country musician. He returns to his hometown in the heart of the brazilian midlands, a village threatened by industrial agriculture that consumes original forests and challenges settler’s traditional ways of life. he dreams of being a skilled musician like his father lázaro, a sick guitar player in debt with the saints, who must perform a series of religious rituals. however, local rumours say his debts are not with the saints, but with the devil. to save his father and himself, alex journeys into local practices and beliefs.

As locals are gearing up for Christmas festivities, a devastating cyclone is brewing in the Arafura Sea. Feeling dragged down by sleepy domestic day-to-day life, Morris dreams of a life elsewhere filled with adventure. Meanwhile, Gregory, a meteorologist of the Darwin Weather Bureau, is content with his steady-paced lifestyle. Both, along with their loved ones, have their worlds turned upside down when Tracy rears her head and devastates the city on Christmas Day. The film culminates with individuals collectively triumphing over tragedy in the face of one of nature's most formidable forces.

A star falls on Praia Brava. On a sunny winter day, a boy waits for his boyfriend on the beach while an alien murders bathers with its mouth.

When social services place his little brother Sacha in foster care, Axel's life is turned upside down. His life is shattered, and he struggles to get back on track.

A pair of people experience some interesting, fleeting moments in Pleasantville, New Jersey.

This is the story of gray-haired Nikolai Borisovich, a teacher and mentor, who one day gives up his career and gets a job as an ordinary courier in a multi-profile company. From the very beginning of the film, we see a determined old man who fulfills orders and step by step climbs the career ladder. Nikolai Borisovich always has an old Polaroid camera around his neck, and he records each new success and sends the photo somewhere in an envelope... Overcoming obstacles, Nikolai Borisovich, a true teacher by vocation, will prove that in one summer you can build a happy life. The main thing is to do it honestly. Just live.