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The reunion of two ski jumping champions whose romantic past will resurface as they face the demands of their sponsors.

After surviving ISIS prisons as a child, Rashid has been reunited with his family in Sinjar, northwestern Iraq. Now a teenager, the young Yazidi dreams of a brighter future. But peace is fragile, and hatred against his community is resurfacing.

In this short film, in search of a cinematic grammar more in tune with Creole imaginary and oral tradition, we follow Ondine's quest. She returns to La Réunion after an absence of four years, because her Pépé, a local zarboutan, is dying. Just as she has to say goodbye, Ondine has a strange encounter in a pond.

On her first day on the job, a young maid must survive the collapse of a household in post-Civil War Spain.

Following a car accident, Suzanne loses custody of her three children. She has no choice but to seek treatment at a center for alcoholics. As soon as she arrives, she meets Alice and Diane, two women with strong personalities. Denis, a sports instructor, will try to bring them together around the same goal: to participate in the Dune Rally in the Moroccan desert. He will need a lot of patience and teaching skills to prepare this unlikely team to achieve their goal.

Bored of the city, a young man goes in search of his grandmother's shrine, rumored to be in the nearby forest.

Alex, a young actress, is sexually assaulted at a New Year’s Eve party at a friend’s house. That night, she never manages to see the face of her aggressor, a fact that will end up eating away at her. Throughout the following year, she will have to face feelings of guilt, disgust and shame. While Alex tries to channel all her pain through theatre, where she takes on the role of the famously vengeful Medea, her brother, Adrian, must face the guilt he feels at not having been able to protect his sister and his impulse to let himself be carried away by his own decisions. What were once the typical conflicts you might expect between any siblings, give way to much more extreme and complex emotions.

Agnes’ bargain hunt turns deadly when she finds herself trapped in a supermarket murdering spree.

An animation tribute for graphic artist Xosé Vizoso, responsible for developing Galician visual culture through his work and during his path at the Sargadelos factory, where he became heir to the language built by Isaac Díaz Pardo and Luis Seoane.

Nora is a young woman like no other — and she’s hiding an unusual secret. When Eddie, her crush, is about to uncover it, everything spirals out of control…

Made for MAP 48 Hour Challenge 2025.

An elderly shepherd takes on big business when he becomes the only holdout against property developers building a luxury resort in his tiny Sardinian village.

I Fuori Campo di Anna are approximately 30 tapes containing the video footage from which the film was edited, along with other video material shot during the same period. Thanks to the work of Annamaria Licciardello, the Cineteca Nazionale, the A.P.S. Grifi, and the La Camera Ottica lab in Gorizia, these hours of footage have been restored and made accessible.

In a virtual world inspired by the codes of gay dating apps, Homunculus follows the wanderings of a man in search of other men. Over the course of his travels, he will come to realise that people see him as an “Arab”: an ambiguous, virile and powerful entity both celebrated by white gay males and hated by the French police forces.

Faustino, a 70-year-old retiree, visits his bank every day. But today is closing day, and Ramón, the branch manager, doesn't want any distractions. To get rid of him quickly, he decides to see him personally in his office. What he doesn't know is that Faustino hasn't come just to do some paperwork... and that this will be a closing day he'll never forget.

Once upon a time in a small village there was Lina, cornered with domestic tasks, and her sister Madeleine, living a carefree life. Lina’s bitterness and jealousy towards Madeleine keep on getting worse, until the day she makes a strange encounter which is going to make her darkest wish come true…

Jean, a stay-at-home dad with a "broken" family, has built a perfect life with Eloïse and his stepson Josef. But the return of Marc, the biological father and former alcoholic, who wants to start shared custody, threatens to upset the balance.

Torn between loyalty to her family, and her love for Jason, Medea attacks her father and flees with Jason to unknown lands. Her brother pursues them. When Jason betrays and abandons her, she is driven to the ultimate act of vengeful destruction.

A man uses a glory hole and then is asked to fulfill his life's purpose.

Sometimes we get hooked on a place, a moment, or a person who’s gone. This film is about coming back, waiting, and asking yourself if you truly want something to happen—or if you're just in love with the memory of it.

Latvian mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča is one of the greatest voices of our time. Accompanied by the CHAARTS ensemble, she performs the most beautiful arias from Bizet's Carmen, including the famous Habanera, in a unique arrangement for chamber ensemble.

A look into nightlife within the city of Leeds, filmed in one night, from the evening into the early hours of the morning.

From primordial chaos and human negligence emerges Cronus, son of Gaia, determined to avenge the oppressed Earth. From poisoned waters and plastic waste, Aphrodite is born, disfigured but a symbol of beauty and the fragility of nature. Her presence transforms pain into consciousness, teaching that respect for every creature and for the planet is essential for the rebirth of the world.

Travelling to Porthcawl in South Wales for its annual Elvis Festival, director Joseff Morgan meets an Elvis tribute artist overcoming questions about his identity by embodying his idol. A security guard by day, for US-born Jeff, the act has become entangled with his reality, and the presence he has established in his community.

A Dalit trans woman navigates love and identity after falling for an upper-caste man, forcing her to confront the silence around her caste. Tara is the story of a 26-year-old Dalit trans woman who meets a singer named Aman at a queer party, sparking an immediate connection.

When a hitman kills an innocent in a moment of panic, he descends on a religious journey of regret he has not before felt. All the while, a vengeful policeman is hot on his trail, set on his own form of justice.

In the middle of a road, Adriano and Nina push a car until they reach a gas station. The couple has broken up after the events of a wedding, but while Nina wants to solve things out, Adriano takes refuge in the trunk and reality fragments as we enter in his mental chaos, in a space where past, future, magic and reality interconnect.

Sunny's mother has died. While waiting for the death certificate, the young woman wanders alone through the hospital's dimly lit palliative care halls. Amid buzzing vending machines and empty benches, she meets Carla. Together, they wait until morning.

An interim driver delivers mysterious capsules in the desert.

1953, colonized Algeria. Fanon, a young black psychiatrist is appointed head doctor at the Blida-Joinville Hospital. He was putting his theories of ‘Institutional Psychotherapy’ into practice in opposition to the racist theories of the Algies School of Psychiatry, while a war broke out in his own wards.

Scenes from the seminar "Lange Sprechen." Angela Schanelec, HFBK Summer Semester 2024.

What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age story. Memories, fiction, discoveries come together in an irrepressible torrent of pictures.

An observation of post-colonial economic relations through the intersecting trajectories of two Filipino women: one preparing to leave her native island to work as a domestic in Europe, the other to return for good.

After surviving arbitrary detention and torture for her political activism in 1970’s Morocco, Fatna El Bouih continues to pursue relentlessly today, her dream for change.

Filmmaker Lucile Hadzilalilovic, winner of the Silver Bear at the 2025 Berlinale for “The Tower of Ice”, delves into her world of hauntingly beautiful tales. From “Innocence” to her latest film, she crafts stories rich in mystery, where powerful women and enigmatic youth evoke the legacy of Argento-style genre cinema.

With Renaissance, Shani Diluka embarks on a musical exploration of the era of the same name, which laid the foundation for Western thought and sensibility. She focuses primarily on two key centers of influence: humanist Italy and Elizabethan England. Program: I. Renaissance music, emergence and dissemination of the first scores thanks to Gutenberg (Eccles, Dowland, Byrd, etc.) II. Renaissance and early humanists: music of the spheres becomes music of the humanities (Palestrina, Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, etc.) III. The Renaissance and the Golden Ratio: proportion and beauty (Purcell, Handel, etc.) IV. The Renaissance, a decisive legacy in the history of music thanks to polyphony, harmony, and the development of the relationship between text and music (Scarlatti, Bach, etc.)

The journey of a seed that departs from the archives of the Botanical Garden in Madrid, and ends in El Guayabo, an Afro-Peruvian village in the south coast of Peru, where the seed was originally collected in a colonial expedition around 1800. Believed to be extinct, the seed has been described in the diaries of a colonial botanist to be related to curative uses by pre-Columbian cultures, as well as to induce altered states of consciousness. Three female characters will carry the seed in a three chapter structure. Suspended in time, the seed is the medium that activates dialogues between the pre-Columbian world, colonial ruins, the unfnished project of modernity and a post-capitalist future.

Oskar's desperate pursuit of online fame takes a tragic turn when his claims of discovering a dead body are dismissed by his friends at boarding school, leading him down a dark path in an attempt to prove himself.

On a full moon night, the young Najwa and the musician Mansour reach Beirut. They follow the trail of smugglers to join a woman on the other side of the sea. A few streets away, Selim, the old lighthouse keeper, tries to repair the electricity of his neighborhood.

Barnabé, a museum guard, discovers that a strange phenomenon seems to be erasing paintings by "pixelating" them. Wanting to alert his superiors, he meets Bertille, an art student and intern in the museum's restoration workshop. Together, they will try to understand this mysterious phenomenon that makes the paintings disappear behind a fog of pixels.

Serhii, a young man who fills his days with volunteer work, loses contact with his mother living in occupied territory. When his mother finally decides to evacuate, he learns that a humanitarian convoy from his hometown has been destroyed in a bombing raid.

1998. In search of genepi flowers, two cousins in their twenties climb the hills overlooking the Plateau d’Assy, reminiscing about their childhood memories. Through a stroll through the abandoned sanatorium in the area, they also confront the remains of their shared memory, now threatened.

Maryam is an involuntary immigrant in the US, who after forty years has not forgotten her escape from Iran’s border wrapped in a sheep’s skin. Maryam is always worried about her elderly parents and in constant visual connection with the home in Iran from thousands of kilometers through surveillance cameras. These cameras take her to the days of the 1979 revolution. Today, Iran is again experiencing turbulent days and now Maryam encounters her revolutionary past and revolutionary girls who are challenging the present system.