Celia Went There

After a decade of dragging herself through her predictable life, Eloise finds herself chasing hazy traces of a rainy past.

The homeless bed salesman Uwe tries to spend the night in the furniture store, but nothing comes of it. The aging security guard Bernd catches him and wants to get rid of him. What Uwe doesn't know is that Bernd also has a secret. In the nightly anonymity of the furniture store, he sells identities.

Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.

Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon her fling with Jean-Louis. She contacts him to gain his permission. Jean-Louis is still in racing and goes away for a desert rally while she begins filming. She finds the mood of their romance difficult to recapture in her film.

Nia, a young black woman, is raised in the countryside by her white Grandmother. When she suddenly passes away, Nia struggles with her identity and where she came from. Focusing on finding her birth mother, she wonders if their relationship can be rekindled.

"Razakar" is a period drama set in pre-Bangladesh-separation Pakistan, exploring the political tensions of the time. The story follows Jamal, an aspiring Bengali actor, as he grapples with the challenges posed by his uncompromising director, mirroring the larger socio-political conflicts unfolding around them. Through personal struggles and political subtext, the film raises poignant questions about identity and division.

Set between the sublime tranquility of the Wadden Sea and the restless pace of Groningen city life, Schoem follows the story of Hades, a young skipper whose family is slowly falling apart. As the world changes faster than he can keep up, Hades is confronted with the emotional weight of change, loss, and unexpected connection. Inspired by Ingeborg Nienhuis's novella "Schoem or De vaarende Zoltkamper," this short film combines poetic realism with emotional depth. Directors Kashani and Komelizadeh draw on their own intercultural experiences, creating a work that is simultaneously simple and aesthetically daring.

Caminho para a Inexistência

In a cold future, where society is controlled by technology. Ethan, has a flash of his life before and starts to question what it means to truly live.

After losing their best friend, Lily, Kyle and Mary must learn to lean on each other through the grieving process.

A young sculptor struggles to finish his masterpiece, a sculpture of a woman, as it inexplicably cracks.

In bustling Seoul, Jae Park, a “perfect” Korean-American high school student, dreams of breaking into the K-pop world. When a talent scout discovers him at a bus stop, Jae’s life explodes overnight—from classrooms and basketball courts to brutal dance studios and blinding stage lights under millions of fans. But under relentless perfectionism, Jae slowly loses the joy that first inspired him. His smile becomes performance; his identity, a product. Alongside Shin, an older trainee hardened by years of waiting and poverty, Jae confronts the price of success: the isolation, exhaustion, and loss of self. When the group debuts, Shin finally earns the spotlight Jae no longer recognizes. Through a reflective college interview, Jae realizing that the bravest act may be stepping away from the stage. "Just Jae" is a story about authenticity and explores the courage it takes to walk away when ambition threatens humanity.

In 'Dive Deep,' the adolescent inner world of Storm (18), a skater with cerebral palsy, is exposed as he struggles with anxiety. His attempt to suppress the memories and to conceal his sadness over his mother's absence leads to tension at home and distance from his friends. When his boyfriend breaks up with him, Storm becomes even more fragmented and is forced to choose between facing his emotions or risking losing everything, including himself.

A woman’s life revolves around commuting from the Conurbano to the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires to attend job interviews that rarely lead to anything. When a personality test forces her to define herself, she discovers that she has no answers. Nowadays, she needs to find out who she is among the anonymous people who move around the city every day.

The Silent Treatment is a story about three characters whose lives are imprisoned in each other’s past. As a victim from Stockholm syndrome, the 18-year-old Belgian girl Tess has developed an obsession with her allegedly kidnapper, the 43-year-old Hungarian Szabolcs. Through the actions of his partner, the 34-year-old Hungarian Andrea, Tess will finally find her peace. Andrea will help the young woman in changing her distorted relationship from obsessional love to a peaceful mind.

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such discrimination.

A young woman grapples with the untimely death of her sister, seeking solace in an imagined reality where they grew up together.

Karma, an international high school student from Sikkim struggles to fit in and hold onto his cultural identity when he is stuck at home with his host sibling, Alex.

On the day of her wedding, as Selena Jackson comes to terms with the long-lost love she's never quite gotten over, many of her guests, including her best friends and her own mother, also struggle with past loves, past regrets and past mistakes.

Manuela and Olmo meet in a future as they had promised fifteen years earlier as teenagers, when they lived their first love. Based on this romantic situation, La Reconquista is in fact a film on a quest for time; or about the awareness of time: of time lost and time recovered; about what we remember about ourselves and what we don't remember; about the words, gestures and feelings to which we remain faithful, because they define and compel us today, yesterday and tomorrow.