Drive in May

After marrying her wife in Switzerland, Chinese filmmaker Yue returns home to confront the quiet fractures between her and her mother. Across generations, two women begin to speak—about marriage, gender, and everything they’ve kept silent.

Frozen People is a unique festival of electronic music and northern art on the frozen sea next to the Finnish city of Oulu. As part of Oulu2026 European Capital of Culture, the event brings together international and Finnish DJs Sanna Mun, Paula Koski, Schacke and Winter Games in truly arctic conditions. Welcome to the world’s iciest dancefloor!

A summer sojourn in France activates an obsession with tourists and everyday spectators. Back in Toronto, perceptive artists and benevolent voyeurs shape each others’ ways of seeing—living, modelling, & documenting in the same breath.

A cinematic farewell to the "Vilma" cinema in Thessaloniki, which closed in December 2024 as the last traditional erotic cinema in Greece. At the same time, a salute to the legendary "Laikon" and "Star", temples of the genre in the two largest cities of Greece. Famous and anonymous people participate in this final farewell.

An angry man makes an important discovery while skipping rocks.

Director Henry Frederick experiments with color and sound to create a new unity between the two elements. The Color of Sound is best seen through the questioning of what distortion and electronic feedback looks like.

Part of FIFF's section "Une Histoire de Fribourg : Terre de hockey sur glace"

Cajas

Part of the 'Wade on 8' video series.

The Scott and Gary Show. was a pioneering NYC based public-access cable TV variety show that aired from 1983 to 1989. Paying a 1980's homage to 1960's TV dance parties, the show was a mix of alternative, punk, roots, and indie bands performing live along with a live audience and comedy skits. Compilation made for screenings at Spectacle.

'Almost Always' follows a teenager counting down to finally leaving abroad for university as he spends his last days at home with his lifelong best friend. But his quiet urgency suggests there’s more he isn’t saying, as he hides a truth she won’t understand until it’s too late.

Experimental short movie shot during Christmas and New Year's Eve.

From the 1st projection to the newest technology IMAX and 4DX, we will travel trough the history of french theaters, asking questions about technological developments throughout history, and finally, the hoped-for future of movie theaters and how they envision themselves in 20 years.

A birdwatcher meets a mysterious stranger in a remote birdwatching tower. As the stranger's presence becomes more disturbing, the birdwatcher gets pulled into an unsettling experience.

Gabriel Bortoleto – O Piloto Brasileiro na Fórmula 1

Years after losing his eyes to a terrorist bomb, a blind Syrian drama professor lets a British painter recount his story through paintings. During the process, repressed traumas from the past resurface for both of them, and art becomes their lifeline. From the wounds of war to reckoning with family ghosts, and from childhood abuse to approaching artistic creation as a way of coping with the inner demons, the remarkable Painting With Fire bravely explores a variety of themes, concealing surprises at every turn - and as it unfolds, revealing its cards one by one, it becomes an extremely compelling commentary on the various forms of human blindness (beyond the physical) that will undoubtedly stay etched in your memory for a long while.

New cartoon by Valeria Soldatova.