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Films A-Z 2025
A Mother Goes to the Beach
Teresa, a single mother spends a day at the beach with her six-year-old son, Benji and her sister Marga, who is back to Portugal for a summer vacation. The day becomes very stressful with her sister's constant speech about her son's achievements and her criticisms towards Benji.
Pedro Hasrouny
At Gino’s
At Gino's we always drink one more glass and complain about what's wrong, because our fear of the big world has to go somewhere. This is nothing new, but it's still true. And usually an evening like that with Gino is enough for Tina, but today she would like a little more.
Christoph Otto
Baby Tooth
A young woman puts out an advertisement for two things: to sell her Grandad's boat, and for someone to pull out her baby tooth. When a man turns up interested in the boat she partakes in some gentle flirtations in order to sell the boat, and when propositioned she offers a discount if he'd yank her tooth out. Weirded out the man hollers and flips her off and disappears. Back in her seat someone else appears, and this time they're here for the tooth.
Olivia Accardo
Beer
In a charming Lithuanian village, a delicate bond between a father and son unravels through an ancestral beer-making tradition as they prepare for the annual harvest celebration.
Milda Baginskaite
Blessed Are Those Who Mourn
In a world where paintings can speak, we follow the story of Heureux Ceux Qui Pleurent, a painting weary of its monotonous life in an art gallery. Frustrated by the endless parade of cliché visitors, the painting dreams of escape and a better existence. Its closest companion is Anna, a divorced mother of two, who has worked at the gallery for over 20 years. With the gallery on the verge of closing, both Anna and the painting face an uncertain future. What will become of them once the gallery doors close for good?
Caterina Irdi
Bumper Cars
Anna, a twenty-five-year-old girl, enters the children's world, the amusement park. After a short walk through the park's toys, she ends up on the bumper cars race track. There she comes face to face with her rival, an eight-year-old girl who obsessively wants to bump her car against hers.
Efi Anagnostidou
Camping in Paradise
A philosopher and his girlfriend involuntarily must spend a night at a nudist campsite, which is far beyond their comfort zone. At the campsite they meet a friendly couple, and this reveals underlying conflicts and creates tension in their relationship.
Eirik Tveiten
Clementine
In a provincial town, 18-year-old Clementine works at the farmer’s market with her oppressive father, until a coach from Athens discovers her talent in football.
George Stagakis
Common Fly
Nobody cares about Jeff, a middle aged housefly crushed by unfulfilled expectations. A dissatisfying marriage, insufferable children, and mind-numbing job push him to try to regain control of his life.
Ian Alexander Castracane
Dreams of a Revolution
The road to Inhaminga, in Mozambique, is populated by ghosts that wander in the dark. The bullets fell silent almost half a century ago, but I can still hear their echo. I'm looking for revolutions that I don't know when they end. Along the way, I only find words that span time.
Pedro Neves
Findlater
In an apartment in Dublin City, two women meet in front of a microphone to discuss a shared past.
Allyn Quigley
Greek Apricots
Mak, a young man working his night shift at a gas station, encounters Nada, a female truck driver. They bond over their shared Macedonian roots and find comfort in each other, as they attempt to escape their individual loneliness.
Jan Krevatin
Half an Orange
It's summer on a farm in Cyprus. Valeria, a reclusive young writer, spends her days focused on her work. One evening, she meets Antigone at a party. Antigone is outgoing and carefree, contrasting with Valeria’s reserved nature. Amid the sunlit fields and beaches, Valeria and Antigone grow closer, discovering the beauty of a newfound desire. This bond helps Valeria grow and find new inspiration for her writing.
Loukia Hadjiyianni
Hurricane
"Hurricane" ventures into the heart of a tempestuous love story, showcasing the raw intensity and powerful resurgence of emotion amidst the rugged coastline of Wellington, New Zealand. Renowned as a veteran filmmaker and award-winning visual effects artist at Peter Jackson’s WETA FX, Benigna has masterfully crafted a cinematic exploration of the consequences of a broken love. Shot amid the breathtaking vistas of Wellington's coastline, the video unfolds with the subtlety of a whisper, only to erupt into a whirlwind of emotion at the faintest recollection. Drawing inspiration from the visceral imagery of David Lynch and the meticulous aesthetic of Stanley Kubrick, "Hurricane" seamlessly blends raw intensity with subconscious allure, creating an immersive experience that lingers long after the final frame.
Michele Benigna
Iris
A florist faces an existential crisis when her AI assistant alters one of her carefully crafted floral arrangements, forcing her to question what it means to create, to feel, and to remain truly human in a world increasingly shaped by machines.
Jillian Iscaro
Kickoff
In a small village in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, where conservative traditions confine women to domestic duties, Gazi challenges the status quo by organising a women's football tournament. As she strives to empower the women and break social taboos, Gazi must navigate through cultural resistance, unveiling a compelling story of resilience, and social change in this unique setting.
Roser Corella, Stefano Obino
Labradorita
Rotki has been wandering the desert for an immeasurable time. He finally reaches his goal: the Great Heap. As he dismantles it, he searches for the Viewmaster, a key to transcend and heal his soul through the power of the Sarcophagus of the Heap.
Paula Baccelliere
Laika
On November 3rd, 1957, one month after Sputnik launched, the space race went into hyperdrive when the Soviet Union sent a second satellite into orbit, this one carrying a dog named Laika. Six times heavier than the original that went up October 4th, the new satellite circled the Earth about once every 100 minutes at a height of 560 miles, traveling nearly 18,000 miles an hour. Despite initial claims that Laika would safely return to earth, her fate was sealed. Soviet officials eventually claimed this was done not for the sake of cruelty but the benefit of humanity – yet it is not the fate of the dog, but that of the human, that worries us.
David Wesley Gelb
Leonard
A day in the life of an odd middle aged woman and her best friend, a taxidermy seagull.
Ingrid Eidshaug
Lila – Shake Stew
In a surreal dance video, a dancer is melting into a landscape of palm trees, rocks and ocean waves.
Rupert Höller
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is the misadventure of a being who transforms and does not integrate into the environment in which he suddenly finds himself. It is not a dream, it is waking up in a world where is necessary to deal with many "others", a world full of cockroaches. It is a tribute/ outrage to the METAMORPHOSIS story of the Prague writer Franz Kafka, whose 100th anniversary of death occurs this year. The desire to belong to other worlds often transports us: it is not a dream, it is not a fiction, perhaps it is a particular reality in which real and unreal merge. Being "the other" can often force us to flee, it can happen unexpectedly. That’s why we should never be sure of our status.
Paolo Pisanelli, Matteo Gherardini
My Late Summer
My Late Summer' is a story about a young woman who arrives on an isolated island to settle a family inheritance issue. In the midst of newly stirred emotions, through a series of unexpected events, Maja will finally confront questions from her past. The search for inheritance becomes a quest for her own identity, as well as forgiveness.
Danis Tanovic
New Order
The forest was at the gates and the megaphones were turned to high, will a strong leader maintain order or further enslave us? Who really has control?
Alexander Frizzera
No Horses on Mars
We experience a trailer ride on the highway and wake up from anesthesia in a veterinary clinic. ‘No horses on Mars’ is practically a road film, whose POV’s from the horse is the most effective element of the film. The horse appears as the galloping mind that resides in all domesticated horses. The human being is introduced as a screen viewer who follows the horse, wants to measure, records and knows her as an object. Ultimately, from the human perspective in the film, there seems to be a glimmer of recognition for the individuality of the horse.
Bea de Visser
Play Dead!
Mattheww Lancit grew up in Canada, where teenagers of his generation were marked by the “body horror” film genre. Taking cue from that, Play Dead! is culled from his diary of his family’s quotidian, filmed over five years. He stages the ‘diabetes’ as a hidden, alien presence that haunts his apartment and the very depths of his body. Using performative and burlesque codes, form and content feed off each other as the filmmaker’s body transforms gradually into a haunted shell. Laced with comedy, irony and tenderness, Play Dead! mediates the complexity of living with the disease, living with someone afflicted with it, and how relationships oscillate between caring, listening, and impatience, anger, or fear. (Rasha Salti)
Matthew Lancit
Pops
Pops is a biographical animation based on the colourful story of my grandfather’s emigration from Beirut to London in the 1950s.
Ned Knight
Prikosymphono
Placed in Lefkada, an island in the Ionian Sea, a little girl finds a paper from 1955, that contains a list of objects that belonged to her great aunt and proceeds to ask her grandfather about it. He explains to her that this is the list of her dowry, an old Greek tradition, in which the bride's possessions were concede to the groom as a formal marriage agreement. Moved by this finding, he starts recalling memories of his childhood, witnessing his older sister Armenia, having an arranged marriage and leaving behind her family and the island for a better future.
Elena Gazi, Dolan Bailey, Alejandra Diaz, Leonardo Dal Fabbro
Self-Care
An homage to Martin Scorsese’s student film ‘The Big Shave’ (1967), ‘Self Care’ (2024) is body-horror as comment on the self-mutilatory impulse of American imperialism and consumer capitalism in the influencer age. A young woman steps into her bathroom and indulges in her own kind of ‘wellness’ ritual; 57 years earlier a young man stepped into his in pursuit of ‘the best a man can get’. The same culture which brought you My Lai now proffers the bombs that fall on Gaza City; the mask may change but the buying, and the bloodletting, remain.
Essence Moseley
Simon
When Simon knocks on a couples door, he brings news that will turn their world upside down.
Ed Willey
Still Life with Ghosts
Distressed by the troubles and difficulties of life and death, ghosts and humans of a small town of La Mancha will do the impossible to put an end to their problems and will not hesitate to carry out extreme and desperate plans to achieve it.
Enrique Buleo
That’s How It Is
The documentary feature “That’s How It Is” takes the audience into the world of men living in rural Estonia, showing us the simple joys and sorrows of their everyday life. How does the former pig farmer Janek raise his four sons, or what does Meelis, the owner of a small town nursing home, dream about? How does forester Rein find a new spark in life in the game of darts, and farmer Eku in potato planting? Does septic tank servicer Kaido have any regrets in life, and how often does he bring flowers to his wife? Does hobby inventor Juss see God in the details, and what is the hydraulic mower transmission? These are glimpses into how men in midlife find meaning in life, accept life, and search for joy in life amid acceptance. This film offers a warm and soothing breath of humanity amongst the raging conflicts of the present-day complicated world. Simplicity might be the key. Simple like a sauna or a song. That’s just the way it is.
Vallo Toomla
The Collector
The offbeat, fairytale story of Wizard of Oz fanatic and obsessive pop culture collector Willard Carroll. From dining with Munchkins to owning the world’s largest private collection of Oz memorabilia, Willard is proof that one story can change the entire trajectory of your life.
Jim Picariello, Carrie Wachob
The Farm
The Farm is a dark comedy set in an idyllic retreat in Brazil. Calvin and Hanna are an English couple who come to the Farm expecting rest and relaxation, in the hopes that this will get them through a rocky patch in their relationship. When they meet Bernardo, the eccentric guru of the Farm, they learn that the 'resort' is actually an experimental psychotherapy centre. To protect his girlfriend and his sanity from the meddling guru, Calvin will have to dive head-first into the hippy free-for-all.
Leo Villares
The Tooth And The Rock
Margarita and her father, returning to Pylos, they will be confronted with the rapid tourist transformation of the place. Margarita will become the cause for those old friends of his to mingle again and claim a spot, in the shade of the plane tree, taken over by tourists.
Kostis Alevizos
Under my Skin
Back to his hood in the North Side of Marseille, South of France, Kaleem accepts a job in construction. He reconnects with his best friend Rachad who wants to hire him as manager in his new sport center. Kaleem is training hard Krump and meets a mysterious greek architect : Marie.
Pascal Tessaud
Valerija
This hybrid film takes us on a journey into a world without men, where women choose the image that will represent them after they die. Through a participatory process, the author silently questions: How does it feel to have a family tree consisting only of women? What do our ancestress whisper from their silent portraits? The rhythm of a tending ritual takes us further into the underworld to bring together the living and the dead, connecting the present and the past.
Sara Jurincic
X Trillion
14 WOMEN, 3000 MILES, X TRILLION PIECES OF PLASTIC. A journey that promises to change not only the women's lives but the very future of our planet. X Trillion follows the journey of 14 women as they sail a gruelling 3000 miles across the North Pacific Ocean to one of the most remote places on Earth, but also the location of the densest accumulation of ocean plastic – the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. A life-affirming, optimistic story of adventure, discovery, science and solidarity.
Eleanor Church
Xibalba Monster
Rogelio is 8 and has an odd family. His parents are never around, and he gets his best birthday gifts from his dentist. This summer he is sent away to his nanny’s hometown, nestled in the Yucatan jungle. Rogelio spends the excruciatingly hot days obsessing over “The Book of Spirits” which awakens in him visions and dreams of ghosts, but above all, of an old man who leaves a trace of death when passing by. Rogelio recounts this to his new Mayan friends, Lucio and Juanito, who say this man is not a dream, he is real and lives in the outskirts of town, he is known as the “Xibalba Monster”. Why these dreams? Rogelio starts to spy on the monster and lives an adventure that will change forever his view on life and death.
Manuela Irene