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A Short Chronicle of Murder (Germany) by Jochen Isensee
Germany, 1984. Late one evening, Walther Loose, a respected and wealthy citizen, opens his door to a stranger named Leonard. The man carries a single accusation: he claims Walther was once an SS guard responsible for unspeakable crimes in a concentration camp. Walther denies everything. He calls ...
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Paper Porn (Belgium) by Sandrine Lambert
At 56, Marianne isn't unhappy, but she's not exactly happy either. One evening, she gathers her courage to go to a café alone. Life can be terribly hard, but sometimes it's also easy. Marianne meets the man who is destined for her, and one thing leads to another. Clear images in a naive visual st...
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Shucking Tradition (United States) by David Helfer Wells
In coastal New England, pond after pond of aquaculture stretches to the horizon, and seafood is not just a meal but a way of life. There, a wave of women is reshaping the age-old oyster farming industry. To introduce outsiders to the art and science of oyster farming, the 18:23 film is both a 'pr...
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Love Languages.. and Other Illusions (Germany) by Blake J Askew
Ben and Christian are in a long term relationship and the nine years together reach a head in an intense confrontation that unearths resentments, pain , unfulfilled and unspoken expectations and ultimately a crossroads. A film about the complex nature of relationships when there is no one right o...
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Theory of Perception (United States) by Adrian Conor Dowd-Pettingill
The first half of the film aims to explore the experience of being perceived by peers, and the world at large. The latter half shows the comfort of being embraced by the gaze of nature; it is beautiful, but still cold and distant. The final movement of the film finds solace in existing outside o...
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Domingos by Anna Gabriela de Mendonça
Filmmaker Anna Gabriela embarks on a personal journey to uncover the truth about her great-grandfather, Domingos — a man she never met, caught between Brazil and Italy, whose struggle with identity mirrors her own search for belonging.
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The Fuckboy Diaries (United States) by Misha Calvert
After her most recent breakup, Ruby vows to try everything in search of true love; she discovers her bisexuality and experiments with polyamory, but realizes that she’s turned into what she hates most: a fuckboy. Ruby must learn to love herself and therefore build a solid foundation for her futur...
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Leap (United States) by Ketrina Bermingham
A woman trapped in an abusive marriage struggles between her memories of love and the reality of fear, torn by her responsibility as a mother and her longing for safety. It seems simple enough to just run and leave...but it’s never really that simple.
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I Am The Night (Bulgaria) by Iliya Stoyanov
"I Am the Night" is a visual poetic reflection on the actor’s presence in the moments when the performance ends and the masks are finally removed. The film delves into the fragile truth that remains when the lights fade and no one is watching. The Night is the quiet observer gathering the remnant...
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Threshold (United States) by Jil Guyon
Threshold centers on an unnamed woman confined to a castle rooftop in southern Portugal. Filmed in black and white with a texture that feels unearthed, the work moves fluidly between temporal registers—past bleeding into present, the real colliding with the imagined, danger shading into performan...
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To Us (Australia) by Jeno Kim
Part mid-life crisis, part mundane wallowing, a woman finds solace from her neighbour after a bad date night.
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The Perfect Palm (Türkiye, United States) by Ayse Altinok
A young man on the autism spectrum, who possesses a remarkable gift as a visual artist, encounters the corporate world at his first job interview.
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Life on Mercury (Ireland, Romania) by Mathieu Constantin
An intertwined comedy-drama about the influence of money on our lives, seen through the eyes of a lottery-winning priest, a lawyer working for the corrupt elites and a hustling juvenile delinquent. Their stories are all connected through the help of a traveling 20 euro bill.
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She Had Some Work Done (United States) by Nancy E. Andrews
How to conform to the norms of beauty.
She Had Some Work Done, turns its attention to beauty and the pressures surrounding it. Examining what it means to conform to accepted norms of physical appearance, the film considers the ways ideals of beauty are constructed, imposed and internalised. Chara... -
The Train (Canada) by Marie Brassard
Quebec, in the sixties. Agathe, a gifted child, is asthmatic and lives in the suburbs with her mother Thérèse (Larissa Corriveau), a melancholy artist. At night, the whistle of a train fuels Agathe’s fantasy of a parallel world. As a teenager in the ’70s, she discovers the bohemian scene and meet...
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Bachelor Pad by Matilda Ogilvy
Tadley Padsworth is a single frog living in a single-use world, battling endless waves of litter that destroy his home after every rainfall, until inspiration strikes in an unexpected way.
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The Best in the World (France) by Marion Standefer
The Best in the World follows Mouctar, a Guinean migrant navigating a new life in Paris. He enrolls in a non-profit school for migrants in Paris, where he meets Marion, an American social worker who runs an after-school theater workshop, which he eagerly joins. During interviews for the thesis Ma...
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Lasciare (United States) by Cara Ronzetti
An epic tale that travels through three different decades, "Lasciare" explores the life of Luna Fadricci and her Italian-American family, as they reconcile with the meaning of home, the cost of identity, and all that’s left behind.
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Eîdòn (Italy) by Simone Bardi
From the depths of memory, a mysterious voice recounts the triumphs and growing shadows of the Po Delta, where a balance has been broken, perhaps forever. Amidst the mists of the past and the uncertainties of the present, the ecological resilience of a family of fishermen from the Sacca di Scardo...