Short film, by Massimiliano Buzzanca, Stefano Scaramuzzino, Italy, 2025.
In a timeless retirement home, two elderly men — one convinced he is Batman, the other sure he is the Joker — engage in a surreal confrontation that oscillates between lost memory, lucid madness, and heroic nostalgia. One we...

Documentary by Donald D’Haene, Canada, 2025.
Selected by 169 festivals, ERIK—inspired by the director’s bestselling book No One Wants To Read That You’re Happy—blends laughter and tears within a truly unique family. The director tells the story of his brother Erik with emotion yet detachment, wit...

In Their Own Time is the journey of three women – Srija, Tuhnu and Jhumur – who reflect on love, loss, childhood, friendship and a sense of belonging over the course of three years; we never see their faces, as the evolution of their experiences unfolds through an intrinsically dynamic and increa...

Documentary, by Hosein Fatahi, Iran, 2025.
An elderly shepherd lives with his wife in the Alborz Mountains (northern Iran) during the summer. He takes care of his sheep and observes the surrounding nature. In his free time, he paints on rocks. His paintings are inspired by the natural environment...

Short film, dark comedy, by Emma Jefferson, United Kingdom, 2025
Leila and Claudia are friendly and fun young managers at a London pub. One evening, a creepy client goes too far, prompting the girls to retaliate. Now a handsome detective is on their trail, and while searching for clues, he finds ...

Documentary by Michelangelo Gregori, Italy, 2025.
An artist is asked by a fraudulent entertainment agent and a self-proclaimed historian to write a "performance" to commemorate Giovanni Battista Casti, three hundred years after his birth. A situation and a tribute that, just like the author in qu...

Short film, by Alex Bodega, Czech Republic, 2025.
In an apartment wrapped in routine, a child seeks refuge among crayons and silence. A drawing brings the impossible to life: a tall, smiling pizza maker who appears at the door, unmoving and uninvited. As reality shatters and space bends, the fami...

Horror, romantic, by Hunt Hoe, Canada, 2006.
Gus is a charming man who works as a cook in an oriental restaurant in Montreal. His boss sends him to a remote island in Thailand to meet a master of Zen cuisine and improve the quality of his dishes. There he meets a mysterious woman named Lake who l...

Drama, Mystery, by Samantha Casella, Italy, 2025.
“Katabasis” is a journey into the underworld. Nora experienced that dark realm as a child, when she suffered abuse. This marked her, shaping her into an ambiguous and manipulative woman, dangerous in her inscrutability, constantly seeking disturbi...

Horror, comedy, by Jack Hill, United States, 1967.
Spider Baby is a grotesque cult horror film that tells the story of the Merrye family, affected by a genetic disease that causes mental regression and feral behavior as they grow older. In an isolated house live Baby, her sisters, and the affecti...

Science fiction, by Noah Paganotto, Argentina, 2022.
In an undetermined location on planet Earth, in an unknown time, Zoilo lives with his family in a wasteland surrounded by ruins. They live uprooted, without mothers, knowing that pregnancy for women is synonymous with death. For them there is o...

Documentary, by Franco Piavoli, 2018, Italy.
Franco Piavoli, author of the masterpiece "The Blue Planet", returns to the director to capture the "evening of the day of celebration", between Leopardi and Pascoli. A journey between the poetic and the anthropological. What is a "feast"? What does it...

Drama, musical, by Guru Dutt, India, 1957
Thirsty is the heartbreaking story of Vijay, a young poet living in Calcutta who dreams of giving voice to the suffering and injustice of the world through his verses. Idealistic and sensitive, Vijay clashes with a society that despises his art because it...

Drama, by Satyajit Ray, 1964, India.
The story is set in Calcutta in 1879, during the period of the British Raj. Charulata (called “Charu”) is a cultured and sensitive woman, married to Bhupati, an intellectual and editor who runs a liberal political newspaper. Her husband is absorbed in his edit...

Documentary by Fedele Aula, Simona Molari, Italy, 1998.
A rare archival film of an exhibition dedicated exclusively to objects washed up on beaches and transformed into works of art. The archaeology of moving images meets the archaeology of physical artifacts and their transformation into somethi...

Documentary, by Olaf de Fleur, Iceland, 2025.
Self-Defence follows the story of Imma Helga, a self-defence instructor in Iceland who turned her teenage struggles with prejudice, homophobia, and depression into a mission of empowerment. Together with her brother Jón Viðar, she teaches a practical,...

Documentary, by Antoine Schirer, Palestine, 2025.
This is the story of two gazan hip-hop dance teachers, who kept dancing all the way, until their dance school was bombed. We met Ahmed Alghariz as he just escaped Gaza.

LANGUAGE: English
SUBTITLES: Spanish, Frabch, German, Portuguese

Documentary, by Maria Averina, Bulgaria, 2025.
Paintings, performances, experiments, electronic music sounding in the spaces of two old houses in a small Italian town, heated conversations about contemporary art, touching meetings with the closest people and places in Bulgaria after 50 years of s...

Short film, animation, by Alessio Del Pozo Temoche, Perù, 2025.
Óscar begins to isolate himself in his playful childhood world. His best friend, Jesús, no longer wants to play after falling in love with Betsa, a classmate. Torn between abandoning his childhood and continuing to play alone, terror...

Drama, short film, by Cihan Abdal, Türkiye, 2025.
A woman and a child living in ancient times, separated from their tribe, are looking for water. After the woman faints, the boy begins to search alone. The boy eventually finds water, but when he returns he will encounter a bad situation.

The pur...

Thriller, Short Film, by Firdaus F. Bilimoria, Canada, 2025.
They brutalized his brother, who committed suicide. Now he's back to take revenge and settle old scores.

Director Biography - Firdaus F. Bilimoria
Firdaus F. Bilimoria is an award-winning screenwriter and director. Originally from Bomb...

Drama, horror, sci-fi, by Jason Figgis, United States, 2012.
In a post-apocalyptic Ireland, a pandemic has wiped out the adult population, struck down by a mutant strain of flu that turns them paranoid and violent before killing them. Nine months later, the surviving children wander through aband...

Documentary, by Fedele Aula, 1997, Italy.
A short observational documentary that takes us back to Brussels in the 1990s. The director films neighborhoods, houses, trams, daily activities, people, and cars that appear and disappear through crossfades like ghosts. A moment in time and a magnetic me...

Short film, drama, dy Payam Shadnia, Iran, 2025.
The sitting cat symbolizes Iran's geographical map, which holds significant importance for Iranians. The short film "Cat" follows the story of people forced to leave Iran due to economic and political challenges. They board a ship to reach their in...