And The Fish Fly Above Our Heads
(Wal asmak tatir fawka rou'ssina)
(Country: Lebanon, France, Saudi Arabi; Year: 2025; Director: Dima El-Horr)
By the sea, on a public beach in Beirut frequented only by men, Reda, Adel and Quassem are not waiting for a miracle: they are watching their entire country fall to ruin.
The Big Chief
(Wielki szef)
(Country: Poland; Year: 2025; Director: Tomasz Wolski; Writer: Tomasz Wolski)
Portrait of Leopold Trepper, a former Red Army officer and hero of the anti-Nazi resistance, who faced a Kafkaesque struggle in 1970s Poland as the demons of anti-Semitism resurfaced.
A Brief History Of Chasing Storms
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Curtis Miller)
Documentary examining legacies of weather within the area of the United States dubbed “tornado alley”.
Chasing The Sun
(Zhu ri ji hua)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Ruosong Huang)
Twenty-something Peng Tian returns to China after studying in London. He feels adrift.
Croma
(Country: Argentina, Germany, Austria; Year: 2025; Director: Manuel Abramovich)
Against a green-screen backdrop, a group of children and adults ask themselves questions about their gender.
Fierté nationale : de Jéricho vers Gaza
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Sven Augustijnen; Stars: Hassan Al Balawi)
Hassan Al Balawi, a Palestinian diplomat, returns to his homeland on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat. Filmed in 2019, Al Balawi’s journey from the occupied West Bank to the border of Gaza draws a subjective image of what has become of the Palestinian liberation struggle, foreshadowing the events that would unfold on October 7, 2023.
I Lost Sight Of The Landscape
(J’ai perdu de vue le paysage)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Sophie Bédard Marcotte)
While going through a period of limbo, the director turns her camera on her playwright neighbour. Together, they dissect the various stages of artistic creation.
Je n’Embrasse Pas Les Images
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Pascal Hamant)
A filmmaker wanders with his camera through a large empty house where he spent a happy childhood. Aged 14, he was stopped in his tracks by the terrifying image of his father’s corpse, covered in a white shroud. Thirty years on, he makes his way back to the original scene.
New Beginnings
(Les Recommencements)
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2025; Director: Isabelle Ingold, Vivianne Perelmuter; Writer: Isabelle Ingold, Al Moon, Vivianne Perelmuter; Stars: Al Moon)
Al Moon lives a solitary life on the territory of the Yurok nation in California. Surrounded by violence and ecological threats affecting his people, buried anxieties from his time in Vietnam now begin to resurface. Driven by an urge to confront his past, Al Moon embarks on a cross-country journey, moving closer to uncovering a truth that has haunted him for decades.
The Other World
(La Muraille)
(Country: Switzerland, France; Year: 2025; Director: Callisto McNulty)
Documentary about the sanatorium of Les Fontilles, which used to be a sanctuary for people suffering from leprosy.
Say Goodbye
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2025; Director: Paloma López Carrillo)
Under the imposing snow-capped mountains of Utah, a Mexican family lives with the uncertainty of a loved one's disappearance.
To The West, In Zapata
(Al oeste, en Zapata)
(Country: Cuba, Spain, US; Year: 2025; Director: David Bim)
Landi and Mercedes live in Cuba’s Zapata swamp, a biosphere reserve. To feed their sick child, Landi must secretly hunt crocodiles, leaving his wife and son behind for days on end. This documentary tells their story.
The Vanishing Point
(Noghteh-e-Goriz)
(Country: Iran, US, France; Year: 2025; Director: Bani Khoshnoudi)
Exiled from Iran after the ban on her 2009 film about the Green Movement, a filmmaker breaks her family’s decades-long silence about a disappeared cousin, executed during the 1988 purges in political prisons.
The World Upside Down
(El mundo al revés)
(Country: Switzerland, Argentina; Year: 2025; Director: Agostina Di Luciano, Leon Schwitter; Writer: Agostina Di Luciano, Leon Schwitter; Stars: Martin Calcagnino, Mara Luna, Omar Escalante, Gustavo Escalante, Rosana Gudemon, Jimena Escalante, Rulo Escalante, Mabel Escalante, Dana Escalante, Noah Escalante, Lily Toranzo)
In a small village in the Argentinian countryside, the inhabitants lead a life characterised by nature and routine. When a light appears to the elderly farmer Omar one evening, he sets off with his grandson Noah on a journey in search of meaning. In a holiday villa whose owners are never there, the two housekeepers Roxane and Lily make a discovery that opens up new knowledge for them.
Yrupe
(Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Candela Sotos)
The search for La Flor de Irupé, a lost film by Guillermo Zúñiga, a Spanish pioneer of scientific filmmaking who was exiled in Argentina after the Spanish Civil War, triggers a journey into family histories and national archives.
