The Invasion and Made In Ethiopia
Agent Of Happiness
(Country: Bhutan, Hungary; Year: 2024; Director: Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó)
Amber is one of the many agents working for the Bhutanese government to measure people’s happiness levels among the remote Himalayan mountains. But will he find his own along the way?
Antidote
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: James Jones)
Documentary focusing on whistleblowers and activists who have worked to uncover Vladimir Putin’s deadly regime - and are now facing dangerous and fatal consequences for their courageous
actions.
Blink
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Daniel Roher, Edmund Stenson)
Documentary sees a family whose children are slowly losing their sight go on a road trip to build visual memories.
Dear Beautiful Beloved
(Country: Austria; Year: 2024; Director: Juri Rechinsky; Writer: Kseniya Kharchenko, Juri Rechinsky)
In Ukraine, volunteers preserve humanity by caring for the living and the dead.
Every Little Thing
(Country: Australia; Year: 2024; Director: Sally Aitken; Writer: Sally Aitken)
Amid the glamour of Hollywood, Los Angeles, a woman finds herself on a transformative journey as she nurtures wounded hummingbirds, unraveling a visually captivating and magical tale of love, fragility, healing, and the delicate beauty in tiny acts of greatness.
Agent Of Happiness and Silent Men
Fantômas
(Country: France; Year: 1913; Director: Louis Feuillade; Stars: René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior)
Fantômas is pursued by Inspector Juve (Edmund Breon) and newspaper reporter Jérôme Fandor (Georges Melchior) as he carries out his nefarious schemes.
Gaucho Gaucho
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw)
A celebration of a community of Argentine cowboys and cowgirls, known as Gauchos, living beyond the boundaries of the modern world.
Handmade: A Tale Of Stop-Motion
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2023; Director: Nikalas Catlow; Writer: Nikalas Catlow; Stars: Heigo Eeriksoo, Christian Fex, Märt Kivi, Mait Laas, Des McAleer, Andres Mänd, Ragnar Neljandi, Chris Robinson, Riho Unt)
The story of Nukufilm, the world’s oldest surviving stop-motion animation studio.
Higher Than Acidic Clouds
(Country: Iran; Year: 2024; Director: Ali Asgari; Writer: Ali Asgari)
Hybrid documentary, made while filmmaker Ali Asgari was under house arrest.
Intercepted
(Country: Canada, France, Ukraine; Year: 2024; Director: Oksana Karpovych; Writer: Oksana Karpovych)
The destruction caused by the war against Ukraine is shown in lengthy tableaux. Intercepted phone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families set up a parallel world.
Fantômas and Intercepted
The Invasion (L’Invasion)
(Country: Ukraine, Netherlands, France, US; Year: 2024; Director: Sergei Loznitsa)
Life in Ukraine under the shadow of war.
Made In Ethiopia
(Country: US, Denmark, Canada, UK, South Korea; Year: 2024; Director: Max Duncan, Xinyan Yu; Writer: Max Duncan, Xinyan Yu)
An exploration of the rapid industrialisation in modern-day Ethiopia and China's economic gamble in Africa, seen through the experiences of three women.
Porcelain War
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev; Writer: Aniela Sidorska, Brendan Bellomo, Paula DuPré Pesmen, Slava Leontyev)
Under roaring fighter jets and missile strikes, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind and fight, contending with the soldiers they have become. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living.
Silent Men
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Duncan Cowles; Writer: Duncan Cowles; Stars: Duncan Cowles)
An exploration of modern-day masculinity.
This Is A Film About The Black Keys
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jeff Dupre; Stars: Dan Auerbach, Patrick J. Carney)
Documentary about the rise of the band.
Every Little Thing and Gaucho Gaucho
Wishing On A Star
(Country: Austria, Italy, Croatia, Slovakia, Czechia; Year: 2024; Director: Peter Kerekes; Writer: Erica Barbiani, Peter Kerekes; Stars: Luciana de Leoni D'Asparedo, Valentina Angeli, Alessandra Fornasier, Barbara Lutman, Giovanni Rugo, Adriana Vangone, Giuliana Vangone)
Documentary. Luciana, a Neapolitan astrologer, has a method to make her clients’ wishes come true. All they need to do is take a trip on their birthday to a precise destination to be reborn under a new sky.
