International Feature Competition
Made up of powerful, symbolic images, this captivating and poetic cinematic testimony explores an inventive and free-flowing look at exile, memory, and the future.
International Feature Competition
On a Beirut beach, three men expose their lives to the filmmaker’s attentive gaze. Dima El-Horr captures memory, loss, and resilience amid Lebanon’s perpetual political turmoil.
AND THE FISH FLY ABOVE OUR HEADS
- Dima El-Horr
- 2025
- Lebanon, France, Saudi Arabia
- s.t. French or English
- 70 min
International Feature Competition
In a rare fusion of art and pedagogy, this compelling essay exposes the invisible hand of the John M. Olin Foundation behind the trickling down (neo)conservatism in the United States.
International Feature Competition
Filmed over 15 years, this film combines legend and magical realism to immerse us in the reality of the border village of Moimenta, where Mariana and her family live.
GODS OF STONE
- Iván Castiñeiras Gallego
- 2025
- Spain, Portugal, France
- s.t. French or English
- 85 min
International Feature Competition
Set in a village in Georgia’s Pankisi Valley near the Chechen border, Imago follows filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev as he confronts generational silence and cultural displacement while dreaming of a home and a life beyond convention.
International Feature Competition
Across continents, Maryam reconnects with her parents via discreetly installed surveillance cameras, capturing intimate gestures that bridge forced exile, memory, longing, and the passage of time.
International Feature Competition
Underground invites us to listen gently, transporting the senses to new spaces where a transhistorical exploration of the Battle of Okinawa, a pivotal event in Japanese history, emerges.
International Feature Competition
In the darkness of an eternal night, this immersive film takes us to a group of Afghan smugglers in the forest on the border between Serbia and Hungary, revealing the cruelty and violence of an unequal world.
WAKING HOURS
- Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini
- 2025
- Italy
- s.t. English
- 78 min
International Feature Competition
With Hasan in Gaza reveals rediscovered footage from 2001 of Palestinian residents under occupation, bearing witness to past violence. Today, that footage resonates as a reflection on memory, history, and the ongoing horrors of genocide.
WITH HASAN IN GAZA
- Kamal Aljafari
- 2025
- Palestine, Germany, France, Qatar
- s.t. French or English
- 106 min
