Director: Nadja Drost
Director: Bruno Federico
Editor: Marianna Rudas
Producer: Michal Sikora
Associate producer: Juliána Horváth
"La Mona," a fighter in Colombia’s FARC rebel group since she was a teen, lays down her weapon in a peace deal to end 50 years of war. ALIAS LA MONA traces her remarkable journey from guerilla to civilian, as she leaves a clandestine life in the jungle to reunite with her son. Filmed with rare access over 7 years, this is the powerfully resonant story of a mother and ex-fighter torn between grief and revenge who pays the ultimate price for peace.
Produced by: Lonely Production
Director: Ieva Ozolina
Editor: Jurgis Locmelis
Producer: Madara Melberga
The debt collection agency Arvik began operations in the late 1990s. Its founders shared a common past—years in prison. When Latvia joined the EU, legal changes forced them to adapt. The team takes cases where the legal system is powerless, operating in grey areas and using methods only God knows. Viktor and his team attempt to navigate this transition but face something inevitable—aging.
Produced by: FA Filma
Directors, producers: Pietra Brettkelly, The Critics
Producers: The Critics, Pietra Brettkelly
Editor: Chia Chi Hsu
Armed with a single mobile camera, failing electricity and wild imaginations, CROCODILE is the coming-of-age story of nine young Nigerians who discover their voice in sci-fi filmmaking. Saturated in Christianity, in a country with political and economic hardships, predators lurk. But the group talks biblically of their sci-fi films, and filmed over 12 years CROCODILE reveals their wider world view as they stretch beyond their Nigerian town.
Produced by: Clan Yujo Ltd, Pietra Brettkelly Films Ltd
Director: Rafa Molés
Director, editor: Pepe Andreu
Producer: Natalia Maestro Ruiz
Producer: Alba Santos Cloux
Co-producer: Arūnas Matelis
Co-producer: Ólafur Rögnvaldsson
Seven siblings isolated themselves at the beginning of the past Century at the foot of Europe's largest glacier. They explored and worshipped it before anyone talked about the melt. Their farm is now an empty skeleton. But their voice will echo again like a litany, like a warning. On the wall, the image of a 'pietà', with the great white shroud twisted over the corpse of the dying son.
Produced by: SUICAfilms
Co-produced by: AX FILMS (Iceland), STUDIO NOMINUM (Lithuania)
Director: Kristina Mikhailova
Editor: Arya Rothe
Producer: Dana Sabitova
Close your eyes and see river dreams. Director Kristina Mikhailova explores womanhood in Kazakhstan by following a long river, interviewing women under 30 who live nearby, politically and personally embodying the river in these women. Kazakhstan is 30 years old as a country, the age of realizing its own maturity.
Produced by: 24 FPS
Director: David Roland Warwick
Editor: Richard Gorman
Producer: Dewi Gregory
In the shadow of the UK’s last great steelworks, an unique community of surfers seek joy and solace in the waves, despite mounting uncertainty about the future.
Produced by: Truth Department
Director: Elisabeth Rasmussen
Editor: Ash Jenkins
Producer: Benedikte Bredesen
Producer: Ulrik Gutkin
Producer: James Hever
When jazz musician and amateur geologist Jon Larsen discovers billion-year-old stardust on his balcony, he embarks on a 10-year underdog journey from the Arctic Circle to the streets of NYC to prove to the skeptical scientific elite that this magical cosmic dust can be found in the unlikeliest of places. Stardust is a poetic and humorous story about curiosity, persistence, and our shared origin: we all are made from Stardust.
Produced by: Wonderline Productions, Copenhagen Film Company Short & Doc
Director: Olivér Márk Tóth
Editor: Zsófia Érdi
Editor: Tamás Hegyvári
Editor: Tamás Szabó
Producer: László Józsa
A charismatic rural middle-schooler becomes a rap star in a few months thanks to his incredibly outspoken lyrics. With fame comes expectations, and under the pressure he becomes addicted at a young age. While his parents support him, they are deeply worried as they have no control over his lifestyle. But how does he keep his feet on the ground, when success sends him flying?
Produced by: SpeakEasy Project