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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
Director: András Földes
Editor: Anna Kis
Producer: Lorand Balazs Imre
Co-producer: Vít Janeček
When Hungary’s largest independent news outlet is taken over by pro-government forces, a conflict zone reporter films his own newsroom as 80 journalists resign in protest. They attempt a fresh start but inner conflicts threaten the fragile dream. Can independent journalism survive in an increasingly oppressive regime?
Produced by: Filmdough, D1 FILM, Differ Media
Director: Anna Durisikova
Editor: Vladimíra Vrbiňáková
Producer: Andrej Kolečník
In a village in the east of Slovakia, a group of young adults and kids run a sanctuary for abused and handicapped animals—so called “farmed” animals, which can live a free social life here and grow old peacefully. However, they have to deal with a lack of understanding and narrow-minded legislation. Fortunately, they have each other and create a sanctuary not only for animals but also for people.
Produced by: Admiral Films
Director: Kamila Serwicka
Editor: Julia Oleksy
Editor: Jakub Darewski
Producer: Adrianna Rędzia
Agnieszka and her daughters attend the trial of her abusive husband. A year earlier, she struggles with violence, family pressure, and financial hardship. Despite husband’s conviction, divorce takes time. Moving to the Netherlands, she faces loneliness and loss, but her daughters—her "Little Women"—stand by her as they all seek their own strength.
Produced by: Lumisenta Film Foundation
Director: Maciej Cuske
Editor: Katarzyna Orzechowska
Producer: Ewa Hoffmann
Fifteen years ago, I took my son and two of his young friends on vacation, during which we filmed an amateur horror movie together. Little did I know then that it would turn into one of the greatest adventures of my life, lasting over a decade. 'Candidates of Death' is a film about the power of great friendship, growing up, our fears, dreams, and plans, set against the backdrop of a grand cinematic adventure spanning decades.
Produced by: Fundacja Bydgoska Kronika Filmowa
Director: Martin Páv
Editor: Hedvika Hansalová
Producer: Zuzana Kučerová
In this world, to glow means many things: to achieve success in life, to meet someone who truly loves you, to perform well on social media, to look perfect, or to have a lighter skin than others. Taking place in New Delhi, Nairobi, and Seoul, the film tells stories of six protagonists from different cultural, as well as socio-economic back-grounds, who share one thing in common – in order to glow, they apply various skin-lightening products.
Produced by: Frame Films, Czech TV
Director: Markéta Ekrt Valková
Editor: Jan Daňhel
Producer: Gordon Lovitt
An ecologist wants to use fire to protect the environment. Is there method in his madness? A story of how fire can be a positive tool in our era of global warming and symbol for both renewal and societal change
Produced by: Now Productions, Inselfilm
Director, editor: Jana Bučka Kovalčíková
Producer: Livia Filusova
Cinematographer: Michal Fulier
Dramaturgist: Alexandra Gunišová Ševčíková
Milota Havránková is a phenomenon — a fearless experimenter and an unmistakable voice in Slovak art. The first woman to graduate in photography from FAMU, Milota carved her own path through surrealism, pop-art, and the edges of multimedia expression. She has never followed trends, she has created them, constantly defying conventions with a radical sense of freedom. Together with her equally free-spirited family, she forms a mosaic of creativity, individuality, and bold extravagance.
Produced by: FURIA FILM, Slovak televison and radio
Director, producer: Tomáš Krupa
Editor: Peter Kudlička
Mankind is unlikely to stop climate change, but it can adapt to the new, harder conditions. WE HAVE TO SURVIVE takes us on a journey to the four corners of the planet to meet the first climate pioneers, who are already forced to mitigate local effects of global warming and adapt to the new harder living conditions.
Produced by: HAILSTONE, Yuzu Filmproductions, Golden Girls Filmproduktion
