International Competition

As the Olympian gods struggle to make sense of the end of their empire, a rebellion rises from the valley below. The film stars only…

Two music enthusiasts reunite after some years to record an improvised album in a secluded house in the Greek mountains. As they immerse in music…

Yusuf travels through Kurdish villages, collecting fading folktales to publish in a book. The film takes us on that journey. We witness his bond with…

Melville’s short story is the starting point. “I would prefer not to,” Bartleby’s notorious line, runs like a common thread through the essayistic montage. It…

Cinema Kawakeb follows a filmmaker’s struggle to document the fading existence of a crumbling cinema in Amman, Jordan. Through the stories of its last two…

Lost in her fears and fantasies, a young woman writes in a notebook. A young man finds the notebook on a train. Suddenly, they find…

A couple throw themselves into a sailing race lasting several days and nights on a large lake, giving it their all. Lake Geneva has been…

The filmmaker finds a way to update his dead parents on what has happened in his family and country over the past 50 years. His…

Depressive. Virginal. Anti-Bolsonaro. Cinephile. Religious. Porn-theorist. Centripetal. Vegetarian. Literature lover. Proto-suicidal. Indiscreet. That’s how the protagonist and co-director of this nocturnal poem describes himself. His…

Pelu, a lonely projectionist in a dying cinema, loses his home and secretly moves into the theatre after being demoted. He turns it into a…

Shot on Mini DV and mostly in Paris, Towards the Light is a personal diary of exile. Through images of light, landscapes and memory, the…

Shot over the course of a decade at a sun-drenched villa in Provence, Vacances follows ‘Granny’, a bohemian Austro-Hungarian countess, as she imparts wisdom by…