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Main Competition
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Adidas Owns the Reality
21' 2024 USA
dir.: Keil Orion Troisi, Igor Vamos
The Yes Men are back, and this time their target is Adidas.
CINEMA
And So It Begins
99' 2024 Philippines, USA
dir.: Ramona S. Diaz
A breathtaking spectacle of the Philippine presidential campaign, where an independent candidate faces the dictator’s son.
CINEMA
Antarctica Calling
82' 2023 France
dir.: Luc Jacquet
The Oscar-winning director of "March of the Penguins" returns to a changed Antarctica.
CINEMA
Antidote
89' 2024 UK, USA
dir.: James Jones
A documentary thriller: Russian spies in the crosshairs of investigative journalists.
CINEMA
The Battle for Laikipia
94' 2024 USA, Kenya, Greece
dir.: Daphne Matziaraki, Peter Murimi
Kenya. Global warming intensifies old conflicts rooted in colonial history.
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Being Mikołaj
57' 2024 Poland
dir.: Aurelia Frydrych-Zdanowska
The price of freedom. The emotional and legal labyrinth of gender reassignment in Poland.
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Bliss Point
26' 2023 Italy, UK, Spain
dir.: Gerard Ortín
What food ends up on our plates, and how does it get there?
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A Chronicle of Memorial Rites
70' 2024 Poland
dir.: Robert Kowalski
The Smolensk monthly memorials—from pompous power rituals to tragicomic grotesque.
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Comfortless
16' 2023 South Korea, USA
dir.: Gina Kim
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Comrades
61' 2024 Poland, Italy
dir.: Joanna Janikowska
Young Italian leftists try to breathe life into an ossified communist milieu.
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The Dead Nation
83' 2017 Romania
dir.: Radu Jude
An experimental documentary on the end of Romanian Jewry.
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Dogs Are People Too
75' 2024 UK
dir.: Hendrik Faller
We all love our dogs. But are we ready to treat them like humans?
CINEMA
Don't Get Me Wrong
50' 2007 Romania
dir.: Adina Pintilie
A psychiatric hospital where time has stood still, directed by Romanian cinema master Adina Pintilie.
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Echo
20' 2023 Poland
dir.: Emi Buchwald
Two teenagers learn self-acceptance through stuttering therapy.
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Eddy's War
103' 2024 The Netherlands
dir.: Joost van der Valk
A war photographer hunts for the perfect shot in Ukraine, regardless of the cost.
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Eight Postcards from Utopia
71' 2024 Romania
dir.: Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Radu Jude
Polish audience favorite, Radu Jude, with the help of Christian Ferencz-Flatz takes a humorous look at Romania's transformation as told through period advertisements of the 90s.
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Escaping censorship. Dictatorship-era Romanian docs
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The Falling Sky
110' 2024 Brazil, Italy
dir.: Eryk Rocha, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
Amazonian villagers fight off gold miners with shamanic trance rituals, awakening powerful forces of nature.
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The Flats
114' 2024 France, UK, Ireland, Belgium
dir.: Alessandra Celesia
Belfast. Scars of the past block progress, while drug dealers replace terrorists in the housing estates.
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Flowers of Ukraine
70' 2024 Poland, Ukraine
dir.: Adelina Borets
An anarchic war-time comedy: 67-year-old Natalia fights for her oasis amidst Kyiv’s housing blocks.
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Fresh Memories: The Look
11' 2023 Czechia, Ukraine
dir.: Ondrej Moravec, Volodymyr Kolbasa
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From Ground Zero
115' 2024 Palestine, France, Qatar, Jordan, UAE
dir.: various directors
Palestine’s Oscar submission: the war in Gaza through the eyes of local filmmakers.
CINEMA
Fury
85' 2021 Poland
dir.: Krzysztof Kasior
Ola dreams of a career as a professional fighter. How much is she willing to sacrifice to win the coveted belt?
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How do we follow the rules of the road?
16' 1963 Romania
dir.: Slavomir Popovici
A subversive avant-garde satire on the chaos reigning on the streets of Bucharest.
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How to please
28' 2023 Finland
dir.: Elina Talvensaari
An Iraqi refugee faces the Kafkaesque Euro-bureaucratic labyrinth.
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Imelda
102' 2003 USA
dir.: Ramona S. Diaz
Imelda Marcos—once a fairy-tale princess and “mother of the nation,” now the owner of the world’s largest shoe collection.
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Intercepted
95' 2024 Canada, France, Ukraine
dir.: Oksana Karpovych
The year’s most acllaimed Ukrainian documentary. Conversations between Russian soldiers and their families intercepted by Ukrainian intelligence.
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La Base
72' 2023 France
dir.: Vadim Dumesh
A modern Tower of Babel: the base for taxi drivers at one of the continent's largest airports.
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Let the summer pass
11' 1972 Romania
dir.: Florica Holban
Youth prostitution. Romanian sex workers in the 1980s.
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Lonely Oaks
102' 2023 Germany
dir.: Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl, Jens Muehlhoff
Young activists work to save a forest, blocking an energy corporation's expansion plans. A shocking film where facing the death of the filmmaker tests the limits of sacrifice in defence of nature....
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Mammary Mountain
25' 2023 UK
dir.: Tara Baoth Mooney, Camille Baker, Maf’j Alvarez
ONLINE FROM DECEMBER 2
Matter Out of Place
106' 2022 Austria
dir.: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
The Austrian master's camera follows the people who do our dirty work – from sterile alpine peaks to monstrous landfills that have taken on lives of their own, through underground cave corridors...
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Motherland
94' 2017 USA, Philippines
dir.: Ramona S. Diaz
A bursting maternity hospital in the center of an Asian metropolis and its patients.
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Mourning in Lod
93' 2023 Israel
dir.: Hilla Medalia
Hilla Medalia brings us closer to the story revealing the intricacies of the conflict, the latest installment of which is captivating the world. The families of two accidental victims of the conflict,...
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Murmuration
19' 2023 Canada
dir.: Patricia Bergeron
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My Sextortion Diary
64' 2024 Spain
dir.: Patricia Franquesa
A story of sextortion. What to do when intimate photos fall into criminal hands?
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The Night Visitors
72' 2023 USA
dir.: Michael Gitlin
A fascinating, brilliantly colorful world of nocturnal moths that have accompanied humanity since the dawn of time.
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Norwegian Democrazy
86' 2024 Norway
dir.: Fabien Greenberg
Bård Kjøge Rønning
The paradoxes of democracy in Norway. Hate speech vs. freedom of speech.
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Out of the Present
96' 1995 Germany, Russia, France, Belgium
dir.: Andrei Ujică
The story of the last Soviet cosmonaut, who spent nearly a year in orbit while his country dissolved below him.
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Peaches Goes Bananas
73' 2024 France, Belgium
dir.: Marie Losier
A daring portrait of the feminist electro-punk icon.
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People Telling Stories
10' 1983 Romania
dir.: Ovidiu Bose Pastina
A shocking documentary about workplace accidents, disguised as a safety instructional film.
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Real
83' 2024 Italy, France
dir.: Adele Tulli
What do we use virtual reality for? A breathtaking journey through the nooks and crannies of the digital world.
CINEMA
Reeds
9' 1966 Romania
dir.: Titus Mesaros
Cosmic landscapes of the Danube Delta and local reed collectors.
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Screening of the winning film - Green Dog Competition
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Screening of the winning film - Main Competition
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Screening of the winning film - New Polish Film Competition
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Separated
93' 2024 USA, Mexico
dir.: Errol Morris
Shocking practices of U.S. immigration services through the lens of a master of creative documentary.
ONLINE FROM DECEMBER 2
Silence of Reason
63' 2023 North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
dir.: Kumjana Novakova
Shocking testimony on the weaponization of sexual violence during the Balkan conflicts. An experimental film edited exclusively from evidence of the Tribunal in The Hague.
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Silent Trees
84' 2024 Poland, Germany, Denmark
dir.: Agnieszka Zwiefka
The Polish-Belarusian border crisis through the eyes of a Kurdish teenage girl.
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Stray Bodies
109' 2024 Greece, Switzerland, Italy, Bulgaria
dir.: Elina Psykou
Abortion, in vitro fertilization, and euthanasia in Europe. Women fighting to reclaim control over their bodies.
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Such Feeling
76' 2024 Poland
dir.: Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
The most important contemporary documentary on queer Warsaw. An honest portrait of a group of friends, which became a generational manifesto.
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Summer Qamp
80' 2023 Canada
dir.: Jen Markowitz
An empathetic, creative energy-filled summer camp for queer teens who can finally be themselves.
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There Was Nothing Here Before
71' 2024 Switzerland
dir.: Yvann Yagchi
Can a Palestinian director unveil the closed world of Jewish West Bank settlements?
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There Will Come a Day
12' 1985 Romania
dir.: Copel Moscu
A seemingly educational film about a turkey farm—but really a poignant metaphor for a totalitarian society.
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This Is Our Everything
81' 2023 Germany
dir.: Frederik Subei
The indigenous people of the Amazon defend their territory from illegal logging, while protecting the last community untainted by contact with the white man's civilization.
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A Thousand Cuts
99' 2020 USA
dir.: Ramona S. Diaz
Independent journalists vs. the dictator: a fierce battle for freedom of speech in the Philippines.
ONLINE FROM DECEMBER 2
Tokyo Uber Blues
93' 2022 Japan
dir.: Taku Aoyagi
Who delivers food to your door? The filmmaker takes a job as a bicycle courier delivering fast food in Tokyo gripped by pandemic fever.
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Unclickable
74' 2024 Cyprus, Greece, USA
dir.: Babis Makridis
The filmmakers pull off an internet scam right before our eyes—and no one notices.
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Union
100' 2024 USA
dir.: Stephen Maing, Brett Story
Unionists vs. the corporation. Can Amazon be defeated by handing out free joints to workers?
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Walking Alone, Text You When I’m Home
15' 2024 Germany
dir.: Vincent Abert
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We Did Not Consent
18' 2023 UK
dir.: Dorothy Allen-Pickard
The stories of British activists seduced by undercover police officers.
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Where Russia Ends
25' 2024 Ukraine
dir.: Oleksiy Radynski
Russian imperialism and environmental devastation in newly unearthed archival films. An allegory of the war in Ukraine.
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The winter of summer idlers
10' 1974 Romania
dir.: Iancu Moscu
The stylish interiors of favorite cafes are the haunts of Bucharest’s Bohemian elites.
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A Year in the Life of a Country
85' 2024 Poland
dir.: Tomasz Wolski
The true face of martial law: street riots, secret police, and carnival parties.
ONLINE FROM DECEMBER 2
You Have to Be Here to Believe
50' 2022 Hungary, Germany
dir.: Polina Georgescu
A street campaign by Hungarian activists facing the impossible odds of convincing a society manipulated by government propaganda to invalidate a homophobic referendum.
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Youth (Homecoming)
152' 2024 France, Luxembourg, Netherlands
dir.: Wang Bing
Who are the people working long hours in cramped rooms, sewing our clothes?
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Zinema
78' 2024 Ukraine, Luxembourg
dir.: Kornii Hrytsiuk
A ruthless vivisection of propaganda cinema that fueled Russian hatred toward all who rejected the “Russian world."
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