Jiwo(2022)

You Can Play(en)

All eyes are on Brandon, the all-star quarterback of the Demons High School football team, as they get ready to play their first-ever state championship game. With the game looming, Brandon must grapple with his professional ambitions of a college football future and his fear of losing his childhood and best friend James. On the night before the game he must decide whether he wants to live as what he is — or who he is.

The Legend of Scotty Watts(en)

A teenager deeply consumed by fantasy struggles to form a meaningful connection — with the lead singer of his favourite band, and a fangirl who is quickly becoming something more. ​Pulsing with an eclectic rock soundtrack from The Midriffs, Super Defense and Loving, Prash Sampathkumaran has crafted a bittersweet ode to high school crushes, 90's nostalgia and the object of many a teenager's affections: the heartthrob with the guitar.

Antoñito vuelve a casa(es)

In Spain, Antoñito, a child, is punished to remain standing doing the fascist salute. As an adult, turned into a young college student, he tries to free himself from the perverse amalgam of ideas, values and beliefs with which his family, the Catholic Church and the repressive elements of the Franco Regime poisoned his mind during his childhood.

Angst and Treason(es)

During an awkward family gathering, María, a young lady going through a love crisis, discovers a secret that will transform her reality.

A Perfect Day(tr)

In a city far away from the nature, a man wakes up, has his breakfast and starts a perfect day.

Imperfect(tr)

Last letter from a serial killer in distopic Istanbul...

All That You Love Will Be Carried Away(en)

Based on the Stephen King short story: A middle-aged traveling salesman contemplates his life choices at a shitty motel in Nebraska.

Yarali bashlar(fa)

Documentary about the illegal mourning tradition of head slashing in the Azerbaijan region of northern Iran. In the film, Panahi documented a mourning ceremony for the third Shi'ite Imam, Imam Hossein, where people hit their heads with knives until they bled. Panahi had to shoot in secret and the film was banned for several years.

Kiem Holijanda(sq)

When teenager Andi discovers a card of a Dutch porn star in the bedroom he shares with his brother, his obsession to get a phone and access the X-rated content means he doesn't notice that his brother has chosen this day to say goodbye to him.

Mankind(en)

A restless young man wants to leave love and the Earth behind.

Self Destructive Boys(pt)

Self Destructive Boys is a direct stare into masculine interaction as we follow three boys in their mid-twenties, António, Xavier and Miguel testing the limits of their sexual flexibility.

John, Love(en)

A BAFTA award nominated drama about a young boy's memories of his first communion, set in Dublin in 1950.

“SÓ” Short Film(pt)

What Did They Say?(en)

A 1-minute film about the experience of young immigrant children having to translate for their parents. Presented by NextShark.

The Dreamer(en)

A Hispanic teen builds the confidence to tell his traditional Latin American family that he wants to shift careers and become an actor, much to their disapproval. As the conversation goes south, tensions rise, chaos ensues, and true colours are shown as the fabric of the once tight-knit family begins to tear.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, bed(es)

Esteban and Virginia do what they usually do together, but is it out of love or out of habit and fear of loneliness? Would daily routines work just as well with someone else? A depiction of a dead end relationship.

Caesura(en)

A male #metoo story set in the classical music world.

The Intermediate Step(es)

Yolanda is a young girl who practices athletics, it's her passion. But she's not training the way she wants, there is something wrong on her life and it's about to explode.

The Blue Bus(nl)

Detective Wikkobus suffers from 'the blues'. After fifty-five years of letting other people dictate his life, without having taken any initiative, only hanging around the blues café, drinking whiskey and searching for things that don't matter anyway, he has had enough of it. Wikkobus decides to go and find himself because, as he knows: 'Hell is what you make of it.'

Salvation Has No Name(en)

A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a priest and a refugee, but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to fray.