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God, Please Send a Whale(da)

A Danish family travels to Brazil to say goodbye to their mother, who passed away six years ago. But things don't quite go according to plan. Can the father and the two adult sisters reach each other and talk about loss, life and death?

Anything Else Than Air(es)

This film explores the consequences of the decisions we take and shows those things which really matter. After leaving his wife and children and promising he would be back, a man lives in a tent at a Mexico City park. There, he earns his living by selling balloons. After 30 years, he needs to fulfill his promise and return home. Will his family accept him back? Is he going to be able to change a life on the streets for the comfort of his home?

Halfway Home: A Father's Story(en)

A father exits prison and tries to integrate with his two children and girlfriend while living in a halfway house and on parole.

Sofía(es)

A taboo in the family: the death of my great-grandmother Sofía. The surface of this history is known but not the background and much less the beginning, only its end. The tragic end The answers are in the family, in my grandparents and my uncles. This project is a tribute to her and the woman she was.

A Love Letter to My Sister(th)

A brother and sister discuss domestic violence that has occurred by looking back at family photo albums.

A Cremation Day(th)

When my mom wants to burn all her wedding photos.

All American(en)

In this modern, coming of age documentary, Naomi, Jojo and Arham grapple with economic divides, gender roles, and family dynamics while competing in the fastest growing high school sport in the country: girl’s wrestling.

The Bastard Images(es)

Embracing a temporary visual impairment, a filmmaker immerses in her family’s 1990s home movies, composing a narrative that reimagines her father’s vision. They reconnect in the present, amid vulnerability, awkwardness and love: the story of a gardener and a one-eyed woman.

The Scars(eu)

The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line is comparable to a crease in the pages of the family album, but also to a crack in the walls of the paternal house. It resembles the open wound created when drilling into a mountain, but also a scar in the collective imaginary of a society, where the idea of salvation finds its tragic destiny in the political struggle. What is at the end of that line? Will old war songs be enough to circumvent that destiny?

TORO(es)

Chasing Dad: A Lifelong Addiction(en)

An original and compelling documentary depicting one father’s long-term struggle with heroin addiction told through the uniquely intimate perspective of his own son. After years of acrimony and estrangement, young filmmaker Phillip Wood seeks out his father to try and understand what’s happened to him. But his father is now seriously ill and over the next few months Phillip’s visits force both to confront some uncomfortable truths about their past. This documentary offers a strikingly stark exploration of a subject that significantly affected the filmmaker's childhood. An intimate, revealing documentary that shows addiction from a different side and challenges assumptions about how families can rebuild their broken relationships.

Bird Woman(de)

Annedore takes care of orphan birds. They give her that which humans througout her turbulent life could never give her: love.

The Day of No One(xx)

A silent day unfolds on the slope of a mountain… A child exists alongside his mother and father, yet each of them seems to inhabit a different world. With no dialogue, the film relies on visual storytelling. In certain close-up shots, color fades to black and white; symbolizing moments of inner solitude, personal conflict, and emotional disconnection. The unseen distances within the family are revealed not through words, but through images.

in transit(en)

Exploring the memories and experiences he had growing up, a son talks to his parents about how he felt mainly living with his mother while also visiting his father here and there who now had his own separate family.

Symbiosis(he)

Liron (29) and Liel (27) are inseparable. When Liel's mental health lapses, Liron starts documenting her sister's struggle. A drunk night out and hospitalization in psychiatric wards put their relationship to the test and uncovers the depth of the pain they carry. In an intimate and intrusive documentation, we are allowed a glimpse into an invisible person dealing with trauma.

Mr. Hidayet(tr)

Hidayet Usta is a shoemaker in his early 80s who has made a living repairing shoes. Having separated from his wife years ago and with a strained relationship with his children, Hidayet lives alone, but contentedly in his own world.

Peregrina(es)

No Song in the Air(pl)

Marek, a middle-aged forensic technician, is recently divorced and he shares custody of his five-year-old son with the boy’s mother. One night, accompanied by a trainee technician, he receives a call that breaks his work routine.

Hard Truths(en)

Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random strangers who have the temerity to address her. In contrast, her younger sister Chantelle lives with her two vivacious daughters and plies a successful trade as a hairdresser, putting clients at their ease all day long. Yet beneath Pansy’s abrasive exterior are hints of a more fragile psyche, one motivated by fear and damaged by repressed pain.

His Princess from Nowhere(en)

In the winter of 1960, small-town piano teacher Lucy Lay enters the Rich family, believing she has come for a simple tutoring job. She soon discovers the position is only a façade, and with no way out, she is pressed into the family’s arrangement to disguise herself as a princess from a mysterious nation and marry the family heir. Inside the hush of that vast winter manor, desire gathers like heat beneath ice. The secret she uncovers binds them in ways neither can escape. What begins as confinement becomes a dangerous pull that reshapes the course of her life.