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Online Pass: $100

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The Land of Short Sentences
Meter i sekundet

When Rasmus (Thomas Hwan) gets a teaching post in Jutland, he accepts. But all signs suggest that this is hardest felt by his girlfriend Marie (Sofie Torp), who finds her life in Copenhagen hard to give up. Does the town of Velling have any use for a writer who can’t drive, and whose social life doesn’t revolve around a family? And is this relationship really worth the complete uprooting of what she knows? Torp, who also starred in Hygge!, the Danish title from last year’s EUFF, is the centre of the film, playing a woman who feels like every culture-clash joke and relationship conflict could be an incremental step in a plot to ruin her life, unless—through an advice column—she finds a way to carve out a comfortable niche in her picturesque and strange new home.

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The Land in the Shadows
D’Land am Schiet

The tautly constructed, very impressive debut film from writer-director Lukas Grevis, In the Land of the Shadows tells the powerful, timely story of growing xenophobia in a village in Luxembourg. Concerned about the international crisis in migration and displacement, idealistic Jos and his girlfriend Sara want to create a centre for refugees. As their plans become more concrete, the community becomes anxious. When the mascot of the village, a wild dog, is mysteriously killed, Jos becomes the prime suspect. Misinformation, lies, rumours and fear soon begin to turn the village against Jos and his family. Political and regional opportunists take on this chance to use the sentiments in their favour, and what started as an humanist gesture of compassion suddenly is thrust into the shadowy realms of mistrust and intolerance. Gripping.

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Ciao Ciao

When old friends Charlotte and Jessica run into each other in the street, they are thrilled to catch up on each other’s lives and to set up a dinner party with their husbands. Unfortunately, once the dinner begins, the two men have less in common, with wealthy alpha male Victor sharing his provocative theories and boasting about expensive clothes to Sam, who bristles at his host’s pomposity and wishes to leave as soon as possible. At first, small inconveniences like a lost phone and a blocked car keep the foursome reluctantly together, but as they discover deeper hidden connections in their pasts, things quickly begin to unravel. What seemed like a harmless dinner party soon becomes an intense (and quite funny) evening as social graces crumble into chaos.

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Brando with a Glass Eye 

If Antonis Tsonis’s debut is any indication, the Weird Wave is experiencing a second wind. The first Greek-language film in Slamdance’s narrative competition, Brando with a Glass Eye takes the country’s proclivity for cinematic strangeness into bold, uncharted territories with this metatextual tale of a wannabe actor (Yiannis Niarros) who resorts to crime to finance a trip to New York’s famed Acting Studio. When a bystander is shot during a botched heist job, the Brando-obsessive goes Method and befriends the victim in an increasingly unhinged bid for personal salvation. Steeped in the influence of New Hollywood cinema, Tsonis’s confident, curious debut is a mise en abyme about the movies and the art (and artifice) of performance.

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Savanna and the Mountain A savana e a montanha

Set in the rugged Portuguese countryside, this striking drama follows the residents of a small village confronted with the arrival of a massive lithium mining project. At first, promises of jobs and prosperity seem to offer hope for renewal, but soon the true cost of “progress” becomes impossible to ignore. Families are torn between the lure of opportunity and the threat of losing their land, their traditions, and their way of life. Selected for the prestigious Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes 2024, Savanna and the Mountain blends fiction and documentary with urgency and poignancy, offering a stirring reflection on resistance, solidarity, and the price of modernity.
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Whites Wash at Ninety Belo se pere na devetdeset

Despite her young age, a woman faces a lifetime’s worth of personal upheaval in Whites Wash at Ninety. Based on Bronja Žakelj’s Kresnik Award-winning autobiographical novel, this film from Marko Naberšnik (Slovenia, Australia, and Tomorrow the World, EUFF 2018) explores how history leaves its mark on individual lives. Not only does Bronja (Lea Čok Rajčič) experience the death of family members and her own personal illness, she does so at a time when historical change, including the fall of the USSR, is making life speed by. Moving between humour, tenderness, and regret, Naberšnik’s film is both a family saga and a reflection on the time we feel is taken away from us by forces beyond our control.

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Even Pigs Go to Heaven
Nosila je rubac črleni

A zany musical comedy about the dramas of villagers and their pigs in the Zagorje hills, narrated by Jesus Christ himself! At the outset of the Croatian War in 1991, plucky Anka (Nataša Dorčić) is privy to numerous secrets and scandals in her town. When her beloved sow Bebe expresses a desire to mate for the first time, Anka plays matchmaker with a strapping Serbian boar. But with local men enlisting for the Croatian cause, what will her neighbours say? The third feature from Goran Dukić (Wristcutters: A Love Story) imagines the Croatian landscape with cheery saturated colours and meticulous production design, all infused with good-natured humour and plenty of local flavour.)

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Drowning Dry
Seses

Bareisa’s often startling family drama, rendered in a fragmented narrative (reminiscent of Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter), is a powerful, affecting tale of two families whose summer holiday goes awry. Ernesta and her husband Lukas head to a lakeside country home with their son, accompanied by Ernesta’s sister, Juste, and her husband and daughter. We soon learn that both marriages are facing challenges and that this country holiday is not as idyllic as it first appears. When a sudden accident happens at the lake, their worlds changes utterly, but can they recover? Moving back and forth in time, Bareisa’s film is an intense, surprising examination of relationship, family, and how trauma is both experienced and processed. Unforgettable.

Winner, Best Director and Best Ensemble Performance at the 2024 Locarno Film Festival

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Smaragda: I Got Thick Skin and I Can’t Jump
Σμαράγδα

After being fired from her job as a children’s television host for having an inadequate social media following, eccentric Smaragda (Niovi Charalambous) moves into her recently deceased mother’s house and takes a job at a nearby resort. Emilios Avraam describes his debut as a “midlife coming-of-age film” that avoids characterizing its protagonist in terms of crisis: the brightly coloured production design and dreamy cinematography evoke Smaragda’s irrepressible free spirit in a world that’s rarely hospitable to it. The film tackles today’s thorniest questions––climate change, online performativity, financial pressure––with humour and determination; the title comes from Smaragda’s self-comparison to the sturdy, self-confident elephant. 

Best Cypriot Film, Best Performance (Niovi Charalambous) Cyprus Film Days 2025

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Three Kilometers to the End of the World
Trei kilometri pâna la capatul lumii

In a small fishing village along the Danube Delta, a teenager’s secret relationship is discovered, setting off a chain of events that will shake his family and community to the core. Adi and his parents, caught between protecting their son and confronting the violence of their neighbours, find themselves at odds with each other as old prejudices come to the surface. Shot with striking naturalism by Silviu Stavilã (Stuff and Dough), this film by Emanuel Pârvu (Mikado, EUFF 2023) is an intense and intimate portrait of family bonds tested under pressure. Winner of the Queer Palm at Cannes, Three Kilometres Until the End of the World is both deeply moving and unforgettable.

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Réveillon
A máme, čo sme chceli

A family gathers in a small apartment to celebrate the coming of 1993, and with it Slovakia’s independence. The mood is light and laughter fills the room. But as the night wears on, tensions and long-hidden grievances begin to surface. What starts as playful banter gradually spirals into heated arguments, accusations, and revelations that no one expected to hear. By the time midnight strikes, the Varchal family will never be the same again. Michal Kunes Kováč’s sharply observed chamber drama offers both biting humour and emotional depth as it examines the fragile bonds that hold people together.

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Memory Lane
De terugreis

Jaap and Maartje have been together almost five decades. Irascible old Jaap is not very interested in doing much, but Maartje, despite her occasional confusion, is still keen to embrace everything life has to offer. When the couple receives a letter from an old friend, Maartje manages to convince her reluctant husband to visit him in Southern Europe. After many years, the pair get into their old car to go on a journey through a completely changed Europe – bickering all the way, but also stirring up old loving memories. During this journey, Jaap slowly recognizes that his beloved Maartje is showing increasing signs of dementia. Realizing that everything is about to change, they rediscover just what it is they love about each other. A beautiful, tender, and very funny love story, Memory Lane was the Dutch submission to the Academy Award for International Feature last year.

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Making Of

This entry by Cédric Kahn (The Goldman Case, Wild Life, EUFF 2015) in the film-about-filmmaking genre is a high-energy comedy about the snares of industry work, starting with the compromises and hypocrisies of international co-production financing! Simon is making a film about a worker’s strike. When his film’s production partners turn out to not hold for the length of the shoot, the crew considers taking a page out of the fiction they’re enacting to solve the real-world indignity they’re being subject to—can Simon truly disagree with their tactical response? Denis Podalydès, last seen in a starring role as a Philip Roth stand-in for Arnaud Desplechin’s Deception, plays the stressed-out director, while cinematographer Patrick Ghiringhelli (The Night of the 12) captures the metafictional madness.

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Wedlock
СВАТБА

In the Rhodope Mountains at the turn of the 20th century, the headstrong daughter of a wealthy landowner falls in love with a wild-spirited orphan boy. What starts as a familiar story of forbidden romance takes a series of unexpected turns when Hatte (Ralitsa Stoyanova) tries to elope after her betrothal to an unwanted suitor. Magdalena Ralcheva’s sumptuously filmed drama stages intergenerational love triangles and long-simmering familial resentments in an unforgiving landscape, where every character faces impossible choices between love and responsibility, freedom and sacrifice, honour and sin. Sections of the Agushev Konak, a 19th-century castle high in the mountains, were restored specifically for the production.

Best Feature Film (Critics Guild Award) Golden Rose Bulgarian Feature Film Festival 2024

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8 Views of Lake Biwa
Biwa järve 8 nägu

The winner of prizes for direction, acting, cinematography, and four other technical prizes at this year’s Estonian Film and Television Awards, Marko Raat’s fourth film takes its premise and title from an unusual transposition. In traditional Japanese painting, the Views tradition of serial woodblock paintings includes eight views of Omi, as well as the more widely-known 36 Views by Hokusai. Raat’s film unfolds episodically on Lake Peipus, and each variation presents a tale of star-crossed lovers, all forced to forge a new relationship where the trajectory, from the start, appears to be defined by fate. The chapters unfold in a highly artificial, anachronistic, and ritualistic manner. Theatre actor Tiina Tauraite’s role as Õnne, a teacher who meets a fisherman whose secrets are withheld for a decade, is a particular standout.

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We Treat Women Too Well
Tratamos demasiado bien a las mujeres

Adapted from Raymond Queneau’s provocative novel, this dark comedy transposes the Oulipo author’s mix of political and sexual warfare from Ireland’s Easter Rising to the end of the Spanish Civil War. The action is set over a single day in a remote post office, and pits a disorganized battalion of resistance fighters against the epitome of the Francoist regime in the wedding dress-adorned Remedios (Carmen Machi). Director Clara Bilbao captures the novel’s satirical edge with bold style, balancing biting humour with social critique. We Treat Women Too Well is daring, entertaining, and unafraid to challenge assumptions, while shining a light on Spain’s long tradition of irony and satire.

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Dreamtown

A rock star that never was is at the heart of Steven McKenna’s lived-in character study, which draws inspiration from the orbit of the director’s musician father, a member of the Dublin band Shaine whose minor-hit “Dreamtown” affords the film its title. Leather-clad barfly Mickey Richards (Anthony Murphy) is an over-the-hill rocker still clinging to his younger self and bygone brushes with near-fame. His adult son Alan (Cian Hyland), meanwhile, has staked out his own career in music, a point of tension in the already tarnished relationship between the two. Desperate for connection but unwilling to cede his dreams to the next generation, Mickey must face up to his failures—as a musician, as a father—if he wants to keep Alan in his life.

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Peacock
Pfau—Bin ich echt?

How can we be ourselves when our lives demand constant performances for others? This biting social commentary follows “rent-a-friend” Matthias (All Quiet on the Western Front’s Albrecht Schuch) as he expertly occupies the roles demanded by his clients, whether they be of a present father, cultured boyfriend, or accomplished son. When his girlfriend dumps him for being too inauthentic, Matthias goes on an increasingly absurd journey of self discovery. Inspired by the same real-life agencies as the buzzy Brendan Fraser feature Rental Family, Wenger’s debut takes a decidedly more satirical approach in the vein of Ruben Östlund or Toni Erdmann.

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Maria’s Silence
Marijas Klusums

Renowned writer-director Davis Simanis (whose Exiled and The Year Before the War have played at previous EUFFs) here offers a powerful historical drama shot in luminous black and white. Based on the true story of Maria Leiko, a famous actress who becomes both a witness to and victim of Stalin’s brutal regime. In 1937, the then former silent film star travels to Russia after learning of the birth of her granddaughter. Discovering the tragic circumstances of her birth, she is persuaded by KGB agents to stay, abandoning her film career to join the Latvian State Theatre in Moscow. Increasingly aware that she is being manipulated by the Soviet government during its ruthless purges of political enemies, she must choose between family and career, and between her artistic ideals and the barbaric politics of Stalinism.

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The Summer Book

Novelist, painter, and children’s book writer and illustrator Tove Jansson could hardly have predicted the sub-industry that has sprung up around her work, encompassing major exhibitions, biographical treatments, and now an international co-production of a book she wrote as a personal, intimate, and even reclusive correspondence in contrast to her national popularity. Charlie McDowell, the American director of high-concept films like The One I Love and Windfall, earned the approval of Jansson’s niece Sophia to helm the project. Glenn Close plays the sage and inquisitive grandmother, full of flinty appreciation for nature’s wisdom, to the film’s version of Sophia, a child who’s given the space to grow over a Nordic island summer. Anders Danielsen Lie (Bergman Island, The Worst Person in the World) rounds out the cast as Sophia’s father.

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Omen
Augure

A tour de force of magical realism from Belgian-Congolese rapper-turned-filmmaker Baloji Tshiani, Omen uses enigmatic storytelling and stunning imagery to tell the story of a Congolese man’s traumatic homecoming. Koffi (Marc Zinga) travels back to Kinshasa to introduce his family to his pregnant European girlfriend, only to be faced with the same accusations of witchcraft that spurred his exile in the first place. Baloji’s mesmerising debut is replete with intersecting stories and shifting meanings that evoke heartbreak and horror in equal measure. Baloji collaborated with Elke Hoste on the Central African-inspired costume design, which was featured in an exhibition at the MoMu Fashion Museum Antwerp.

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Beyond the Blue Border
Jenseits der blauen Grenze

Based on a novel by athlete-turned-author Dorit Linke, writer-director Sarah Neumann’s feature debut is a gripping, youth-centred historical drama set during the final bulwark of authoritarianism in 1989 East Germany. That summer, twentysomething Hanna (Lena Urzendowsky, From Hilde, with Love), a gifted swimmer with Olympic ambitions, elects to abandon her podium dreams when best friend Andreas (Willi Geitmann) is targeted by the secret police for transgressions against the state. Their path to freedom? A treacherous, open-water swim across 50-kilometres of the Baltic Sea, with only a rope tethering them together. Neumann’s film was a multiple-prize winner at Saarbrücken’s Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, which celebrates emerging talent in German-language cinema.

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I Accidentally Wrote a Book
Véletlenül írtam egy könyvet

Hungarian writer-director Nóra Lakos, whose previous feature Cream played EUFF 2021, returns to the festival with a whimsical coming-of-age film about a young writer navigating girlhood and personal loss. Twelve-year-old Nina (Villõ Demeter) is a storyteller. Under the mentorship of a bohemian novelist next door, she starts to translate her life into prose—the nuisances of a little brother, the pains of growing up, the giddiness of first love. Gradually her writing leads to questions about her family and unresolved emotions around her mother’s death long ago. Using flourishes of animation to articulate Nina’s effervescent imagination, I Accidentally Wrote a Book celebrates the magic of creativity to heal and help discover oneself.

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Hammarskjöld

Dag Hammarskjöld, the Swedish diplomat who became Secretary-General of the United Nations, dedicated his life to peace and international cooperation. In this sweeping biographical drama, director Per Fly follows Hammarskjöld’s journey from his rise in international politics to his untimely death in a mysterious plane crash in 1961. Along the way, the film portrays the challenges he faced in balancing ideals with the harsh realities of Cold War geopolitics. Anchored by Mikael Persbrandt’s compelling performance in the title role, Hammarskjöld is a richly detailed portrait of a man whose vision for global peace remains strikingly relevant today.

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Casanova’s Return
Il ritorno di Casanova

Hugely successful, critically acclaimed filmmaker Leo Bernadi (played with endearing world weary charm by the excellent Toni Servillo) is approaching the end of his career but refuses to accept his slow decline. Strangely, the film he just finished shooting is inspired by a novel about the legendary ladies’ man, Casanova, a character Leo realizes is eerily similar to himself. Leo’s Casanova has lost his powers of attraction over women, plus he’s broke and simply wants to go back home to Venice. While traveling home, however, this aging Casanova meets a beautiful woman named Marcoline. She reawakens his desire, but his attempts at seduction are now fraught with new, unfamiliar risks. In this entertaining “art imitates life” tale, it is not lost on Leo why he decided to tell this story at such a pivotal moment of his life. But will his destiny as an old man match that of Casanova’s?

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This screening is a fundraiser. Proceeds from this screening will benefit the Canada-Ukraine Foundation, a charitable foundation that develops, organizes, and delivers assistance projects generated by Canadians, directed to Ukraine.

Porcelain War Порцелянова війна

Amidst the chaos and destruction of the Russian invasion, three artists defiantly find inspiration and beauty as they defend their culture and their country. In a war waged by professional soldiers against civilians, Slava Leontyev, Anya Stasenko, and Andrey Stefanov choose to stay behind, armed with their art, their cameras, and, for the first time, their guns. Despite daily shelling, Anya finds purpose in her art, Andrey takes a dangerous journey to get his family to safety abroad, and Slava becomes a weapons instructor for ordinary people who now have to become soldiers. As the war intensifies, Andrey picks up his camera to film their story, and on tiny porcelain figurines, Anya and Slava capture their idyllic past, uncertain present, and hope for the future. An extraordinary document of an extraordinary time, Porcelain War was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.

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The Breach
Wyrwa

This stylish thriller revolves around Maciek, a man whose life unravels following a car accident that claims the life of his wife, Janina. Although it appears Janina may have taken her own life, Maciek is baffled by the accident's location near Mrągowo, especially when she had told him she was heading to Kraków for business. As doubt gnaws at him, Maciek urgently embarks on a relentless, sometimes dangerous quest for answers. His investigation leads him to an actor, Wojnar, who he begins to believe may have been involved romantically with Janina. As the layers of mystery unfold, Maciek faces unsettling revelations, questioning how well he actually knew the woman he loved. Based on a bestselling novel by Wojciech Chmielarz, the film features assured, kinetic direction by Bartosz Konopka, whose brilliant thriller Fear of Falling played at the EUFF in 2012.

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