Indivision

Leïla Kilani ★ ★ 2023

In the hills of Tangier, in the middle of the forest, stands a decaying mansion: La Mansouria. Lina lives there with her father Anis, her grandmother Amina, and the maid Chinwiya. The father and daughter share a passion: birds. It is summer. Amina has agreed to organize a wedding for the family. Amina urges her family to accept a real estate offer that would make them all billionaires. Anis refuses to sell. Worse, he renounces his property rights. He wants to donate his share to the birds for eternity. And suddenly, the wind changes: a first fire, of unknown origin, starts in the hills. A rain of birds descends on the forest…

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— Feature Film Competition

Animal

Sofia Exarchou ★ ★ 2023

Under the scorching sun of a Greek island, the entertainers at an all-inclusive hotel, led by Kalia, prepare for the season. Cardboard sets, glittering costumes, and dance performances take over the stage. As the summer progresses and the pressure mounts, the nights become intense, brutal, and Kalia's demons awaken. But when the spotlights come on, the show must go on...

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— Feature Film Competition

Tiger Stripes

Amanda Nell Eu ★ ★ 2023

Zaffan, 12 years old, lives in a small rural community in Malaysia. Going through puberty, she realizes her body is changing at an alarming rate. Her friends turn away from her as the school seems under the influence of mysterious forces. Like a tiger harassed and displaced from its habitat, Zaffan decides to reveal her true nature, her fury, her rage, and her beauty.

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— Feature Film Competition

Je’vida

Katja Gauriloff ★ ★ 2023

An aunt and her niece who’ve never met before drive to Lapland to empty a house they’ve inherited. Turns out the withdrawn and distrusting aunt had been a victim of the assimilation policies and the niece has to make a big decision. By taking interest in each other they find value in themselves and their roots.

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— Feature Film Competition

Triple A

Jihane El Bahhar ★ ★ 2023

Three love stories of marginalized protagonists whose destinies will unexpectedly intersect.

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— Feature Film Competition

Good One

India Donaldson ★ ★ 2024

On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.

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— Feature Film Competition

The permanent picture

Laura Ferrés ★ ★ 2023

In a town in rural Southern Spain, Antonia, a teenage mother, disappears in the middle of the night, leaving her baby behind. Fifty years later and many kilometers up North, Carmen, an introverted casting director, looks for people to share their experiences when arriving in a new city. In her search, Carmen will meet Antonia, an impulsive woman who will intrude into her loneliness. Who says that time heals all wounds?

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— Feature Film Competition

Desert of Namibia

Yôko Yamanaka ★ ★ 2024

For Kana, a 21-year-old Japanese woman, life is a series of flavorless moments. Even falling in love only serves to pass the time. Dissatisfied with her relationship with Honda, a caring young man, she leaves him for Hayashi, a more eccentric young man. Amid professional and romantic trials, Kana searches for herself.

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— Feature Film Competition

Foreign Language

Claire Burger ★ ★ 2024

Fanny is 17 and still searching for herself. Shy and sensitive, she struggles to make friends her age. When she goes to Germany for a language exchange, she meets her pen pal Lena, a teenager who dreams of getting involved in politics. Fanny is troubled. To please Lena, she is ready to do anything.

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— Feature Film Competition

Mi Bestia

Camila Beltrán ★ ★ 2024

Bogota, 1996. The devil is prophesied to appear at the moment of the imminent lunar eclipse, and Bogotans are terrified. Mila, 13, is feeling increasingly oppressed by the way that others are looking at her, and wonders whether the metamorphosis of her body has anything to do with the prophecy. The dreaded day arrives, and the red moon lights up the sky.

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— Feature Film Competition

The Empty Grave

Agnes Lisa Wegner, Cece Mlay ★ Germany, Tanzania ★ 2024

Two Tanzanian families embark on a journey to search for their stolen ancestors. Their quest leads them to Germany, where tens of thousands of skulls and bones from former German colonies are stored in museums.

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— Documentary Film Competition

Pirinha

Natasha Craveiro ★ Cape Verde ★ 2024

A young woman wakes up at night with an overwhelming sense of imminent death, later realizing it isn’t the night of her death but the beginning of her freedom journey.

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— Documentary Film Competition

Tales of a City

Malaury Eloi Paisley ★ France ★ 2024

In my solitude in the city of Pointe-à-Pitre, I filmed for 5 years my relationship with people wandering in different worlds of the city. They recount Guadeloupe, the inertia of this island, former French colony. What do these contemporary tales tell us about the slow disappearance of ourselves?

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— Documentary Film Competition

Lebou

Ndèye Soukeynatou Diop ★ Senegal ★ 2024

On the Dakar coast, the sea waves crush houses, plow cemeteries, and significantly erode the living spaces of the Lebou to the point of pushing them away from their traditional territory. My community, the indigenous population of Dakar, conservative, attached to its culture, the sea, and its fisherman identity, must face modernity and the difficulties related to fishing. All this has made their anchorage in traditional religion and social organization values fragile.

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— Documentary Film Competition

Nothing about my mother

Latifa Doghri, Salem Trabelsi ★ Tunisia ★ 2023

A filmed portrait over five years documenting the journey of rehabilitation and reconstruction of a girl's adolescence who was exposed to various forms of abuse during her childhood.

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— Documentary Film Competition

Ayyur

Zineb Wakrim ★ Morocco ★ 2023

Art and painting help Hasna and Samad, 14 years old, to resist and catch the light in the midst of darkness.

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— Young Audience Competition

For me

Intissar El Azhari ★ Morocco ★ 2024

Leila, in her forties and single, works as a Negafa (traditional bride dresser) in her modest shop. Her daily routine of adorning and dressing brides creates a significant paradox. Faced with several challenges, her colleague leaves the shop and her flower, her only refuge, begins to wither. Leila refuses to give up and decides to revolt.

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— Young Audience Competition

On my father’s grave

Jawahine Zentar ★ Morocco ★ 2024

A car drives to a Moroccan village. On board, Maïne and her family surround the father's coffin. Tomorrow, the men will bury him and the women will wait at home. But the young girl takes a very dim view on it and intends to lead with her father to his final resting place.

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— Young Audience Competition

Blessed Hands

Fatima Bardich ★ Morocco ★ 2024

Rkia is a traditional, itinerant midwife who travels between cities and villages. She has overseen the births of many women, assisting them for free because she believes God has blessed her hands to help women, despite her children's refusal to support this work. Although Rkia has delivered many other women's babies, she was unable to handle the delivery of her own daughter. Rkia had to take her daughter to the hospital for the birth.

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— Young Audience Competition

What else grows on the palm of your hand?

Dhiaa Biya ★ Morocco ★ 2023

Hayat's life is monotonous and repetitive. Over time, she finds herself lost in memories of her childhood with her grandmother. She spends most of her time alone in her house. She leads a soothing routine between her papers and her bread. Sometimes, unknowingly, the gestures of her hands create a connection between her past and her present. The small details of her life resemble those of her grandmother.

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— Young Audience Competition

Sahari, Slem Wesaa

Moulay Taieb Bouhanana ★ Morocco ★ 2023

In November 1975, the Spanish colonizer withdrew from the Moroccan Sahara provinces, three brothers from the region made different choices that will separate their paths.

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— Young Audience Competition

Sound of Berberia

Tarik El Idrissi ★ Morocco ★ 2023

Two musicians traveling across North Africa in search of the true Amazigh sound.

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— Young Audience Competition

Queens

Yasmine Benkiran ★ Morocco ★ 2023

A trio of women is chased by the police, marking the beginning of a long escape for our protagonists. They will traverse the Atlas Mountains, with its red rocks and blooming valleys, ultimately reaching the great South and the Atlantic.

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— Young Audience Competition

Nayda

Said Naciri ★ Morocco ★ 2023

Two friends from a slum, desperate to draw the prime minister's attention to their plight, accidentally take diplomats hostage and must prove their act is a cry for help, not terrorism.

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— Young Audience Competition

Ana machi ana

Hicham El Jebbari ★ Morocco ★ 2023

Farid and Hanan, a newly married couple heading towards southern Morocco to spend their honeymoon. Their destination is a luxurious hotel in the heart of the red city, Marrakesh, under an atmosphere of romance and rosy dreams, but all of these things turn upside down when both Mahjouba, Sheikha Mama and Mazouzah appear; His ex-wives, determined to turn this joy into a journey of sorrow.

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— Young Audience Competition

Eden

Ágnes Kocsis ★ ★ 2020

Éva is allergic to all kinds of chemical substances, air pollution, radio waves and electronic fields. She needs to live in total isolation and can have no contact with her environment. The slightest mistake may cause her death. Her only relations are with her brother and the doctors continuously experimenting on her. One day a psychiatrist comes to investigate if her illness is real or exists only in Éva’s mind. Will love be able to save her?

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— Guest Cinema

The Lady from Constantinople

Judit Elek ★ ★ 1969

An elderly woman is forced to leave the large apartment she occupies. She then decides to exchange it for a more modest home with another owner. Through meetings with interested individuals, each with diverse and eccentric profiles, her solitary life is turned upside down.

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— Guest Cinema

Blow-Ball

Márta Mészáros ★ ★ 1965

A day in the solitary life of Pista, a single child of divorced parents. The boy skips school and explores the city of Budapest by himself, yet can't escape an unbearable ennui.

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— Guest Cinema

Fez, Summer 55

Abdelhaï Laraki ★ ★ 2024

Summer 1955. Kamal, an 11-year-old boy of the Medina of Fez, is experiencing the last months before Morocco's independence. With Aïcha and her fellow students of the Qaraouiyine university, he discovers and takes part in the fight for freedom.

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