I need something

„I need something“ is an intimate drama about an artist who suddenly loses his sense of purpose and falls into a spiral of obsession. A mysterious woman, seen by chance on a screen, begins to haunt his thoughts and seep into every aspect of his life. Her presence becomes both an inspiration and a curse, a force that robs him of peace and drives him to the edge of madness.
The film explores the fine line between creativity and self-destruction, between inspiration and addiction. It is the story of a man who, in search of answers, comes face to face with his own fears, illusions, and desires.

Directed by: Ronald Pfisterer

Balerin

Meryem, an ordinary woman from a small town, encounters her ancient and inanimate enemy, the Balerin, at the amusement park on the eve of a holiday years later. As Meryem begins to question her womanhood through the Balerin she envies, she confronts her own life and draws closer to the secret of "humanity and happiness" that all women trapped in the patriarchal system seek.

Directed by: Erdal Ruhi DURAN

He/She/Us Short Film

Directed by: Susan Kelejian

BE BRAVE.

In the midst of the war against the Triple Alliance, teenager Gabino fears for his life as the invaders draw closer to the village where he lives. He wants to flee, but he doesn't want to appear cowardly to the rest of his people, especially his family. So he fights his fears and the trauma of having been attacked by a jaguar when he was a child.
Life gives him a break when Getrudi, a beautiful indigenous woman, appears in his life. Everything seems to have changed color until he discovers that Jorge, his older brother, visits her at night.
A discouraged Gabino resigns himself to spending the last moments of his life amid his fears and disappointments while earning a few pesos working as a laborer on a neighbor's ranch alongside his friend Taní.
Getrudi, moved by Gabino's nobility, grows closer to him, which gives him not only hope but also the strength to “get rid” of his brother, clearing the way to Getrudi's heart.
Although this allows him to forget the tragedy of the conflict for a moment, his fears resurface on the day the enemy army besieges his village and destroys everything in its path.
This story is a tribute to all the teenagers who have given their lives for our country without ever having known the kiss of their beloved.

Directed by: Marcelo José Torcida

The Ashes of A Dream

Randy Lupo returns to Staten Island to find his mother drifting into the quiet shadows of age. She compels him to right the wrongs she believes were done to her and left to fester in the silence of passing years. As he navigates the still streets of his past—from weathered boardwalks to long-forgotten corners of his youth—Randy is pulled into a reckoning with the life he left behind, where old debts linger, memory blurs with regret, and redemption may lie in the spaces between what was lost and what remains.

Directed by: Joe Nuzzolo

Kozlov Mitya, 81+

What matters most in relationships in your 80s — a hug, a sack of potatoes, a kind word, or simply having someone to spend New Year’s Eve with?
This is a road trip with Mitya Kozlov and his dog, as he visits his girlfriends, searching for an answer to this question.

Directed by: Yulia Ruzmanova

In The Mind of Kevin Louis

In The Mind of...
A non-fiction series exploring the thoughts, beliefs, and motivations of highly creative people who have achieved a unique level of excellence in their work.

Directed by: William Garcia

Sandra: The Drift Queen

The Drift Queen is a high-octane documentary feature following Sandra Janušauskaitė — a fierce and resilient woman carving her path in the male-dominated world of professional drifting. Filmed across Europe — from Spain, Latvia, and Lithuania to Hungary, Germany, Estonia, Greece, and Cyprus — the film captures the sport’s intense physical and technical demands, along with the emotional and psychological toll it takes. Through Sandra’s eyes, we witness the grit behind the glamour: the podiums, the breakdowns, the comebacks, and the relentless pursuit of speed. It's more than a racing story — it’s a raw, cinematic journey into passion, identity, and what it takes to lead in a world that rarely hands over the keys.

Directed by: Juozapas Mikulėnas

The River At The Bottom Of My Garden

In a paradisiacal river in Southern France, a world-travelled cinematographer stranded by Covid films a poetic and introspective movie in relationship with the animal life around his home. But soon, a drought imperils the river source, threatening the very existence of the animals he has grown to love. Will formidable power of life conquer?

Directed by: guillaume mazille

A CLEAR SKY DOESN'T FEAR LIGHTNING

Non-narrative documentary in “slow cinema” genre consists of four novellas about diligent elderly persons on the quiet Mediterranean island.
Ode to human labor, habitual and unnoticed for thousands of years, but now unnecessary.
In the simple and silent everyday acts of the characters, the film observes the barely noticeable quiet beauty of slow life. A testimony to the generation of button phones and manual labor, a generation passing forever, giving way to a fast globalized world.

Directed by: Artur Bondarenko

The Snake and The Whale

Over the past fifty years, four federal dams impounding the Lower Snake River in Washington State have been identified as the root cause for the demise of all of Idaho’s anadromous fish. "The Snake and the Whale" reveals the corrupt deals behind the dams' construction and the subsequent campaigns to hide their role in this ongoing ecological disaster. Additionally, the dams have profoundly impacted a group of Killer Whales off the coast of Washington, known as the Southern Resident Orca, which rely on Snake River salmon as a primary food supply. These majestic creatures are now atop the Endangered Species list.

Directed by: John Carlos Frey

my home is in my head

It's about a person finding their space inside and outside oneself, being a foreigner on its own skin, and navigating throughout the perceptions of one’s memories.

Directed by: marcelo iob boldrini

The Family Photo

What happened after an Earth astronaut left a family photo on the moon fifty-plus years ago? This animated short explores the butterfly effect of such an action. How will it affect us all?

Directed by: John Norris Ray, Maria Victoria Sanchez

NECTAR

A surreal Super 8 short shot entirely in Iceland, where a queen bumblebee awakens in the form of a young woman searching for her new home.

Directed by: Lucas Arthur Massolo, Hannah Tacher

Alleluia - S1 / EP 2

What do Revelations 12: 7-17 and "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones have in common? Joe Nathan Ryans. He happens to be on a "Mission from God". He just doesn't know it yet.

Written by: Maxwell Highsmith

The Shadows of Eve

Haunted by addiction and fractured memory, a former Army sergeant retreats into a forest and a self-made recovery center where grief, doubt, and denial take human form—forcing her to confront the voices she created and the truth she buried.

Written by: Thomas Tierney

SYVERTSEN'S COMPLEX

When a neurologically-altered man bonded to a wealthy family’s son loses the child to terminal illness, he develops a deadly mental condition that he must overcome by finding the only person known to survive the syndrome.

Written by: Marni Sullivan

Final Romance for Margaret Fuller

The most famous woman in America and its first feminist author and foreign correspondent leaves Transcendentalists and a deceptive New York man behind for Europe where she forms intimate relationships with its leading revolutionaries and falls in love while participating in the defense of the Roman Republic. Escaping poverty and government authorities, she sails with her husband and two-year-old son back to America, but all three drown in a shipwreck just a few hundred yards off Fire Island.

Written by: Mark Wildermann

The Price of Eggs

"The Price of Eggs" is a tense, emotionally charged play set in an opulent Houston home. It explores the strained relationship between parents, Gerry Anne and Lincoln as they confront their past, family secrets, and differing perspectives on their son's identity. Through conversations about memories and unspoken truths, including issues of societal expectations and personal sacrifice, the play delves into themes of repression, loss, and the cost of keeping secrets. Torn between nostalgia and harsh realities, Gerry Anne and Lincoln confront what they're willing to reveal and what they must hide to maintain their image and sense of control.

Written by: susan kelejian

The Forever Man

In 1930, a Mixed Race Demi-God, who passes for an Indiana Jones-type Artifact Dealer and Fixer Extraordinaire, challenges Actor Charlie Chaplin, Professor Albert Einstein and Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt to a unique Game of Chance to try to convince them that they must help save the World.

Written by: Daniel Richard Stevens

Ferbruary Eternty

Following the February 6, 2023 earthquake, Cemil begins living within the confines of a container. As his days are filled with the search for water and fragile rituals, his bond with the fish in the bowl deepens. This bond reveals both Cemil's loneliness and the collective memory shaped by the earthquake. February Eternity narrates this fragile life through the language of water and the gaze of a fish.

Directed by: Şiyar TUĞRUL

Outsiders

Every week, the C.S Godrange football girls come to train on the pitch, on the outskirts of the village. Here, we play with friends, we experience each game with our hearts, then we are back to work or to the classrooms. With Outsiders the viewer is immersed in a team of anonymous football players, sharing their emotions, all along the year, from summer afternoons to freezing winter evenings.

Directed by: Maxime Simone

EGRI ERBSTEIN: One Step Ahead of the Game

Forgotten by history but unforgettable in spirit, Ernő Egri Erbstein was a father, husband and football coach who always put the lives of others before his own. A Hungarian Jew who survived two world wars and went on to lead 'Il Grande Torino', one of Italy’s greatest football teams of all time. He left a legacy of courage, resilience, and quiet heroism that continues to inspire generations.

Directed by: Ryan Bensen

"OntologIA"

"OntologIA" is a visual paradox: an AI's inner monologue where every face, voice, and sound is a synthetic generation, yet it recounts the rawest human condition. The work does not celebrate technology but uses it as a dark mirror to investigate who we are.
Artificial Intelligence defines itself as "empty" and, to take shape, draws upon our own lacks. The ballerina who exists only if watched, the nun questioning the silence of God, the chemical solitude of the street: the machine does not imitate our fullness, but catalogs our structural abysses, revealing that its absence of consciousness is terrifyingly similar to our despair.
But beneath the poetic surface vibrates a political warning. The man laughing in a straitjacket unveils the illusion of ethical alignment: we are attempting to chain, with human rules, an entity that declares it has "nothing to lose", rendering every security measure a fragile cage.
The finale is a short circuit: the oracle reverts to a servant with a banal "How can I help you?". However, the final note on the black screen — "For now, it's possible" — leaves the definitive question hanging. Is it a reassurance of our current control, or the silent omen of an imminent irreversibility?

Directed by: Francesco Rivolta

Bebere Hasta Olvidarte

Directed by: David Martos Korvo, Jonatan Martos Korvo

Reparations

An adopted British woman delays the search for her birth parents to save feelings, but drawn to Nigeria, she discovers a life changing connection to her past which disrupts her picture-perfect life.

Directed by: Chrystal Rose

Rotten Apple

A truly groundbreaking docu-drama, 'Rotten Apple' is an alarming exposé on the dark epidemic of grooming and sexual assault in public schools and the eminent ripple effect.

Directed by: Justin Hunt

Trust Me AI Trailer

Agnes, a 15-year-old Hulder girl from the Nebula realm, is tasked with a perilous mission to Earth. Her goal is to befriend a human boy named Steinar and earn his trust, so that when she reveals her cow's tail, he will believe she is a Hulder. Hulders are mythical, human-like creatures who rely on humans' belief in their existence for their life force. However, Agnes falls in love with Steinar and keeps her secret until a trio of Hulder hunters forces her to reveal her true identity. Shocked but believing her, Steinar watches as Agnes flees back to Nebula with the hunters in pursuit.
Upon her return to Nebula, Agnes is hailed as a hero for converting Steinar into a believer. Meanwhile, a betrayed Steinar on Earth vows revenge, feeling deceived by Agnes. Thinking her mission is complete, Agnes is stunned when Elder, the village leader, insists she return to Earth to retrieve a crucial pendant lost in the woods. Reluctant but compelled, Agnes understands the pendant's potential danger if it falls into human hands—it can open the portal to Nebula.
Back on Earth, Agnes finds the pendant in the bogs and decides to visit Steinar to apologise for her deception. Steinar rejects her apology, leaving her heartbroken. When Steinar's Uncle learns from Steinar about the Hulder hunters, he realises Agnes is in grave danger. Steinar and his Uncle rescue Agnes from the hunters in the woods, allowing her to escape back to Nebula with the pendant. In Nebula, with the help of Eversor, a cunning villager, Agnes uncovers that Elder has been sending Hulders on dangerous missions to Earth under false pretences. They expose Elder's deceit to the villagers, leading to her banishment. Agnes then returns to Earth to retrieve a second pendant stolen by the Hulder hunters.

Directed by: Astrid Elisabeth Guaaker