Upcoming Movies
On a Beautiful Day
Va et vient
Maratonu rokzvaigzne
On April 6, 2025, Samanta Petakova finished her 300th marathon in Krakow, Poland. This medal earned the marathon runner the title of Latvian record holder, but the road to the record was not strewn with roses. Samanta's mother left her when she was six years old, and her father passed away two years ago. The marathon runner's life has been full of trials and tribulations, but at the same time, she is proof that a person who is seen at the top of the mountain did not fall there. Samanta's story confirms that challenges in life are not a stamp in your passport. This story is about big goals, high stakes, determination, perseverance, and the fulfillment of seemingly impossible dreams. It will inspire anyone who is faced with a choice—to do or not to do. It is a reminder to everyone that with faith in yourself, you can do great things.
Red Velvet
Post Criminal Case
In 2000, Susana de Sousa Dias made Criminal Case 141/53, about the sisters Isaura Borges Coelho and Hortênsia Campos Lima, who resisted a 1950s’ Portuguese law that prohibited nurses from marrying. Supported by a montage of archival material, the film told their story, which was shaped by the dictatorship under Salazar. Now, a quarter of a century later, De Sousa Dias returns with a sequel that questions and reflects on her earlier film. She describes how she first encountered the archive material that led her to the sisters’ story in the early 1990s.
My Word Against Mine
One in ten people hear voices. In this film, we meet five people living with this phenomenon. One person hears a single voice, another hears 19. One voice wants to protect, another wants to kill.
Blackout Dreams
In Cuba, the nights are very dark indeed when there’s yet another power outage—but as much as possible, life goes on. People find their way around in the pitch dark, cyclists loom out of the blackness, children hang out on the streets by the light of flashlights. At the same time, the disruption appears to create intimacy: a priest takes the opportunity to open the Bible by candlelight and reads about the creation of light and darkness, an aged blind singer plays the guitar for his wife in their bedroom, a boy and his teacher play endless games of chess in the half-light, a fisherman heads calmly into the water with a lantern. Headlights from passing cars flash over houses shrouded in darkness, while the people inside sing and talk under the glow of portable lights.
Abel
In the mountains of Sardinia and the inhospitable desert landscape of Palestine, shepherds have been herding livestock in the same traditional way for centuries. Experienced men drive bleating sheep and goats across fertile grazing spots. From a distance, the dancing white dots form an aesthetically appealing and meditative image against a background of dramatic mountain ridges.
My Sister’s Room
Justine is in her room, in her bed. Her alarm goes off and it takes a long time for her to turn the sound off. She goes back to sleep. The film takes place in Justine’s bedroom. The camera almost never leaves these four walls. And neither does she.
Dreams for a Better Past
Albert Kuhn uses a personal, analytical, and cinematic lens to examine how an untold family history leaves its mark on the second and third generations. Kuhn’s father emigrated from Germany to Barcelona in the 1970s, leaving behind his native country and the family he was born into.
The Shipwrecked
Thirty years ago, Diego Gutiérrez moved to the Netherlands. For his latest film, he returned to Mexico, seeking answers to lingering questions. How do you cope with loneliness and grief? How do you connect with nature? Is an easier life in a less dangerous country also a better life?
The Desert of the Real
Who am I? What is real? How to live in the madness of the world? These are questions posed by six people who have had psychosis and speak openly about their experience. They have in common that they think deeply, and that at particular moments in their lives, they were under intense personal and social pressure.
Salam Beresoon
Despite their deep bond, Mahnoush and her father Shahin are separated by their different realities. When Mahnoush visits Shahin, a confrontation ensues.
The man that lived with fear
In 1975, in the city of Rosario, Pablo Reinstein was kidnapped and murdered by a gang of amateur criminals made up of Miguel Cazón, Hugo Risiglione, and Luis González. All three were arrested, charged, and sentenced to prison. Years later, upon their release, Cazón and Risiglione were murdered in the same way they had Reinstein. Little was known about González after his release. Although various versions circulated, his fate remains shrouded in mystery.
In Another Day
Within four walls, a daughter faces her greatest fear as she tries to get her mentally ill mother to attend a rehabilitation committee that will determine her disability status.
Singaporeans on the Kamo River
Perched on a bridge overlooking the Kamo River in Japan, a filmmaker imagines what their conversations would be if they were all Singaporeans like him.
Wrecks of the Day
Mysterious blue lights have spread across the city, depriving the living of sleep. They wander through the nightlessness like spectres. But some plants, the last sustenance of the wild and the dream, are developing curious abilities.
No No Place Hotel
Inside a grand but eerily desolate hotel, surveillance cameras capture a disturbing sequence of events unfolding in just twelve minutes.
Kara: The Burning Woman
In Bacolod, Kara feels a sudden surge of intense body heat as a distant rumble echoes from the mountains.
E/rased Worlds
A film that explores the layers of memory, archive and the phenomenon of being in the contemporary world. Through personal stories, archival images and jointly created documentary fragments, the film creates a space where the past encounters lost realities.