United States - 2024
291 minute
Coming Up Next
Teen Spirit
A lost intimacy between two brothers begins to resurface when Antonio returns to his town, to a collapsing family home to help his twin brother Javier, who suffers from a congenital disease.
Schedule
Schedule
Saturday 14.06
Meat
Q&A with director Dimitris Nakos
In a village in the Greek countryside, Takis prepares the opening of his new butcher shop. One day before the inauguration, his son Pavlos kills the neighbor who claims part of their land. The only witness is Christos, a young man from Albania whom Takis has had with him since childhood.
Greece - 2024
104 minute
Smart 7
Thursday 19.06
Imago
Q&A with director Olga Chajdas și cinematographer Tomasz Naumiuk
Late 1980s, at the Polish Coast. The old communist order is in decline, but a new order is yet to be established. Ela is just entering adulthood - already knowing she will not fit into any of these worlds.
Poland, Netherlands, Czech Republic - 2023
113 minute
Together as One
15:00
Q&A with director Eugen Jebeleanu, screenwriter Ioana Moraru and actress Ada Galeș
Pornit
Internal Zero
Q&A with director Eugen Jebeleanu, screenwriter Ioana Moraru and actress Ada Galeș
Cristina, a 35-year-old secretary living in an alienating and hostile Bucharest, is trying to understand what it means being a bills-paying, ready-to-settle, social-ladder-climbing adult while still desperately wanting to be a good child for the single mom that raised her.
România - 2025
100 minute
Smart 7
The New Years
TIFF.24
Oscar is stuck with a crappy medical contract and is still hooked on his ex. Ana, without a partner or a job, feels lost and plans to move away. But on 1 January 2016, they meet and fleeing loses its meaning.
Spain - 2024
98 minute
Coming Up Next
Smile at Last
Q&A with producer Monika Raide
16-year-old Mari, raised without a mother by a drunkard father, is put in an orphanage which she immediately, though unsuccessfully, tries to flee from. The sensitive Mari finds it hard to adapt to the coarse manners and brutal games amongst the children.
Estonia - 1985
86 minute
FOCUS Estonia
Beyond the River
Beyond the river lies a world where suffering, poverty, and violence define everyday life. The film doesn’t explain or judge - it listens. With no external narration, the community tells its own story - with pain, with humor, with dignity.
România, Hungary - 2024
60 minute
Romanian Days