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Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a thirty-something man and a lowly employee, buries his mother without showing the slightest emotion. The following day, he embarks on an affair with an office colleague called Marie, and then he gets back to everyday life.
With dreams of starting a perfect family, Saga and her British husband Jon move to the isolated house where she spent much of her childhood, deep in the Finnish forest. But as soon as their baby is born, Saga knows there’s something terribly wrong with her son.
Love-22-Love is an ode to love, art, and darkness. Creating art is filmmaker Kooijmans’ reason for being, yet it also drives him to deep despair: Kooijmans films himself as he descends into a psychosis.
Finally free from prison after a 20 year sentence, Anker wants to get back the money he has stolen. However, his brother and accomplice Manfred suffers from dissociative identity disorder: he now believes he is John Lennon, and John can’t remember the place in which Manfred buried the money.
Three flatmates in Edinburgh — journalist Alex, accountant David and doctor Juliet — place an ad to find a new roommate. After choosing the mysterious Hugo, they discover him dead in his room beside a suitcase full of cash.
Elsa is an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December holiday. She works non-stop and, without realising, doesn’t give herself time to mourn her mother’s absence.
Since Russia’s attack on Ukraine and Finland’s accession to NATO, three Russian women living in Finland develop radically different attitudes toward Putin’s Russia and their own identity. While one completely rejects her Russian roots, the others continue to hold on to them.
30-year-old Danielius has been living in Norway for over a decade. He has everything he needs — a job, a family, and friends. But when his father passes away, he is forced to return to his hometown in Lithuania to sell his childhood flat.
With the start of summer in Murcia, Lionel receives some news: when he turns 26, he will lose the orphan's pension he has been living on since the death of his mother. Lionel finds himself in a moment of uncertainty about his future.
Sharks invade the harbour of Hummingbird Island, and Sultan Magin brings hippopotamuses from the mainland to get rid of them. Once their mission is accomplished, the locals kill the animals! The only survivor is little Hugo, the hero of extraordinary adventures.
Different generations in a dysfunctional extended family are searching for the same near impossible thing: the perfect fulfilment of life.
Three ferocious dogs keep a group of young people prisoners in a pool belonging to a luxurious house they have sneaked into, while neighbors gather at a party in a villa nearby to celebrate the start of summer. It’s St John’s Eve, a favorable day for magic.
Following the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many people in Russia are faced with a terrible choice: military service, prison, or exile. Margarita, Yuri and their friends refuse to comply with the regime and leave the country knowing they will never come back. Here is their story.
What if having a child does not come naturally? Piano tuner Samuel Dirk longs for a family. The problem: his wife has quite literally exploded under the pressure. Is there someone else who might be willing to give their very best in order to fulfil a wish for a child?
Fifteen-year-old Lea is spending her summer at a health camp tucked between the forest and the sea. Her new roommate, Sasha, is everything Lea wishes she could be: bold, magnetic, and unafraid to take up space in the world.
Ray and Ken, two hitmen, get stuck in Bruges, Belgium, after an unsuccessful mission. The situation becomes complicated when their boss asks Ken to kill Ray.
Love-22-Love is an ode to love, art, and darkness. Creating art is filmmaker Kooijmans’ reason for being, yet it also drives him to deep despair: Kooijmans films himself as he descends into a psychosis.
Oddball cable installer Chip attempts to strike up a friendship with customer Steven by offering him premium channels at no cost. When Steven rebuffs Chip's frequent need for companionship, Chip goes from a mildly eccentric acquaintance to a full-fledged psycho stalker.
In the Basque mountains of 17th-century Spain, Kattalin flees her husband and disappears into a dark forest where she senses a mysterious presence pursuing her.
Ainara, a brilliant and idealistic 17-year-old, stands at a crossroads: while her family expects her to choose a university path, she feels an increasing pull toward a religious vocation.
Life is good for Derya and Aziz, a celebrated artist couple from Turkey, until an incident at their play’s premiere. Suddenly targeted by the state and struggling to balance their ideals with life’s necessities, their marriage is pushed to a breaking point.
Fleeing from fellow officers, Argentinian policeman Santiago crosses into Uruguay seeking refuge. With no money or shelter, but with plenty of kindness and wit, he begins to rebuild his life with help from the locals, and even meeting the woman he believes could be the love of his life.
When horror director José Sirgado receives a package of strange Super 8 films from an eccentric acquaintance, he becomes trapped in a disturbing game where filmmaking itself appears to drain life from those who surrender to it. A cult film that allegedly spent most of its budget on heroin!
Cristi, a corrupt cop willing to risk everything for a 30-million-euro fortune, believes that El Silbo, the whistled language used on the Spanish island of La Gomera, is the key to uncovering where the money is hidden.
March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing a vacuum cleaner.
Calcutta, India, August 1948. Teresa, Mother Superior of the convent of the Sisters of Loreto, is anxiously waiting for the letter that will finally allow her to leave her monastery and create her new order in response to the call she has received from God.
Nineteen-year-old hooligan Tommy revels in a life of drugs, parties, and violence. One night, after becoming separated from his friends, he is abducted by a mysterious man and wakes up chained in the basement of an isolated suburban home.
6:30 PM – Film screening: La Cena (dir. Manuel Gómez Pereira, Spain, 2025, 106’) | Military Circle
8:30 PM – Dinner prepared by chef Florin Dumitrescu at Da Pino, presented by LIDL