Maria wanders through a seaside town for the burial of her enigmatic neighbor Isabela. As the nights grow longer, she adopts Isabela’s dogs, meets her son, and encounters a woodcutter who is afraid of sleep.

Overwhelmed by debt, young couple Azamat and Tanshoplan hatch a desperate plan: fake a terminal illness to raise money through a viral charity campaign. But as the donations pour in and public sympathy grows, their lie spirals out of control.

Plan contraplan (Shot Reverse Shot, Radu Jude & Adrian Cioflâncă, România) Index (Index, Radu Muntean, România) Cum am învățat să nu mă omor (How I Learned Not to Kill Myself, Norbert Boda, România) Tu știi cine sunt eu? (Do You Know Who I Am?, Andreea Păduraru Hristescu, România) Ursitoare SRL....See more details

In the scintillating, pop-infused world of a Japanese boarding school that trains teenage girls to become professional mermaids, 17-year-old Akame learns to hold her breath, perform for adoring crowds, and swim alongside sharks. Under her silicone mermaid tail, Akame will find her siren voice, discover first love and experience a metamorphosis, turning performance into transformation.

Numbi, a little village hidden deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo mountains, lies nonetheless at the heart of our world. Here, with their bare hands, miners dig the coltan which will find its way – legally or otherwise – to our industrialized world. For decades this grey gold, indispensable to the manufacture of almost all contemporary technological devices, has been the cause of conflicts and a bitter exploitation....See more details

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex starts receiving letters from the abductor. The young man is desperate to learn the truth behind his lover's disappearance, but soon he realizes her destiny is more sinister than he dared imagine.

Blessed (Blessed, Voicu Mureșanu, România) Geese-y Does It! (Geese-y Does It!, Alina Rusu, România) Atunci când suntem împreună (When We Are Together, Alexia Drăgan, România) Marea finală (The Grand Final, Rareș Roșca, România) Vizita (The Visit, Elias Ferchin Musuret, România) Heaven, Be My Judge (Heaven, Be My Judge, Octavian Șaramet, România) Căpitane de județ (County Captain, Dan Panaet, România)

Lucia is spending her vacation with her husband and friends in a small Bulgarian seaside village. The arrival of a mysterious man disrupts the group’s fragile harmony, while the disappearance of a local child casts an increasingly unsettling shadow over their holiday.

After her parents’ divorce, six-year-old Vladlena moves from Crimea to Grozny, not yet aware of the changes that lie ahead. When war breaks out in Chechnya, it deeply affects her city and family. Years later, the filmmaker reflects on her childhood in this poetic, autobiographical hybrid film, exploring how cycles of violence shape children and how healing and change are possible.

This film is not suitable for children   Alec, an introverted teenager, has always viewed life through the lens of his father’s pornography business. When they relocate from London to a sleepy seaside town, Alec hopes for a fresh start, trying to make friends without revealing his unconventional life....See more details