Films

dir. Jack Wedge, Will Freudenheim

13′anim2026

A documentary crew arrives at an isolated city drifting across a polluted ocean. They want to investigate this phenomenon and understand the residents, who, despite their harsh living conditions, have not lost a sense of purpose. Set in the future, the animation proves that a futuristic reality is unfolding before our very eyes.

dir. Elena Molina

17′dok2020

An uplifting story that blends football, acrobatics and feminism. The protagonist is the undisputed freestyle champion of Spain, yet she does not feel at ease in this solitary role. Her goal is to build a community of women who juggle footballs.

dir. Moona Pennanen

25′dok2025

dir. Carmen Baltzar

14′fab2025

The holiday tranquillity of a Greek beach is depicted from the perspective of Nadia and Samara, two young Roma sisters selling toys. Amidst indifferent sunbathers, the film exposes the everyday lives of people who are invisible to the rest of society. The double standards of human empathy are brutally laid bare by the impending tragedy.

dir. Alicja Jasina

7′anim2025

Lotar is 20 years old and feels he is stuck in a rut – lacking courage, inspiration and prospects. In his imagination, he is a charismatic rapper, but in reality he cannot string a few lines together. Everything changes when he meets a cheeky rapping sausage who throws freestyle challenges at him. In an absurd form, the film turns into a story about overcoming insecurity and finding one’s own voice.

dir. Aistė Žegulytė

69′dok2018

Aistė Žegulytė aims her camera’s lens at taxidermists, breeders and museum curators attempting to freeze nature in place. She reflects on humanity’s need to control nature, and in particular on the process by which culture transforms an animal into an image, exhibit and a symbol.

dir. Agnieszka Smoczyńska

30′fab2007

Basia has already settled down in her life. She is a housewife and has a loving family. It seems as though she does not miss anything to be happy. Until a moment when an opera diva moves into an apartment upstairs. Basia is enchanted and seduced with her voice. A peculiar relationship is born between them. It develops into a feeling which is not particularly comfortable for either of the two women.

dir. Yulia Lokshina

120′dok2026

A group of well-off Europeans is trying to flee as far as possible from vaccines, taxes, Islam, the spectre of a third world war and a climatic catastrophe. They are searching for freedom in poor regions of southern Paraguay, where they set up a self-sufficient enclave.

dir. João Niza Ribeiro

30′fab2026

They usually get around on bikes or scooters, darting through the streets of major European cities to deliver goods to customers almost unnoticed. They do so illegally. One of them is Omar, who comes from Benin. The young man lives in Porto, works as a courier for one of the major restaurant chains and every day risks being caught by police patrols targeting immigrants.

dir. Wojciech Sobczyk

19′anim2025

What do you associate autumn with? In the most recent edition of his poetic series, Wojciech Sobczyk reimagines our ideas and fantasies about this season, creating a sensual, universal poem about transience and man’s place in the world.

dir. Jakub Krzyszpin

7′anim2026

On a creaking train, a man loses his ticket and spirals into a frantic search. With every passing moment, space begins to warp and time loses its logic. A seemingly trivial incident turns into a stifling, unsettling drama about the loss of control. The expressive, trembling lines of the animation intensify the claustrophobic atmosphere of this surreal journey.

dir. Mehrdad Oskouei, Soraya Akhalaghi

77′dok2025

dir. Kate Voet, Victor Maes

35′anim2025

An interactive VR experience about Ida, a 72-year-old pianist living with dementia. We step into her fading reality as her empty apartment slowly comes alive through objects and recordings of her husband, Daniel. Fragments of memory help her rediscover herself, while revealing Daniel’s struggle to stay connected. It’s a poetic story about love and letting go.

dir. Nadim Suleiman

25′fab2026

Fahed, a Palestinian, has been studying film directing in Poland for several years. He is learning the trade on the set of a production about the Second World War. Unexpectedly, he goes from being a sound assistant to an actor who is to play the role of a Nazi. During the filming of an extremely difficult scene, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to blur.

dir. Jakub Piątek

20′dok2025

A piece by Grażyna Bacewicz, the legendary Polish composer, returns to the stage after 75 years. Bacewicz was one of the few women to achieve international recognition in the world of classical music in the 20th century. An outstanding violinist, Bomsori Kim, reinvents Bacewicz’s piece, following the traces of the artist in her letters and the score.

dir. Branislav Milatović

17′fab2023

A man carries his son across a snow-covered wasteland in Montenegro. The boy is injured, and his father desperately tries to get him to safety, battling the freezing cold and his own limitations. A stark, hypnotic tale about parental love, which provides one with the strength to achieve the impossible.

dir. John Smith

27′dok2024

After enduring many decades of embarrassment and discomfort, the filmmaker finally admits that possessing the most common name in the English speaking world has had a profound impact on his psyche. Peppered with disparate fragments of autobiography, ‘Being John Smith’ takes us on a confessional journey that reveals just how important a name can be.

dir. Mikołaj Janik

71′dok2026

dir. Jasmila Žbanić

76′dok2025

Who was the man who, in post-war Sarajevo, created one of the most unique enterprises of his era? This documentary tells the story of Emerik Blum – a Holocaust survivor, visionary and architect of a bold economic experiment in which employees actively shaped the company’s development.

dir. Abdellah Taïa

19′dok2025

A brief visit to Cairo becomes an opportunity to track down a former lover. Armed with a camera, the director searches for clues in conversations with people he meets in places he once visited with his beloved. He has only a few days – and no way of contacting him.

dir. Maciej Cuske

96′dok2026

dir. Christoph Büttner

14′anim2026

Carla, who has no legs, is reduced by people around her to a curiosity rather than an artist. She lives for acrobatics, but works as an assistant in a variety show, invisible to the world of stage. When the theater begins to decline, the director offers her the chance to perform. Will Carla seize the opportunity to fight for herself and overcome the limitations imposed on her?

dir. Patrycja Polkowska

20′fab2026

Following an ‘unfortunate incident’ at an e-commerce company’s warehouse, young manager Aneta testifies before the accident investigation committee. The reconstruction of events quickly turns into a personal confrontation with corporate pressure, accountability and the suppression of truth. The fear of losing her job clashes with a sense of guilt, and a moral choice can determine the woman’s future.

dir. Patrycja Polkowska

20′fab2026

Following an ‘unfortunate incident’ at an e-commerce company’s warehouse, young manager Aneta testifies before the accident investigation committee. The reconstruction of events quickly turns into a personal confrontation with corporate pressure, accountability and the suppression of truth. The fear of losing her job clashes with a sense of guilt, and a moral choice can determine the woman’s future.

dir. Sara Rajaei

22′dok2024

Through archival footage and photos, a metaphorical city of poets emerges, shaping its residents’ inner lives. War reshapes it — new districts rise, streets are renamed, and upheaval leaves inhabitants lost among fading memories of forgotten poets.

dir. Michał Marczak

108′dok2026

dir. Bea Lema

13′anim2025

Adela feels that someone is watching her. Misunderstood by her loved ones and doctors, she seeks refuge in spirituality and sessions with a fortune-teller. Bea Lema brings her ‘embroidered’ graphic novel to the screen. It is a poignant visual fable about trauma and illness that cannot be cured using a microscope and the naked eye alone.

dir. Leo Cernic

14′anim2026

Delfino, Zenf, and Rita meet aboard the Pompelmo Express, an intergalactic cruise for singles. Each of them grapples with their desire for love in their own way - from naive faith to invisibility to cold detachment. On this absurd journey, they discover how far they are willing to go to experience it.

dir. Kristina Buozyte, Vitalijus Zukas

30′anim2025

An immersive journey where art and technology merge to awaken the senses, calm the mind, and invite deeper connection — with yourself, with beauty, and with the world around you. Inspired by the transcendent visual and musical language of artist M.K. Čiurlionis, this experience invites reflection, presence, and emotional renewal.

dir. Clyde Gates, Gabriel Sanson

18′fab2026

Invisible to humans, angels work endlessly to keep the world moving – they start machines, provide light and heat homes. No one can see them, nor does anyone ask if they want to do so. When some of them try to escape, the city plunges into a blackout. A formally intriguing film about rebellion, invisible labour and an order that crumbles faster than one might think.

dir. Elizabeth Hobbs

9′anim2026

The Colonel’s death is quite an event. The priest turns up, medals must be prepared, and the whole ceremony cannot go ahead without military pomp. But what if this colonel was a gruff and domineering father who, even after his death, would not leave his daughters in peace? A simple, witty animation based on a short story by Katherine Mansfield.

dir. Kornél Mundruczó

25′fab2001

Growing up and the banality of everyday life can lead a young boy to aggression and suppressed rage. An ordinary day in a kid's life in a small town on an incredibly hot day; one gang; one game; one field; one girl. In the span of a single day, how can this boy arrive at such a changing point in his life from which there is no return?

dir. Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini

80′dok1998

Two decades after the Islamic revolution and twenty years before the great protests of Iranian women, Longinotto visits a family court in Teheran specialising in divorce cases. Assisted by an expert, anthropologist Ziba Mir-Hosseini, the director provided an insightful portrait of the institution and a unique depiction of Iranian traditions and female determination.

dir. Marta Reis Andrade

13′anim2025

What does a dog’s howl mean in the Portuguese countryside? In this autobiographical animation, Marta Reis Andrade recounts her return to her homeland after many years abroad. At home, she finds her beloved grandfather in deep mourning. His sorrow is echoed by the barking of one of the local animals.

dir. Kim Longinotto

104′dok2015

Brenda Myers-Powell and her friends from the Dreamcatcher Foundation are former sex workers and victims of human trafficking, who nowadays help other women. They operate not only on the streets of Chicago but also in the city’s prisons and schools, providing support in environments marked by violence and addiction, and rescuing younger women. WARNING! The dialogues include drastic content.

dir. Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams

50′dok1994

Takarazuka Revue is a Japanese show where women also play male roles, not only on stage. After graduating from the elite school, some of them go on to become stars, embodying the ideal man for thousands of female fans and the ideal wife for their future husbands.

dir. Mykola Zasieiev

17′fab2025

On Easter Sunday in Kyiv, two soldiers patrol the streets, looking for men to conscript. Their attention focuses on a young man who has only gone out to get food for his cat. Balancing between tragedy and humour, the film reminds us that in wartime nothing is certain, and that ordinary human gestures are often the only salvation.

dir. Yann Rehberg

29′fab2026

A teenager from a Berlin youth club commits suicide. Social worker Luca learns that her friend and colleague may have had an inappropriate relationship with him. The girl wants to stand by the accused – Kiran, but before she does, she will try to find out what really happened.

dir. Mateusz Jarmulski

9′anim2025

A knight sets off into the depths of a mysterious labyrinth; he is certain of yet another triumph. With every step, he loses sight of the purpose of his mission, entangled in absurd rivalry, and ignores the real threat. A ruthless play on the fantasy genre, in which an existential crisis of masculinity proves more dangerous than the obstacles encountered along the way.

dir. Santi Aguado, Reuben Atlas

90′dok2025

In this family, successive generations were destined for flamenco. Even as a child, Farruquito surpassed his talented ancestors in dance, but one fatal incident changed everything. Today, a new generation of Romani artists is entering the scene, aware of the changes in the approach to mastery.

dir. Jessy Moussallem

21′fab2026

Mireille promises young Johnny a film career and takes him to an audition whose true rules are only known to her. It soon becomes clear, however, that instead of the big screen, something far more disturbing is at stake. What resonates in the background of this story is economic pressure, the illusion of promotion and a reality in which a body becomes a tool of the trade.

dir. Veronika Hozjan

10′anim2026

When the city suddenly begins to sink, its residents must make a quick choice of whether to flee or… grow fins. An elderly cobbler clings desperately to his old life, but his wife is becoming increasingly fascinated by the underwater world. A perverse, allegorical animation about change that not everyone is willing to keep up with.

dir. Igor Bezinović

112′dok2025

In 1919, the Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, together with a band of rebels, briefly seized control of the city of Fiume (today’s Rijeka). Over 100 years later, the locals revisit this story and re-enact events that resemble the theatre of the absurd rather than a chapter in European history.

dir. Zahraa Ghandour

87′dok2025

Why are young women disappearing in today’s Iraq? The film director attempts to track down her childhood friend, which marks the beginning of a personal investigation and a story about a hushed-up social phenomenon. Nour’s search turns into a hypnotic journey through the streets of Baghdad.

dir. Dagomir Kaszlikowski

15′fab2026

Dag Kaszlikowski, a physicist and filmmaker, created a short, sensuous essay on perception. It focuses on the scientific idea of the so-called Boltzmann brain, which posits that a human can only be a fleeting fluctuation of particles, an illusion emerging from the chaos of the dying universe.

dir. Ahmet Seven

88′dok2026

dir. Monika Masłoń

14′dok2025

Is touch possible without physical bodies? The protagonist moves as an avatar in virtual reality and explores what intimacy without physical contact looks like. Her experiment invites us to reflect on the condition of contemporary relationships.

dir. Marianna Mrozek

3′anim2026

Franio the Rabbit has long been preparing for the day that is to bring about change. A lamp, stool and a new rope are all elements of a precise plan, but black humour quickly undermines the obviousness of initial assumptions. What does the protagonist really intend, and will he succeed in achieving the goal he cares so much about?

dir. Adam Koloman Rybanský

18′fab2017

It's saturday, beautiful summer weather and the tournament begins in a small village. Futnet is played, rump is being roasted and everybody is drinking beer. Monday is still far away so no one has to worry about anything. At least until the moment when gypsy team called Jamaicas appears.

dir. Katarzyna Kosajda

17′dok2026

A mesmerizing journey into the world of local beliefs, ghosts, and apparitions, presented in the style of a folk horror film. The inhabitants of a small village in the Łódź region recount stories passed down from generation to generation about mysterious and inexplicable phenomena in the nearby forest.

dir. Jen Nee Lim

15′fab2025

In the world where abortion is banned, Siti does not want to become a mother. Her repeated, increasingly desperate attempts to terminate the pregnancy end in failure, and her fate seems sealed. However, everything changes when she meets an eccentric bus driver endowed with supernatural powers.

dir. Karol Ulman

19′fab2026

Some people travel to places, while others escape from them. Two random passengers meet in a train compartment. An all-night solo journey across Poland encourages Andrzej and Jaśmina to strike up a conversation. The girl seems to have no destination in sight, though she wants to make a change in her life. The man, on the other hand, after many years, summons the courage to face a ghost from his past.

dir. Karol Ulman

19′fab2026

Some people travel to places, while others escape from them. Two random passengers meet in a train compartment. An all-night solo journey across Poland encourages Andrzej and Jaśmina to strike up a conversation. The girl seems to have no destination in sight, though she wants to make a change in her life. The man, on the other hand, after many years, summons the courage to face a ghost from his past.

dir. Zuza Banasińska

23′dok2024

Based on the Polish Educational Archive materials, the film tells the story of a matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems. Originally created as a didactic and propagandist tool in communist Poland, the footage was repurposed as the locus of autofictional memories, where the register shifted towards the treatment of images as specimens.

dir. Katarzyna Wiśniowska

63′dok2026

Yara grows up in the ring. As a daughter of a Moroccan boxing legend and a coach who runs a family boxing school, she has been expected to follow in her parents’ footsteps ever since she was a child. The moment has finally come when she can decide her own future.

dir. Filip Wieczorek

23′fab2026

Kasia is studying at a prestigious French school for future master chefs, whilst her father, Otar, runs a restaurant in Poland serving Georgian specialities. When the girl is expelled from the elite course and her dad begins to struggle with financial problems, neither of them wants to admit defeat. By hiding the truth, they are putting up unnecessary barriers between each other.

dir. Monika Anna Kotecka

22′dok2026

dir. Monika Anna Kotecka

22′dok2026

Female anxiety forms the narrative axis in this poetic documentary essay. Women of various ages attempt to define it by describing the physical experiences they face. The constant tension present in the body permeates memory and relationships yet remains beyond language.

dir. Michal Kosakowski

102′dok2025

Few historical events have been portrayed on screen as often as the Holocaust. And few have become so entrenched in clichés. We are treated to a daring video essay compiled from clips of over 3,000 feature films. They make a single coherent work, engaging with fictional representations of the Holocaust.

dir. Katarzyna Kultys

71′dok2025

Spiders, scorpions, and thousands of ants are taking over Kasia’s apartment. Her teenage son’s passion for exotic animals is increasingly impacting their daily lives, fuelling conflict. To continue living together, the family will have to redefine their boundaries.

dir. Kristine Nrecaj, Birthe Templin

87′dok2024

For some women in Albania, freedom came when they became men. The burrnesha tradition granted them rights and privileges unavailable to women in a patriarchal society. Six female protagonists explain why they stepped into the roles of male representatives of their families.

dir. Jay Rosenblatt

29′dok2021

Ella is the daughter of Jay Rosenblatt, a director known for his documentary experiments. At the same time, Ella is the protagonist of the film, who answers a few simple questions every year from her second to her eighteenth birthday. How do her answers change over time?

dir. Antonio Lukich

15′dok2025

I became curious about how teenagers in modern Ukraine spent their summer in different corners of the country. Do they experience life differently or in a similar way? What unites them and what sets them apart? We know stories of beaches and sports victories. But what will today’s Ukrainian teenagers tell us? Can a war cancel youth — its emotions, dreams, and a thirst for life?

dir. Tomasz Wolski

15′dok2026

What will be left behind when humanity vanishes from the surface of the earth? Abandoned stations, schools and plants create a post-apocalyptic landscape of the world without people. Tomasz Wolski, in his short documentary essay, does not rely on archival material this time, but builds a vision of the future that looks already familiar.

dir. Simon Lec

100′dok2025

A scientific thriller about a bold genetic project and, at the same time, equally grand ambitions as well as the price of developing science. The film's protagonist is Eske Willerslev, an outstanding DNA researcher who competes with time and his rivals, trying to decipher ancient human genomes.

dir. Pepa Lubojacki

110′dok2026

dir. Tawfeek Barhom

13′fab2026

Two brothers return to the island of their childhood, where buried secrets and heavy tensions force them to confront the dark past that connects them. An intense story about the family, memory and unspoken emotions.

dir. Ruben Östlund

12′fab2009

A detailed and humorous real-time account of a failed bank robbery, an observation of how people react to the unexpected. Shot in a single take and with over 96 people meticulously choreographed, the film recreates an actual event that took place in 2006.

dir. Juliette Binoche

124′dok2025

In 2008, Juliette Binoche collaborated with British dancer Akram Khan to create a performance entitled ‘In-I’. From the many hours of recorded rehearsals, the actress produced a documentary that offers a unique insight into the creative process and artistic exchange.

dir. Igor Smola

16′fab2025

In a snow-covered village, people have been disappearing for years. When Murad goes missing, the villagers set out in search of him, following the trail of a legend about a creature living beneath the snow. The film evocatively blends realism with imagination, showing how fear can fill the void of the inexplicable.

dir. Elie Grappe, Anna-Marija Adomaityte

12′dok2026

The last night before adulthood. Seven girls on the threshold of maturity are facing the end of an important chapter in their lives. As they revisit the videos they have posted on TikTok over the years, they try to reflect on and make sense of their lives so far.

dir. Gianluca Matarrese

83′dok2025

dir. Dagmara Furgał

53′dok2026

Yoshiaki and Yumiko Oka are a couple in their 70s, brought together by a fascination with Polish folk dances. For almost 40 years, they have been running a school in the town of Tomonoura where the polonaise and kujawiak reign supreme. The film is a record of this unique passion, which transcends the boundaries of continents and cultures.

dir. Petr Záruba

70′dok2025

She lived for just 25 years, yet her achievements and biography speak volumes about the place of a talented woman in the world of classical music. Meet Vítězslava Kaprálová, a brilliant Czech composer and conductor who captivated Europe before the war. Her name was erased from history, but today, the artist is being discovered anew.

dir. Jin Woo

12′anim2026

The eponymous kkogdu are small wooden figurines that once adorned traditional Korean funeral biers. They served as guides for the soul of the deceased and protected it on its journey to the afterlife. In Jin Woo’s animation, the figurines come to life, play, dance and metamorphose – all with the purpose to safely guide the deceased to the end of their earthly existence.

dir. Zuza Banasińska

21′dok2026

The spirit of a possessed girl, trapped within a stone, haunts a 102-year-old woman awaiting death. The spirit, deriving from folk beliefs, recognises the old woman as her mother, which sets off an intimate, ambiguous dialogue straddling the line between reality and fantasy.

dir. Karolina Chabier

16′anim2025

A divine bison and her friend the goat create the world. Together, they adorn the sky with stars, awaken the sun and create the lands to populate them with fantastic new creatures. Over time, their creation slips out of control. A dreamlike animation about the power of creation, which may sometimes be a burden.

dir. Djiby Kebe

19′fab2024

Aliou, a promising student of the Beaux Arts in Paris, sells the painting of his deceased mother for 3,000 euros to a renowned collector. The delivery of the portrait becomes a long journey during which he will realise the weight of the money he earned and the significance of the picture for both his sister and himself.

dir. Pepe Andreu, Rafa Molés Vilar

82′dok2025

dir. Grzegorz Brzozowicz

80′dok2026

dir. Négar Motevalymeidanshah

7′anim2025

Golnaz, a 23-year-old immigrant Iranian girl, tries to cope with her new life in Germany. She finds a pack of saffron that reminds her of home. Golnaz cooks some rice to add saffron, a heartwarming dish from her past. But she didn’t expect that this moment would bring her back into the most traumatic events of her life.Three years ago she survived a tragic drowning that took away her family while traveling illegally in a boat.

dir. Jem Cohen

122′dok2024

A story about the clash of human existence with the history of Earth and the universe. Karl, an Austrian astronomer, at the end of his professional career, reviews his life, the state of scientific knowledge, the condition of the world and disappointments related to it.

dir. Filip Szela

15′dok2026

We have RODOS at home – or, more precisely, on our allotment. During the scorching summer, time spent in family allotment gardens goes by differently than it does in the city. What emerges from daily rituals is a warm, slightly nostalgic portrayal of the allotment community.

dir. Sandra Winther

94′dok2025

dir. Marcin Borchardt

75′dok2026

The film tells a story of a brilliant clan of Polish cinematographers focusing on Piotr Sobociński, whose Hollywood career and untimely death reveal the dark side of success in the film industry. It is a tale about the price one pays for one’s aspirations and dreams.

dir. Miranda Pennell

10′dok2024

Gaza, December 2023. The narrator’s dispassionate voice describes in detail what we see on screen. The pixelated image slowly begins to reveal details. It is a photograph sent by a war correspondent to a news channel. When shown such images, do you wonder what you are actually looking at? Who is man number four? The director explores what it means to be a passive observer.

dir. Oliver Mark Toth

84′dok2026

For every Hungarian teenager, the name of Pogány Induló must sound familiar. He started out as a child YouTuber and at the age of 20 became a hip-hop star filling stadiums. His life is a wild ride, and at one point, he becomes a figure of a distinct political dimension in Hungary.

dir. Amin Pakparvar, Mehraneh Salimian

19′dok2025

Protests in Iran in 2022–2023 were recorded a countless number of times on residents’ cell phones. Filmed from apartment and car windows, these images form an alternative archive of street demonstrations. One woman gets killed while filming a street. This moment serves as the starting point for a personal film essay.

dir. Niles Atallah

21′anim2025

Animated anomalies, psychedelic cherubs and Latin songs in the mechanical world of unbridled imagination. Niles Atallah takes the viewers to a spooky repository of broken toys, which would certainly have appealed to Jan Švankmajer, the Quay Brothers, Hans Bellmer and Alfred Kubin.

dir. Naima Karim, Aleena Hanif

′anim2025

Mirage is an interactive Virtual Reality experience of a young girl who is battling depression and anxiety. It uses a haptic vest and noise-cancelling headphones to enhance the experience.

dir. Klaudia Szott

24′dok2026

Sylwia – a daughter of a Polish mother and a Nigerian father – discovers traces of her own history in old student films from the Łódź Film School. Its archives contain dozens of pictures made by students from the Global South who came to Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

dir. Nordin Lasfar

93′dok2025

In the 1960s, Paul Bowles transcribed and translated the stories of Mohammed Mrabet, from which he subsequently profited. The author of the novel ‘The Sheltering Sky’ and the Moroccan storyteller were bound by an ambiguous relationship. Today, the elderly Moroccan feels exploited by the American writer.

dir. Michał Bielawski

96′dok2012

dir. Xavier Marrades

22′dok2025

Confined within four walls during the lockdown, the director films birds circling above his home. Their carefree dance contrasts with the fear of the pandemic. This fear brings back memories of another situation in which he felt isolated from the rest of the world – the moment he was diagnosed with HIV.

dir. Karolina Fronik

17′fab2026

Zenia and her father Jan’s trip to the seaside was meant to be a carefree, special time. However, the pleasant family weekend quickly turns into a confrontation with a painful truth. What Zenia discovers shatters the existing order and forces the girl to grow up suddenly, within the space of a few moments.

dir. Farahnaz Sharifi

82′dok2024

A film diary by Farah, an Iranian filmmaker. Born during the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, she uses her family's archive footage to highlight the contrast between freedom at home and oppression in the outside world. At the same time, she collects 8mm archival footage from strangers, which gives her a new perspective on the loss of memory and recollections.

dir. Marcin Borchardt

80′dok2026

This film is a double portrait, or rather a triple one, as the extraordinary story of Franciszka and Stefan Themerson is told by the painter’s niece. Jasia Reichardt’s life story, deeply marked by the Holocaust, has become intertwined in a unique way with the biography of this couple of versatile and ever-experimenting artists.

dir. Yves Piat

17′fab2018

A comedy which has won the hearts of festival spectators at Clermont-Ferrand and Aspen. At the border with Algeria, two brothers, Abdallah and Mohammed, find a lonely donkey wearing headphones on its ears and carrying bags full of white powder on its back. The boys decide to bring the load home. Audience Award at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.

dir. Júlia Coldwell Serra

20′fab2025

Candela accidentally runs over her nephew’s dog, but she lacks the courage to admit it so as not to ruin his birthday. Instead of telling the truth, she invents a story about the dog’s pilgrimage and sets off with the boy in search of a sacred tree. The more lies she tells, the more firmly the boy believes that his beloved dog will return.

dir. Oscar Asán

23′dok2025

In Mexico, where cartel violence has become a part of daily reality and videos of brutal executions circulate online, two people set out to find their missing friend. Their journey takes them through a virtual game, and the digital world reveals a very real fear for their survival.

dir. Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L'helgoualc'h

30′anim2026

Make yourselves at home in a virtual museum, where, thanks to avatars, anyone can be someone else. In this psychedelic documentary, we peek behind the scenes of imagination and discover the intimate experience of engaging with digital art. It is a journey into a world where technology and beauty blur the line between the viewer and the exhibit.

dir. Mateusz Mularski

76′dok2026

In November 2022, Kherson was liberated. However, this is not the end of the war: the city remains under fire, separated from the enemy only by a river. For three years, the camera followed the lives of residents living under constant threat.

dir. Philippe Béziat

90′dok2025

It resembles a giant, perfectly functioning body, although it is made of one hundred exceptional musicians. Orchestre de Paris, under the baton of young music director Klaus Mäkelä at present, has featured in a film symphony. It shows how beauty is born – through hard work, discipline and relationships that are not always harmonious.

dir. Isa Willinger

105′dok2025

dir. Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osioi Vanden

90′dok2025

dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson

20′fab2024

O is a humanistic and poetic story of a fragile man trying to achieve a simple task where his main obstacle is within himself.

dir. Adrien Fonda

29′fab2026

Sully values solitude above all else. However, when Jeanne and her partner Romane arrive in summer, it upsets the fragile balance, stirring feelings within him. In a subtle, somewhat Rohmerian tone, the film explores ambiguous bonds, desire and intimacy, whilst the hypnotic macro-photographs lend the story a distinct rhythm, sensuality and an unsettling aura.

dir. Karolina Walas

11′anim2025

Izia and Karo are growing up by the lake, in a town that seems to exist outside of time. They are bound by a close bond, rooted in their shared existence. The film evokes the atmosphere of summer memories – fragmentary and dreamlike – whilst also capturing the locals entangled in their repetitive stories. Over time, the idyllic mood begins to darken, and the story of friendship and coming-of-age reveals increasingly unsettling tensions.

dir. Piotr Małecki

60′dok2026

dir. Piotr Małecki

60′dok2026

dir. Paulina Ziółkowska

8′anim2026

The day begins with tension and a sense of being overwhelmed by chores. Through its dynamic form, the film offers an ironic commentary on the cult of productivity and the reality of work, where everything seems to be speeding up. Procrastination yoga offers a moment of calm - breathing, movement and distance - but relaxation turns out to be part of the mechanism designed to boost efficiency.

dir. Taavi Arus

96′dok2026

‘We’re fighting ageism in pop music!’ – declare two middle-aged gentlemen who have created the weirdest musical duo in Estonia. Using a traditional instrument called the talharpa, they pursue their own style, i.e. neo-zombie postfolk, which two years ago brought Puuluup to the Eurovision Song Contest.

dir. Šimon Mészáros

10′anim2025

In a luxurious villa inhabited by identical people, the protagonist serves a pair of twins. When the apparent order is disrupted, the world begins to fall apart, and the way back disappears. A surreal journey through a symbolic orchard leads to abstract forms of 3D animation and a disturbing vision of cyclical decay.

dir. Bipuljit Basu

100′dok2025

CAM-ON is an amateur film group made of sexual workers from Calcutta and their children. In the real setting of slums, they are working on their first feature film based on their own, often painful, experiences. They want to show it to the residents of the district.

dir. Chloé Lee

′dok

A mixed reality open documentary that allows viewers to explore the rapidly developing landscape of Singapore through personal stories from Singaporeans young and old alike. With a custom projector, viewers have agency to shape their own narrative experiences, rooting them in the present while looking to the past and forward to the future.

dir. Ross McElwee

116′dok2025

In 'Remake', filmmaker Ross McElwee turns his lens on the passage of time and the uneasy space between documenting life and understanding it. The film traces McElwee’s relationship with his son Adrian, and the fragile bond the camera created between them while Adrian was alive, and now that he’s gone.

dir. Tomáš Elšík

83′dok2025

A story about the significance of individual opposition to violence hidden in the foundations of ‘usual’ everyday management of natural resources. Czech director presents in parallel the story of an activist renovating habitats endangered by human expansion and the story of an ornithologist documenting the poisoning of protected birds.

dir. Kim Longinotto

103′dok2008

The activists from Durban are relentless when they go to war against superstition, patriarchy or cultural taboos. The camera accompanies the women during everyday interventions, when they are trying step by step to change the reality of South Africa, a country painfully afflicted by social and economic divisions, the conspiracy of silence or the AIDS epidemic.

dir. Kim Longinotto

91′dok2013

“She's too clever,” says Salma's father, a poet from southern India. Like many other girls, she was condemned to social exclusion upon reaching puberty and spent nine years in seclusion. She wrote in secret and, years later, returned as an advocate for women. Will the younger generation follow in her footsteps?

dir. Wojciech Wojtkowski

12′anim2025

Two centuries on, Fryderyk Chopin returns to Warsaw and listens to his own music in the concert hall. The sounds evoke memories of love, success and death in a foreign land. In this oneiric, analogue-shot tale, memory and the macabre intertwine to produce the story of a return and longing.

dir. Jozo Schmuch

20′fab2025

When a son visits his now elderly mother after many years, the past and the present collide, as do two seemingly incompatible images: the country of a bygone era, engulfed in a tragic, fratricidal Balkan war, and modern-day Croatia, striving to build normal day-to-day existence.

dir. Julien Elie

100′dok2025

Is Boca Chica, Texas, a laboratory of interstellar future or a depressing backstage of techno capitalism and techno fetishism? Julien Elie, a Canadian director, demonstrates, with cold precision, typical of his works, how the expansion of Elon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX, brutally redefines the functioning of a local community and nature.

dir. Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams

53′dok1995

Tokyo’s night club, New Marilyn, is popular among women who enjoy the company of transmen or trans male nonbinary persons. We follow three people who are trying to balance work and their personal lives. This story, set in the Shinjuku district, offers an intimate glimpse into gender diversity in a conservative country.

dir. Kim Longinotto

94′dok2019

A colourful portrait of Letizia Battaglia, who documented the crimes of the Sicilian mafia between 1974 and 1993. Her iconic photographs served as an indictment and a call for justice, as well as a memorial to the victims. Because she was a woman, her work also challenged the gender norms of the time.

dir. Radu Jude, Adrian Cioflâncă

22′dok2026

Two narratives, one story. In the 1980s, an American journalist photographed daily life in communist Romania, unaware that he was observed by secret police. Forty years later, both archives were combined to show the story from two completely different perspectives.

dir. Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk

90′dok2025

On the banks of the Dniester in Western Ukraine lives an isolated community that ignores socioeconomic development. The Russian invasion of Ukraine disrupts their idyllic daily life and becomes a challenge to their pacifist views. The film thoughtfully contrasts the archaic community with the reality of war trenches.

dir. Melody Boulissiere, Bogdan Stamatin

14′dok2024

A soldier follows a young woman. Their love story begins. The soldier is called to the front and their love dissolves in the war. 2014. During a long interview, the woman, now 91 years old, reveals the secrets of the forgotten era for one last time. What remains of a love story after three-quarters of a century and a world war?

dir. Sabine Lidl

110′dok2026

One of the most important contemporary authors opens the door to her New York home, talking about her Norwegian roots, early days as a writer and connections to feminism. She devotes a great deal of attention to her marriage to Paul Auster.

dir. Krzysztof Komander

99′fab2025

Eleven-year-old Hania has to find her feet in a completely new environment after moving to a different town. She has no friends here, and on top of that, her belief in the existence of gnomes exposes her to ridicule from her peers. To get her stolen locket back, the protagonist must prove that gnomes really exist. She will then discover that true magic lies in friendship.

dir. Oskar Sadowski

30′fab2026

When a young man appears in the home of a distinguished elderly couple, an ordinary night turns into a moment of confessions that have been held back for a lifetime. In the face of death, the protagonist, played by Olgierd Łukaszewicz, reveals a hidden truth and ‘Song of the Night’ becomes a sensual tale of love, loneliness, fear and courage.

dir. Oskar Sadowski

30′fab2026

When a young man appears in the home of a distinguished elderly couple, an ordinary night turns into a moment of confessions that have been held back for a lifetime. In the face of death, the protagonist, played by Olgierd Łukaszewicz, reveals a hidden truth and ‘Song of the Night’ becomes a sensual tale of love, loneliness, fear and courage.

dir. Michał Toczek

15′fab2026

During the papal pilgrimage in June 1999, when the sale of alcohol is banned, Bogdan must obtain a bottle of vodka for his wife’s 50th birthday. What appears to be a routine trip to the shop quickly defies the ordinary and turns into a metaphysical journey through the absurdities of the late 1990s, the meaning of which becomes increasingly blurred.

dir. Fariz Ahmadov

72′dok2025

In the Karabakh region, afflicted by the experience of war, teams of female bomb disposal experts clear the land of UXOs. Every day, they work on the edge of life and death, fighting to rebuild their country. The sound of metal detectors intertwines here with the silence of a return to ordinary duties.

dir. Maria Dakszewicz

6′anim2026

The heat is so intense that the electronics are overheating. A short circuit occurs at a travelling funfair. A brief power cut offers a moment’s respite and an opportunity to take a closer look at the daily life of a place that never stops.

dir. Marc Isaacs

72′dok2025

How to make a face generated by artificial intelligence to be more human? For example, you can train AI on the characters of documentary films. The director agreed that his work be used. The result is a witty hybrid of documentary and fiction exposing the blurring of many boundaries in the AI era.

dir. Marc Isaacs

72′dok2025

How to make a face generated by artificial intelligence to be more human? For example, you can train AI on the characters of documentary films. The director agreed that his work be used. The result is a witty hybrid of documentary and fiction exposing the blurring of many boundaries in the AI era.

dir. Adem Tutic

27′fab2025

This slow-paced narrative confronts us with Tarik’s disorientation as he navigates a toxic environment – caught between religious and ethnic prejudice, violent models of masculinity, and parents who are strangers to one another.

dir. Alexandra ‘Sasha’ Kutsen

14′fab2026

Anżelika, a manicurist in a tacky beauty salon, is trying to return to her law studies when she is surprised by an unplanned pregnancy. Without a job, home or any certainty about what comes next, she seeks support from her clients, an AI bot and her guinea pigs. A tragicomedy about pressure, loneliness and regaining one’s own voice.

dir. Markku Heikkinen

97′dok2026

In the Far North, emotions and passions can reach fever pitch. A middle-age farming couple find out about it for themselves when the man discovers he is not attracted only to women, and she gives him the go-ahead. This creative documentary combines the reality of life on a farm with tender depictions of intimacy.

dir. Salad Hilowle

7′dok2021

An investigative and humorous film about the supporting roles of football. What happens when you turn the camera beyond the pitch? We get caught up in rituals among judges and linemen, follow the zealous accuracy of the material and that of the photographers looking for the perfect image. We study the audience up close, big and small emotions build a mood at least as exciting as what happens on the pitch. On site in a football arena, we get to follow a match from different points of view but we never see the ball. A consideration of everything that happens around at a football game.

dir. Danny Biancardi, Stefano La Rosa, Virginia Nardelli

70′dok2025

The film follows Angelo, Mery, Rosy, and Giada, four eleven-year-olds living in Danisinni, an isolated neighborhood of Palermo. In the main square stands an abandoned kindergarten, believed to be haunted and used as a dump. The children explore it and turn one room into a secret hideout.

dir. Joanna Popińska

′dok

The second and third parts of Joanna Popińska’s documentary VR project combine minimalist animation with immersive video to create an empathetic, conversation-like experience. We encounter the story of Leigh and Dan, facing an unplanned pregnancy, and Makayla, who speaks about two abortions. It is an intimate account of choice, partnership, and access to reproductive healthcare in a changing reality.

dir. Helen Tither

89′dok2025

The incredible real-life story of the original rebel girls of football – The Corinthians Ladies FC from Manchester – who defied The English Football Association’s 50-year ban on women to become global champions. Told by 10 surviving players, this film reveals how a team of defiant girls took on the all-male establishment. Beating Germany to a European Cup and winning an unofficial World Cup in 1960. Now, after decades of being sidelined, The Corinthians finally reveal their rebellious story.

dir. Jay Rosenblatt

26′dok2009

A compilation documentary composed of fragments of archival films dealing with suicide and the accompanying states of depression, loneliness and sadness. By combining excerpts from old educational films, newsreels and archival footage, Jay Rosenblatt creates a personal and unsettling essay about human fears and obsessions, and about how culture attempts to come to terms with the unimaginable.

dir. Kim Longinotto

90′dok2002

Kim Longinotto travels with her camera to Kenya to confront the barbarian procedure of female genital mutilation, which is still practiced today despite being illegal. She gives a voice to the victims and activists fighting for systemic change, exposes the superstitions and traditions behind these drastic procedures and offers hope for a change not only in the law but also in the collective mindset. WARNING! Drastic scenes and vulgar language.

dir. Luuk Bouwman

108′dok2025

dir. Eliza Capai

71′dok2025

Although they live in one of the poorest regions of Brazil, they almost burst the screen with girlish energy. The protagonists invite us to a very colorful world on the cusp of carefree fun and coming of age, which usually brings a definitive end to innocence.

dir. Theo Panagopoulos

17′dok2024

When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wildflowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender documentary essay questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and land.

dir. Smari Gunn, Logi Sigursveinsson

79′dok2023

‘We’re playing at home!’ – is a chant every football fan understands. It not only indicates the venue but, above all, signals loyalty to the club’s colours and the emotions tied to the team. In the case of a pitch on the Icelandic coast that has not been used for 25 years, it sounds like a dream come true.

dir. Jakub Jakubik

20′fab2026

Real or staged? A film that walks a tightrope between fiction and documentary, exploring the director’s family relationships. Kuba returns from rehab for Christmas. His parents are surprised by his presence, and his younger brother makes no secret of his hostility. When a festive dinner is not enough for them to reconcile, the end of the world might do the trick.

dir. Agnieszka Kokowska, Anastazja Dąbrowska

15′dok2026

A poetic reflection on ecology and one scientist’s relentless struggle to ensure the survival of an endangered crayfish species. His work exposes a broader context – the consequences of human interference in the natural environment and the gradual disruption of its rhythm.

dir. Agnieszka Kokowska, Anastazja Dąbrowska

15′dok2026

A poetic reflection on ecology and one scientist’s relentless struggle to ensure the survival of an endangered crayfish species. His work exposes a broader context – the consequences of human interference in the natural environment and the gradual disruption of its rhythm.

dir. Xavier Diskeuve

22′fab2023

A football-and-piano qui pro quo. In this Belgian comedy, a young man practising hard for an entrance exam to one of the leading schools of music must temporarily set aside his metronome, passages and études to step into the role of a Georgian football talent.

dir. Jure Pavlović

85′dok2025

A story of a legendary team torn apart by politics at the moment of triumph. In 1991, the Yugoslav national basketball team travelled to Rome to defend their European Champions’ title. At the same time, their country ceased to exist.

dir. Guillaume Maupin, Pablo Guarise

100′dok2025

Was Herman Poole Blount, aka Sun Ra, an alien? Definitely, he was a jazz visionary, pioneer of afro-futurism and a proponent of many eccentric theories. Thanks to the creative use of archival material, this extraordinary, yet little-documented, figure comes to life, just like the city that shaped him.

dir. Petra Seliskar

123′dok2025

High up in the mountains of Macedonia, five brothers grow up among a flock of sheep and shepherding dogs, far away from the world and the hustle of daily life. Living in harmony with nature, they spend their days working with animals. In this repetitive daily routine, the boys’ thoughts with increasing clarity keep drifting away to the world beyond the mountains.

dir. Valentin Paoli