International Feature Film Competition
Made from images filmed by the Syrian artist Amel Alzakout after the boat on which she was fleeing Syria sank off the coast of Lesbos, Purple Sea reports on the moment in which the co-director...
International Feature Film Competition
Since 2011, the International Christian Embassy, an evangelist organisation, has been sponsoring the organisation of a beauty contest in Haifa reserved for female survivors of the Holocaust living in...
National Competition
Fabiano is haunted by his guilt feelings about the death of an illegal Macedonian worker that used to help him in is cottage making Alp cheese. His hippie parents were also cheese producers, but times...
Latitudes
A psychiatric centre in Tehran is implementing a revolutionary project: allowing marriage between patients. These women and men in search of love will have to face the prejudices of a traditionalist...
International Feature Film Competition
The Baja 1000, the biggest off-road motorsport race in the world, crosses Mexico's largest desert region. In this Western, which is surprisingly reminiscent of a musical, Jose Permar followed Rigo,...
International Feature Film Competition
Markku Lehmuskallio has devoted a large part of his documentary work to the indigenous people of the Arctic Circle. In this latest film, co-directed with his son Johannes Lehmuskallio, he composes a...
International Feature Film Competition
In 1982, when the Russian invasion of Afghanistan was at its peak, more than 1.5 million inhabitants had to move to Iran looking for a new life. Taghi, born in Iran, wants to escape the ruthless...
Burning Lights International Competition
A woman visits her boyfriend, locked up in a prison a few hours' drive away from Buenos Aires. Each week, she manages as best as she can to accomplish her mission: provide her boyfriend food, drugs...
International Feature Film Competition
A crew of a trawler crosses the ocean with one aim in mind: to catch 2000 tons of tuna. Out in the deep waters for months, these men share extremely harsh living conditions. Between poetry and social...
Héctor Babenco is without a doubt one the most beloved Brazilian directors of all time. He became internationally renowned with the success of the moving and deeply affecting film Pixote which...
International Feature Film Competition
In the heart of Russia, the city of Magnitogorsk is home to the Kombinat, one of the largest iron and steel factory in the country. Here, Gabriel Tejedor films the day-to-day lives of Lena, Sasha,...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Milena and Kolya grew up in the shadow of Vladimir Putin. Following Alexei Navalny, the main opponent to the Kremlin's master, they get involved in political agitprop in Moscow, defying the...
Burning Lights International Competition
Night falls on snow-covered Montreal. People wait and take turns at the lost property office in the city's transport department. They have all misplaced something which, in hindsight, comes to...
International Feature Film Competition
Beneath its reassuring façade, Davos is each year at the heart of the Western and capitalistic world. Every chief of State and everyone who is someone in the money world meets with their peers in the...
International Feature Film Competition
In a small community of Montana, between green valleys and wild mountains, Thaddeus, a Cheyenne native, and Nanci, a non-native woman, prepare their wedding. While we get to know them, we realize...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
In 2016, videos showing the slaughter conditions of farm animals shocked the public opinion, who quickly forgot about them. With complicit gaze, Elsa Maury films a young shepherd's...
Burning Lights International Competition
Erected in a thousand days following the architectural vision of Oscar Niemeyer, Brasilia is a sixties-era “cosmo-futurist” utopia become reality. Through multiple encounters, landscapes, and texts...
Grand Angle
Working to the rhythm of the aisles of a banal supermarket, the employees seem seized by the repetitive tasks and their routine. But this does not take the roaming spirit of the workers into...
Burning Lights International Competition
From the lush and green grass of the Kazakh Steppe to the glorifying architecture of its capital, from its giant open-air mines to the traces of invisible nuclear power, Kazakhstan is here captured in...
Latitudes
En Touré Inza Junior made the crossing from the Ivory Coast to Italy. Restless, he dreams of France but everything seems to work against his hopes. Will he be able to make it there? Joël Richmond...