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 Medium Length & Short Film Competition
In a village in West Africa where dreams play a key role, the hosts of local radio interpret the oniric visions of their listeners. The language of dreams is spoken here. The limits between the real...
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...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Is there a hidden link between hydroelectricity, romance and alienation? Does the contemporary energy consumption have anything to do with the ways people experience their place in the world? This...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Qaem wanted to end his life but finds new spiritual paths. Day after day he collects samplings in order to plant them on the stony mountainside of Tehran and takes care of them. Hamid Jafari (...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
After a first film, Bijan Anquetil meets again Hamid and Sobhan, friends having arrived secretly from Afghanistan, separated by life in Europe. The first has become a political refugee. The second,...
Opening Scenes
Three young friends of Moroccan origin travel on a lost island, sing, dance, and take us into the shelter of an uninhabited lighthouse. They discover this unknown land like the explorers in a tale of...
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 Medium Length & Short Film Competition
A man and a woman move deeper into the dark of the night. Through the impersonal images of Google Earth, their erratic path leads us towards a place where something dramatic appears to have taken...
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...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
In Brazil, the inhabitants of Teewald, a German colony founded at the end of the 19th century, are still proud of their Germanic roots. Starting with the text of German-Turkish researcher...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Based on conversations recorded in Seoul with former citizens of North Korea, accompanied by shots taken in the country and on the Chinese border and the demilitarised zone, Maija Blåfield ( On...
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...