LA BOLA NEGRA (Spain/Netflix)
POSSIBLE LOVE (South Korea/Netflix)
GROWTH OF THE SOIL (Norway)
HOLD ONTO ME (Cyprus)
TELL ME EVERYTHING (Israel)
WHO IS STILL ALIVE (Switzerland/Watermelon Pictures)
BEN’IMANA (Rwanda/Alexander)
ADULT SUPERVISION (Sweden)
NINA ROZA (Canada/Dekanalog)
GOD WILL NOT HELP (Croatia)
SHAME AND MONEY (WINNER, World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Sundance Film Festival)
WE ARE ALL STRANGERS (Singapore/Film Movement)
LA BOLA NEGRA (Spain)
Directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo
WINNER, Best Director – Cannes Film Festival
WINNER, People’s Choice Award – Toronto International Film Festival
WINNER, San Sebastián Audience Award – San Sebastián International Film Festival
Official Selection – Telluride Film Festival
Official Selection – NewFest
SYNOPSIS: A bold tapestry spanning nearly a century of Spanish history, La Bola Negra tells the story of three generations of men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain, and love in this celebrated film from Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi.
DIRECTOR: Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo
WRITERS: Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi, Alberto Conejero (inspired by the play La piedra oscura by Alberto Conejero, La Bola Negra, and other texts by Federico García Lorca)
PRODUCERS: Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi
CAST: Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes, Lola Dueñas, Julio Torres, Penélope Cruz, Glenn Close
Run Time: 159'
US DISTRIBUTOR: Netflix
POSSIBLE LOVE (South Korea)
Directed by Lee Chang-dong
WINNER, Grand Jury Prize – Venice Film Festival
WINNER, FIPRESCI Prize – Venice Film Festival
Official Selection – Toronto International Film Festival
Official Selection – New York Film Festival
SYNOPSIS: Possible Love follows the intertwined relationship of two married couples facing different paths and hidden desires. Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon) lives quietly with her laid-off husband Ho-seok (Sul Kyung-gu) and their young son Cheol until a funeral brings them into the orbit of Ye-ji (Cho Yeo-jeong), a documentary filmmaker chronicling laid-off workers, and her husband Sang-woo (Zo In-sung) — a couple whose affluent lifestyle stands in sharp contrast to their own. When Mi-ok agrees to be filmed, she grows close to Ye-ji, and finds herself uneasily drawn to the unreadable Sang-woo. As their worlds collide, fractures begin to appear in their daily existence. Marking his first release in eight years, highly acclaimed director Lee Chang-dong (Burning, Poetry, Secret Sunshine) brings his signature nuance to Possible Love, capturing shifting emotions, conflicts, and contrasting outlooks that shape these relationships.
DIRECTOR: Lee Chang-dong
WRITERS: Lee Chang-dong, Oh Jung-mi
PRODUCERS: Pinehouse Film Co., Ltd., Anonymous Content, LLC, NOWFILM Co., Ltd.
CAST: Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Zo In-sung, Cho Yeo-jeong
Run Time: 164'
US DISTRIBUTOR: Netflix
GROWTH OF THE SOIL (Norway)
Directed by Hans Petter Moland (OUT STEALING HORSES)
Starring Asta Kamma August (WHAT LIES BETWEEN US) and Herbert Nordrum (SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, EVERYBODY WANTS TO FUCK ME, THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD, THE ROYAL HOTEL)
Official Selection, Special Presentations – Toronto International Film Festival
WINNER, Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance, Asta Kamma August – San Sebastián International Film Festival
WINNER, Jury Prize for Best Cinematography - San Sebastián International Film Festival
SYNOPSIS: Nobel Prize-winner Knut Hamsun’s novel about a farmer’s struggles in early 20th-century Norway gets a powerful and richly textured adaptation by director Hans Petter Moland and his superb cast.
(Courtesy of TIFF)
DIRECTOR: Hans Petter Moland
WRITERS: Hans Petter Moland, Gard B. Eidsvold
PRODUCERS: Håkon Øverås
CAST: Herbert Nordrum, Asta Kamma August
Run Time: 155'
SALES AGENT: Beta Cinema
HOLD ONTO ME (Cyprus)
Directed by Myrsini Aristidou
Cyprus’ First-Ever Best International Feature Oscar Submission
WINNER, Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Sundance Film Festival
WRITER & DIRECTOR: Myrsini Aristidou
PRODUCERS: Mark Hollinger, Thomas J. Mangan IV, Monica Nicolaidou, Myrsini Aristidou, Anders N.U Berg, Konstantina Stavrianou, Rena Vougioukalou
CAST: Christos Passalis, Maria Petrova
SALES AGENT: Cercamon
Run Time: 102'
TELL ME EVERYTHING (Israel)
Directed by Moshe Rosenthal
Official Selection – Sundance Film Festival
Official Selection – Jerusalem Film Festival
WINNER of 10 Ophir Awards, Including Best Picture, Best Director
SYNOPSIS: Amid the late 80s pop craze and rising HIV epidemic, twelve-year-old Boaz uncovers a devastating secret about the father he idolizes which threatens to tear his family apart. Across the years, this father-son saga follows his journey to heal the wound and reclaim the bond he never stopped yearning for.
WRITER & DIRECTOR: Moshe Rosenthal
PRODUCERS: Green Productions, Liminal Content, United King Films
CAST: Yair Mazor, Ido Tako, Keven Tzur, Mor Dimri, Neta Orbach
SALES AGENT: Paradise City Sales
Run Time: 109'
WHO IS STILL ALIVE (Switzerland)
Directed by Nicolas Wadimoff
Watermelon Pictures
Official Selection – Venice Days, 2025
Official Selection – Locarno Film Festival
Official Selection – Hot Docs Festival
Official Selection – Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival
SYNOPSIS: A map of Gaza, its cities, camps and neighbourhoods. White paint on a black floor. In the roughly drawn outlines, nine refugees who were able to escap hell tell their stories. Their previous lives, their buries dreams, the danger, the rubble, the loss of dear ones. Oppressed, hindered existences, but not yet reduced to ashes, not yet totally plunged into oblivion and darkness. By sharing their stories, the protagonists of Who Is Still Alive attempt to reconnect with themselves, to stop being
ghosts. To come back, perhaps, to life.
WRITER & DIRECTOR: Nicolas Wadimoff
PRODUCERS: Philippe Coeytaux, Ketsia Stocker, Nicolas Wadimoff
CAST: Adel Al Taweel, Haneen Harara, Eman Shannan, Mahmoud Jouda
US DISTRIBUTOR: Watermelon Pictures
Run Time: 113'
BEN’IMANA (Rwanda)
Directed by Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo
Alexander
WINNER, Camera D’Or – Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection – Toronto International Film Festival
Official Selection – AFI Fest
Official Selection – Chicago International Film Festival
SYNOPSIS: In 2012, eighteen years after the genocide against the Tutsi, a Rwandan village is still learning how to live with itself. Vénéranda has spent years helping survivors and the families of those responsible speak the words that were never said between them. However, forgiveness comes easier when it's someone else's story. When her own daughter's future becomes entangled with the past, Vénéranda is forced to find her own words at last.
Spanning three generations of women, BEN'IMANA is an intimate portrait of inherited silence — and the fragile question of whether people who have survived the unspeakable together can still build a life side by side.
DIRECTOR: Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo
WRITER: Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, Delphine Agut
PRODUCERS: Samantha Biffot, Marie Epiphanie Uwayezu, Pierre-Adrien
Ceccaldi, Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo
CAST: Clémentine U. Nyirinkindi, Kesia Kelly Nishimwe, Arivere Kagoyire, Isabelle Kabano, Antoinette Uwamahoro, Léocadie Uwabeza, Aime Valens Tuyisenge, Hamida Uwimana, Adelite Mugabo, Clémence Murorunkwer
Run Time: 101'
ADULT SUPERVISION (Sweden)
Directed by Alex Schulman
Starring Gustaf Skarsgård (OPPENHEIMER, CURSED), Fares Fares (ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY, ZERO DARK THIRTY, SAFE HOUSE, EAGLES OF THE REPUBLIC), Linus Wahlgren (THE DOG TRICK, THE OTHER SIDE, CRIMES OF PASSION)
WINNER, Best Picture – Fantastic Fest
Official Selection – Zurich Film Festival
Official Selection – Bergen International Film Festival
SYNOPSIS: When three fathers accompany their teenage daughters on a school trip to a remote island, tensions rise and control begins to unravel. As old memories resurface, games become power struggles, and power turns to violence. Soon, no one is certain who is in charge or who is at risk.
WRITER & DIRECTOR: Alex Schulman
PRODUCERS: Warner Brothers ITVP Sweden, Christina Legkova, Jonathan Hedman, Sofie Palage, Ludvig Andersson, Nils Tham, Anne-Marie Söhrman Fermelin, Annica Bellander Rune
CAST: Gustaf Skarsgård, Fares Fares, Linus Wahlgren, Olof Olingdahl, Heidi Blanck
Run Time: 108'
Sales Agent: Heretic
GOD WILL NOT HELP (Croatia)
Directed by Hana Jušić
WINNER, Best Performance (Manuela Martelli) – Locarno Film Festival
Official
WINNER, Best Actress (Manuella Martelli), Best Artistic Achievement – Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Official Selection – Palm Springs International Film Festival
SYNOPSIS: A Chilean woman, Teresa, comes into a firmly structured and isolated mountain community of Croatian shepherds in the early 20th century, claiming to be the widow of their émigré brother. Her arrival heavily changes the dynamics between the members of the community and brings unrest, but Teresa also brings freedom.
WRITER & DIRECTOR: Hana Jušić
PRODUCERS: Ankica Jurić Tilić, Kinorama
CAST: Manuela Martelli, Ana Marija Veselčič, Filip Ðurić, Mauro Ercegović Gracin, Nikša Butijer
SALES AGENT: New Europe Film Sales
Run Time: 137'
NINA ROZA (Canada)
Directed by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
WINNER, Best Screenplay – Berlin International Film Festival
WINNER, Best Canadian Film, Vancouver International Film Festival
Official Selection – AFI
Official Selection – Rome Film Fest
SYNOPSIS: A viral video of an 8-year-old Bulgarian artist catches the eye of a major art collector. Mihail is sent there, 30 years after leaving his home country, to assess the value of the girl’s work and confront the ghosts of his past.
WRITER & DIRECTOR: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
PRODUCERS: Fanny Drew, Sarah Mannering
CAST: Galin Stoev, Sofia Stanina, Ekaterina Stanina, Micelle Tzontchev, Christian Bégin, Chiara Caselli, Nikolay Mutafchiev, Tsvetan Todorov, Elena Atanasova, Svetlana Yancheva
Run Time: 103'
US DISTRIBUTOR: Dekanalog
SHAME AND MONEY (Sundance Winner)
Directed by Visar Morina
WINNER, World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Sundance Film Festival
Official Selection – Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
WINNER, CineMasters Award for Best International Film, Munich International Film Festival
Official Selection – Sarajevo Film Festival
Official Selection – Bergen International Film Festival
SYNOPSIS: A couple in their 40s live with their extended family in rural Kosovo making a modest living on their farm. Following a familial dispute, their livelihood is lost. They are forced to move to Pristina where the pressure to provide for their family weighs heavily on the parents as they do their best to find work and a place to stay. A journey into a hyper-capitalist society begins.
DIRECTOR: Visar Morina
WRITER: Doruntina Basha
PRODUCERS: Visar Morina, Pia Hellenthal, Kristof Gerega, Sophie Ahrens, Fibian Altenried
CAST: Astrit Kabashi, Flonja Kodhelo, Kumrike Hoxha, Abdinaser Beka, Tristan Halilaj, Aria Shala, Riga Morina, Melika Gashi, Fiona Gllavica, Alban Ukaj, Selman Lokaj, Teuta Adjini
Run Time: 129'
Sales Agent: The Yellow Affair
WE ARE ALL STRANGERS
Directed by Anthony Chen
Film Movement
Official Selection – Berlin International Film Festival
Official Selection – Toronto International Film Festival
Official Selection – Hong Kong International Film Festival
Official Selection – Mill Valley Film Festival
SYNOPSIS: In contemporary Singapore, 21-year-old Jungyang lives in the ease of youth while his father struggles to hold their modest life together. When Jungyang’s relationship with his girlfriend takes on unexpected and life-altering turn, the young couple is forced to face the realities of adulthood far sooner than anticipated. At the same time, an exuberant woman enters his father’s life and heart, quietly reshaping the fragile balance between father and son. As both generations confront love, loss and responsibility, they must redefine what family means – and learn to live with the imperfect bonds between those we are born to and those we choose.
WRITER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Anthony Chen
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Joe Tsai, Arthur Wang, KH Kuok
CAST: Yeo Yann Yann, Koh Jia Ler, Regene Lim, Andi Lim,
Run Time: 157'
US DISTRIBUTOR: Film Movement