Spain
2024
Director: Dir. Albert Solé
Documentary, 54 MIN
A rare, behind-the-scenes look at how the EU navigates an increasingly chaotic geopolitical landscape. This documentary follows Josep Borrell through real-time diplomatic crises, revealing how global policy actually gets made.
Lativia
2024
Director: Dāvis Sīmanis
Historical Drama, 104 MIN
A Latvian actress enters Stalin’s USSR seeking her grandchild and finds herself trapped inside a machinery of terror. This gripping historical drama exposes the everyday innocence shattered by ideology and violence.
Hungary
2023
Director: Katalin Moldovia
Drama, 105 MIN
A Hungarian literature teacher faces a moral and political firestorm after recommending a film about queer poets. This timely drama captures the pressure of censorship, fear, and courage in a community on edge.
France/Ukraine
2024
Director: Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini & Thomas Briat
Documentary, 110 MIN
A legendary French theater director brings a workshop to wartime Kyiv, igniting a creative refuge amid destruction. The film celebrates the power of performance and the unshakeable spirit of Ukrainian artists.
Poland
2025
Director: Bartek Paduch
Drama, 97 MIN
A Polish cop uncovers a disturbing case that pulls him into a web of secrets uncomfortably close to home. Tense and tightly wound, it’s a European thriller with emotional stakes that hit universally.
France
2024
Director: Julie Delpy
Comedy/Drama, 101 MIN
When a French village accidentally welcomes the “wrong” refugee family, their assumptions get turned upside down. Julie Delpy’s warm, funny dramedy asks who the real barbarians are when fear meets humanity.
Czech Republic
2024
Director: Rudolf Havlik
Sci-Fi, 109 MIN
Strange happenings in a quiet Moravian village spark an offbeat alien mystery no one is prepared for. Campy, charming, and deeply European, this sci-fi romp asks what happens when your weirdest neighbor might actually be from space.
France, Benin, and Senegal
2024
Director: Mati Diop
Documentary, 68 MIN
As 26 stolen royal treasures finally return home from France to Benin, the objects themselves narrate a story of colonialism and reclamation. Mati Diop’s Golden Bear–winning documentary sparks a vibrant debate about history, democracy, and the future of cultural memory.
Ukraine
2025
Director: Inga Pylypchuk
Documentary, 37 MIN
Nine young Ukrainian women document life in a war zone with honesty, humor, fear, and resilience. Their collaborative desktop film captures what coming-of-age looks like when the world is on fire.
Director: Lého Galibert-Laîné
A bold selection of experimental works exploring how cinema, the internet, and memory collide. These shorts push the boundaries of the video essay form, inviting viewers into an inventive new mode of storytelling.
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