Summary of the Movie: Brother steals their cows—countryside life collapses—then urban survival means accepting help that wounds their pride Shaban and Hatixhe live with passion in Kosovar countryside—he builds fences with self-respect, she tends beloved cows, their extended family swirls with drama over errant brother Liridon's constant money demands. Then Liridon steals their cows, vanishing with the animals that represented their livelihood and dignity. The middle-aged coup

Summary of the Movie: When Moral Certainty Breaks Under Pressure The film concludes that moral certainty collapses the moment a community protects its image instead of its people. It shows how Emma’s trauma exposes the ethical void beneath her village’s self‑presentation and forces her to define a moral identity independent of collective approval. Her awakening reveals how individual truth becomes the only stable ground when collective morality proves hollow. Where to watch:.

Summary of the Movie: Forced substitution turns grief into a mechanism of control Kingdom  is set in a near-present Poland sliding toward war, where political instability collapses personal choice into coerced responsibility. The film’s central claim is that violence does not require ideological conviction to reproduce itself; it only needs grief, guilt, and a structure willing to absorb them. What begins as economic displacement escalates into moral inheritance, as Dawid is

Summary: Screenwriter imagines wild B-movie fantasies resisting nephew-producer's commercial crime story demands Debut feature validates micro-budget filmmaking satire through festival positioning. Kyrgyz cinema gains international visibility addressing universal industry tensions between artistic integrity and commercial pressures. Slapstick absurdism makes Central Asian filmmaker struggles accessible to Western festival audiences unfamiliar with regional cinema traditions.

Summary of the Movie: When successful stylist's spontaneous decision triggers crisis, returning home reveals past trauma refusing burial Psychological drama meets trauma examination. Fashion stylist Lina's Geneva award trip involves impulsive perilous act, returning to Buenos Aires attempting secret burial while dark past resurfaces threatening marriage, motherhood, and career through enigmatic behavior revealing unaddressed psychological wounds. Where to watch : https://pro.

Summary of the Movie: When bullied teen falls for brother's girlfriend, unstoppable emotional current forces choosing authentic self over protective relationship Coming-of-age drama meets identity crisis. Fifteen-year-old Malou, struggling with absent mother and rowing team bullying, depends on brother Max until developing feelings for his girlfriend Nouria—emotional current forcing confrontation with true self despite destroying only stable relationship. Where to watch:...

Summary of the Movie: When ideological collapse creates meaning vacuum, psychic charlatanism fills void through absurdist military quest Post-communist satire meets conspiracy folklore. High-ranking Bulgarian Army officers, led by psychic channeler, dig massive hole searching for mysterious artifact promising "ultimate triumph" after communism's fall—transforming real historical mystery into tragicomic meditation on institutional delusion. Where to watch: https://pro.festival

Summary of the Movie: When sexual trauma remains unspoken, romantic relationships become theaters where buried violence performs its slow destruction Psychological trauma meets relationship dissolution. British composer Lola struggles to reclaim her creative voice while her relationship with composer Philip lingers in silence. Their Greek island retreat becomes stage for trauma confrontation when magnetic stranger Elena enters their world, forcing Lola to face buried past vio

Summary of the Movie: When forced return makes home feel like prison, belonging becomes impossible geography Diaspora displacement meets forced repatriation. A young Sahrawi woman deported from Spain to Western Sahara refuses reintegration, pursuing desperate schemes to return to her adopted home while family tensions expose the cost of her earlier departure. Where to watch: https://pro.festivalscope.com/film/nomad-shadow  (industry professionals) Link IMDB: https://www.imdb.

Summary of the Movie: Stability is treated as performance rather than process How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World  follows recovery not as healing, but as re-entry into a social system that quietly punishes difference. The film’s core consequence is the exposure of “normality” as an external demand rather than an internal state. Where to watch: https://pro.festivalscope.com/film/how-to-be-normal-and-the-oddness-of-the-other-world  , https://cinando.com/en/Film

Summary of the Movie: When state restrictions consume private life, street performance becomes last visible act of female defiance Artistic expression meets authoritarian control. A young Iranian woman uses street performance to challenge societal restrictions, transforming public space into contested territory where her visibility becomes political statement—inspiring others while risking everything surveillance states reserve for those who refuse invisibility. Where to watc

Summary of the Movie: When institutional legitimacy expires, private fantasy becomes the only stage left Political rejection transforms into domestic monarchy. A Mexican politician denied the presidency retreats to his hacienda with his wife, converting staff into subjects and recreating the hierarchies he lost access to—until delusion consumes coherence. Where to watch: https://pro.festivalscope.com/film/versalles  (industry professionals) Link IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/tit

Summary of the Movie: It’s about slow existential suffocation, not a single crisis Violeta Rauch follows a woman who, like a frog in gradually heating water, doesn’t notice how she’s being consumed by the toxic mix of power games, consumerist emptiness, and the isolating glow of social networks. The film is less about one dramatic breakdown than about the quiet, cumulative weight of modern alienation. Where to watch: https://cinando.com/en/Film/violeta_rauch_0_488191/Detail#i

Summary of the Movie: Dysfunction Disguised as Summer Holiday Ungrateful Beings follows a divorced father's desperate attempt to bond with his bilingual children on an Adriatic beach vacation, only to watch everything unravel when his anorexic daughter falls for a local boy accused of murder. The film captures the collision between parental helplessness and teenage self-destruction, exploring how families manipulate each other in the name of love. Movie Plot:  British expat D

Summary of the Movie: When Runaway Teen Finds Refuge and New Family With Three Struggling Young Women McNeese crafts intimate debut feature examining fragile sisterhood between four young women sharing Lille apartment creating surrogate family while past traumas threaten their communal survival balance. Plot:  Héloïse, 15-year-old runaway with nowhere to go, meets Mallorie who invites her into top-floor "sky" apartment shared with two other young women—Nona (supermarket cashi

Summary of the Movie: The Incineration of Legacy During a torrid summer in southern Portugal, a sprawling family gathers at their ancestral mansion to decide whether to sell their land to developers for a luxury golf resort. The decision rests heavily on three women whose futures are tied to the farm, but as decades of suppressed family reproaches surface, an out-of-control wildfire traps them within the estate, turning their "paradise" into a gilded cage of uncertainty. The

Summary of the Movie: When Four Misfit Schoolgirls Form Triad Gang Challenging Elite School Authoritarianism Tan crafts intimate debut feature examining teenage rebellion through four girls at elite all-girls Chinese school who discover colonial Singapore's erased triad history and form symbolic gang resisting conformity pressures. Plot:  Sixteen-year-old Choo Xin Yu, rebellious tomboy returning to Confucius Girls' Secondary School, attracts three misfit classmates—Vanessa, S

Summary of the Movie: Revenge Fails When the Ghost Is Human Mag Mag  concludes that revenge only provides temporary order until accountability can no longer be deferred.* Grief first stabilizes by projecting blame onto the supernatural, giving pain a target that feels narratively survivable. By the end, the film resolves that the most destabilizing horror is not being haunted, but recognizing how intimacy, denial, and agency quietly collaborate. Movie plot:  A woman pursues a

Summary of the Movie: When Love Is Measured in Years, Not Moments A sweeping romantic drama that follows a couple across three decades as personal devotion collides with national catastrophe and the impossible question of whether to stay or leave. Core relationship across time:  Nino and Yasmina’s bond unfolds over thirty years, tracing how love evolves under pressure rather than in ideal conditions. Movie trend alignment:  The film belongs to long-arc relationship dramas tha

Summary of Movie: Sister's Disappearance Amid Regime's Fall A haunting Romanian drama following 10-year-old Maria as last witness to sister's mysterious vanishing during Ceaușescu regime's final chaotic days in 1989, examining childhood innocence shattered by totalitarian collapse through child's perspective on political and personal devastation. Catchy Concept:  Young girl confronts sister's disappearance while communist dictatorship crumbles, forcing premature maturity as p