2026 movie information

2026 · 0h 8m

A Boston filmmaker profiles experimental musician and inventor (and former Harvard faculty) Victoria Shen, aka Evicshen, known for her improvised style of “chaotic sound.”

Babyshow

2026 · Film

Five inseparable former friends, classmates from an exclusive school in Asunción, reunite years later to celebrate a baby shower. But the differences in their seemingly perfect lives reveal hidden secrets.

Nostalgia

2026 · 0h 15m

Inside Nostalgia, a modest shop devoted exclusively to vintage football shirts, Szymon and Miłosz handle more than garments - they pass on stories. Each piece moves through Szymon’s hands, adjusted with precision, matched to the person who will carry it next.

2026 · 1h 6m

This is the story of how one programmer's obsession with simplicity quietly reshaped how the software world thinks about time, immutability, and what it means to write code that lasts. From a sabbatical pet-project to the backbone of one of the world's largest fintechs and a global community that treats their language like a philosophy. This is the story of Clojure.

Echo

2026 · 0h 14m

Two estranged sisters reunite when the youngest shows up at her older sister cabin uninvited. The conversations that follow may unpack what have caused their split.

Whores of Horror

2026 · 0h 4m

A young and curious whore explorer travels through the land of floptropica to find the kinds of whores that roam around the land.

Mnema

2026 · 0h 9m

In a world of obstacles and labyrinths, Mnema tries to find her way into each level of what resembles a video game. Between reality and fantasy, Mnema hears the voices of women who once were in her place.

Son of Shadow

2026 · 0h 11m

Torn from childhood to become a soldier, Alain reveals the invisible scars of war and his struggle to find his place in a world that has cast him aside.

River of Thoughts

2026 · 0h 7m

In her inner world, the protagonist is swept away by powerful sensations as she travels down a river. As she falls into deep waters, she feels the trickling current leading her to a waterfall teeming with life, where she calms down and finds peace in the rain.

The Sun Comes Up

2026 · 0h 11m

Amidst the suffocating isolation of a prolonged COVID lockdown as a single mother, Caitlin struggles to find hope.

On Dying of Dementia in a Capitalist System

2026 · 0h 15m

After a violent episode on Memorial Day, Jim was placed in memory care. 11 weeks later he died. This short film, made in partnership with Chilean animators Sebastián Bisbal and Natalie Johns, explores the contradiction between for-profit institutions and the deep humanity of care workers and residents. The piece ends in healing as the truth of observation changes understanding.

2026 · 0h 15m

With irony and lightness, the pair of authors intertwines their story with that of the Roman neighborhood of Torpignattara, between intimacy and collective memory, with a meta-narrative approach that layers different narrative dimensions around the themes of the nursery.

A Bad Film

2026 · 0h 8m

After a breakup, Noam sits down on the couch with his friend Itay to watch a movie and escape reality for a while. But what begins as simple escapism slowly turns into a strange, funny, and slightly unsettling experience, as the line between the film they are watching and reality begins to blur.

The Cry of the Eider

2026 · 0h 52m

Once the proud symbol of the Baltic Sea, the Common Eider is now disappearing at an alarming rate. The Cry of the Eider follows a group of dedicated people fighting to save this iconic sea bird from the brink of collapse. Through breathtaking footage and powerful yet intimate human stories, the film uncovers the deeper forces driving the Eider’s decline — from environmental change to human impact — and asks what this tragedy reveals about the state of the Baltic Sea itself. This is not just the story of one species. The Eider’s fate mirrors the uncertain future of an entire ecosystem. As nature is reshaped by powerful global forces, can individual action still make a difference?

Gen 25"

2026 · 1h 15m

Experience a study tour through this documentary, which follows the Class of 2025 from The British School Punta Arenas on their journey through the United Kingdom.

Farewell, My Tree

2026 · 0h 7m

What survives war and what doesn’t? For Liza, it is the fractured bond with a grandmother who is both her wound and her home. Moving between present wanderings and archival footage, this cyanotype experimental animated documentary film follows Liza’s attempts to reconstruct her past.

Глаза без лиц

2026 · Film

A study of the photographic memory of many generations of Soviet people, drawn from personal archives, speaks through a poetic dialogue between a mother and son who never saw each other.

Piscina

2026 · 0h 5m

Embarrassed by her underarm hair at the swimming pool, a young woman resorts to increasingly desperate attempts to shave it off.

2026 · 0h 16m

Tim Sharp turns to places. In our world, these are always shaped and restricted, colonized and exploited. In other words, private property, which Sharp declares war on in image and word.

StreetLight

2026 · 0h 4m

Late one night, seventeen-year-old Seb returns to a neglected basketball court beneath the city streets. As memories of a painful chapter in his adolescence begin to surface, he finds himself confronting emotions he has spent years avoiding. Through the rhythm of the game and the spaces that shaped him, He embarks on a quiet journey toward acceptance, healing, and self-discovery.

2026 · 0h 23m

A forgotten goddess of carpet weaving is summoned back to life as a filmmaker pieces together lost memories across the Uyghur diaspora.

2026 · 0h 50m

Maria Prevolaraki’s journey follows a Greek athlete fighting against hardship, limited support, and relentless conditions as she chases what may be her final Olympic chance. Her story reveals a lifelong struggle on and off the mat, driven by resilience, passion, and an unbreakable vow to rise every time she falls.

My Body Feels with Me

2026 · 1h 7m

My Body Feels with Me is a fragmented crip contemplation that emerged from two months of workshops with six women in Hyderabad, India. Together they explored how childhood violence lives in the body: across caste, class, gender, and disability. Rejecting trauma as spectacle or damage, the film transforms personal memory into a collective visual archive. Shot on a mobile phone, shaped by crip time, it asks how cinema might witness pain with care.

2026 · 0h 21m

In The Mind as a Battlefield, a poignant animated documentary, David, a 45-year-old veteran, shares his inner struggle with his younger brother. A moving quest to find balance in the face of invisible wounds.

Bagasi - wat we meedragen

2026 · 0h 55m

Emma comes face to face with colonial history when she receives a suitcase from her father-in-law. Inside is the (photo) archive of his grandfather Maarten de Niet; Attorney General and Acting Governor of Suriname from 1926 to 1953. During those same years, Emma’s Surinamese grandparents lived under his administration. Their houses were situated close to each other, but their worlds were separated by ancestry. Bagasi is a personal quest for the traces left behind by this past.

Mira Lunet

2026 · 0h 23m

A visual EP. The second volume of Katia Krow's space-inspired serial. "Music for Bleary-Eyed Stars." About wishes, madness, gravitas, dots, love, ghosts, etc...

2026 · 0h 6m

A little girl marches into a busy TV station. She has "Big News" to share with the whole world! What is her surprise announcement? Come and find out!

A Message

2026 · 0h 4m

A Message is a short-form documentary draft capturing the raw, unmediated protests and performances of queer Palestinian artist Mama Ganuush while facing pink washing propaganda. Created by trans Palestinian artist Mama Ganuush, this film rejects the flattening narrative of tragedy. Instead, it posits Palestinian Futurism - a framework where those in exile are not merely survivors, but the architects of a liberated cultural and political future.

My Jebba Story

2026 · 0h 16m

A black-and-white cinematic portrait of Lagos’ Jebba Street, where archival photographs and memory intertwine to reveal a shifting neighbourhood shaped by survival, creativity, and the act of seeing.

2026 · 0h 7m

A multifaceted cinematic letter addressed to one’s own family; black-and-white and silent, written only in subtitles. Composed of photographs, footage from a market, and video images of a border crossing in 2013. A personal, poetic, political gem.

2026 · 1h 37m

It's been a year since Red Herring disappeared. Now his brother, Chad, is trying to pick up where Red left off and find out why and how his brother disappeared!

Ernesto Coyote

2026 · 0h 11m

For several years now, Ernesto has continued to develop his cabaret characters and is now one of the longest-serving and best-known drag kings in the Belgian capital. Thanks to his exceptional mastery of masculine choreography, Ernesto manages to blur the lines between genders.

2026 · 0h 25m

After a devastating earthquake in Myanmar's Nyaung Shwe, lakeside communities confront loss and displacement. Through intimate observation, the film follows residents as they mourn, rebuild and remember. The lake becomes both witness and archive, reflecting resilience and grief after sudden rupture.

Absentia

2026 · 0h 5m

A withdrawn teenage boy wanders through a dreamlike suburban night, led by a horned apparition toward the buried anguish waiting beneath his home.

2026 · 1h 14m

The film follows the journeys of trans and non-binary refugee artists as well as other LGBTIQ+ activists living in Switzerland. Through art, performance, and personal narratives, Rêya Penaber explores the realities of exile and structural violence, as well as the forms of resistance and solidarity emerging within LGBTIQ+ refugee communities in Switzerland. Blending memory, creativity, and collective rituals, the film creates a space of visibility and dignity for voices that are often rendered invisible, while questioning borders, identity, and the quest for freedom.

Rise of Volunteers

2026 · 0h 3m

An inspiring look at how ordinary people can transform society problems through small acts of volunteering, kindness and community actions.

2026 · 0h 5m

Noa has to clean up her Mom's house after her death, but through packing things up she realizes she might not be the only one in the house.

No Good In Sight: A Story

2026 · 1h 30m

Upon learning his son suffers from a severe illness, he turns to illegal deeds to scrape together surgery funds. With every reluctant choice, he holds an inner monologue with his late father, for whom he harbors lingering guilt and resentment. Desperate to live a different life, he strives to become a far better dad than his own father was.

2026 · 0h 4m

Teenagers reclaim public spaces as their playground—until their joy collides with the vision of an angry capitalist. Through his power, the spaces are transformed, shifting from places of freedom into a manufactured “paradise.”

bird's nest (the mourning dove and the cardinal)

2026 · 0h 4m

An animated retelling of the directors personal journey with his body as a transgender man from Texas.

2026 · 1h 32m

When Viki Kühn’s father suffers a stroke, her mother suddenly becomes the new head of the family. With the hand camera, the director accompanies her parents for the next eight years, and in doing so, doesn’t shy away from showing the immediate effects of the illness. A powerful plea for recognizing invisible care work, and an emotional reflection on growing up. What is tangible in life is always fleeting; all that remains is memory.

The Road to Tehran

2026 · 0h 31m

The Road to Tehran is a short documentary looking at the US' strategy in Iran, the economic and political constraints which have shaped it and the inevitability of the war's spread. In doing so it shows how the US' assault on Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland and Iran are inexorably linked.

Pourquoi je ne suis pas devenu bassiste dans un groupe de rock

2026 · 0h 28m

How do you tell the life story of a photographer? By showing his photographs and telling the stories behind them. Montpellier, Marseille, Alès, Cannes, New York, Laos... From encounters with free-spirited street artists to cinema stars and abandoned sailors, this is the rock'n'roll ballad of Itinérances' most loyal companion: Patrice Terraz.

A Chef's Tale: The Real Story of Duet

2026 · 1h 33m

A documentary crew follows two New York City chefs and the life of their restaurant, but when tragedy strikes, the crew must go down a genre-bending search for the truth.

Seasons for you

2026 · 0h 6m

A sweet little human child descends from the sky into the seasons, which had been living a monotonous existence. Which season will welcome him?

2026 · 1h 5m

The documentary follows the life and work of the artist Giorgos Tziokas, who became known for his illustrations of great works by famous Greek artists – such as Manos Hadjidakis and his famous record Gioconda’s Smile, and Odysseas Elytis, whose famous collection Axion Esti granded him the Nobel Prize.

2026 · 0h 15m

Chainsaw-wielding clowns and murderous mental patients need a home too. A personal look at the volunteer actors at the #1 haunted attraction in the U.S. shows their passion for pumping people’s adrenaline and the care they put into creating immersive experiences. Filmed entirely on a tape camcorder.

When Ocean Rises

2026 · 0h 6m

A polar bear, a penguin and a dog fight over a house, unaware that rising sea levels are burying everything - but they end up winning something far more valuable.