International Competition

Marie-Lou, the director of an elder care facility, is on the verge of burnout when a chance encounter sparks a deep, transcendent friendship.

Adapting Mrs. Dalloway to modern Lagos, this evocative drama captures post-colonial class tensions, memory, and desire across a single momentous day.

In this potent satire, a Romanian nanny working in France grows weary of her employer’s exploitation while rehearsing a play that echoes her plight.

A privileged bride’s reality starts to unravel as traditional pre-wedding beauty rituals begin to elicit strange visions and physical reactions.

Searching for her missing friend Said in a Bulgarian border town, archeologist Veska unearths a secret criminal network in this engrossing, slow-burn epic.

A therapist and a music producer are drawn into an unlikely affair in this riveting psychological drama interrogating desire, addiction, and obsession.

A year after a tragic loss, three people united in grief search for healing during an island vacation where memory and reality blur.

A sound artist capturing recordings across Peru is pursued by the ghosts of her family’s legacy of exile in this journey through memory and identity

A tight-knit working class friend group’s bond is tested when Rian returns home to Birmingham in this compassionate portrayal of blue-collar life.

A high school trip to Naples becomes the staging ground for a profound coming-of-age experience in this spellbinding, mythic portrait of teenhood.

This ode to the creative spirit follows two small-town girls whose friendship is fueled by their shared passion and dream of becoming manga artists.

When an affluent documentarian centers a working-class couple in her new film, their lives become dangerously intertwined in this bold, searing drama.

A Faustian bargain sends a once-perfect family on a harrowing downward spiral in this twisted fable from The Holy Boy director.