Filmmakers debut features, which give them the opportunity to bring their personal vision to the big screen. Bold ideas, personal stories and fresh film languages meet here for the first time. Only world and international premieres.
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A young Ethiopian Jew embarks on a journey to Palestine that will rewrite his destiny.
High heels, low confidence, and a seaside pole-dancing camp that changes everything.
They heal, dance, sing, drink, love, and film their lives in Tehran as an attack on Iran draws near.
A bold exploration of a middle aged man becoming involved with online influencers.
The twists and turns of the underworld. How to leave a world that eats you from the inside?
Maria enters her father’s life as a stranger, seeking traces of herself.
An indigenous child finds warmth among urban trans women to live on her own terms.
She wanted a life of her own. What she got was a gun, a queer love triangle, and one shot at freedom.
An ageing, lonely and curious woman seeks love, passion and companionship in the tricky yet enchanting online world.
A forbidden love awakens a woman who has spent a lifetime living for others.
As Kabul falls to the Taliban, a widow risks everything to rescue a group of boys and reclaim their future.
A modern-day Robin Hood defies a tyrannical system on a spectacular salt lake closed to locals.