Program 1 - Foreign Grounds

Friday Oct 2, 12:00-13:30

To open the festival, we look outward; at lives lived far from home, or made unfamiliar within it. These six films follow people negotiating unfamiliar terrains. It asks what it costs, and what it gives back, to stand somewhere you don't quite belong yet. To be foreign is not always a matter of geography. It is the fluency you lose in a new room, the home that stops fitting the moment you look at it too closely. Foreign Grounds is where the festival begins, because every story worth telling starts with someone slightly out of place.

Interurbain, Canada, 08:53

Towels, Germany, 09:58

Best Friends, Poland, 13:43

A World for Short People, United Kingdom, 13:48

The Road Home, Romania, 16:12

Time and Forgiveness, Spain, 16:59

Cats, Switzerland, 13:14

Program 2 - Afterglow

Friday Oct 2, 14:00-15:30

What lingers after time has passed? This block sits with loss in its many registers, sometimes warm, sometimes harsh, always changing what comes next. Afterglow holds space for grief that doesn't announce itself, for absence that keeps working on you long after the event has passed.

Warp and Weft, United Kingdom, 03:46

The Unconventional Funeral Agency, Sweden, 05:00

Stone Memory, Serbia, 09:32

To the Moon and Back, Denmark, 11:46

Loop, Denmark, 09:53

Still Swimming, Norway, 14:43

Buffalo, Spain, 17:00

Afterlife, Norway, 17:27

Program 3 - BLOOD TIES

Friday Oct 2, 16:00-17:30

Parents, children, and the weight passed silently between generations. Six films examine what men inherit: expectation, silence, rage, tenderness they were never taught to name. From a quiet act of walking away to a reckoning that spans generations, Blood Ties looks at family not as comfort but as inheritance: something you carry whether you asked for it or not.

Just Walk, Czechia, 03:39

The Judgement, United Kingdom, 13:20

What Do Dragons Eat?, Spain, 15:11

The Bull & Baby, Spain, 15:00

Rage, Spain, 18:42

Be a Man, Spain, 20:00

Program 4 - Growing pains

Friday Oct 2, 18:00-19:30

Nobody becomes someone painlessly. This block follows young people at the threshold; navigating first friendships, first griefs, first understandings of the adult world watching them. Whether through animation, documentary-style intimacy, or quiet drama, Growing Pains captures the particular ache of becoming someone, one uncertain step at a time.

I Promise, Norway, 08:00

In My Dream, We Fell Together, Sweden, 14:56

Ciao, Quico!, Spain, 14:00

Smooth Summer, Norway, 13:09

Kabutar, Uzbekistan, 20:00

The Piano, United States, 08:00

Var Det Som Du Minns Det?, Sweden, 10:11

Program 5 — Frontlines

Friday Oct 2, 20:00-21:30

Some lines are drawn on maps. Others are drawn across dinner tables, courtrooms, and the space between two people who no longer agree on what's real. This is where the political becomes personal. These seven films bear witness; to displacement, to protest, to the quiet violence of policy on ordinary lives. This block doesn't offer easy resolution; it insists on being seen. Frontlines is where the personal refuses to stay separate from the political; where witnessing becomes its own act of resistance, and looking away stops being an option.

Repparfjorden, France/Norway, 03:35

Second Hand, Turkey, 07:51

Sing my song, Sweden, 10:11

175, Sweden, 10:48

Borderline, Finland/Norway, 11:41

That Morning, Sweden, 12:00

Lisa is here, Germany, 13:38

Qaher, Poland, 20:00

Program 6 — Invisible Verdicts

Saturday Oct 3, 12:00-13:30

Some judgments are never spoken aloud. They arrive disguised as concern, as care, as a quiet suggestion, and by the time you notice them, they've already reshaped how you see yourself. This block sits inside that invisible court: the one with no judge, no jury, no formal charge, yet somehow a verdict is reached anyway. The Invisible Verdict is for every silent reckoning that happens behind closed doors.

The Matilda effect, Denmark, 09:20

Everything on the table, Spain, 09:00

In Your Hands, Sweden, 09:11

No One Reads Anymore, Norway, 13:15

Solo, Sweden, 13:54

Pedo Hunters, Sweden, 14:36

April, Spain, 07:00

Keep fit!, Russian Federation, 10:40

Program 7 — Close Enough

Saturday Oct 3, 14:00-15:30

Intimacy is a negotiation, not an arrival. This block lives in the space where two people almost understand each other; close enough to hurt, close enough to hope. This block is for anyone who has loved imperfectly, which is to say: everyone. Close Enough is a block about proximity: how near we get, and what keeps us from closing the last distance.

He Was a Hungry Man, Denmark, 05:08

Erosion, Norway, 08:00

The Perfect Past, Iran, 11:03

Epilogue, Norway, 13:00

Easy life, Poland, 15:00

We Were Fine, Weren't We?, Croatia, 19:19

Like Other People, Germany, 17:04

Program 8 — Off the Rails

Saturday Oct 3, 16:00-17:30

When the ordinary bends into something stranger. This block leans into the unsettling thrillers, dark fantasy, quiet horror, and psychological unease that creep in sideways rather than through the front door. This is not a block for comfort; it's a block for the unease that lingers after the lights come up. Off the Rails is for the audience ready to be disoriented, to sit with films that resist easy explanation.

Näckrosen October 9th, Sweden, 02:29

Tickle, Iceland, 08:13

Captivated, Norway, 06:35

The Height Of It, Spain, 05:00

The Hair, Iran, 14:21

Interview with the Devil, Iceland, 19:29

Trading Cards, Australia/United Kingdom, 14:59

Fastest Fucking Car, Sweden, 10:42

Program 9 — Loose Ends

Saturday Oct 3, 18:00-19:30

Not everything resolves, and this block refuses to pretend otherwise. The festival closes with what refuses to be tidy. Loose Ends closes the festival with humor, absurdity, and stories that end mid-breath; a celebration of the fact that life rarely wraps up as neatly as fiction promises. Eight films, mostly short and sharp, embrace the absurd, the comic, the unresolved dark humor, satire, and stories that end mid-thought rather than at a clean finish. Loose Ends is the right note to leave on: unfinished, unresolved, and completely alive.

Time Flies, Portugal, 04:36

HA (Gabaldon), Portugal/United States, 03:49

Orientert, Norway, 03:47

The Art of Interpretation, Norway, 06:58

Aftertaste, Estonia, 09:59

Symptoms of the land, Norway, 16:00

Golden Swingers, Spain, 13:31

The Neapolitan Plot, Belgium, 17:36