Programme 2026
You can explore the 2026 festival programme (21–30 August 2026) on this page.
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Accept Our Sincere Apologies
Director(s): Juja DobrachkousUnited Kingdom | 2026 | 107 min
In a decadent Venetian hotel, general manager Eva is drawn to the mysterious Contessa. Once a sanctuary from the outside world, the hotel has become a haunting cage, and both women long to escape. A hypnotic gothic fantasy that seduces and unsettles.
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The Altar Boys
Ministranci
Director(s): Piotr Domalewski
Poland | 2025 | 110 min
Teenage altar boys tap confessionals to fight injustice their way. Wearing Zorro masks, they judge sinners and help the needy, blurring good and evil in their suburban crusade for moral renewal.
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The Arab
L'Arabe
Director(s): Malek Bensmaïl
Algeria, France, Switzerland | 2026 | 106 min
Two men meet during the Algerian civil war in the 1990s. The elder has a story to tell: his brother Moussa was “the Arab” from Camus’ The Stranger.
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Archives: EXPRMNTL 4
Speak; Water Sark; Film No. 4 (Bottoms); Fist Fight; Exprmntl 4 Knokke
Run time 82 min
The EXPRMNTL festival, dedicated to the avant-garde, was held in Belgium in the 1960s, and its 1967 edition became legendary for its provocations. Featuring Yoko Ono! Please note: Tickets from Kino Regina.
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Archives: Isaac Julien
Territories; Looking for Langston
Run time 71 min
The pioneer’s works explore the legacy of colonialism, racism, Black British identity, and queer history through poetic montage. Please note: Tickets from Kino Regina.
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Archives: Jean Matthee
Antigone’s Cut; Neon Queen
Run time 51 min
Rarely screened 16 mm films transform the representation of women in Hollywood cinema into new feminist spectacles. Please note: Tickets from Kino Regina.
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Artisanal Films: Helsingin Elokuvapaja (HEP) 1991–1998
Twone; Mornings (Aamuja); Getting Colder; Vera; The Workers (Dokumentti työläisistä); Twone; Crocodile Tears (Krokotiilin kyynel); Nonstoppampam; Phil (Untitled 1-6) (Phil (Nimetön 1–6)); Twone; A Yard Full of Books; Moving Emu (Liikkuva emu); Hammu; Wonderhome; Holy simplicity (Pyhä yksinkertaisuus); Twone
Run time 58 min
A glimpse of rare treasures from the artist-run film laboratory that was active in Helsinki in the early 1990s.
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Artisanal Films: Yet to Come
Bottom Contact (Pohjakosketus); The Fleeting Horizon (Pakeneva horisontti); du soleil, que ça existe; The Days Must Go On; Sunny 16 Helsinki; Rewound Trading Legacies
Run time 76 min
Family stories, power drills, memories wandering across continents, and tiny forms of marine life. A new generation of artists embraces analogue film.
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Artist in Focus: Ben Rivers: Short Films
We the People; This Is My Land; The Hyrcynium Wood; Ah, Liberty!; Look Then Below; Ijen / London
Run time 66 min
In his speculative short films, Ben Rivers, a master craftsman of analogue film, encounters a geologist, a wanderer, a sailor, and a beach bum.
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Artist in Focus: Bogancloch
Bogancloch
Director(s): Ben Rivers
United Kingdom, Germany, Iceland | 2024 | 86 min
Shot on colour and hand-processed black-and-white film using anamorphic lenses, Bogancloch is a textured portrait of a man who once travelled the oceans but now chooses to live alone in rural Aberdeenshire.
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Artist in Focus: Mare's Nest
Mare's Nest
Director(s): Ben Rivers
United Kingdom, France, Canada | 2025 | 98 min
Ben Rivers creates an alternative reality – a world of disorder – free of adults, where children have found a way to live as a part of nature.
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Artist in Focus: Nour Ouayda: Programme 1
Every Morning (في كلّ صباح); Fly, Fly, Sadness (Vole, vole tristesse); Towards the Sun (نحو الشمس); Neither Saint nor Santa Maria (Sin Dios ni Santa María), The Birth of a Flower; ouarda ouarda: yet another flower film; The Secret Garden (الحديقة السريّة : قصة من ثمانية فصول)
Run time 77 min
Growing out of Beirut’s vegetation and challenging anthropocentrism, Nour Ouayda’s The Secret Garden enters into dialogue with works by other artists.
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Artist in Focus: Nour Ouayda: Programme 2
Not All Things that Shine Are Beautiful; Poppies and Sailboats (Voiliers et Coquelicots); one sea, 10 seas (عشرة بحور وبحر واحد); Looking at the Sea
Run time 66 min
Oceanic currents carry Nour Ouayda’s One Sea, Ten Seas into aesthetic and political dialogue with works by other artists.si
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Bauhaus Forever.
Director(s): Nico WeberGermany, The Netherlands | 2026 | 96 min
Architecture and far beyond – this essay documentary ponders the legacy of Bauhaus in the contemporary moment through the renovation project of the archival museum.
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Bearcave
Αρκουδότρυπα
Director(s): Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B. Papadakis
Greece, United Kingdom | 2025 | 127 min
A genre-blending love odyssey pulsating with the mountain folklore of the Balkans. It shines an original light on the lives of two young queer women in Greece, exploring their relationship through the lens of youth, light and humor.
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Berlin Hero
Der Held vom Bahnhof Friedrichstraße
Director(s): Wolfgang Becker
Germany | 2026 | 112 min
An ordinary video store owner is suddenly celebrated as a Cold War hero—but if the press or his new love discovers what really happened, his newfound fame could disappear overnight.
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Bitter Christmas
Amarga Navidad
Director(s): Pedro Almodóvar
Spain | 2026 | 111 min
In his new melodrama, Almodóvar tears open the wounds of creation: an aging director writes a woman’s story that exposes his own hidden truths.
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The Blood Countess
Die Blutgräfin
Director(s): Ulrike Ottinger
Austria, Germany, Luxembourg | 2026 | 119 min
A bloodthirsty countess, her devoted maid and a cast of unlikely pursuers collide in a wildly comic vampire adventure packed with secrets and chaos.
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Blue Baby
Hetki ennen valoa
Director(s): Klaus Härö
Finland, Lithuania | 2026 | 89 min
Set against the backdrop of a healthcare crisis, this socially engaged drama brings together a nurse devoted to her work and a mother in distress. Espoo Ciné Award screening!
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Bodies of Sound
Intro; The Engineer's Voice (Die Stimme des Ingenieurs); We Listen to Beethoven, Then Silence. (Wir hören Beethoven und dann hören wir nichts mehr.); Diamond Hands (Diamanthände)
Run time 63 min
German short films explore the space between sound and silence. Who speaks, who listens? What do we hear or see at all? Which subtle tones reach us in between a word and silence?
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A Brief Affair
Breve storia d'amore
Director(s): Ludovica Rampoldi
Italy | 2025 | 98 min
Two couples find themselves trapped in a web of betrayal and passion that spins out of control, uncovering where the lines of love are drawn.
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Butterfly
Director(s): Itonje Søimer GuttormsenNorway, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden | 2026 | 116 min
Against the sun-drenched backdrop of Gran Canaria, grief and glitter fuel an irresistible road movie as two middle-aged sisters search for the truth behind their enigmatic hippie mother.
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Children's Shorts
Piccolo Piccolo; Cloud Fish (Poisson nuage); Earthworm (Regenwurm), Dancing Friend (Tanzpartner), Gramophone
Run time 26 min
Charming short animations suitable for the youngest but fun for all ages!
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Chopin, a Sonata in Paris
Chopin, Chopin!
Director(s): Michał Kwieciński
France, Poland | 2025 | 113 min
Paris 1835. Behind the charmer’s mask, Chopin knows his days are numbered on account of his ill health. Composing becomes his only obsession. The ticking clock rushes him to revolutionize music.
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Chronicles from the Siege
وقائع زمن الحصار
Director(s): Abdallah Alkhatib
Algeria, France, Palestine | 2026 | 100 min
When their city is placed under siege, the lives of a group of ordinary people are turned upside down, forcing each of them to confront impossible choices in pursuit of what they believe is survival in a war zone.
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Colours of Time
La venue de l'avenir
Director(s): Cédric Klapisch
France, Belgium | 2025 | 126 min
A sweeping adventure across two timelines follows two cousins as their search for family secrets takes them from present-day Normandy to the vibrant world of Impressionist Paris.
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Crip Ciné visits KAMU Junior 1
Run time 38 minIn the short films, recommended for 10- to 12-year-olds, childrenexplore their own boundaries and what it means to be together through hobbies, friendship and cosplay.
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Crip Ciné visits KAMU Junior 2
Run time 40 minIn the short films, recommended for 13- to 15-year-olds, the people stand up for themselves and, when necessary, for their friends as well. There is strength in sibling relationships.
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Crip Ciné visits KAMU: Rest
Why Slugs Have No Legs (Warum Schnecken keine Beine haben); Henry Is a Girl Who Likes to Sleep; Tough Finnish Man (Suomen kova löylymies)
Run time 30 min
What can we learn from snails? Or from cats? At the very least, how to take life a little more slowly in a world that prizes speed and constant hustle. The programme concludes with a visit to the sauna.
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Crip Ciné visits KAMU: Together
Grandma's House (La Casa de la Abuela); Maatuminen; Dollhouse Elephant
Run time 34 min
The programme explores conflicts and disagreements, both small and large, domestic and cosmic. How can we find the conditions for a meaningful and sustainable life?
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Crush x Espoo Ciné: Short Film Brunch
Sanyi the Rooster (Sanyi Kakas); Dollhouse Elephant; Son; Tickler (Kutkuttaja); Puolanka Pussy Rally; Bonfire (Kokko); The Beauty of Automobiles (Puskee veemäiseen paikkaan)
Run time 76 min
Ease into Saturday with the Crush Short Film Club and Espoo Ciné’s short film brunch – a varied selection of intriguing and moving short stories.
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The Currents
Las corrientes
Director(s): Milagros Mumenthaler
Switzerland, Argentina | 2025 | 104 min
A psychological mystery about an award-winning fashion designer whose old roles begin to suffocate her as the darker currents of her mind spiral beyond her control.
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Dao
Director(s): Alain GomisSenegal, France, Guinea-Bissau | 2026 | 185 min
A film in which two celebrations of life, a wedding in France and a commemoration in Guinea Bissau, are organically intertwined with the threads of a family and heritage that live and travel between these two worlds.
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Days of Wonder
Päivien lumo
Director(s): Karin Pennanen
Finland, Denmark, Norway | 2026 | 88 min
Director Karin Pennanen begins to investigate the story of his estranged artist uncle Markku – using her uncle’s notable creative property as a clue.
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Deaf
Sorda
Director(s): Eva Libertad
Spain | 2025 | 99 min
A deaf sign language user is expecting a child and tries to learn how to be a mother in a hearing world where she is often not respected.
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The Diary of a Chambermaid
Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre
Director(s): Radu Jude
France, Romania | 2026 | 94 min
Radu Jude’s new film will follow in the wake of a young Romanian woman who has travelled to France to work for a French family and who also joins an amateur theatre company who are working on an adaptation of Octave Mirbeau’s The Diary of a Chambermaid.
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Doggerland
Director(s): Kim EkbergSweden | 2026 | 76 min
A Swedish indie shot on black-and-white 16mm with lively music: fleet-footed, mercurial, zany, improvised, atmospheric and full of sidesteps. Forty-year-old diabolo performer Alf still lives with his mum Monica and wanders, flaneur-like, through Norrköping.
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Dreams of Dakar – Two Classics from Senegal
La Petite vendeuse de soleil , Le Franc
Run time 88 min
Two late masterpieces by Djibril Diop Mambéty blend sharp social observation, playful humour and profound compassion into unforgettable portraits of Dakar.
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Dry Leaf
ხმელი ფოთოლი
Director(s): Alexandre Koberidze
Georgia, Germany | 2025 | 186 min
A father travels through the rural football stadiums of Georgia in search of his photographer daughter. Accompanying him is an invisible friend. A gentle road movie shot on a mobile phone.
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Effi o Blaenau
Director(s): Marc EvansUnited Kingdom | 2026 | 90 min
In rural Wales, the life of a hard-partying young woman Effi largely revolves around drinking vodka with her friends and eating instant noodles to cure her subsequent hangovers – until her life suddenly changes dramatically.
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Enjoy Your Stay
Director(s): Dominik LocherSwitzerland, France | 2026 | 99 min
To avoid losing custody of her daughter in Manila, thirty-five-year-old Luz, an undocumented Filipino cleaner in the luxury chalets of Verbier, must pay off her debt and collect money at any cost — even if it means betraying her community and crossing her own moral limits.
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Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Director(s): Grant GeeIreland, United Kingdom | 2026 | 102 min
A hauntingly elegant film follows a legendary jazz pianist's recovery and return to music after the loss of his friend and bandmate.
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A Fading Man
Der verlorene Mann
Director(s): Welf Reinhart
Germany | 2026 | 102 min
When Hanne's ex-husband, who has dementia, unexpectedly arrives at her doorstep, the life she shares with her current partner evolves into a fragile triangle.
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Feels Like Home
Itt érzem magam otthon
Director(s): Gábor Holtai
Hungary | 2025 | 124 min
A woman is kidnapped by a family who claim that she is their missing daughter. She must impersonate this other woman in order to survive while she tries to find a way out of this nightmare.
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Flesh and Fuel
Du Fioul dans les artères
Director(s): Pierre Le Gall
France, Poland | 2026 | 90 min
A lonely French truck driver’s journey veers off course in a romance with a Polish colleague. Love burns hotter than the motorway.
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Four Minus Three
Vier minus drei
Director(s): Adrian Goiginger
Austria, Germany | 2026 | 121 min
Barbara, who works as a clown as her calling, falls apart when her family dies in an accident. Finding hope and laughter is difficult, but essential.
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Fresh out of ELO – New Student Films
Limerence (Limerenssi); 28 Days Left (TJ28); Mixed Sauna (Sekasauna); Major Bag Alert
Run time 78 min
These fresh student films explore experiences of alienation – from heartbreak and being Finnish-Palestinian in the final days of military service to mixed-gender saunas and teenage dramas…
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Gavagai
Director(s): Ulrich KöhlerGermany, France | 2025 | 90 min
In this satirical drama, a white German actor falls for his Senegalese colleague. The couple encounters the racialised structures of the film industry.
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Good Boy
Director(s): Jan KomasaPoland, United Kingdom | 2025 | 110 min
Tommy is a 19-year-old petty criminal who is kidnapped by a dysfunctional couple in order to rehabilitate him into society.
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The Good Daughter
La buena hija
Director(s): Júlia de Paz
Spain, Belgium | 2025 | 101 min
After her parents’ separation, Carmela moves in with her mother and grandmother. Despite the fresh start, Carmela cannot escape her artist father’s influence.
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Hen
Κότα
Director(s): György Pálfi
Greece, Hungary, Germany | 2025 | 96 min
As we follow the adventurous story of a hen desperate to raise a family, a terrible human tragedy unfolds in the background.
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Holofiction
Director(s): Michal KosakowskiGermany, Austria | 2025 | 102 min
A critical archival documentary unpacks the strikingly similar imagery that has recurred in films about the Holocaust from one decade to the next.
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Home
Hjem
Director(s): Marijana Janković
Denmark, Serbia | 2025 | 105 min
In 1991, amidst the Balkan region's dissolution, 6-year-old Maja and her parents make the decision to journey from Yugoslavia to Denmark. She observes in wonder as her parents desperately try to adapt to an entirely new world with its peculiar rules and traditions.
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Home Sweet Home
Dom dobry
Director(s): Wojciech Smarzowski
Poland | 2025 | 107 min
When Gośka meets Grzesiek, she’s certain that he’s the one. As Grzesiek begins to show his true colors, she realizes there seems to be no way out of the relationship as not even the authorities can help Gośka.
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How to Divorce During the War
Skyrybos karo metu
Director(s): Andrius Blaževičius
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Ireland, Czech Republic | 2026 | 108 min
In Vilnius in 2022, Marija has a revelation that she wants to divorce her husband, Vytas, right before Russia invades Ukraine. Forced to confront their crumbling relationship, they navigate the process of divorce as it collides with the ongoing war.
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In a Whisper
À voix basse
Director(s): Leyla Bouzid
France, Tunisia | 2026 | 113 min
Back in Tunisia for her uncle’s funeral, Lilia is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding his death, even if it means digging up long-buried family secrets.
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In-I in Motion
Director(s): Juliette BinocheFrance | 2025 | 124 min
Juliette Binoche’s directorial debut is an intimate look at the 100-show world tour of the dance production In-I. The actress-become-dancer-become-filmmaker reflects on creation, its challenges, and the personal transformation it brings.
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Iván & Hadoum
Director(s): Ian de la RosaSpain, Germany, Belgium | 2026 | 103 min
Ivan and Hadoum fall in love while working in a greenhouse, but Ivan's long-awaited promotion forces him to confront his choices and identity in this queer romance hot with solidarity and tomato pulp.
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Just an Illusion
Juste une illusion
Director(s): Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache
France | 2026 | 119 min
A 12-year-old boy in 1985 suburban Paris navigates life between his distant older brother and quarreling parents while grappling with identity, friendship, love, and understanding why adults seem lost.
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The Kidnapping of a President
Presidentin kyyditys
Director(s): Samuli Valkama
Finland, Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Estonia | 2026 | 87 min
An absurd and comical story based on real events about how in October 1930, a group of Finnish top echelon military officers went drinking and decided to kidnap the first — and already retired — president of Finland.
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La belle année
La belle année - det vackra året
Director(s): Angelica Ruffier
Sweden, Norway | 2026 | 94 min
While emptying her childhood home after the death of her father, Angelica reminisces about an intense and solitary love she had as a teenager.
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Last Movies
Director(s): Stanley SchtinterUnited Kingdom | 2026 | 84 min
Film history from Kafka to Kurt Cobain: A darkly humorous, alternative timeline based on the last films iconic celebrities watched before (and sometimes while) they died – narrated by Jeremy Irons.
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The Last Resort
Paradis
Director(s): Maria Sødahl
Denmark | 2026 | 98 min
A family's dream vacation turns into a nightmare when helping a desperate stranger draws them into a dangerous moral dilemma with no easy escape.
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Letters to Father Jacob
Postia pappi Jaakobille
Director(s): Klaus Härö
Finland | 2009 | 76 min
Leila, a prisoner serving a life sentence, is assigned to read the requests for intercession that have arrived by mail from a blind spiritualist. Klaus Härö's beloved classic drama.
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The Loneliest Man in Town
Director(s): Tizza Covi, Rainer FrimmelAustria | 2026 | 86 min
Blues musician Al Cook lives in an apartment filled with memories. Outside, the world carries on without him. But when his home is slated for demolition, out of the ruins of his existence, a long-forgotten dream suddenly resurfaces.
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Marsupilami
Director(s): Philippe LacheauFrance, Belgium | 2025 | 99 min
David receives a mysterious package from South America. The baby Marsupilami that emerges from the package means trouble! **Please note:** Tickets go on sale on 25 August 2026.
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Maspalomas
Director(s): Jose Mari Goenaga, Aitor ArregiSpain | 2025 | 115 min
76-year-old Vicente, who has lived a carefree life in Gran Canaria, breaks up with his boyfriend. His daughter wants to put her father in a care home – and back in the closet at the same time.
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Mosquitoes
Le bambine
Director(s): Valentina Bertani, Nicole Bertani
Italy, Switzerland, France | 2025 | 110 min
In the summer of 1997, three girls form a gang to defend their freedom and youth against a world of selfish, childish and distracted adults.
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Mother
Director(s): Teona Strugar MitevskaBelgium, North Macedonia, Sweden, Denmark, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2025 | 104 min
Calcutta, 1948. Mother Teresa anxiously awaits the letter that will allow her to leave the monastery and create her own order, as a call she received from God designated.
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Murder in the Building
Le Crime du 3e étage
Director(s): Rémi Bezançon
France | 2026 | 104 min
A witty film scholar and her crime novelist husband set out to solve a murder in their neighbourhood in this romantic comedy inspired by Hitchcock's Rear Window.
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My First Love
Min første kjærlighet
Director(s): Mari Storstein
Norway | 2025 | 90 min
When 19-year-old Ella Sets off for university, she is unexpectedly placed in an institution, further complicating her life with mobility struggles and making it impossible to live a normal student's life. At the same time, she falls in love for the first time.
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My Tennis Maestro
Il Maestro
Director(s): Andrea Di Stefano
Italy | 2025 | 125 min
13-year-old Felice, carrying his father's expectations on his shoulders, sets out to compete in the national tennis tournaments. He's placed under the wing of an unconventional coach: ex tennis champion Raul. The two embark on a journey that will lead Felice to discover the taste of freedom, and Raul to glimpse the possibility of a fresh start.
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My Wife Cries
Meine Frau weint
Director(s): Angela Schanelec
Germany, France | 2026 | 93 min
Deadpan observations on relationships and sofa sets. Stylishly unhurried pacing and a Leonard Cohen dance scene. But first, Thomas’s wife is crying.
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Nina Roza
Director(s): Geneviève Dulude-De CellesBelgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Italy | 2026 | 103 min
Past and family relations intertwine with the present as a hesitant art curator tracks down a viral child artist in his home country of Bulgaria.
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No Good Men
No Good Men: Finding Gold in a Pile of Ka-bulshit
Director(s): Shahrbanoo Sadat
Germany, France, Norway, Denmark, Afganistan | 2026 | 103 min
As the Taliban's return looms, Kabul's only female photographer gets an unexpected job opportunity – and a second chance at love.
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OMVF X Espoo Ciné: European Music Video Competition
Flake Lorenz: Leise rieselt der Schnee, Olva: Keijut ja perhoset, Gabrielė Vilkickytė: Stuku stuku, Niilas Feat. Why Kai: Jämtland, Glox Olia: Lluvia de Ceniza, Siegfried A. Fruhauf: This Arrow Points, ZEP: DON'T BREAK, Dacid Go8lin: Bubblegum, Moneygirl: Moneygirl, Black To Comm: World Cup Fever II, General Magic: Datna Éclat, Tesa: Interval III, Arif Murakami: Sinatra, Beton.Hofi: Tarr Béla
Run time 60 min
In the finals of the music video competition, personal memories intertwine with the shadows of war, political resistance, queer joy and digital chaos.
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On Work and Futility
Yaris, Crow (Yaris Varis); An Underground Bird (Maanalainen lintu); teeth (hampaat); Workload (Työtaakka); Am I Calling You at a Bad Time? (En kai huonoon aikaan soittele)
Run time 73 min
In these short films, a hazy, dreamlike quality and wry humor go hand in hand with depictions of the numbing aspects of working life and a town ravaged by structural change.
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Orange-Flavoured Wedding
Mariage au goût d’orange
Director(s): Christophe Honoré
France | 2026 | 115 min
It's the wedding day of Jacques, the youngest member of the family! The ceremony is overshadowed by the family's secrets and the shadow of the family's father. Can love heal the wounds of childhood?
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Parallel Tales
Histoires parallèles
Director(s): Asghar Farhadi
France | 2026 | 139 min
Sylvie spies on her neighbors and writes a story based on her observations, young Adam causes the line between fiction and reality to blur…
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Phantoms of July
Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen
Director(s): Julian Radlmaier
Germany | 2025 | 90 min
Cherries, ghosts and longing – a bittersweet comedy brings together an East German waitress and an Iranian YouTuber who has injured his hand.
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Prosecution
Staatsschutz
Director(s): Faraz Shariat
Germany | 2026 | 113 min
After surviving a racist attack, prosecutor Seyo Kim takes her own case to court, exposing both her attackers and a justice system failing to confront far-right violence.
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Rays and Shadows
Les rayons et des ombres
Director(s): Xavier Giannoli
France | 2026 | 195 min
The father is a newspaper magnate; the daughter, a rising film star. This period drama, which caused a stir in France, follows their descent into becoming collaborators with the Nazi occupiers.
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Redoubt
Värn
Director(s): John Skoog
Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Poland, Finland, United Kingdom, Switzerland | 2025 | 81 min
Denis Lavant stars as a farmer in a fascinating Swedish film. A reclusive man, fearing nuclear war retreats even further: to his own fortress.
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The River
Joki
Director(s): Jarmo Lampela
Finland | 2001 | 111 min
Twenty-five years on, Jarmo Lampela’s Joki remains a warm ensemble drama about decisive everyday moments and lives carried by the current.
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Rose
Director(s): Markus SchleinzerAustria, Germany | 2026 | 94 min
"You're freer in pants!" declares Sandra Hüller in the title role of the film, playing a woman who dressed in men's clothing in a remote vllage in the 17th century.
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Rose of Nevada
Director(s): Mark JenkinUnited Kingdom | 2025 | 114 min
A mysterious fishing boat lost thirty years ago returns to the village, taking two men on a voyage where the past comes alive and fate changes course.
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Silent Friend
Stille Freundin
Director(s): Ildikó Enyedi
Germany, Hungary, France | 2025 | 147 min
Three stories spanning more than a century intertwine beneath an ancient ginkgo tree, where science, desire and nature quietly transform one another.
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Silent Legacy
Katseiden alla
Director(s): Jenni Kivistö, Jussi Rastas
Finland, France, Burkina Faso | 2025 | 88 min
The documentary explores Sibiry’s life between two worlds, Finland and Burkina Faso. This personal portrait expands to examine colonialism and its legacy.
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Siri Hustvedt – Dance Around the Self
Director(s): Sabine LidlGermany, Switzerland | 2026 | 110 min
A portrait explores the role of women in the art world, tracing Siri Hustvedt's journey to becoming one of the leading and most beloved writers in contemporary literature.
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Sleeping Beauty
Prinsessa Ruusunen
Director(s): Edvin Laine
Finland | 1949 | 98 min
Princess Sleeping Beauty is cursed by Tuonettare and falls into a hundred-year sleep, from which she can only be awakened by a kiss from the prince.
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Soap Fever
Kaunarikuume
Director(s): Inka Achté
Finland, Sweden | 2026 | 78 min
When The Bold and the Beautiful sweeps across Finnish TV in the 1990s, its glittering world offers viewers an escape from the bleakness of the recession years.
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Solo Mom
Solomamma
Director(s): Janicke Askevold
Norway | 2025 | 99 min
A single mother's curiosity gets the better of her when the sperm donor's identity is revealed. How close will Edith let her child's biological father get to her?
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Stand Up
Director(s): Mari SandersThe Netherlands, Greece | 2026 | 95 min
Vera's life changes after she loses her leg in an accident. This joyful and authentic portrayal of a disability among people in their twenties doesn't overlook joy and rebellion.
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Staubwelt
Director(s): Sawandi GroskindFinland, Sweden | 2026 | 76 min
Just as a retiring criminal investigator's career comes to an end, the Devil arrives at the Pasila police station. The pair begins to wander through the city at night.
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Strange River
Estrany riu
Director(s): Jaume Claret Muxart
Spain, Germany | 2025 | 105 min
Sixteen-year-old Dídac feels new emotions stirring within him when he meets a mysterious boy during a family vacation. The mysterious boy keeps appearing and disappearing into the currents of the Danube.
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The Stranger
L'Étranger
Director(s): François Ozon
France, Belgium, Morocco | 2025 | 122 min
A striking black-and-white adaptation of Albert Camus' classic novel The Stranger, capturing its haunting meditation on alienation, fate and the absurd.
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Tell Everyone
Kerro kaikille
Director(s): Alli Haapasalo
Finland | 2026 | 112 min
Amanda loses her freedom, but not her spirit. Alli Haapasalo's eagerly awaited new film tells the long-silenced story of the women of Seili Island.
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Tell Me What You Feel
Powiedz mi, co czujesz
Director(s): Łukasz Ronduda
Poland | 2026 | 103 min
A struggling painter finds himself drawn into an art project where tears are exchanged for money, leading to an unexpected love story about vulnerability and healing.
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Three Goodbyes
Tre Ciotole
Director(s): Isabel Coixet
Italy, Spain | 2025 | 120 min
A teacher separates from her partner, only to soon learn that she is also seriously ill. Letting go brings new flavours and new people into her life.
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Trillion
Director(s): Victor KossakovskyNorway, United States | 2025 | 80 min
A wordless meditation on purpose, resilience, and the bonds that connect all living beings in a fragile world.
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Tristan Forever
Director(s): Tobias Nölle, Loran BonnardotSwitzerland | 2026 | 90 min
A retired Parisian doctor settles on the rugged and remote island of Tristan da Cunha. Will he blend in with the islanders?
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Two Seasons, Two Strangers
旅と日々
Director(s): Shō Miyake
Japan | 2025 | 89 min
Strangers run into each other in summer and winter in this sensual and unrushed film that reflects on the significance of storytelling.
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Viva
Director(s): Aina ClotetSpain | 2026 | 112 min
Nora, who narrowly escaped death, finds herself searching for her lust for life – will she find the answer in the arms of her lovers, or somewhere else?
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Weightless
Vægtløs
Director(s): Emilie Thalund
Denmark | 2025 | 97 min
15-year-old Lena craves for new experiences and falls for her adult instructor at a health camp. This Danish drama skillfully explores the subtle shades of gray.
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Whitetail
Director(s): Nanouk LeopoldThe Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium | 2025 | 103 min
Jen works as a ranger in an Irish nature reserve, and is forced to confront a long-buried tragedy, when a love from the youth returns to their hometown.
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William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
Director(s): Baz LuhrmannAustralia, Canada, United States, Mexico | 1996 | 120 min
Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio bring a classic love story to Verona Beach – a generational experience and a pop romance, that still resonates physically.
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A Woman's Life
La Vie d'une femme
Director(s): Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
France, Belgium | 2026 | 98 min
A work-driven surgeon's carefully balanced life is unsettled when a novelist joins her hospital researching her next book.
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Zejtune
Żejtune
Director(s): Alex Camilleri
Malta, Germany, Qatar | 2026 | 108 min
Mar plans to leave Malta after her estranged mother dies and leaves her inheritance of three plots of land. With money from the sales she plans to make a fresh start but fate steps in as she meets Nenu, a 80-year old folk singer and the two make an unexpected connection through music and culture.
