BAD MATH (CH, FR)
Yuval ORR
Esther VAN MESSEL (First Hand Films) | Stéphanie LEBRUN (Babel Doc)
Switzerland, France
One off: 90 min
Series : 3 x 52 min
Production stage: Development
The film traces the conflict in Palestine-Israel backward in time — from Gaza 2025 to the state’s founding and the 1948 Nakba — exposing the economic mechanisms driving this endless crisis by following the shekel across four historic turning points.
BEFORE YOU, MY SHADOW (ES)
Natxo LEUZA
Nagore ECEIZA MUGICA (El Santo Films) | Natxo LEUZA (Ataria Films)
Spain
One off : 70 min
Production stage : Development
A sun that rises, a sun that sets.
A new day in Gadani, Pakistan.
There, trapped like in Dante's purgatory, those who dismantle, piece by piece, the ships that no longer serve us, the ships that can no longer sail, share bread. They wait, day after day, looking up at the sky,the children of the sun.
CAPTAIN (ES, CO)
Laura OTÀLORA PARDO
Estephania BONNETT (Playlab Films) | Nicolás HERREÑO (Tomato Content)
Spain, Colombia
One off: 52 min & 90 min
Production stage: Production
This is the story of a farewell journey between a father and a daughter who, in a race against time due to Alzheimer's, decide to recreate their memories through a film, which ends up transforming their relationship with the disease in a surprising way.
DOUBLE SELF PORTRAIT (LT, LV, DE )
Aistė STONYTĖ
Giedrė ŽICKYTĖ (Moonmakers) | Uldis CEKULIS (VFS Films) | Alex TONDOWSKI (Tondowski Films)
Lituania, Latvia, Germany
One off: 52 min & 90 min
Production stage: Production
Talented and charismatic, Lithuanian photographer Virgilijus Šonta was brutally murdered, the perpetrator never found, and the case closed. Thirty years later, we embark on a detective’s journey, delving into the enigmatic life and tragic double existence encoded in his photographs.
FROZEN WAR - The Global Battle for the Arctic (DE)
Dirk VAN DEN BERG & Pascal VERROUST
Dirk VAN DEN BERG (OutreMer Film GmbH)
Germany
One off: 90 min
Series: 2 x 52 min
Production stage: Development
In a world threatened by climate change and geopolitical rivalry, FROZEN WAR reveals the conflicts arising from greed, militarization, and indigenous resistance in the Arctic—and repeatedly asks the questions: Who owns the Arctic? And what will become of the world when the ice melts?
HITLER'S EYE (DK, FR, DE, UK )
Dror MOREH
Sigrid DYEKJÆR & Harry VAUGHN (Real Lava) | Philippe LEVASSEUR (Scope Films) | Natalie HUMPHREYS (Storyboard Studios) | Konstanze SPEIDEL (Flare Film)
Denmark, France, Germany, United Kingdom
One off: 90 min
Production stage: Development
An archive of 20,000 images resides within the Berlin home of Hanns-Peter Frentz, hidden out of shame over his family’s role in their creation. Now revealed, they expose the inner workings of Hitler’s propaganda machine, uncovering the visual ideology that metastasized within his cloistered world.
INNER LANDSCAPES (PL)
Zofia SAWICKA
Maciej KUBICKI & Zofia KUJAWSKA (Telemark sp. z o.o.)
Poland
One off: 75 min
Production stage: Production
As the train runs through the endless wilderness, the journey of its passengers leads more and more inward. In this documentary road movie, the diverse personal stories create a mosaic that sheds light on the human condition in today’s world.
LANDFALL (UK, FR)
Peter MIDDLETON
Hugh DAVIES & Clive PATTERSON (Insight Film)
United Kingdom, France
One off: 85 min
Production stage: Production
LANDFALL is a cinematic exploration of tensions along Britain’s coastal edgelands; a study of place and displacement, migration and the landscape, and the entangled relationships between humanity and the natural world.
LIVE TILL DEATH (ES, FR)
Xuban INTXAUSTI
Leire LARISGOITIA (Humanistic) | Tristan LEYRI (Maelstrom Studios) | Jontxu FERNANDEZ (Arbela Films)
Spain, France
One off: 90 min
Production stage: Development
Hil Arte Bizi (Live Till Death) is a documentary that explores the experiences of Basque women facing cancer through a collective, feminist, and transformative lens.
NOT SO FAR AWAY PLACES (FR)
Renato BORRAYO SERRANO & Yulia VISHNEVETSKAYA
Milana CHRISTITCH (Ana films) | Albin BOURGEOIS (WePlus)
France
One off: 52 min & 90 min
Production stage: Development
In-depth immersion into the Russian prison system, through the perspective of a human rights activist trying to resist from within. A cautionary tale about the rise of totalitarianism and the banality of evil.
QUEENS BALLROOM (US, FR, BE)
Siyi CHEN & Hansen LIN
Siyi CHEN & Hansen LIN (Queens Disco Production) | Clara VUILLERMOZ (Solent Production) | Laurence BUELENS (Rayuela Productions)
United States, France, Belgium
One off: 52 min & 90 min
Production stage: Development
Asian American immigrants escape the grind of their Sisyphean lives to find beauty and romance in a ballroom in Queens, New York. Each dance becomes a suspended moment in time — caught between the past they left behind and the future they hope to build in their adopted new home.
RECLAIMING TIME (FR, PS)
Fuad HINDIEH
Michel ZANA (Blue Train Films) | Jiries COPTI (Fresco Films)
France, Palestine
One off: 90 min
Production stage: Writing phase
When a Palestinian filmmaker tries to legally change his birthdate, his absurd bureaucratic quest becomes a visually stunning heist to reclaim time stolen by occupation.
RECOVERY (UA, FR)
Roman BONDARCHUK & Vadym ILKOV
Darya BASSEL (Moon Man) | Pauline TRAN VAN LIEU (Hutong Productions)
Ukraine, France
One off: 90 min
Production stage: Development
As air raids on civilian facilities intensify, Ukrainians actively rebuild their country, their efforts spanning from grassroots volunteer initiatives to international policymaking. The documentary shows the challenges and paradoxes of the reconstruction process in times of destruction.
RENZO. THE MEASURE OF THINGS (IT)
Davide FOIS & Mattia COLOMBO
Francesca MOLTENI (Muse Factory of Projects)
Italy
One off: 52 min & 90 min
Production stage: Development
There’s always a tape measure in Renzo Piano’s pocket. The great architect uses it every day to measure the world with precision. But when his daughter Lia asks him to measure what cannot be measured—memories, regrets—the story becomes more than biography: a dialogue on legacy, love, and freedom.
SEEDS FROM KIVU (ES, FR)
Néstor LOPEZ
Pilar SANCHO (Filmakers Monkeys) | Mercedes GAMERO (Beta Fiction Spain) | Aintza SERRA (Escac films) | Stéphane SORLAT (Mondex Et Cie)
Spain, France
One off: 90 min
Production stage: Development
In Kivu (DR Congo), several women try to rebuild their lives after giving birth to unwanted children, the result of war rapes in the struggle for local resources. Twelve years of crimes remain unpunished. Their resistance is the key to achieving the fourth International Tribunal in history.
STRINGS OF POWER (IL, DE)
Tal BARDA
Ayelet EPHRATI | Reinhardt BEETZ (The Beetz Brothers )
Israel, Germany
One off: 90 min
Series: 3 x 52 min
Production stage: Production
Strings of Power explores the shadowy world of international espionage, diplomacy, and betrayal that shaped the modern Middle East. Through the secretive story of three key figures—an American, an Israeli, and an Iranian—this documentary examines a failed covert operation in the 1980s that sought to manipulate Iran’s future and alter the region’s power dynamics.
SUPERHUMANS (AT)
Inna SHEVCHENKO
Arash T. RIAHI (Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmbH)
Austria
One off: 85 min
Production stage: Development
In a country fighting for its survival, a radical clinic becomes a living monument to the unbroken body. Superhumans is a visceral, poetic journey where war survivors rebuild themselves from titanium and dignity — and where healing becomes the most defiant act of resistance.
TAKEN BY THE WHITE MAN (PT)
Ana Sofia FONSECA
Ana Sofia FONSECA, Daniella RICE (Carrossel Produçõe)
Portugal
One off: 52 min & 90 min
Production stage: Development
On the verge of blindness, and dreaming to find his long-lost brother and stolen identity, a man decides to travel back from Portugal to Mozambique, after being captured and turned into a war mascot, by the Portuguese colonial army in 1967.
THE BAMBOO FAMILY (FR, NL)
Sein LYAN TUN
Davide MORANDINI (Khora Film) | Jia ZHAO (Muyi Films)
France, Netherlands
One off: 77 min
Production stage: Development
Exiled in Paris after the 2021 coup, Sein picks up his camera again. Blending memories, distant exchanges, and unveiled secrets, his film becomes an intimate diary of exile, difficult choices, and the enduring hope to live the life he has chosen.
THE FORECASTERS (BE, ES)
Pieter VAN EECKE
Hanne PHLYPO (Clin D’Oeil Films) | Marieke VAN DEN BERSSELAAR (Polar Star Films)
Belgium, Spain
One off: 52 min & 100 min
Production stage: Developement
On air and under pressure, meteorologists worldwide become reluctant harbingers of doom as extreme weather intensifies. Faced with censorship, denial, and emotional tolls, they must confront a haunting question under darkening skies: How to tell the truth when truth becomes unwelcome?
THE ISLAND IN SILENCE (MX)
Mario TRUJILLO
Carlos GARCÍA (Mezquite Films)
Mexico
One off: 90 min
Production stage: Development
In 2015, Cuba’s parks lit up with screens: for the first time, most people went online. Abraham, Karla, and José joined other young journalists to create independent media. Their voices connected with society, but once they crossed borders, surveillance and intimidation pushed them into exile.
THE SERVANT'S ROOM (ES, BE)
Pau FAUS
Sergi CAMERON (Nanouk Films) | Arnauld DE BATTICE (AT-Prod)
Spain, Belgium
One off: 90 min
Production stage: Development
A day in the lives of seven live-in migrant caregivers across Europe reveals their unseen world of elderly care. From quiet wisdom to profound loneliness, their intertwined stories paint a collective portrait of a reality shared in countless European homes.
TOKYO MELTDOWN (FR)
María URQUIJO
Antoine GOLDET (Amok Films)
France
One off: 80 min
Production stage: Development
Yung Beef is an icon of Spanish trap music–but behind the public persona is Fernando, a man wrestling with drug addiction. His friend María, who lost her father to the same struggle, crafts a poetic and punk documentary about friendship and the fragile balance between the artist and the self.
VALLEY OF THE HEART (CZ, SK)
Theodora REMUNDOVÁ
Jiri KONECNY (Endorfilm) | Robert KIRCHHOFF (atelier.doc) | Věra KRINCVAJOVÁ (Česká televize)
Czech Republic, Slovakia
One off: 90 min
Production stage: Production
Born into a family of priests in the highest Brahmin caste, Purna grows up in a secluded Hindu community deep within a hidden Himalayan valley in Nepal. When his father dies, he is finally allowed to leave—and embarks on a long-awaited journey to Europe.
