dir. Tadeusz Syka Poland 2023 / 110' International Feature Film Competition A gripping, epic production told from the perspective of a chaplain – General Stanisław Brzóska, January Insurgent. He takes the command of the longest-running insurgent unit fighting against Tsarist Russia. Hunted by Tsarist officer Maniukin, dubbed the Executioner of Podlasie, Brzóska escapes several times.
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dir. James Hawes Great Britain 2023 / 110' International Feature Film Competition In 1938, a young Briton called Nicholas Winton comes to Prague and discovers that thousands of families escaped from the Nazis from Germany and Austria and live in dramatic conditions. What’s more, the German invasion of Czechoslovakia is only a matter of weeks. [...]
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dir. Barnabás Tóth Hungary 2023 / 90' International Feature Film Competition In Stefan Zweig's adaptation of “The Royal Game”, a pair of rebels escape the Russian tanks in Budapest, in 1956. They manage to successfully board one of the last refugee trains. An exciting game of chess unfolds along the way. Almost no one and [...]
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dir. Hirokazu Koreeda Japan 2023 / 126' International Feature Film Competition Three perspectives of the same, seemingly simple story. A fight breaks out at school, a morally ambiguous teacher and a mother fighting for her son. The story is about how friendship, love and rejection often exist on the same plane. The film's soundtrack is [...]
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dir. Maciej Ślesicki Poland 2023 / 117' International Feature Film Competition When war breaks out in Ukraine, five women - representing different generations and perspectives – undertake a desperate fight to save themselves and their loved ones. Their fates intertwine into an uplifting story about love, courage, sacrifice and the strength of the human spirit.
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dir. Krzysztof Łukaszewicz Poland 2024 / 122' International Feature Film Competition The first Polish feature film about the famous Battle of Monte Cassino. Fiction is intertwined with facts, creating a magnetic and engaging story about a race against time, the process of planning an attack and the huge burden of irreversible decisions made by the [...]
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dir. Alex Garland USA 2024 / 109' International Feature Film Competition A fictional story of a group of journalists who cross the United States plunged into a bloody civil war to conduct the last interview with the President in Washington.
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dir. Tinatin Kajrishvili Georgia 2023 / 100' International Feature Film Competition A statue of a saint on a cross in a mining town in the country of Georgia suddenly disappears. When a mysterious stranger appears, superstitious residents start to believe that the saint is walking among them.
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