Drama
Hidden Tremors
Set against the fragile landscape of Kanjirappally, Hidden Tremors explores a family's quiet struggle amidst climate-induced displacement. The film captures the fragile balance between people and ecosystem — and the emotional dislocation that follows.
Living the Land
Huo Meng’s film folds a grand historical reckoning into the story of one rural family in 1990s China. Visually rich and finely detailed in its human portraiture, this is a moving, elegiac work.
Wind, Talk to Me
In this quietly affecting, deeply personal debut, Stefan Djordjevic subtly but notably occupies both sides of the camera, painting a delicate portrait of a young man processing the loss of his mother.
Kontinental ’25
Radu Jude's Silver Bear winner is an anguished drama of conscience about a bailiff traumatized by an eviction that ends in tragedy. What more could she, or should she, have done?
Closing Gala: Köln 75 With Live Performance by Chris Gestrin
Experience the transcendent power of music: Vancouver pianist Chris Gestrin performs a set of Keith Jarrett-inspired music to accompany Köln 75, which tells the story of Jarrett’s iconic concert, which became the best-selling solo album in jazz history.
10: The new socialism; ceasefire now!
Shorts from: Belgium, Canada, China, India, Myanmar, UK.
The Plague
At a water polo camp, Ben is plunged into the deep end of toxic peer pressure. Terrified of incurring his campmates’ wrath, he joins them in tormenting a kid whose skin rash has been branded “the plague”. But then he experiences a breakout of his own...