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World Premiere 10s Across the Borders

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10s Across the Borders
  • Philippines/Singapore/Germany
  • 2025
  • 100min

This film follows three leading characters of Southeast Asia’s ballroom scene?Teddy from Malaysia who ran away from his homophobic father, Xyza from the Philippines who found beauty in herself after being rejected by the modeling ...

  • 2022 ACF AND Fund Recipient
World Premiere Throughout These Cages

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Throughout These Cages
  • Indonesia
  • 2025
  • 16min

After the father’s death, the mother and son are left alone together. Following his father’s will, the son tries to remodel their old house, but the mother does not welcome his efforts. The trauma etched into the items and the spa...

World Premiere In the Valley

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In the Valley
  • Malaysia
  • 2025
  • 21min

In a remote mountain village, eleven-year-old Lei resents her mother’s decision to move to the city for her education. Facing separation from her best friend, Lei heads to their secret hideout in the valley, where old murals that ...

Coexistence, My Ass!

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Coexistence, My Ass!
  • United States/France
  • 2025
  • 95min

Noam Shuster Eliassi, born to an Iranian Jewish mother and a Romanian Jewish father, was once a peace activist who, upon realizing the limitations of that path, turned to stand-up comedy. Her comedy quickly gained attention, but a...

  • Sundance World Cinema Documentary Competition
World Premiere In the Sea of Strange Thoughts

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In the Sea of Strange Thoughts
  • Korea
  • 2025
  • 115min

A record of the highly respected humanist Kim Uchang’s private life and intellectual world spanning 21 years. For 40 years, he has been living with his wife Sul Soonbong in a house with lots of steps and a leaky roof, where the op...

World Premiere A Man Who Takes Pictures of Flowers

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A Man Who Takes Pictures of Flowers
  • United States
  • 2025
  • 14min

The life of Kim Jung Myung, who spent 40 years photographing wildflowers, unfolds in stop-motion animation. His 1.5 million still photographs are transformed into time-lapse video, seamlessly woven together with stop-motion charac...

World Premiere Habibi Hussein

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Habibi Hussein
  • Palestine/Germany/Saudi Arabia/Sweden
  • 2025
  • 96min

Hussein Darby, the last projectionist of Cinema Jenin in Palestine, thought it a golden opportunity. When a German NGO came to restore the theater, Hussein was ready to prove his skills. He believed that it would help him get his ...

World Premiere Rihanna

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Rihanna
  • Nepal
  • 2025
  • 17min

In rural Nepal, thirteen-year-old Saraswoti changes her name to Rihanna. The school principal scolds and disciplines her for blindly imitating Western culture. She wants to prove herself with quiet support from her watchful mother...

World Premiere Yellow Ghost

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Yellow Ghost
  • Korea
  • 2025
  • 17min

Seoul Station at dawn. An old man crosses the plaza, humming as he pulls a cart full of discarded paper. During his brief sleep, the city awakens and daily life resumes. Suddenly, his sense of time warps, and the film is interrupt...

World Premiere Singing Wings

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Singing Wings
  • Iran/Georgia/Belgium
  • 2025
  • 73min

Khadijeh, an elderly Kurdish woman from Iran, has two pressing tasks - one, to care for a stork whose wings were injured by high-voltage wires and left behind; and two, to dissuade her daughter from emigrating to the UK. In her mi...

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