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A South Facing Window Une Fenêtre Plein Sud Урагшаа Харсан Цонх
19’, 2025
France, Mongolia
Fiction
Synopsis
Azaa and Shagai, a couple in their late 20s, are living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, with their 6-year-old daughter. On the verge of divorce, they search for happiness in empty, high-rise buildings.
Credits
Directed by: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir | Screenplay: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir | Cinematography: Vasco Viana | Editing: Matthieu Taponier | Costume Design: Ariunsetgel Tserenpil | Music: Harry Allouche | Sound Design: Benjamin Silvestre | Cast: Azzaya Munkhbat, Altanshagai Munkhnasan, Oyuntsetseg Tsogbadrakh | Producers: Katia Khazak, Charlotte Vincent | Production Company: Aurora Films | Co-producers: Oyundari Khurelbaatar, Guru Media
Director's Bio
Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir is a Mongolian screenwriter and director, born in 1989. She graduated from Dokuz Eylul University (Turkey) with a BA in Film Direction. Her short film Mountain Cat was part of the official selection at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, whereas Snow in September won the Golden Lion for Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival before winning the Best Short Film at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. Her first feature, City of Wind, won the Best Actor award in the Orizzonti section at the 2023 Venice Film Festival and was selected as the Mongolian entry to the 2024 Oscars.
Filmography
2025 A South Facing Window / Une Fenêtre Plein Sud / Урагшаа Харсан Цонх
2023 Un Jeune Chaman / City of Wind / Сэр Сэр Салхи
2022 Snow in September
2020 Mountain Cat / Shiluus
2015 This is the Girl
2012 Dead Male Birds
Unreal Estate Agent
12’, 2024
The Netherlands
Fiction
Synopsis
When desperate starter Jos accidentally kills the real estate agent during a house visit, he will have to walk over dead bodies to get the property.
Credits
Directed by: Bodhi Le Belle | Screenplay: Bodhi Le Belle | Cinematography: Gabor Deak | Editing: Michiel Boesveldt | Production Design: Pieter Christiaans | Art Direction: Pim Jongsma | Costume Design: Alette Kraan | Music: Remus Ockels | Sound Design: Thomas Wagenaar, Reinder Van Zalk | Cast: Alex Hendrickx, Rosa Van Leeuwen, Teunie De Brouwer, Loes Schnepper, Puck Van Stijn | Producers: Leon De Levita, Sébastian Martens | Co-producers: Karlijn Paardekooper, Willem Bos
Director's Bio
As a self-taught writer-director, Bodhi Le Belle develops suspenseful and tragicomic stories that reflect on people and society for a wide audience. His latest short film Unreal Estate Agent was selected for the Dutch Film Festival. His short film The Ideal Son in Law was selected for ShortCutz Amsterdam and Rotterdams OpenDoek. Bodhi has also been working as a commercial director since 2016. He is currently represented by production house CZAR, which is also the co-producer of Unreal Estate Agent.
Filmography
2024 Unreal Estate Agent
2017 The Ideal Son In Law
2016 Hans And Waf
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Overnight Coup
16’, 2025
Cyprus
Fiction, Experimental
Synopsis
A fragmented biography through the gaze of geography and memory. Following a group of girls’ journey from Limassol to Ayia Napa, this short film tracks the motions of an average night out, while simultaneously navigating the more obscure undercurrents of the landscapes and locations they inhabit.
Credits
Directed by: Marina Xenofontos | Screenplay: Marina Xenofontos | Cinematography: Fern Silva | Editing: Nikola Powell | Set Design: Raissa Angeli, Sebastian Koukkides | Art Direction: Marina Xenofontos | Costume Design: Giorgos Tigkas | Music: Panagiotis Mina | Sound Design: Andreas Hadjipanteli | Cast: Lily Waldvogel, Marina Hadjipieri, Ifigenia Karagiorgi, Nefeli Psara, Alexandros Karaolis, Thomas Daskalakis, Kyriakos Kyriakides, Tom Hardwick-Allan, Chrysa Gregoriou | Producer: Marina Xenofontos | Co-producer: Deputy Ministry of Culture Cyprus
Director's Bio
Marina Xenofontos was born in 1988 in Limassol, Cyprus. She works with film and sculpture to explore failure and the marginalisation of personal narratives. Her films include I don’t sleep, I dream (2011), We were supposed to have fun (2011–ongoing), Twice Upon a While (2018), and Sunlight Vandalism (2019). Her films have been presented at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, UKS in Oslo, Images and Views of Alternative Cinema in Cyprus, and the Julia Stoschek Collection in Berlin. She received the Frieze Emerging Artist Award in 2022 and St. Best Art Film - Art Review prize at St.Moritz Art Film Festival for Overnight Coup (2025).
Filmography
2025 Overnight Coup
2019 Sunlight Vandalism
2018 Twice Upon a While
2012 A portrait of Perfi and Abdullah Öcalan
2012 Topos or Closer to Deja Vu Than Nostalgia (Cyprus, the Island of Love)
2011 We were Supposed to Have Fun
2011 I don’t sleep, I dream
Awards
- Best Art Film - Art Review prize at St.Moritz Art Film Festival, Switzerland, 2025.
The Motherfucker's Birthday
7’, 2024
USA
Documentary, Experimental
Synopsis
Through dancing, the film shows the evil of the dictator and the horrors people endure under powerful political leaders. Saddam dances. Bush dances. So, what's left for the Iraqi people except to join in?
Credits
Directed and Edited by: Saif Alsaegh
Director's Bio
Saif Alsaegh is a United States-based filmmaker from Baghdad. Much of Saif’s work deals with the contrast between the landscape of his youth in Baghdad growing up as part of the indigenous Chaldean minority in the nineties and early 2000s, and the U.S. landscape where he currently lives. His films have screened in festivals and venues including Cinéma du Réel, Kurzfilm Hamburg, Kassel Dokfest, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Media City Film Festival, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and The Gene Siskel Film Center. Alsaegh’s films are distributed by Video Data Bank.
Filmography
2025 Primetime Mr. President
2025 Advice for Immigrants #1
2024 The Motherfucker’s Birthday
2023 Bezuna
2019 Bitter with a Shy Taste of Sweetness
2018 1991
2018 Rosa
2016 Alazeef
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Their Eyes
23’, 2025
France
Documentary, Animation
Synopsis
How does a machine learn to read the world? Testimonies and screen recordings introduce the experience of online micro-workers from the Global South: their job is to teach the AI of self-driving cars to navigate the streets of the Global North.
Credits
Directed by: Nicolas Gourault | Screenplay: Nicolas Gourault | Cinematography: Yvon, Oliver, Jonel | Editing: Lucas Azémar, Félix Rehm, Nicolas Gourault | Sound Design: Etienne André | Cast: Oliver, Jonel, Yvon, Yonaille, Elvina, Nancy | Producers: Yannick Beauquis, Quentin Brayer | Production Company: Don Quichotte Films
Director's Bio
Nicolas Gourault is an artist and filmmaker based in Paris, with a background in visual arts and visual studies. He has worked with Forensic Architecture before graduating from Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts. His work is imbued with this double training, navigating between online open-source investigations and the critical use of new media as documentary tools. His films and video installations explore the power relationships embedded in technologies and attempt to build counter-narratives through the use of situated testimony and experimental image-making. His artworks have been exhibited in film festivals and contemporary art venues.
Filmography
2025 Their Eyes
2020 VO
2019 This Means More
Awards
- Firebird Award, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong, 2025.
- EMEL Short Film Grand Prize, IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Portugal, 2025.
- Best Short Film, Flatpack Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2025.
- Best International Short Film, Tenemos Que Ver, Uruguay, 2025.
- Best Film, Syncro Film Fest, Argentina, 2025.
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The 15 Oranges are Coming
15’, 2025
Cyprus
Fiction, Experimental
Synopsis
A mysterious stranger in military attire shows up at Larnaca Airport without travel documents or a ticket. The camera follows his road trip through modern-day Cyprus, his own nightmares, and his quest for long-lost serenity.
Credits
Directed by: Constantinos Kiprianidis | Screenplay: Christopher Greco | Cinematography: Stylianos Chrysostomou | Editing: Constantinos Kiprianidis | Production Design: Louiza Giagkou | Art Direction: Michaela Kasinou | Costume Design: Michaela Kasinou | Music: Demetris Zachariou | Sound Design: George Theodoulou | Cast: Christopher Greco, Simos Tsiakkas, Marios Stylianou | Producer: Nicolas Demetriou | Production Company: Media Studios | Co-producers: Christopher Greco, Constantinos Kiprianidis, Icarus Productions, Medusa Film Productions
Director's Bio
Constantinos Kiprianidis was born in 1993 in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Mass Media as his first degree at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, and Directing in Film & TV (Acting) at Bournemouth University in the UK. He has directed 14 short films, some of which have received awards at film festivals.
Filmography
2025 The 15 Oranges are Coming
2025 Transaction
2024 Τελευταία Ανάσα
2024 Φυγείν Αδύνατον
2023 Διπλή Ενοχή
2022 Chrystal-la
2021 Afterlife
2020 Total Black
2020 112
2020 Sacrifice
2018 Sadness
2018 Μανά Ήρτα
2017 Zoe
I Died in Irpin
11’, 2024
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine
Documentary, Animation
Synopsis
“On the morning of February 24th, my boyfriend and I decided to go from Kyiv to Irpin to see his parents. It is hard for me to recall the chronology of those days: my mind blocks out and minimises the memories, erasing them, but the only thing I know for sure is that with each passing day, everything rapidly got worse”.
Credits
Directed by: Anastasiia Falileieva | Screenplay: Anastasiia Falileieva | Production Design: Marcela Vrátilová, Mira Dittrich | Art Direction: Anastasiia Falileieva | Music: Petr Marek | Production Company: MAUR film | Producers: Alena Vandasová, Martin Vandas (MAUR film, CZ), Juraj Krasnohorský (Artichoke, SK) | Co-producers: Anastasiia Falileieva, Plastic Bag Studio
Director's Bio
Anastasiia Falileieva was born in 2000 in Kremenchuk, Ukraine. She studied stop-motion animation and directing at the Kiyv National I.Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Anastasiia is one of the very few stop-motion professionals remaining in the Ukrainian industry.
Filmography
2024 I Died in Irpin
2022-24 Patron the Dog
2021 Papier Mache
2020 Tiger Is Strolling Around
2018 Until It Turns Black
Trailer
Potpourri
16’, 2025
Cyprus
Fiction
Synopsis
Sophia lies incapacitated, a passenger unable to communicate, at the mercy of daily rituals of care. A visit from her daughter gives a glimpse into how the sudden reversal of circumstances throws family life into a conundrum of purpose and future.
Credits
Directed by: Paul Iacovou | Screenplay: Paul Iacovou, Katerina Nicolaou | Cinematography: Stephan Metzner | Editing: Emilios Avraam | Production Design: Sosse Eskidjian | Costume Design: Sosse Eskidjian | Sound Design: Marco Lopez | Cast: Penny Finiri, Erica Beyeti, Antonis Katsaris, Nedie Antoniades, Christina Papadopoulou, Constantinos Farmakas | Producer: Paul Iacovou | Production Company: Vegas Films
Director's Bio
Paul Iacovou’s career is a hybrid of the advertising and entertainment industries, having written, produced and directed commercials, documentaries, and films. Notable works include his acclaimed documentary If I Never Sing Another Song, which was sold to the Biography Channel, and more recently, The Ghost of Peter Sellers, which premiered in Venice to rave reviews and went on to win numerous awards, including the Golden Palm at the Beverly Hills Film Festival.
Filmography
2025 Potpourri
2011 The Bee Gees
2008 Sings to the Gods
2007 You & Me
2004 If I Never Sing Another Song
Awards
- Best Narrative Short, Cannes World Film Festival, France, 2025.