SOMEDAY, A CHILD Marie-Rose Osta  France, Romania, Lebanon, 2026 — 27 min Cast: Khaled Hassan, Antoine Daher A boy with extraordinary powers lives with his uncle in a Lebanese village where the noise of warplanes is a daily occurrence. As his uncle tries to train him to appear “normal”, the boy’s gift becomes impossible to contain....See more details

Switzerland, Belgium, France, 2025 97 min Drama Director: Marie-Elsa Sgualdo Screenplay: Nadine Lamari, Marie-Elsa Sgualdo Cinematography: Benoît Dervaux Cast: Lila Gueneau as Emma, Grégoire Colin as Robert, Thomas Doret as Paul, Aurélia Petit as Élise Synopsis:  15-year-old Emma-pregnant after a rape-defies her repressive rural Protestant community to carve a path of self-determination, transforming trauma into a catalyst for emancipation while confronting the moral hypocrisy of the village and the spectre of World War II around her....See more details

Romania, Republic of Moldova, 2025 112 min Drama Director: Valeriu Andriuță Screenplay: Valeriu Andriuță Cinematography: Silviu Stavilă Cast: Victor Nofit, Vanessa Andriuta, Ion Munteanu, Anatol Cotrobai, Silviu Boinceanu Synopsis:  New Year’s Eve, 1999. A man is fatally shot during a hunting trip....See more details

GO OUTSIDE AND HUG A TREE Irina Alexiu 2025 — 14 min Cast: Valeria Stoica, Silvana Mihai, Eduard Chimac, Alexia Galeș When a rising musician loses her inspiration in a hyper-competitive indie scene, she embarks on an eerie, fever-dream quest that leads her to a bizarre dilemma: reclaim her creativity by performing a sacrifice....See more details

Romania, 2025 85 min Drama Director: Cecilia Ștefănescu Screenplay: Cecilia Ștefănescu Cinematography: Luchian Ciobanu Cast: Marina Palii, Virgil Aioanei, Emil Măndănac, Bianca Cuculici, Rolando Matsangos, Alex-Ioan Petre  Synopsis:  A Safe Place follows Lucia, her husband, and their friends as they enjoy a peaceful holiday in a seaside village in Bulgaria....See more details

Romania, 2025 115 min Drama Director: Sebastian Pereanu  Screenplay: Sebastian Pereanu  Cinematography: Sebastian Pereanu  Cast: Richard Bovnoczki, Bianca Cuculici, Rareș Andrici  Synopsis:  A writer encounters, in real life, the female character from the novel he is writing....See more details

Romania, UK, 2026 89 min Documentary Director: Rachel Tâpârjan Cinematography: Andrei Oană Synopsis:  While helping a woman search for her birth mother, a filmmaker is drawn into her own family history, uncovering a dark cloud that has long hung over its women. Through filmmaking as both inquiry and a gesture of care, she explores whether self-authorship can rewrite inherited family narratives....See more details

France, Japan, Belgium, Luxembourg, 2025 122 min Official Competition, Locarno Film Festival 2026 Director: Naomi Kawase Screenplay: Naomi Kawase Cinematography: Masaya Suzuki, Arata Dodo  Cast: Vicky Krieps, Kanichiro  Synopsis:  Corry, a French coordinator of pediatric heart transplants is sent to Japan where organ donation remains taboo....See more details

THE VISIT Elias Ferchin 2025 — 18 min Cast: Ileana Mihnea, Angela Ioan, Gheorghe Jindiceanu In a countryside house, in the stillness of the night, an unexpected event shatters the cheerful and seemingly harmonious atmosphere of a family made up of a grandmother and her two grandchildren, revealing the vulnerability of children left without protection....See more details

United States, 2026 95 min Drama Director: Walter Thompson-Hernández Screenplay: Walter Thompson-Hernández Cinematography: Michael Fernandez Cast: Danielle Brooks, J. Alphonse Nicholson Synopsis:  Twelve-year-old Lil Ant transforms his working-class neighborhood beneath the LAX flight path into a living mythology, where family members become gods and the sky is crowded with endless departures....See more details