FEATURE FILMS

A THOUSAND AND ONE
A Thousand and One follows the unapologetic and free-spirited Inez (Teyana Taylor), who kidnaps her six-year-old son Terry from the foster care system. Holding on

AFIRE
A small holiday house by the Baltic Sea. The days are hot, and it hasn’t rained in weeks. Four young people come together, friends old

AUTOBIOGRAPHY
With his father in prison and his brother abroad for work, young Rakib works as the lone housekeeper in an empty mansion belonging to Purna,

BANEL & ADAMA
North of Senegal, small remote village, today. Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. Long- ing for a home of their own, they have decided

JORAM
Dasru and Vaano lead an anonymous life as migrant labourers on a Mumbai construction site with their infant daughter Joram. A brutal turn of events

LET’S NOT TALK ABOUT IT
After surviving a nearly fatal car wreck and in a moment of revelation a guilt-ridden Zahira decides to travel across the country to finally come

MAPANTSULA
During demonstrations in Apartheid-era South Africa, police arrest not only activists but also Panic, a “mapantsula” or petty gangster. While a cop tries to get

MERCY aka THE YOUNG IMAM
Ali is a 14-year-old teenager on the loose. To give him a proper education, his single mother sends him to a madrassa in Mali. When

MUNNEL
Rudran, an ex-Tamil militant returns home from military detention, looking for his lover Vaani who had disappeared during the war. Rudran’s mother, Sellamma who is

OMEN
Following Koffi’s return to his birthplace after he has been ostracized by his family, Omen explore the weight of beliefs on one’s destiny through four

OUR LADY OF THE CHINESE SHOP
When a Chinese merchant brings a peculiar holy plastic figure of Our Lady to a neighbourhood of Luanda, a mourning mother seeks peace, a committed

PRIME
A young man still suffering the effects of childhood trauma at the hands of an abusive father and haunted by the memory of his mother’s

RETURN TO SEOUL
On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted

RICEBOY SLEEPS
So-Young is a Korean single mother raising her adolescent son Dong-Hyun in the suburbs of Canada during the 90s. Determined to provide a better life

RUNS IN THE FAMILY
A modest tailor and single Indian dad, Varun, and his transmasculine son, River, take a road trip across South Africa to break River’s estranged mother,

SHIMONI
Geoffrey, 35, is released from prison after seven years. He is whisked away to Shimoni – a sleepy village in rural Kenya where he stays

SIRA
After a brutal attack, a young nomad named Sira refuses to surrender to her fate without a fight and instead takes a stand against Islamist

SLOW
Dancer Elena, and sign language interpreter Dovydas, meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to

THE BURDENED
In Aden, Southern Yemen, Isra’a and Ahmed put all their efforts into offering a normal life and education to their three young children. When they

TOTEM
Tótem is a choral film about life. Seven-year-old Sol spends the day at her grandfather’s home, helping her aunts Nuri and Alejandra with the preparations