Sarajevo 2025

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Phantoms of July

Director Julian Radlmaier’s charming small-town ensemble comedy ‘Phantoms of July’ finds poetry, political unease and romantic yearning at the heart of modern Europe.

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The Orchards

Antoine Chapon repurposes eerie architectural animations in ‘The Orchards,’ a paean to a lost Damascus community that attempts to resist its eradication by a vindictive regime.

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Index

Index, the new short film from Radu Muntean is a low-key thriller that transforms tranquil forest bathing into something far more brooding and disquieting.

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Cuba & Alaska

In Yegor Troyanovsky’s warmly personal, bittersweet doc ‘Cuba & Alaska’, we follow a volunteer combat medic duo of two best friends on and off Ukraine’s wartime roads.

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9-Month Contract

Shocking but sensitively handled, Ketevan Vashagashvili’s debut doc ‘9-Month Contract’ exposes exploitative practices in Georgian surrogacy agencies through one woman’s risky reality.

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Divia

Dmytro Hreshko’s documentary, Divia, combines alarming scale with small moments to create a haunting portrait of war-ravaged nature in the micro and the macro.

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Fantasy

Young Slovenian writer-director Kukla celebrates sexual, ethnic and gender diversity in her slightly heavy-handed but big-hearted debut feature ‘Fantasy’.

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Two Prosecutors

Sergei Loznitsa’s masterfully controlled, mordantly absurd drama on the fate of a just idealist in Stalin’s USSR is a timely warning on the workings of state terror.

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In Hell with Ivo

Director Kristina Nikolova’s lively documentary portrait of Bulgarian queer musician and performance artist Ivo Dimchev, ‘In Hell with Ivo’, is compelling but frustratingly light on detail.

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The Fin

South Korean director Park Syeyoung’s ambitious dystopian sci-fi thriller ‘The Fin’ makes up for its scrappy plot with biting political subtext and striking grime-punk visuals.

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Loynes

Baroque farce is the order of the day in Dorian Jespers’ surreal new short, Loynes, that transforms a historical curio into a bizarre courtroom nightmare.

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Little Trouble Girls

Anchored by a wonderful performance from newcomer Jara Sofija Ostan, Urska Djukic’s feature debut Little Trouble Girls is a refreshing and enigmatic take on sexual awakening.

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Imago

In the gorgeously subtle and poetic doc ‘Imago’, Déni Oumar Pitsaev visits Pankisi to explore what kind of home it can be for the dreams of Chechnya’s displaced.

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Wish You Were Ear

Mirjana Balogh’s affirming animation, Wish You Were Ear, finds solace in a dystopian future where ending a relationship requires the physical swapping of a body part.

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White Snail

A morgue in Belarus is the unlikely setting for new hope to seed in an unsettling, unusual drama from Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter.

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Sorella di Clausura

In Ivana Mladenovic’s satirical, chaotic anti-romance, an obsessed fan in a kitsch-crammed Romania goes to extreme lengths to pursue a Balkan music star.

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Desire Lines

Dane Komljen’s spectral and shape-lifting landscape of bodies and the paranoia of uncertain identity is a mesmerising, unsettling gem.

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