Official Selection 2025

Vedran, a 15-year-old boy, takes part in a car accident. He makes amends

to the wrong people by bringing them a ton of ice cream, which melts along with his

hope for redemption.

 While preparing the details for his own funeral, an elderly man realises that he will be celebrating

Christmas alone. Unable to fall asleep, he decides to spend the holiday at the grave of his deceased

wife.

 Christopher, 17, is a young identitarian and lives with his father and sister in a suburban

housing estate. It is then that a solar eclipse is announced and that a family moves into the

house next door.

A girl spaces out during a conversation with her coworker, leading to an overblown

misunderstanding.

Rowing the sea one ordinary summer morning, a young man goes to a hidden cove that offers him a completely unusual sight.

A strange creature living in a bottle of alcohol is captured by a little girl, and in her hour of need he must remember who he is and why he is stuck.

  Lala, a taxi driver, and Wera, a stewardess, dream of going to America. Lala finds out about the audition for a movie starring superstar Jack Monday and decides to give it a try. "Call me Lala” is a fairytale story about friendship and belated adulthood of millennials.

  A member of a regional organized crime syndicate comes to school to pick up his son after lessons. After seeing that the boy cannot stand up for himself in a fight with classmates father decides to teach his son courage by taking him to work.

A strange creature living in a bottle of alcohol is captured by a little girl, and in her hour of need he must remember who he is and why he is stuck.

  Before our very eyes a strange human-bird hybrid undergoes constant transformation to cope with the omnipresent tensions of economical, ideological, military, and climatic threats.

 A punk angel appears to the maid of a luxury hotel, and for a moment a small revolution

seems possible. But how long can a dream last?

  The phenomenon of migration, but at its core it delves into deeper human questions, particularly the desire to escape into alternate dimensions, including the final escape toward nonexistence and death. The story follows Garip, a 40-year-old doctor living in Germany, as he confronts the depths of his imagination and subconscious.  

 In the heart of an old city, a photographer's chance encounter with a mysterious girl leads to a night of shared intimacy and connection, but as morning breaks, it exposes a hidden truth, casting shadows on their romance.

Sara, a girl in her twenties, has one more day to say goodbye to everything that matters to her in Sarajevo.

Mak, a young man working his night shift at a gas station, encounters Nada, a female truck driver. They bond over their shared Macedonian roots and find comfort in each other, as they attempt to escape their individual loneliness.

 On a quiet night, phone sex operator Marcia receives a call from Jeff, a man seeking refuge in the anonymity of the hotline in order to relieve himself of confessions. Marcia is used to the sometimes unsettling proclivities of her callers, but Jeff's increasingly disturbing admissions unmoor Marcia's sense of truth and memory and test her limits of empathy and forgiveness.

Vincenzo is on his first date with Sara, he asks for help from an application based on AI, which suggests what to say. A love story is born and they organize a blind date for their best friends, advising them both to use AI.

 An animated documentary exploring a blind mother's early motherhood

experience.

My Њујорк [New York] is a short film about Macedonian immigrant and a Trans woman who are newcomers to the city. Their chance encounter on a fateful night might jeopardize their future but it will definitely change their lives

Cena, the grouchy Slovenian woodcarver spent his childhood dreaming of jumping from the Giant of Planica, a legendary ski-jump built to break records. Although a bad case of asthma cut his wings at an early age, his dreams live on. Each summer, he organises his very own Ski Jumping World Championship - in his own garden.

 Performing a daily ritual, Zoki, a retired PE teacher, meets Dejan, a boy who has a big problem. Zoran will recognize himself in Dejan and will have a reason to use his hard-earned knowledge, while Dejan will get everything he didn't know he needed.

Jana, a twelve-year-old, is on her summer holiday in a small place by the dusty and noisy road, where her grandma and grandpa live. In front of a local shop, Jana and her BFF Tea (12) eat ice cream, watching the cars, trucks and boys passing by. The boredom is shattered by charming and sun-tanned Miki, who invites them to the swimming pool.

 Inhabited since the earliest times, intertwined with legends and myths, the Black Sea harbours many secrets. Unique and largely unknown, life here faces a variety of challenges. The sea does not need humans, but it humans need the sea.

 If healthy organs, like seeds, can be

replanted and heal any failing body,

will human life be longer or shorter?

An ailing mother slaughtered a vagrant

she had been feeding for years for her

sick son. To save his mother, the cured

son killed for the criminals. They were

victims of exploitation as well as violent

offenders.

  Marija is young, naive girl who works in the meat department of a supermarket. She is in love with a customer, although she does not know him well enough.

Summer. The Mediterranean. Siesta. While the father and son are sleeping in the bedroom, after lunch, the mother and two daughters are preparing the living room with the sea view. Suddenly, a tennis ball falls onto the terrace. Tango.

A young couple walks down the street, they have left the children at home and are going out to dinner. A crowd gathers around something.

  A sudden family visit on a quiet, Sunday afternoon, just before the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

High school student Mira is forced to hide her pregnancy for 9 months. She decides to sell her baby to a couple that live in the same neighborhood who cannot conceive. The couple lies to everyone for 9 months saying that Serpil (the wife) is pregnant. Mira arrives at the couple’s house for the labor but things don’t go as planned and the three have to face a deep secret.

A rural community wakes up to a crime scene in the middle of the forest. Little by little, a series of previous situations show us the conflicts that happened in the same place.

A woman receives a startling phone call from her son, while waiting for him and his

girlfriend over for lunch.

While the Mom and the Dad try to put their baby to sleep, a competition arises between them: who will manage to get the baby to say the first word?

Zastava Brothers is a documentary about the cars of former Yugoslavia and a group of

immigrants now living in America who transcend their different backgrounds to form a bond over their love for those cars. As night falls on their first ever Sunday drive, they must spring to action when one of the cars begins to smoke.