FESTIVAL PROGRAMME 2026

Five years, one smartphone, two directors — a long-distance self-portrait of an emigrant's journey.

Three American medics return home from working in hospitals in Gaza determined to fight for the patients and colleagues they left behind.

A music-driven love story about real-life couple Zella Day and Jesse Woods, two musicians chasing a shared dream while navigating pressures that could spark their breakup—or their breakthrough.

Through untold memories from close friends and family and rare archival imagery, this film demystifies the story of Basquiat and discovers the man behind it all, Jean-Michel.

In the heart of Africa, eight members of the Khwe Bushman tribe – descendants of the oldest living human culture – embark on a long journey to find a new homeland.

A polar bear is forced to navigate the human world as its ancient migration collides with modern life. A sacred predator branded a nuisance. Who truly belongs in this shared landscape?

A decade after his death, filmmaker William Greaves reveals one last trick: a 1972 gathering of Harlem Renaissance luminaries he called his most important film.

Through five portraits of relatives and mentors, Pegah Ahangarani tells her life story, tracing over 40 years of Iran’s history through personal archives and protest footage.

THE GREAT EXPERIMENT is an epic poem in documentary form – a mirror held to a nation at war with its own reflection, asking not who is right, but whether the experiment itself can survive.‍

Spanning more than 20 years, this intimate portrait of two girls, their everyday lives, fantasies and dreams explores their realities and inequalities of growing up female in rural Argentina.

A historic race to become the first to summit K2 in winter unravels into tragedy, exposing how ambition, ego, and the pursuit of glory can be as dangerous as the moutain itself.

Facing the death of his country’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time, and water.

In the remote highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd mother and daughter proudly defend their ancestral mountain from the threat of becoming a NATO military training ground, stirring memories of the violence that shattered their family.

UNION TOWN completes Barbara Kopple's trilogy on labor rights following her Oscar-winning HARLAN COUNTY, USA and AMERICAN DREAM, two landmark cinéma vérité documentaries.