Program One World Romania 19

Directed by: Roberto Beani Documentary – Italy – 2025 – 81 min Section: Past Continuous The Pilastro Neighbourhood is a public housing complex built in the 1960s on the outskirts of Bologna, known for episodes of crime. Through its history and the lives of its residents, “Il Pilastro” explores the relationship between urban planning and lived experience; it reflects on how a suburb is born and transformed, and on the dynamics of a strong community.

Directed by: Garry Keane Documentary – Ireland, United Kingdom – 2025 – 96 min Section: Youth Days Three Deaf couples share their remarkable love stories through Irish Sign Language: a decades-long forbidden romance across a religious divide, an LGBTQIA+ couple navigating parenthood with Deaf and hearing daughters, and a Deaf boxer and his hearing partner facing a life-altering choice....See more details

KARATISTA Directed by: Alessia Borangic Documentary – Romania – 2025 – 23 min Section: Youth Days Alessia initiates a discussion with her father in an attempt to discover the moment when the separation between them occurred, but along the way, everything becomes uncertain, memories mix and intersect, and no one seems to have an exact answer....See more details

Directed by: Lisette Olsthoorn Documentary – Netherlands – 2025 – 59 min Section: On the Verge A film about work and what we want from it. Three former Uber drivers and three actors reenact and reflect on a failed negotiation with Uber representatives. Outlines of a collective experience become visible, as work puts us into often conflicting positions, forcing us to mistreat each other....See more details

Directed by: Olga Lucovnicova Documentary – Belgium, Romania, Netherlands, Republic of Moldova – 2025 – 94 min Section: Focus Moldova Driven by the need to confront her family’s long-buried secrets, Olga Lucovnicova and her father take an old train to his hometown, Asha, deep in the Ural Mountains....See more details

Directed by: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin Documentary – USA, Timor-Leste, Nigeria – 2025 – 104 min Section: No Future Without – Extended Dialogues Urgent, provocative, and unexpectedly funny, “Steal This Story, Please!” follows iconic independent investigative journalist Amy Goodman – from the wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi to the frontlines of global conflicts and her daily news show Democracy Now!....See more details

Directed by: Poh Si Teng Documentary – USA, Malaysia, Qatar, Denmark, Palestine – 2026 – 93 min Section: On the Verge When three American doctors – Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian – enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth....See more details

Directed by: Dawood Hilmandi Documentary – Netherlands – 2025 – 97 min Section: On the Verge After fleeing his home as a boy for freedom in the West, Afghan-Dutch filmmaker Dawood Hilmandi returns years later to confront his father, an imam with a violent past. In a journey through Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq, ”Paikar” explores the invisible inheritance of war and silence that shapes generations, and invites us to rediscover the tenderness that endures within even the most hardened souls....See more details

Directed by: Ian Bell Documentary – USA – 2025 – 102 min Section: Past Continuous An immersive archival documentary that depicts the four-day clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the 40,000+ people who took to the streets of Seattle in 1999 to protest the WTO Conference and sound the alarm on the WTO’s impact on human rights, labor, and the future effects of continued globalization....See more details

Directed by: Anastasiya Miroshnichenko Documentary – France, Netherlands, Belgium – 2025 – 96 min Section: On the Verge This is a story about Katya, a young woman who works as a welder. Abandoned as a little girl, she embarks on a personal journey to reunite with her lost family – to weld it back together, just like she welds metal at work....See more details