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: Ivan Ramljak Documentary – Croatia – 2025 – 100 min Section: Past Continuous In 1991, on the outskirts of Tenja, Josip Reihl Kir – chief of the Osijek Police Department, a negotiator and opponent of war – was assassinated. This is a story about the last months of his life at the dawn of the bloodthirsty Croatian-Serbian war, told through witness statements and archive materials....See more details

Directed by: Marc Isaacs Documentary – United Kingdom – 2025 – 70 min Section: On the Verge Researchers at the Synthetic Sincerity Lab are trying to create authentic AI characters, using protagonists from Marc Isaacs’ documentaries. In turn, they allow him to film the process....See more details

Directed by: Marina Sulima Documentary – Netherlands – 2024 – 74 min Section: Focus Moldova Consider cutting open a tomato, consider the worlds within. Consider a pickled tomato recipe in a world full of LED-light-grown tomatoes. Consider following tomatoes from closed Dutch greenhouses to Moldova, home to the filmmaker and many workers who leave their own patches to work behind glass walls....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