Official Selection

COMPETITION Program
NON COMPETITION Program
INDUSTRY Events
COMPETITION Program
FULL LENGTH Competition
PerspecTIFF
- Don’t Let the Sun by Jacqueline Zünd | Switzerland, Italy | 2025 | 100′ | Sci-Fi, Drama
- EEL by Chu Chun-Teng | Taiwan | 2025 | 102′ | Fantasy, Romance
- Everybody Calls Redjo by Ibër Deari | North Macedonia | 2025 | 126′ | Comedy, Drama
- Meat by Dimitris Nakos | Greece | 2024 | 104′ | Drama
- Undoing Time by Li Pu | China | 2024 | 90′ | Drama
- When The Phone Rang by Iva Radivojević | Serbia, USA | 2024 | 73′ | Drama
DOCUMENTARY
- Always by Deming Chen | USA | 2025 | 84′
- Double Trouble by Emilia Śniegoska | Germany, Poland | 2025 | 70′
- Higher than Acidic Clouds by Ali Asgari | Iran | 2024 | 70′
- Militantropos by Alina Gorlova, Yelizaveta Smith, Simon Mozgovyi | Austria, France, Ukraine | 2025 | 111′
- To the West, in Zapata by David Bim | Cuba | 2025 | 85′
- Yalla Parkour by Areeb Zuaiter | Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sweden | 2024 | 89′
SHORT Films Competition
LIVE ACTION – OSCAR® & European Film Awards qualifying
- Ali by Adnan Al Rajeev | Bangladesh, Philippines | 2025 | 15′
- Amarela by André Hayato Saito | Brazil | 2024 | 15′
- Atom & Void by Gonçalo Almeida | Portugal | 2024 | 9′
- Big Boys Don’t Cry by Arnaud Delmarle | France | 2025 | 24′
- Blue Heart by Samuel Suffren | Haiti, France | 2025 | 15′
- Cold Snap by Ellen Evans | UK | 2024 | 14′
- Conex by Dina Rezaei | Iran, USA | 2025 | 15′
- Dammen by Grégoire Graesslin | France | 2025 | 15′
- Far From the Plains by Luigi Sibona | UK | 2025 | 17′
- Gaza Bride17 by Waseem Khair | Palestine, UK, Estonia | 2025 | 20”
- Gote Goat Ghost by Shivam Shankar | India | 2024 | 30′
- Hyena by Altay Ulan Yang | USA, China | 2025 | 21′
- Icarus by Christos Kardana | Belgium, France | 2025 | 20′
- Ne Me Quitte Pas by Karim Huu Do | Spain | 2025 | 18′
- Revert by Miranda Stern | UK | 2025 | 16′
- Sammi, Who Can Detach His Body Parts by Rein Maychaelson | Indonesia | 2025 | 19′
- The Best Unsaid by Lorenzo Bianchi | France | 2025 | 22′
- The Last Sunday in May by Alejandro Bordier | Luxembourg | 2024 | 18′
- The Rebirth by Ilgiz-Sherniiaz Tursunbek Uulu | Kyrgyzstan | 2025 | 11′
- The Spectacle by Bálint Kenyeres | France, Hungary | 2025 | 17′
- WassupKaylee by Pepi Ginsberg | France, USA | 2025 | 19′
- What Disappears by Nono Ayuso, Rodrigo Inada | Argentina, Mexico, Spain, UK, USA | 2024 | 15′
- Wonderwall by Róisín Burns | UK | 2025 | 28′
- Yo Yo by Mohammadreza Mayghani | Iran, France | 2025 | 15′
ANIMATION – OSCAR® & European Film Awards qualifying
- Anthéor by Patrice Joseph Blanc | France | 2024 | 21′
- Because Today is Saturday by Alice Eça Guimarães | Portugal, France, Spain | 2025 | 12′
- Budō by Alexander Toma, Amanda Aagard | Sweden | 2024 | 15′
- Eating Time by Mari Kivi | Estonia | 2025 | 16′
- God is Shy by Jocelyn Charles | France | 2025 | 15′
- Il Burattino e la Balena by Roberto Catani | France, Italy | 2024 | 8′
- In Thousand Petals by Louise Bongartz | Belgium, France | 2024 | 10′
- Interlude by Taiyo Nobata | Japan | 2025 | 7′
- Little Story by Mirjam Plettinx | Belgium, Netherlands | 2024 | 14′
- Murmuration by Janneke Swinkels, Tim Frijsinger | Netherlands, Belgium | 2025 | 13′
- S the Wolf by Sameh Alaa | France | 2025 | 11′
- Society of Clothes by Dahee Jeong | Canada, France, Korea | 2024 | 15′
- Tears by Paulina Ziolkowska | Germany, Poland | 2025 | 9′
- The Girl Who Cried Pearls by Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski | Canada | 2025 | 18′
- The Magician by Bogdan Mureșanu | Croatia, France, Romania | 2025 | 24′
- There Will Be No Other End by Piotr Milczarek | Poland | 2024 | 8′
- Vor by Ping An Huang | Taiwan | 2024 | 18′
DOCUMENTARY – European Film Awards qualifying
- +10k by Gala Hernández López | France, Spain | 2025 | 30′
- A View from Home by Mingzhe Zhou | Canada | 2025 | 15′
- Beneath Which Rivers Flow by Ali Yahya | Iraq | 2025 | 16′
- History is Written at Night by Alejandro Alonso | Cuba | 2024 | 20′
- in retrospect by Mila Zhlutenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi | Germany | 2025 | 14′
- Koki, Ciao by Quenton Miller | Netherlands | 2025 | 11′
- L’mina by Randa Maroufi | France, Italy, Morocco, Qatar | 2025 | 26′
- Razeh-del by Maryam Tafakory | Iran, UK, Italy | 2024 | 28′
- Shadows by Rand Beiruty | Jordan | 2024 | 12′
- Sixty-seven Milliseconds by Fleuryfontaine | France | 2025 | 15′
VIDEO ART & EXPERIMENTAL – European Film Awards qualifying
- A Hundred-Headed Dragon by Helena Girón Vázquez, Samuel M. Delgado | Spain | 2025 | 15′
- A Metamorphosis by Lin Htet Aung | Myanmar | 2024 | 17′
- Foot to Ground by Christopher Thompson | USA | 2024 | 8′
- Green Grey Black Brown by Yuyan Wang | South Korea, China, France | 2024 | 12′
- How to be a Ghost in Bangkok? by Jing Zhao | Thailand, UK | 2025 | 10′
- Lamento by Jannik Giger, Demian Wohler | Switzerland | 2025 | 17′
- Lizzy by Susanna Wallin | USA | 2024 | 15′
- Rain by Vasilios Papaioannu | USA, Greece, Italy | 2024 | 6′
- The Ghost Feel Hour by Eero Tammi | Finland | 2025 | 11′
- The Slides of Prof. Somkiat Tang-Namo by Prapat Jiwarangsan | Thailand | 2025 | 7′
STUDENT – OSCAR® qualifying
Fiction
- 1:10 by Sinan Taner | Switzerland | 2024 | 19′
- Baozhda by Keran Abukasimu | China | 2024 | 25′
- Can You Hear Me by Zhe Huang | China | 2024 | 26′
- Cool Boy by Peter Salling | Denmark | 2024 | 19′
- Extracurricular Activity by Wei Dean, Xu Yidan | China | 2024 | 22′
- Family Sunday by Gerardo Del Razo | Mexico | 2025 | 16′
- Maybe in March by Mikkel Bjørn Kehlert | Denmark | 2025 | 25′
- Rage by Fran Moreno Blanco, Santi Pujol Amat | Spain | 2025 | 19′
- Skin on Skin by Simon Schneckenburger | Germany | 2024 | 30′
- Withered Blossoms by Lionel Seah | Australia | 2024 | 14′
Animation
- Detlev by Ferdinand Ehrhardt | Germany | 2024 | 13′
- Fructus Fliegus by Emilia Zieser | Germany | 2025 | 5′
- Hometopia by Qing Yang | UK | 2024 | 5′
- Intermission by Milo Bonnard | UK | 2025 | 10′
- Jeanne & Jean Jean by Thanys Martin | France | 2024 | 7′
- Jour de Vent (Windy Day) by Martin Chailloux, Ai Kim Crespin, Elise Golfouse, Chloé Lab, Hugo Taillez, Camille Truding | France | 2024 | 7′
- Presqu’îles (Peninsula) by Angèle Vergoni, Sarah Vanhoeck | Belgium | 2025 | 6′
- Sublime by Marie Heribel, Candice Yernaux, Juliette Buysschaert, Camille Leroy, Joséphine Vendeville, Martin Laurent, Lucas Foutrier | France | 2024 | 8′
- The Crooked Heads by Jakub Krzyszpin | Poland | 2025 | 9′
- Trash by Gregory Bouzid, Maxime Crançon, Robin Delaporte, Mattéo Durand, Romain Fleischer, Alexis Le Ral, Margaux Lutz, Fanny Vecchie | France | 2024 | 7′
- Wild Animal by Tianyun Lyu | China, USA | 2024 | 13′
Documentary
- A Little Regret in Helsinki by Haohao Qiaoshi Liu | Finland | 2025 | 13′
- Accidental Animals by Leila Fatima Keita, Felix Klee | Germany | 2024 | 10′
- Animal Eye by Carlo Nasisse | Costa Rica | 2025 | 14′
- Perfected Grammar by Andrea Suwito | Indonesia | 2024 | 11′
- Perishable Idol by Majid Al Remaihi | Qatar, Kuwait, France | 2024 | 19′
- Room 826 by Sophie Leclercq | France | 2024 | 13′
Experimental
BALKAN Shorts
- 400 Cassettes by Thelyia Petraki | Greece | 2024 | 14′ | Fiction
- All That Belongs To Us by Deniz Kezik | Turkey | 2025 | 20′ | Fiction
- Choice by Marko Crnogorski | North Macedonia | 2025 | 17′ | Fiction
- Endless Days by Costas Yiallourides | Greece, Cyprus | 2024 | 17′ | Fiction
- Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Bag by Lili Koss | Bulgaria | 2025 | 20′ | Fiction
- Hercules by Marko Dukić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2024 | 26′ | Fiction
- Pave Paradise by Alcaeus Spyrou | Greece | 2024 | 16′ | Experimental
- Pitylos by Galatia Lagoutari | Greece | 2024 | 18′ | Fiction
- Roots by Konstantinos Doxiadis | Greece, UK | 2025 | 24′ | Fiction
- Smell of Fresh Paint by Nađa Petrović | Serbia | 2024 | 14′ | Fiction
- The Professional Parent by Erik Jasaň | Romania, Slovakia | 2024 | 15′ | Fiction
- Upon Sunrise by Stefan Ivančić | Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain | 2025 | 15′ | Fiction
In ALBANIAn Shorts
- Five Seasons of My Childhood by Besim Ugzmajli | Kosovo, Spain | 2024 | 15′ | Documentary
- SOS by Anita Morina | Kosovo | 2025 | 16′ | Fiction
- Summer Emperors by Renato Balla | Albania | 2025 | 7′ | Documentary
- The Champ by Ermir Keta | Albania | 2024 | 15′ | Fiction
- The Goddess on the Throne by Durim Klaiqi | Kosovo | 2025 | 8′ | Documentary
PANORAMA Competition
KIDs Program
- Amen by Orphée Coutier, Bettina Demarty, Kimie Maingonnat, Laurène Perego, Louise Poulain, Avril Zundel | France | 2024 | 7′ | Animation
- Autokar by Sylwia Szkiłądź | Belgium, France | 2025 | 18′ | Animation
- Cardboard by Jean-Philippe Vine | UK | 2025 | 10′ | Animation
- Dolores by Cecilia Andalón Delgadillo | Mexico | 2024 | 9′ | Animation
- Filante by Marion Jamault | France | 2024 | 9′ | Animation
- Forevergreen by Nathan Engelhardt, Jeremy Spears | USA | 2025 | 13′ | Animation
- Nara and Her Camera by Jérémi Roy | Canada | 2025 | 7′ | Documentary
- On the Mat Outside My Door by Antje Heyn | Germany | 2025 | 5′ | Animation
- Snow Bear by Aaron Blaise | USA | 2024 | 12′ | Animation
- The Drifting Guitar by Sophie Roze | France | 2024 | 30′ | Animation
- The Empty Panel by Thibault Chollet | France | 2025 | 12′ | Animation
- The Piano by Avery Kroll | USA | 2025 | 8′ | Animation
- The Rumble-Bumble Rally by Annette Saugestad Helland, Johan Kaos | Norway | 2024 | 9′ | Animation
- Tin Tune by Carolyn Gair | USA | 2025 | 11′ | Animation
TEENs
- Blue Whale by Lorenzo Corvino | Italy | 2024 | 15′ | Fiction
- Bunker by Colin Javaux | Belgium | 2025 | 23′ | Fiction
- Juanita by Karen Joaquín, Uliane Tatit | Spain | 2025 | 20′ | Fiction
- Little Pains by Milda Baginskaitė | UK | 2025 | 20′ | Fiction
- Nest by Stefania Burla | Switzerland | 2025 | 20′ | Fiction
- Omni by Eva Rini May | Germany | 2024 | 14′ | Fiction
- Phantom by Gabriele Manzoni | Italy | 2024 | 17′ | Fiction
- The Ghosts by Federico Papagna | Italy | 2025 | 15′ | Fiction
- When the Snow Has Melted by Rasmus Sandager | Norway | 2024 | 17′ | Fiction
- Worms by Domenico Distilo | Italy | 2025 | 19′ | Fiction
GENERATIONs
- A Friend of Dorothy by Lee Knight | UK | 2025 | 22′ | Fiction
- Cinco by Diego Gardo, Victor Candela | Germany, Spain | 2025 | 24′ | Fiction
- Feet by Oscar Campos, Paula Vélez | Spain | 2025 | 15′ | Fiction
- Finir au Soleil (End Up in the Sun) by Ephrem Koering | France | 2025 | 24′ | Fiction
- Lou by Tara Maurel | France | 2024 | 18′ | Fiction
- Majini by Joshua Neubert, Victor Muhagachi | Germany, Tanzania | 2024 | 19′ | Fiction
- Majonezë by Giulia Grandinetti | Italy | 2024 | 22′ | Fiction
- Strangers in the Night by Vangelis Chatzopoulos | Iceland | 2025 | 18′ | Fiction
- The Massagist by Iasonas Sigma | Greece | 2025 | 20′ | Fiction
- The River Runs Through the Village by Xenophon Nikolakopoulos | Greece | 2024 | 17′ | Fiction
NEW WORLD
- Aicha by Sanaa El Alaoui | Morocco | 2025 | 25′ | Fiction
- Blackout by Ahmed El Zogbhy | Egypt | 2024 | 15′ | Fiction
- Cadinho’s Dream by Martin Escriche | Brazil | 2025 | 15′ | Fiction
- Death of An Actor by Ambroise Rateau | France | 2024 | 22′ | Fiction
- Goodbye Baghdad by Simone Manetti | Italy | 2025 | 20′ | Fiction
- Loynes by Dorian Jespers | Belgium, France, North-Macedonia, UK | 2025 | 25′ | Fiction
- Pentest by Tristan Lhomme, Benjamin Chevallier | France | 2025 | 20′ | Fiction
- Rise by Jessica J. Rowlands | Zimbabwe | 2025 | 22′ | Fiction
- The Boy With White Skin by Simon Panay | France | 2024 | 15′ | Fiction
- The King of Forks by Raphaël Lopez | France | 2024 | 24′ | Fiction
- Washhh by Mickey Lai | Malaysia | 2024 | 23′ | Fiction
DIVERGENT MINDs
- A Long Night Ahead by Julien Bernard-Simmonds | Belgium | 2024 | 25′ | Fiction
- Adorer by Krystian Kuzański | Austria | 2025 | 24′ | Fiction
- Between Thoughts by Gabriel-Antoine Roy | Canada | 2025 | 15′ | Fiction
- Burden by Gevorg Nersesyan | Armenia | 2024 | 20′ | Fiction
- I Wanted To Hear Your Voice by James Pellerito | USA | 2025 | 12′ | Documentary
- Koko Suzanne by Zach Bandler | Congo, Ireland, USA | 2025 | 17′ | Fiction
- Octopus by George Dogaru | Romania | 2025 | 12′ | Fiction
- Stuporia by Joshua Jádi | Austria, Germany | 2025 | 16′ | Fiction
- The Sorceress Echo by Marc Camardons Cirera | Spain | 2025 | 24′ | Fiction
- Watch Me Burn by Sofia Spotti | UK | 2025 | 20′ | Fiction
- What If They Bomb Here Tonight ? by Samir Syriani | Lebanon | 2025 | 17′ | Fiction
PARADE
- Boysick by Maël Caradec | France | 2025 | 27′ | Fiction
- Homunculus by Bonheur Suprême | France | 2025 | 18′ | Documentary
- Midnight Longing by Mehrnaz Iranmanesh, Evita Amini | Iran | 2025 | 17′ | Fiction
- Sauna Day by Anna Hints, Tushar Prakash | Estonia | 2024 | 13′ | Fiction
- The Shade of Chlorine by Clément Dezelus | France | 2024 | 23′ | Fiction
- Three Times Mina by Nans Laborde Jourdàa | France | 2025 | 26′ | Documentary
AI 2.0 Program
- Honor History, Create History by Jody Xiong | China | 2024 | 3′ | Animation
- In the Shadow of The River by Emiliano Reyes, Jesús García Nuño de la Rosa | Spain | 2024 | 5′ | Documentary
- Last Dream by Takeshi Kushida | Japan | 2025 | 10′ | Sci-Fi
- Nothing to Tell by Fabrizio Condino | Italy | 2025 | 20′ | Experimental
- The Diffusion Pilot by Aurelijus Čiupas | Estonia | 2024 | 8′ | Experimental
- The Eggregores’ Theory by Andrea Gatopoulos | Italy | 2024 | 15′ | Sci-Fi
- The World Without Them by Annelore Schneider, Claude Piguet | Switzerland, UK | 2024 | 9′ | Documentary
- Their Eyes by Nicolas Gourault | France | 2025 | 20′ | Documentary
- White Cloud by Emmanuel Van der Auwera | Belgium | 2024 | 19′ | Documentary
4th Screenplay ContesTIFF
Selected scripts for Pitching
- A Good Guy With A Gun by Gregory JM Kasunich | USA
- Daylight by Deniz Dursun | Turkey
- M(I)TRA by Sashenka Ndreka | Albania
- Made in China by Jia Shi | China
- Mudslide by Frederik Ehrhardt | USA
- Saliva by Sasan Khoshniat | Iran
- The Beach of Stones by William Armstrong | Botswana
- The Tin Can in the Cemetery by Anh My Nguyen | Vietnam
- The Treehouse by Alex Brau | Spain
- Under The Abaya by Ahmed Saad Alnasser | Saudi Arabia
NON COMPETITION Program
SPECIAL PROGRAM
FOCUS
Tribute to Rúnar Rúnarsson
- Volcano by Rúnar Rúnarsson | Iceland, Denmark | 2011 | 95′
- Echo by Rúnar Rúnarsson | Iceland, France | 2019 | 79′
- When the Light Breaks by Rúnar Rúnarsson | Iceland, France, Holland, Croatia | 2024 | 90′
- The Last Farm by Rúnar Rúnarsson | Iceland | 2004 | 17′
- Two Birds by Rúnar Rúnarsson | Iceland | 2008 | 15′
- Anna by Rúnar Rúnarsson | Denmark | 2009 | 35′
- O (Circle) by Rúnar Rúnarsson | Iceland, Sweden | 2024 | 20′
RetrospecTIFF
“Obsession” Fani Zguro’s Video Arts 2006-2025
- A.C.A.S. | 2011 | 6′
- Broken Threads | 2007 | 7′
- Fireflies | 2010 | 3′
- In A Blind Of An Eye | 2008 | 5′
- Obsession | 2025 | 10”
- Pushing an Elephant Upwards | 2007 | 5′
- Selfportrait | 2006 | 3′
- Street by Street | 2007 | 8′
- Tuesday 4 December 2018 h 16.30 Studio Ugo La Pietra Milan | 2019 | 16′
- U Turn | 2006 | 3′
“The Anarchists” – The illegal We Do Immediately, the Unconstitutional Takes a Little Longer
- 1 2 3 (Public Action) by Bert Theis | Luxembourg, Italy | 1999 | 3′ | Video Art
- Burned Word (Palabra Quemada) by Santiago Sierra | Spain | 2012 | 31′ | Video Art
- Collected Stones by Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves | USA, Germany, Brazil | 2002 | 22′
- Deviant Majority by Dora Garcia | Spain | 2010 | 45′ | Video Art
- Every Day Words Disappear by Johan Grimonprez | Belgium | 2016 | 15′ | Video Art
- Fraude by Manuela Garcia | Mexico | 2015 | 3′ | Video Art
- I Fight For My Right to be Different by Lia Perjovschi | Romania | 1993 | 6′ | Video Art
- Inverted Star (Poseídos) by Miguel Calderon | Mexico | 2002 | 4′ | Video Art
- Journal Intime by Shingo Yoshida | Japan | 2003 | 2′ | Video Art
- Let Me See Your Eyes by Fani Zguro | Albania, Italy | 2009 | 1′ | Video Art
- Los Anarquistas by Santiago Sierra | Spain | 2006 | 20′ | Video Art
- Muscle Memory by Jakup Ferri | Kosovo, Netherlands | 2014 | 4′ | Video Art
REFLECTING ALBANIA
- Albgreko by Ilir Tsouko | Greece | 2024 | 27′ | Documentary
- Anulloje Ligjin by Fabrizio Bellomo | Italy | 2023 | 62′ | Documentary
- Passing Time by Eve Pfeilschifter, Elena Bengl | Germany | 2024 | 89′ | Documentary
- Stronger Than the Cyclopes by Stefano Grossi | Italy | 2024 | 84′ | Documentary
- The Tirana Conspiracy by Manfredi Lucibello | Italy | 2024 | 71′ | Documentary
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
OPENING FILM
TIFF CLASSICS World Premiere Restored 4K
Made In ALBANIAn
97th OSCAR® 2025 Shortlist
LIVE ACTION
- A Lien by David & Sam Cutler-Kreutz | USA | 2023 | 15′
- Anuja by Adam J. Graves | India, USA | 2024 | 22′
- I’m Not a Robot by Victoria Warmerdam | Netherlands, Belgium | 2023 | 22′ | Oscar® Winner
- The Last Ranger by Cindy Lee | South Africa | 2024 | 28′
- The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent by Nebojša Slijepčević | Croatia, France, Bulgaria, Slovenia | 2024 | 14′
ANIMATION
- Beautiful Men by Nicolas Keppens | Belgium, France, Netherlands | 2023 | 18′
- In the Shadow of the Cypress by Hossein Molayemi, Shirin Sohani | Iran | 2023 | 20′ | Oscar® Winner
- Magic Candies by Daisuke Nishio | Japan | 2024 | 21′
- Wander to Wonder by Nina Gantz | Netherlands, France, Belgium, UK | 2023 | 14′
- Yuck! by Loïc Espuche | France | 2024 | 13′
EFA Shorts Tour 2024
- 2720 by Basil Da Cunha | Portugal, Switzerland | 2023 | 25′ | Docufiction
- Clamor by Salomé Da Souza | France | 2023 | 25′ | Fiction
- The Exploding Girl by Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel | France | 2024 | 19′ | Animation
- The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent by Nebojša Slijepčević | Croatia, France, Bulgaria, Slovenia | 2024 | 14′ | Fiction | EFA Winner
- Wander to Wonder by Nina Gantz | Netherlands, France, Belgium, UK | 2023 | 14′ | Animation
INDUSTRY Events
4th Screenplay ContesTIFF – Selected scripts for Pitching
- A Good Guy With A Gun by Gregory JM Kasunich | USA
- Daylight by Deniz Dursun | Turkey
- M(I)TRA by Sashenka Ndreka | Albania
- Made in China by Jia Shi | China
- Mudslide by Frederik Ehrhardt | USA
- Saliva by Sasan Khoshniat | Iran
- The Beach of Stones by William Armstrong | Botswana
- The Tin Can in the Cemetery by Anh My Nguyen | Vietnam
- The Treehouse by Alex Brau | Spain
- Under The Abaya by Ahmed Saad Alnasser | Saudi Arabia
MASTERCLASS
Poetic Realism in the cinema of Rúnar Rúnarsson
Talking Shorts
Panel: Low-Budget Filmmaking