Grand Jury Fiction

In Aden (Yemen), Isra’a and Ahmed put all their efforts into offering a normal life to their three young children. When they find out that Isra’a is pregnant again, they have to make difficult decisions guided only by their family’s interest and against their community’s conservative stance. &nb...

Poignant drama about the horrors refugees face in the forests between Belarus and Poland. We follow, among others, a Syrian family trying to flee into the EU and a Polish border guard having qualms about the brutal treatment of refugees. The film caused a right-wing backlash in Poland. In the treacherous and swampy Bia...

Both a stirring Cold War thriller and the true story of the first human bone marrow transplant. A team of Yugoslav physicists is accidentally exposed to a massive dose of nuclear radiation. A Paris oncologist may be the only doctor capable of saving their lives. October 1958, the Cold War is at its peak. A group of yo...

Tender portrait of a Haitian immigrant family in Miami, facing housing insecurities in a rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood. Xavier dreams of buying a bigger house for him and his wife Esperance. Meanwhile, their son struggles to find his place in not one but two communities, while dealing with his father’s immens...

Suellen, a Brazilian toll-booth attendant, falls in with a gang of thieves in an attempt to keep her family afloat. She realises she can use her job to raise some extra money illegally for a ‘noble’ cause: to send her son to expensive conversion therapy. Suellen works as a toll booth attendant outside of S...

In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries a radical new method to break through his students’ apathy and unlock their curiosity, their potential… and maybe even their genius. Based on a true story. José Urbina López Primary School, a fo...

While Iranian female judo fighter Leila is performing spectacularly well at the Judo World Championships, she receives an ultimatum from her government. Should she give up, or follow her dream? Nail-biting sports thriller. Midway through the Judo World Championships, Leila and her coach Maryam receive an ultimatum from...

Alireza Khatami and Ali Asgari co-direct a powerful compilation of nine encounters of ordinary Iranians with authority. Terrestrial Verses follows people from all walks of life as they navigate the cultural, religious, and institutional constraints imposed on them. A little girl barely tolerating a saleswoman as she&rs...