Official section Series
BLOCK 1 / THURSDAY APRIL 16 / 20:00 / MERCADO DE CARBALLO
Overlooked and overworked, Mala has one last night to get things right in A Diwali Dilemma which offers a fresh Desi twist on a Christmas classic. 3 female mentors from Mala’s past visit her on the first night of Diwali. Will they be too late?
Dickens’ classic Christmas tale, reimagined with a female lead and infused with Desi culture.
Greystanes, NSW, 1995. A sister and brother, aided by their Nanna, uncover a dark family secret, while facing a nightmare’s gallery of creatures from Maltese folklore.
A TikTok horror series steeped in Maltese folklore, with a young protagonist who draws you right into the story.
Ava, Rebelle and Frances rule the school and Ava is pulling pranks that boarder on bullying behaviour. To stop her, Mrs. Hein merges Lady Booring’s with the boys school for technology across the street.
Four girls rebel against their ultra-traditional boarding school with pranks, inventive tech and plenty of sparkle.
A series that follows the lives of three young women living in Tehran, navigating the universal experiences of love, heartbreak, conflict, and reconciliation.
A series about the everyday lives of three Iranian friends, boldly portraying their experiences despite the restrictions imposed by their society.
Three interwoven stories complement one another like pieces of a puzzle, each shedding light on different dimensions of the others. Through their journeys, three characters seek to experience the taste of arrival, each striving to build a better life while navigating the complexities of displacement, hope, and belonging.
A poetic portrait of identity, resilience and the search for a place to belong.
Funny Snails is a compilation of a short animated series about social problems and stereotypes. The main characters are snails. Each of them represents one specific social group and the stereotypes that are characteristic of that social group.
Snails have problems too, and they are not so different from our own.
Six days before her little sister’s wedding, Zouzou—a 30-year-old bio-marine engineer, single—can’t bring herself to tell her family that she’s leaving to follow the migration of sardines that have mysteriously disappeared from Algerian waters. Caught between gossip about her single status, sessions with a therapist-hairdresser, and the wedding preparations, will Zouzou actually leave?
A young Algerian woman sets out to follow the migration of the sardines, breaking away from her own family and cultural ecosystem in the process.
BLOCK 2 / FRIDAY APRIL 17 / 17:30 / MERCADO DE CARBALLO
T-REX follows three childhood friends, Édouard, Renaud, and Xavier, facing their own struggles with masculinity during a weekend at a cabin. As tensions rise, their bond weakens, exposing hidden vulnerabilities and silent conflicts. An intimate exploration of masculinity in crisis.
A raw, urgent portrait of masculinity in crisis.
Alucinema is a film club that screens everything from ‘What a Wonderful Life’ and ‘The 400 Blows’ to ‘Friday the 13th Part 12.’ It brings together a group of people, each more eccentric than the last, with hilarious stories.
Why would you watch the movie when you could be fixing the world?
Deep in the woods, Sam and Brooklyn grapple with two vastly different secrets. One that feels inevitable. One that is too strange to ignore. As fractured histories, park rangers, and the pull of the unknown converge, they must decide whether to fear what waits in the dark unknown, or embrace it as the only truth left to trust.
Dark secrets, eerie lights and creatures of the night collide in a queer paranormal mystery set in the Canadian woods.
Dream Catchers is a surreal series that follows Star and TV, who are tasked with the job of traveling through people’s dreams to help them with their troubles.
As if David Lynch had fused with the Teletubbies.
Jacques is a compulsive and depressive accountant with the power to rewind time for short periods—at the cost of memory loss. He has meticulously planned his suicide for tonight… But that was before Ellie, his upstairs neighbor, got involved.
Black comedy with a retro-futurist aesthetic about how a superpower can become a nightmare.
Delirio Sketches is a trilogy of independent volumes filled with intensity and feverish humor. Through surrealism, it explores youth concerns such as climate change-driven death, identity, and existential disorientation.
Underground Galician queer culture in a kaleidoscopic vision of reality.
BLOCK 3 / SATURDAY APRIL 18 / 17:00 / MERCADO DE CARBALLO
When a single mum accidentally kills a stranger on the morning school run, her ‘to-do’ list gets a lot more complicated as she tries to juggle parenting along with disposing of a corpse.
Sometimes being a mother is more complicated than getting rid of a corpse.
Olivia Vlaicu, a talented young DJ and member of the LGBTQIA+ community, lives on the edge, navigating relationships and therapy. Through flashbacks and therapy, her past unfolds, from childhood loss to identity struggles, while her rising career intensifies her search for emotional stability.
A story that blends the present with nostalgia for the early 2000s, capturing a generation shaped by post-communist Romania.
Žofie and Andrea offer paid content on OnlyFans. Whilst Žofie is trying to rebuild her self-esteem, which has taken a knock following her break-up with Roman, Andrea longs for financial freedom, which is taking her further away from her original goal of making a living as a professional model.
An exploration of the intimate lives of young adults under the influence of social media.
Freshly dumped, Ruby—former sidekick to a toxic superheroine—drifts between breakups, dead-end jobs, and a militant queer bar. Until a viral video turns her into an icon overnight. No superpowers, just guts, chaos, and a fight for self-liberation.
A queer superhero series that breaks the mould.
In a small-town theatre bar where art meets alcohol, a group of misfits fight to stay relevant — and sober enough to keep dreaming.
Friends, a creative project and alcohol: what could possibly go wrong?
The days of beers, babes and soccer are over. Through a series of humorous conversations set in everyday situations, the protagonists grapple with the challenges of being sensitive husbands, dedicated fathers and sexy lovers in a world where gender roles are constantly shifting.
A funny journey with two friends as they make their way through the shifting landscape of modern masculinity.
