Short film screening with the work of the three directors selected in the Emerging Voices program of One World Romania 19, followed by an extended open talk on how to grow as a filmmaker interested in human rights in an increasingly precarious industry. The selection will be announced shortly.
Directed by: Lucrecia Martel Documentary – Argentina, USA, Mexico, France, Denmark, Netherlands – 2025 – 122 min Section: Past Continuous In October 2009, Javier Chocobar, a member of the indigenous Chuschagasta community in Tucumán, Argentina, was shot and killed defending his people from forced eviction, with two others wounded....See more details
MY FAMILY IS A CIRCUS Directed by: Nina Landau Documentary – Belgium – 2020 – 16 min Section: Youth Days Romy has to say goodbye to her classmates because she's going to France. Not on holiday, but to work there: her family's touring circus will spend the entire summer performing in an amusement park....See more details
120 min Section: Focus Johan Grimonprez Hosted by Johan Grimonprez, “Every Day Words Disappear” is an indispensable masterclass for exploring the theories and practices that lie at the heart of his films. Defined by a multi-layered and complex de/re/construction of language and the audio-visual medium, these works become pedagogical tools for understanding the intricate ways in which narrative and ideology become inter-defined and codified as Historical memory....See more details
Directed by: Rachel Tâpârjan Documentary – Romania, United Kingdom – 2026 – 89 min Section: Past Continuous While helping a woman search for her birth mother, a filmmaker is drawn into her own family history, uncovering a dark cloud that has long hung over its women....See more details
Directed by: Martin Trabalík Documentary – Czech Republic – 2025 – 86 min Section: No Future Without – Extended Dialogues Recently widowed, Mr. Jochec must take on caring for his two teenage children: Vanesa and Pete, who lives with a severe autism spectrum disorder....See more details
Directed by: Johan Grimonprez Documentary – USA, Belgium, Denmark, United Kingdom – 2016 – 94 min Section: Focus Johan Grimonprez A journalistic tour-de-force, Johan Grimonprez’s explosive “Shadow World”, based on Andrew Feinstein’s book of the same title, exposes the global arms trade as a system defined by corruption....See more details
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