The competition includes films from a wide range of continents and countries, including just a handful of films from CEE territories. Festival director and head of programme Tiina Lokk commented on the selection: “For me, the lineup offers contentment in terms of artistic quality, geographic representation and genre diversity, expressing quite nicely what has always been our mission - to connect great auteurs from different backgrounds and with unique visions. Also, it is an utmost pleasure to welcome filmmakers from so many new countries in the Official Selection!”
She also issued a statement defending the inclusion of the Indian director Rajat Kapoor, who had been omitted from the programme of the Mumbai IFF as a result of sexual harassment accusations.
The films in competition are:
Asandhimitta (Sri Lanka)
Directed by Asoka Handagama
Awaken (UAE, USA)
Directed by Tom Lowe
Bad Poems (Hungary)
Directed by Gabor Reisz
Kadakh (India)
Directed by Rajat Kapoor
Sheeple (Iran)
Directed by Houman Seyedi
Slam (Australia)
Directed by Partho Sen-gupta
Still River (Greece, France, Latvia)
Directed by Angelos Frantzis
Coroduced by Tasse Films
Sunburn (Portugal)
Directed by Vincente Alves do O
The Guest (Egypt)
Directed by Hadi El Bagoury
The Human Part (Finland)
Directed by Juha Lehtola
The Story of a Summer Lover / Povestea unui pierde-vară (Romania, Bulgaria)
Directed by Paul Negoescu
Produced by Papillon Film & N-Graphix (Romania) and coproduced by Screening Emotions (Bulgaria) and deFilm (Romania)
Supported by the Romanian Film Centre, the Bulgarian National Film Center, Eurimages, Creative Europe, Vodafone România and Zenith Media
Two Fridas (Costa Rica, Mexico)
Directed by Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez
Two Men in Suits (Germany)
Directed by Josef Bierbichler
Until We Fall (Denmark)
Directed by Samanou Acheche Sahlstrom
Wandering Girl (Colombia, France)
Directed by Ruben Mendoza
Werewolf / Wilkołak (Poland, Netherlands, Germany)
Directed by Adrian Panek
Produced by Balapolis (Poland)
Coproduced by Rosco Polska (Poland), Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion (Germany), House of Netherhorror (Netherlands)
Supported by the Polish Film Institute, the Netherlands Film Fund
Winters Night (South Korea)
Directed by Woojin Jang
