THE LOVE THAT REMAINS

Directed by Hlynur Pálmason
Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, France | 2025 | drama | Icelandic

Cast: Saga Garðarsdóttir (Woman at War), Sverrir Gudnason (Borg vs. McEnroe),
Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir (Godland), Þorgils Hlynsson (Nest), and Grímur Hlynsson (Nest)

Produced by: Still Vivid (Anton Máni Svansson), Snowglobe (Katrin Pors)
Co-produced by: HOBAB, Maneki Films, Film i Väst, Arte France Cinema

With financial support of: Icelandic Film Centre, Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Business Affairs,
Danish Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV Fond,
Swedish Film Institute, Creative Europe MEDIA,
Hornafjörður Municipality, RUV, Jour2Fête, ARTE, Max Distribution, DR

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TRUE-ISH

Directed by Goran Stolevski

The film follows Janet Paine, a well-meaning but deeply insecure
Manhattan PR executive with a specialty for smear campaigns.
A toxic build-up of stress, alcohol and miscommunication leads her
to get relocated to the Balkans for a job that sounds noble
– director of outreach at a ‘peace lab’ – but in reality involves
generating fake news to target political regimes on the fringes of the EU.
Desperate to make amends for past mistakes and show initiative,
she ends up staging footage of atrocities that gets her into deeper
and deeper trouble, with serious international consequences.

Cast: Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest),
Colman Domingo (Rustin, Sing Sing).

Produced by: Causeway Films – Kristina Ceyton
and Samantha Jennings (The Babadook, Talk to Me).

Co-represented with Charades. UTA Independent Film Group will represent North America.

THE PAINTED BRIDE

Directed by Jeremiah Zagar
Elisha is balding. During the day, he swims, cooks and cares for his family.
At night, he obsesses over a new project dedicated to his young son and his dying father.
When a crisis draws him back home to Baltimore,
Elisha’s world begins to collapse, expand, regress and explode all around him.

A PRAYER FOR THE DYING

Directed by Dara Van Dusen
Norway, UK, Sweden | coming 2025 | English language | survival thriller

ORPHAN

Directed by László Nemes
Hungary, UK, France, Germany | coming 2025 | drama

1957. In Budapest, after the uprising against the Communist regime, a young Jewish boy,
Andor, raised by his mother with idealized tales of his deceased father, has his world
turned upside down when a brutish man appears, claiming to be his true father…

Cast: Gyorgy Bojtik, Andrea Waskovics

Produced by: Pioneer Productions, Good Chaos (Triangle of Sadness),
AR Content (Leviathan, Loveless), Mid March Media

Co-produced by: Lumen, Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion

With financial support of: Hungary’s National Film Institute (NFI), the UK’s Global Screen Fund, France’s CNC, and Germany’s FFA

Co-represented with Charades.

THE GOOD SISTER

Directed by Sarah Miro Fischer
Germany, Spain | 2025 | 97 min | drama | German

World Premiere – Berlinale Panorama 2025

Rose has a close bond with her much loved older brother Sam.
When a woman accuses Sam of rape, Rose is asked to testify in an investigation against him.
This is a test for both their relationship and her moral integrity.

Cast: Marie Bloching, Anton Weil, Proschat Madani, Laura Balzer,
Jane Chirwa, Aram Tafreshian, David Vormweg

Produced by: the German Film and Television Academy Berlin GmbH (DFFB),
Arkanum Pictures (Nina Bayer-Seel, Janna Fodor)
Co-produced by: Arkanum Pictures (Lukas Koll, Sebastian Herbst), Sarah Miro, R
BB, Nephilim Producciones (Luis Collar, Jorge Moreno)

With financial support of: Medienboard, Young Talent Foundation Berlin

TALES FROM THE MAGIC GARDEN

Directed by David Súkup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar, and Jean-Claude Rozec
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, France | 2025 | 71 min | animation | Czech

World Premiere – Berlinale Generation Kplus 2025

Three kids spend the night at their grandpa’s house. To fill the silence after losing
their grandma, the family’s storyteller, they begin to create their own stories
and discover the power of imagination. This uplifting stop-motion film
celebrates creativity and its healing magic.

Produced by: Maurfilm, Artichoke, ZVVIKS, and Vivement Lundi !
Co-produced by: Czech Television, Slovak Television and Radio, RTV Slovenia,
Pictanovo with the support of Région Hauts-de-France, studio Personne n’est parfait !

With financial support of: Creative Europe MEDIA, Eurimages, Czech Film Fund,
Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Slovenian Film Centre, Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia,
Film Studio Viba Film Ljubljana, Région Bretagne / Bretagne Cinéma,
Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, TVR Tempo – Rennes Métropole, Gebeka Films,
Tébéo, TébéSud, France Télévisions – France 3 Bretagne and NuFrame