Audience Award, Berlin Film Festival 2025

Eva Libertad’s tender debut follows a deaf Spanish mother navigating isolation and identity after her hearing daughter’s birth, exploring love, communication, and family tension with emotional depth and outstanding performances.

★★★★ The Times

Andrew DeYoung’s darkly funny debut follows one man’s desperate attempts to befriend his new neighbour, delivering an absurd, cringe-inducing portrait of toxic male friendship starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd.

★★★★ The Irish Times

Petra Volpe’s tense, compassionate drama follows a nurse navigating an understaffed ward, balancing patient demands and personal strain, with Leonie Benesch (The Teacher’s Lounge) delivering a stellar performance.

★★★★ The Irish Times

Julien Colonna’s 1990s Corsica-set debut follows 15-year-old Lesia as she confronts her father’s violent criminal world, delivering a fresh and authentic new take on the mafia genre.

Silver Bear, Berlin Film Festival 2024

German director Matthias Glasner delivers a perceptive, blackly comic family drama exploring aging, mortality, and flawed relationships, following a terminally ill couple and their struggling, self-absorbed adult children with striking narrative depth.

8 Nominations incl. Best Film, César Awards 2025

Alain Guiraudie’s (Stranger by the Lake) latest twists a small-town thriller with dark comedy, simmering sexuality, and social satire, as old tensions ignite following a funeral, sparking lies, violence, and unexpected chaos.

★★★★★ Financial Times

A slow-burning, elegant indie drama from India Donaldson following 17-year-old Sam on a Catskills camping trip, revealing adult frustrations, complex relationships, and unspoken truths through intimate, character-driven storytelling.

7 Nominations incl. Best Film, César Awards 2025

Emmanuel Courcol’s French comedy-drama follows two newly discovered brothers who bond over music, blending humour, warmth, and charismatic performances from Benjamin Lavernhe and Pierre Lottin.