One Day All This Will Be Yours
Graphic novelist Lisa is called home to her parents' estate in northern Sweden for a momentous announcement – her parents want to determine who will inherit their land...
All the films 2024
CLOSING NIGHT FILM - IN COMPETITION
Life's a Bitch
Three darkly humorous and occasionally shocking interlocking stories depict the relationships between dogs and their supposed masters...
IN COMPETITION
The Antique
Putin's 2006 expulsion of Georgian citizens is the background for this deliciously inventive drama about a female Georgian antiques dealer in St. Petersburg trying to avoid Putin's grasp...
IN COMPETITION
Boomerang
A film from Iran unlike any you have seen before, Shahab Fotouhi’s sociological snapshot of modern Tehran focuses on the Westernised youth of the city. 'Delightful...' – Variety
IN COMPETITION
Endless Summer Syndrome
Set in a gorgeous French country house, Kaveh Daneshmand's explosive drama shows how an anonymous phone call devastates the lives of a mother, father, and their two adopted children...
IN COMPETITION
Familiar
A Romanian film director's research into his family's suspicious emigration to Germany in the 1980s threatens to blow apart both his family and his love life...
IN COMPETITION
Girls Will Be Girls
Upper-middle-class 16-year-old Mira – the first female prefect at her school – finds her mother insinuating herself more and more into Mira's coming-of-age romance...
IN COMPETITION
Ivo
Ivo (Minna Wündrich, utterly captivating) is a dedicated palliative carer who finds herself beginning to be overwhelmed by the demands of her job...
IN COMPETITION
León
While dealing with the loss of her life partner, Julia juggles raising her partner's 13-year-old biological son, León, the return of León's long-absent father, and her struggling restaurant...
IN COMPETITION
Memorias de un cuerpo que arde
The memories of three older women, all victimes of a macho patriarchal order, are embodied in one actress (the marvelous Sol Carballo) in Antonella Sudasassi Furniss' cleverly constructed drama...
IN COMPETITION
Puan
A philosophy prof navigates political machinations at school and the return of his nemesis – a sexy philosophy superstar – in this humane comedy. 'Deliciously droll.’ – Variety...
IN COMPETITION
Roxana
Slacker Fred (an outstanding Yasna Mirtahmasb) takes up with wedding videographer Roxana (Mahsa Akbarabadi) in a vice-ridden Tehran. Can anything good come of his crush...?
IN COMPETITION
Silence of Sirens
A mildly corrupt Kosovo cop and family man gets in over his head when he arrests a drunk-driving International Criminal Court prosecutor and discovers a bag of cash in the backseat of his car...
IN COMPETITION
The Sparrow in the Chimney
A family gathering at Karen's (an entrancing Maren Eggert) country house simmers with tension until things finally explode in Ramon Zürcher's 'elegantly vicious' (Variety) psychodrama.
IN COMPETITION
Sujo
After his father is murdered by fellow cartel members, young Sujo is sequestered by his aunt. As he grows into early manhood, cartel temptations vie with the possibility of going straight...
IN COMPETITION
To a Land Unknown
This profound social statement on the heartbreak and desolation of exile wrapped up in the tropes of a gripping crime thriller has two Palestinian refugees in Athens hatching a plan for escape...
IN COMPETITION
The Wait
This horror story of a hunting-estate keeper in Andalusia who takes a bribe and finds himself going to hell has so many twists and turns that it will leave you gasping in admiration.
Film Classic
Tokyo Story
Voted the fourth greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound's 2022 poll, our film classic this year is intensely moving and unforgettable...
DINE-IN CINEMA
Dine-in Cinema: León
As an adjunct to the 013 CIFF, on Friday, October 25, the festival film León will be shown in combination with delicious dishes carefully prepared by the chefs of Ristobar29.