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Soft Leaves is the poignant and personal debut film by Miwako Van Weyenberg. It is an intimate coming-of-age story of a Japanese-Belgian girl searching for identity and recognition.

The streets of São Paulo offer danger—or opportunity. Baby finds both.

Olivia (Sophie Lindner) and her mother (Thekla Reuten) share a turbulent relationship: intense, unpredictable, yet inseparable. After a heated confrontation, Olivia is removed from her home and placed in emergency care. There, she encounters other young people who, like her, carry their own scars. Gradually, this new living situation begins to shift her perspective.

On June 1st, director Daphne Lucker and Sophie Lindner will join us for a Q&A.

Mary and Max is a heartwarming and tragicomic stop-motion masterpiece that brings an unusual friendship to life with dark humor and touching honesty. Featuring the incomparable Philip Seymour Hoffman and the fantastic Toni Collette in the lead roles, it marked the major breakthrough for Adam Elliot, the unsung creator of the enchanting Memoir of a Snail.

The story of a family and a family business. Benicio del Toro plays business tycoon Anatole "Zsa-Zsa" Korda, one of the richest people in Europe; Mia Threapleton is Sister Liesl, his daughter/a nun; Michael Cera is Bjorn Lund, their private tutor.

A journey through history, a confrontation with silence. In Tussen wal en schip, three grandchildren—Jip, Kyron, and Benjamin—take their Dutch-Indonesian grandparents back to the place where they first set foot on Dutch soil. With patience, love, and curiosity, they open up conversations about a past that remained unspoken for decades. How does this hidden history shape their identities today?

On Wednesday, June 18th, one of the directors will join us for a Q&A.

In the slums of Manila, 11-year-old Ginto struggles to survive the harsh reality of his daily life. Ignoring his sister’s concerns, he turns to drugs and gang life.

In a small Danish town, a group of people is taking an Italian course: a hairdresser, the girl from the bakery, the manager of a restaurant, the manager of the sports hall, the new pastor...

Joachim and Cæcilie, a young couple from Copenhagen, have just decided to get married when Joachim is hit by a car.

The town of Sollerod is being overrun by a group of newcomers. They appear in all sorts of places, pretending to be intellectually disabled.

The Life of Chuck is based on a story by Stephen King and tells the life of Charles "Chuck" Krantz (Tom Hiddleston) in three chapters, portraying him as a seemingly ordinary man.

In 1984 London, eccentric single mother Cynthia (Hayley Squires) lives with her 7-year-old daughter Maria (Lily-Beau Leach) in a world filled with tender touches and boundless love.

It all started out so beautifully, but Maria's relationship with her second husband Sigmund is no longer what it used to be. After a series of difficult conversations, the idea of a divorce is brought up, and the painful question arises: what went wrong?

A young, ambitious matchmaker from New York City is faced with a choice between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.

In 1935, Antoni Benaiges (Enric Auquer) is appointed as a teacher in a small, remote village in Burgos, Spain. His class consists of boys and girls aged six to twelve, for whom education had until then been strict and traditional. But Benaiges takes a different approach. He brings a printing press and encourages them to write about their dreams and ambitions. He also makes a remarkable promise: one day, he will take them to see the sea — a world still unknown to them.