Silent Engine Trailer Iffr 2025

A deeply personal film where the filmmaker's memories merge with the experiences of her protagonist. An emotionally rich comedy about a failed rock star in hospital, tasked with setting up an all-patients choir. From a juvenile reformatory, two friends desperately try to change their place in Japanese society. A moving rumination on the power that the past holds over us. ------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for watching! A moving portrait of clarinettist and composer Kinan Azmeh, a Syrian musician living in exile. A reimagining of Dante's Inferno as a choral queer drama, drenched in psychedelia and mysticism.

Stefan Djordjevic crafts a poetic reflection and a powerfully moving portrait of his family. An angry musing on Europe's largest casino and the global capitalism it's come to represent. An art heist raises poignant questions about globalism and exploitation in this genre bending film. Fragments of records documenting past radiation testing on civilians conjure testimony to a disturbing past. A single mother and a penniless man rebuild their lives in a bustling contemporary Kolkata. Meticulous animation about a search through the Ardennes, drawn on a single piece of paper.

A drug dealer trying to save his neck finds his world spinning out of control. ------------------------------------------------------- Thank you ... The beautiful and near-invisible world of spiderwebs as you've never seen before! Shot from a rooftop in Kowloon City, this one-shot comedy transforms street into stage. A forged painting occasions a rhapsodic meditation on ageing, beauty, authenticity and love. The nonbinary X searches for transformation in this boldly experimental, new vision of queer filmmaking.