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Divine Comedy

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Credits

Original title :
Komedie Elahi
Country :
Iran-Italy-France-Germany-Turkey
Year :
2025
Director :
Ali Asgari
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
98 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Hossein Soleimani, Mohammad Soori, Amirreza Ranjbaran, Faezeh Rad
Awards :
Orizzonti section, Venice Film Festival 2025
Official Selection – Out-of-competition
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

Bahram, a 40-year old Iranian filmmaker, has never seen his films screened in his own country because of the censorship imposed by the Ministry of Culture. When his last project his censored once again, he decides to organize a clandestine screening with his intrepid producer.

Asgari once again tackles the innate contradictions embedded within oppressive systems, this time turning to the world of filmmaking, further thematically complicated by the metafictional involvement of several cinematic collaborators from "Terrestrial Verses".

Cineuropa

The picture has a scrappy, off-the-cuff energy and an impish, defiant spirit. It makes a persuasive case that art – and laughter – are potent weapons in the struggle against oppression.

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Memory of Princess Mumbi

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Credits

Country :
Kenya-Switzerland-Saudi Arabia
Year :
2025
Director :
Damien Hauser
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
79 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Shandra Apondi, Ibrahim Joseph, Samson Waithaka
Awards :
Official Selection – Giornate degli Autori, Venice Film Festival 2025
Official Selection – Out-of-competition
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

In 2093, aspiring filmmaker Kuve shoots a documentary about the Great War of the 2070s, which brought an end to modern technologies and led to the rebirth of kingdoms. In Umata, he discovers a village that has found peace.

Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker Damien Hauser creates a film full of inventiveness, a mix between sci-fi, romance and mockumentary that reflects on the use of AI in cinema in a futuristic Africa.

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Seeds

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
2025
Director :
Brittany Shyne
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
122 minutes
Format :
digital
Awards :
Grand Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival 2025 & Best Documentary, Torino Film Festival 2025
Documentary Competition
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

Seeds follows Black farmers in the rural American South through the slow rhythms of planting, harvesting, and repair. Across seasons, families fight to maintain generational farms under financial pressure, where work, land, and memory remain tightly bound.

There is no part of "Seeds" that doesn’t feel like a priceless heirloom, like a window into a critical cultural history that must be maintained or lest be permanently lost

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Feels Like Home

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Credits

Original title :
Itt érzem magam otthon
Country :
Hungary
Year :
2025
Director :
Gábor Holtai
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
124 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Rozi Lovas, Áron Molnár, Dorka Gryllus
Awards :
Sitges Film Festival & Thessaloniki Film Festival 2025
Official Competition | With the director in attendance
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

One night, Rita is abducted by a man who insists that she is Szilvi, his missing sister. Forced to assume this role within an entire family, she is locked inside a bleak apartment and forbidden from leaving.

With its seemingly innocuous ‘fantastic film’ angle, Feels Like Home is still able to ask a very pertinent question: even when you know that horrors are sitting right before you, just how much are you willing to look away when you know you’ll be safe and sound if you do ?

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Plainclothes

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
2025
Director :
Carmen Emmi
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
95 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia
Awards :
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award – Ensemble, Sundance Film Festival 2025
Official Selection – Out-of-competition
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

In late 1990s New York, Lucas, an undercover police officer is assigned to trap and arrest gay men. When he falls in love with one of his targets, Lucas finds himself torn between duty and desire.

Driven by compelling performances by Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey, Plainclothes has considerable emotional fire. Whenever they’re onscreen together, Plainclothes blisters with voracious lust for life that snuffs out the pensive melancholy that nearly suffocates them when they’re alone.

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Rose

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Country :
Austria-Germany
Year :
2026
Director :
Markus Schleinzer
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
94 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Sandra Hüller, Caro Braun, Marisa Growaldt, Godehard Giese, Augustino Renken
Awards :
Official Competition, Berlinale 2026
Official Competition
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

In 17th century Germany, a mysterious soldier arrives in a secluded protestant village, claiming to be the heir of an abandoned farmstead. Seeking stability and a sense of belonging, he attempts to integrate this community despite the villagers’ doubts and suspicions.

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Cactus Pears

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Credits

Original title :
Sabar Bonda
Country :
India-UK-Canada
Year :
2025
Director :
Rohan Parashuram Kanawade
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
112 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Bhushaan Manoj, Suraaj Suman, Jayshri Jagtap
Awards :
Grand Jury Prize – World Cinema, Sundance Film Festival 2025 & Special Jury Award, San Francisco Film Festival 2025
Official Selection – Out-of-competition
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

Following his father’s death, Anand, a thirty-year-old city dweller, returns to his native village in Maharashtra to spend a ten-day mourning period. Surrounded by insistent relatives, he is forced to face questions about his marital status.

In less assured hands, "Cactus Pears" might have edged into trite territory, yielding to the familiar beats of trauma-laden queer love stories, but Kanawade’s considered direction and spare storytelling keep the narrative refreshing.

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Nina Roza

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Country :
Canada-Bulgary-Italy-Belgium
Year :
2026
Director :
Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
104 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Galin Stoev, Ekaterina Stanina, Sofia Stanina, Chiara Caselli, Michelle Tzontchev
Awards :
Official Competition, Berlinale 2026
Official Competition
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

Thirty years after leaving Bulgaria, art curator Mihail is sent back to assess child prodigy Nina's work. Meeting her reminds him of his daughter at the same age when they emigrated, forcing him to confront his past.

Nina Roza is a carefully-observed drama about the weight of the past and the pull of home. Geneviève Dulude-De Celles' intimate character study of a man in self-imposed exile is anchored by Galin Stoev's remarkable performance as Mihail, weaving art and memory into a poignant exploration of identity and belonging.

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Rose of Nevada

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Credits

Country :
UK
Year :
2025
Director :
Mark Jenkin
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
114 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
George MacKay, Callum Turner, Francis Magee
Awards :
Orrizonti section, Venice Film Festival & Toronto Film Festival 2025
Official Competition
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

In a fishing village in Cornwall, hope has long vanished... until the morning a boat appears in the old harbor. The Rose of Nevada, lost at sea with its entire crew three decades earlier, has mysteriously returned.

Matching the lightning-in-a-bottle domestic success of Bait might be a tall order, though either way, the film seals its one-man-band creator as a distinctive, now eminently recognizable arthouse voice.

Variety

Seen from the vantage point of our hyper-digital 2020s, Jenkin isn’t just a stark outlier from the current media regime. He’s also among the very few working directors whose cinema feels both familiar and viscerally new.

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Romería

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Credits

Country :
Spain-Germany
Year :
2025
Director :
Carla Simón
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
112 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Llúcia Garcia, Mitch, Tristán Ulloa
Awards :
Compétition, Cannes Film Festival 2025
Official Selection – Out-of-competition
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

To obtain a scholarship, Marina must retrieve a civil status document that only her biological family can provide. The young girl travels to Vigo, Galicia, where her parents came from, to meet a whole part of her family.

Like on every pilgrimage, doubt and hope go hand in hand, but this "Romería" glows with so much warmth that it may well be the most heartfelt homecoming of the year.

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