The selection

Official Selection

Films showing at the 20th edition

Fiction

All We Imagine as Light

Payal Kapadia
Fiction

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo

Diego Céspedes
Fiction

Pooja, Sir

Deepak RAUNIYAR
Fiction

Wild Foxes

Valéry Carnoy
Fiction

Mexico 86

César Diaz
Fiction

In the Land Of Brothers

Alireza Ghasemi et Raha Amirfazli
Animation

The Painting

Jean-François Laguionie
Documentary

No Other Land

Basel Afra, Hamdan Ballal et Rachel Szor
Fiction

We Believe You

Charlotte Devillers & Arnaud Dufeys
Drama Thriller

Sleepless City

Guillermo Galoe
Documentary

Dame Valerie Adams: More Than Gold

Briar March
Fiction

River

Junta Yamaguchi
Fiction

Late Shift

Petra Volpe
Fiction

A Useful Ghost

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
Documentary

Haiyu – Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for a Free Western Sahara

Brahim B. Ali, Alex Veitch, Mohamedsalem Werad Et Anna Klara Åhrén
Fiction

Honeymoon

Zhanna Ozirna
Historical Film

Kneecap

Rich Peppiatt
Fiction

I’m Nevenka

Icíar Bollaín
Historical Film

The Witness

Nader Saeivar
Historical Film

The Tasters

Silvio Soldini
Animation

Le Secret des mésanges

Antoine Lanciaux
Fiction

Muganga – Celui qui soigne

Marie-hélène Roux
Animation

Slocum et moi

Jean-françois Laguionie
Documentary

Soulèvements

Thomas Lacoste
Fiction

The Things You Kill

Alireza Khatami
Fiction

Snerting

Baltasar Kormákur
Fiction

Transient Happiness

Sina Muhammad
Documentary

Ukraine Fire, featuring Dakg Daughters

Nayan Ducruet
Documentary

I Shall Not Hate

Tal Barda
Fiction

A Poet

Simón Mesa Soto
Fiction

To a Land Unknown

Mahdi Fleifel
Fiction

Where the Wind Comes From

Amel Guellaty
Documentary

Wilding

David Allen & Isabella Tree
The Festival Kick-Off

Opening Film: the first
Stopover of the Journey

For this opening night, the F5C Festival invites you on a cinematic journey that goes beyond the screen: a collective experience where art meets commitment, where emotion turns into action. May this screening remind us that there is no “other land” – we have only one world, one horizon, to defend together.

This film takes us into the intimacy of those who fight to preserve their land, their dignity, and their future. It is not only about bearing witness, but about opening a breach, rekindling a spark of humanity in a present too often clouded by indifference.

Crossed Perspectives, Singular Voices

The 2025 Jury of the Five Continents Film Festival

Each year, the Festival entrusts its jury with the delicate and exciting mission of rewarding works from across the five continents. For this 20th edition, two remarkable personalities embody the spirit of the Festival:

Shain Boumedine, actor and filmmaker revealed by Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub My Love, is establishing himself as a rising voice in French cinema. His journey, at the crossroads of sensitivity and commitment, reflects a genuine attention to intimate stories and deeply inhabited characters.

David Barbeschi, Franco-Italian screenwriter and director, founder of Think Thru Films, explores through his work social fractures, multiple identities, and possible bridges between cultures. His cinema questions, challenges, and invites us to see the world differently.

Together, they bring the jury a wealth of perspectives: one through the power of his performance and his quest for sincerity on screen, the other through his writing and directorial vision. Two complementary sensibilities to shed light, through their choices, on what cinema reveals about our time and our societies.

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