The power of great cinema, capable of stirring consciences, moving us, intriguing us, or even entertaining us, at the crossroads between inspiration and imagination. The best of film festivals around the world, previews that contain gems for true cinephiles and works that break down the walls of convention with their artistic exploration, to reach the boundaries of cinema, a universe in limitless expansion. Beyond Fiction, between screen and reality, between fiction and life, breathless, a tear or a smile. Which authors will you discover this time at Biografilm?
Second Film
(Fiction / Tunisia, France, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / 2024 / 123')
Aya is almost thirty years old and lives with her parents in a small village in southern Tunisia, trapped in her comfort zone that stops any dream of escape. After a minivan accident, in which she is the only survivor, she realizes that this tragedy could be her chance. She pretends to be dead, flees to Tunis, and starts a new life, finally free and invisible. Fate puts her in danger when she witnesses police abuse. She risks being discovered, but perhaps for the first time, she is ready to fight. Aicha is a Pirandellian story of escape, courage, and rebirth. A race toward freedom in a world that does not forgive mistakes.
International Premiere
(Fiction / France, Belgium /2025 / 128')
The 1980s, a fictional city. Alpha, 13, lives with her mother. The day she comes home with a tattoo on her arm, a deep rift forms between them. Their world is shattered and the girl undergoes a physical and psychological transformation that leads her to confront herself and her mother. After winning the Palme d'Or with Titane, Julia Ducournau returns with her most personal work: a disturbing journey through growth, desire, and metamorphosis, where identity is written on the skin and the bond between mother and daughter is tested to the extreme.
(Fiction / Iran, Germany / 2023 / 99')
Amir is a drug dealer who wanders the streets of Tehran by car in the middle of the night. He provides relief for the body and soul of the lost people he meets on his way like a modern prophet. He is joined by the impersonal voice of the GPS, clients and kindred spirits with whom he shares darkness, suffering and a spirit of rebellion that becomes collective. A film shot in "clandestine" mode, without permission from the Iranian authorities, with limited means and non-professional actors. We witness the odyssey of a hidden humanity, and the signs of an uprising ready to break out.
Italian Premiere
(Fiction / Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, UK, Sweden / 2024 / 148')
A poignant tale about a family that survived the end of the world. After environmental collapse has made Earth uninhabitable, Mother (Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton), Father (Michael Shannon), and Son (George MacKay) are confined into their golden bunker and struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy. Until the arrival of a stranger disrupts their routine. The blind optimism that has kept them together falls apart, the apparent idyll begins to crumble, and long-suppressed feelings of remorse and resentment emerge. But confrontation with the truth may lead to an opening, a new possibility for authenticity.
Italian Premiere
(Fiction / Slovakia, Czech Republic, Switzerland / 2024 / 107')
They call her Girl America (Amerikánka). Once a girl, now a woman, she grew up without parents in totalitarian Czechoslovakia. Surreal images blend with reality as we follow her struggle for redemption. How many times can you get back up after being knocked down? Orphaned under communism and placed in foster care, then detained in a juvenile facility. Until the Velvet Revolution. More than just a story of perseverance, the film is an emotional journey that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the transformative power of hope. The hope of one day escaping to America and reuniting with her father.
by Radu Jude
Italian Premiere
(Fiction / Romania / 2025 / 109')
In Cluj, Transylvania, a homeless man commits suicide after being evicted from the basement where he had found shelter. Orsolya, the officer who carried out the eviction, is overwhelmed by guilt and tries in increasingly clumsy and desperate ways to find redemption. No one seems to listen to her. With a style that alternates between dramatic moments and grotesque, surreal situations, the film tackles complex issues such as the housing crisis, the post-socialist economy, nationalism, and the role of language in defining social hierarchies. A subtle homage to Rossellini's Europa '51, the film depicts a crisis of conscience as a reflection of a modern malaise to which few of us are immune.
Italian Premiere, First Film
(Fiction / USA / 2025 / 103’)
Something terrible has happened to Agnes. But life goes on... perhaps for everyone except her. In this poignant debut, Eva Victor, director and lead actress, tells the story of a young woman trying to pick up the pieces after a traumatic event. Between bitter irony and existential confusion, the film adopts a non-linear structure that spans five years of life, capturing contradictions, relapses, small bursts of energy, and attempts at healing. Agnes copes with the enormity of what has happened to her thanks to her deep bond with her roommate (Naomi Ackie) and the tenderness of her kind neighbor (Lucas Hedges).
Italian Premiere, First Film
(Fiction/ Australia, USA / 2025 / 102’)
Acclaimed at Sundance Film Festival 2025, this bold and disturbing film reinvents the romantic relationship as a bond of flesh and bone. Tim and Millie (Dave Franco and Alison Brie) move to the countryside to start over, but a supernatural encounter in the woods literally fuses them together. Separation causes pain, but being together destroys them. Trapped in a love that turns into a monstrous symbiosis, they must face an ancient force that devours everything human. A claustrophobic journey between body horror and romantic tragedy, where love becomes a death sentence.
