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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Darkroom

Programme CM 2026

Darkroom offers a platform for the international industry to access exclusive previews of recently or nearly completed films seeking completion or gap funding, sales agents and festival selections.

Overview of films

  • Amor es el monstruo

    Neto Villalobos | 87' | Costa Rica |

    In the heart of a tropical dystopia and aware that she doesn’t have much time left, a grandmother tries to bond with her 6-year-old granddaughter.…

  • Get Up Stand Up

    Mari Sanders | 90' | Netherlands |

    The indecisive Vera (23) loses her autonomy after an accident and must reinvent her life in a wheelchair. Only when she meets Xander (22), who…

  • The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs

    Èlia Gasull Balada, Matteo Norzi | 100' | Peru |

    After a lifetime of hardship, 75-year-old Indigenous artist Sara Flores emerges from the Peruvian Amazon into the global contemporary art scene. As she confronts the…

  • Làstima

    Mario Piredda | 100' | Italy |

    Vera, an unemployed Romanian woman in her forties, is tasked with accompanying Kali, a young Nigerian girl, from one city to another. What begins as…

  • LFD Hope

    Joshua Loftin | 80' | United Kingdom |

    LFD Hope is a requiem for a city and a hymn for its forgotten souls – a film about men learning to speak in a…

  • Marina

    Laís Santos Araújo, Pethrus Tibúrcio | 120' | Brazil |

    Trying to feel loved, a teenage girl makes two worlds tragically collide during her 15-year-old birthday party.

  • The Outside

    Víctor Moreno | 100' | Spain |

    How far can humans go?

  • Sea, Star, Woman

    Jeunghae Yim | 90' | France |

    All I have of my mother are photos with holes cut out of them where her face had been. And a fleeting memory, that of…

  • Sugar

    Amira Duynhouwer | 90' | Netherlands |

    When Chyna’s boyfriend Raoul becomes increasingly violent, she decides to pack up their baby Sugar and leave. But he doesn’t let her go easily. We…

  • Uchronia: Parallel Histories of Queer Revolt

    Fil Ieropoulos | 97' | Greece |

    Uchronia is a psychedelic docu-essay inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s visionary poem Une Saison En Enfer. Rimbaud’s ghost travels through history to encounter revolutionaries and queer…