Voices Main Programme

When Israel invades Lebanon, five people take refuge from the violence in a house. Israeli soldiers take up positions on the floor above.

Modern Greek tragedy: sixteen-year-old Antigone, Algerian immigrant to Canada, primarily wages the struggle against authorities using social media.

The rise and fall of an opportunistic money changer who has to get his hands dirty to finance his luxurious lifestyle.

Lively VR experience immerses you in teenager Lupe's eventful life as she joins the 1978 New York punk scene.

Essay-like contemplation on the desire for freedom inspired by a play by Aristophanes in which people wish to become birds.

Seventeen-year-old Kishan faces a dilemma: uncertain adventure in the city, or a predictable life in his Himalayan village?

You reap what you sow, a bank security guard realises after stealing a bag in this overwhelming, hand-painted VR noir.

Around 1900, Pedro travels to southern Chile to photograph a wedding, but ends up capturing the genocide of the Selk’nam people.

Coming-of-age anime with imaginative twists, with a big role for the current climate crisis. Experimental, colourful and enchanting.

A princess is married off to a beggar in pre-colonial Sri Lanka. She discovers character is more important than ancestry.

Marti is pursuing a thief who's stolen the dog she is sitting, but it turns out he too has his problems.

Layered, absurdist family drama about the vicious circle of domestic violence in central Europe, with as anti-hero the dorky ambulance driver Jaroslav.

Jet-black, absurdist, anti-Hollywood action film about corrupt Kazakh village. Detective Bekzat disrupts the vicious circle of fear and violence.

In the wake of a broken relationship, Emilia returns to her village in Patagonia, where she struggles to get to grips with emotions old and new.

Actress Jevgenia Gromova shines as Russian Lena in a passionless marriage, who rediscovers her sexuality through a string of affairs.

In this sensitive drama, Jean is confronted by unresolved emotions when attempting to radically declutter her parental home.

The love story of two figurines unfolds in a virtual scale model of São Paolo in the 1940s, in this physical VR.

On the longest day of the year, a small community in northern Sweden struggles with life's quotidian struggles.

The indigenous people of South America are dead or oppressed. Until the breaching of a supernatural taboo unleashes a mysterious uprising.

360-degree film depicts the shooting of a film in a film, on the set of #MeToo drama Nina Wu.

A young conscript seeks space to express his homosexuality in the suffocating atmosphere of apartheid-era South Africa.

Observational documentary about a Thai woman who lovingly cares for European Alzheimer's patients even though she has to leave her own children with her mother.

Tiger winner Park Jungbum depicts a rebellious teen girl and an oddball trying to stay afloat in a harsh world.

Neat businessman conducts mysterious ritual in this intriguing VR work that juxtaposes centuries-old traditions and primal forces with contemporary haste and technology.

A young Chinese woman suffers from epilepsy. Her dreams die, but it only makes her stronger.

Bollywood-film nostalgia colours the experiences of fifteen-year-old Qodrat, who ends up in an orphanage during Afghanistan's 1980s Soviet-oriented period.

Inspired by their love of classic cinema, Bong Joon Ho and his cameraman made a black-and-white version of Parasite, the big hit of 2019.

Explore your new homeland in tactile, stop-motion VR from the back seat of a taxi, like so many other migrants.

Lively tale set in poor, multicultural Naples. Carmela struggles to keep her head above water and be a better mother to her eleven-year-old daughter.

A fake moon landing, Suharto's coup, the communist witch hunt and technological progress in a mildly absurdist, fantastical tale.

Documentary with fictional elements. Two Japanese monks see the socio-economic consequences of the past and wonder: What now?

Thriller about a doctor in a former French colony who tries to keep doing his job in a lawless country.

During Colombia's darkest days, among paramilitary gangs and the spirits of the dead, José searches for his missing sons.

Intimate depiction of a struggle between love and sorrow. Two women cherish being together while death waits to strike.

An incompetent detective needs some help in a murder case from the sole witness: a parrot. Amusing police thriller from Hong Kong.

In just one day, a political outsider is shattered by the opportunism of the electorate and the cynicism of the party leaders.

Stunningly beautiful fable about the straitjacket of tradition and the call of freedom in Sudan. Coming-of-age with deep significance.

Old Haiti and contemporary France are drawn together in this unique zombie film about colonialism, folklore and adolescence.