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The European Union Film Festival is a celebration of the diversity and depth of European cinema. Featuring award-winning films from European Union countries, it offers a ‘Window to Europe’ to the audience and demonstrates the power of cinema to transcend boundaries and create shared experiences. The 29th edition of the festival brings an eclectic mix of films, including over 10 India premieres, deeply rooted in European culture and society that explore the many facets of humanity, life, and everything in between.

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Languages

Women Filmmakers

Festival Line Up

Happy

2024, directed by Sandeep Kumar

110 Mins.

Synopsis: Happy follows the story of an undocumented Indian immigrant in Austria, desperately striving to secure a better future for his young daughter while facing the imminent threat of deportation. As the narrative unfolds, the film reminds us that the pursuit of happiness is universal—touching not only those who have little, but also those who seem to have it all.

Austria

Drama

Julie Keeps Quiet

2024, directed by Leonardo van Dijl

100 Mins.

16+

Synopsis: Julie is a star player at an elite tennis academy. When her coach falls under investigation and is suddenly suspended, all of the club's players are encouraged to speak up. But Julie decides to keep quiet. Set against tennis, the film exposes systemic failures in safeguarding the young, with the protagonist’s silence emerging as a defiant act of resistance.

Belgium

Drama

The Trap (КЛОПКА)

2023, directed by Nadejda Koseva

95 Mins.

16+

Synopsis: A man living in solitude on the banks of the Danube until a wild boar gets trapped near his house and foreign investors want to dump nuclear waste in the local village.

Bulgaria

Drama

Pelican (Pelikan)

2022, directed by Filip Heraković

90 Mins.

TBC

Synopsis: Josip, a footballer recovering from a career-threatening knee injury at a health spa, finds himself adrift between a self-absorbed physiotherapist, an ex-girlfriend, and a former best friend. When he is mistaken for someone else at a sales conference, he slips into a new identity—discovering fresh perspectives, blurred boundaries, and a chance to rediscover who he truly is.

Croatia

Drama/Comedy

The Waves (Vlny)

2024, directed by Jirí Mádl

131 Mins.

16+

Synopsis: Prague, 1968. In the International Editorial Office of Czechoslovak Radio, celebrated journalists risk everything to tell the truth. Young Tomáš works among them—not for glory, but to protect his younger brother, whose dream job he now holds. When a recording surfaces that could alter the course of history, the newsroom comes under the Secret Service’s watchful eye. Tomáš must choose: stand with the journalists and risk it all, or safeguard the only family he has left.

Czech Republic

Historical Thriller

Smaragda – I Got Thick Skin and I Can't Jump

2024, directed by Emilios Avraam

99 Mins.

16+

Smaragda, 46, amid failed relationships and a stagnant career, ponders her legacy. She becomes a kids entertainer at a tourist resort and embraces social media, facing both fame and backlash, as she embarks on a journey of self-discovery.
The film earned the Best Cypriot Film Award at the 2025 Cyprus Film Days International Festival, with Niovi Charalambous winning Best Performance for her nuanced portrayal of the title character.

Cyprus

Drama

Matters of the Heart (Fuld af kærlighed)

2024, directed by Christina Rosendahl

105 Mins.

Synopsis: The film follows a middle-class family who, on the surface, have a happy and perfect life. But behind the facade, the family is on the verge of disintegration due to the father’s escalating alcohol consumption. When a grown-up daughter finally confronts the pain she endured as a child, deep emotional wounds surface—and healing becomes both necessary and painful.

Denmark

Drama

Lioness (Emalõvi)

2024, directed by Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

104 Mins.

TBC

Synopsis: Helena is a paramedic, a professional caretaker who paradoxically doesn’t know how to care for her teenage daughter, Stefi, when she gets on a dangerous and self-destructive path. As a woman of action rather than talk, Helena prepares an extreme plan to secretly kidnap and lock the girl up, far away from all the bad world. But things don’t work out as planned.

Estonia

Thriller/Drama

The Missile (Ohjus)

2024, directed by Miia Tervo

110 Mins.

Parental Guidance

Synopsis: The empowering story of a single mother working at a small-town newspaper who gets drawn into the investigation surrounding the missile crash, which upends life in a small village.

Finland

Comedy/Drama

Holy Cow (Vingt-Dieux)

2025, directed by Louise Courvoisier

98 Mins.

Synopsis: 1899. On a storm-lashed night, Aimée, a young Republican schoolteacher, arrives in a remote Alpine hamlet buried in snow. Met with suspicion and resistance, she is determined to challenge the villagers’ dark superstitions. But shortly after her arrival, an avalanche swallows up its first highlander.

France

Drama

Dying (Sterben)

2024, directed by Matthias Glasner

183 Mins.

Disclaimer: May include themes of illness and dementia; Synopsis

Germany

Drama

Behind the Haystacks (Piso apo tis thimonies)

2023, directed by Asimina Proedrou

118 Mins.

16+

Synopsis: A middle-aged fisherman drowning in debt; a housewife who is seeking the truth in God's Word; a daughter who tries to define her own life within an oppressive environment. Until a tragic incident strikes the family, pushing the three heroes to face their own personal impasses, whilst having to deeply consider the price to pay for their actions.

Greece

Drama

Three Thousand Numbered Pieces (Háromezer számozott darab)

2023, directed by Ádám Császi

96 Mins.

A white Hungarian theatre director begins rehearsals for a play with five young Roma actors. The play is meant to tell their real-life stories - of abuse, drug addiction, crime - but as it unfolds, the actors feel their suffering is being exploited rather than faithfully represented. They decide to walk away from the project, only to discover that their director has already sold the show to a major theatre in Berlin. What follows is a surreal, self-reflective journey that blurs the boundary between reality and performance, forcing everyone involved to question who gets to tell a story, on what terms, and at what cost.

Hungary

Drama

Diamanti

2023, directed by Ferzan Özpetek

135 Mins.

TBC

A director calls all his favourite actresses to film a movie set in Rome in the 70s that tells the vicissitudes revolving around a prestigious tailoring.

Italy

Drama/Comedy

That They May Face the Rising Sun

2023, directed by Pat Collins

111 Mins.

16+

Based on internationally acclaimed Irish author John McGahern's award-winning novel of the same name, That They May Face the Rising Sun is a vivid evocation of nature, humanity and life itself, set in a 1980's rural community in Ireland.

Ireland

Period Drama

Soviet Milk (Mātes piens)

2023, directed by Ināra Kolmane

110 Mins.

16+

Young and promising doctor loses everything due to her conflict with the totalitarian Soviet regime – career, love for life and even mother’s instinct denying breast milk to her baby. However, the grown-up daughter becomes her only supporter who tries to help ease mother’s depression and learn to live in the depressive Soviet regime herself. The lifelines of mother and daughter flow in the occupied Soviet Latvia from 1945 to 1989 when the Soviet Union collapses. “I didn’t want to live and I didn’t want her to drink milk from a mother who doesn’t want to live.” The story is based on the bestseller Soviet Milk by the renown Latvian writer and more than 20 book author Nora Ikstena. Soviet Milk has been translated and published in more than 20 countries.

Latvia

Drama

TASTY (Gardutė)

2024, directed by Eglė Vertelytė

104 Mins.

16+

Two canteen cooks take part in a cooking competition on TV and dream of the main prize: a Michelin-starred restaurant. As the competition tests their culinary skills, it also puts their friendship—and the whirlwind of unexpected fame—to the ultimate test.

Lithuania

Comedy

Breathing Underwater

2024, directed by Eric Lamhène

101 Mins.

Breathing Underwater is an emotional, character-driven drama set in the secretive world of a women's shelter. It tells the story of Emma (Carla Juri) who is whisked away in the dead of night, covered in bruises and unexpectedly pregnant. As she grapples with her pregnancy and her emotional shackles to her husband Marc, Emma rediscovers lost facets of herself through her unlikely camaraderie and strife with the women and children of the shelter. Individual traumas intertwine and despite their differences, a delicate sisterhood emerges as they push one another to fight for their self-worth and independence.

Luxembourg

Drama

Castillo

2024, directed by Abigail Mallia

128 Mins.

In the gritty underworld of Malta, Castillo tells the story of a man who finds himself ensnared in a dangerous web of crime, corruption, and betrayal. Haunted by a past he cannot escape, his journey forces him to confront brutal moral choices—where the lines between justice and lawlessness blur. As loyalties fracture and hidden alliances emerge, Castillo must navigate turf wars, power struggles, and the seductive pull of illicit influence. His family becomes collateral in a system rigged against him, unveiling painful truths of identity, survival, and the price one pays for redemption. With every decision, Castillo inches closer to a precipice—can he reclaim what’s broken without becoming the monster others fear? In a world ruled by brutality and compromise, one man’s struggle may expose the dark heart of a society built on silent complicity.

Malta

Drama/Crime

Memory Lane (De terugreis)

2024, directed by Jelle de Jonge

98 Mins.

16+

A bitter-aged man reluctantly drives to Spain to pay a last visit to a dying friend, along with his wife who's suffering from dementia. But as their journey unfolds, he slowly starts to soften up and rediscovers the meaning of love.

Netherlands

Comedy/Drama

It’s Not My Film (To nie mój film)

2025, directed by Maria Zbąska

TBC Mins.

Wanda and Janek’s love story unfolds after the 'happily ever after’ ends. To revive their long-term relationship and overcome a constant crisis they decide to embark on a winter journey along the Polish Baltic coast. This make it-or-break it adventure will test their limits of love in a story filled with humor, touching moments, and unexpected twists.

Poland

Drama

Three Kilometres to the End of the World

2024, directed by Emanuel Parvu

105 Mins.

Set in a conservative Danube Delta community, a gay teenager’s journey of self-discovery clashes with the traditional values upheld by his parents and neighbors.

Romania

Drama

The Hungarian Dressmaker (Ema a smrtihlav)

2024, directed by Iveta Grófová

129 Mins.

Marika, a Hungarian widow dressmaker shelters a Jewish boy in her home on the Slovak-Hungarian border during the turbulent years of WW2 and the Wartime Slovak State.

Slovakia

Drama

Family Therapy

2024, directed by Sonja Prosenc

122 Mins.

16+

Young stranger disrupts seemingly perfect family's life, exposing their internal issues, fears, and dysfunctional relationships as external chaos invades their once idyllic existence.

Slovenia

Comedy/Drama

Ei 47

2024, directed by Marcel Barrena

110 Mins.

16+

Inspired on the true story of Manolo Vital, a bus driver who helped create the modern Barcelona during the 1970s city’s boom.

Spain

Drama

The Swedish Torpedo (Den svenska torpeden)

2024, directed by Frida Kempff

120 Mins.

Parental Guidance

Summer of 1939. The outbreak of war in Europe is drawing ever closer, but Sally Bauer cannot tear herself away from the sea and her longing to cross the English Channel.

Sweden

Drama/Romance

Oxygen Station

2023, directed by Ivan Tymchenko

106 Mins.

Human rights activist and political prisoner Mustafa, famed for his 303-day hunger strike, is exiled to a remote Soviet labor camp. Facing relentless oppression, he finds strength in his fight for justice and the resilience of the Crimean Tatar community, whose stories of resistance echo his own struggle. Based on a true story, the film unveils the cost of defiance against a totalitarian regime.

Ukraine

Drama/Biography