Films 2025
This page displays the 2025 festival programme. The 2026 festival programme will be published on January 8, and individual screening tickets will go on sale on January 13.
11 Underground
Finland
In 1984 eleven miners went on a strike to fight for better working conditions. A reconstruction of the event triggers...
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A Family
France
In this documentary filled with rage and hope, a writer who was raped by her father confronts relatives who failed...
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A Fidai Film
Palestine, Germany, Qatar, Brazil, France
This film exploring the significance of visual memory constructs a rich collage of life in Palestine before and after the...
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A Sisters’ Tale
Switzerland, Iran, France
After the Iranian Revolution, women have not been allowed to sing publicly. Nasreen, who dreams of a career as a...
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A Want in Her
Ireland
Myrid Carten returns to Ireland to find her alcoholic mother. The quest makes unconditional love look like a curse.
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Abortion Dream Team
Poland
In this powerful and communal film, a fearless activist group defies Polish law by helping women obtain abortions.
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Adrianne & the Castle
Canada
A portrait of Alan and Adrianne’s 30-year-long love story, during which they built their own extravagant world filled with love...
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Afternoons of Solitude
Spain
Albert Serra's masterful dissection of masculinity explores a world defined by the performativity and macho culture around bullfighting.
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Afterwar
Denmark, Kosovo, Sweden, Finland
This documentary blending raw realism with staged scenes takes the viewer to the streets of Kosovo, where the young protagonists...
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Agent of Happiness
Hungary, Bhutan
Amber is travelling through Bhutan with his colleague to collect data for a national happiness index. Happiness indicators differ between...
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An Almost Perfect Family
Romania
A film about the many forms of love within a family follows the director's journey into parenthood while his own...
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An American Pastoral
France
An American Pastoral follows a school board election in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, during a concentrated religious right-wing campaign to take over.
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An Echo of You
Denmark
This poignant film brings elderly people in front of the camera, interviewing individuals who have lost their long-time spouses. After...
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Apocalypse in the Tropics
Brazil
The film by Petra Costa about Jair Bolsonaro's rise to power in Brazil contains apocalyptic imagery of religious fanaticism and...
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Apple Cider Vinegar
Belgium, Netherlands
A retired actor's kidney stone inspires a journey into the amazing world of stones in a film that allows room...
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Arts of Survival: Short Films about Southern Estonia
Estonia, Sweden, Latvia, Bulgaria
The short film collection Arts of Survival presents eight stories about Tartu and Southern Estonia, capturing the tricks and mysteries...
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Arvo Pärt – 24 Preludes for a Fugue
Estonia
This documentary split into 24 episodes sheds light on the life of one of the greatest contemporary composers, Arvo Pärt,...
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Arvo Pärt – And Then Came the Evening and the Morning
Estonia
This 1990s documentary follows composer Arvo Pärt's life in West Berlin, from morning until evening, just before the premiere of...
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Arvo Pärt – Even If I Lose Everything
Estonia
This personal film offers a glimpse into composer Arvo Pärt's creative process, home, and family life.
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Balomanía
Denmark, Spain
In the favelas of Brazil flourishes the colorful yet illegal subculture of hot air balloons, which a young director gains...
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Billy
Canada
A deep, illuminating portrait of a mental health crisis, created with more than twenty years of self-shot video material.
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Black Snow
USA
This journalistic thriller about eco-activism tells the story of a small Russian village that is becoming life-threatening for its residents.
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Bright Future
Romania, South Korea
This collage film made from unique archival material depicts an international gathering of socialist youth in North Korea, just before...
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Cast of Shadows
Finland
This essay film delves into the legacy of the Flaherty film family, asking how much memories, images, and end credits...
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Cyborg Generation
Spain
A young musician designs himself a cybernetic organ that lets him hear cosmic rays as music.
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DocPoint x Yle Teema: Once Upon a Time in a Forest
Finland
Apollo Award-winning director Virpi Suutari's latest film about brave young people fighting for the future of our forests will be...
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Eros
Brazil
The motel is a Brazilian institution of love and sex. Eros takes viewers on an intimate journey into motels and...
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Forget About Cinema!
Finland, Spain
DocPoint's Opening Film is the director's wonderfully honest and personal exploration of motherhood, artistry and film history.
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Geri’s Wish
Finland, Bulgaria
Having grown up in an orphanage, Geri is at a crossroads: can the talented young person find her own path,...
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Grand Me
Belgium, Iran
A 9-year-old living with her grandparents in Iran comes of age and starts a custody battle to live with her...
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Happiness to All
Czech Republic, Netherlands, France
A former nuclear physicist, who fell from the Soviet elite to Siberia, vents his anger in social media videos, offering...
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Homegrown
USA
Michael Premo’s Homegrown follows three far-right men on different sides of the United States, as they campaign for Donald Trump...
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Housewife of the Year
Ireland
In a past television competition, the Housewife of the Year was sought. In its narrow-minded sexism, the shocking contest reflects...
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I’m Not Everything I Want to Be
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria
The life and works of a photographer span the period from the 1968 Prague Spring to the fall of the...
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In the Borderland
Finland
A documentary depicting life in the small town of Parikkala, located near the eastern border of Finland, where locals plan...
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Johatsu – Into Thin Air
Germany, Japan
This Japanese film follows a woman whose company helps people disappear.
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Kix
France, Hungary
I can do whatever I want! A defiant 8-year-old adventurer roams the streets of Budapest like it's home, joined by...
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LEif
Finland
A portrait of Leif Segerstam, one of the most prolific composers of our time, honors the artist's memory and depicts...
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Lesvia
Greece
On the island of Lesbos, women have had a place to love freely long before queer rights became mainstream.
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Maidan
Netherlands
This naturalistic and brutal documentary released in the summer of 2014 depicts the Maidan demonstrations and still feels startling and...
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Marching in the Dark
Belgium, Netherlands, India
In this visually striking film, the solidarity within a community of widows helps a young woman cope with the suicide...
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Matti Nykänen – The Legend
Finland
A colourful film about Matti Nykänen who was one of the most successful ski jumpers of all time but who...
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Mistress Dispeller
China, USA
The film introduces us to mistress dispeller Wang, a consultant whose job is to repair marriages damaged by infidelity and...
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Mother Vera
United Kingdom
A visually striking story of a nun’s search for grace and freedom
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New Visions: Student Films from Finland
Finland
This collection of the best Finnish student films of the year includes short documentaries Je m'appelle Mariia, Confessions of Undecided...
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Nocturnes
USA
A meditative and hypnotic documentary about hawk moths in the forests of the Eastern Himalayas as well as an ecological...
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Of Caravan and the Dogs
Germany
The film follows the work of Nobel Prize-winning journalists and human rights activists in contemporary Russia, showing how difficult and...
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Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird
USA
A fierce story about the friendship of two musicians and united feeling of being outsiders is built from the dialogue...
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Patrice: The Movie
USA
A strikingly romantic documentary about a disabled couple whose attempts to live together and marry are in collision with the...
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Pavilion 6
Croatia
A funny and beautiful film that looks at the formation of a close-knit community at a time when people had...
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Peaches Goes Bananas
Belgium, France
Peaches Goes Bananas is a visually punk-influenced sketch of the life of the electroclash artist Peaches now that she has...
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Preemptive Listening
UK, Finland
This musical essay film is a fanfare for sound art, where a group of musicians are invited to make their...
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Real
Ukraine, Croatia
This shocking film follows director Oleg Sentsov through a helmet camera, capturing in real-time his experience fighting in the Ukrainian...
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Reas
Argentina
In this hybrid film shot in a crumbling prison, former inmates tell, sing, and dance their stories. The laconic style...
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Romina
Italy
A sensitive documentary exploring universal questions, in which a young boxer faces societal injustice when her mother is imprisoned.
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Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story
USA
The energetic punk performances of Ukrainian-rooted Gogol Bordello intertwine with world political twists.
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Seafarers – A Tale of a Young Sailor
Finland
This collage film of the seven seas takes the viewer on a journey to the far ends of a lost...
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Searching for Amani
USA, Kenya
The struggle for living space fueled by climate change becomes personal when 13-year-old Simon embarks on a quest to investigate...
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Shorts Competition 1: Light and Shadow
Finland, Norway
The short films Fragmental Studies of a Night, Ocean Blvd, Petrified, When Will the Day Break and Bright White Light...
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Shorts Competition 2: Northern Scenes
Finland
The screening takes the viewer to Viena Karelia, to the sauna benches, and a concrete suburb in the films Rooms,...
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Shorts Competition 3: My Nature
Finland
In the films Farewell to Snow – Snowplay, Fabulous Cow Ladies, Muohtačalmmit and Underdog we pass the seasons with cows,...
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Skábmagovat Presents: Shorts from Sápmi
Sápmi, Finland, USA
In celebration of the Sami National Day, Skábmagovat Film Festival presents a screening of short documentaries at DocPoint: The Past...
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Sudan, Remember Us
France, Tunisia, Qatar
The activist film takes you to the streets of Sudan, among young activists where music and poetry are the tools...
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Tata
Romania, Germany, Netherlands
A surprising contact from a distant father brings the director's accumulated traumas to the surface in this a brutally honest...
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The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine
Chile, Netherlands
Toto has worked his whole life in goldmining, but now he is getting more and more sick, so to help,...
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The Flamingo
USA
This intimate song of praise on the need to be consensually touched regardless of one’s age, is lead by free-spirited...
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The Here Now Project
USA
Compiled from footage shot by people all around the world, The Here Now Project goes through a year showing how...
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The Invasion
Netherlands, France, USA
The Invasion presents a panoramic view of Ukrainian life in times of war. People are born and they die as...
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The Mechanics of Things
France, Germany
Can you fix what has once been broken? Director Alessandra Celesia explored this challenge in her poetic documentary that centres...
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The Return of the Projectionist
France, Germany
An Azerbaijani mountain village is about to have its first film screening in years. The award-winning film is an excellent...
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The White House Effect
USA
Compiled from archival footage, the documentary shows how a once shared concern about global warming became a matter of opinion...
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The Wolves Always Come at Night
Australia, Germany, Mongolia
Beautifully shot film shows how the climate crisis and desertification are destroying the livelihoods of local shepherds in Mongolia.
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Trust Me
Poland, Germany
A long-term relationship enters a crisis after opening up the monogamy in Joanna Ratajczak's intimate film exploring social norms.
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Two Forests
Finland
The film explores ageing and death in greying Japan and its forest-related death myths.
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Union
USA
The Sundance-awarded Union follows the long journey of Amazon warehouse workers at the grassroots level as they strive to establish...
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Wisdom of Happiness
Switzerland
The Dalai Lama takes the viewer on a 90-minute meditation journey on how to find peace amidst the problems of...
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Wishing on a Star
Italy, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Croatia
The astrologer maps the destinies of their clients and helps them to fulfil their wishes on a journey of renewal...
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Writing Hawa
France, Netherlands, Qatar
The IDFA award-winning portrayal of the director's own mother develops into a review at the role of women in Afghanistan...
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