The FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project takes place during the 41th Warsaw International Film Festival, which runs from October 10 to 19, 2025. The training workshops for young critics and film…
The Unbearable Weight of Memory
A harrowing, tender portrait of guilt and survival, Father turns an unthinkable mistake into a study of how memory can both destroy and redeem.
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What Men Live by: With The Memory of A Useful Ghost
Nat, whose ghost is haunted by a vacuum cleaner, decides to clear the dust from her family's factory.
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Red. Blue. Orange.
Ghosts remain, sometimes by their own will, sometimes pulled by the living.
By Kaiyrkul Abdyrakhmanova
With feature debut A Useful Ghost, Thai filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke blends social…
The Creative Union Behind Y
by Ilo Tuule Rajand, Alex Petrescu, and Kairgul Abdyrahmanova
A debut feature from director Maria Popistașu and Alexandru Baciu, the Romanian family drama Y just…
“What the… Hen?” - Art, Protest, and the Power of Absurdity
An absurd protest turned tender portrait of resilience.
By Saba Osanadze
Joanna Deja’s What the… Hen? is the kind…
Don Quixote’s Horse Rocinante Meets Łukasz Puczko’s Hen Marysia
Polish What the… Hen? highlights the riskiness of observational documentaries
By Edin Čusto
Joanna Deja’s feature debut contributes to an emerging…
Nino from 5 to 7
Over the course of a bleak weekend in Paris, a young man receives a cancer diagnosis.
by Alex Petrescu
Nino Clavel (Théodore Pellerin) seems like…
Mending Phantom Bones
After suffering an accident, young Camille is fighting against his own weakness.
by Alex Petrescu
Valéry Carnoy’s Wild Foxes is all muscle—resting on young teenage bones as…
Boys Who Burn Bright, Fall. Thump. Ache.
By Ilo Tuule Rajand
Wild Foxes follows young boxer Camille as friendship, pain, and ambition twist into something feral. When a near-fatal injury…
The Two Parents Meet After Having Children
A curious journalist decides to find her son's father
By Esra Kars
Janicke Askevold, who addresses changing family and relationship models in the…
Economic Survival as Erotic Tale
Kika starts with emotional urgency but struggles to maintain its depth.
By Saba Osanadze
The main character in Alexe Poukine’s Kika is a social worker…
We live as long as we are remembered
By Kaiyrkul Abdyrakhmanova
Wild Strawberries is Bulgarian director Tatyana Pandurska's fiction debut, inspired by Ekaterina Tomova's 1981 collection Forgotten by the Heavens,…