25 & Under Films
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Films listed here are eligible for the 25 & Under card pricing, offering €5.00 to people aged 16-25 (excludes free-list suspended events such as festivals/70mm screenings).
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QSFF: CACTUS PEARS
Anand, a 30-something city dweller compelled to spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in the rugged countryside of western India, tenderly bonds with a local farmer who is struggling to stay unmarried. As the mourning ends, forcing his... Read More
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QSFF: RESILIENT JOY
These seven films chart intimate journeys across borders of place, body, and memory. Blending myth, migration, and resilience, they celebrate queer lives in motion — the courage to transform, to remember, and to imagine new worlds beyond the familiar.
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QSFF: BORN ANEW
Across borders and memories, these 5 films honour resilience, love, and the quiet fight for authenticity. From Kerala to Paris, Dublin to New York, they weave tender stories of becoming, remembrance, and the fierce beauty of living truthfully.
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QSFF: BEYOND THE KNOWN
From basketball courts to coastal villages, these six films explore queer joy, resilience, and unexpected tenderness. Through stories of love, survival, and reunion, they capture the quiet revolutions of becoming — even in the face of violence, loss, and distance.
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QSFF: NEIRUD
Brazilian wrestler Neirud died shrouded in mystery, leaving behind no trace of her past. Confronting family secrets, the filmmaker pieces together the life of her enigmatic aunt, who toured Brazil as a wrestler in an underground all-female circus troupe throughout... Read More
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HIDDEN (CACHÉ)
The bourgeois complacency of a Parisian family is severely tested when surreptitiously recorded videos of their lives begin arriving anonymously to their well-appointed home. Anne (Juliette Binoche) senses Georges (Daniel Auteuil) is concealing something, though he denies knowledge of the... Read More
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THE PIANO TEACHER
Erika Khout (Isabelle Huppert) is a teacher at the Vienna Conservatory. Now in her late thirties and living a hermetic, love-hate existence with a tyrannical mother (Annie Giradot), Erika’s sex life has been reduced to voyeurism and masochistic diversions. Educated... Read More
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THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME – OPENING NIGHT SCREENING & AFTER PARTY
Wes Anderson returns to his regular theme of the relationship dynamics between flawed fathers (or father figures) and their offspring in The Phoenician Scheme. Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio Del Toro), arms dealer and one of Europe’s richest men, finds his life... Read More
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THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME
Wes Anderson returns to his regular theme of the relationship dynamics between flawed fathers (or father figures) and their offspring in The Phoenician Scheme. Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio Del Toro), arms dealer and one of Europe’s richest men, finds his life... Read More
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IFI YOUTH PANEL: CINEMA PARADISO
Drawing the IFI Youth Panel screenings to a close before a summer break, you’re invited to Giuseppe Tornatore’s love letter to cinema, Cinema Paradiso – a story of a filmmaker’s childhood as he falls in love with the art of... Read More
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PARTHENOPE
Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) returns to Naples, the city of his birth, for this languorous, swooningly romantic chronicle of the eponymous Parthenope (Celeste Dalla Porta in her feature debut), born in 1950 and named after a siren in Homer’s Odyssey... Read More
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RIEFENSTAHL
German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl has always been a divisive and ambiguous figure. Although she has been lauded as a filmmaker of note whose technical prowess and grasp of the medium pointed to a singular talent, it was these same abilities... Read More
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MOTEL DESTINO
On the run from the police and the gang he let down following a botched robbery, twenty-one-year-old Heraldo (Iago Xavier) seeks refuge at the Motel Destino, a neon-lit roadside sex hotel on Brazil’s north-eastern coast in Karim Aïnouz’s gripping erotic... Read More
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THE BIGGER PICTURE: ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER
When single mother Manuela (Cecilia Roth) loses her teenage son, she embarks on a journey to Barcelona to find the boy’s transgender father, Lola. Along the way, she reconnects with old friends and meets new ones, including Agrado, a warm and humorous transgender woman, Rosa (Penélope... Read More
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THE WEDDING BANQUET
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend, Chris (Bowen Yang), and facing pressure to marry from his wealthy family (to whom he hasn’t yet come out), Min (Han Gi-chan), a queer Korean man living in the US, proposes a marriage of convenience... Read More
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E.1027: EILEEN GRAY AND THE HOUSE BY THE SEA
A love triangle in the Parisian art scene of the 1930s is brought to life in this stylish docufiction about iconic Irish artist and architect Eileen Gray, who built her modernist dream house on the Riviera, only to be upstaged... Read More
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THE MARCHING BAND
Thibaut (Benjamin Lavernhe), an internationally renowned orchestra conductor, is diagnosed with leukaemia, and is in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. His search for a donor leads him to discover that that he was adopted, a revelation that introduces... Read More
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ALONG CAME LOVE
Normandy, 1947. Single mother Madeleine (Anaïs Demoustier) is making ends meet by working as a waitress in a hotel restaurant. One day on the beach, she meets François (Vincent Lacoste), a student from a wealthy family; despite their contrasting social... Read More
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THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND
Eccentric millionaire Charles (Tim Key) dreams of reuniting his favourite folk-rock duo, McGwyer and Mortimer, so he invites the estranged bandmates and former lovers, Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) and Nell Mortimer (Carey Mulligan), unbeknownst to each other, to perform a... Read More
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DAVID LEAN: A PASSAGE TO INDIA
Devastated by the reception afforded Ryan’s Daughter, and a notorious lunch with the American National Society of Film Critics where the film was lacerated at length to his face, Lean retreated, finally emerging to pursue a decades-old passion project in this... Read More
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