PÖFF 2018

In the lost world, after a four months drought, an ordinary man randomly gets picked to be on a special radio show: Jamal Afina reveals an extraordinary journey of a life, through space and time, looking for his lost paradise.

A mysterious lonely man and a young rebel woman, confront each other in a psychological drama about suspended identity.

Follows the unconventional relationship between a father and son as they cling to one another under the looming threat of addiction and separation.

A lonely self-absorbed theatre actor finds himself plunged into the realities of people afflicted by social injustice in this full of virtue family body-swap.

Spain, 1976. A country to the edge of the collapse. A girl to the edge of her own revolution.

Herman Korolyov, 33, is getting by, working a meaningless executive job in a big city. One day he gets a strange call and learns that his older brother has mysteriously disappeared. Herman must go back to his hometown to defend the family business - a small gas station (and with it, old friends and a girlfriend from the past) - against the 'kukuruzniks', mafia-type gangs that are grabbing up businesses and land in the Donbas region and turning them into corn fields and railways that lead nowhere.

A woman on a romantic sailing holiday with her boyfriend rescues a refugee woman who makes her confront her past.

The film tells about the life and tragedy of the Kyrgyz village, it focuses on simple young guy. Being expelled from his native village, he takes away the daughter of a local lord ("bai" in Kyrgyz language) with him, but is overtaken and beaten almost to death. He was destined to find himself and his fate, in order to reunite his people again.

Ricky Nasser is a young Australian whose peaceful suburban life turns into hell when sister Ameena, a Slam poet; disappears without a trace.

100 YEARS TOGETHER is a cinematic portrait of Lithuanian centenarians. Their memories are written on their faces, in their eyes and wrinkles. The experiences of their long lives, their deep wounds and secrets reveal how major historical events in Lithuania affected the fate of its people. At the same time, this film bestows 100 good emotions. The heroes of the film charm with their optimism. Their true and honest stories inspire and infect with the willingness to live. When you are living for 100 years, everything is 100 times better.

Two university students, Jule and Jan, leave Berlin together in an old camper on a road trip south, but for different reasons.

A love triangle between a spirited young woman, her outgoing boyfriend and a fiance who's husband material.

A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.

Archival footage and diary entries piece together Ahto Valter's 1938-1940 trip around the world on his eponymous sailboat.

Kristine Briede and Audrius Stonys's meditative documentary essay portrays the less-remembered generation of cinema poets of the Baltic New Wave. With finesse, they push beyond the barriers of the common historiographic investigation in order to achieve a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation.

An immersive fllm capturing the very essence of professional cycling.

What is the meaning of beauty? A journey through the contemporary world of fashion, with some of the most contradicting models from today's industry. The film explores the ever-changing concept of beauty worldwide.

Ala Changso is the transliteration of a Tibetan folk song's title meaning please drink up this cup of good wine. It tells the story of a woman who conceals her illness and the secret between her and her ex-husband and decides to go on a pilgrimage to Lhasa. The long pilgrimage reveals her inner secrets one by one. These secrets include entanglements and perplexities of love, morality, responsibility and belief between her and her ex-husband and between her and her second husband.

A shy and insecure delivery truck driver accidentally arrives on the scene of a major crime and picks up two bags of cash and hides them. Only the help of a prostitute and a former biker released from jail might get him out of trouble.

A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.

During World War II, a little girl is left without parents and is forced to hide from the Nazis, taking care of herself on her own. Day after day.

A look at the devastating effects that climate change has on the people living on Kiribati, a low-lying atoll in the Pacific.

After the leaving of their only one son to study abroad, a 25-years marriage faces their split, questioning themselves about love, desire, the passing of time and what really they want in life.

A renowned filmmaker receives a mysterious call from an old college mate in the middle of the night. Asandhimitta, whom he recalls as a large and voluptuous woman, asks him to make a film based on her life. She then confesses that she was recently involved in a triple homicide of three women and is taken into custody shortly afterwards. Intrigued, the filmmaker attempts to piece together her fragmented story for a film while Asandhimitta herself awaits her fate in a local prison.

Bhonsle is a retired policeman and is living a non-interfering life in a colony dominated by locals, diagnosed with stage 4 brain tumor. When the migrant resident politics take a nasty turn, he chooses to take a stance and deal with it.