14,5 km Away From Our Dreams | Armenia, France

director Lilit Mkhitaryan | producers Lilit Mkhitaryan, Ruzanna Ghazaryan | production company Hayadoc | co-production company Les Films d’Ici

Artur, his two friends, retired teacher and taxi driver all live in the Armenian-Turkish border village a mere 14.5 km from Mount Ararat currently belonging to Turkey. Boys share a common dream to climb the mountain. They all remain caught in anticipation of the decades-long closed border’s potential opening.

Borderline | Estonia, Finland

director Ville Seppänen, Johan Huimerind | producer Johan Huimerind | production company DOKFILM

A cinematic journey through the Finnish–Estonian borderlands, where forgotten communities confront a world growing increasingly unstable.

Concrete Grassland | Georgia, France

director Shorena Tevzadze | producers Elene Margvelashvili (Parachute Film), Shorena Tevzadze (DiaFilm) | co-producer Adriana Ferrares (Ceresa Film)

A young couple in Tbilisi invests in an apartment that never gets built. As they raise their son, seasons shift, war comes and goes – a decade slips by in temporary homes, revealing a country where no one is held accountable.

Cords of Bliss | Kyrgyzstan

director, producer Janyl Jusupjan | production company Chagaldak Production

While filming my older brother Bakyt, a master of the Kyrgyz kyl-kyyak who has lived with partial deafness since childhood, I begin to uncover the hidden struggle behind his music — and the silence that has shaped the distance between us.

The Crust of Europe | Latvia

director Ivars Zviedris | producer Liene Ulmane | production company Documentarian

The landscape along the eastern border of Latvia and the European Union is changing – dragon’s teeth, anti-tank iron crosses, minefields, and a fence like a sharp ribbon disrupt the harmony of nature.

Encounters/Departures | Lithuania, Poland

director Vita Maria Drygas | producer Teresa Rožanovska | production company Ketvirta Versija | co-producer Vita Żelakeviciute (Drygas Film Production)

A filmmaker disillusioned with documenting war tourism turns to the unfinished legacy of her grandfather, Vytautas Žalakevičius, seeking meaning through a cinematic dialogue across time.

Evening School | Ukraine

director Philip Dotsenko | producer Nadia Parfan | production company Phalanstery Films

A wounded soldier, a patient teacher, struggling students, and staff are all continuing their music routines while war reshapes their lives. The film observes daily life in an evening music school for adults in wartime Kyiv, where lessons continue despite blackouts, loss, and personal challenges.

Going Underground | Latvia, Estonia, Finland

director Armands Začs | producers Dārta Vijgrieze, Gints Grūbe | production company Mistrus Media | co-production companies Allfilm, Making Movies

In a time of growing geopolitical tension, “Going Underground” follows a young civil defense architect Veronika in Latvia whose work inspecting bomb shelters for a possible Russian invasion quietly feeds her own spiraling fear.

House in a Bottle | Poland

director Anna Morawiec | producer Agata Jujeczka | production company Vision House Productions

“House in a Bottle” shows that the emotional legacy of a childhood in an alcoholic family can be acknowledged, shared, and eventually transformed.

Keepers of the City | Ukraine, Czechia

director, producer Ella Shtyka | production company Indie Media Polis | co-production company Safe Place production

“Keepers of the City” explores the community’s attempt to create a new vision for their city – war-torn Kharkiv. Intimate and visual documentary where a couple of stories pulse in sync with the city and its local radio broadcasts.

Lunatics | Finland

director Saila Kivelä | producer Ida Karoskoski | production company Wacky Tie Films

“Lunatics” is a story about humanity driven mad by the Moon – men by its conquest, women by the rhythm of its monthly cycle.

Mariana’s Lament | Finland

directors Antti Haase, Mariana Reyes | producer Kaarle Aho | production company Making Movies

Mariana, a Mexican psychologist, returns to Finland to learn how to deal with her problematic relationship with her mother. Pirkko, a reviver of old Finnish lament singing, teaches Mariana how to cure her traumas by laments. Will a lament for her mother cure Mariana’s traumas?

Master of Ceremonies | Poland

director Katarzyna Piórek | producer Stanisław Zaborowski | production company Silver Frame

A 54-year-old eccentric Catholic teacher secretly conducts secular funerals behind the Catholic Church’s back until he faces his most difficult assignment: writing his own farewell speech.

Meet Me at the Graveyard | Latvia

director Elza Gauja | producer Uģis Riekstiņš | production company Picture House

A yearly Latvian tradition turns the graveyard into a place of laughter, tears, and reunions, as a community celebrates life while confronting the inevitability of death.

My Other, Perfect Me | Czechia, Lithuania, Slovakia

director Veronika Lišková | producer Martina Netíková | production company Cinémotif Films | co-production company Moonmakers

Tereza, a successful actress and musician, struggles with bulimia hidden behind her public life. As her condition begins to threaten her voice and career, she embarks on a cinematic journey confronting her desire for perfection and searching for a path toward recovery.

My Shadows Grow Faster Than Me | Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia

director Roman Bondarchuk  | scriptwriters Darya Averchenko, Giedrė Beinoriūtė  | producer Jurga Gluskinienė | production company Monoklis | co-producers Darya Averchenko (SOUTH FILMS), Uldis Cekulis (VFS Films)

When Russia’s invasion forces a Ukrainian filmmaking family to flee to Britain, their children grow into a new language and culture while the parents film what is being lost – and ask what returning home can mean when home itself is changing.

Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police | Italy, Latvia

director Simone Manetti | producer Raffaele Brunetti | production company B&B Film | co-producer Uldis Cekulis (VFS Films)

The true story of the greatest gymnast of all time, a symbol of propaganda, a target of the Secret Police, a precious prisoner of the Ceaușescu regime, which seized control of her body, her mind, and her life.

P | Estonia

director Vladimir Loginov | producer Janika Möls | production company Korraks film | co-production company Anthill films

Before the first note is heard, music already exists. This film follows the journey of a piano’s creation, where nature, labor and sound slowly transform into music, accompanied by reflections from Arvo Pärt’s diaries.

Ravine and Tower | Ukraine, Lithuania

director Oleksiy Radynski | producer Lyuba Knorozok | production company Kinotron Group | co-production company Studija Kinema

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Babyn Yar in Kyiv – the area of one of the worst Nazi massacres of the Shoah – was subject to Soviet state-sanctioned oblivion for decades. Now, it is under Russian attack.

See What I Say | Lithuania, Italy, Ukraine

director Arturas Jevdokimovas | producer Ringailė Leščinskienė | production company Zero Copy Reel | co-producers Giusi Santoro (POPCULT), Ivanna Khitsinska (WAYA Production)

In the Deaf world, there is no universal sign language – every country has its own. But in three bars across Bologna, Vilnius, and Kyiv, people who share no common language keep trying to reach each other. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t.

The Shepherd’s Son | Azerbaijan

director Nurlan Hasanli | producer Turkan Huseyn | production company Ultra Production

A nomadic shepherd’s son abandons school against his father’s wishes to follow him into his family’s traditional livelihood, as ecological collapse and the takeover of herds push shepherds into wage labor.

Trains Towards The Night: On the Use of Images | Poland

director Patricia Venti | producer Karolina Rum | production company Alpha Productions

Using fragments of Nazi propaganda filmed in the Theresienstadt ghetto, Trains Towards the Night exposes how images are constructed to be believed – and how that construction continues to shape the way we see today.

Two of Us | Lithuania

director Jūratė Samulionytė | producers Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė, Danielė Kunčinaitė | production company Just a Moment

After half a century in hiding, a queer couple fights for recognition in a post-Soviet society, knowing that every moment could be their last together.

COMING SOON | films in post-production stage from previous BSD editions

Beautiful Stupid Thing | Estonia, Colombia

director Carlos E. Lesmes | producer Merili Laur, Carlos E. Lesmes | production company Tin Can | co-production company Altiplano

After over 13 years apart, Angela and Carlos, mother and son, reunite when she migrates from Colombia to Estonia. What begins as a quest for an imagined ancestor, turns into a journey from the pains of the past to the possibilities of the future.

I See No Death | Ukraine, Latvia

director Yevhen Titarenko | producer Natalia Khazan | production company Braha Production Company | co-producer Guntis Trekteris (Ego Media)

What is it like to fight a war without experiencing death? War has taken a new turn in the twenty-first century, with the arrival of new technologies on the battlefield. Despite the return of conventional warfare to Europe, the threat now comes from the sky.

Wise Guys | Latvia

director Ieva Ozoliņa | producer Madara Melberga | production company FA Filma

In Riga, on the Eastern border of Europe, two former gangsters decide to go legal. They start a debt collection agency, still relying on the skills from their criminal past.