COLIFFE

The fifth edition of the international film festival

which celebrates works from all over the world.

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILMS V EDITION 2025

COLiseum International Film FEstival

¿POR QUÉ NADIE ME LO DIJO?

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Agamenón Quintero

ANOTHER CHANCE: AJAMILA'S STORY

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Iuliia Broslavskaia

CROOKEDFINGER

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Julia Halperin, Jason Cortlund

Why didn´t any one told me? immerses the viewer in the internal struggle of Jordi, a Spanish film director, who tries to overcome the after-effects of a toxic relationship. Media harassment, doubts about his talent and the fear of loving again are intertwined in a plot that explores the limits of manipulation and psychological violence.A film that exposes the shadows of being a man and the importance of mental health.

Purity, truthfulness, asceticism were the life of young Ajamila. But an unexpected passion for a woman overwhelmed him, forcing him to cheat, rob and kill. He fell so low that it seemed the gates of hell were open... What awaits him at the end of his life? Will he be able to avoid paying for his sins? Is providence merciless, or does Ajamila have another chance?

Colombia, Spain

Russian Federation

U.S.A.

After the sudden deaths of her aging parents, Maria Gallucci returns to her childhood home on Cape Cod (Massachusetts). When Maria’s estranged brother Nico (and his older girlfriend Sigrid) show up to help sort out the estate, tensions soon rise about how to best sell the decrepit house. While Maria and Sigrid forge an unexpected friendship, Nico’s emotional volatility becomes increasingly unstable. Is it the effects of an old brain injury, the toll of revisiting past family traumas, or something related to the strange vibrating hum that only Maria seems to hear?

ADHURA KHVAAB

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Shadab

India

In "Adhura Khvab" (An Incomplete Dream) is a poignant Hindi feature film that follows the journey of a struggling Indian couple desperate to have a child. Unable to conceive naturally, they turn to an IVF center, only to be confronted with the staggering cost of the procedure—approximately 15 lakh rupees. Determined to fulfill their dream of parenthood, the husband takes on the burden of arranging the money, borrowing from a local landlord. However, when the IVF treatment fails, their hopes are shattered, and they find themselves trapped in a financial crisis. Unable to repay the loan, the family spirals into deeper trouble, facing mounting pressure and the harsh realities of debt.

DOLL

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Egor Beroev

EL ORO DE SOTIEL CORONADA

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Rafa Duna

EMILI

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Ajola Daja

EUGENE O'NEILL'S - THE FIRST MAN

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Hardeep Giani

A dramatic story of a girl named Nadya, who, having made a mistake in her youth (killing her unfaithful fiancé), tries to correct her mistakes and return to normal life. After serving her sentence, Nadya begins searching for her daughter, whom she gave birth to in prison, and her friend Andrey helps her with this. Nadya's subconscious, the great power of motherly love, creates a unique world in her imagination, through the prism of which our heroine now lives. In the fatal finale, both Andrey and the viewer will understand that Nadya lost her daughter during childbirth, and the search is only a ghostly bridge of her consciousness to correcting and working through the heroine's most severe mental traumas.

Set in the American West in 1879, the story follows Carlos Durango, a man haunted by a past he doesn't want to remember and who lives his life aimlessly, traveling without a fixed destination. Chance leads him to find some plans that promise to find out an important treasure in Sotiel Coronada. So he and his brother decide to embark on a journey full of unexpected twists and turns that will ultimately change both of their lives.

This is the first-ever film adaptation of "First Man," a rare early tale from the pen of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner Eugene O'Neill. This romantic psychological drama set in 1920s Connecticut delves into themes of obsession, grief, and betrayal. World-renowned anthropologist Curtis is consumed by grief over the deaths of his young daughters. He finds solace in immersing himself in preparations for his upcoming expedition to Asia, where he aims to unravel the mystery of "First Man." However, he must confront an undercurrent of family conflict as he battles his relatives' disturbing suspicions that his wife Martha is pregnant with his best friend Bigelow's child.

Russian Federation

Spain

Albania

U.K., U.S.A.

The young mother, Emily, tries to escape her violent husband. One day, she finally decides to bring her son Oni to her parents in Greece. She makes it to the border but has to realize that Oni cannot leave Albania without his father's permission, which she knows her husband would never give her. Yllka, her mother-in-law, offers to adopt Oni and later give custody of him back to the mother. Emily accepts the offer, not knowing that Yllka has her own agenda. The situation between the two women escalates when Emily realizes that Yllka wants to keep Oni in Tirana.

EVA I BEA

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Nando Caballero

HOW TO SURVIVE HOLLYWOOD

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Paul Ruven

IF FOOTPRINTS WERE MEANT TO LAST, NO ONE WOULD LOSE THEIR WAY HOME.

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Arash Saadatfar

NOS VOLVEREMOS A ENCONTRAR UN DÍA DE SOL

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Juan Cruz Dieguez

"Eva and Bea" is a delicate and profound look at the emotions that remain when love has run out but still burns. In an ordinary café, two women — a film director and an actress — reunite to talk, heal wounds, and perhaps say goodbye forever. Through intimate and moving dialogue, the film delves into the cracks of a relationship marked by creative passion and emotional fragility. A flashback takes us to one of their first dates in another bar, full of promises and tentative glances. Their shared memories — tender, fleeting, sometimes painful — appear as home VHS recordings, evoking the nostalgia of a time that will never return. "Eva and Bea" is a simple yet powerful portrait of love, art, and what remains when everything ends.

On her way to a Hollywood dream breakthrough with a $100 million Babygirl 2 pitch, an actress becomes entangled in the mysterious disappearance of her true love. How To Survive Hollywood is a playful and thrilling road movie about daring to keep dreaming and believing in yourself.

This is a drama about a woman whose life is turned upside down when a street acid attack leaves her face disfigured. Believing it is her right to reclaim her image, she demands the destruction of the paintings the artist once created of her. But the artist refuses to hand over the portraits, setting the stage for a painful confrontation about memory, identity, and ownership. This film uses poems from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, Hafez's Divan, and the novel The Blind Owl, written by Sadegh Hedayat.

Bruno, a successful actor, returns from Buenos Aires with a friend to reunite with his high school class. The guests arrive eager to share a weekend in the mountains. In the afternoon, they enjoy the weather and the scenery. They chat, dance, and get drunk. However, the night brings with it irreconcilable differences.

Spain

Netherlands

Iran

Argentina

REVIENS

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Irina Velez Crespo, David Gelay, Mostafa Belbacha

SANTA CECÍLIA

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Kico Santos

SECUNDARIAS

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Arturo DueÑas Herrero

THE FAMILY MATTER

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Metin Kuru

Alicia, an Ecuadorian woman living in Belgium, is raising her two children, Lois (12) and Inés (8), alone after fleeing an abusive husband. Desperate, she consults a shaman who delivers a spiritual message to them. The next day, Alicia mysteriously disappears. Fearing separation, the children decide to face a harsh world on their own.

A village in the São Paulo neighborhood of Santa Cecília becomes the center of a conflict between a real estate developer and a pair of activists fighting against property speculation, just as a series of mysterious disappearances of women begins to unfold in the area. One man appears to be connected both to the disappearances and to the village, where the discovery of a statue by a renowned Italo-Brazilian sculptor makes the situation even more complicated.

Shot in a single take, mixing formats, color, and black and white, the film reclaims the role of supporting actresses in theater, film, and real life: Monastery of Yuste (Spain), September 21, 1558. Emperor Charles V, decrepit and ill, like a Don Juan on his last night, is dying, while the most important women in his life appear to him like nightmares. It is the play, entitled Letters to the Emperor, that a group of actresses is about to premiere. But things don't go as planned.

The film "Family Matter" focuses on the communication issues between two employed siblings and their parents. It explores the consequences of the preference for video calls over in-person meetings, introduced into our daily lives by technological advancements, and the process by which this preference leads to misinformation about family structure, internal communication between family members, and social values.

Belgium

Brazil

Spain

Turkey

THE WANING SKY

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Carlos Ruiz Carmona

ZIRKA | ЗІРКА. ДУМА ПРО ПРАВО

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Vyacheslav (Slavik) Bihun

КЛАС ‘90 /CLASS '90

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Boyko Boyanov

The Waning Sky presents a poetic and lyrical exploration of the complexities of desire, love, and the lingering pain of living with the consequences of our actions. The film tells the story of two lovers united by a love as strong as it is forbidden, tormented by the looming presence of their unfulfilled desires and the guilt that accompanies them. Inspired by the rich tradition of classic black-and-white love stories, the film poetically explores how desire can unravel the fabric of our lives, how it can compel us to act against our better judgment and lead us down unexpected paths. The work delves into the inextricable link between love and pain, how the two are inextricably linked, woven together in a tapestry of emotions as beautiful as they are tragic.

A cinematic portrait of Zoryslava Romovska, a prominent Ukrainian jurist and the author of the "Family Code" project. A cinematic journey into the closed world of law, along an unexplored path, leads Zirka from Kosovo to Lviv, Kiev, and back, amidst corrupt politics and the law: a journey through the turbulent 80s as she struggles to preserve her conscience and reputation, inspiring with her charisma.

Ukraine

Bulgaria

Former classmates who graduated in 1989 in Bulgaria reunite at a small hotel in the Rhodope Mountains to celebrate their 30th anniversary. What should be a joyful event turns into a painful experience, as old secrets and traumas still haunt them. The sum of their life experiences, unfulfilled dreams, and current goals reflects the upheavals of post-communist society in the 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

THE WISH/LO DESEADO

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Darío Mascambroni

Mexico

A murder in the mountains, an Aboriginal amulet with magical powers, and two people desperately trying to make up for lost time. A young father, who has neglected his daughter for years, decides to make amends by spending a few days with her in a remote camp in the Sierras de Comechingones, Argentina. There, a mysterious elderly woman, whose eyes shine with a desire for a different life, manages the sparse cabins that welcome the rare guests near a river steeped in ancient legends. When the father learns of a local museum of indigenous artifacts, the woman reveals to the girl the existence of an amulet endowed with all sorts of powers, including the ability to right its new owner's past—but only after the previous one's death. Silently, the group's balance becomes complicated, as each of them dreams of asking the amulet for a better life, at any cost.

Portugal