Strange River

Venice 2025
Official Selection
San Sebastian 2025
Official Selection
Best Mediterranean Film
Venice 2025
Bisato d’Oro
Best Artistic Contribution
Busan 2025
Flash Forward
Competition
Chicago 2025
New Directors
Competition

Strange River

A Film by Jaume Claret Muxart

2025 - Spain/Germany - Drama - 105 min.

with Jan Monter , Nausicaa Bonnín , Francesco Wenz , Jordi Oriol , Bernat Solé & Roc Colell

Original Title: Estrany Riu

Languages: Catalan , German , English

Sixteen-year-old Dídac and his family are spending the summer holidays on a bicycle trip along the Danube. An unexpected encounter with a boy changes the course of the journey, with his enigmatic presence awakening new feelings in Dídac and disrupting his relationship with his family.

In Collections:
Venice 2025
Official Selection
San Sebastian 2025
Official Selection
Best Mediterranean Film
Venice 2025
Bisato d’Oro
Best Artistic Contribution
Busan 2025
Flash Forward
Competition
Chicago 2025
New Directors
Competition

More Films

Parisienne

A film by Danielle Arbid

2015 - France - Drama - 1.85 DCP - 119 min.

The 90’s. Lina, 18, arrives to Paris for her studies. She is looking for what she can’t find in her home country Lebanon: a taste of freedom. Lead by her natural instinct for self-preservation, she experiences different sides of the Parisian jungle and becomes conscious of her own place. Because when you are 18, your dream is to embrace the world - not just one boy...

The Rye Horn

A film by Jaione Camborda

2023 - Spain/Belgium/Portugal - Drama - 105 min.

1971, Francoist Spain. In the Galician countryside María assists women in childbirth. After an attempt to help a young woman in trouble, she suddenly has to hide from the authorities, leave everything behind and flee the country.
On her perilous journey to Portugal, María encounters female solidarity and realizes that she is not alone and that, thanks to the help of others, she might finally find her freedom.

The Monk and the Gun

A film by Pawo Choyning Dorji

2023 - Bhutan/France/USA/Taiwan - Comedy/Drama - 107 min.

Kingdom of Bhutan, 2006. Modernization has finally arrived. Bhutan becomes the last country in the world to connect to the internet and television, and now the biggest change of all: democracy. To teach the people how to vote, the authorities organize a mock election, but the locals seem unconvinced. Travelling to rural Bhutan where religion is more popular than politics, the election supervisor discovers that a monk is planning a mysterious ceremony for the election day.