1957 In Budapest, after the uprising against the Communist regime, a young Jewish boy, Andor, raised by his mother with idealized tales of his deceased father, has his world turned upside down when a brutish man appears, claiming to be his true father.
László Nemes was born in Budapest. He directed the shorts Türelem (07), The Counterpart (08), and The Gentleman Takes His Leave (10). His features Son of Saul (15), which won the Grand Prix at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, and Sunset (18) both played the Festival. Orphan (25) is his latest film.
TO THE VICTORY!
(За Перемогу!)
by Valentyn Vasyanovych
Ukraine, Lithuania | 2025 | 105m | Ukrainian
Ukraine, in the near future. The war has ended. A film director is out of work, out of luck, and out of touch with his family abroad. While his wife and daughter built a new life in Vienna, he stays behind—confused, restless, and convinced that things will get better. Eventually. Probably. Maybe.
Valentyn Vasyanovych (born July 21, 1971) is a Ukrainian director, writer, producer, and cinematographer. He studied cinematography (1990–1995) and documentary directing (1995–2000) at the Kyiv State Institute of Theatrical Art, and later attended the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing (2006–2007). As producer and cinematographer of Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s The Tribe (2014), he won the Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize. His own films include Black Level (2017), winner of the Grand Prix at the Fribourg International Film Festival; Atlantis (2019), winner of the Venice Horizons Award for Best Film; and Reflection (2021), which premiered in the main competition at the Venice International Film Festival.