PRESS RELEASE: EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL IN SOUTH AFRICA 2025

PRESS RELEASE: EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL IN SOUTH AFRICA 2025

The 12th EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL in SOUTH AFRICA is a cinematic journey in
search of love, identity, family and belonging. Opening in South Africa on 09 October
and running until 19 October, 10 contemporary European films reflect on the realities of
Europe and its place in the world today. Their strong characters in unusual situations,
carefully crafted stories and breath taking landscapes make these films a road trip for the
heart and mind.

Live screenings take place at The Labia in Cape Town and The Bioscope and Nu MetroHyde Park in Johannesburg. A curated selection of films will also be available for onlinestreaming in Southern Africa at https://www.eurofilmfest.co.za.

The festival is brought to you by the Encounters South African International
Documentary Festival, and sponsored by the Delegation of the European Union,
Cineuropa, and the Embassies and cultural institutes of Denmark, Flanders, France,
Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom.

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Festival Film Highlights
In urban Denmark, A Perfectly Normal Family redefines love and understanding when
Emma's father, Thomas, announces that he wants to become Agnetha. Father and
daughter fight to keep what they had while accepting that everything has changed
(Denmark).

In Real Faces, Julia, an ambitious casting agent, relocates to Brussels after a breakup.
Struggling to build a new life, she masks her insecurities behind a façade of success and
happiness. She meets reclusive microbiologist Eliott and forms an unexpected, authentic
friendship that inspires her to break free from societal expectations (Belgium/Flanders).
In Le Mohican, an unlikely hero, supported by his Corsican community, is on the run
from the mafia and ruthless property developers who threaten to take his land. His
resistance transforms him into a legend (France).

From German filmmaker Christian Petzold comes Miroirs #3, a haunting, characterdriven
exploration of loss, memory, and unexpected recovery when an accident survivor
is taken in by a good Samaritan family (Germany).

Fuori, meaning "outside", is written and directed by Mario Martone and about the
controversial feminist writer Goliarda Sapienza. The story unfolds in the summer of the
1980s, following the writer's imprisonment due to a bizarre and unexpected incident. In
prison she forms an unusual and lasting bond with other inmates (Italy).

The North has been called "the best hiking movie to date", and the power of its energy -
feel the wind, touch the water and endure the frustration of setting up a tent in a storm -
underlies the journey of "humans who need to reconnect with nature and themselves
and grow through friendships". The film takes place in the breath taking mountains of the
Scottish Highlands (the Netherlands).

In Under the Volcano, a summer vacation in Tenerife turns to chaos when a Ukrainian
family learns about the invasion of their country (Poland).

The film Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures explores a different type of travel,
focussing on economic migrants and their fantasy of escaping their circumstances; it has
been described as "a chilling exploration of modern servitude." (Portugal).

The brothers, Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar, are part of the production team of Sirat, an
unusual journey of a father and his son searching for his daughter through the remote
southern Moroccan desert, with the soundtrack leading the way in this "odyssey between
life and death." (Spain).

In Unicorns, rising star Ben Hardy plays a mechanic and a single father who falls in love
with a South Asian drag queen, in a film which reminds us of what it takes to transform
and cross borders, whether physical, mental, or spiritual. The directors are Sally El
Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd (the United Kingdom