A newly minted competition lining up some of the best narrative debuts of the last 12 months. Discover the most exciting and promising new voices in international cinema.
Festival Programme
Films — by Strand
Fresh
Birdeater
This Australian debut marks the arrival of incredibly promising new directing talents as a bride-to-be tags along to her fiancé’s stag do from hell. An audacious, rollicking deep dive into power, control and the rituals of toxic masculinity.
Janet Planet
Acclaimed playwright Annie Baker ruminates on the evolving relationship between an 11-year-old misfit and her single mother during the summer holidays in this intimately observed debut feature.