6t KIIFF - Official Selection - Feature Categories

Feature Film

Synopsis: The lonely, 17-year-old chemistry fanatic AIKE, in his desperate urge to be seen, tries to build a nuclear reactor in his mother's shed, with all the radioactive and catastrophic consequences that entails.

Synopsis: After her husband's uncle steals land left by the family patriarch, Do-ah launches a lawsuit despite having no evidence and no legal experience. As the battle intensifies, a mysterious spiritual treasure leads her to the 108 Dharma Princes, transforming a fight for land into a journey of inner discovery.

Synopsis: A boy who no longer speaks, shaped by a tyrannical father and a mother he both resents and loves, grows up on Japan’s northern coast. With nowhere to belong, he returns to seek his father, setting his fate in motion.

Synopsis: Set against the devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression, The Thrift Store Dress is an atmospheric musical drama about love, resilience, kindness, and the enduring power of human connection.

Synopsis: Following 'Bela Belara's A Vampire' (2025), Bela Belara is joined by her witchcraft practicing best friend and a member of a vampire cult in helping her stop the spread of the bloodsucker disease.

Synopsis: The story begins with Peter, a Frenchman who discovered a valuable item from the city of Kora. The secret was revealed to his friend Edmund, who wanted to possess the treasure alone. He planned to eliminate Peter and traveled to the city of Kora to find the treasure. He had to find a blue cat named Khamwan, who held the secret. However, Edmund encountered an obstacle when Mo, a brave girl who believed in goodness, found out about this evil plan and tried to obstruct it in every way.

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A Russian commander is so disillusioned by his countries invasion he goes over to the Ukrainian side, is re-captured by Russian forces and is slated for execution but in his last moments goes over the entire saga of his life which includes his growing up with Number One (Putin), the love of his life who has a lot of ambition and goes off with Number One and the final confrontation between the Russian commander and Number One where they are all obliterated in a suitcase nuclear bomb. Based on the narrative structure of 'Jacob's Ladder'.

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A married couple, who have been together for several years and have an 18-month-old child, discover that their child has a rare disease. After conducting medical tests, they realize that the father's blood does not match the child's, revealing a shocking truth about their past…

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Journey is an internationally acclaimed dark fantasy about a grieving warrior who ventures into a perilous underworld in search of his lost love. A cinematic odyssey created single handedly over seven years by one film maker. It blends handcrafted practical effects, intricate props, and modern visual techniques to create a fully immersive world where magic and danger is ever present.

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Chris, the heir to a powerful empire, discovers true freedom in Celina, a soulful pianist whose music stirs his heart and defies his destiny. They risk everything for love fighting against family, fate, and the fleetingness of time.

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Fazaeil is a 65-year-old man who lives in a border village. He lost his ability of sleeping in the war and has not been able to sleep for years. Most of the villagers are trying to find a solution for his insomnia, but not sleeping hasprovided an opportunity for him to help his fellow men without any,expectations, so he encounters incidents.

Feature Documentary

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Twenty-five years after 9/11, twelve New Yorkers recount their experiences of that historic day. Through deeply personal stories, IX XI explores how ordinary lives unexpectedly intersected with one of the defining events of modern history.

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When filmmaker Jacques-Hervé Fichet loses his best friend to a sudden heart attack, a series of chance encounters draw him into one of humanity’s greatest enigmas: the origin of consciousness. Alongside Élisabeth Loesch, he travels from intimate testimonies of near death experiences, then meets with some of the world’s most brilliant minds, including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose, neurologists Steven Laureys and Charlotte Martial, and psychiatrist Christophe Fauré.

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Have you ever felt an instant connection with a stranger, as if you've known them your whole life? Or noticed how a room's atmosphere suddenly changes when certain people walk in? These aren't coincidences, they're glimpses into the oldest language in human history, one we all instinctively speak but rarely understand.

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"Rootless Resident" explores Yervant Demirci's struggle to connect to his Armenian heritage while labeled as both Kurdish and Turkish Armenian, focusing on cultural identity, heritage, and historical trauma in modern Turkey and Armenia.

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Getting Off The Wheel is an intimate, vérité-driven documentary following 10 individuals from Singapore at a 10-day Innerwork Retreat set in the spiritual landscapes of Kumamoto, Koyasan, and Awaji Island, in Japan in the final season of 2025.

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Berxwedan, a commander of a women’s YPJ unit in northern Syria, left behind the dream of a normal life at eighteen to join the fight against ISIS. After a short visit home, she returns to the front, convinced the fight is not only for her people but for the freedom of women worldwide.

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Mikail, who was born and raised in Van, looks like a madman with his behavior and marginal appearance, and on the other hand recalls a dervish, is 37 years old.

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Mirze, a former wedding cameraman in Turkish Kurdistan, sets out to find the tapes he once filmed. As he finds and restores the archives touring village by village, he works to reconstruct Kurd social memory which is in danger of disappearing. Along this journey between past and present, he will also find a window to confront and heal his own past.

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A documentary about George Floyd, and the Black Lives Matter movement.

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"Mahwash: A Documentary Film" follows the extraordinary journey of Mahwash, Afghanistan’s pioneering female singer, whose voice transcends borders, exile, and political turmoil. Encouraged by her devoted husband, Farooq, she rises to fame despite cultural barriers, only to face severe backlash when her identity is revealed. As she dreams of a final concert in her homeland, the Taliban’s rise shatters her hopes, banning music and silencing artists.

Honorary screening - Produced in 2018

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Game Girls follows two women navigating life through the chaotic world of LA's' Skid Row. Tensions are fueled between the two women: while one is comfortable being a player in the underground economy of Skid Row, the other wants out.

Feature Screenplay

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A rising Hollywood movie star, exhausted by the sanitized image her handlers have built around her, walks off her own premiere and impulsively enters an amateur night at a Van Nuys strip club, where she begins leading a secret double life that threatens to detonate her career and force her to decide who she actually wants to be.

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In 1937, the world’s largest airship, the Hindenburg, begins its final transatlantic voyage from Frankfurt to America, carrying an eclectic cross-section of humanity fleeing, serving, or profiting from a rapidly changing Germany. Among them are Fritz and Ilse Neumann, young newlyweds desperate to escape the tightening grip of Nazi persecution and begin a new life in America; Sterling Whitman, an American photojournalist secretly working for U.S. Intelligence to investigate rumors of a classified Nazi operation aboard the airship; Captain Max Pruss and his neglected wife Helena, whose crumbling marriage leaves her vulnerable to the charismatic but self-destructive filmmaker Maximilian Reinhardt. As the glamorous voyage settles into routine luxury, Whitman uncovers evidence that the Hindenburg is transporting a mysterious biological compound hidden beneath the guise of civilian travel.

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In a video message, a social media acolyte invites other women to have sex with her boyfriend, but only if they film their review after.

A game of power dynamics intertwines the lives of several amused participants, then the videos leak and those lives are forever changed, destroyed, or ended.

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Based on a true story, when her abusive ex-husband launches a relentless campaign with digital stalking to isolate her and drive her to financial ruin, a determined survivor takes on the California judicial system, just as a brutal recession hits. After a devastating loss of her nest egg in a ponzi scheme, she hunts down and reports the con man to the FBI while landing upon an unknown and exciting professional journey. Fast paced story tracks her journey from her climb on the Himalayas to broken heart, bruised body, dented ego and broken condo to landmark victory at California Supreme Court resulting in a published case. Script is slightly long & adaptable to series (but can be easily cut shorter). I have updated to correct errors/typos/ dates etc but not updating here since it is already gone to many places.

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The Armchair Travellers is a genre-defying cinematic journey, blending sci-fi, historical literature, rom-com warmth, and fearless adventure. In a world where books come alive, the most extraordinary story is not found between the covers – but between the lines.

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The true story of Michael and Bridget Kennedy.

Michael and Bridget Kennedy, Irish immigrants to the new lands of colonial Australia in the 1800's. Michael is a hard working police officer, Bridget, fierce and keen business minded . Together they forge a new life for themselves in a harsh new world.