2025 Utopia Festival

Films

Categories

Local Orbit Competition

Tropicana

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A middle-aged cashier's monotonous routine is disrupted when her boss is mysteriously murdered, triggering a series of events that lead her to find self-worth and freedom.

Local Orbit Competition

Horse With No Name

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A journey of a man and a woman who found themselves in a parallel world - an endless arid desert. With no identity or memory, they cling to the visionary dreams they each have at night, trying to find who they really are.

Local Orbit Competition

The Milky Way

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Desperate to support her first baby with no father in the picture, offbeat musician Tala takes up a job at the “Milky Way.” A factory of breast milk suction.

Local Orbit Competition

The Altman Method

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Noa, a struggling actress, is thrust into a severe moral crisis after her husband miraculously survives a terrorist attack. The reality she once trusted begins to crack, and lying becomes her only path to the truth.

Galactic Panorama

Queens of the Dead

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Drag queens and club kids battle zombies craving brains during their drag show in Brooklyn.

Horror ComedyZombies

Galactic Panorama

The Holy Boy

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In Italy’s happiest village, a haunted teacher discovers dark secret behind weekly gatherings where locals seek healing from a teenage boy’s embrace. His quest to save the youth reveals the sinister nature of a community hiding behind joy.

Galactic Panorama

Grafted

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A bright but socially awkward exchange student takes her craving for popularity to horrifying heights.

Beauty Body HorrorHorror

The Bleeding Edge

Self Help

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A young woman infiltrates a dangerous self-actualization community after her mother becomes entangled with its enigmatic leader.

Galactic Panorama

Exit 8

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A man becomes increasingly desperate when he realizes he is trapped in a subway station, needing to complete a mission to get out.

Eddington / Special Utopia Presentation

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In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

HorrorThrillerWTF

The Bleeding Edge

Mermaid

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A drug addicted Florida man finds a wounded mermaid at his lowest point. When word spreads about his secret, he'll stop at nothing to protect her.

HorrorMagical Creatures

The Bleeding Edge

The Funeral

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A hearse driver is transporting a body. Or maybe... it’s not a body at all?

Jaws / 50 Years of Shark Horror / 4K Restoration

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When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to the local police chief, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

Galactic Panorama

Egghead Republic

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An alternative reality where the cold war did not end, and Soviet Kazakstan has been struck by an atomic bomb.

Alternative HistoryMagical CreaturesScience FictionWTF

The Bleeding Edge

The Outwaters

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Four travelers encounter menacing phenomena while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert.

HorrorThrillerWTF

Freak Out

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A soldier sets off for a week of patrolling with his unit. It is not long before strange and frightening things begin to happen to all the soldiers, and they start question whether they will come out of this experience alive.

JeruZalem

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When a couple of American young adults fly to Israel to visit the city of Jerusalem, a biblical nightmare falls upon them.

Frozen Days

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A lonely young woman survives a suicide bombing and assumes the identity of one of its victims. As she moves into his apartment her grip on reality starts to crack.

Abulele

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A boy struggles at home and at school with bullies after his brother is killed. When he befriends and shelters a mythical creature, it helps him outsmart his tormenters and overcome his grief

Save The Green Planet

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Byeong-gu believes that the world is on the verge of an alien invasion, and sets out to save the world.

Dark ComedyHorrorScience Fiction

Alpha / Closing Film

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Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

CoVidMysteryScience FictionWTF

Galactic Panorama

The Black Hole

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A comical triptych about residents in an apartment block district who long for a better life. When a black hole mysteriously appears in a lilac bush, they will have to face aliens, a giant spider, and an Austrian in breeches.

ComedyScience Fiction

Galactic Panorama

The Lost Children

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Four siblings wake up in a remote forest house and realize that their father is gone

Galactic Panorama

Arco

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In 2075, a 10-year-old girl, Iris, sees a mysterious boy wearing a rainbow jumpsuit falling from the sky. It's Arco. He comes from a distant, idyllic future where time travel is possible. Iris takes him in and will do whatever it takes to help him return home

AnimationScience FictionSolarPunk

The Handmaiden

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A con man's plan to steal an heiress's heart - and her fortune - gets complicated when she falls for the handmaid he hired to help with his scheme.

The Bleeding Edge

Dolly

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Macy, a young woman, is abducted by a monstrous figure intent on raising her as their own child.

Galactic Panorama

Dalloway

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Clarissa accepts a residency at the Ludovico Institute to work on her next novel with the assistance of Dalloway, an artificial intelligence system. As the novel progresses, Dalloway becomes worryingly overzealous.

Dark DramaScience Fiction

The Bleeding Edge

Bernadette Wants to Kill

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A desperate woman feels the urge to kill and enters the dark web - what could possibly go wrong?

The Virgin of the Quarry Lake

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Follows a jealous girl who enlists the help of magic to interfere with a relationship involving the apple of her eye.

Coming of AgeHorrorThrillerWTF

U Are the Universe

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After Earth explodes, Ukrainian space trucker Andriy Melnyk becomes the last person in the universe until he receives a call from Catherine, a French woman on a distant space station. Despite the obstacles, Andriy decides to find her.

Science FictionSpace

No Other Choice / Opening Film

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After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.

Dark DramaThriller

Galactic Panorama

Redux Redux

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A vengeful woman travels to multiple dimensions to exact justice on the serial killer who murdered her daughter.

Science Fiction

The Substance Uncut

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A fading celebrity takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that helps her create a younger, better version of herself.

Beauty Body HorrorHorrorScience FictionWTF

Local Orbit Competition

My One and Only

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Weeks after giving birth to her first child, a young Baalat Teshuva—a newly religious woman—arrives at the home of her Rebbetzin, claiming that her husband has been replaced.

Sight Extended / Israeli Premiere

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A troubled young man who suffers from agoraphobia experiences an unlikely transformation

Science Fiction

Galactic Panorama

Linoleum

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A failing children's show host endeavours on a bizarre journey to make his childhood dream come true.

DramaScience Fiction