SIFF 2025 - Interested

An insecure Chinese-American teenager undergoes experimental surgery to appear white, hoping to secure the prom queen title and peer acceptance.

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.

An old Hong Kong desert shop-running family whom are facing obstacles from family issues and change of era, placing them in front of the diverging roads of decision and life: to hold the shop or not.

In Chongqing, Wei desperately searches for his daughter Fa. In Paris, Ren grapples with stepmother Sabine. Their lives collide in a VR world, where a mystical deer reveals hidden truths, sparking a journey of discovery and connection.

A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a man visiting his dying father in a sanatorium to the edge of a mythic forest. Based on the book of the same name by Bruno Schultz.

Just before graduation, Alex and Ethan pretend to be trans women to get into the girl's lockers. It's all a joke until Ethan realizes: she really is trans. The two must reckon with their changing friendship and the process of coming out.

A former tech executive gathers a team of software developers in the basement of an undisclosed location. They set out to build a digital advertising fraud operation. Within 12 weeks, they defraud a large number of high-profile advertisers, including the Trump campaign and a series of pro-Biden organizations during the 2020 US Presidential election. As the operation unfolds, we follow interviews about digital advertising, the Google-Facebook duopoly, and the known and lesser-known victims of ad fraud, like Uber and street vendor Nomfundo from South Africa. We also get to address the impact of ad fraud on the internet economy and our societies - and ask: is ad tech destroying democracy?

A compromising record can change history.

In China's Xinjiang region, a Kazakh boy's magical friendship with a local Han girl blooms amid a world where plants and imagination intertwine.

Two grieving men bond in support group and form unlikely friendship.

Jane sells travel adventures but lives cautiously. When her actor boyfriend Mikki's passion fades, he unexpectedly suggests opening their relationship to new sexual partners.

Best friends Ruth and Megan run a vintage shop in Muswell Hill. Stumbling across a time machine, they embark on trips to the past to stock their shop with no idea of the irreparable damage they're causing to the fabric of the universe.