Equally deserving of audience attention are the stories shared in Lost Land, the winner of the Orizzonti Jury Prize. Shot by Evil Does Not Exist’s Yoshio Kitagawa, the film recalls Shinya Tsukamoto’s Shadow of Fire (2023) in its immersive perspective and quiet devastation. – Blake SimonsMemory of Princess MumbiDirector: Damien HauserMemory of Princess Mumbi (2025)The year is 2094, and film director Kuve (Abraham Joseph) visits the African country of Umata to make a documentary about the aftermath of the ‘Great War’. Linking this diptych are shadowy visitors wreaking havoc with a gibberish language they whisper to the ears of the uninitiated. The director upstaged more experienced filmmakers in competition with an unflinching story about an attempt to outweigh guilt with devotion.