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Director: Dag Johan Haugerud
Stars: Jan Gunnar, Røise Thorbjørn, Harr Siri Forberg
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden

Two married, heterosexual chimney sweeps face experiences that unsettle their views on sexuality and identity. One has a same-sex encounter without considering it either as an expression of homosexuality or infidelity. The other finds himself in dreams where he is seen as a woman.

Director: Andrew Durham
Stars: Emilia Jones, Scoot McNairy, Geena Davis
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy

A father-daughter relationship evolves through an era of bohemian decadence in 1970s San Francisco to the sober and heartbreaking era of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

Director: Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, Norway

On the precipice of adulthood, teenagers converge at a traditional folk high school in Arctic Norway. Dropped at the edge of the world, they must rely on only themselves, one another, and a loyal pack of sled dogs as they all grow in unexpected directions.

Director: Nicholas Colia
Stars: Everett Blunck, Owen Teague, Abby Ryder Fortson
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Griffin is the most ambitious playwright of his generation. He’s also fourteen years old. When his mom hires a handsome 25-year-old handyman, Griffin’s life and his new play take an inspired turn.

Director: Tommy Dorfman
Stars: Corey Fogelmanis, Miles Gutierrez-Riley
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA

A non-binary teen is kicked out of their North Carolina home after coming out to their ultra-religious parents. As a result, they move in with their estranged sister and her husband. Though the two are welcoming, they continue to struggle with anxiety further exacerbated by their parents’ rejection. As such, they try to keep a low profile at school. However, after they meet a proudly bisexual classmate, their life begins to look a little more hopeful.

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Hélène Vincent, Josiane Balasko, Ludivine Sagnier
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Country: France

Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie drops off her son Lucas to spend school vacation with his grandma, Michelle, stressed out by her daughter, serves her toxic mushrooms for lunch. Valérie quickly recovers, but forbids her mother from seeing her grandson anymore. Feeling lonely and guilty, Michelle falls into a depression… until Marie-Claude’s son gets out of prison.

Director: Moritz Riesewick, Hans Block
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany, Netherlands, USA

Startups are using AI to create avatars that allow relatives to talk with their loved ones after they have died. An exploration of a profound human desire and the consequences of turning the dream of immortality into a product.

Director: Sally Aitken
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia

Amid the glamour of Hollywood, Los Angeles, a woman finds herself on a transformative journey as she nurtures wounded hummingbirds, unraveling a visually captivating and magical tale of love, fragility, healing, and the delicate beauty in tiny acts of greatness.

Director: Embeth Davidtz
Stars: Lexi Venter, Embeth Davidtz, Zikhona Bali
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa

Eight-year-old Bobo grows up on her family farm in Rhodesia in 1980 during the final days of the Bush War to end British colonial rule. Her eyes see conflict, the family’s bond to the land, and the lasting wounds that war imprints on those who live through it.

Director: Neo Sora
Stars: Hayato Kurihara, Yukito Hidaka, Yuta Hayashi
Genre: Sci Fi, Fantasy, Drama
Country: Japan, USA, UK, Singapore

In a near-future Japanese city bracing for a devastating earthquake, a group of teenage friends navigate personal struggles and fractured bonds amid rising tension.

Director: Karan Kandhari
Stars: Radhika Apte, Ashok Pathak, Chhaya Kadam
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India, UK, Sweden

In Mumbai, an arranged marriage spirals into darkness as the spineless husband watches his wife morph into a ruthless, feral force within their marital confines.

Director: Cristina Costantini
Stars: Sally Ride, Tam O’Shaughnessy
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Sally Ride’s groundbreaking journey as the first American woman in space concealed a deeply personal story. Her life partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy, unveils their covert 27-year romance and its accompanying sacrifices.

Director: Jonathan Millet
Stars: Adam Bessa, Tawfeek Barhom, Julia Franz Richter
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Germany

After being imprisoned by the Assad regime in Syria, Hamid now works undercover as part of a secret group pursuing their leaders, including the guard he suspects was responsible for his torture.

Director: Alex Ross Perry
Stars: Stephen Malkmus, Scott Kannberg, Bob Nastanovich
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA, Germany

’90s indie-rock band Pavement reunites for their sold-out 2022 tour. But as preparations get underway, surreal tributes emerge: an off-Broadway musical adaptation of their songs, a museum devoted entirely to the band’s legacy, and a shamelessly awards-baiting Hollywood biopic.

Director: Julian Glander
Stars: Jack Corbett, Miya Folick, Tavi Gevinson
Genre: Animation
Country: USA

A teenager in suburban Florida desperately hustles to make $5,000 in this dreamy and surreal animated coming-of-age story.

Director: Jim Jarmusch
Stars: Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA, France, Ireland, Italy, Germany, UK

Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.

Director: Maria Friedman
Stars: Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez, Daniel Radcliffe
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA, UK

Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los Angeles. The story begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today.

Director: Seth Worley
Stars: Tony Hale, D’Arcy Carden, Bianca Belle
Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA

When a young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life—chaotic, real, and on the loose. As the town descends into chaos, her family must reunite and stop the monsters they never meant to unleash.

Director: Sierra Falconer
Stars: Maren Heary, Jim Kaplan, Dominic Bogart
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Lives intertwine around Green Lake as a girl learns to sail, a boy fights for first chair, two sisters operate a bed-and-breakfast, and a fisherman is after the catch of his life.

Director: Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver
Stars: Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver, Kristin Scriver
Genre: Documentary
Country: Animation, Canada

Exploring the complex bond between two half brothers — one Indigenous, one white — traveling from the present in isolated Shamattawa to bustling 1980s Toronto.

Director: Viktor Kossakovsky
Stars: Michele De Lucchi
Genre: Documentary
Country: France, Germany, UK, USA

An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone. Victor Kossakovsky raises a fundamental question: how do we inhabit the world of tomorrow?

Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Clara Pacini, August Diehl
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Country: France, Germany

Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.

Director: Alireza Khatami
Stars: Ekin Koç, Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, Hazar Ergüçlü
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, Poland, Turkey, Singapore

Questioning the suspicious death of his mother, a university professor and his enigmatic gardener descend into a hypnotic maze of mirrors and memories. As family secrets surface and painful truths emerge, they spiral toward a devastating reckoning with the darkness lurking within us all.

Director: Rian Johnson
Stars: Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close
Genre: Comedy, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Norway

When young priest Jud Duplenticy is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. After a sudden and seemingly impossible murder rocks the town, the lack of an obvious suspect prompts local police chief Geraldine Scott to join forces with renowned detective Benoit Blanc to unravel a mystery that defies all logic.

Director: Dag Johan Haugerud
Stars: Ella Øverbye, Selome Emnetu, Anne Marit Jacobsen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway

Johanne falls in love with her teacher and records her fantasies and feelings in writing. Together with her mother and grandmother, they debate the literary potential and whether to publish it.

Director: Nyle DiMarco, Davis Guggenheim
Stars: I. King Jordan, Jerry Covell, Bridgetta Bourne-Firl
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Discover the story of the greatest civil rights movement most people have never heard about. During eight tumultuous days in 1988 at the world’s only Deaf university, four students must find a way to lead a revolution—and change the course of history.

Director: Joel Potrykus
Stars: Joshua Burge, Joel Potrykus, Sherryl Despres
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

Two friends trudge through a Michigan forest with the intention of following through on a disturbing pact. Once their plan goes shockingly awry, the haunting consequences of their failure can’t stay hidden for long.

Director: Petra Costa
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil, USA, UK

Through deep examination, this documentary from Oscar nominee Petra Costa explores the profound impact of evangelism on Brazil’s political landscape.

Director: Andres Veiel
Stars: Leni Riefenstahl, Horst Kettner, Adolf Hitler
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany, Italy

Explores Leni Riefenstahl’s artistic legacy and her complex ties to the Nazi regime, juxtaposing her self-portrayal with evidence suggesting awareness of the regime’s atrocities.

Director: Constance Tsang
Stars: Wu Ke-Xi, Lee Kang-Sheng, Xu Haipeng
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A sudden loss catalyzes an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Navigating lives far from home and the painstaking labor that supports them, they journey through grief together in hopes of finding family.

Director: Rithy Panh
Stars: Irène Jacob, Grégoire Colin, Cyril Gueï
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Cambodia, France, Qatar, Taiwan, Turkey

Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) – 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime’s leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large scale genocide.

Director: Dag Johan Haugerud
Stars: Andrea Bræin Hovig, Tayo Cittadella, Thomas Gullestad
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway

Marianne, a doctor, and Tor, a nurse, avoid relationships. After meeting on a ferry where Tor seeks casual encounters, Marianne explores the possibility of spontaneous intimacy, questioning societal norms.

Director: Trương Minh Quý
Stars: Phąm Thanh Hài, Đào Duy Bảo, Định Nguyên Thį Nga
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, USA

In the depths of the underground coal mines, where danger awaits and darkness prevails, Nam and Việt, both young miners, cherish fleeting moments, knowing that one of them will soon leave for a new life across the sea.

Director: Morrisa Maltz
Stars: Landon Adams, Lily Gladstone, Raymond Lee
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Jazzy navigates the space between childhood and young adulthood. When her best friend moves away, Jazzy experiences both a sense of loss and her first inkling of independence.

Director: Kim A. Snyder
Stars: Suzette Baker, Weston Brown
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

As an unprecedented wave of book banning is sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy.

Director: Sepideh Farsi
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

An Iranian filmmaker participates in a series of video calls with a young Palestinian photojournalist who describes her life confined in Gaza during the current regional conflict.

Director: Tamara Kotevska
Stars: Nikola Conev, Jana Coneva
Genre: Documentary
Country: North Macedonia, USA

Inspired by the folktale of the boy Siljan, who, after a quarrel with his father, turns into a stork and leaves home, the film is a story about the relationship between a farmer and a white stork.

Director: Carson Lund
Stars: Keith William Richards, Stephen Radochia, Cliff Blake
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France, Singapore

As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England rec-league teams face off for the last time. Tensions flare up and ceremonial laughs are shared as an era of camaraderie and escapism fades into an uncertain future.

Director: Walter Salles
Stars: Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro, Selton Mello
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil, France

Brazil, 1971: a country in the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence. Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s best-selling memoir.

Director: Roshan Sethi
Stars: Jane Levy, Will Pullen, David Strathairn
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

When Naveen brings his fiance Jay home to meet his family, his traditional Indian parents must contend with accepting his white partner and helping them plan the most fabulous same sex Indian wedding the Bay Area has ever seen.

Director: Angus MacLachlan
Stars: Jane Levy, Will Pullen, David Strathairn
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A loving father grapples with how to protect his daughter-in-law when he discovers that his son is having an affair in a sensitive and searching portrait of a Southern family.

Director: Sarah Friedland
Stars: Kathleen Chalfant, Caroline Michelle Smith, Andy McQueen, H. Jon Benjamin
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An octogenarian woman transitions to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.

Director: Kahlil Joseph
Stars: Penny Johnson Jerald, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Bria Henderson
Genre: Documentary, Fantasy, Sci Fi
Country: USA

American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow in 2021 to make a documentary on the persistence of independent media journalism in Putin’s Russia—just months, as it turned out, before the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Structured in five chapters, Loktev’s film is an extraordinary vérité document of a moment of immense change and anxiety.

Director: Julia Loktev
Stars: Olga Churakova, Irina Dolinina, Sonya Groysman
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow in 2021 to make a documentary on the persistence of independent media journalism in Putin’s Russia—just months, as it turned out, before the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Structured in five chapters, Loktev’s film is an extraordinary vérité document of a moment of immense change and anxiety.

Director: Marcie Hume
Stars: Corey Feldman, Darci Carpenter, Brittany Chapman
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Corey Feldman embarks on a surreal rock tour with lingerie-clad ‘angels’, facing disastrous events that compel him to confront Hollywood abuse allegations and personal secrets.

Director: Urška Djukić
Stars: Jara Sofija Ostan, Mina Švajger, Saša Tabaković
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia

16-year-old Lucia joins Catholic school choir, befriends senior Ana-Maria. During choir retreat at convent, Lucia’s attraction to a restoration worker creates tension with Ana-Maria and challenges her faith.

Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Stars: Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci Fi
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, France

A retired spy suspects his former adversaries have resurfaced when his intriguing neighbor vanishes.

Director: Jay Duplass
Stars: Michael Strassner, Liz Larsen, Olivia Luccardi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A newly sober man’s Christmas Eve dental emergency leads to an unexpected romance with his older dentist as they explore Baltimore together.

Director: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Stars: Lucie Laruelle, Babette Verbeek, Elsa Houben
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France

Five young mothers living in a shelter strive for a better future for themselves and kids amidst challenging upbringings.

Director: Rohan Parashuram Kanawade
Stars: Bhushaan Manoj, Suraaj Suman
Genre: Drama
Country: India, Canada, UK

Anand, a 30-something city dweller compelled to spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in the rugged countryside of western India, tenderly bonds with a local farmer struggling to stay unmarried.

Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Ha Seong-guk, Kwon Hae-hyo, Cho Yun-hee
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

A young poet drops his girlfriend off at her parents’ house and is amazed by its size. He bumps into her father, meets her mother and sister, and they all end up spending a long day together; fueled by conversation, food and libations.

Director: Cole Webley
Stars: John Magaro, Molly Belle Wright, Wyatt Solis
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young girl discovers the truth about her family’s seemingly spontaneous road trip.

Director: Gianfranco Rosi
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

Naples faces dual volcanic threats from Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei. Amid increasing tremors, archaeologists work as residents live anxiously, haunted by Pompeii’s fate while emergency services strain.

Director: Diego Céspedes
Stars: Tamara Cortés, Matías Catalán, Paula Dinamarca
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Belgium, Spain, Germany

1982. As an unknown disease begins to spread in a small mining town in the Chilean desert, gay men are accused of transmitting it through their eyes. Twelve-year-old Lidia, the only girl in the community, sets out in search of the truth.

Director: Jan-Ole Gerster
Stars: Sam Riley, Stacy Martin, Jack Farthing
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany

Tom, a tennis pro washed up on a holiday island. Now he’s the coach at a hotel resort, hitting countless balls over the net to tourists. When he crosses paths with a particular tourist family, it seems he’s found an escape of his own.

Director: Bernard MacMahon
Stars: Led Zeppelin
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA, UK

The film traces the journeys of the four members of the Stairway To Heaven rockers through the music scene of the 1960s and their meeting in the summer of 1968, culminating in 1970.

Director: Kate Beecroft
Stars: Tabatha Zimiga, Porshia Zimiga, Scoot McNairy
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After the death of her husband, Tabatha- a young, tattooed, rebellious horse trainer- wrestles with financial insecurity and unresolved grief while providing refuge for a group of wayward teenagers on her broken-down ranch in the Badlands.

Director: Annapurna Sriram
Stars: Annapurna Sriram, Sadie Scott, Damian Young
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

A young woman seeks to break a curse by raising $1000 for psychics in a pre-millennium alternate universe. She navigates the seedy underbelly of Trashtown via scooter, encountering bizarre characters along the way.

Director: Gabriel Mascaro
Stars: Denise Weinberg, Rodrigo Santoro
Genre: Drama, Sci Fi
Country: Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Netherlands

To maximize economic productivity, the Brazilian government orders elderly people to move to remote housing colonies. A 77-year-old woman refuses and embarks on a journey through the Amazon that will change her destiny forever.

Director: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
Stars: Davika Hoorne, Witsarut Himmarat, Apasiri Nitibhon
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Thailand, France, Singapore, Germany

A spirit possesses a vacuum cleaner, causing many consequences.

Director: Eric Lin
Stars: Lucy Liu, Lawrence Shou, Orion Lee
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

An ailing woman takes drastic measures to protect her troubled teenage son.

Director: Paul Gandersman, Peter Hall
Stars: Kelsey Pribilski, William Magnuson, John Gholson
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

After finding mysterious video clips, siblings investigate the strange recordings and uncover a disturbing secret spreading through their Texas town.

Director: Radu Jude
Stars: Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Brazil, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Luxembourg

In the capital of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Orsolya serves as a bailiff. She has to evict a homeless guy from a cellar one day, which has disastrous results and sets off a moral problem that Orsolya must try to resolve.

Director: Albert Birney
Stars: Albert Birney, Callie Hernandez, Frank Mosley
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci Fi
Country: USA

Conor Marsh’s secluded life is disrupted when he plays the OBEX game. His dog Sandy disappears, blurring reality and game. Conor enters the OBEX world to rescue Sandy, navigating its strange realms.

Director: Max Walker-Silverman
Stars: Josh O’Connor, Lily LaTorre, Meghann Fahy
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After wildfires take his ranch, a cowboy named Dusty winds up in a FEMA camp. He finds community with others who lost homes, while reconnecting with his daughter and ex-wife.

Director: Christian Petzold
Stars: Paula Beer, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery
Country: Germany

After a car crash kills her boyfriend, piano student Laura is taken in by Betty, who witnessed the accident. Living with Betty’s family brings comfort, but Laura starts questioning their intentions as time passes.

Director: Mark Jenkin
Stars: George MacKay, Callum Turner, Rosalind Eleazar
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK

Mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.

Director: Hlynur Pálmason
Stars: Saga Garðarsdóttir, Sverrir Gudnason, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, France, Finland, Sweden

Captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through intimate vignettes and strange occurrences, the film explores the complexities of family, love, and the impact of shared memories.

Director: Dolores Fonzi
Stars: Dolores Fonzi, Camila Pláate, Laura Paredes
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina

A woman hospitalized for pain discovers she’s pregnant. After a medical emergency, she faces criminal charges. With support from her attorney and women’s rights advocates, she fights for justice in a landmark case that could change lives.

Director: Mohammadreza Eyni, Sara Khaki
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Iran, Qatar, Chile, Canada, Netherlands, Germany, United States

First female councilor in her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi challenges tradition by teaching girls to ride motorcycles and fighting child marriage, while facing doubts about her motives.

Director: Cherien Dabis
Stars: Saleh Bakri, Cherien Dabis, Mohammad Bakri
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Cyprus, Palestine, Jordan, Greece, Qatar, Saudi Arabia

After a Palestinian teen gets swept up into a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the family story of hope, courage and relentless struggle that led to this fateful moment.

Director: Tarik Saleh
Stars: Fares Fares, Lyna Khoudri, Amr Waked
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, France, Denmark, Finland

Egypt’s most adored actor, George Fahmy, falls into disgrace with the authorities overnight. On the verge of losing everything, George is forced to accept an offer he can’t refuse.

Director: Ildikó Enyedi
Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Germany, France, Hungary

Set in the botanical garden of a medieval town in Germany. Three epochs, three personalities, three sometimes clumsy but sincere attempts to free themselves and to create links with the plants and the world of the garden. An encounter.

Director: Dominik Moll
Stars: John Adams, Toby Poser, Zelda Adams
Genre: Horror
Country: USA

When a young woman faces a deadly diagnosis, she seeks dark magic from a witch in the woods – but every cure has costs.

Director: Dominik Moll
Stars: Léa Drucker, Jonathan Turnbull, Mathilde Roehrich
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Case 137 is seemingly just another case for Stéphanie, an investigator at the IGPN, the police of the police. But an unexpected element will trouble Stéphanie and transform case 137 into something more than a simple number.

Director: Mstyslav Chernov
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Ukraine, USA

A Ukrainian platoon’s mission: traverse a heavily fortified mile of forest to liberate a strategic village from Russian forces. A journalist accompanies them, witnessing the ravages of war and the growing uncertainty about its conclusion.

Director: Carla Simón
Stars: Llúcia Garcia, Mitch, Tristán Ulloa
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Germany

With her mother’s diary in hand, Marina’s search for official documents for university leads her to her biological family on the Atlantic coast. What starts as an administrative quest reveals long-buried family secrets.

Director: Fatih Akin
Stars: Diane Kruger, Laura Tonke, Jasper Billerbeck
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany

In 1945 Amrum Island, 12-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and farms to help feed his family. Life feels idyllic on this windswept isle until peace reveals an unexpected danger closer to home.

Director: Akinola Davies Jr.
Stars: Sope Dirisu
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Nigeria

Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, witnessing both the city’s magnitude and their father’s daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home.

Director: Simón Mesa Soto
Stars: Ubeimar Rios, Rebeca Andrade, Guillermo Cardona
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Colombia, Germany, Sweden

An aging poet finds purpose mentoring Yurlady, a talented teen, though exposing her to the poetry scene might be unwise. His own poetic pursuits led nowhere, leaving him a stereotypical obscure writer.

Director: Lav Diaz
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Ronnie Lazaro, Ângela Azevedo
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Portugal, Spain, Philippines, France, Taiwan

Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Spice Islands in 1519. He quells mutinies, attempts to subjugate indigenous people and ultimately faces death in the Philippines.

Director: Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus
Stars: Seymour Hersh
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Seymour Hersh has been at the front lines of political journalism in the United States. Hersh’s breakthrough reportage has brought to the public’s attention many of the most damning constitutional wrongdoings and cover-ups.

Director: Maryam Touzani
Stars: Carmen Maura, Marta Etura, Ahmed Boulane
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Morocco, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium

An aging Spanish woman in Tangier resists her daughter’s decision to sell her home. Determined to stay, she does everything she can to keep her home and reclaim the belongings of a lifetime. Along the way, she rediscovers love and desire.

Director: Raoul Peck
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA, France

An investigation into the life, work, and enduring influence of the writer George Orwell, connecting his ideas to the contemporary world.

Director: Kurtis David Harder
Stars: Cassandra Naud, Emily Tennant, Georgina Campbell
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada

In Southern France, a young woman’s chilling fascination with murder and identity theft sends her life into a whirlwind of chaos.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Follows a mysterious herd of ghost elephants in the jungles of Angola.

Director: Daniel Roher
Stars: Leo Woodall, Havana Rose Liu, Lior Raz
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada

A talented piano tuner’s meticulous skills for tuning pianos lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down.

Director: Petra Volpe
Stars: Leonie Benesch, Sonja Riesen, Selma Aldin
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany

Floria, a dedicated nurse, tirelessly serves in an understaffed hospital ward. However, today her shift becomes a tense and urgent race against the clock.

Director: Chad Hartigan
Stars: Zoey Deutch, Jonah Hauer-King, Ruby Cruz
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA

When a young man’s crush leads him into an unexpected threesome, he thinks it’s his ultimate fantasy come true. But when the fantasy ends, all three are left with sobering consequences, forcing them to be responsible for their actions.

Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Stars: Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Aleksandr Filippenko, Anatoliy Beliy
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Romania, Latvia, Netherlands, Lithuania

In the USSR in 1937, a newly appointed prosecutor discovers an undestroyed letter from a prisoner that reveals corruption in the secret police, the NKVD. His search for the truth becomes dangerous.

Director: Harris Dickinson
Stars: Frank Dillane, Megan Northam, Karyna Khymchuk
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A young addict living on the streets of London is given a shot at redemption, but his road to recovery soon curdles into a strange odyssey from which he may never escape.

Director: Lawrence Lamont
Stars: Keke Palmer, SZA, Vanessa Bell Calloway
Genre: Comedy
Country: United States

When best friends and roommates Dreux and Alyssa discover Alyssa’s boyfriend has blown their rent money, the duo finds themselves going to extremes in a race against the clock to avoid eviction and keep their friendship intact.

Director: Nick Rowland
Stars: Taron Egerton, Ana Sophia Heger, Rob Yang
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A girl marked for death must fight and steal to stay alive, learning from the most frightening man she knows: her father. An adaptation of Jordan Harper’s award-winning novel.

Director: Duncan Skiles
Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jack Quaid, Cecile Cubiló
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA

When a mentally ill young man thinks he witnesses an abduction and the police refuse to believe him, he reluctantly turns to his next-door neighbor, a bitter and retired security guard, to help him find the missing person.

Director: Ryan White
Stars: Andrea Gibson, Megan Falley
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Facing an incurable diagnosis, two poet lovers embark on a poignant yet unexpectedly humorous exploration of love, mortality, and life’s moments.

Director: Khaled Haffad, François Ozon
Stars: Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

In 1930s Algeria, the daily life of an indifferent Frenchman is shaken by the death of his mother and a fateful encounter on a beach.

Director: Hasan Hadi
Stars: Baneen Ahmad Nayyef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, Qatar, USA

In 1990s Iraq, 9-year-old Lamia must bake the President’s birthday cake. She scrambles to find ingredients for this compulsory task while facing potential punishment if she fails.

Director: Mascha Schilinski
Stars: Hanna Heckt, Lena Urzendowsky, Laeni Geiseler
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany

A remote German farm harbors generations of secrets. Four women, separated by decades but united by trauma, uncover the truth behind its weathered walls.

Director: Kristen Stewart
Stars: Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Susannah Flood
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Latvia, UK, USA

A woman, after an abusive childhood, escapes into competitive swimming, sexual experimentation, toxic relationships, and addiction before finding her voice through writing.

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen, Sofie Gråbøl
Genre: Crime, Drama, Comedy
Country: Denmark, Sweden

A bank robber released from jail must unlock his traumatised brother’s memory to recover stolen loot.

Director: Alex Russell
Stars: Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Zack Fox
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA

A retail employee infiltrates the inner circle of an artist on the verge of stardom. As he gets closer to the budding music star, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.

Director: Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han
Stars: N/A
Genre: Animation
Country: France, Belgium

Amélie, a Belgian child in Japan, explores life with her companion Nishio-san. Her third birthday becomes a turning point, marking the beginning of life-altering events that shape her understanding of the world.

Director: LAndrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman
Stars: Robert Earl Council, Melvin Ray
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of the United States’ deadliest prison systems.

Director: Lee Sang-il
Stars: Ryo Yoshizawa, Ryusei Yokohama, Mitsuki Takahata
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

In post-war Japan’s economic boom, gangster family-born Kikuo Tachibana finds himself adopted by a kabuki actor. Despite life’s challenges, he develops into a gifted performer.

Director: Michael Angelo Covino
Stars: Emily Korteweg, Michael Angelo Covino, Kyle Marvin
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

When Ashley asks for a divorce, the good-natured Carey runs to his friends, Julie and Paul, for support. Their secret to happiness is an open marriage; that is, until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.

Director: Curry Barker
Stars: Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson
Genre: Horror
Country: USA

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

Director: James Griffiths
Stars: David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin
Genre: Documentary
Country: Denmark, Czech Republic, Germany

A Russian teacher secretly documents his small town school’s transformation into a war recruitment center during the Ukraine invasion, revealing the ethical dilemmas educators face amid propaganda and militarization.

Director: James Griffiths
Stars: Tom Basden, Tim Key, Carey Mulligan
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favorite musicians to perform at his home.

Director: Geeta Gandbhir
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A minor disagreement between neighbors in Florida takes a lethal turn, with police body camera footage and interviews probing the aftermath of the state’s controversial “stand your ground” laws.

Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Stars: Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, Hope Davis
Genre: Crime
Country: UK, USA

In 1970, failed architect James Blaine Mooney and cohorts wander into a museum in broad daylight and steal four paintings. When holding onto the art proves more difficult than stealing them, Mooney is relegated to a life on the run.

Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Stars: Saja Kilani, Motaz Malhees, Amer Hlehel
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France

Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under IDF fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.

Director: Ethan Coen
Stars: Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans, Charlie Day
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, UK

A small-town private investigator delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church.

Director: May Mendoza, Alex Garland
Stars: D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, UK

A platoon of Navy SEALs embark on a dangerous mission in Ramadi, Iraq, with the chaos and brotherhood of war retold through their memories of the event.

Director: Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli
Stars: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie. Jason Isaacs
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada

When Diana wakes from a coma with memory loss, she and her husband seek experimental treatments at a remote facility. As the procedures intensify, their marriage is put to the test and Diana begins to question her husband’s true motives.

Director: Charlie Polinger
Stars: Everett Blunck, Kayo Martin, Kenny Rasmussen
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania

A socially awkward tween endures the ruthless hierarchy at a water polo camp, his anxiety spiraling into psychological turmoil over the summer.

Director: Mona Fastvold
Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK

Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, is proclaimed as the female Christ by her followers. This film depicts her establishment of a utopian society and the Shakers’ worship through song and dance, based on real events.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA

Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, repeatedly killing her daughter’s murderer. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity hangs in the balance.

Director: Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus
Stars: Michaela McManus
Genre: Crime, Action, Adventure
Country: USA

Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, repeatedly killing her daughter’s murderer. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity hangs in the balance.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Iran, France, Luxembourg

An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, he rounds up a few of his fellow ex-prisoners to confirm the man’s identity.

Director: Benny Safdie
Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sports
Country: USA

The story of mixed-martial arts and UFC champion, Mark Kerr.

Director: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou
Stars: Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips, Sally Hawkins
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia

When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Stars: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.

Director: Matt Johnson
Stars: Matt Johnson, Jay McCarrol
Genre: Comedy, Adventure
Country: Canada

When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.

Director: Lynne Ramsay
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.

Director: Óliver Laxe
Stars: Sergi López, Bruno Núñez Arjona, Richard Bellamy
Genre: Drama, Action, Adventure
Country: Spain, France

A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.

Director: Bradley Cooper
Stars: Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Andra Day, Bradley Cooper
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

As their marriage unravels, Alex faces middle age and divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene. Meanwhile, his wife Tess confronts sacrifices made for their family, forcing them to navigate co-parenting and identities.

Director: Harry Lighton
Stars: Harry Melling, Alexander Skarsgård, Douglas Hodge
Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy
Country: UK, Ireland

A directionless man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive.

Director: Joachim Trier
Stars: Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom

An intimate exploration of family, memories, and the reconciliatory power of art.

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Stars: Robson Andrade, Rubens Santos, Licínio Januário
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany

In 1977, a technology expert flees from a mysterious past and returns to his hometown of Recife in search of peace. He soon realizes that the city is far from being the refuge he seeks.

Director: Jared Bush, Byron Howard
Stars: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Ke Huy Quan
Genre: Animation
Country: USA

Brave rabbit cop Judy Hopps and her friend, the fox Nick Wilde, team up again to crack a new case, the most perilous and intricate of their careers.

Director: Chloe Zhao
Stars:
Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Zac Wishart
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK

After losing their son Hamnet to plague, Agnes and William Shakespeare grapple with grief in 16th-century England. A healer, Agnes must find strength to care for her surviving children while processing her devastating loss.

Director: Paul Feig
Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

A struggling young woman is relieved by the chance for a fresh start as a maid for a wealthy couple. Soon, she discovers that the family’s secrets are far more dangerous than her own.

Director: Signe Baumane
Stars: Dagmara Dominczyk, Michele Pawk, Matthew Modine
Genre: Animation
Country: Latvia, Luxembourg, USA

From an early age, songs and fairytales convinced Zelma that Love would solve all her problems as long as she abided by societal expectations of how a girl should act. But as she grew older something didn’t seem right with the concept of love: the more she tried to conform, the more her body resisted. A story about the acceptance of the inner female rebellion.

Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Kwon Hae-hyo, Lee Hye-young, Song Sun-mi, Cho Yun-hee
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

A series of interactions take place between an established film director, his estranged daughter interested in interior design, an interior designer, and others inside a multi-story commercial and residential building.

Director: Sabrina Rochelle Kalangie
Stars: Marsha Timothy, Oka Antara, Sheila Dara, Jaden Ocean
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia

A couple’s relationship hits rock bottom after 11 years – until an intriguing young woman reawakens emotions and threatens to end their marriage.

Director: Armağan Ballantyne
Stars: Jackie van Beek, Damon Herriman, Jemaine Clement
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, New Zealand

When middle-aged suburban couple, Laura and Bruno are gifted a remote couples’ retreat for their anniversary, they decide to give their failing marriage one last shot before calling it quits. Arriving in an idyllic sanctuary nestled in the mountains, Laura and Bruno uncomfortably enter a world of laughter workshops, tantric dance, sexual liberation and emotional animals, helmed by the charismatic guru Bjorg Rassmussen. When new temptations start to take hold, the couple are pushed to the brink forcing them to look within to find what they really want. But will they bare all to get it?

Director: Morrisa Maltz
Stars: Lily Gladstone, Raymond Lee, Richard Ray Whitman
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A grieving woman embarks on an unexpected road trip as she grapples with the pain of her recent loss and seeks to understand her place in the world.

Director: Lea Glob
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Czechia, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Poland

When Danish filmmaker Lea Glob first portrayed Apolonia Sokol in 2009, she appeared to be leading a storybook life. The talented Apolonia was born in an underground theater in Paris and grew up in an artists’ community—the ultimate bohemian existence. In her 20s, she studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, one of the most prestigious art academies in Europe. Over the years, Lea Glob kept returning to film the charismatic Apolonia and a special bond developed between the two young women.

Director: Miles Warren
Stars: Jalyn Hall, Trevante Rhodes, Shamier Anderson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

During summer break, 14-year-old Darious explores the boundaries of his manhood through tumultuous interactions with Malcolm his strict father and a burgeoning mentorship with mysterious drifter Porter.

Director: Frank Berry
Stars: Letitia Wright, Josh O’Connor, Lorcan Cranitch
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland

Aisha, a young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland, is floundering in a maze of social services and bureaucracy. As her situation becomes increasingly dire, Aisha struggles to maintain hope and dignity against the looming threat of deportation.

Director: Inna Sahakyan
Stars: Anzhelika Hakobyan, Tamara Chalkhifalaqyan
Genre: Documentary, Animation
Country: Armenia, Germany, Lithuania

The story of how Aurora Mardiganian (1901-94), a survivor of the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire (1915-17), became a Hollywood silent film star.

Director: Jason Kohn
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Hidden from public view, a war is raging inside the diamond industry. When filmmaker Jason Kohn infiltrates this highly secretive world, he uncovers a vast, far reaching crime that threatens the value of every diamond ever mined. At stake is nothing less than the universal symbol of love and commitment – the engagement ring.

Director: Moshe Rosenthal
Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Sasson Gabai, Rita Shukrun
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel

Meir (Sasson Gabay of The Band’s Visit and Shtisel) and Tova (Rita Shukrun) are a long-married couple living in an upscale high-rise in Tel Aviv. Itzik (Lior Ashkenazi) is their new neighbor, a worldly modeling agent and bachelor. The couple attend Itzik’s karaoke parties and soon become obsessed with him, competing with each other, and other residents of the building, for his attention.

Director: Del Kathryn Barton
Stars: Julia Savage, Simon Baker, Yael Stone, Josh Lawson
Genre: Fantasy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia

After a young girl witnesses a violent crime, she summons an imaginary dragon to help process her anger and protect her on her journey into womanhood.

Director: Pietro Marcello
Stars: Raphaël Thiéry, Juliette Jouan, Noémie Lvovsky, Louis Garrel
Genre: History, Romance, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Italy

A French widower and WWI veteran returns home after the war to raise his newborn daughter.

Director: Cyril Schäublin
Stars: Clara Gostynski, Alexei Evstratov, Monika Stalder
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Switzerland

In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement (“unrueh”) of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work and possession in the village and its factory and joins the anarchist worker movement of the local watchmakers. There she meets Piotr Kropotkin, a moony Russian traveller. The two of them meet at a time when new technologies such as time measurement, photography and the telegraph are transforming the social order and anarchist discourse is addressing emerging nationalism. During a walk in the woods, Josephine and Piotr ask themselves whether time, money and the government are not all but fictions.

Director: Sho Miyake
Stars: Yukino Kishii, Tomokazu Miura, Masaki Miura
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan

A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.

Director: Gina S. Noer
Stars: Aurora Ribero, Arawinda Kirana, Aulia Sarah
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia

Two best friends who create ASMR content together discover a world of personal exploration that leads them both toward harrowing outcomes.

Director: Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret
Stars: Mallory Wanecque, Timéo Mahaut, Johan Heldenbergh
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA

The story centres on a group of teenagers street cast in their neighbourhood and selected to play in a feature film during the summer. The film tells the story of this film shoot and of the connections that will be formed during it.

Director: David Farrier
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: NZ

Following reports of fraudulent car clamping in Auckland, journalist and filmmaker David Farrier opens an investigation that pushes him to the limits of his sanity in this incredible true story of psychological warfare.

Director: Andrea Pallaoro
Stars: Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Browning
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA

After years of estrangement, a trans woman returns home to help care for her dying mother.

Director: Emily Atef
Stars: Vicky Krieps, Gaspard Ulliel, Bjørn Floberg, Sophie Langevin
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway

Hélène, a 33-year-old woman from Bordeaux, France, lives happily as a couple with Mathieu, her husband of many years. Her life turns upside down the day she learns she has a rare lung disease. Thanks to a blog, she discovers Norway and decides to follow her instinct. Despite all the love she has for her life partner Mathieu, who is very supportive through her illness, she leaves him behind in France and will cross all Europe to Norway alone in search of a new path and to meet a blogger named Mister that she found on the internet.

Director: Anton Corbijn
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A Saucerful of Secrets, helped launch two careers: that of Pink Floyd, one of the 70s megabands, and of Hipgnosis, which, over the course of the next 25 years, designed a stream of iconic album covers.

Director: Manuela Martelli
Stars: Aline Küppenheim, Nicolás Sepúlveda, Hugo Medina
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile, Qatar, USA

Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.

Director: Maryna Er Gorbach
Stars: Oksana Cherkashyna, Serhii Shadrin, Oleh Scherbyna
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Turkey, Ukraine, USA

The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Russia and Ukraine during the start of the war. Irka refuses to leave her house even as the village gets captured by armed forces. Shortly after they find themselves at the center of an international air crash catastrophe on July 17, 2014.

Director: Emmanuelle Nicot
Stars: Zelda Samson, Alexis Manenti, Fanta Guirassy
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France

One evening, Dalva is suddenly taken away from her father’s house. Dumbfounded and outraged at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with a temper. A new life seems to start for Dalva, that of a girl her age.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Stars: Sofie Gråbøl, Lene Maria Christensen, Anders W. Berthelsen
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Denmark

Over the course of a week, sisters Inger and Ellen find their relationship challenged on a highly anticipated coach trip to Paris. Inger reveals her struggles with schizophrenia to the group, receiving both pity and discrimination. On arrival, it soon becomes clear that Inger has a hidden agenda concerning a figure from her past, ultimately involving the entire group in her hunt for answers.

Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Ukraine

A temporary house for abandoned children near the front line in eastern Ukraine is run by a small group of social workers determined to provide comfort and safety. It may be humble and somewhat run-down, but this house is filled with love and offers up to nine months of refuge to kids whose fate will be determined by the system. During this short time, the caretakers try to nurture within them a sense of stability and normalcy.

Director: Liu Jiangjiang
Stars: Zhu Yilong, Yang Enyou, Wang Ge, Liu Lu
Genre: Drama
Country: China

Having been released after serving his sentence, a funeral director accidentally crosses paths with a girl which brings about an unexpected change in his attitude towards life.

Director: Gabriel Martins
Stars: Rejane Faria, Carlos Francisco, Camilla Damião, Ana Hilário
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

The Martins family are optimistic dreamers, quietly leading their lives in the margins of a major Brazilian city following the disappointing inauguration of a far-right extremist president. A lower-middle-class Black family, they feel the strain of their new reality as the political dust settles. Tércia, the mother, reinterprets her world after an unexpected encounter leaves her wondering if she’s cursed. Her husband, Wellington, puts all of his hopes into the soccer career of their son, Deivinho, who reluctantly follows his father’s ambitions despite secretly aspiring to study astrophysics and colonize Mars. Meanwhile, their older daughter, Eunice, falls in love with a free-spirited young woman and ponders whether it’s time to leave home

Director: Ulrich Seidl
Stars: Michael Thomas, Tessa Göttlicher, Hans-Michael Rehberg
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany

Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. Trapped between permanent intoxication and concerts for busloads of tourists, his world starts to collapse when his adult daughter breaks into his life.

Director: Denny Tedesco
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

If you listen to 1970s pop music, you’ve undoubtedly heard these guys play, but do you know their names? This documentary highlights five talented men—Danny, Leland, Rus, Waddy, and Steve— who shunned the spotlight for themselves yet enjoyed decades of success as session musicians on iconic tracks. Interviewees include their collaborators James Taylor, Don Henley, Lyle Lovett, Jackson Browne, Phil Collins, Carole King, Stevie Nicks, Keith Richards, Steve Jordan, and dozens more who take us behind the scenes on the songs that shaped an era.

Director: Nisha Pahuja
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada, USA

Ranjit, a farmer in India, takes on the fight of his life when he demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, the victim of a brutal gang rape. His decision to support his daughter is virtually unheard of, and his journey unprecedented.

Director: Li Ruijun
Stars: Wu Renlin, Hai Qing, Yang Guangrui, Dengfeng Zhao
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: China

Humble, unassuming Ma and timid Cao have been cast off by their families and forced into an arranged marriage. They have to combine their strength and build a home to survive. In the face of much adversity, an unexpected bond begins to blossom, as both Ma and Cao, uniting with Earth’s cycles, create a haven for themselves in which they can thrive.

Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Stars: Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France

Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old daughter, Leila. She tucks her in, looks after her, and loves her like a mother… which she isn’t. Not yet. Rachel is 40. The desire for a family of her own is growing stronger, and the clock is ticking. Is it too late?

Director: Bryan Storkel, Amy Bandlien Storkel
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Steve Glew, a small-town Michigan farmer, boards a plane for Eastern Europe soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall. His mission is to locate a secret factory that holds the key to the most desired and valuable pez dispensers. If he succeeds, he will pull his family out of poverty and finally find a purpose in his mundane life.

Director: Chandler Levack
Stars: Isaiah Lehtinen Romina D’Ugo Krista Bridges
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile Lawrence Kweller gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.

Director: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Stars: Pablo Schils, Joely Mbundu, Alban Ukaj, Tijmen Govaerts
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France

In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the difficult conditions of their exile.

Director: Charlotte Le Bon
Stars: Joseph Engel, Sara Montpetit, Monia Chokri, Arthur Igual
Genre: Drama, Romance, Mystery
Country: Canada, France

A shy teenager on a summer vacation experiences the joy and pain of young adulthood when he forges an unlikely bond with an older girl.

Director: Dmytro Sukholytkyi-Sobchuk
Stars: Oleksandr Yatsentiuk, Solomiia Kyrylova, Stanislav Potiak
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Chile, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Ukraine

When reformed ex-smuggler Pamfir returns home to his village on the Ukrainian border after working abroad for several years, he’s determined to earn an honest living and set a good example for his beloved teenage son Nazar. But in a town where corruption runs deep and crime and religion are inextricably linked, his plan is quickly thwarted when Nazar sets fire to the local church in a misguided effort to keep him at home. To pay for the damage, Pamfir must take on one last job for a crime syndicate operating a risky smuggling venture in a place where all the rules have changed.

Director: Mario Martone
Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Francesco Di Leva, Tommaso Ragno
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: France, Italy

Felice returns to his native Rione Sanità in Naples to look after his dying mother, having lived abroad for the last forty years. Here he discovers that his old friend Oreste has become a notorious crimeboss.

Director: Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vásquez
Stars: Alberto Ammann, Bruna Cusí, Ben Temple, Laura Gómez
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

Diego, a Venezuelan urbanist, and Elena, a contemporary dancer from Barcelona, move to the United States with their approved visas to start a new life. Their intention is to boost their professional careers and start a family in ‘the land of opportunities’. But upon entering New York airport’s immigration area, they are taken to the secondary inspection room, where border officers will subject them to an unpleasant inspection process and a psychologically grueling interrogation.

Director: Colin West
Stars: Jim Gaffigan, Rhea Seehorn, Katelyn Nacon, Gabriel Rush
Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction, Drama
Country: USA

When the host of a failing children’s science show tries to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut by building a rocket ship in his garage, a series of bizarre events occur that cause him to question his own reality.

Director: Mark Jenkin
Stars: Mary Woodvine, Edward Rowe, Flo Crowe, John Woodvine
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK

A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.

Director: Julian Higgins
Stars: Thandiwe Newton, Jeremy Bobb, Jefferson White
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Western, Thriller
Country: USA

When a grieving college professor confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she’s drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.

Director: Antonio Lukich
Stars: Amil Nasirov, Ramil Nasirov, Nataliia Hnitii
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ukraine

Kolya and Vasylii learn that their father, who left them when they were children, is dying in Luxembourg, far away from them. One of them wants to go and find his father, while the other one does everything he can to prevent the first from leaving the country. As a result, they both go to Luxembourg in search of their dad: Kolya considers him a hero, while Vasylii thinks he is a scoundrel.

Director: Cristian Mungiu
Stars: Marin Grigore, Judith State, Macrina Bârlădeanu
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Romania, Sweden

A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias returns to his Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son, Rudi, left for too long in the care of his mother, Ana, and to rid him of the unresolved fears that have gripped him. He’s also eager to see his ex-lover Csilla and preoccupied about his old father, Otto. When a few new workers are hired at the small factory that Csilla manages, the peace of the community is disturbed, underlying fears grip the adults, and frustrations, conflicts and passions erupt through the thin sliver of apparent understanding and calm.

Director: Maryam Touzani
Stars: Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Messioui, Zakaria Atifi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Denmark, France, Morocco

Halim has been married to Mina for a long time, with whom he runs a traditional caftan store in the medina (old town) of Salé, Morocco. The couple has always lived with Halim’s secret – his homosexuality – about which he has learned to keep quiet. However, Mina’s illness and the arrival of a young apprentice upsets this balance. United in their love, each will help the other face his fears.

Director: Michelle Garza Cervera
Stars: Natalia Solián, Alfonso Dosal, Mayra Batalla
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico, Peru

Valeria’s joy at becoming a first-time mother is quickly taken away when she’s cursed by a sinister entity. As danger closes in, she’s forced deeper into a chilling world of dark magic that threatens to consume her.

Director: Saim Sadiq
Stars: Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Alina Khan, Sarwat Gilani
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Pakistan, USA

As a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a son to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for its transgender starlet.

Director: Andy Mitchell
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Turkey, USA

Cat experts dive into the mind of the feline to reveal the true capabilities of the pouncing pet in this captivating and cuddly documentary.

Director: Hlynur Pálmason
Stars: Elliott Crosset Hove, Vic Carmen Sonne, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, France, Iceland, Sweden

In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.

Director: Carla Simón
Stars: Josep Abad, Jordi Pujol Dolcet, Anna Otin, Albert Bosch
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

In a small village in Catalonia, the peach farmers of the Solé family spend every summer together picking fruit from their orchard. But when plans arise to install solar panels and cut down trees, the members of this tight-knit group suddenly face eviction – and the loss of far more than their home.

Director: Frances O’Connor
Stars: Emma Mackey, Fionn Whitehead, Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Genre: Romance, Drama, History
Country: Australia, UK

The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises.

Director: Tig Notaro, Stephanie Allynne
Stars: Dakota Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jermaine Fowler
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA

Lucy and Jane have been best friends for most of their lives and think they know everything there is to know about each other. But when Jane announces she’s moving to London, Lucy reveals a long-held secret. As Jane tries to help Lucy, their friendship is thrown into chaos.

Director: Dominik Moll
Stars: Bastien Bouillon, Bouli Lanners, Anouk Grinberg
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Country: Belgium, France, USA

Young and ambitious Captain Vivés has just been appointed group leader at the Grenoble Criminal Squad when Clara’s murder case lands on his desk. Vivés and his team investigate Clara’s complex life and relations, but what starts as a professional and methodical immersion into the victim’s life soon turns into a haunting obsession.

Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Stars: Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.

Director: Mike Cheslik
Stars: Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Olivia Graves, Doug Mancheski
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Action
Country: USA

In the 19th century, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

Director: Saeed Roustaee
Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Saeed Poursamimi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

At the age of 40, Leila has spent her entire life caring for her parents and four brothers. A family that is constantly arguing and under pressure from various debts in the face of sanctions against Iran. While her brothers are struggling to make ends meet, Leila makes a plan.

Director: Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix van Groeningen
Stars: Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi, Lupo Barbiero
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy, UK

An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.

Director: Fletcher Moules
Stars: Kid Cudi, Jessica Williams, Laura Harrier, Ty Dolla Sign
Genre: Animation
Country: Canada, UK, USA

Ambitious artist Jabari attempts to balance success and love when he moves into his dream Manhattan apartment and falls for his next-door neighbor.

Director: Jonah Hill
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In candid conversations with actor Jonah Hill, leading psychiatrist Phil Stutz explores his early life experiences and unique, visual model of therapy.

Director: Kristoffer Borgli
Stars: Kristine Kujath Thorp Eirik Sæther Fanny Vaager
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Norway, Sweden

Increasingly overshadowed by her boyfriend’s recent rise to fame as a contemporary artist creating sculptures from stolen furniture, Signe hatches a vicious plan to reclaim her rightfully deserved attention within the milieu of Oslo’s cultural elite.

Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Stars: Marina Foïs, Denis Ménochet, Luis Zahera, Diego Anido
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Spain

Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic but for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability.

Director: Skye Borgman
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A young mother’s mysterious death and her son’s subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman’s true identity, and the murderous federal fugitive at the center of it all.

Director: Romain Gavras
Stars: Dali Benssalah, Anthony Bajon, Alexis Manenti
Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama, Adventure
Country: France

Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos.

Director: Makoto Shinkai
Stars: Nanoka Hara, Hokuto Matsumura, Eri Fukatsu
Genre: Animation
Country: Japan

Suzume, 17, lost her mother as a little girl. On her way to school, she meets a mysterious young man. But her curiosity unleashes a calamity that endangers the entire population of Japan, and so Suzume embarks on a journey to set things right.

Director: Reginald Hudlin
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada, USA

This revealing documentary honors the legendary Sidney Poitier—iconic actor, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Featuring interviews with Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Halle Berry, and more.

Director: Anthony Fabian
Stars: Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson
Genre: History, Drama, Comedy
Country: Belgium, Canada, France, Hungary, UK

A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.

Director: Kristina Buožytė, Bruno Samper
Stars: Raffiella Chapman, Eddie Marsan, Rosy McEwen
Genre: Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, France, Lithuania

After the collapse of Earth’s ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.

Director: Jason Loftus
Stars: Daxiong, Jin Xuezhe, Lan Lihua, Wang Jianmin
Genre: Animation, History, Documentary
Country: Canada

In March 2002, a state TV signal in China gets hacked by members of the banned spiritual group Falun Gong. Their goal is to counter the government narrative about their practice. In the aftermath, police raids sweep Changchun City, and comic book illustrator Daxiong (Justice League, Star Wars), a Falun Gong practitioner, is forced to flee. He arrives in North America, blaming the hijacking for worsening an already violent repression. But his views are challenged when he meets the lone surviving participant to have escaped China, now living in Seoul, South Korea.

Director: Trevor Beck Frost, Melissa Lesh
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Back from war in Afghanistan, a young British soldier struggling with depression and PTSD finds a second chance in the Amazon rainforest when he meets an American scientist, and together they foster an orphaned baby ocelot.

Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Stars: Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Michelle Thrush
Genre: Science Fiction, Action, Thriller
Country: USA

When danger threatens her camp, the fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior Naru sets out to protect her people. But the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal.

Director: Chloe Okuno
Stars: Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman, Burn Gorman, Mãdãlina Anea
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Horror
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA

As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.

Director: Martine Syms
Stars: Diamond Stingily, Erin Leland, Cammisa Buerhaus
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

It’s MFA grad Palace Bryant’s final 24 hours in art school, and she is not going to the graduation party! She needs to get back home to Chicago from Upstate New York, but that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups.

Director: Carlota Pereda
Stars: Laura Galán, Richard Holmes, Carmen Machi, Irene Ferreiro
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Drama
Country: France, Spain

A bullied overweight teenager sees a glimpse of hope when her tormentors are brutally abducted by a mesmerizing stranger.

Director: Nikyatu Jusu
Stars: Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, Sinqua Walls
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA

Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City, finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage.

Director: Martika Ramirez Escobar
Stars: Sheila Francisco, Bong Cabrera, Rocky Salumbides
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Drama, Comedy
Country: Philippines, USA

Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.

Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon, Grégoire Colin, Bulle Ogier
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Jean and Sara have been living together for 10 years. When they first met, Sara was living with François, Jean’s best friend and an admirer from back when he played rugby. Jean and Sara love each other. One day, Sara sees François in the street. He does not notice her, but she is overtaken by the sensation that her life could suddenly change. François gets back in touch with Jean. For the first time in years. He suggests they start working together again. From here on, things spiral out of control.

Director: Isabel Castro
Stars: Doris Muñoz, Jacks Haupt
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Doris Muñoz is a young, ambitious music manager whose undocumented family depends on her ability to launch pop stars. When she loses her biggest client, Doris hustles to discover new talent and finds Jacks, another daughter of immigrants for whom “making it” isn’t just a dream: it’s a necessity.

Director: Carey Williams
Stars: Donald Watkins, RJ Cyler, Sebastian Chacon
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA

Ready for a night of legendary partying, three college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an unexpected situation.

Director: Ondi Timoner
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Eli Timoner, a dedicated husband, father, and entrepreneur who founded the airline Air Florida in the 1970s, decides to medically terminate his life. During the 15-day waiting period, the bedridden but sharp-witted Eli says goodbye to those closest to him and helps them prepare for his departure. While his loved ones look back on Eli’s successes and devastating blows, they struggle to reconcile his choice.

Director: Julie Cohen, Betsy West
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The extraordinary story of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords: her relentless fight to recover following an assassination attempt in 2011, and her new life as one of the most effective activists in the battle against gun violence.

Director: Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Stars: José Calcina, Luisa Quispe, Santos Choque, Félix Ticona
Genre: Drama
Country: Bolivia, France, Uruguay

In the Bolivian altiplano, Virginio and Sisa, an elderly Quechua couple who have lived a quiet life for years, face an impossible dilemma during an unusually long drought: resist or be defeated by the hostile environment and the relentless passage of time.

Director: Reid Davenport
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

As a visibly disabled person, filmmaker Reid Davenport is often either the subject of an unwanted gaze — gawked at by strangers — or paradoxically rendered invisible, ignored or dismissed by society. The arrival of a circus tent just outside his apartment prompts him to consider the history and legacy of the freak show, in which individuals who were deemed atypical were put on display for the amusement and shock of a paying public. Contemplating how this relates to his own filmmaking practice, which explicitly foregrounds disability, Davenport sets out to make a film about how he sees the world from his wheelchair without having to be seen himself.

Director: Thomas M. Wright
Stars: Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Jada Alberts, Fletcher Humphrys
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Country: Australia, UK, USA

Two strangers strike up a conversation on a long journey. One is a suspect in an unsolved missing person’s case and the other an undercover operative on his trail. Their uneasy friendship becomes the core of this tightly wrought thriller, which is based on the true story of one of the largest investigations and undercover operations in Australia.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Nathalie Boutefeu
Genre: Romance, Drama, History
Country: France, USA

“A Couple” is a film about a long term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia. They were married for 36 years, had 13 children nine of whom survived. Each kept a diary. Although they lived together, in the same house, they wrote letters frequently to each other. Leo Tolstoy insisted that they read their diaries aloud to guests at dinner parties. The Tolstoy’s were also a dysfunctional couple, arguing frequently and being very unhappy with each other while occasionally enjoying passionate moments of reconciliation. The film is Sophia’s monologue about the joys and struggles of their life together, loosely drawn from their letters to each other and their diary entries.

Director: Ramin Bahrani
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA

In 1969, bankrupt pizzeria owner Richard Davis invented the modern-day bulletproof vest. To prove that it worked, he shot himself — point-blank — 192 times.

Director: Lena Dunham
Stars: Bella Ramsey, Billie Piper, Andrew Scott, Lesley Sharp
Genre: Comedy, Adventure
Country: UK, USA

A teenage girl in Medieval England navigates life and tries to avoid the arranged marriages her father maps out for her.

Director: Hanna Bergholm
Stars: Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen, Reino Nordin
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Drama
Country: Belgium, Finland, Norway, Sweden

12 year old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief.

Director: Travis Stevens
Stars: Josh Ruben, Sarah Lind, Malin Barr, Katie Kuang
Genre: Horror
Country: USA

A local museum curator who is dipping her toe back into the dating pool is targeted by a charming serial killer. When a fateful romantic getaway between the two becomes a tense game of cat and mouse, both must confront the madness within him.

Director: Quentin Dupieux
Stars: Alain Chabat, Léa Drucker, Anaïs Demoustier
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Comedy
Country: France

Alain and Marie moved to the suburb house of their dreams. But the real estate agent warned them: what is in the basement may well change their lives forever.

Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Stars: Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Sarah Adina Smith
Genre: Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

When neighbors John and Levi witness supernatural events in their LA apartment building, they realize documenting the paranormal could inject some fame and fortune into their wasted lives.

Director: Edward Berger
Stars: Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer
Genre: History, Drama, War
Country: Germany

Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Stars: Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Bae Doona, IU
Genre: Drama, Crime, Comedy
Country: South Korea

Sang-hyun is always struggling from debt, and Dong-soo works at a baby box facility. On a rainy night, they steal the baby Woo-sung, who was left in the baby box, to sell him at a good price. Meanwhile, detectives were watching, and they quietly track them down to capture the crucial evidence.

Director: Chinonye Chukwu
Stars: Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, UK

The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.

Director: Max Walker-Silverman
Stars: Dale Dickey, Wes Studi, Michelle Wilson, Benja K. Thomas
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains.

Director: Alli Haapasalo
Stars: Aamu Milonoff, Eleonoora Kauhanen, Linnea Leino
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland

Best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö support each other unconditionally. They want to live adventurous lives, loaded with experiences and passion. Emma on the contrary has given her whole life to figure skating. Nothing gets between her and success. But when the girls meet, life opens whole new paths, and they all rocket in new directions. While Mimmi and Emma experience the earth moving effects of first love, Rönkkö is on a quest to find pleasure. Three Fridays is all it takes to turn their worlds upside down.

Director: Joe Hunting
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary, Animation
Country: USA, UK

Filmed entirely inside the world of virtual reality (VR), this immersive and revealing documentary roots itself in several unique communities within VR Chat, a burgeoning virtual reality platform. Through observational scenes captured in real-time, in true documentary style, the film reveals the growing power and intimacy of several relationships formed in the virtual world, many of which began during the COVID-19 lockdown, while so many in the physical world were facing intense isolation.

Director: Santiago Mitre
Stars: Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner
Genre: History, Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, UK

In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina’s bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.

Director: Christian Tafdrup
Stars: Morten Burian, Sidsel Siem Koch, Fedja van Huêt
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

Director: Sacha Jenkins
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings and personal conversations. This definitive documentary honors Armstrong’s legacy as a founding father of jazz, one of the first internationally known and beloved stars, and a cultural ambassador of the United States.

Director: Alon Schwarz
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Israel, State of Palestine

The tape-recorded words “erase it” take on new weight in the context of history and war. When the state of Israel was established in 1948, war broke out and hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated in its aftermath. Israelis know this as the War of Independence. Palestinians call it “Nakba” (the Catastrophe). In the late 1990s, graduate student Teddy Katz conducted research into a large-scale massacre that had allegedly occurred in the village of Tantura in 1948. His work later came under attack and his reputation was ruined, but 140 hours of audio testimonies remain.

Director: Oliver Hermanus
Stars: Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Tom Burke
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Sweden, UK

London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city’s bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.

Director: Terence Davies
Stars: Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK

Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government’s continuation of the war when he returned from service. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London’s literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality.

Director: Tia Lessin, Emma Pildes
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Defying the state legislature that outlawed abortion, the Catholic Church that condemned it, and the Chicago Mob that was profiting from it, the members of “Jane” risked their personal and professional lives to support women with unwanted pregnancies. In the pre-Roe v. Wade era — a time when abortion was a crime in most states and even circulating information about abortion was a felony in Illinois — the Janes provided low-cost and free abortions to an estimated 11,000 women.

Director: Rosa Ruth Boesten
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands, USA

George Anthony Morton, a classical painter who spent ten years in federal prison, travels to his hometown to paint his family members. Going back forces George to face his past in his quest to rewrite the script of his life.

Director: Asghar Farhadi
Stars: Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Fereshteh Sadr Orafaee
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Iran

Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don’t go as planned. Is he truly a hero?

Director: Daniel Roher
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery, he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.

Director: Goran Stolevski
Stars: Sara Klimoska, Anamaria Marinca, Alice Englert
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Australia, UK

In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young feral witch accidentally kills a peasant. She assumes the peasant’s shape to see what life is like in her skin, igniting a deep seated curiosity to experience life inside the bodies of others.

Director: Sierra Pettengill
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An archival documentary about the U.S. military’s response to the political and racial injustices of the late 1960s: take a military base, build a mock inner-city set, cast soldiers to play rioters, burn the place down, and film it all.

Director: David Siev
Stars: Michael Meinhold, Chun Siev, Austin Turmell, Skyler Janssen
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Cambodian Killing Fields.

Director: Juan Pablo González
Stars: Teresa Sánchez, Rafaela Fuentes, Tatín Vera
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

Fifty-year-old Maria Garcia is the owner of the Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory struggling to stay afloat, and the final hold-over from generations of Mexican-owned tequila plants in the highlands of Jalisco; the rest have folded to foreign corporations. Once one of the wealthiest people in town, Maria knows her current financial situation is untenable. When a persistent plague and an unexpected flood cause irreversible damage, she is forced to do everything she can to save her community’s main source of economy and pride.

Director: S. S. Rajamouli
Stars: N.T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Olivia Morris, Ray Stevenson
Genre: Adventure, Action, Drama
Country: India

A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries’ journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.

Director: Elvis Mitchell
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs.

Director: Alex Pritz
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil, Canada, Denmark, USA

The Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people have seen their population dwindle and their culture threatened since coming into contact with non-Native Brazilians. Though promised dominion over their own rainforest territory, they have faced illegal incursions from environmentally destructive logging and mining, and, most recently, land-grabbing invasions spurred on by right-wing politicians like President Jair Bolsonaro. With deforestation escalating as a result, the stakes have become global.

Director: Michael Morris
Stars: Andrea Riseborough, Marc Maron, Andre Royo
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Director: Patricio Guzmán
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Chile, France

This documentary explores the protests that exploded onto the streets of Chile’s capital of Santiago in 2019 as the population demanded more democracy and social equality around education, healthcare and job opportunities.

Director: Margaret Brown
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

History exists beyond what is written. The Africatown residents in Mobile, Alabama, have shared stories about their origins for generations. Their community was founded by enslaved ancestors who were transported in 1860 aboard the last known and illegal slave ship, Clotilda. Though the ship was intentionally destroyed upon arrival, its memory and legacy weren’t. Now, the long-awaited discovery of the Clotilda’s remains offers this community a tangible link to their ancestors and validation of a history so many tried to bury.

Director: Tonya Lewis Lee, Paula Eiselt
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An alarmingly disproportionate number of Black women are failed every year by the U.S. maternal health system. Shamony Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac were vibrant, excited mothers-to-be whose deaths due to childbirth complications were preventable. Now, their partners and families are determined to sound a rallying cry around this chilling yet largely ignored crisis.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaser
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.

Director: Ivy Meeropol
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Following a series of great white shark attacks that dominated the headlines, one Cape Cod community renegotiates its relationship with the marine environment. Local residents, fishermen, and environmentalists are forced to confront dramatic changes to their way of life. How far can we push nature before it bites back?

Director: Raoul Peck
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, France

The story of the Reels family who are valiantly attempting to protect the land their family bought one generation after slavery. This documentary, based on the 2019 ProPublica article, highlights the covert ways the legal system has been exploited to keep Black land ownership fragile and the racial wealth gap growing.

Director: Rebecca Landsberry-Baker, Joe Peeler
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

When the Muscogee Nation suddenly begins censoring its free press, a rogue reporter fights to expose her government’s corruption in a historic battle that will have ramifications for all of Indian country.

Director: Roddy Bogawa, Storm Thorgerson
Stars: N/A
Genre: Music, Documentary
Country: UK

Follow the moment Barrett was kicked out of Pink Floyd, from the narrative of him going from groundbreaking musician to iconic rocker and manic, unstable star.

Director: Suzanne Raes
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands

In the year before he retires, Gregor Weber, a globally renowned Vermeer expert and flamboyant curator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, works on his big dream: the largest Vermeer exhibition ever. Together with Weber, a number of enthusiasts and experts go in search of what truly makes a Vermeer a Vermeer.

Director: Thomas Tancred
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Nestled deep in the Australian Outback is the town of Larrimah and its 11 eccentric residents. When one of them mysteriously disappears into thin air, the remaining residents become suspects and a long history of infighting is unveiled.

Director: Kenneth Dagatan
Stars: Beauty Gonzalez, Felicity Kyle Napuli, James Mavie Estrella
Genre: War, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan

Stranded in the Philippines during World War II, a young girl finds that her duty to protect her dying mother is complicated by her misplaced trust in a beguiling, flesh-eating fairy.

Director: Chloe Domont
Stars: Phoebe Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich, Eddie Marsan
Genre: Thriller, Romance, Drama
Country: USA

An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple’s relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel not only their recent engagement but their lives.

Director: Zackary Drucker, Kristen Parker Lovell
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The history of New York’s Meatpacking District, told from the perspective of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. Filmmaker Kristen Lovell, who walked “The Stroll” for a decade, reunites her community to recount the violence, policing, homelessness, and gentrification they overcame to build a movement for transgender rights.

Director: Amanda Kim
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, South Korea

The quixotic journey of Nam June Paik, one of the most famous Asian artists of the 20th century, who revolutionized the use of technology as an artistic canvas and prophesied both the fascist tendencies and intercultural understanding that would arise from the interconnected metaverse of today’s world.

Director: Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its economic power wanes. The journey of a coal miner’s daughter exploring the region’s dreams and myths, untangling the pain and beauty, as her community sits on the brink of massive change.

Director: Roger Ross Williams
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Perla de la Rosa
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA

The true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso that rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world but also his own life.

Director: C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi
Stars: Evelyne Ily Juhen, Uzoamaka Aniunoh, Emeka Amakeze
Genre: Thriller, Fantasy, Drama
Country: France, Nigeria

In the oceanside village of Iyi, the revered Mama Efe acts as an intermediary between the people and the all-powerful water deity Mami Wata. But when a young boy is lost to a virus, Efe’s devoted but rebellious daughter Zinwe and skeptical protégé Prisca warn Efe about unrest among the villagers. With the sudden arrival of a mysterious rebel deserter named Jasper, a conflict erupts, leading to a violent clash of ideologies and a crisis of faith for the people of Iyi.

Director: Davina Pardo, Leah Wolchok
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The radical honesty of the books by young adult fiction pioneer Judy Blume changed the way millions of readers understood themselves, their sexuality, and what it meant to grow up, but also led to critical battles against book banning and censorship.

Director: Julie Cohen
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Three intersex individuals overcame shame, secrecy and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods to enjoy successful adulthoods, choosing to ignore medical advice to conceal their bodies and coming out as who they truly are.

Director: Margreth Olin
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway

With Olin’s 85-year-old father as guide, we experience Norway’s most adventurous valley, Oldedalen in Nordfjord. He grew up here, and here generations before him have lived in balance with nature.

Director: Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach
Stars: Mélinée Leclerc, Clotilde Hesme, Laetitia Dosch, Estéban
Genre: Animation
Country: France, Italy

Single mother Paulette decides to make up for her mistake by cooking a chicken with peppers for her daughter — only she can’t cook and shopkeepers are on strike.

Director: Nicolas Philibert
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France, Japan

The Adamant is a unique day-care centre. A floating structure located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering the kind of care that grounds them in time and space and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it tries to resist the deterioration and dehumanisation of psychiatry as best as they can.

Director: Goran Stolevski
Stars: Anamaria Marinca, Alina Serban, Samson Selim
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Australia, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Sweden, USA

Dita, who, despite never aspiring to be a mother, finds herself compelled to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters—Mia, a tiny troublemaker, and Vanesa, a rebellious teenager. As their individual wills clash, a heartwarming story unfolds about an unlikely family’s struggle to stay together.

Director: Noora Niasari
Stars: Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Selina Zahednia, Leah Purcell
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK

Shayda, a young Iranian woman living in Australia, finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter, Mona. Having fled her husband, Hossein, and filed for divorce, Shayda struggles to maintain normalcy for Mona. Buoyed by the approach of Nowruz, she tries to forge a fresh start with new and unfettered freedoms. But when a judge grants Hossein visitation rights, he reenters their life, stoking Shayda’s fear that he’ll attempt to take Mona back to Iran.

Director: Minhal Baig
Stars: Blake Cameron James, Gian Knight Ramirez
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In 1992 Chicago, a story of two young legends in their own right begins. As wide-eyed and imaginative best friends Malik and Eric traverse the city, looking to escape the mundaneness of school and the hardships of growing up in public housing, their unbreakable bond is challenged when tragedy shakes their community just as they are learning to fly.

Director: Savanah Leaf
Stars: Tia Nomore, Erika Alexander, Keta Price, Doechii
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK

A pregnant single mother, with two children in foster care, embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family.

Director: Raven Jackson
Stars: Kaylee Nicole Johnson, Chris Chalk, Jayah Henry
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.

Director: Ena Sendijarević
Stars: Hayati Azis, Renée Soutendijk, Lisa Zweerman
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia, Netherlands, Réunion, Sweden

Tumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son – the child of his Indonesian housemaid.

Director: Luna Carmoon
Stars: Saura Lightfoot, Leon Joseph Quinn, Hayley Squires
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: UK

The story follows Maria – a teenager whose mother used to be a hoarder. Now (set in the 90s) she lives in a foster home where a previous resident, Michael, inspires her to revisit the childhood memories and passions that she has repressed.

Director: Turner Ross, Bill Ross
Stars: Micah Bunch, Nathaly Garcia, Nichole Dukes, Tony Aburto, Makai Garza
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Country: UK, USA

With high school in the rearview, five teenagers from small town Oregon decide to embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted taillight, their mission is to make it to a place none of them has ever been— the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away.

Director: Ali Asgari, Alireza Khatami
Stars: Majid Salehi, Gohar Kheyrandish, Farzin Mohades
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Iran

A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s license, applying for a job, or seeking approval for a film script, if you live in Iran, you best come fluent in Orwellian discourse. Progressing along a rough timeline from birth to death, each story is shot in a static camera angle as a single petitioner negotiates with an authority figure hovering just outside of frame, who is practiced in the language of doublespeak.

Director: Luke Gilford
Stars: Charlie Plummer, Eve Lindley, Rene Rosado
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A 21-year old construction worker in rural New Mexico joins a community of queer ranchers and rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream.

Director: Joanna Arnow
Stars: Joanna Arnow, Scott Cohen, Babak Tafti, Peter Vack
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.

Director: Mohamed Kordofani
Stars: Eiman Yousif, Siran Riak, Nazar Gomaa, Ger Duany
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Sweden

A retired singer from northern Sudan, Mona, burdened by guilt for covering up a man’s death, hires his southern widow, Julia, as her maid. Unable to confess her role in the tragedy, she hopes to move forward, but the country’s growing unrest threatens to reveal her secret.

Director: Veerle Baetens
Stars: Charlotte De Bruyne, Rosa Marchant, Sebastien Dewaele
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands

Many years after a sweltering summer that spun out of control, Eva returns to the village she grew up in with an ice block in the back of her car. In the dead of winter, she confronts her past and faces up to her tormentors.

Director: Billy Luther
Stars: Keir Tallman, Charley Hogan, Sarah H. Natani
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds bond during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother’s ranch in Arizona while learning more about their family’s past and themselves.

Director: D. Smith
Stars: Daniella Carter, Dominique Silver, Koko Da Doll
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City break down the walls of their profession.

Director: Roger Ross Williams
Stars: Angela Davis, Alexa Rachelle Jennings, Rafa Marinho
Genre: Documentary, Animation
Country: USA

Using innovative animation and expert insights, this documentary based on Ibram X. Kendi’s bestseller explores the history of racist ideas in America.

Director: Koen Mortier
Stars: Thibaud Dooms, Natali Broods, Boris Van Severen
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Antilles, Belgium, Netherlands

The story of Liam, a neglected teenager who lives in a family where alcohol, violence and sex play the main role. He grows up to be a confused youngster which ends in a very aggressive act to break with his past.

Director: Adrien Beau
Stars: Ariane Labed, Kacey Mottet Klein, Grégoire Colin
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama
Country: France

Lost in a hostile forest, the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, finds refuge in the home of a strange family.

Director: Stephen Kijak
Stars: Rock Hudson, Joe Carberry, Tim Turner, Lee Garlington
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA

This timely exploration of Hollywood and LGBTQ+ identity examines the life of legendary actor Rock Hudson, from his public “ladies’ man” persona to his private life as a gay man.

Director: Amjad Al Rasheed
Stars: Mouna Hawa, Haitham Omari, Yumna Marwan
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, France, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia

After the sudden death of her husband, working mother Nawal has to fight for her inheritance in order to save her daughter and home in a society where having a son would be a game changer.

Director: Laetitia Colombani
Stars: Kim Raver, Fotinì Peluso, Mia Maelzer, Katharine King So
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy

India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he has an accident, she discovers that the family business is ruined. Canada. Sarah, a successful lawyer, is about to be promoted to the head of her firm when she learns that she is ill. Three lives, three women, three continents. Three battles to fight. Although they don’t know each other, Smita, Giulia and Sarah are unknowingly linked by their most intimate and singular bond.

Director: Benjamin Cantu
Stars: Walter Arlen, Howard Myers, Klaus Mueller, Morgan M. Page
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany

A glittery nightclub in 1920s Berlin becomes a haven for the queer community in this documentary exploring the freedoms lost amid Hitler’s rise to power.

Director: Nick Cheuk
Stars: Lo Chun-Yip, Ronald Cheng Chung-Kei, Sean Wong Tsz-Lok
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore

High school teacher Cheng looks back to his repressed childhood memories, as he finds an anonymous suicide note in the classroom. He strives hard to prevent another tragedy from happening, meanwhile facing a series of family problems, his wife is divorcing him, and his father is dying.

Director: Phạm Thiên Ân
Stars: Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thinh, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Singapore, Spain, Vietnam

After a Vietnamese woman dies in a car crash in Saigon, her brother-in-law and her young son transport her body back to the former’s hometown in rural Vietnam, where they plan to give her a funeral.

Director: Lisa Cortés
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard’s complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon’s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions.

Director: Amanda Mustard, Rachel Beth Anderson
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A photojournalist turns her lens on the decades of sexual abuse her family and community experienced at the hands of her grandfather in this unflinching portrait of intergenerational trauma, family secrets, and redemption.

Director: Patricia Font
Stars: Enric Auquer, Laia Costa, Luisa Gavasa, Ramon Agirre
Genre: History, Drama
Country: Spain

Ariadna discovers that her grandfather has been searching for the remains of his father, who disappeared during the Civil War. Determined to help him, she travels to Burgos, where a mass grave is being excavated, and where he could be buried. During her stay there, she will learn the story of Antoni Benaiges, a young teacher from Tarragona who was her grandfather’s teacher before the war. Through an innovative pedagogical method, Antoni inspired his students and made them a promise: to take them to see the sea.

Director: Lucy Walker
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A Nepali mountaineer risks everything on a record-breaking Mount Everest climb to secure a brighter future for her daughters.

Director: Errol Morris
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA

Academy Award winner Errol Morris pulls back the curtain on the storied life and career of David Cornwell, the former spy known to the literary world as John le Carré.

Director: Ivan Sen
Stars: Simon Baker, Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen
Genre: Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Australia

Travis, a jaded detective, arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of local Indigenous girl Charlotte Hayes 20 years ago. As truths about the murder begin to unfold, the detective gains a new insight into the unsolved case.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France, Germany

This unique cinematic experience dives deep into an artist’s work and reveals his life path, inspiration, and creative process. It explores his fascination with myth and history. Past and present are interwoven to diffuse the line between film and painting, allowing the audience to be completely immersed in the remarkable world of one of the greatest contemporary artists, Anselm Kiefer. Wim Wenders shot this unique portrait over the course of two years in stunning 3D.

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil

Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that’s just part of the story.

Director: Louise Archambault
Stars: Sophie Nélisse, Dougray Scott, Andrzej Seweryn
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Canada, Poland

19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major’s house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.

Director: Marija Kavtaradzė
Stars: Greta Grinevičiūtė, Kęstutis Cicėnas, Gediminas Rimeika
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Lithuania, Spain, Sweden

Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.

Director: Robert Hloz
Stars: Andrea Mohylová, Matěj Hádek, Václav Neužil, Milan Ondrík
Genre: Science Fiction, Crime, Thriller
Country: Czechia, Poland

It’s 2041 and the gaps in social and economic inequality have left the world on the brink. A breakthrough in science has given humanity the ability to bring victims of a violent crime back to life by backing up their brain every 2 days. This allows an ambitious, young detective the opportunity to solve a case of a murdered couple when the restoration team is able to bring one of them back.

Director: Anna Hints
Stars: Kadi Kivilo, Maria Meresaar, Elsa Saks, Marianne Liiv
Genre: Documentary
Country: Estonia, France, Iceland

Women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences inside an Estonian smoke sauna. Cleansing their bodies and baring their souls, they embrace the healing power of sisterhood.

Director: Giuseppe Fiorello
Stars: Samuele Segreto, Gabriele Pizzurro, Fabrizia Sacchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

A sunbaked Sicilian town in the summer of 1982 provides the vivid backdrop to this tender romantic drama about two teenagers who fall in love, but much to the disapproval of those around them. Gianni is a handsome but shy teen who works as a car mechanic at his stepfather’s garage but is mercilessly taunted by the macho townsmen for being a homosexual. With his family life no better, Gianni withdraws into himself until one day he meets Nino, a curly-haired boy with an infectious smile. As the two become close and fall in love, the moral rumblings from their families and neighbors begin to erupt. With all against them, the boys decide to make a stand.

Director: Dustin Guy Defa
Stars: Michael Cera, Hannah Gross, Sophia Lillis, Wavyy Jonez
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

Eric returns home for a short visit and finds himself caught between reuniting with his sisters and chasing a victory with his old poker group. As the trip extends, Eric finds it increasingly difficult to avoid confrontations and revelations as his carefully constructed façade of his adulthood gives way to old childhood conflicts.

Director: Laurel Parmet
Stars: Eliza Scanlen, Lewis Pullman, Wrenn Schmidt
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA

17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.

Director: Cédric Kahn
Stars: Arieh Worthalter, Arthur Harari, Stéphan Guérin-Tillié
Genre: Crime, History, Drama
Country: France

A second trial begins in November 1975 against French left-wing revolutionary Pierre Goldman, accused of several armed robberies and the death of two chemists.

Director: Luke Korem
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The story of Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan, who became fast friends during their youth in Germany. With Rob coming from a broken home and Fabrice having left an abusive household, they shared a similar upbringing, as well as a future goal: to become famous superstars. In a few short years, their dreams came true. Rob and Fab, better known as Milli Vanilli, became the world’s most popular pop duo in 1990 and won the GRAMMY for Best New Artist. However, their ascension to success came with a devastating price that ultimately led to their infamous undoing.

Director: Monia Chokri
Stars: Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Pierre-Yves Cardinal
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Canada, France

Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 years. Sylvain is a carpenter in the Laurentians and must renovate their country house. When Sophia meets Sylvain for the first time, it’s love at first sight. Opposites attract, but can it last?

Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji
Stars: Tandin Wangchuk, Tandin Sonam, Choeying Jatsho
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Bhutan, France, Taiwan, USA

An American travels to Bhutan searching for a valuable antique rifle and crosses paths with a young monk who wanders through the serene mountains, instructed by his teacher to make things right again.

Director: Kristian Mercado Figueroa
Stars: Anthony Mackie, Zoë Chao, Natalie Morales, Geoff Stults
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction
Country: USA

Adrift in their broken-down space shuttle with little hope of rescue, two astronauts argue over whether they’re better off spending their remaining days as friends or something more.

Director: Babak Jalali
Stars: Anaita Wali, Zada Jeremy Allen White, Gregg Turkington
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor’s guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.

Director: Zhang Yimou
Stars: Shen Teng, Jackson Yee, Zhang Yi, Lei Jiayin
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller, History
Country: China, Hong Kong

During China’s Song Dynasty, a mysterious murder occurs at Chancellor Quin Hui’s palace after meeting delegates from the neighboring Jin Dynasty. The members become embroiled not just in a murder mystery, but a larger conspiracy concerning the fate of the empire.

Director: Erica Tremblay
Stars: Lily Gladstone, Isabel Deroy-Olson, Ryan Begay
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Following her sister’s disappearance, Jax and her niece Roki must stick together. Desperate to keep what’s left of their family intact, Jax and Roki defy the law and hit the road on a journey to the Grand Nation Powwow in Oklahoma City.

Director: Maite Alberdi
Stars: Paulina Urrutia, Augusto Góngora, Gustavo Cerati
Genre: Documentary
Country: Chile, USA

Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.