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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Michael Lockshin
Stars: Yevgeni Tsyganov, Yuliya Snigir, August Diehl
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Moscow, 1930s. A prominent writer’s works are suddenly censored by the Soviet state and the premiere of his theatrical play about Pontius Pilate is canceled. He’s kicked out of the Soviet Writer’s Union, and quickly turns into an outcast with no means to survive. Inspired by Margarita – his lover, he begins working on a new novel in which all the characters are satirically reinterpreted from his life. The novel’s central character is Woland – a mystical dark force who visits Moscow to revenge all those who caused the writer’s downfall. As the Master sinks himself deeper and deeper into his novel, adding himself and Margarita as characters, he gradually stops noticing as the border between reality and his imagination fades away.
Director: Dan Reed
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA
Filmed over four years with unprecedented access, this documentary chronicles the riveting courtroom drama of two defamation lawsuits brought by Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims’ families against Alex Jones and his website, InfoWars.
Director: Oksana Karpovych
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada, France, Ukraine
Intercepted is a journey through Ukraine that reveals the banality of evil behind the Russian invasion with the shocking juxtaposition of two realities: the Ukrainians who have been suffering and resisting the war violence, and the Russian military, and civilians, who have been perpetrating it.
Director: Carla Gutierrez
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway
An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo. Told through her own words for the very first time — drawn from her diary, revealing letters, essays, and print interviews — and brought vividly to life by lyrical animation inspired by her unforgettable artwork.
Director: Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
Stars: Maria Gros Vatne, Nikolaus Ithell Payne, Freja Vatne Payne
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway
In a forest in Norway, a family lives an isolated lifestyle in an attempt to be wild and free, but a tragic event changes everything, and they are forced to adjust to modern society.
Director: Andy Mitchell
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Embark on a delightful journey into the world of dogs in this documentary that reveals scientific and emotional insights about our lovable BFFs.
Director: Lou Ye
Stars: Qin Hao, Mao Xiaorui, Qi Xi, Liang Ming, Huang Xuan
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Singapore
In January 2020, director Xiaorui convinces his cast and crew to resume the shooting of a film halted a decade earlier. With the shoot almost complete, rumors regarding an illness begin to circulate. Some cast and crew manage to leave before the hotel is put on lockdown. Everyone remaining is confined to their rooms, and the director must decide whether to halt filming once more as Wuhan is shut down in the early days of a terrifying pandemic.
Director: Daniela Völker
Stars: Hans-Jürgen Höss, Kai Höss, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Genre: Documentary, War, History
Country: Germany, Israel, Poland, UK, USA
While Hans Jurgen Höss enjoyed a happy childhood in the family villa at Auschwitz, Jewish prisoner Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was trying to survive the notorious concentration camp. At the heart of this film is the historic and inspiring moment – eight decades later – when the two come face-to-face. This is the first time the descendant of a major war criminal meets a survivor in such a private and intimate setting, Anita’s London living room. Together with their children, Kai Höss and Maya Lasker-Wallfisch, the four protagonists explore their very different hereditary burdens.
Director: Matthias Glasner
Stars: Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch, Lilith Stangenberg
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Mother Lissy, father Gerd, son Tom and daughter Ellen: the members of the Lunies family are estranged. But confronted with death, they finally meet each other again.
Director: Bálint Révész, Dávid Mikulán
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Croatia, France, Hungary
Handheld skate video meets hardcore social realism in a sensational film with the energy of a three-chord punk song and an unruly group of street kids in front of the camera, shot over 10 wild years of their young lives.
Director: Charlie Hamilton James
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA
A man forms an unlikely friendship with a wild otter while living in the remote Shetland Islands.
Director: Ray Yeung
Stars: Patra Au Ga-Man, Maggie Li Lin-Lin, Hui So-Ying, Tai Bo
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
When her partner Pat unexpectedly dies, Angie is left to worry about the flat in which the couple lived together for over 30 years. Supported by her chosen family, Angie begins a later-life journey into emancipation.
Director: Titus Kaphar
Stars: André Holland, Andra Day, John Earl Jelks
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Utilizing his paintings to find freedom from his past, a Black artist on the path to success is derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, a recovering addict desperate to reconcile. Together, they learn that forgetting might be a greater challenge than forgiving.
Director: Jia Zhang-ke
Stars: Zhao Tao, Zhubin Li, Pan Jianlin, Zhou Lan, Zhou You
Genre: Drama
Country: China, France, Japan
Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Ryosuke Yoshii, an ordinary reseller, carelessly earns grudges by people and becomes entangled in a life-threatening struggle.
Director: Fernanda Valadez, Astrid Rondero
Stars: Juan Jesús Varela, Yadira Pérez, Sandra Lorenzano
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Mexico, USA
When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved four-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable.
Director: Michael Schwartz, Tyler Nilson
Stars: Adria Arjona, Héctor Medina, Eros de la Puente
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Gustavo idolizes his older brother Paco and his punk, “Frikis” bandmates. When word reaches the Frikis of a potential reprieve from the effects of the economic crisis, they do the now unthinkable: deliberately inject themselves with HIV to live at a government-run treatment home. It’s there that they create their own utopia to live and play music freely.
Director: David Tedeschi
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, UK
Featuring never-before-seen footage of the band and the legions of young fans who helped fuel their ascendance, follow McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Starr as they land in New York City in February 1964 and solidify their status as the biggest band in the world.
Director: Julien Colonna
Stars: Ghjuvanna Benedetti, Saveriu Santucci, Anthony Morganti
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: France
Corsica, 1995. It’s Lesia’s first summer as a teenager. One day a man bursts into her life and takes her to an isolated villa where she finds her father, in hiding, surrounded by his clan. An underworld war erupts. The noose is tightening around them. Death strikes. Forced to go on the run, father and daughter will learn to face one another, to understand and love each other.
Director: Elizabeth Sankey
Stars: Elizabeth Sankey, Sophia Di Martino, Catherine Cho
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
Elizabeth Sankey’s deeply personal documentary examines the relationship between the cinematic portrayals of witches and the all-too-real experiences of postpartum depression by utilizing footage that spans the entirety of film history alongside heartrending personal testimony.
Director: Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane
Stars: Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls, Jen Cohn, Tilly Steele, Dipo Ola
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Machinima
Country: USA
Two unemployed friends have a fresh idea: they want to stage Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ in Grand Theft Auto. But even in a virtual world, reality intrudes in a wild and trippy film shot entirely inside the ultra-violent video game.
Director: Tiina Lymi
Stars: Amanda Jansson, Linus Troedsson
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Maja and Janne move to the barren and remote island of Stormskerry, where survival is a daily struggle. Growing up in a world of old values, Maja becomes aware of a new era: a woman can be an equal partner instead of a mere bystander. The couple have children, and life is good until trouble sets in: war arrives on the island, Janne is forced to flee from the English troops, and Maja and the children are imprisoned. The family also faces many financial difficulties and death. Years pass, but Maja remains strong and stays in Stormskerry despite all the hardships and difficulties.
Director: Naoko Yamada
Stars: Sayu Suzukawa, Akari Takaishi, Taisei Kido,Yasuko, Aoi Yuki
Genre: Animation
Country: Japan
Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the ‘colors’ of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color she treasures as her favorite. Kimi, a classmate at her school, gives off the most beautiful color of all. Although she doesn’t play an instrument, Totsuko forms a band with Kimi and Rui, a quiet music enthusiast they meet at a used bookstore in a far corner of town. As they practice at an old church on a remote island, music brings them together, forming friendships and stirring affections.
Director: Marco Calvani
Stars: Marco Pigossi, James Bland, Marisa Tomei, Bill Irwin
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Lourenço decides to leave his homophobic family and country behind to get lost in the queer mecca of Provincetown, until the intense and unexpected romance with Maurice, who also feels lost in today’s America, changes his life forever.
Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson
Stars: Elín Hall, Mikael Kaaber, Katla Njálsdóttir
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, France, Iceland, Netherlands
When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student, encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty.
Director: Orlando von Einsiedel, Lali Houghton, Jorge Duran
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Colombia, UK, USA
After a plane crash, four indigenous children fight to survive in the Colombian Amazon using ancestral wisdom as an unprecedented rescue mission unfolds.
Director: Jeffrey Reiner
Stars: Carrie Coon, Shea Whigham, Glenn Fleshler, Max Casella
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Comedy
Country: USA
Newly released from prison, a white-collar criminal, used to dealing with numbers, is tasked with one last job by his boss: kill the boss’ girlfriend before she talks.
Director: Mahdi Fleifel
Stars: Mahmood Bakri, Aram Sabbah, Angeliki Papoulia
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Country: Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, France, Greece, Netherlands, UK, State of Palestine
The stakes couldn’t be higher for displaced Palestinian refugees Chatila and Reda in this knife-edge drama. The cousins are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens, but when Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan to pose as smugglers in an attempt to get them out of their desperate situation before it is too late.
Director: Yandy Laurens
Stars: Chicco Kurniawan, Amanda Rawles, Fatih Unru
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
After the untimely death of his older siblings, a struggling young architect suddenly becomes a “single parent” for his nephews. When the opportunity for a better life arises, he must choose between his love life, career, or his nephews.
Director: Michael Cristofer
Stars: Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Jesse Williams, Lily Rabe
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Lillian Hall, a Broadway actress, has never missed a performance throughout her long, illustrious career. Yet in the rehearsals her confidence is challenged. People and events conspire to take away her ability to do what she loves most.
Director: Bogdan Mureșanu
Stars: Adrian Văncică, Nicoleta Hâncu, Emilia Dobrin
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Serbia
On the brink of counter-revolution in 1989 Romania, six lives intersect amidst protests and personal struggles, leading to the explosive fall of Ceausescu and the communist regime.
Director: Sandhya Suri
Stars: Shahana Goswami, Sunita Rajwar, Naval Shukla
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: France, Germany, UK
A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.
Director: Bálint Szimler
Stars: Paul Mátis, Anna Mészöly, Ákos ‘Dadan’ Kovács, Inez Mátis
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Ten-year-old Palkó has just moved home to Budapest from Berlin and observes the daily life of an ordinary Hungarian elementary school with confused amazement. Juci, the young teacher just started working there. She is the only one who understands Palkó, as in their own way, they are both suffering from the same, sometimes grotesque educational system.
Director: Nathan Silver
Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Dolly de Leon
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. The two forlorn souls develop a special connection.
Director: E.oni
Stars: Kim Go-eun, Steve Sanghyun Noh, Jung Whee, Oh Dong-min
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Free-spirit Jae-hee and closeted Heung-soo deeply connect over being misfits and begin living together. The pair ceaselessly rely on each other as they navigate the complexities of love and romance in the big city of Seoul.
Director: Boris Lojkine
Stars: Abou Sangare, Nina Meurisse, Alpha Oumar Sow
Genre: Drama
Country: France
As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining papers, but Souleymane is not ready.
Director: Louise Courvoisier
Stars: Clément Faveau, Luna Garret, Mathis Bernard, Dimitri Baudry
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France
Totone and his band of friends, local barflies, spend most of their summer scouring the Jura dances. Following the sudden death of his cheese-making father, Totone suddenly finds himself responsible for his 7-year-old sister, and must find a way to earn a living. With his friends, he sets out to make the best Comté cheese, one that will win him the gold medal at the agricultural competition and 30,000 euros.
Director: Pamela Adlon
Stars: Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau, John Carroll Lynch, Oliver Platt
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.
Director: Alessandra Lacorazza
Stars: Residente, Sasha Calle, Lio Mehiel, Dreya Renae Castillo
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Director: Icíar Bollaín
Stars: Mireia Oriol, Urko Olazábal, Ricardo Gómez, Lucía Veiga
Genre: History, Drama
Country: Spain
In the year 2000, Nevenka Fernández, 24 years old, Councilor for Finance in the Ponferrada City Council, suffered relentless persecution, both sentimental and professional, by the mayor, a man accustomed to doing his will politically and personally. She never decides to report, although she knows that she will have to pay a very high price: her environment does not support her, the society of Ponferrada turns its back on her and the media subjects her to a public trial. A story inspired by real events that turns its protagonist into a pioneer by taking an influential and popular politician to court for sexual and workplace harassment for the first time.
Director: Anselm Chan
Stars: Michael Hui, Dayo Wong Chi-Wah, Michelle Wai Si-Nga
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
A debt-ridden wedding planner inadvertently becomes a successful funeral planner. However, he must convince a traditional Taoist priest of his legitimacy to continue operating in the field.
Director: Rahul Sadasivan
Stars: Arjun Ashokan, Mammootty, Sidharth Bharathan
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Country: India
Thevan, a folk singer of the Paanan caste, has a fateful encounter when escaping slavery, leading to discover an ancient tradition altering his destiny.
Director: Ignas Miškinis
Stars: Džiugas Grinys, Robertas Petraitis, Digna Kulionytė
Genre: Comedy
Country: Lithuania
It follows Rimants who is more interested in playing rugby, listening to music and dealing on the black market than studying for school, but when he falls in love with Monika, his faith in love and the future is tested.
Director: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Stars: Anja Plaschg, Maria Hofstätter, David Scheid
Genre: Mystery, History, Horror, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison.
Director: Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui
Stars: Christopher Reeve, Dana Reeve, Matthew Reeve, Will Reeve
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, UK
Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After becoming a quadriplegic, he became a charismatic leader and activist in the quest to find a cure for spinal cord injuries, as well as a passionate advocate for disability rights and care.
Director: Josephine Bornebusch
Stars: Josephine Bornebusch, Pål Sverre Hagen, Sigrid Johnson
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
A jaded mother makes a last-ditch effort to keep her family together by taking them on a trip to their teenage daughter’s pole dancing competition.
Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios
Stars: Raúl Briones, Rooney Mara, Anna Díaz, Motell Gyn Foster
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Mexico, Sweden, USA
It is the lunchtime rush at The Grill, a New York tourist trap that serves thousands of customers on a regular Friday like today. Money has gone missing from the till and all the workers are being questioned.
Director: Chidambaram
Stars: Soubin Shahir, Sreenath Bhasi, Balu Varghese
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Adventure
Country: India
Manjummel Boys, based on a real story, is about a bunch of friends who set out on a trip to Kodaikanal and the events that occur there.
Director: Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia, Ukraine, USA
Under roaring fighter jets and missile strikes, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind and fight, contending with the soldiers they have become. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living.
Director: Paula Ortiz
Stars: Najwa Nimri, Alba Planas, Aixa Villagrán, Patrick Criado
Genre: History, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Hildegart is conceived and educated by her mother Aurora to be the woman of the future, to become one of the most brilliant minds of Spain in the 1930s and one of the European references on female sexuality.
Director: Shuchi Talati
Stars: Preeti Panigrahi, Kani Kusruti, Kesav Binoy Kiron
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, India, Norway, USA
In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself.
Director: Dani de la Orden
Stars: Emma Vilarasau, Enric Auquer, Maria Rodríguez Soto
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, Italy
Montse, divorced and with two children who have long ignored her, prepares for a family reunion at her home on the Costa Brava.
Director: Amber Sealey
Stars: Phoebe-Rae Taylor, Jennifer Aniston, Rosemarie DeWitt
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Melody Brooks, a sixth grader with cerebral palsy, has a quick wit and a sharp mind, but because she is non-verbal and uses a wheelchair, she is not given the same opportunities as her classmates. When a young educator notices her student’s untapped potential and Melody starts to participate in mainstream education, Melody shows that what she has to say is more important than how she says it.
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Stars: Egill Ólafsson, Kōki, Pálmi Kormákur Baltasarsson
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Iceland, UK
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.
Director: Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha
Stars: Lily Farhadpour, Esmaeel Mehrabi, Mansoureh Ilkhani
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Iran, Sweden
Mahin lives alone in Tehran since her husband’s death and her daughter’s departure for Europe, until an afternoon tea with friends leads her to break her solitary routine and revitalize her love life.
Director: Kyle Hausmann-Stokes
Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Inspired by a true story, a U.S. Army Afghanistan veteran—thanks to the presence of her dead best friend from the Army—is at odds with her estranged Vietnam Veteran grandfather and her VA counselor.
Director: Maura Delpero
Stars: Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium, USA
Set in the small, mountainous village of Vermiglio during the waning days of WWII, a series of dramatic, consequential events unfold after the arrival of a taciturn Sicilian soldier, who hides out in town after deserting the army. While there, the soldier develops a romance with a provincial family’s eldest daughter.
Director: Cristina Comencini
Stars: Barbara Ronchi, Serena Rossi, Christian Cervone
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty.
Director: Jang Jae-hyun
Stars: Choi Min-sik, Kim Go-eun, Yoo Hai-jin, Lee Do-hyun
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family’s ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.
Director: David Moreau
Stars: Lucille Guillaume, Laurie Pavy, Milton Riche
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France
A teenager stops off to see his dealer to test a new drug before heading off for a night of partying. On the way home, he picks up an injured woman and the night takes a surreal turn.
Director: Josh Margolin
Stars: June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Comedy, Action
Country: Switzerland, USA
When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.
Director: Steve McQueen
Stars: Elliott Heffernan, Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on an epic, perilous journey back home as Rita searches for him.
Director: Rich Peppiatt
Stars: Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara, DJ Próvaí, Josie Walker
Genre: Drama, Music, Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.
Director: John Andreas Andersen
Stars: Sjur Vatne Brean, Erik Hivju, Philip Helgar, Magnus Dugdale
Genre: History, War, Drama
Country: Norway
On the brink of the Second World War, a young Norwegian man’s drive to resist the Nazis sets a new course for his future – and the future of his country.
Director: David Leitch
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Genre: Comedy, Action, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Fresh off an almost career-ending accident, stuntman Colt Seavers has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job.
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Stars: Mike Faist, Josh O’Connor, Zendaya
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, USA
Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach, transformed her husband into a champion. But to overcome a recent losing streak and redeem himself, he’ll need to face off against his former best friend and Tashi’s ex-boyfriend.
Director: Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte
Stars: Pierre Niney, Bastien Bouillon, Anaïs Demoustier
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
After escaping from an island prison where he spent 14 years for being wrongly accused of state treason, Edmond Dantès returns as the Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on the men who betrayed him.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang
Genre: Horror, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
A family becomes convinced they are not alone after moving into their new home in the suburbs.
Director: Justin Kurzel
Stars: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
A series of bank robberies and car heists frightened communities in the Pacific Northwest. A lone FBI agent believes that the crimes were not the work of financially motivated criminals, but rather a group of dangerous domestic terrorists.
Director: Halina Reijn
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Netherlands
A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.
Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili
Stars: Ia Sukhitashvili, Kakha Kintsurashvili, Merab Ninidze
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Georgia | Italy
Nina, an OB-GYN, faces accusations after newborn’s death. Her life undergoes scrutiny during investigation. She persists in her medical duties, determined to provide care others hesitate to offer, despite risks.
Director: Miguel Gomes
Stars: Gonçalo Waddington, Crista Alfaiate, Cláudio da Silva
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Country: China | France | Germany | Italy | Japan | Portugal
In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia.
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Stars: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | USA
1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, new to the city, shows him, for the first time, that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody.
Director: Jonás Trueba
Stars: Itsaso Arana, Vito Sanz, Fernando Trueba, Andrés Gertrúdix
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France | Spain
After 15 years together, Ale and Alex have an idea that might seem absurd: to organize a party to celebrate their breakup. This announcement leaves their loved ones perplexed, but they remain firm in their decision to separate. Or maybe not?
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Lee Hye-young, Kwon Hae-hyo
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Iris, a woman abroad in Seoul, teaches French and English in an idiosyncratic fashion that allows her to pursue her own philosophical and personal interests. Through four encounters over a single day, Iris probes students and strangers for information about poetry, their own histories, and their relationship to their egos.
Director: Alain Guiraudie
Stars: Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jean-Baptiste Durand
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France | Portugal | Spain
Jérémie returns to his hometown for an old friend’s funeral. In this village where so much goes unsaid, he must contend with rumours and suspicion, until he commits an irreparable act and finds himself at the centre of a police investigation.
Director: Nora Fingscheidt
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Nabil Elouahabi, Izuka Hoyle
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | UK | France | USA
Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her traumatic childhood merge with more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery.
Director: Rungano Nyoni
Stars: Susan Chardy, Elizabeth Chisela, Esther Singini
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Ireland | UK | USA
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.
Director: Mati Diop
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Senegal
Thousands of royal artifacts of Dahomey, a West African kingdom, were taken by French colonists in the 19th century for collection and display in Paris. Centuries later, a fraction returned to their home in modern-day Benin. This dramatized documentary follows the journey of 26 of the treasures as told by cultural art historians, embattled university students, and one of the repatriated statues himself.
Director: Leos Carax
Stars: Leos Carax, Denis Lavant, Nastya Golubeva Carax
Genre: Drama
Country: France
This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time.
Director: Matthew Rankin
Stars: Rojina Esmaeili, Saba Vahedyousefi, Matthew Rankin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get it out. Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists upon an increasingly-strange walking tour of Winnipeg historic sites. Matthew leaves his job at the Québec government and embarks upon a mysterious journey to visit his estranged mother.
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Kim Min-hee, Kwon Hae-hyo, Cho Yun-hee, Ha Seong-guk
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
After a scandal breaks out among several students involved in the production of a skit, a lecturer at a South Korean women’s college brings in her uncle, a famous actor, to bring the work to fruition.
Director: Guan Hu
Stars: Eddie Peng, Tong Liya, Jia Zhang-ke, Zhou You
Genre: Drama
Country: China
On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his hometown after being released from jail. While working for the local dog patrol team to clear the town of stray dogs before the Olympic Games, he strikes up an unlikely connection with a black dog. These two lonely souls embark on a journey together.
Director: Magnus von Horn
Stars: Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark| Poland | Sweden
Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.
Director: Edward Berger
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK | USA
After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in the Vatican with the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders until the process is complete, Lawrence finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could lead to its downfall.
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Stars: Misagh Zare, Soheila Golestani, Mahsa Rostami
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Germany | Iran
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.
Director: Josh Greenbaum
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
When Will Ferrell’s good friend Harper comes out as a trans woman, they take a road trip to bond and reintroduce Harper to the country as her true self.
Director: Alex Thompson, Kelly O’Sullivan
Stars: Keith Kupferer, Katherine Mallen, Kupferer Tara Mallen
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater’s production of Romeo and Juliet alongside his estranged teenage daughter, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.
Director: Levan Akin
Stars: Mzia Arabuli, Lucas Kankava, Deniz Dumanlı
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark | France | Georgia | Sweden | Turkey
Lia, a retired teacher from Georgia, learns from her young neighbor, Achi, that her long-lost transgender niece, Tekla, has crossed the border into Turkey. In search of Tekla, Lia travels to Istanbul with the unpredictable Achi, where they explore the hidden depths of the city.
Director: Shiori Itō
Stars: Shiori Itō, Noriyuki Yamaguchi, Shinzo Abe
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan | UK | USA
Journalist Shiori Itō embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems.
Director: Anthony Schatteman
Stars: Lou Goossens, Marius De Saeger, Geert Van Rampelberg
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Belgium | Netherlands
Fourteen-year-old Elias increasingly feels like an outsider in his village. When he meets his new neighbour of the same age, Alexander, Elias is confronted with his burgeoning sexuality.
Director: Sean Wang
Stars: Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, Chang Li Hua
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
Director: Gary Hustwit
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno — known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of ambient music; and releasing over 40 solo and collaboration albums — reveals his creative processes in this groundbreaking generative documentary: a film that’s different every time it’s shown.
Director: Jiří Mádl
Stars: Vojtěch Vodochodský, Ondrej Stupka, Tatiana Pauhofová
Genre: Documentary
Country: Czechia | Slovakia
In the heady days of the 1968 Prague Spring, a group of Czechoslovak Radio journalists risk not just their careers but their lives to distribute independent news amidst national and regional tumult. Orphaned brothers Tomáš and Pája are caught in the struggle for freedom.
Director: Klára Tasovská
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Austria | Czechia | France | Germany | Slovakia
After the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Libuše Jarcovjáková, a young female photographer, strives to break free from the constraints of Czechoslovak normalization and embarks on a wild journey towards freedom, capturing her experiences on thousands of subjective photographs.
Director: Gints Zilbalodis
Stars: N/A
Genre: Animation
Country: Belgium | France | Latvia
A solitary cat, displaced by a great flood, finds refuge on a boat with various species and must navigate the challenges of adapting to a transformed world together.
Director: Johan Grimonprez
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands
In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.
Director: Benjamin Ree
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary, Animation
Country: Norway
The secret life of a young World of Warcraft gamer is vividly reimagined when his online friends contact his family after his death.
Director: C. Prem Kumar
Stars: Arvind Swamy, Karthi, Rajkiran, Jayaprakash, Sri Divya
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Twenty-two years after losing his home, Arulmozhi Varman returns to his native Thanjavur to attend his cousin’s wedding. Amidst the celebrations, Arul is reintroduced to an upbeat man whom he cannot recall. With the help of the unknown man, Arul reconnects with his past.
Director: Adam Elliot
Stars: Sarah Snook, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jacki Weaver
Genre: Animation, Drama, Comedy
Country: Australia
Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of misfortunes and everyday life.
Director: Multiple
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France, Jordan, State of Palestine, Qatar, Switzerland
“From Ground Zero” is a compelling project that brings together 22 short films created by talented filmmakers from Gaza. Launched by Rashid Masharawi, a notable Palestinian filmmaker, the initiative emerged amid the backdrop of conflict, aiming to provide a platform for young artists to express themselves through their craft.
Director: Angela Patton, Natalie Rae
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.
Director: Michael Lennox, Mary Nighy, Anthony Byrne, Alice Seabright
Stars: Lola Petticrew, Maxine Peake, Hazel Doupe, Anthony Boyle
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Through the eyes of various Irish Republican Army (IRA) members, explore the extremes some people will go to in the name of their beliefs, the way a deeply divided society can suddenly tip over into armed conflict, the long shadow of radical violence for both victims and perpetrators, and the emotional and psychological costs of a code of silence.
Director: Chris Sanders
Stars: Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Bill Nighy
Genre: Animation
Country: USA
After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island’s animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.
Director: Pat Boonnitipat
Stars: Putthipong Assaratanakul, Usha Seamkhum, Sanya Kunakorn
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Thailand
M, a university dropout low on money and luck, volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother, in the hope of pocketing an inheritance.
Director: Walter Salles
Stars: Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway, State of Palestine
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.
Director: Walter Salles
Stars: Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda Montenegro
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
In the early 1970s, the military dictatorship in Brazil reaches its height. The Paiva family – Rubens, Eunice, and their five children – live in a beachside house in Rio, open to all their friends. One day, Rubens is taken for questioning and does not return.
Director: Émilie Tronche
Stars: N/A
Genre: Animated
Country: Spain, France
Samuel is 10 years old. He’s keeping a diary, and he has a problem. His problem is that Basile told the tall Julie that Samuel loved her. Which isn’t true, he doesn’t care about Julie. It’s only that, she laughed at one of his jokes once and he thought she was nice to do so.