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Bitter Christmas and Coward
All Of A Sudden
(Country: Japan, France, Belgium, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi; Writer: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Léa Le Dimna; Stars: Virginie Efira, Tao Okamoto, Kyōzō Nagatsuka, Kodai Kurosaki, Jean-Louis Garçon, Marie Bunel, Jean-Charles Clichet, Margot Maricot, Lazare Gousseau, Jérôme Chappatte, Evelyne Istria, Elisabeth Tamaris, Aurélia Petit, Heidi Becker-Babel)
World premiere
The director of a nursing home in Paris has an encounter with a terminally ill Japanese playwright that transforms her life.
Another Day
(Garance)
(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Jeanne Herry; Writer: Jeanne Herry; Stars: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Sara Giraudeau)
World premiere
A young actress finds herself in a spiral.
The Beloved
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2026; Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen; Writer: Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Isabel Peña; Stars: Javier Bardem, Victoria Luengo, Raúl Arévalo, Marina Foïs, Mourad Ouani, Raúl Prieto, Melina Matthews, Núria Prims, Pablo Gómez-Pando, Malena Villa, Laura Birn, Chos, Pepa Gracia, Raquel Ferri, Conchi Albiñana Espejo)
World premiere
A director and his estranged daughter, a struggling actress, make a movie together, forcing them to confront their troubled past
Bitter Christmas
(Country: Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Pedro Almodóvar; Writer: Pedro Almodóvar; Stars: Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Victoria Luengo, Patrick Criado, Milena Smit, Quim Gutiérrez, Rossy de Palma, Carmen Machi, Antonio Araque, Diogo Belizario, Nourdin Batán, Laura Ledesma, Tusti de las Heras, Gloria Muñoz)
International premiere
Melodrama featuring parallel stories asks what right a filmmaker has to plunder reality of those close to them for their work.
The Black Ball
(La Bola Negra)
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2026; Director: Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo; Writer: Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo; Stars: Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes, Lola Dueñas, Penélope Cruz, Glenn Close, Lorenzo Zurzolo)
World premiere
Drama exploring the inter-connected lives of three gay men.
Coward
(Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands; Year: 2026; Director: Lukas Dhont; Writer: Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens; Stars: Valentin Campagne, Emmanuel Macchia, Jonas Wertz)
World premiere
Soldiers try to keep their hope alive on the frontline in the First World War.
The Dreamed Adventure
(Country: Germany, France, Austria, Bulgaria; Director: Valeska Grisebach; Stars: Syuleyman Alilov Letifo, Yana Radeva, Velko Frandev)
World premiere
n the border region between Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey, a woman agrees to a deal to help an old acquaintance with dangerous consequences.
Fatherland
(Country: Italy, Poland, France, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Pawel Pawlikowski; Writer: Pawel Pawlikowski; Stars: Sandra Hüller, August Diehl, Anna Madeley)
World premiere
Drama focusing on Thomas Mann's post-war life, his family's stand against Nazi rule and their journey into exile.
Histoire De La Nuit
(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Léa Mysius; Writer: Léa Mysius, based on the novel The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier; Stars: Hafsia Herzi, Bastien Bouillon, Monica Bellucci, Benoît Magimel)
World premiere
Thriller focused on 40th birthday party preparations that don't go to plan.
Hope
(Country: K; Year: 2026; Director: Na Hong-Jin; Stars: Jung-min Hwang, In-sung Zo)
World premiere
Thriller set near Korea's heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone. When a tiger is reported to have been sighted, the community is thrown into chaos
The Man I Love
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Ira Sachs; Writer: Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias; Stars: Rami Malek, Rebecca Hall)
World premiere
Musical fantasy set against the backdrop of New York's AIDs epidemic in the 1980s.
Minotaur
(Country: France, Germany, Latvia; Year: 2026; Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev; Writer: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Simon Lyashenko; Stars: Anatoliy Beliy, Varvara Shmykova, Vladimir Friedman)
World premiere
A high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence begins to unravel.
Moulin
(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: László Nemes; Writer: Olivier Demangel; Stars: Gilles Lellouche, Lars Eidinger, Christian Harting, Hortense de Gromard, Félix Lefebvre, Marcin Czarnik, Pierre Nisse, Cser Kinga)
World premiere
The story of resistance fighter Jean Moulin, who unifed the main networks of the French Resistance in the Second World War.
Nagi Notes
(Country: Japan, Singapore, France; Year: 2026; Director: Koji Fukada; Writer: Koji Fukada; Stars: Takako Matsu, Kenichi Matsuyama, Shizuka Ishibashi, Kawaguchi Waku, Kiyora Fujiwara, Sawako Fujima, Ron Mizuma, Shin Seo-gye)
World premiere
Yoriko, an artist living in rural Nagi, is haunted by a former love affair she cannot bear to mourn. When Yuri, a recently separated architect, travels from Tokyo to visit her friend and former sister-in-law, both women find themselves at a crossroad, each searching for ways to let go of the past and define their identities.
Notre Salut
(Country: Belgium, France; Director: Emmanuel Marre; Writer: Emmanuel Marre; Stars: Swann Arlaud, Sandrine Blancke, Mathieu Perotto)
World premiere
Historical drama set against a backdrop of Vichy France as a man strives to help France's renewal.
Paper Tiger
(Country: US, Italy, Brazil; Year: 2026; Director: James Gray; Writer: James Gray; Stars: Adam Driver, Miles Teller, Scarlett Johansson, Joel Marsh Garland, Raphael Corkhill, Meredith Holzman, Cindy Katz, Patrick Murney, Jeff Adler, Rosslyn Luke, Dimiter D Marinov, Yelena Solovey, Yavor Vesselinov)
World premiere
Two brothers pursue the American Dream but get entangled in a dangerous Russian mafia scheme.
Parallel Tales
(Country: France, Belgium, Italy, US; Year: 2026; Director: Asghar Farhadi; Writer: Asghar Farhadi, Massoumeh Lahidji; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney, Catherine Deneuve, Adam Bessa, India Hair)
World premiere
A young man falls madly in love with an older woman, leading to dangerous obsession. A loose remake of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog VI.
Sheep In The Box
(Country: Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda; Writer: Hirokazu Kore-eda; Stars: Haruka Ayase, Daigo Yamamoto, Kuwaki Rimu, Nana Seino, Kanichiro Sato, Hinata Hiiragi, Akihiro Kakuta, Kayo Noro, Mari Hoshino, Ayumu Nakajima, Kimiko Yo, Min Tanaka)
World premiere
A couple take a humanoid robot into their home as their son.
The Unknown
(L'inconnue)
(Country: France, Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Arthur Harari; Writer: Arthur Harari, Vincent Poymiro, Lucas Harari, Justine Triet; Stars: Léa Seydoux, Niels Schneider, Victoire du Bois, Lilith Grasmug, Valérie Dréville, Shanti Masud, Alexandre Pallu)
World premiere
Fantasy based on a graphic novel that sees a photographer wake up in the body of a stranger.
A Woman’s Life
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet; Writer: Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet; Stars: Léa Drucker, Mélanie Thierry, Charles Berling, Laurent Capelluto, Marie-Christine Barrault)
World premiere
A dedicated surgeon whose private life is under strain because of the demands of her work finds things beginning to shift when a novelist comes to observe her work for a book.
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