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2000 Meters To Andriivka
(Country: Ukraine; Year: 2025; Director: Mstyslav Chernov)
Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realise that this war may never end.
About A Hero
(Country: Denmark, USA; Year: 2024; Director: Piotr Winiewicz)
Reflection on authorship and the limits of human expression in an age of algorithms, featuring interviews with various artists, philosophers, and scientists.
April
(Country: Georgia, Italy, France; Year: 2024; Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili; Writer: Dea Kulumbegashvili; Stars: Merab Ninidze, Ia Sukhitashvili, Kakha Kintsurashvili)
After a newborn dies during delivery, the morals and professionalism of an ob-gyn, Nina, come under scrutiny amid rumors that she performs illegal abortions for those in need.
Ariel
(Country: Spain, Portugal; Year: 2025; Director: Lois Patiño; Writer: Lois Patiño; Stars: Agustina Muñoz, Irene Escolar, José Díaz, Hugo Torres, Marta Pazos)
A postmodern adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, set in the tropical volcanic landscape of the Azores.
The Baltimorons
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Jay Duplass)
Christmas Eve, a broken tooth, and just one dentist on call – thus begins the strange odyssey of the newly sober Cliff and the lonely Didi through the streets of Baltimore.
Peter Hujar’s Day and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
The Blue Trail
(O Ultimo Azul)
(Country: Brazil, Mexico, Netherlands, Chile; Year: 2025; Director: Gabriel Mascaro; Writer: Tibério Azul, Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega, Gabriel Mascaro; Stars: Denise Weinberg, Rodrigo Santoro, Miriam Socarras, Adanilo)
To maximise economic productivity, the government orders the elderly to relocate to distant housing colonies. Tereza, 77, refuses – and instead embarks on a journey through the Amazon that will change her destiny forever.
Christy
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2025; Director: Brendan Canty; Writer: Alan O'Gorman; Stars: Danny Power, Diarmuid Noyes, Emma Willis, Alison Oliver, Helen Behan, Chris Walley, Cormac De Bhál)
Two estranged brothers with chequered childhoods in the care system suddenly find themselves living under the same roof.
Deaf
(Sorda)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Eva Libertad; Writer: Eva Libertad; Stars: Álvaro Cervantes, Elena Irureta, Miriam Garlo, Joaquín Notario)
The arrival of a baby to a Deaf woman and her hearing partner causes a crisis in their relationship.
Dreams
(Country: Mexico, US; Year: 2025; Director: Michel Franco; Writer: Michel Franco; Stars: Jessica Chastain, Rupert Friend, Marshall Bell, Isaac Hernández, Lee Braithwaite, Jim Anderson, Tracy Todd, Tatiana Ronderos, Sedrick Cabrera, Scott Jordan, Jayden Leavitt, Nicholas Gould, Nessa Dougherty, Bobby August Jr., Phillip Caires)
Believing his lover will support him, a young Mexican ballet dancer crosses the border to pursue his dreams in San Francisco. But as ambition and love clash with harsh realities, he must face the true nature of their relationship.
Dreams
(Country: Norway; Year: 2024; Director: Dag Johan Haugerud; Writer: Dag Johan Haugerud; Stars: Ane Dahl Torp, Selome Emnetu, Anne Marit Jacobsen, Ingrid Giæver, Valdemar Dørmænen Irgens, Ella Øverbye, Silje Breivik, Karina Sjøen, Lars Jacob Holm, Andrine Sæther, Nora Hagstrøm, Ammar Banewais, Brynjar Åbel Bandlien, Marja Folde, Sari Kader)
Johanne’s intimate writings about her crush on her teacher ignite both tension and self-reflection within her family, as her mother and grandmother confront their own unfulfilled dreams and desires.
Dreams and Little Trouble Girls
Feeling Better
(Nonostante)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Valerio Mastandrea; Writer: Enrico Audenino, Valerio Mastandrea; Stars: Valerio Mastandrea, Justin Korovkin, Dolores Fonzi, Lino Musella, Claudia Della Seta)
A hospitalised man finds his life shifting after the arrival of a new patient.
The Forbidden City
(La città proibita)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Gabriele Mainetti; Writer: Stefano Bises, Gabriele Mainetti, Davide Serino; Stars: Yaxi Liu, Enrico Borello, Sabrina Ferilli, Marco Giallini, Shansan Chunyu)
A woman leaves China for Rome in search of her missing sister.
GEN_
(Country: France, Switzerland, Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Gianluca Matarrese; Writer: Gianluca Matarrese, Donatella Della Ratta)
At Milan’s Niguarda public hospital, the unconventional Dr Bini leads a bold mission overseeing aspiring parents undergoing in vitro fertilization and the journeys of individuals reconciling their bodies with their gender identities. He navigates the constraints set by a conservative government and an aggressive market eager to commodify bodies.
Girls On Wire
(Xiang fei de nv hai)
(Country: China; Year: 2025; Director: Vivian Qu; Writer: Vivian Qu; Stars: Haocun Liu, Vicky Chen, Youhao Zhang, Yitie Liu, Jing Peng, Jiankang, Haoyu Yang, You Zhou, Le Geng)
Tian Tian, the single mother of a five-year-old daughter, kills a drug dealer and is then pursued for vengeance. The only person she can turn to for help is her female cousin, Fang Di.
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Mary Bronstein; Writer: Mary Bronstein; Stars: Rose Byrne, Danielle Macdonald, Josh Pais, Daniel Zolghadri, Ivy Wolk, Conan O'Brien, A$AP Rocky, Helen Hong, Ella Beatty, Delaney Quinn, Mark Stolzenberg, Lark White, Eva Kornet)
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
2000 Meters To Andriivka and It Was Just an Accident
It Was Just an Accident
(Un Simple Accident)
(Country: Iran, France, Luxembourg; Year: 2025; Director: Jafar Panahi; Writer: Jafar Panahi; Stars: Madjid Panahi, Ebrahim Azizi, Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari)
What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.
Kika
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Alexe Poukine; Writer: Alexe Poukine, Thomas van Zuylen; Stars: Manon Clavel, Suzanne Elbaz, Makita Samba, Thomas Coumand)
A grieving new mother, while struggling to make ends meet for her family, uncovers an unexpected passion within herself.
Kill The Jockey
(El Jockey)
(Country: Argentina, Spain, United States, Mexico, Denmark; Year: 2024; Director: Luis Ortega; Writer: Fabian Casas, Luis Ortega, Rodolfo Palacios; Stars: Úrsula Corberó, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Mariana Di Girólamo, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Roly Serrano, Luis Ziembrowski, Daniel Fanego, Roberto Carnaghi, Osmar Núñez, Adriana Aguirre)
A jockey embarks on a new identity after an accident but a mobster is on his tail.
Kontinental '25
(Country: Romania; Year: 2025; Director: Radu Jude; Writer: Radu Jude; Stars: Serban Pavlu, Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanta, Mardare Oana)
Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must weather as best she can.
Lesbian Space Princess
(Country: Australia; Year: 2025; Director: Emma Hough Hobbs, Leela Varghese; Writer: Emma Hough Hobbs, Leela Varghese; Stars: Shabana Azeez, Richard Roxburgh, Madeleine Sami, Mark Samual Bonanno, Gemma Chua-Tran, Jordan Raskopoulos, Aunty Donna, Bernie Van Tiel, Demi Lardner, Kween Kong, Reuben Kaye)
An introverted space princess is forced to leave her planet to rescue her ex.
Kika and Feeling Better
A Letter To David
(Michtav Le'David)
(Country: Israel, US; Year: 2025; Director: Tom Shoval; Writer: Tom Shoval; Stars: David Cunio, Eitan Cunio, Silvia Cunio, Luis Cunio, Sharon Aloni)
Ten years ago, David Cunio starred in Tom Shoval’s debut feature film Youth, which revolved around a kidnapping. On October 7, 2023, Cunio was taken from the Nir Oz kibbutz and has been held hostage in Gaza ever since. Now, Shoval sends him a cinematic letter.
Little Trouble Girls
(Kaj ti je deklica)
(Country: Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia; Year: 2025; Director: Urska Djukic; Writer: Urska Djukic, Marina Gumzi; Stars: Jara Sofija Ostan, Mina Svajger, Sasa Tabakovic, Natasa Burger, Marko Mandic, Lotos Sparovec, Sasa Pavcek, Branko Zavrsan, Casson Matia, Popovic Stasa, Frlic Spela, Tomazin Irena, Strle Mateja)
During a weekend of rehearsals with the school choir at a convent, an introverted teenager begins to view the world from a new perspective.
The Love That Remains
(Country: Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, France; Year: 2025; Director: Hlynur Pálmason; Writer: Hlynur Pálmason; Stars: Ingvar Sigurdsson, Sverrir Gudnason, Anders Mossling, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Katla M. Þorgeirsdóttir, Saga Garðarsdóttir, Halldór Laxness Halldórsson, Grímur Hlynsson, Þorgils Hlynsson, Kristinn Guðmundsson)
A year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through both playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays the bittersweet essence of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons.
Madly
(Country: Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Paolo Genovese)
Consideration of a couple's first date.
Mad Bills To Pay (or Destiny, Dile Que No Soy Malo)
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Joel Alfonso Vargas; Writer: Joel Alfonso Vargas; Stars: Juan Collado, Destiny Checo, Yohanna Florentino, Nathaly Navarro)
Rico’s summer is a mix of chasing girls and hustling homemade cocktails out of a cooler on Orchard Beach, the Bronx. But when Destiny, his teenage girlfriend, crashes at his place with his family, it’s only a matter of time before his carefree days come spiraling down.
Sorry, Baby and Tales From The Magic Garden
Materialists
(Year: 2025; Director: Celine Song; Stars: Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, Pedro Pascal)
A matchmaker finds herself torn between two potential partners.
Merckx
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2025; Director: Boris Tilquin, Christophe Hermans)
Documentary about the cyclist.
The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo
(Country: Chile; Year: 2025; Director: Diego Céspedes; Writer: Diego Céspedes; Stars: Tamara Cortes, Matías Catalán, Paula Dinamarca)
1982. Eleven-year-old Lidia lives with her beloved queer family in a desert mining town in northern Chile. As an unknown and deadly disease begins to spread, legend has it that it is transmitted between two men, through a simple glance, when they fall in love. While people are accusing her family, Lidia must find out whether this myth is real or not.
My Father’s Shadow
(Country: UK, Nigeria; Year: 2025; Director: Akinola Davies; Writer: Akinola Davies, Wale Davies; Stars: Sope Dirisu, Efon Wini, Chibuike Marvelous Egbo, Godwin Egbo)
Set over the course of a single day in the Nigerian capital Lagos during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, it follows a father, estranged from his two young sons, as they travel through the city.
My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow
(Year: 2024; Director: Julia Loktev)
Documentary on the persistence of independent journalism in Putin’s Russia.
The Blue Trail and Lesbian Space Princess
Perla
(Country: Austria, Slovak Republic; Year: 2025; Director: Alexandra Makarová)
Austria in the early 1980s. Perla, a refugee from socialist Czechoslovakia, tries to make art and raise her daughter in a free world far from political oppression. But one day she hears a voice from the past...
Peter Hujar’s Day
(Country: US, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Ira Sachs; Writer: Ira Sachs; Stars: Ben Whishaw, Rebecca Hall)
A recently discovered conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974 reveals a glimpse into New York City’s downtown art scene and the personal struggles and epiphanies that define an artist’s life.
Promised Sky
(Promis le ciel)
(Country: Tunisia, Qatar, France; Year: 2025; Director: Erige Sehiri; Writer: Anna Ciennik, Malika Cécile Louati, Erige Sehiri; Stars: Aïssa Maïga, Mohamed Grayaâ, Laetitia Ky)
Marie, an Ivorian pastor and former journalist, has lived in Tunisia for ten years. Her home becomes a refuge for Naney, a young mother seeking a better future, and Jolie, a strong-willed student carrying her family’s hopes. The arrival of a little orphan girl challenges their sense of solidarity in a tense social climate, revealing both their fragility and strength.
Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk
(Country: Iran, France, Palestine; Year: 2025; Director: Sepideh Farsi)
The everyday reality for those living in Gaza.
Renoir
(Country: Japan, France; Year: 2025; Director: Chie Hayakawa; Writer: Chie Hayakawa; Stars: Yumi Kawai, Lily Franky, Ryôta Bandô, Charlie St. Cyr, Hikari Ishida, Ayumu Nakajima, Yui Suzuki)
Suburban Tokyo, 1987. Eleven-year-old Fuki’s father, Keiji, is battling a terminal illness, and in and out of hospital. Her mother, Utako, is constantly stressed out from caring for Keiji while holding down a full-time job. Left alone with her rich imagination, Fuki becomes fascinated by telepathy and falls ever deeper into her own fantasy world…
Sound Of Falling and Vermiglio
Siblings
(La Vita da Grandi)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Greta Scarano)
Thirty-something Irene is trying to make it in the Italian capital when she is forced to briefly return to her native Rimini. Her parents will be out of town, and Irene’s older brother has autism and can’t be left alone. But the lively forty-something has made up his mind that, once the parents are gone for good, he is not going to live with his sister.
Sirât
(Sirat)
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2025; Director: Óliver Laxe; Writer: Santiago Fillol, Óliver Laxe; Stars: Sergi López, Bruno Núñez)
A father arrives at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco with his son, looking for his daughter who has been missing for months.
Sorry, Baby
(Country: US, Spain, France; Year: 2025; Director: Eva Victor; Writer: Eva Victor; Stars: Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi, Kelly McCormack)
Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.
Sound Of Falling
(In Die Sonne Schauen)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Mascha Schilinski; Writer: Louise Peter, Mascha Schilinski; Stars: Luise Heyer, Filip Schnack, Lea Drinda, Susanne Wuest, Lena Urzendowsky, Luzia Oppermann, Lucas Prisor, Konstantin Lindhorst, Gode Benedix, Martin Rother, Hanna Heckt, Bärbel Schwarz, Florian Geißelmann)
Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.
Splitsville
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Michael Angelo Covino; Writer: Michael Angelo Covino, Kyle Marvin; Stars: Adria Arjona, Dakota Johnson, O-T Fagbenle, Nicholas Braun, David Castañeda, Charlie Gillespie, Simon Webster, Michael Angelo Covino, Kyle Marvin, Tyrone Benskin, Stephen Adekolu, Jessika Mathurin, Letitia Brookes, Robin Guillen, Marc Assiniwi)
Splitsville picks up with Ashley asking for a divorce, watching as the good-natured Carey runs to his friends, Julie and Paul, for support. He’s shocked to discover that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage; that is, until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.
Christy and The Thing With Feathers
Tales From The Magic Garden
(Geschichten aus dem Zaubergarten)
(Country: Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, France; Year: 2025; Director: David Sukup, Leon Vidmar, Patrik Pass Jr., Jean-Claude Rozec; Writer: Kaja Balog, Arnost Goldflam, Blandine Jet, Petr Krajícek, Maja Kriznik, Marek Král, Patrik Pass Jr.)
Three children spend the night with their grandfather after losing their grandmother and discover the power of imagination.
The Things You Kill
(Country: Turkey, Poland, Canada, France; Year: 2025; Director: Alireza Khatami; Writer: Alireza Khatami; Stars: Hazar Ergüçlü, Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, Ekin Koç, Ercan Kesal)
Haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother, a university professor coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance.
The Thing With Feathers
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Dylan Southern; Writer: Dylan Southern; Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, David Thewlis, Sam Spruell, Jessie Cave, Leo Bill, Vinette Robinson, Tim Plester, Adam Basil, Garry Cooper, Pierre Bergman, Eric Lampaert, Claire Cartwright, Lesley Molony, Joakim Skarli, Max Porter)
Struggling to process the sudden and unexpected death of his wife, a young father loses his hold on reality as a seemingly malign presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
Timestamp
(Strichka Chasu)
(Country: France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ukraine; Year: 2025; Director: Kateryna Gornostai; Writer: Kateryna Gornostai; Stars: Olha Bryhynets, Borys Khovriak, Mykola Kolomiiets, Valeriia Hukova, Yelyzaveta Loza, Svitlana Popova, Mykola Shpak)
Despite the war, school life continues in Ukraine, with pupils and teachers striving to carry on learning even under constant threat. The film is a mosaic of the everyday lives of teachers and students from different corners of Ukraine.
Trains
(Country: Poland, Lithuania; Year: 2024; Director: Maciej J Drygas)
Archival documentary charting the cyclical nature of war.
Two Prosecutors and April
Two Prosecutors
(Country: France, Germany, Romania, Latvia, Netherlands, Lithuania; Year: 2025; Director: Sergey Loznitsa; Writer: Sergey Loznitsa; Stars: Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Aleksandr Filippenko, Anatoliy Beliy, Andris Keišs)
Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination... the desk of a newly appointed local prosecutor, who embarks on a quest for justice.
Two Times João Liberada
(Duas vezes João Liberada)
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2025; Director: Paula Tomás Marques; Writer: João Abreu, Paula Tomás Marques; Stars: João Abreu, André Tecedeiro, Jenny Larrue, Caio Amado Soares, Eloísa d'Ancensão, Tiago Aires Lêdo)
João stars in a biopic about the gender-nonconforming Liberada, who was persecuted by the Inquisition. When the film’s director is struck down by a mysterious paralysis, João navigates the chaos, determined to honour Liberada’s story and finish the film.
Urchin
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Harris Dickinson; Writer: Harris Dickinson; Stars: Frank Dillane, Amr Waked, Murat Erkek, Megan Northam, Shonagh Marie, Falco Flow, Karyna Khymchuk)
Mike, a rough sleeper in London, trapped in a cycle of self-destruction, attempts to turn his life around.
Vermiglio
(Country: Italy, France, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Maura Delpero; Writer: Maura Delpero; Stars: Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi, Orietta Notari, Carlotta Gamba, Santiago Fondevila Sancet, Rachele Potrich, Anna Thaler, Patrick Gardner, Enrico Panizza, Luis Thaler, Simone Bendetti, Sara Serraiocco)
1944, Vermiglio, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of the local teacher, and his love for the teacher's eldest daughter, will change the course of everyone's life.
We Believe You
(On vous croit)
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Charlotte Deville, Arnaud Dufeys; Writer: Charlotte Deville, Arnaud Dufeys; Stars: Myriem Akheddiou, Ulysse Goffin, Adele Pickaers, Alisa Laub, Laurent Capelluto, Marion de Nanteuil, Natali Broods, Mounir Bennaouim)
A mother does everything she can to protect her children from their father at a custody hearing.
Renoir and Kill The Jockey
What Does that Nature Say to You
(Geu jayeoni nege mworago hani)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Hong Sang-soo; Stars: Kwon Hae-hyo, Ha Seong-guk, Yunhee Cho, Mi-so Park, Kang Soyi)
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; fuelled by conversation, food and libations.
Yes
(Ken)
(Country: France, Israel, Cyprus, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Nadav Lapid)
Musician Y. divides his time between everyday family life and wild parties at which he and his wife earn a living performing degrading acts for Israel’s rich elite. One day, however, Y. is asked to compose a new national anthem. All this against the backdrop of the shocking events of October 7, 2023. Nadav Lapid knows no compromise.
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