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La Grazia and Peter Hujar’s Day
Blue Moon
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Richard Linklater; Writer: Robert Kaplow; Stars: Margaret Qualley, Andrew Scott, Ethan Hawke, Bobby Cannavale, Patrick Kennedy, Simon Delaney, John Doran, Elaine O'Dwyer, Cillian Sullivan, Ian Dillon)
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his groundbreaking hit musical Oklahoma!.
The Choral
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Nicholas Hytner; Writer: Alan Bennett; Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Roger Allam, Mark Addy, Alun Armstrong, Simon Russell Beale)
A Yorkshire village’s choral society finds its ranks depleted as men head off to war... leaving it forced to change its rules.
Colours of Time
(La venue de l'avenir, The Coming Of The Future)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Cédric Klapisch; Writer: Santiago Amigorena, Cédric Klapisch; Stars: Suzanne Lindon, Abraham Wapler, Julia Piaton, Julia Piaton, Vincent Macaigne, Zinedine Soualem, Vassili Schneider, François Berléand, Sara Giraudeau, Paul Kircher, Cécile de France)
After a group of distant relatives inherit a house, they begin to investigate the life of their predecessor.
Die, My Love
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2025; Director: Lynne Ramsay; Writer: Ariana Harwicz, Lynne Ramsay, Enda Walsh; Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, LaKeith Stanfield, Sarah Lind, Gabrielle Rose, Victor Zinck Jr., Phillip Forest Lewitski, Debs Howard, Luke Camilleri, Marcus Della Rosa, Tom Carey, Saylor McPherson, Lori Bachynski)
A woman battles her demons.
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.
It Was Just an Accident and Die, My Love
La Grazia
(Country: Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Paolo Sorrentino; Writer: Paolo Sorrentino; Stars: Toni Servillo, Anna Ferzetti)
A president faces choices in his final months in office.
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.
Nouvelle Vague
(New Wave)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Richard Linklater; Writer: Holly Gent, Laetitia Masson, Vincent Palmo Jr, Michèle Pétin; Stars: Zoey Deutch, Alix Bénézech, Paolo Luka Noé, Nicolas Dozol, Guillaume Marbeck, Tom Novembre, Jade Phan-Gia, Aubry Dullin, Côme Thieulin, Blaise Pettebone, Adrien Rouyard, Matthieu Penchinat, Jodie Ruth-Forest, Roxane Rivière, Jean-Jacques Le Vessier)
This is the story of Godard making Breathless, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made Breathless.
Orwell: 2+2=5
(Country: France, US; Year: 2025; Director: Raoul Peck)
Delves deep into Orwell’s final months and visionary works to explore the roots of the vital and troubling concepts he revealed to the world in his dystopian masterpiece… Doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, the omnipresent spectre of Big Brother… disturbing socio-political truths which resonate ever-more powerfully today.
Paleontology Lesson
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2025; Director: Sergey Loznitsa)
Short documentary following a children's visit to a natural history museum.
Sentimental Value and Blue Moon
Palestine 36
(Country: France, Palestinian Occupied Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UK, Denmark, Jordan, Norway, US; Year: 2025; Director: Annemarie Jacir; Writer: Annemarie Jacir; Stars: Jeremy Irons, Robert Aramayo, Liam Cunningham, Billy Howle, Christopher Villiers, Hiam Abbass, Sam Hoare, Yasmine Al Massri, Nicholas Moss, Mo'min Swaitat)
In 1936, as Palestinian villages revolt against British colonial rule, Yusuf navigates between Jerusalem and his rural home, amidst escalating unrest and a pivotal moment for the British Empire.
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.
Relay
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: David Mackenzie; Writer: Justin Piasecki; Stars: Willa Fitzgerald, Lily James, Sam Worthington, Riz Ahmed, Matthew Maher, Helen Eigenberg, Pun Bandhu, Eisa Davis, Purva Bedi, Aaron Roman Weiner, Reed Northrup, Sasha Sen, Brian O'Neill, José Báez, Jose Guns Alves)
Elusive professional fixer Ash has his skills put to the test while protecting whistleblower Sarah Grant fromincreasingly ruthless corporate mercenaries.
Rental Family
(Country: Japan, US; Year: 2025; Director: Hikari; Writer: Hikari, Stephen Blahut; Stars: Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Shannon Gorman, Nihi, Akira Emoto)
A lonely American actor living in Tokyo starts working for a Japanese 'rental family' company to play stand-in roles in other people's lives. Along the way, he finds surprising connections and unexpected joys within his built-in family.
Sentimental Value
(Affeksjonsverdi)
(Country: Norway, Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden; Year: 2025; Director: Joachim Trier; Writer: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt; Stars: Elle Fanning, Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Cory Michael Smith, Jesper Christensen, Catherine Cohen, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Bjørn Alexander, Jonas Jacobsen, Pia Borgli)
In the wake of their mother's death, two sisters grapple with their relationship with their filmmaker father as he tries to involve one of them in his latest project.
Nouvelle Vague and The Choral
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.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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