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The Choral and The Secret Agent
Blue Heron
(Country: Canada, Hungary; Year: 2025; Director: Sophy Romvari; Writer: Sophy Romvari; Stars: Eylul Guven, Iringó Réti, Ádám Tompa, Edik Beddoes, Amy Zimmer)
A young girl and her family move from Hungary to Canada in the 1990s, where her brother disrupts their new life. In the present, she seeks answers from the past.
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 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.
Calle Málaga
(Country: France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Morocco; Year: 2025; Director: Maryam Touzani; Writer: Maryam Touzani; Stars: Marta Etura, Carmen Maura, María Alfonsa Rosso, Miguel Garcés, Ahmed Boulane)
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.
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.
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You and Blue Moon
Cotton Queen
(Country: Germany. France, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan; Year: 2025; Director: Suzannah Mirghani; Writer: Suzannah Mirghani; Stars: Mihad Murtada, Rabha Mohamed Mahmoud, Talaat Fareed, Haram Bisheer, Hassan Kassala)
In Sudan, Nafisa picks cotton and learns from her grandmother. The arrival of a young businessman, threatens to change their way of life.
The Currents
(Las corrientes)
(Country: Switzerland, Argentina; Year: 2025; Director: Milagros Mumenthaler; Stars: Isabel Aimé González Sola, Esteban Bigliardi)
When her plans fall through, Sana secretly decides to stay with her twins at her former in-laws home on the Riviera without telling anyone. Six days of sunshine that mark the end of innocence.
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.
Drunken Noodles
(Year: 2025; Director: Lucia Castro)
Adnan, a young art student, arrives in New York City to flat-sit for a friend. He begins interning at a gallery where an artist who specialises in embroidered queer erotica is being exhibited. This opens a portal to his own desire.
Omaha and The Blue Trail
Fantasy
(Country: Slovenia, North Macedonia; Year: 2025; Director: Kukla; Writer: Kukla; Stars: Sarah Al Saleh, Alina Juhart, Mina Milovanović, Mia Skrbinac)
Mihrije, Sina and Jasna (early 20s) are best friends who live in Slovenia. They are tomboys and refuse to conform to the conservative system they live in. Their world turns upside down when they meet Fantasy, a transgender woman. Together, they embark on a journey that explores the complexities of gender, desire, and self-discovery.
Follies
(Folichonneries)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Eric K Boulianne; Writer: Alexandre Auger, Eric K Boulianne; Stars: Eric K Boulianne, Catherine Chabot, Florence Blain Mbaye, Étienne Galloy, Sarah Chouinard Poirier, Simone Bellemare-Ledoux, Agathe Ledoux, Sophie Letourneur, Antonin Mousseau-Rivard, Ève Landry, Éric Robidoux, Julie Le Breton, Nathalie Coupal, Ambre Jabrane, Carolanne Foucher, Erin Margurite Carter, Jacques L’Heureux, Rose-Anne Déry, Rémi St-Michel)
A couple in a relationship for 16 years and parents of two children, are no longer able to connect sexually. They decide to open up their relationship in order to experience "fun" experiences that will allow them to learn more about themselves. Polyamory, libertinism, BDSM, and sexual fluidity ensue.
Game
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: John Minton)
An ageing raver steals a stash at his final party but ends up in a car crash. Trapped and struggling for survival, he encounters a menacing poacher
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.
Happy Birthday
(Country: Egypt; Year: 2025; Director: Sarah Goher; Writer: Mohamed Diab, Sarah Goher; Stars: Nelly Karim, Hanan Motawie, Hanan Youssef, Doha Ramadan)
Eight-year-old maid Toha goes to great lengths to ensure that her best friend Nelly, the daughter of her wealthy employer, has a successful birthday party.
Love Letters and Out Of Love
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.
Ish
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Imran Perretta; Writer: Imran Perretta, Enda Walsh; Stars: Farhan Hasnat, Yahya Kitana, Sudha Bhuchar)
A racially profiled police stop-and-search sets two best friends on a collision course
Is This Thing On
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Bradley Cooper; Writer: Bradley Cooper, Will Arnett, Mark Chappell; Stars: Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Andra Day, Bradley Cooper)
After decades together, Alex and Tess decide it’s time to split.
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.
Little Amélie
(Little Amélie or the Character of Rain)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang, Mailys Vallade; Writer: Amélie Nothomb, Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang, Aude Py, Mailys Vallade, Eddine Noël; Stars: Loïse Charpentier, Victoria Grobois, Yumi Fujimori, Cathy Cerda, Marc Arnaud, Laetitia Coryn, Haylee Issembourg, Isaac Schoumsky, François Raison, Emmylou Homs)
Amélie is a little Belgian girl born in Japan. Thanks to her friend Nishio-san, the world is full of adventure and discovery. But on her third birthday, an event changes the course of her life. For Amélie, everything is at stake at that age, happiness as well as tragedy.
It Was Just an Accident and The Thing With Feathers
Love Letters
(Des preuves d'amour)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Alice Douard; Writer: Alice Douard, Laurette Polmanss; Stars: Ella Rumpf, Félix Kysyl, Monia Chokri, Anne Le Ny, Noémie Lvovsky, Édouard Sulpice, Eva Huault, Julien Gaspar-Oliveri)
Céline is expecting her firstborn. But she’s not the one who’s pregnant. In three months, her wife Nadia will give birth to their daughter. Under the gaze of her friends, her mother, and the law, Céline looks for her place and sense of legitimacy.
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.
Mary Anning
(Year: 2025; Director: Marcel Barelli)
In 1811, Mary Anning loves searching for fossils on the Dorset coast, a passion given to her by her father. But one day, he disappears, leaving behind a strange drawing and a struggling family. Determined to help, Mary hatches a plan.
Mirrors No.3
(Miroirs No.3)
(Year: 2025; Director: Christian Petzold; Writer: Christian Petzold; Stars: Paula Beer, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, Enno Trebs, Victoire Laly)
On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura miraculously survives a car crash. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident and now cares for Laura with motherly devotion. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura's presence, the four of them slowly build up some family-like routine. But soon they can no longer ignore their past...
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.
Peter Hujar’s Day and Sentimental Value
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.
Omaha
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Cole Webley; Writer: Robert Machoian; Stars: John Magaro, Molly Belle Wright, Wyatt Solis, Talia Balsam)
After a family tragedy, siblings Ella and Charlie are unexpectedly woken up by their dad and taken on a journey across the country, experiencing a world they’ve never seen before. As their adventure unfolds, Ella begins to understand that things might not be what they seem.
Out Of Love
(Les Enfants Vont Bien)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Nathan Ambrosioni; Writer: Nathan Ambrosioni; Stars: Camille Cottin, Juliette Armanet, Monia Chokri, Féodor Atkine, Myriem Akheddiou, Guillaume Gouix)
After many years, Suzanne and her two children unexpectedly show up at the home of her sister Jeanne. It initially looks like Suzanne is tentatively attempting to re-establish a relationship with her sister. But this illusion is shattered with the morning light: Suzanne is gone and Jeanne is forced to become a mother to children she barely knows.
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.
La Grazia and We Believe You
Pillion
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Harry Lighton; Writer: Harry Lighton, Adam Mars-Jones; Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Harry Melling, Georgina Hellier, Brian Martin, Zamir Mesiti)
A man is taken on as a motorbike club's leader's submissive but begins to question that role.
Pinch
(Country: India; Year: 2025; Director: Uttera Singh; Writer: Adam Linzey, Uttera Singh; Stars: Sunita Rajwar, Geeta Agrawal Sharma, Uttera Singh, Badri Chavan, Nitesh Pandey, Sapna Sand, Rajiv Nema, Ranjana Tiwari)
When Maitri, an aspiring travel blogger, is groped by her landlord while traveling to a festival, she impulsively takes retributive steps. The ramifications rock her tight-knit community.
A Poet
(Una Poeta)
(Country: Colombia, Germany, Sweden; Year: 2025; Director: Simón Mesa Soto; Writer: Simón Mesa Soto; Stars: Guillermo Cardona, Rebeca Andrade, Ubeimar Rios, Humberto Restrepo, Margarita Soto, Allison Correa)
Oscar Restrepo’s obsession with poetry brought him no glory. Aging and erratic, he has succumbed to the cliché of the poet in the shadows. Meeting Yurlady, a teenage girl from humble roots, and helping her cultivate her talent brings some light to his days, but dragging her into the world of poets may not be the way.
A Private Life
(Vie Privée)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Rebecca Zlotowski; Writer: Anne Berest, Gaëlle Macé, Rebecca Zlotowski; Stars: Jodie Foster, Virginie Efira, Mathieu Amalric, Daniel Auteuil, Vincent Lacoste, Luàna Bajrami, Sophie Letourneur)
A psychiatrist investigates a patient's death after becoming convinced they were murdered.
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.
Calle Málaga and Die, My Love
Resurrection
(Kuang Ye Shi Dai)
(Country: China, France; Year: 2025; Director: Bi Gan; Writer: Bi Gan; Stars: Shu Qi, Jackson Yee, Mark Chao, Chloe Maayan, Jue Huang, Gengxi Li, Zhijian Zhang, Yongzhong Chen, Mucheng Guo)
In a world where humanity has lost the ability to dream, one creature remains entranced by the fading illusions of the dreamworld. This monster, adrift in reverie, clings to visions no one else can see - until a woman appears. Gifted with the rare power to perceive these illusions for what they truly are, she chooses to enter the monster’s dreams, determined to uncover the truth that lies hidden within.
Rosemead
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Eric Lin; Writer: Marilyn Fu, Eric Lin; Stars: Lucy Liu, Lawrence Shou, Orion Lee, Jennifer Lim, Madison Hu, James Chen, Eleven Lee, Susan Pourfar, Zack Calderon, Adam Chanler-Berat, Dana de Celis, Jo Mei, Dave Shalansky, Grace Shen, Eric Leviton)
A Chinese immigrant mother is driven to desperate measures by her unstable son’s escalating mental health crisis and growing obsession with mass shootings.
The Secret Agent
(O Agente Secreto)
(Country: Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho; Writer: Kleber Mendonça Filho; Stars: Wagner Moura, Udo Kier, Gabriel Leone, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Hermila Guedes, Alice Carvalho, Thomás Aquino, Isabél Zuaa, Suzy Lopes, João Vitor Silva, Roney Villela, Rubens Santos, Luciano Chirolli, Buda Lira, Jimmy Astley)
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realises that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.
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.
Silent Friend
(Country: Greece, France, Hungary; Year: 2025; Director: Ildikó Enyedi; Writer: Ildikó Enyedi, Tina Kaiser; Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm, Léa Seydoux, Sylvester Groth, Yun Huang)
Tales told from the perspective of a lonely old tree standing in the middle of a botanical garden.
Mirrors No.3 and Cotton Queen
That Summer In Paris
(Le rendez-vous de l'été)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Valentine Cadic; Writer: Valentine Cadic, Mariette Désert; Stars: India Hair, Arcadi Radeff, Blandine Madec, Lou Deleuze, Matthias Jacquin)
Paris, the 2024 Olympic Games. Blandine arrives from Normandy to watch the swimming competitions. Disorientated by the hustle and bustle of the city where nothing seems to go her way, she navigates the chaos of Paris and an unexpected reunion.
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.
The Voice Of Hind Rajab
(Country: Tunisia, France; Year: 2025; Director: Kaouther Ben Hania; Writer: Kaouther Ben Hania; Stars: Saja Kilani, Motaz Malhees, Clara Khoury, Amer Hlehel)
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A six-year old girl is trapped in a car under 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.
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.
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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