Romería and The Thing With Feathers
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.
D Is For Distance
(Country: Finland; Year: 2025; Director: Christopher Petit, Emma Matthews; Writer: Christopher Petit; Stars: Louis Petit, Jodhi May)
Documentary about Louis Petit, who suffers a debilitating epilepsy that has shattered his young life and erased his memory of childhood.
Endless Cookie
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Peter Scriver, Seth Scriver; Writer: Peter Scriver, Seth Scriver)
Exploring the complex bond between two half brothers - one Indigenous, one white - traveling from the present in isolated Shamattawa to bustling 1980s Toronto.
Father Mother Sister Brother
(Country: US, Ireland, France; Year: 2025; Director: Jim Jarmusch; Writer: Jim Jarmusch; Stars: Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, Françoise Lebrun)
Three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents) and each other. Each of the three chapters takes place in the present, and each in a different country.
The Girls
(Country: Sri Lanka; Year: 1978; Director: Sumitra Peries; Writer: Sumitra Peries; Stars: Wasanthi Chathurani, Ajith Jinadasa, Jenitha Samaraweera)
Kusum, a young villager, falls in love with her cousin Nimal, a boy from a wealthy family.
Calle Málaga and Love Me Tender
Human Resource
(Country: Thailand; Year: 2025; Director: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit; Writer: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit; Stars: Prapamonton Eiamchan, Paopetch Charoensook, Chanakan Rattana-Udom, Pimmada Chaisaksoen)
Working in HR, Fren closely observes people’s lives through interviews with numerous young new hires at her unjust company. No one knows she’s one month pregnant — and quietly grappling with whether to bring a child into this difficult world.
Kim Novak’s Vertigo
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Alexandre O Philippe)
Hitchcock star reflects on the film and her life.
Left-Handed Girl
(Country: Taiwan, France; Year: 2025; Director: Tsou Shih-Ching; Writer: Sean Baker, Tsou Shih-Ching; Stars: Janel Tsai, Nina Ye, Huang Teng-Hui, Ma Shi-Yuan, Akio Chen, Chao Xin-Yan)
A single mother and her two daughters return to Taipei to open a night market stand. Three generations of family secrets begin to unravel after the youngest daughter who’s left-handed is told by her traditional grandfather to never use her "devil hand”.
Love, Brooklyn
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Rachael Abigail Holder; Writer: Paul Zimmerman; Stars: André Holland, Nicole Beharie, DeWanda Wise, Roy Wood Jr., Cassandra Freeman, Cadence Reese)
Three longtime Brooklynites navigate careers, love, loss, and friendship against the rapidly changing landscape of their beloved city.
Love Me Tender
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Anna Cazenave Cambet; Writer: Anna Cazenave Cambet; Stars: Vicky Krieps, Antoine Reinartz, Monia Chokri, Viggo Ferreira-Redier, Féodor Atkine, Park Ji-min, Manuel Vallade, Aurélia Petit, Salif Cissé)
One late summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she’s having romantic relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he takes custody of her son. Clémence must fight to remain a mother, a woman and a free woman.
Father Mother Sister Brother and Endless Cookie
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.
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.
Romería
(Country: Spain, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Carla Simón; Writer: Carla Simón; Stars: Tristán Ulloa, José Ángel Egido, Sara Casasnovas, Miryam Gallego, Janet Novás, Mitch Martín, Celine Tyll, Mitch Robles, Llúcia Garcia, Sergio Quintana, David Saraiva)
Marina, 18, orphaned at a young age, must travel to Spain’s Atlantic coast to obtain a signature for a scholarship application from the paternal grandparents she has never met.
A Sad And Beautiful World
(Country: Lebanon, US, Germany,Saudi Arabia, Qatar; Year: 2025; Director: Cyril Aris; Writer: Cyril Aris, Bane Fakih; Stars: Mounia Akl, Hasan Akil, Julia Kassar)
Beirut-set drama traces the reunion of two former schoolmates whose romance began during the war-torn 1980s and is rekindled a decade later.
& Sons
(Country: US, Canada, UK, Argentina; Year: 2025; Director: Pablo Trapero; Writer: Sarah Polley, Pablo Trapero; Stars: Bill Nighy, Dominic West, Johnny Flynn, George MacKay, Imelda Staunton, Noah Jupe)
A writer tries to reconnect with his sons.
Train Dreams and Left-Handed Girl
The Souffleur
(Country: Austria, Argentina; Year: 2025; Director: Gastón Solnicki; Writer: Julia Niemann, Gastón Solnicki; Stars: Willem Dafoe, Lilly Lindner, Stephanie Argerich, Gastón Solnicki, Imona Mirrakhimova, Claus Philipp, Camille Clair)
A hotelier whose establishment is scheduled for redevelopment tries to cling to the past.
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.
Train Dreams
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Clint Bentley; Writer: Clint Bentley, Denis Johnson, Greg Kwedar; Stars: Kerry Condon, Felicity Jones, Joel Edgerton, William H. Macy, Clifton Collins Jr., Sean San Jose, Ron Ford, Frank A. Gaimari, Alfred Hsing, Johnny Arnoux, Bonni Dichone, Tim Altevers, Zoe Rose Short, Jennifer Simmons, Chris Kardos)
Robert Grainier is a day laborer building America’s railroads at the start of the 20th century as he experiences profound love, shocking defeat, and a world irrevocably transforming before his very eyes.
