Duse and Peter Hujar’s Day
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.
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kahlil Joseph; Writer: Saidiya Hartman, Irvin Hunt; Stars: Shaunette Renée Wilson, Penny Johnson Jerald, Zora Casebere, Kaneza Schaal, Jermell Deshauan, Peter Hernandez, Hope Giselle)
Preeminent West African curator and scholar Funmilayo Akechukwu’s magnum opus, The Resonance Field, leads her to the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, drawing a journalist into a journey that shatters her understanding of consciousness and time.
DJ Ahmet
(Country: North Macedonia, Czechia, Serbia, Croatia; Year: 2025; Director: Georgi M Unkovski; Writer: Georgi M Unkovski; Stars: Arif Jakup, Agush Agushev, Aksel Mehmet, Dora Akan Zlatanova, Selpin Kerim, Atila Klince)
Ahmet, a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia find refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and first love.
Duse
(Country: Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Pietro Marcello; Writer: Letizia Russo, Guido Silei, Pietro Marcello; Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fanni Wrochna, Noémie Merlant, Fausto Russo Alesi, Edoardo Sorgente, Vincenzo Nemolato, with the participation of Noémie Lvovsky)
Eleonora Duse’s legendary career seems over, but in the ferocious times between the Great War and the rise of fascism, the Divina feels a call stronger than any resignation and returns to where her life began: on stage.
Khartoum
(Country: Germany, UK, Sudan, Qatar; Year: 2025; Director: Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Rawia Alhag, Phil Cox, Philip Cox, Anas Saeed; Writer: Phil Cox)
Forced to leave Sudan for East Africa following the outbreak of war, five citizens of Khartoum - a civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer, and two young bottle collectors - reenact their stories of survival and freedom through dreams, revolution, and civil war.
DJ Ahmet and Khartoum
Mare's Nest
(Country: UK, France; Year: 2025; Director: Ben Rivers; Writer: Ben Rivers, based on play The Word for Snow by Don DeLillo; Stars: Aonan Yang, Andreas Mendritzki, Fabrizio Polpettini, François Bonenfant)
A child's adventures in an adult-free world.
Moss & Freud
(Country: UK, New Zealand; Year: 2025; Director: James Lucas; Writer: James Lucas; Stars: Ellie Bamber, Derek Jacobi)
Drama centring on the period in which supermodel Kate Moss sits for acclaimed artist Lucian Freud.
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.
The Stranger
(L'Etranger)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: François Ozon, based on the book by Albert Camus; Writer: François Ozon; Stars: Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin, Swann Arlaud, Denis Lavant)
Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a quiet and unassuming employee in his early thirties, attends his mother's funeral without shedding a tear. The next day, he begins a casual affair with Marie, a work colleague. He quickly slips back into his usual routine. However, his daily life is soon about to be disrupted by his neighbor, Raymond Sintès, who draws Meursault into his shady dealings.
Wild Style
(Country: US; Year: 1983; Director: Charlie Ahearn)
Docufiction hybrid focusing on the moment hip hop emerged in New York.
