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Below The Clouds and The Mastermind
After The Hunt
(Country: US, Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Luca Guadagnino; Writer: Nora Garrett; Stars: Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edebiri, Chloë Sevigny, Michael Stuhlbarg)
A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.
Below The Clouds
(Sotto Le Nuvole)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Gianfranco Rosi; Writer: Gianfranco Rosi)
Documenting Vesuvius, featuring traces of history, the excavation of time, the remains of everyday life.
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.
Cover-Up
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus; Stars: Seymour Hersh)
A documentary about the life and work of the journalist Seymour Hersh.
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.
Jay Kelly and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
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.
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 Fence
(Le Cri des Gardes)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Claire Denis; Writer: Claire Denis, Suzanne Lindon, Andrew Litvack; Stars: Tom Blyth, Matt Dillon, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Isaach De Bankolé)
As supervisor Horn is welcoming his partner Léone into the hut he shares with engineer Cal, a man called Alboury appears outside. He is determined to stay there until they return the body of his brother to him, who was killed on the site.
Gavagai
(Country: Germany, France; Year: 2025; Director: Ulrich Köhler; Stars: Jean-Christophe Folly, Maren Eggert, Nathalie Richard)
A radical new movie production of Medea, drastically altered from Euripides’s original play, becomes the center of a series of unresolvable contemporary tensions.
A House Of Dynamite
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kathryn Bigelow; Writer: Noah Oppenheim; Stars: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Jonah Hauer-King, Greta Lee, Jason Clarke)
When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.
A House Of Dynamite and Late Fame
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.
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.
I Only Rest In The Storm
(O Riso E A Faca)
(Country: France, Portugal, Brazil, Romania; Year: 2025; Director: Pedro Pinho; Writer: Pedro Pinho; Stars: Sérgio Coragem, Cleo Diára, Jonathan Guilherme)
A Portuguese environmental engineer, travels to Guinea Bissau to conduct an impact report for a road-building project. As he grapples with heat and isolation, he meets two locals equally yearning to find their own way. But tensions arise within their ambiguous relationship.
Jay Kelly
(Country: US, UK, Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Noah Baumbach; Writer: Noah Baumbach, Emily Mortimer; Stars: George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Greta Gerwig, Patrick Wilson, Riley Keough, Emily Mortimer)
Famous movie actor Jay Kelly and his devoted manager Ron embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey. Both are forced to confront choices they've made, their relationships with loved ones and the legacies they'll leave behind.
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.
Sound Of Falling and Sirât
Landmarks
(Nuestra Tierra)
(Country: Argentina, US, Mexico, France, Netherlands, Denmark; Year: 2025; Director: Lucrecia Martel; Writer: María Alché, Lucrecia Martel; Stars: Comunidad Chuschagasta, Javier Chocobar)
Armed men killed Indigenous leader Javier Chocobar during attempted eviction in Argentina, 2009. After years of protests, a court case opened in 2018. This is a story of community voices and trial footage amid colonial land struggles.
The Last One For The Road
(Le Citta Di Pianura)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Francesco Sossai; Writer: Adriano Candiago, Francesco Sossai; Stars: Filippo Scotti, Pierpaolo Capovilla, Roberto Citran, Andrea Pennacchi, Sergio Romano)
Carlobianchi and Doriano, two broke fiftysomethings with a “never skip the last drink” philosophy, meet Giulio, a shy architecture student adrift in life. What starts as a chance encounter turns into a chaotic road trip through the Venetian plains.
Late Fame
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kent Jones; Writer: Samy Burch, based on the novel by Arthur Schnitzler; Stars: Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee, Edmund Donovan)
Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer appears on his doorstep, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius.
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.
Magellan
(Country: Philippines, Spain, Portugal, France; Year: 2025; Director: Lav Diaz; Writer: Lav Diaz; Stars: Gael García Bernal, Amado Arjay Babon, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Ângela Azevedo, Hazel Orencio, Ronnie Lazaro, Rafael Morais, Bong Cabrera, Tomás Alves, Ivo Arroja, Valdemar Santos, Sasa Cabalquinto, Mario Castro, Paulo Calatré, Max Grosse Majench)
Magellan is a navigator rebelling against the power of the King, due to his humanism and belief in justice. But once he is finally in command of the Spice Fleet, in which he will make the first circumnavigation of the Earth, what will his journey unravel about himself?
Two Prosecutors and The Secret Agent
The Mastermind
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kelly Reichardt; Writer: Kelly Reichardt; Stars: Josh O'Connor, Gaby Hoffmann, John Magaro, Alana Haim, Bill Camp, Hope Davis, Rhenzy Feliz, Matthew Maher, Cole Doman, Margot Anderson-Song, Eli Gelb, Juan Carlos Hernández, Jean Zarzour, Ryan Homchick, Wilson Conkwright)
In a quiet corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney, an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plots his first major heist. But when things go south, his life is turned upside down.
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...
No Other Choice
(Eojjeol suga eopda)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Park Chan-wook; Writer: Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, Jahye Lee; Stars: Lee Byung-hun, Son Yej-in, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, Cha Seung-won)
When man loses his job he finds himself drifting before deciding to take things into his own hands...
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.
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.
It Was Just an Accident and Duse
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.
Rose Of Nevada
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Mark Jenkin; Writer: Mark Jenkin; Stars: George MacKay, Callum Turner, Rosalind Eleazar, Francis Magee, Mary Woodvine)
A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.
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.
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.
I Only Rest In The Storm and Sentimental Value
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.
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.
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.
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