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La Gradiva and Minotaur
14th
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Ava DuVernay; Stars: Sherrilyn Ifill, Stacey Abrams, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jeff Flake, Hasan Piker, Alex Padilla, Anna Paulina Luna, David Blight, Eric Foner, Carla Hayden, Robert S. Chang, Donald T. Critchlow)
Consideration of the 14th amendment.
9 Temples to Heaven
(Country: Thailand, Norway, France, Singapore; Year: 2026; Director: Sompot Chidgasornpongse; Stars: Amara Ramnarong, Surachai Ningsanond, Jirawut Chiwaruck, Yaneenan Jiraphatjittrin, Klaichan Phunman, Sompop Songkampol, Sirapop Sanhabhakdi, Yada Karnjanisakorn, Nichmon Shintadapong)
A family of nine takes their grandmother to 9 temples in 1 day, hoping to prolong her life. But the trip takes an unexpected turn.
All Of A Sudden
(Soudain)
(Country: Japan, France, Belgium, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi; Writer: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Léa Le Dimna; Stars: Virginie Efira, Tao Okamoto, Kyōzō Nagatsuka, Kodai Kurosaki, Jean-Louis Garçon, Marie Bunel, Jean-Charles Clichet, Margot Maricot, Lazare Gousseau, Jérôme Chappatte, Evelyne Istria, Elisabeth Tamaris, Aurélia Petit, Heidi Becker-Babel)
The director of a nursing home in Paris has an encounter with a terminally ill Japanese playwright that transforms her life.
Artificial
(Country: Italy, UK, US; Year: 2026; Director: Luca Guadagnino; Writer: Simon Rich; Stars: Andrew Garfield, Yura Borisov, Jason Schwartzman, Cooper Koch, Cooper Hoffman, Monica Barbaro, Billie Lourd, Zosia Mamet, Chris O'Dowd, Will Angus, Thaddea Graham, Nicholas Hamilton, Angus Imrie, Will Price, Mark Rylance)
Propels the viewer through the two decades of machine learning research and technocratic recklessness that have brought us to our current AI crisis point.
Behemoth!
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Tony Gilroy; Writer: Tony Gilroy; Stars: Pedro Pascal, Olivia Wilde, Eva Victor, Will Arnett, Hank Azaria, Alexa Swinton, Kaya Ralls, Erik Griffin, JoBeth Williams, Margarita Levieva, Matthew Lillard, Adam Rose, Vincent Oppido, Eden Epstein, Miles Anderson)
Portrait of a gifted cellist's complex life.
Rose and All Of A Sudden
Bitter Christmas
(Country: Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Pedro Almodóvar; Writer: Pedro Almodóvar; Stars: Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Victoria Luengo, Patrick Criado, Milena Smit, Quim Gutiérrez, Rossy de Palma, Carmen Machi, Antonio Araque, Diogo Belizario, Nourdin Batán, Laura Ledesma, Tusti de las Heras, Gloria Muñoz)
Melodrama featuring parallel stories asks what right a filmmaker has to plunder reality of those close to them for their work.
Clarissa
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Chuko Esiri, Arie Esiri; Writer: Chuko Esiri; Stars: Sophie Okonedo, David Oyelowo, India Ria Amarteifio, Ayo Edebiri, Toheeb Jimoh, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Jude Akuwudike, Kehinde Cardoso, Ogranya, Danny Sapani, Fortune Nwafor, Modesinuola Ogundiwin, Joy Sunday, Chioma Omeruah, Joke Silva)
A modern reimagining of the Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway.
Dao
(Country: France, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal; Year: 2026; Director: Alain Gomis; Writer: Alain Gomis; Stars: Katy Correa, Katy Correa, D’Johé Kouadio, Samir Guesmi, Mike Etienne, Nicolas Gomis, Fara Baco)
A wedding in Paris and a ceremony in Guinea-Bissau are intertwined in this consideration of family and heritage.
The Day She Returns
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2026; Director: Hong Sang-soo; Writer: Hong Sang-soo; Stars: Song Sun-mi, Cho Yun-hee, Park Mi-so, Kim Seon-jin, Oh Yun-su, Kang So-yi, Ha Seong-guk, Shin Seok-ho)
She has just finished the shoot of an independent film and now has to give three interviews about it. Afterwards, in her acting class, her teacher asks her to reenact the interviews. But for some reason, she is unable to remember them.
The Diary Of A Chambermaid
(Country: France, Romania; Year: 2026; Director: Radu Jude; Writer: Radu Jude; Stars: Ana Dumitrașcu, Vincent Macaigne, Mélanie Thierry, Amélie Prévot, Louve Proust)
A young Romanian woman who has come to work for a French family takes part in an amateur theatre troupe preparing an adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's Diary Of A Chambermaid.
Paper Tiger and Once Upon A Time In Harlem
Double Freedom
(La libertad doble)
(Country: Chile, Argentina, Luxembourg, Germany, Italy, Uruguay, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Lisandro Alonso; Writer: Lisandro Alonso; Stars: Misael Saavedra)
Misael, 25 years on from La Libertad, continues to live alone, wielding his axe to fell trees deep in the forest, far from the presence of others. His quiet freedom is disrupted when he’s forced to care for his older sister, and the familiar rhythm of his days in the wilderness begins to unravel
The Dreamed Adventure
(Country: Germany, France, Austria, Bulgaria; Director: Valeska Grisebach; Stars: Syuleyman Alilov Letifo, Yana Radeva, Velko Frandev)
n the border region between Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey, a woman agrees to a deal to help an old acquaintance with dangerous consequences.
Everything Else Is Noise
(Country: Mexico, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Nicolás Pereda; Writer: Nicolás Pereda, Juan Francisco Maldonado; Stars: Teresa Sánchez, Rosa Estela Juárez Vargas, Luisa Pardo, Gabino Rodríguez, Francisco Barreiro, José Rodríguez López)
A middle-aged composer allows her friend to use her apartment to film a television interview, opening up a quietly revealing space.
Everytime
(Year: 2026; Director: Sandra Wollner; Writer: Sandra Wollner; Stars: Birgit Minichmayr, Tristán López, Lotte Keiling, Carla Hüttermann)
A tragedy brings a mother, daughter, and teenage boy together.
Fatherland
(Country: Italy, Poland, France, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Pawel Pawlikowski; Writer: Pawel Pawlikowski; Stars: Sandra Hüller, August Diehl, Anna Madeley)
Drama focusing on Thomas Mann's post-war life, his family's stand against Nazi rule and their journey into exile.
La Gradiva
(Country: France, Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Marine Atlan; Writer: Marine Atlan, Anne Brouillet; Stars: Antonia Buresi, Julie Sokolowski)
A group of French high-school students travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius. There, they are drawn into a dizzying descent.
I Deserve A Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across The Skies
(Country: Iran; Year: 2026; Director: Mani Haghighi)
Profile of Nasser Bakhshi.
I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming
(Country: Germany, Ukraine; Year: 2026; Director: Isabelle Stever; Writer: Anna Melikova; Stars: Tania Myronyshena, Markus Bright, Iryna Mak, Viktor Zhdanov, Maiia Sobolevska, Maria Myronyshena, Oleksandr Rudynskyi)
The love of Olya and Oleh, a young queer Ukrainian couple, is put to the test when one partner’s
gender transition collides with Russia's full-scale invasion.
The Loneliest Man In Town
(Country: Austria; Year: 2026; Director: Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel; Writer: Tizza Covi; Stars: Alois Koch, Brigitte Meduna, Alfred Blechinger, Flurina Schneider, Sarah Morrissette, Natascha Hiermann, Ingrid Schaffernack)
Al Cook lives surrounded by memories. His apartment is packed with books, video tapes and vinyl records: remnants of a life that he once lived to the full. Here time seems to have stopped, while outside the world carries on without him. When his home is slated for demolition by a ruthless estate agency, they strip him of his refuge. As Al is forced to part with his treasures one by one, he asks himself a painful question: how do you move forward when memories are all you have left?
A Long Winter
(Country: UK, Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Andrew Haigh; Writer: Andrew Haigh; Stars: Fred Hechinger, Caitríona Balfe, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Kit Connor, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, David Furr, Susan Serrao, Anthony Timpano, Geoff Gustafson, Camille Sullivan, Martin Freeman)
Returning to his childhood home deep in the mountains, Mike is drawn back into the quiet rituals of family life as the clan prepares for the winter ahead.
The Man I Love
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Ira Sachs; Writer: Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias; Stars: Rami Malek, Rebecca Hall)
Musical fantasy set against the backdrop of New York's AIDs epidemic in the 1980s.
A Man Of His Time
(Notre Salut)
(Country: Belgium, France; Director: Emmanuel Marre; Writer: Emmanuel Marre; Stars: Swann Arlaud, Sandrine Blancke, Mathieu Perotto)
Historical drama set against a backdrop of Vichy France as a man strives to help France's renewal.
Minotaur
(Country: France, Germany, Latvia; Year: 2026; Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev; Writer: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Simon Lyashenko; Stars: Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva, Varvara Shmykova)
A high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence begins to unravel.
Misty Green
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Chris Rock; Writer: Chris Rock; Stars: Rosalind Eleazar, Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, Chris Rock)
A story about the extremes one Black actor goes to to keep both her career and brother alive.
My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Julia Loktev; Writer: Julia Loktev)
Following the Russian independent journalists who fled Russia in Last Air In Moscow as they continue their lives in exile.
My Wife Cries
(Meine Frau Weint)
(Country: Germany, France; Year: 2026; Director: Angela Schanelec; Writer: Angela Schanelec; Stars: Agathe Bonitzer, Birte Schnöink, Vladimir Vulević, Pauline Rebmann, Clara Gostynski, Ninel Skrzypczyk, Thorbjörn Björnsson, Laure-Lucille Simon, Theodore Vrachas, Ben Carter)
A normal working day on a construction site. Thomas, a 40-year-old crane operator, receives a call from his wife asking him to pick her up from the hospital. He finds her crying.
Naza
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor; Stars: Yuval Abraham)
Reveals the systems behind Israel’s bombing of Gaza and its mass killing of Palestinian civilians.
Nowhere To Lay My Eyes
(Nun Dul Dega Eomne)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2026; Director: Hong Sang-soo; Writer: Hong Sang-soo; Stars: Kim Min-hee, Choi Myung-gil, Kwon Hae-hyo, Shin Seok-ho, Park Mi-so)
With her brother, Sang-hee visits her mother on Jeju Island. It’s been 10 years. Her mother's restaurant has become a hit. Her stepfather is making a film about a "grass tomb". His daughter has just started painting. Previously unknown facts, needless advice and cheap compliments are passed back and forth. On the morning of her departure, the other family members watch one of Sang-hee’s films.
Once Upon A Time In Harlem
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: William Greaves, David Greaves)
A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance.
Paper Tiger
(Country: US, Italy, Brazil; Year: 2026; Director: James Gray; Writer: James Gray; Stars: Adam Driver, Miles Teller, Scarlett Johansson, Joel Marsh Garland, Raphael Corkhill, Meredith Holzman, Cindy Katz, Patrick Murney, Jeff Adler, Rosslyn Luke, Dimiter D Marinov, Yelena Solovey, Yavor Vesselinov)
Two brothers pursue the American Dream but get entangled in a dangerous Russian mafia scheme.
Possible Love
(Ga-neung-han sa-rang)
(Country: South Korea, US; Year: 2026; Director: Lee Chang-dong; Writer: Lee Chang-dong, Oh Jung-mi; Stars: Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Zo In-sung, Cho Yeo-jeong, Jo Yu-ri)
A story of two married couples - a laid-off worker and his spouse, and a documentary filmmaker and her spouse - crossing paths to film a documentary and facing their different lives and hidden desires.
Rose
(Country: Austria, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Markus Schleinzer; Writer: Markus Schleinzer, Alexander Brom; Stars: Sandra Hüller, Caro Braun, Marisa Growaldt (voice), Godehard Giese, Maria Dragus, Augustino Renken, Robert Gwisdek, Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Rainer Egger, Maurice Leonhard, Bastian Trost)
A woman disguises herself as a man in 17th Century Germany.
Tender Loving Care
(Country: UK, US, Singapore; Year: 2026; Director: Mike Leigh; Writer: Mike Leigh; Stars: Kate O'Flynn, Alice Bailey Johnson, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson)
In contemporary London, social workers Amy and Rosie navigate the stressors and joys of life together, be that work, family or messy dating lives.
The Unknown
(L'inconnue)
(Country: France, Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Arthur Harari; Writer: Arthur Harari, Vincent Poymiro, Lucas Harari, Justine Triet; Stars: Léa Seydoux, Niels Schneider, Victoire du Bois, Lilith Grasmug, Valérie Dréville, Shanti Masud, Alexandre Pallu)
Fantasy based on a graphic novel that sees a photographer wake up in the body of a stranger.
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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