An immersive experience inspired by the musician Molécule’s adventures in the polar circle.

The winner of the 2023 Cannes Short Film Palme d’Or is a colourful orgy of ennui and desire.

‘A’ is for ‘Aaaaah!’ in this wild and zany schoolyard romp.

Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (The Wild Pear Tree) presents an ambitious epic of maladjusted male ego.

From Cannes Critics’ Week comes a heartbreaking and unforgettably tender portrait of a six-year-old French girl’s bond with her Cape Verdean nanny.

Bristling with emotional depth, this Palme d’Or–winning courtroom drama puts the complexities of a relationship on trial.

A mix of sci-fi genre-bending and apocalyptic tension, this debut uses an alien invasion to peer across the stakes of faith and family in Morocco.

In this chilling political coming-of-age film, a young housekeeper is drawn into the sinister orbit of his influential boss.

Franco-Senegalese director Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s first longform work is a haunting fable of star-cross’d lovers set in a rural village.

This sardonic film, which won Locarno’s Pardino d’oro Swiss Life for the Best Auteur Short Film, recounts a small person’s larger-than-life rebellion.

An enchanting animated take on Haruki Murakami’s short stories starring a gregarious talking frog, an existential bank teller and an elusive cat.

Deep in the US’s Catskill Mountains of the 50s and 60s sat a refuge for transgender women and cross-dressing men to experience life without fear.

In Jessica Hausner’s bold satire, a charismatic teacher convinces her teenage students that disordered eating can produce many kinds of enlightenment.

A deliriously defiant, all-female reimagining of Conan the Barbarian that’s feted to become a new cult classic.

Frederick Wiseman’s third foray into dramatic features centres on Sophia Tolstoy’s complicated marriage to her novelist husband.

In this Cannes Directors’ Fortnight hit, two debt collectors face the absurdity of their jobs while dwarfed by the majestic Moroccan desert.

Franz Rogowski propels this mesmeric musing on wounded masculinity, which is ignited by French electro superstar Vitalic’s feverish soundtrack.

Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat shine in the stirring new work from Anthony Chen, which explores how friendship can salve the traumas of the past.

Slow-cinema auteur Lisandro Alonso and actor Viggo Mortensen reunite for a free-flowing triptych of meditations on colonialism past and present.

A dark comedy about a teenager craving recognition, a worker who’ll do anything to win the jackpot and a senior executive at the end of his career.

A mother and two of her daughters are joined by actors to work through their family history and grasp the other two daughters’ heartbreaking choices.

Chantal Akerman puts love and capitalism in the crosshairs in this acidly funny, vibrantly coloured musical set entirely within a shopping mall.

Bringing echoes of the Coen brothers and Tarantino to the mean streets of Morocco, this Cannes prize winner is not the Casablanca you think you know.

The first Jordanian film to screen at Cannes takes ferocious aim at the country’s ingrained misogyny.

This hypnotic, transcendental debut feature follows a young man’s mystical journey across a beguiling rural Vietnam.

From Cannes Critics’ Week comes a masterful portrait of an ostracised immigrant searching for salvation.

Winner of the French Touch Prize of the Jury at Cannes Critics’ Week, this coming-of-age drama is a stirring social-realist fiction debut.

A pope’s audacious act tears the Catholic Church and all of Italy apart in this gripping true story.

A preternaturally skilled archaeologist goes on an Orphean quest for his lost love in Alice Rohrwacher’s latest and most romantically bewitching film.

This lushly animated tale of sexual awakening, which screened in competition at Cannes, follows a humanoid bird as she matures from child to woman.

Catherine Breillat (Abuse of Weakness) returns with a daring portrait of a woman’s intimate relationship with her teen stepson, starring Léa Drucker.

Winner of Rotterdam’s top prize, this moving documentary explores the lives of Cameroonian children at the edge of a war zone.

In her first foray into cinema, Safi Faye acts in Jean Rouch’s comedy about two Nigeriens whose Paris trip becomes a lesson in ‘reverse ethnography’.

In this Annecy Best Feature–winning adaptation of the Le petit Nicolas comic books, a mischievous character meets the men who brought him to life.

In this tense coming-of-age drama direct from Cannes Critics’ Week, a teenage boy confronts the political injustice upheld by his mother.

A young man goes on a holiday to the countryside, where his would-be-peaceful wellness routine is assailed by the terrifying sounds of silence.

In this Cannes Un Certain Regard comedy, the ineffability of romance is put to the test by an unfaithful married philosopher.

Put on your ballet shoes for this triumphant, feel-good tale of a 12-year-old Parisian dancer who overcomes the odds of institutional prejudice.

Winner of the Berlinale Golden Bear, this empathetic film invites viewers to spend time with the residents of a floating art-therapy centre in Paris.

Abandoned by an indifferent government, a remote Siberian village stands united in the face of a massive forest fire that threatens its future.

Love Is Strange (MIFF 2014) director Ira Sachs embraces the art of French cinema in this queer, Paris-set musing on a complicated relationship.

Oozing blood, shapeshifting and a serial killer on the loose – this high school body horror is a feminist-charged frenzy, starring Alicia Silverstone.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s iconic final film is a ravishing adaptation of Jean Genet’s homoerotic classic about a deadly sailor on shore leave.

In this beautifully bittersweet hand-drawn ode to friendship, a dog must find new meaning when misfortune separates him from his robot buddy.

David Cronenberg, Baz Luhrmann, Claire Denis and a host of directors discuss cinema’s future in this riveting sequel to Wim Wenders’s 1982 classic.

Obstinacy and recklessness lead a team of fishermen out into dangerous waters.

In the southern Estonian woods, a group of women talk and embrace the soul-cleansing power of steam in this Sundance award-winning documentary.

The winner of Best Short Film at both Toronto and Venice is a subtly menacing, Mongolia-set tale of sexual awakening.

Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal play reunited lovers in Pedro Almodóvar’s sensual queer western, direct from Cannes.

A husband and wife get mixed up with their doppelgangers in this Hitchcockian thriller from Iranian auteur Mani Haghighi (Pig; A Dragon Arrives!).

The beast is unleashed in this Cannes award-winning debut – and she’s a 12-year-old Malaysian schoolgirl whose body is changing in more ways than one.

A deft exploration of the brutal scars of colonialism whose genre twists and turns give new meaning to ‘the horror of war’.

A spellbinding family portrait that presents a child’s-eye view of love, loss and life in all their messy, glorious, heartbreaking colour.

From Cannes comes the final work by the late, legendary genius Jean-Luc Godard – a dazzling glimpse into a feature film that never came to be.

Claire Denis’s divisive, seductively erotic horror film rises again, with Béatrice Dalle and Vincent Gallo in all their grisly, sensuous glory.

Taiwanese master Tsai Ming-liang quietly contemplates life in the mountains, reflecting on chairs, cats and portraits of his muse, Lee Kang-sheng.