All of a Sudden
Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto shared Best Actress Awards at Cannes for their sterling work in the latest long-form opus from master filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
Au hasard
Do we see what other moviegoers see? A fascinating act of cinematic misdirection for our age of misinformation.
The Blood Countess
Screen icon Isabelle Huppert mesmerises as a glamorous vampire in iconoclastic queer filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger’s high-camp comedy.
Bouchra
In this striking animation set in a world of anthropomorphic animals, a queer coyote breaks the wall of silence with her mother nine years after her coming out.
Chronovisor
In this wild, one-of-a-kind shrine to the wonders of research, an academic falls down a multimedia rabbit hole of hoax, conspiracy and Vatican intervention.
Congo Boy
With its star-making, Cannes award-winning turn, this coming-of-age tale about a teenage refugee whose musical ambitions might just save his life is as poetic as it is uplifting.
Écosystème
An immersive sensory dive into the depths of the sea.
Coward
Lukas Dhont’s stirring latest film – which won its leads a pair of Best Actor prizes at Cannes – depicts a clandestine romance between two young men that blooms in the trenches of WWI.
Dao
A freewheeling family saga bounces between a wedding in France and a funeral in Guinea-Bissau, exuberantly exploring identity and belonging.
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Romania’s premier provocateur returns, as razor-sharp as ever, with a finely wrought parable skewering the ‘good intentions’ of the bourgeoisie.
Do You Love Me
A play-it-loud trip through 70 years of Lebanese history.
The Dollhouse
When you invite someone into your home, how do you treat them? Play along with little Juniper and help her learn the kindness her family lacks.
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
Delphine Seyrig stars opposite model Veruschka (in drag) in this acerbic Oscar Wilde adaptation, an avant-garde take on fake news.
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
With glitter, feathers and gender-bending sailors, Ulrike Ottinger’s rarely screened early experimental film sets the scene for her work to come.
Fatherland
In Paweł Pawlikowski’s third post-WWII meditation, exiled author Thomas Mann tours a devastated Germany whose divisions echo his own fractured family.
Flesh and Fuel
Awarded the inaugural Queer Palm Revelation award at Cannes, this swooning feature debut trails the deepening romantic spark that forms between two long-haul truckers.
Gabin
Gracefully condensing a decade’s worth of footage, this tender nonfiction gem out of Cannes chronicles the adolescence of a boy in northern France.
Gentle Monster
Léa Seydoux is riveting as a wife and mother coming to grips with the emotional, moral and practical fallout when her husband is charged with a shocking crime.
Goodbye, Cruel World
In Cannes Critics’ Week’s tender, strikingly shot closing-night film, two lonely teenagers find an unlikely connection.
Hold It Together
In this tender tale of cultural dislocation, a lonely young immigrant in Iceland struggles to find her place at the local baths.
Jauja
A revisionist western interrogating colonisation, Alonso’s beguiling historical feature reinvents itself with a mystifying final act.
Jim Queen
Come for a gleefully filthy romp through Gay Paree as a buff influencer and his twink fight to cure a heinous virus that makes queer people straight!
Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia
In Ulrike Ottinger’s ultimate ethnographic odyssey, a group of women travelling by train are taken hostage by a Mongolian princess.
La Gradiva
Simmering desires erupt among a group of teens visiting the ruins of Pompeii in this Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize winner.
Mardochi
A man’s failed pilgrimage to his father’s Moroccan hometown instigates a more sensual search for his place in the world.
Mary Anning
The story of a pioneering female palaeontologist, whose discoveries – at just 12 years of age – changed our understanding of prehistory.
Nino
A modern riff on Cléo from 5 to 7, this tender debut feature follows the weekend odyssey of a young Parisian man after receiving a surprising diagnosis.
Nostalgia for the Future
Chris Marker was a filmmaker, artist and writer who was as visionary as he was famously elusive. Now, he forms the mysterious locus of this documentary drawing on his expansive archives.
The Oligarch and the Art Dealer
The true story of one of the world’s richest men and one of the 21st-century art world’s greatest frauds. Or is it?
Palimpsest: The Story of a Name
Through a canny postcolonial lens, a filmmaker whose Western name is at odds with her Chinese heritage peels back conflicting layers of family history.
Paradise
Two lonely teenagers – one Ghanaian, the other Canadian – are unexpectedly drawn together in this compelling debut feature from a MIFF-awarded director.
Parallel Tales
In the latest Cannes-bowing psychological drama from Asghar Farhadi, Isabelle Huppert leads an all-star ensemble cast, playing a creatively blocked author whose voyeurism causes art and life to bleed into one another.
Past Future Continuous
This layered, IDFA-awarded portrait of an Iranian family long divided by geography but reunited by technology exudes a keen and haunting resonance.
Shades of Silk
Long out of circulation, this evocatively elliptical tale of Sapphic yearning in 1930s Shanghai – newly restored – has been hailed as a major rediscovery.
Souvenir
A teen girl struggles with trust due to her girlfriend’s disregard for boundaries.
Species
A stressed-out young doctor suspects hostile jobs are doing something gnarly to her generation. Turns out work doesn’t just suck – it mutates.
Super Nature
In a new twist on nature documentary, the old-school format of super-8 offers a stunningly impressionistic, hopeful vision of our footprint upon the world.
Think Good
Grounded by authentic performances, Think Good is a deft psychological thriller about the insidiousness of domestic abuse.
Tina Arena: Unravel Me
How do you separate a Melbourne-born Oz music treasure and cosmopolitan star from a resilient woman? Follow the threads of her story, in her own words.
Tristan Forever
A burnt-out Parisian doctor travels to an ultra-remote, penguin-populated South Atlantic isle in search of isolation, salvation and perhaps even love.
The Unfaithful Wife
Suspicion and psychosexual paranoia abound in French New Wave titan Claude Chabrol’s twisted thriller led by a coolly enigmatic performance from Stéphane Audran.
Viva Carmen
A painterly, profound adaptation of Georges Bizet’s iconic opera told from the perspective of children.
Whispers in the Woods
This César Best Documentary–winning French box-office smash, with a score featuring Warren Ellis, is a stunning visual and aural immersion into the misty Vosges mountains.
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Legendary fashion photographer William Klein exploded into narrative filmmaking with this mockumentary, now a cult record of groovy 1960s mod fashion.
All of a Sudden — Soudain
Au hasard
The Blood Countess — Die Blutgräfin
Bouchra
Chronovisor
Congo Boy
Écosystème
Coward
Dao
The Diary of a Chambermaid — Le journal d'une femme de chambre
Do You Love Me
The Dollhouse — La Maison de Poupée
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press — Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors — Die Betörung der blauen Matrosen
Fatherland
Flesh and Fuel — Du fioul dans les artères
Gabin
Gentle Monster
Goodbye, Cruel World — Adieu monde cruel
Hold It Together — Sundruð
Jauja
Jim Queen
Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia
La Gradiva
Mardochi
Mary Anning
Nino
Nostalgia for the Future
The Oligarch and the Art Dealer
Palimpsest: The Story of a Name
Paradise
Parallel Tales
Past Future Continuous
Shades of Silk — Ombres de Soie
Souvenir
Species — Sanguine
Super Nature
Think Good — Si tu penses bien
Tina Arena: Unravel Me
Tristan Forever
The Unfaithful Wife — La femme infidèle
Viva Carmen — Carmen, l'oiseau rebelle
Whispers in the Woods