9 Temples to Heaven
An extended family go on a religious pilgrimage and navigate their interpersonal dramas along the way in this deeply personal reflection on modern Thailand.
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.
The Beloved
Javier Bardem enthrals as a legendary director with ambiguous intentions who casts his estranged daughter in an upcoming film.
Chronicles From the Siege
Depicting life under constant bombardment, a Berlin award winner highlights how humour and humanity persist amid the horrors of war.
Closure
Transcending true-crime cliché, this masterful study of obsession documents a father’s quest for answers in the wake of his teenage son’s disappearance.
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.
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.
Coyotes
A Palestinian woman confronts an existential threat on a deserted road to Ramallah.
Dao
A freewheeling family saga bounces between a wedding in France and a funeral in Guinea-Bissau, exuberantly exploring identity and belonging.
Daria’s Night Flowers
Multiple MIFF award winner Maryam Tafakory returns with an epistolary tale of suppressed desire.
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 Dreamed Adventure
Almost a decade after Western, Valeska Grisebach returns with this similarly rough-hewn, simmering tale of border town intrigue that claimed the Cannes Jury Prize.
Elephants in the Fog
This Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize–winning thriller set among a Nepalese third-gender community sees one matriarch choosing between duty and love.
The End
Anthropomorphic animals lose themselves in mundane activities as an apocalypse descends.
Eureka
Alonso’s hugely ambitious triptych explores the collision between Indigenous lives and colonisation.
Fatherland
In Paweł Pawlikowski’s third post-WWII meditation, exiled author Thomas Mann tours a devastated Germany whose divisions echo his own fractured family.
The Fence
With this thriller headlined by Isaach de Bankolé and Matt Dillon, Claire Denis returns to Africa – and to the profound, prickly themes that have defined her oeuvre.
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.
For the Opponents
This Palme d’Or–awarded portrait of a Mexican boy boxer quietly referees a contest between dreams and expectations.
Forever…Forever
Experience time on a planetary scale as rhythms of day and night pulsate in harmony with the celestial bodies in a landscape’s seasonal light.
Forever Your Maternal Animal
Free Eliza (notes on an anatomical imperfection)
In this deadpan class satire, a luxury hotel worker pushes back against a world that demands women perform happiness at any cost.
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.
Hair, Paper, Water…
A critically endangered language is passed from grandmother to grandson in this sensory 16mm docufiction set among Vietnam’s Rục people.
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.
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
Five working-class Gen Z friends drift apart in this deeply felt study of adulthood that won the Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award at Cannes.
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!
La Bola Negra
Sharing the Best Director Prize at Cannes, this sublime time-hopping triptych recounts three men’s experiences of love, legacy and the unending fight for queer liberation.
La Gradiva
Simmering desires erupt among a group of teens visiting the ruins of Pompeii in this Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize winner.
Landmarks
Thirteen years in the making, Lucrecia Martel’s potent true-crime documentary connects the murder of an Indigenous leader to a national history of violence.
Liverpool
A sailor travels through a harsh but beautiful landscape in search of his old hometown and what remains of his family.
Lost Land
Winner of the Orizzonti Special Jury Prize at Venice, this groundbreaking Rohingya docufiction presents the perilous, disorienting experience of seeking asylum from a child’s-eye view.
Mardochi
A man’s failed pilgrimage to his father’s Moroccan hometown instigates a more sensual search for his place in the world.
Medea
In her only film role, opera singer Maria Callas stars as the infamous sorceress in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s mesmeric take on the immortal Greek tragedy.
Memory
Visually imaginative and richly symbolic, this filmic collage recalls the writer/director’s own childhood in Chechnya, where she witnessed the atrocities of war firsthand.
Nagi Notes
This adaptation of classic Japanese play Tokyo Notes is a thoughtful character study set in a sublime modern art museum.
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.
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.
Please
Charming vignettes explore the full awkwardness, absurdity and disappointment of humankind’s yearning to be loved.
Pressure
Hours before D-Day, General Eisenhower’s chief meteorologist warns of brutal weather – but doesn’t predict the stormy debate he now faces to save Allied lives.
Replica
Like a gender-flipped Her, this empathetic documentary follows three Chinese women whose yearning for intimacy is met by their AI partners.
Sense of Nowhere
Where do we go when we zone out, and how do we return to reality? Zone in – your own way – through a mindful flow of sonic textures and visual motifs.
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.
9 Temples to Heaven — 9 วัด สู่สวรรค์
All of a Sudden — Soudain
The Beloved
Chronicles From the Siege
Closure
Congo Boy
Coward
Coyotes
Dao
Daria’s Night Flowers — گلهای شب ِدریا
The Diary of a Chambermaid — Le journal d'une femme de chambre
Do You Love Me
The Dreamed Adventure — Das geträumte Abenteuer
Elephants in the Fog
The End
Eureka
Fatherland
The Fence — Le Cri des gardes
Flesh and Fuel — Du fioul dans les artères
For the Opponents — Para Los Contrincantes
Forever…Forever
Forever Your Maternal Animal — Siempre soy tu animal materno
Free Eliza (notes on an anatomical imperfection)
Gabin
Gentle Monster
Goodbye, Cruel World — Adieu monde cruel
Hair, Paper, Water… — Tóc, Giấy và Nước…
Hold It Together — Sundruð
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
Jauja
Jim Queen
La Bola Negra
La Gradiva
Landmarks — Nuestra Tierra
Liverpool
Lost Land — Harà Watan
Mardochi
Medea
Memory
Nagi Notes
Nino
The Oligarch and the Art Dealer
Palimpsest: The Story of a Name
Paradise
Parallel Tales
Please
Pressure
Replica
Sense of Nowhere