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The most anticipated new works from some of the world’s most revered auteurs, presented alongside exciting new talents. See films from Francis Ford Coppola, Jia Zhang-ke, David Cronenberg and Mohammad Rasoulof, and starring Adam Driver, Cate Blanchett, Demi Moore and Sebastian Stan.
All We Imagine as Light
The first Indian film to screen in Cannes competition in 30 years is a sensuous tale of two nurses, their romances and a mystical trip to the coast.
Caught by the Tides
Fresh from Cannes competition, Jia Zhang-ke’s latest portrait of Chinese society in flux is an epic drawn from over two decades of footage.
A Different Man
Sebastian Stan (The Winter Soldier) plays a wannabe actor who learns that confidence isn’t skin-deep in this deliciously twisted morality tale.
Dying
This epic, darkly comic portrait of Franzen-esque family dysfunction won multiple awards at both the 2024 Berlinale and the German Film Awards.
Grand Tour
This Cannes Best Director–winning Asian odyssey spectacularly mashes up time and place, genre and form, to transport audiences somewhere sublime.
I Saw the TV Glow
Brigette Lundy-Paine and Justice Smith star as teen outsiders whose obsessive pop-culture fandom causes rifts in their realities.
Megalopolis
Francis Ford Coppola’s star-studded, largely self-funded, 40-years-in-the-making passion project arrives at MIFF in all its loopy, maximalist glory.
Rumours
A gigantic brain in a forest, masturbating bog zombies, Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander and Charles Dance collide in Guy Maddin’s audacious latest.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Modern and traditional values clash in acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s daring family drama, which won two prizes at Cannes.
The Shrouds
Responding to his wife’s death, David Cronenberg fashions a meditation on loss, longing and grief, filtered through a necro-techno body-horror lens.
The Substance
Demi Moore satirises Hollywood ageism in this audacious and gory feminist body horror that was the talk of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.