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World Premiere 10s Across the Borders

Wide Angle

10s Across the Borders
  • Philippines/Singapore/Germany
  • 2025
  • 100min

This film follows three leading characters of Southeast Asia’s ballroom scene?Teddy from Malaysia who ran away from his homophobic father, Xyza from the Philippines who found beauty in herself after being rejected by the modeling ...

  • 2022 ACF AND Fund Recipient
Phantoms of July

World Cinema

Phantoms of July
  • Germany
  • 2025
  • 90min

In the 18th century, Lotte, who serves a prince, dreams of escaping to France with her beloved as she believes that revolutionary France would offer far more freedom than Germany. Pursued while on the run, she hides in a cave. The...

  • Locarno International Competition
Exit 8

Midnight Passion

Exit 8
  • Japan
  • 2025
  • 95min

Video games in everyday life offer the greatest pleasures one can experience in a virtual space. But if you were to become truly trapped within the time and space of a game?where you once had the option to simply switch it off?tha...

  • Cannes Midnight Screenings
The Last One for the Road

Flash Forward

The Last One for the Road
  • Italy/Germany
  • 2025
  • 100min

Carlobianchi and Doriano, two men cast adrift from modern society, are people who cannot live a moment without alcohol. In their search for drink, they encounter Giulio, an architecture student, and the three set off on a journey ...

  • Cannes Un Certain Regard
World Premiere Throughout These Cages

Wide Angle

Throughout These Cages
  • Indonesia
  • 2025
  • 16min

After the father’s death, the mother and son are left alone together. Following his father’s will, the son tries to remodel their old house, but the mother does not welcome his efforts. The trauma etched into the items and the spa...

World Premiere Girlfriends

Vision

Girlfriends
  • Macao, China/Taiwan/Hong Kong, China/Thailand
  • 2025
  • 101min

Raised in Macao and having attended college in Taiwan, Lok now lives in Hong Kong, awaiting the opportunity to direct her second fi lm. While her partner Bei Bei seeks stability, Lok is conflicted and embarks on a journey through ...

World Premiere Winter Days

Vision

Winter Days
  • Korea
  • 2025
  • 84min

Choi Seung-woo’s second fi lm holds its meaning in its title. No incident occurs; as the fi lm unfolds, it’s hard to tell who the protagonist is. There is no dialogue. The people say nothing, silently enduring the course of a wint...

The Wedding Banquet

World Cinema

The Wedding Banquet
  • United States
  • 2025
  • 104min

Min, an international student facing the expiration of his student visa and pressure to take over the family business, has a boyfriend, Chris, who is afraid of marriage. Chris′s longtime friend, Angela, is contemplating the future...

  • Sundance Premieres
World Premiere Leave the Cat Alone

Competition

Leave the Cat Alone
  • Japan
  • 2025
  • 102min

Plagued by insomnia and lethargy, Mori lets time drift aimlessly, unable to create any meaningful music, all while uneasily sharing a home with his wife, Maiko, a successful and driven photographer. When Mori and his former lover,...

Take Care of My Cat

Special Program in Focus

Take Care of My Cat
  • Korea
  • 2025
  • 112min

“At twenty, there’s more to be curious about than just sex.” At the dawn of the 21st century, this striking declaration on a poster announced the arrival of twenty-year-olds unlike any seen before in Korean cinema. Five classmates...

  • Rotterdam Special Mention

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