Gala Presentation

• Sang-il LEE
• Japan
• 2025
• 175min

After the unexpected death of his father, Kikuo is taken in by a prestigious family renowned for kabuki (traditional Japanese theater), where he forms a bond with his friend and rival, Shunsuke. For the next five decades, the two ...

• Cannes Directors′ Fortnight

Gala Presentation

• Sung-hyun BYUN
• Korea
• 2025
• 137min

“All you need is a bit of creativity and the will of people to believe in it.” Based on an actual hijacking incident in March 1970, Good News is a unique black comedy where the charm lies as much in the ‘telling’ as in the ‘story’...

• Toronto Special Presentations

Gala Presentation

• Jafar PANAHI
• Iran/France/Luxembourg
• 2025
• 103min

Master filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident is a powerful work that confronts humanity head-on amid uncertain truths and moral confusion. It’s the winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. One night, a man ...

• Cannes Palme d′Or

Gala Presentation

• Guillermo DEL TORO
• United States
• 2025
• 144min

In the mid-19th century, genius scientist Victor Frankenstein, after countless experiments to breathe the spark of life into dead flesh, finally succeeds in creating his own being. Thus is born ‘The Creature’?a grotesque and dange...

• Venice Competition