World Cinema

• Julian RADLMAIER
• 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

World Cinema

• Andrew AHN
• 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 Cinema

• Stéphane DÉMOUSTIER
• France/Denmark
• 2025
• 107min

This is the new work by Stephane Demoustier, invited to the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival. The Grande Arche is a famous landmark in Paris, designed by architect Otto von Spreckelsen. It is well known that t...

• Cannes Un Certain Regard

World Cinema

• Jacqueline ZÜND
• Switzerland/Italy
• 2025
• 98min

This is Zund’s first drama, following three documentaries that have been steadily introduced to Korean audiences. For a director who has long documented human relationships, a story about a society where someone carries out anothe...

• Locarno Cinema of the Present Best Performance Award

World Cinema

• Philippe FALARDEAU
• Canada
• 2025
• 119min

Alain is about to get married. It should be one of the happiest moment of his life, yet he seems somewhat uneasy. Chronic stomach pains and anxiety have long plagued him. He is still stuck in the unhealed childhood wounds that aro...

• Toronto Special Presentations

World Cinema

• Hafsia HERZI
• France/Germany
• 2025
• 107min

In her third feature film, The Little Sister, actor and director Hafsia Herzi turns her focus to the journey of Fatima, a high school girl. Raised in a devout Muslim household by Algerian immigrant parents, Fatima finds herself to...

• Cannes Best Actress

World Cinema

• Alexandre KOBERIDZE
• Germany/Georgia
• 2025
• 187min

After two love stories, Koberidze depicts a father wandering in search of traces of his daughter. Accompanying the father on this path is (quite literally) an invisible presence, and even the rural people who answer his questions ...

• Locarno International Competition Special Mention, FIPRESCI Prize

World Cinema

• Gabriel MASCARO
• Brazil/Mexico/Chile/Netherlands
• 2025
• 86min

Set in Brazil in the near future, this dystopian road movie follows the journey of a woman resisting a state policy that seeks to exclude the elderly from society. On the verge of being transferred to a so-called ‘Senior Colony,’ ...

• Berlin Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize

World Cinema

• Kristen STEWART
• United States/France/Latvia
• 2025
• 128min

An adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s eponymous memoire, The Chronology of Water marks Kristen Stewart’s ambitious feature directorial debut after a series of short films. Retracing Lidia’s life marked by childhood sexual abuse and ...

• Cannes Un Certain Regard

World Cinema

• Mascha SCHILINSKI
• Germany
• 2025
• 155min

Winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, this is truly an ambitious work. Mascha Schilinski, who previously observed the inner world of a young girl watching her divorced parents, now purposefully brings forth four ge...

• Cannes Competition Jury Prize