Competition

• 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,...

Competition

• China/France
• 2025
• 156min

In a wild era, humans discover they can live indefinitely if they do not dream. They attempt to wake the ‘Fantasmers,’ people who continue to dream in secret, causing chaos in history and making time jump. The people tasked with w...

Competition

• Korea
• 2025
• 95min

Film director Je-hyeon, who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness, wants to make one last proper film in the time he has left. While his wife, Soo-jin, reproaches him, asking what is so important about film that he would dest...

Competition

• Tajikistan/United States/Qatar
• 2025
• 66min

A film as beautiful as a poem, Another Birth from Tajikistan follows a young girl living in a remote mountain village. One night, she asks her mother, “Can you die from sorrow?”, “It’s definitely possible to wither away from sorro...

Competition

• China
• 2025
• 99min

In Luomu, a town small enough to explore in just 30 minutes, Bai arrives at a guesthouse with a three-year-old postcard from her ex-boyfriend Wang that’s inscribed with the mysterious words ‘Gloaming in Luomu.’ As she walks throug...

Competition

• Taiwan
• 2025
• 124min

Hsiao-lee smiles only twice in the entire film?when she goes to karaoke with Li-li, and when Li-li returns after a prolonged absence. A girl who doesn’t show emotions, Hsiao-lee lives with her abusive alcoholic father, harsh hairs...

Competition

• France/Sri Lanka/India
• 2025
• 99min

Bioengineer Anandi returns to Earth after years in space, only to be quarantined at a remote mountain resort due to exposure to the illvibe virus rapidly spreading across the planet. The resort boasts picturesque scenery and luxur...

Competition

• Korea
• 2025
• 108min

Borrowing the famous opening line of Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina?’All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way’?one might say that unhappiness may look similar, but no two cases are ever the same. ...

Competition

• Japan
• 2025
• 131min

BAKA’s Identity is a suspenseful mystery depicting a three-day escape from the perspectives of three individuals. Takuya and Mamoru wander the city, making a living by posing as women on social media to lure lonely men into an ill...

Competition

• Japan
• 2025
• 89min

One summer, a woman from the city has a chance encounter with a man visiting his mother’s quiet seaside hometown. One winter, a scriptwriter in a slump seeks out the innkeeper who tends a remote lodge alone in snow-covered mountai...