Wide Angle

• 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

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2025
• 123min

A live-action adaptation of Shinkai Makoto’s 2007 animated film of the same name. This film stays faithful to the original while embracing the language of cinematic framing, weaving together a sense of familiarity and freshness wi...

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• United States
• 2025
• 110min

At a mutual friend’s wedding, Sarah and David meet by chance and, as if led by fate itself, embark on a fantastical journey guided by a GPS device. Sarah has always run away from love, while David insists that he has yet to find t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2025
• 86min

Monkey, a stage designer in Shanghai, has spent three months searching for housing without success. Exhausted by the unreasonable demands of a fickle producer and pretentious director, and struggling with delayed wages, Monkey is ...

• Venice Critics′ Week

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• United States
• 2025
• 112min

The latest work from Kathryn Bigelow?the first female director in Academy Awards history to win Best Director?depicts the tense journey of an unattributed missile heading toward the U.S. mainland on what begins as a peaceful morni...

• Venice Competition

Special Program in Focus

• Italy/France/Germany
• 2025
• 122min

“There is no tragedy, no misfortune that has not been prepared by our childhood,” said Bellocchio about his film A Leap in the Dark. This powerful drama, reminiscent of Ingmar Bergman’s work, depicts a woman’s rebellion against co...

• Cannes Best Actress, Best Actor

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• France/Belgium/Luxembourg
• 2025
• 91min

While struggling with writing his memoir, author Marcel Pagnol is suddenly visited by a ghostly vision of his younger self. True to its original French title, Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol, the film splits the legendary writer into tw...

• Cannes Special Screenings

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2025
• 14min

The life of Kim Jung Myung, who spent 40 years photographing wildflowers, unfolds in stop-motion animation. His 1.5 million still photographs are transformed into time-lapse video, seamlessly woven together with stop-motion charac...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand/France/Singapore/Germany
• 2025
• 130min

A Useful Ghost blends the familiar and the strange much like the coexistence of the living and the dead. This uniquely original film resists easy genre labels but captivates viewers with its unexpected power, earning the Grand Pri...

• Cannes Critics′ Week Grand Prix

Flash Forward

• Italy/France
• 2025
• 102min

Director Laura Samani, who made a powerful feature debut with the multi-award winning Small Body (2021), returns with her new work A Year of School. Set in a high school in Trieste, Italy, this highly accomplished teen movie delic...

• Venice Orizzonti Best Actor