Vision

• Kyrgyzstan/Switzerland/Serbia/France/Luxembourg/Netherlands/Italy
• 2025
• 89min

The film opens with newsreel footage of a 2020 women’s protest in Bishkek. The rally for women’s rights is violently disrupted by opposing men, and police who had been standing by suddenly begin arresting the female protesters. Fr...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2025
• 139min

Ten years after the war, Saigon is still in the midst of reconstruction. Widowed Ky Nam runs a small restaurant in a communal housing complex, where residents share a central courtyard and know every detail of each other’s lives. ...

• Toronto Special Presentations

Icons

• Italy
• 2025
• 133min

Entering his twilight years, a man wishes to reflect on his life, reconcile with the past, and reconnect with his children. This conventional narrative arc takes on greater complexity when the man in question is the president of I...

• Venice Opening Film, COPPA VOLPI for Best Actor

On Screen

• Japan
• 2025
• 100min

In the late 19th century, after the Meiji Restoration, the era of the samurai came to an end. Lost in the allure of luxury, the upper class willfully ignores the suffering of the impoverished masses amid rampant pandemics. In this...

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

• Taiwan/France/United States/United Kingdom
• 2025
• 108min

Shu-Fen and her two daughters, I-Ann and I-Jing, move to a cramped apartment in Taipei. Shu-Fen opens a small noodle shop in the night market while I-Ann works at a betel nut stand as a “betel nut beauty.” Little I-Jing, still in ...

Special Screening

• Korea
• 2025
• 116min

Life of Hollywood Kid is a film about films. Specifically, it’s about the movie-obsessed life of Byungseok (Choi Min-soo, Kim Jung-hyun), who has from childhood adored Hollywood cinema to the point of losing touch with reality. Al...

• San Sebastian FIPRESCI Prize

A Window on Asian Cinema

• France/Japan
• 2025
• 125min

Mai, a member of a J-pop idol group, sings of love on the stage she has always dreamed of. In return, fans buy albums, cheer on her, and fervently express their love. Fandom culture is a vast contemporary fantasy built on the mutu...

• Cannes Premiere

World Cinema

• 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

Flash Forward

• United States/Canada
• 2025
• 103min

New York, a city of hybrids. For immigrants, is it a place where dreams come true, or where the impossibilities of dreams are laid bare? After failing in his restaurant business, Lu now works as a food deliveryman, and for him, Ne...

• Cannes Directors′ Fortnight