Wide Angle

• Japan/Korea
• 2025
• 92min

Documentary filmmaker Kim Myung-yoon, a former member of the Dokdo Police Security Detachment, relocates with his wife and son, Noah, to Kumi, a remote village in Japan’s Oki Islands. A UNESCO Global Geopark, the Oki Islands boast...

Special Program in Focus

• Japan
• 2025
• 100min

“A cinematic poem of silence, words traced in the air, and a riverside farewell between those who have wounded each other.” ? Novelist EUN Huigyeong Based on the autobiography of a female boxer with a hearing disability, Small, S...

• Berlin Encounters

World Cinema

• 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

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...

Special Program in Focus

• Hong Kong, China/China
• 2025
• 108min

In the final shot of Still Life, the tightrope walk scene appears onscreen alongside laborers setting out on the road, their hopes pinned on coal mining jobs. For those who must destroy the very place that was once their livelihoo...

• Venice Golden Lion

Flash Forward

• Spain/Germany
• 2025
• 105min

It was summer. Teenage boy Didac is on a cycling trip along the river with his family. One day, while cooling off in the water after a long, sweaty ride, he encounters a mysterious naked boy named Alexander. Appearing and disappea...

• Venice Orizzonti

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2025
• 92min

Little boy Nico spends a month with his great-aunt Gela, who lives in Sicily. His rural life is a mess from the very first day. There is no Wi-Fi, and the food is strange. It is hard to adjust to the grumpy Gela, the old dog Frank...

• Locarno Cinema of the Present Special Jury Prize CINE+, Best Performance Award

Special Program in Focus

• Korea
• 2025
• 112min

“At twenty, there’s more to be curious about than just sex.” At the dawn of the 21st century, this striking declaration on a poster announced the arrival of twenty-year-olds unlike any seen before in Korean cinema. Five classmates...

• Rotterdam Special Mention

World Cinema

• France
• 2025
• 78min

In the summer of the 2024 Paris Olympics, Blandine, who lives in Normandy, visits Paris to watch the swimming competitions and, after a series of twists and turns, ends up staying at her stepsister′s house. This is the feature fil...

• Berlin Perspectives

Vision

• Korea
• 2025
• 115min

The only thing middle school third-grader Ji-soo is absorbed in is writing. The appearance of Hyun-joo, a transfer student who says soccer is so fun that she could die from it, awakens Ji-soo in an unexpected way. The Accordion Do...