World Cinema

• 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

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2025
• 96min

The first to vanish from thirteen-year-old Arsin’s life was his uncle Yerken, nicknamed Arsin ‘botanist,’ who taught him everything about collecting plants. Then three years ago, on a snowy winter day, he left town. Has he drunk t...

• Berlin Generation Kplus International Jury Grand Prix, 2023 APM Project

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2025
• 25min

On the brink of marriage, Doyeong, an employee of a major corporation, meets a man in a cafe who claims to work for the NIS. His unbelievable story draws him in. A 10-minute long take of their opening conversation highlights the s...

World Cinema

• 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

• Switzerland/Argentina
• 2025
• 104min

Argentine artist Lina savors the joy of being in the spotlight at an award ceremony in Switzerland. Before returning home she impulsively throws herself into a river and feels a strange sense of peace. But when the thought of her ...

• Toronto Platform, San Sebastian Competition

Special Program in Focus

• Iran
• 2025
• 74min

The Day I Became a Woman, a landmark in Asian women’s cinema, weaves together the stories of three women?Hava, Ahoo, and Hoora?into a series of episodes. On her ninth birthday, a young girl named Hava is told that today is the day...

• Venice CinemAvvenire Award Best First Film

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2025
• 123min

A dead body is discovered in the mountains, buried with an expensive, handcrafted shogi (Japanese chess) piece. As the present-day investigation by a veteran detective and a rookie detective unfolds, it intertwines with the past o...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia/Indonesia
• 2025
• 94min

In a seaside village in Malaysia, Ali and Amir are fraternal twins so close they can almost communicate telepathically. Their mother has passed away, and their father, far from caring for them, only thinks of how to exploit them. ...

• Toronto Centrepiece

Midnight Passion

• Hong Kong, China
• 2025
• 114min

We are all too familiar with the story of a father rescuing his daughter from human traffickers, or a father forced to become ever so brutal to punish cruel criminals. Yet this familiar plot, combined with action that was once fam...

• Toronto Midnight Madness

Vision

• Korea
• 2025
• 107min

High school seniors In-hye, Seo-hee, Jeong-ae, and Soo-min are four students who turn in blank papers for their assignment to write about their ‘thoughts on the future.’ It′s not that they don’t have plans. For In-hye, the most im...