World Cinema

• Belgium/France
• 2025
• 78min

Adam’s Sake is a medical drama set almost entirely within a hospital. This short film evokes the spirit of the Dardenne brothers, where profound sorrow and faint hope quietly coexist. At its center are two women?Rebecca, a young m...

• Cannes Critics′ Week Opening Film

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Armenia/United States/Mexico
• 2025
• 109min

In Armenia, where the shadows of war still cast their long reach, Claudette embarks on a road trip to a remote monastery with a soldier Atom, unaware that her father has been killed after being mistaken for the enemy. The camera b...

• Berlin Berlinale Forum

Vision

• Japan
• 2025
• 119min

Life in a quiet rural town is so peaceful that it borders on boring. High school girls Hidemi, Yaguchi, and Iwakuma each develop their own dreams while plotting to escape their tedious hometown one day. Hidemi, who dreams of becom...

Icons

• France/Belgium
• 2025
• 127min

In the films of director Julia Ducournau, characters undergo extreme physical transformations. In Raw (2016), it’s cannibalism; in Titane (2021), a fusion with metal; and in Alpha, a mysterious disease transmitted through blood tu...

• Cannes Competition

Wide Angle

• Jordan/Canada
• 2025
• 21min

Amman, Jordan. Hasan and his friends watch the rooftop bar across from another building. Over there, people are drinking and dancing?a surreal escape from their lethargic daily lives. It’s a night where gentrification, class, desi...

• Toronto Short Cuts

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore/Netherlands/France/Spain/Korea
• 2025
• 99min

Singapore, the cleanest and safest country in the world. Choo, a sixteen-year old girl, cannot stand this version of Singapore. What must it feel like to live in a country where caning still exists and even chewing gum on the stre...

• Toronto Discovery

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...

Open Cinema

• France
• 2025
• 82min

Ugo Bienvenu, a famous French graphic novel artist who worked on Disney′s Ant-Man series, now presents a sensuous and beautiful science fiction animation. Reminiscent of Hayao Miyazaki′s perspective on nature, Arco is filled with ...

• Cannes Special Screenings

Special Program in Focus

• Korea
• 2025
• 108min

Choon-hee, who makes a living filming wedding videos, dreams of becoming a screenwriter. One day, Cheol-soo, on his final military leave, barges into her home, demanding to know the whereabouts of his girlfriend. Thus begins a bri...

On Screen

• Korea
• 2025
• 120min

How does the dream of a perfect crime fascinate us so irresistibly? Eun-su (Jeon So-nee), a luxury department store clerk, hides deep scars beneath her competent exterior. Unable to free herself from the trauma of childhood domest...