Films

A French doctor who treats Alzheimer’s patients and a Japanese theater director form a bond that is intellectual, creative, and spiritual in Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s humorous, painful, and constantly surprising drama.

In Florian Zeller’s elegant psychological drama, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz are successful professionals (architect and editor, respectively) married to their work, and to each other. Paul Dano, Stephen Graham, and Patrick Schwarzenegger co-star.

Masters of creative nonfiction with their melancholic tales on one-of-a-kind traditions and communities, Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw beautifully portray the layered aromas and aftertastes of the Burgundy region with sophisticated finesse.

Through intimate camerawork shaped with the narrative tension of a crime thriller, Michał Marczak’s award-winning film follows a father’s relentless pursuit along Poland’s Vistula River to find his missing son.

Two soldiers fall in love amidst World War I in celebrated Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont’s (Close) latest work. Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne shared Best Actor at Cannes for this tender drama that mixes sensual sex scenes with stark combat sequences.

A Bulgarian archaeologist investigates the disappearance of a former lover in this absorbing Cannes prizewinner. German director Valeska Grisebach works with a nonprofessional cast to create a slow-burn thriller with the grit of a Western and the scope of Chinatown.

In the forests of southern Nepal, a mother searches for her missing daughter as wild elephants roam the night, in a haunting and tender story of chosen family, belonging, and survival.

An unforgettable study of identity, family, and generational remorse, the stunning Fatherland traces the relationship between renowned writer Thomas Mann and his accomplished actress-writer daughter Erika amidst the ruins of postwar Germany.

Norway’s inflexible child protection laws disrupt the lives of a devout immigrant family in Cristian Mungiu’s atmospheric Palme d’Or-winning family drama and legal thriller, starring superstars Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan.

The lives of a musician and a police detective unexpectedly dovetail in Marie Kreutzer’s (Corsage, MVFF45) latest provocative drama when a search warrant for a filmmaker’s hard drives upends the life of his wife.

Born in the wake of China’s controversial one-child policy, six-year-old Juan is suddenly uprooted from her family when her mom becomes pregnant in this achingly poignant coming-of-age story from first-time feature director Zou Jing.

Some things arrive in waves: sunlight, joy, but also grief and loss. Director Phuong Mai Nguyen’s animated adaptation of AJ Dungo’s 2019 graphic novel is an indelible story of love between two teenagers and their passion for each other and the sea.

Director Danny Boyle charts the rise and fall of Sir Albert “Larry” Lamb, infamous Rupert Murdoch acolyte and creator of the titillating bits that rocketed The Sun to British tabloid superstardom in the 1970s.

A young boy navigates life from inside an iron corset in Wall-E and Up animator Louis Clichy’s tender, funny rite-of-passage story that honestly confronts the distress that every adolescent endures.

A determined sommelier dreams of opening her own wine bar, but life has other plans. Gabe Klinger's charming São Paulo story is a witty, bittersweet toast to reinvention and second chances.

Three eras, one buried story. La bola negra is a mesmerizing cinematic journey through love, memory, persecution, and the quiet wounds passed from one generation to the next, told with haunting beauty.

French teenagers take a summer class trip to Naples, Italy, in this marvelous coming-of-age film that is subtle, mysterious, and intelligent. Marine Atlan’s feature debut garnered the Cannes Critics Week Best Picture award.

Andrey Zvyagintsev’s first feature in a decade, this chilling reimagining of La femme infidèle and Unfaithful masterfully explores the depths of corruption in Putin’s Russia through a story of crime and infidelity.

While preparing for an upcoming swimming trip to Brazil, best friends La Maestra and Paula see their bright futures upended one fateful night. First-time feature director Fernanda Tovar crafts a moving coming-of-age drama in this Berlinale award winner.

"If music could talk, which means whatever your mind can bring.” This collection of documentary short films invite a sense of curiosity and quest, seeking to grasp human thought, motive, and expression. In Nita Blum and Jonathan Pickett’s A NEW INFERNO (US 2026, 16 min), paramedics race to save the lives of heatstroke victims using a radical new treatment. With an experimental sensibility, Karla Condado’s MIRIAM (Mexico 2025, 19 min) copes with grief as the filmmaker reads personal letters to her aunt who was a victim of femicide. Along the picturesque coastline of Brittany, France, bright orange novelty Garfield phones wash ashore in Zack Grant’s eccentric SILLY LITTLE PLASTIC CAT (France/US 2026 12 min). In SWING SWISH SWAY (US 2026, 7 min), TT Takemoto's colorful and tangible reconstruction of history is inspired by Filipina-American Rose Bamberger, founder of Daughters of Bilitis, San Francisco’s own first lesbian activist group. Free-spirited and expressive, Charlie Eguia’s HAPPINESS FOR A HERDER (US/Mongolia 2026, 16 min) follows a group of nomadic herder families in Mongolia. —Diana Sánchez Maciel

“What the hell is wrong with me? I'm not who I want to be.”  These short films from around the world compel their characters to rethink who they are and what they may want.  Petch Kitwattanachai’s OF VEINS AND WIRES (Thailand 2026, 16 min) imagines a future where artificial means can replace human procreation. In Erin Cramer’s ENJOY YOUR VISIT (US 2026, 19 min), an African American actress cosplays as a slave at a tourist-based historical site.  The gay couple in Mehdi Davachi’s ITALIANO (Iran 2026, 20 min) reevaluates their relationship to their repressive Persian culture when the prospect of leaving their homeland arises. And in Jasmine Bisette’s THE DOCTOR AND THE FLOATING BRIDGE (France 2026, 19 min), a Korean expatriate doctor must confront his mixed feelings about his former home when he meets a very special patient.  Life and sense of self are never exactly how they appear in these provocative and moving stories. —Sterling Hedgpeth

A French doctor who treats Alzheimer’s patients and a Japanese theater director form a bond that is intellectual, creative, and spiritual in Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s humorous, painful, and constantly surprising drama.

The lives of a musician and a police detective unexpectedly dovetail in Marie Kreutzer’s (Corsage, MVFF45) latest provocative drama when a search warrant for a filmmaker’s hard drives upends the life of his wife.

Three eras, one buried story. La bola negra is a mesmerizing cinematic journey through love, memory, persecution, and the quiet wounds passed from one generation to the next, told with haunting beauty.

A Korean expatriate doctor must confront his mixed feelings about his former home when he meets a very special patient.

Along the picturesque coastline of Brittany, France, bright orange novelty Garfield phones wash ashore in Zack Grant’s eccentric short.