Festival Perspectives

A woman in rural France battles the consuming weight of postpartum depression and isolation, her inner turmoil blurring the line between love, madness, and survival. | Country: United Kingdom, Canada, United States | Language: English

Teacher Wang works as a 'mistress dispeller' in China, hired to break up affairs by any means necessary. Through one of her cases, we explore the ways class, capital, and culture collide to shape romantic relationships in contemporary China. | Country: China, United States | Language: Mandarin

A true crime podcaster from Appalachia blurs the line between fact and entertainment as she investigates a mysterious local death | Country: United States | Language: English

An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone. Victor Kossakovsky raises a fundamental question: how do we inhabit the world of tomorrow?

A remote village in Roman-era Egypt explodes into spiritual warfare when a carpenter, his wife and their child are targeted by supernatural forces. | Country: United Kingdom, France | Language: English

World Premiere, Venice Film Festival 2025. Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. | Country: Ireland, South Korea, Canada, United States | Language: English

A small mishap triggers a chain reaction of ever-growing problems. | Winner - Palme d'Or - 2025 Cannes Film Festival | Country: Iran, France, Luxembourg, United States | Language: Persian, English

A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America. | Country: United States | Language: English

In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man. | Country: United States, Hungary | Language: English, German

Only monsters play God. World Premiere, Venice Film Festival 2025. | Country: Mexico, United States | Language: English, Danish

An intimate exploration of family, memories, and the reconciliatory power of art.

Do you know how difficult it is to be yourself? World Premiere, Venice Film Festival 2025. | Country: United States, United Kingdom, Italy | Language: English

An Iranian filmmaker participates in a series of video calls with a young Palestinian photojournalist who describes her life confined in Gaza during the regional conflict. | Country: France, Palestinian Territories, Iran | Language: English, Arabic

Academy Award-winner Chloé Zhao's highly anticipated adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's acclaimed 2020 novel. World Premiere, Telluride Film Festival 2025. | Country: United Kingdom | Language: English

Charts the turbulent relationship between composer Franklin Shepard and his two lifelong friends - writer Mary and lyricist and playwright Charley over three decades. Originally produced on Broadway in 1981. | Country: United States | Language: English