New Movies
Plan 75
Japan of the near future –– Government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized in order to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer faces choices of life and death.
Boy from Heaven
A political thriller that will unfold in a prestigious religious university in Cairo. On the first day back after the summer holidays, the grand imam collapses and dies in front of his students. This marks the start of a ruthless battle for influence to take his place.
EO
The story of a donkey named Baltazar, beginning in a Polish circus and ending in an Italian slaughterhouse, is a bitter but also warmly humanist paraphrase of a "road movie". It is a panopticon of human behaviour towards a defenceless animal, a suggestive picture of social relations and cultural changes taking place in the modern world.
Domingo And the Mist
Every afternoon, a strange fog covers Domingo's ranch and brings with it a special visitor: the ghost of Marília, his deceased wife. When it is confirmed that his land will be expropriated for the construction of a road, Domingo's worst fear comes true: by losing his land he loses contact with the ghost of his wife, and he cannot afford a second farewell. Against a rock and a hard place, Domingo sets fires to sabotage the road construction site, but his plan is about to get out of hand.
Joyland
A patriarchal family as they yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, while their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for an ambitious trans starlet. Their impossible love story begins to illuminates the entire family's desire for a sexual rebellion.
Polaris
Hayat, an expert sailor in the Arctic, navigates far from humans and her family's past in France. But when her little sister Leila gives birth to a baby girl Inaya, their worlds are turned upside down; we witness their journey, guided by the polar star, to overcome the family’s fate.
Glorious Revolution
In 2014, at the height of the Ukrainian revolution, a mother loses her son who is killed while protesting in Independence Square. Her attempt to bury him as a hero clashes with a corrupt bureaucratic system, testing her view of Ukraine.
Our Brothers
Inspired by the story of Malik Oussekine, an affair of police violence which is believed to have caused the death of 22-year-old Malik Oussekine on the night of 5-6 December 1986, following several weeks of student protests against a university reform bill
Gérard Philipe, le dernier hiver du Cid
An adaptation of Jérôme Garcin’s novel Le dernier hiver du cid, this documentary built exclusively on archive footage and a delicate story telling style will permit a Cannes style celebration of Gerard Philipe’s 100th birthday anniversary. He will also be coming back to the Croisette through the screening of Fanfan la tulipe.
MumLife
Sarah, a first-time mother, is struggling to connect with her newborn baby and is pushed to her limits when she discovers a surprise birthday party has been organised for her 30th by her insta famous bestie.
Ecstasy Behind the Forgotten
August internalizes the relationship that his best friend Wren shares with his girlfriend Julia as a direct, personal attack to him and his identity. Due to the fact that August is not getting the same amount of attention and affection that he is used to from Wren, he goes behind Wren's back to manipulate Julia.
Romy, A Free Woman
Romy Schneider has been En Compétition ever since 1957 with Sissi, before coming back to the Croisette multiple times, notably for Claude Sautet’s Les Choses de la vie. This exceptional documentary recounts her illustrious career with passion and dedication.
We Are Not There Tomorrow
Sometimes in our life we meet someone who see the world in a different way and is able to change our perception. This is the situation that happens for the characters of my film, when they unexpectedly met.
The Potemkinists
The film written and directed by Radu Jude starts from the gesture of defiance against Russia made in 1905 by the sailors on the cruiser Potemkin, who received political asylum in Romania. In 2021, a sculptor (played by Alexander Dabija) is trying to make a work inspired by this event.
More Than Ever
A woman with a severe illness rejects a possible cure and decides to go to Norway to spent there her last days.
Tori and Lokita
In modern Belgium, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the cruel conditions of their exile.
R.M.N.
The story follows Matthias, who returns before Christmas from working abroad to his native multi-ethnic mountain village in Transylvania. He is worried about the education his son Rudi has been receiving from his mother, Ana. He also needs to check on his old father Otto, and yearns to see his ex-lover Csilla again. He finds his boy and the village under the shadow of a strange irrational fear and unsettlement. When the factory that Csilla manages hires foreign workers, deep-rooted impulses and resentments emerge, conflicts and emotions erupt and the veneer of peace in the community is shattered.
Mother and Son
A family chronicle spanning 30 years (1989 to 2010 to be precise). At the end of the 1980s, a woman arrived from Africa and settled in the Paris suburbs with her two sons. From this installation to the present day, construction and deconstruction of an ordinary family.
Les Pires
The story centres on a group of teenagers street cast in their neighbourhood and selected to play in a feature film during the summer. The film tells the story of this film shoot and of the connections that will be formed during it.
The Vagabonds
A middle-aged woman with a preference for younger partners, mainly men in their 20s, searches for a genuine human connection while faced with societal double standards, prejudice and toxic masculinity.
You Can Say It
A New York fashion student meets with a new counselor in her hometown to navigate her recent and emotionally complex experience with sexual assault.
Love According to Dalva
Although Dalva is 12, she dresses, wears make-up and lives like a woman. One evening, she’s suddenly taken away from a father’s house. Dumbfounded and outraged at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with a temper. A new life seems to start for Dalva, that of a girl her age.
Aribada
The magical, the dreamlike and the performative coexist in the particular world of trans women from an Embera community in the Coffee Axis. An aesthetic and conceptual universe with a particular stamp in which documentary and fiction are indistinct palettes to draw the struggle to maintain the indigenous essence that defines them as human beings.
Alma Viva
Like every summer, little Salomé returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains for the holidays. As the vacations begin in a carefree atmosphere, her beloved grandmother suddenly dies. While the adults are tearing each other apart over the funeral, Salomé is haunted by the spirit of the one who was considered a witch.
I Didn't Make It to Love Her
Through a photographic narrative, this film presents texts of Bosnian poet Marko Tomaš. Marko and Maja are moving flats in Sarajevo. Maja's depression turns Marko's struggle into poetry, and played on the radio, Marko’s poems become the last bridge of communication between them
Magdala
Since the death of Jesus, Mary Magdalene has withdrawn from the world. Her hair has turned white, she eats berries, drinks water from the rain and sleeps among the trees. Alone in the heart of the forest, she remembers her lost love. She looks for a way to find him.
La Colline
A hill in Kyrgyzstan inhabited by men, women, some children. Smoke, birds, a waste dump like a Leviathan. Among them, a traumatized former soldier, a grieving mother, young people deprived of a future, living and facing their destiny.
Imagine
Night in Tehran. A daydreaming cab driver falls in love with a woman he can’t have, leaving to a series of encounters, filled with mystery and playful moments.
Decision to Leave
Hae-Joon, a seasoned detective, investigates the suspicious death of a man on a mountaintop. Soon, he begins to suspect Seo-rae, the deceased's wife, while being unsettled by his attraction to her.
Holy Spider
A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called 'Spider Killer', who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
Eo
The story of a donkey named Baltazar, beginning in a Polish circus and ending in an Italian slaughterhouse, is a bitter but also warmly humanist paraphrase of a "road movie". It is a panopticon of human behaviour towards a defenceless animal, a suggestive picture of social relations and cultural changes taking place in the modern world.
Harka
A modern day parable about resistance, the film centers on the story of Ali, a young Tunisian who dreams of a better life, making a precarious living selling contraband gas at the local black market. When his father suddenly dies, he’s forced to take charge of his two younger sisters and their impending eviction.