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Monday 12/ 1 High schooler Max Goof pines for his classmate Roxanne and is desperate for her to notice him. With the help of his friends P.J. and Bobby, Max turns a routine school assembly into a rambunctious concert where he lip syncs and dances as everyone’s favorite...  [RASHŌMON] [羅生門] The murder of a man and the rape of his wife in a forest grove are seen from four different perspectives. Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Akira Kurosawa’s meditation on the nature of “truth” transformed narrative cinema as we know...  “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night!” zings Bette Davis in her most iconic role, first lady of the theater Margo Channing. But it is Margo who gets bumped, by her duplicitous protégée, the ambitious Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), a young starlet...  Jack Nicholson made his rogue/antihero reputation with the role of Randle P. McMurphy, who rallies his fellow psychiatric ward inmates against the authoritarianism of Louise Fletcher’s Nurse Ratched (#5 on AFI's 100 Years…100 Heroes and Villains). The film was only the second movie to win...  “Attica! Attica!” Sidney Lumet’s ultimate exercise in realism was based on a real-life, only-in-New York incident. Amateur criminal Sonny (Al Pacino) and his accomplice, Sal (John Cazale), find their planned bank robbery quickly spiraling beyond their control into a hostage situation and media frenzy. As... | Tuesday 12/ 2 There is no better time to revisit this timeless classic, filled with enduring songs and enchanting imagery, than on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. Cinderella is forced to live in squalor as a servant for her cruel stepmother and stepsisters. When the King invites...  Notable for writer and director Stanley Kubrick's painstaking evocation of 18th-century life, including the nighttime scenes illuminated only by candlelight, this film is a must-see on the big screen. In one of his best performances, 1970s heartthrob Ryan O’Neal plays callow striver Redmond Barry, a...  “Lions and tigers and bears. Oh my!” Judy Garland stars as Dorothy, the lonely dreamer from Kansas who runs away with her dog Toto and is transported over the rainbow to the magical Land of Oz, where she makes an enemy of the Wicked Witch... [RASHŌMON] [羅生門] The murder of a man and the rape of his wife in a forest grove are seen from four different perspectives. Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Akira Kurosawa’s meditation on the nature of “truth” transformed narrative cinema as we know...  “It doesn’t suck.” Paul Verhoeven’s so-bad-it’s-good strippungsroman (alternatively, a knowing Hollywood satire; ALL ABOUT EVE set among exotic dancers) had a difficult commercial release. Savaged by mainstream critics, and to date the only NC-17 rated film to be released widely, it underachieved at the box... | Wednesday 12/ 3High schooler Max Goof pines for his classmate Roxanne and is desperate for her to notice him. With the help of his friends P.J. and Bobby, Max turns a routine school assembly into a rambunctious concert where he lip syncs and dances as everyone’s favorite... [RASHŌMON] [羅生門] The murder of a man and the rape of his wife in a forest grove are seen from four different perspectives. Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Akira Kurosawa’s meditation on the nature of “truth” transformed narrative cinema as we know...  Set in 1930s Austria, THE SOUND OF MUSIC — one of the most successful and best-loved movies in motion picture history — tells the story of Maria (Julie Andrews), a young novitiate who leaves her convent to work as a governess to a large family...  Filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino reunites with actor Toni Servillo in this parable-like tale of parliamentary politics and difficult decisions. Servillo, who previously starred for Sorrentino in ONE MAN UP, THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE, IL DIVO, THE GREAT BEAUTY, LORO and THE HAND OF GOD, here plays...  An American in Vienna, Lucius (Willem Dafoe) has managed the famed Hotel InterContinental for 30 years, but the once-luxurious accommodation has seen better days. For Lucius, though, it is more than just a hotel or a job — it is his whole identity. He obsesses... | Thursday 12/ 4 In their fourth collaboration to date, filmmaker Christian Petzold and actress Paula Beer forge an enigmatic depiction of haunting loss and mysterious connection. After surviving a car crash that kills her boyfriend, Laura (Beer), a music student at university, is taken in by Betty (Barbara...  [PIKAD PABERID] In this stoner comedy for the Letterboxd era, Estonian filmmaker Meel Paliale mines Gen Z ennui to craft a fresh, authentic portrait of a generation left adrift by the modern age. Aimless 20-something Sebastian (Mihkel Kuusk) works a dead-end job at a convenience...  [ÁSTIN SEM EFTIR ER] Against the backdrop of Iceland’s magnificent landscape — a rugged island filled with winding roads amidst a majestic tundra — a marriage falls apart, threatening to fracture a loving family. Fisherman Magnús (Sverrir Guðnason) has just moved out of the house... | Friday 12/ 5Filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino reunites with actor Toni Servillo in this parable-like tale of parliamentary politics and difficult decisions. Servillo, who previously starred for Sorrentino in ONE MAN UP, THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE, IL DIVO, THE GREAT BEAUTY, LORO and THE HAND OF GOD, here plays...  Winner of both the Tiger Award and the FIPRESCI Prize at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival, Croatian director Igor Bezinović’s inventive hybrid documentary reenacts scenes from Gabriele D’Annunzio’s siege and occupation of the Adriatic seaport of Fiume (now Croatia’s Rijeka) in the aftermath of World...  [ON VOUS CROIT] Tensions rise and family secrets unravel over the course of a crucial day in first-time directing duo Charlotte Devillers and Arnaud Dufeys’ astutely layered, gripping courtroom drama. Myriem Akheddiou, frequent collaborator with the Dardennes (THE KID WITH A BIKE, YOUNG AHMED), gives...  One of the most buzzed-about movies at Cannes, SIRÂT is a bombastic edge-of-your-seat thrill ride whose shocking twists and turns reverberate long after the credits roll. Luis (Sergi López, PAN’S LABYRINTH) is a devoted father desperately searching for his missing daughter amid the underground rave... [ÁSTIN SEM EFTIR ER] Against the backdrop of Iceland’s magnificent landscape — a rugged island filled with winding roads amidst a majestic tundra — a marriage falls apart, threatening to fracture a loving family. Fisherman Magnús (Sverrir Guðnason) has just moved out of the house... An American in Vienna, Lucius (Willem Dafoe) has managed the famed Hotel InterContinental for 30 years, but the once-luxurious accommodation has seen better days. For Lucius, though, it is more than just a hotel or a job — it is his whole identity. He obsesses... | Saturday 12/ 6 In Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s (THE WOMAN WHO LEFT, AFI FEST 2016) gorgeously mounted anti-colonial epic, Gael García Bernal stars as infamous Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan. After the brutal conquest of Malacca in 1511, Magellan returns to Europe poised to continue his expeditions but finds... [ON VOUS CROIT] Tensions rise and family secrets unravel over the course of a crucial day in first-time directing duo Charlotte Devillers and Arnaud Dufeys’ astutely layered, gripping courtroom drama. Myriem Akheddiou, frequent collaborator with the Dardennes (THE KID WITH A BIKE, YOUNG AHMED), gives... Winner of both the Tiger Award and the FIPRESCI Prize at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival, Croatian director Igor Bezinović’s inventive hybrid documentary reenacts scenes from Gabriele D’Annunzio’s siege and occupation of the Adriatic seaport of Fiume (now Croatia’s Rijeka) in the aftermath of World... In their fourth collaboration to date, filmmaker Christian Petzold and actress Paula Beer forge an enigmatic depiction of haunting loss and mysterious connection. After surviving a car crash that kills her boyfriend, Laura (Beer), a music student at university, is taken in by Betty (Barbara...  [IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN] Winner of the Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, German director Mascha Schilinski’s (DARK BLUE GIRL) stunning sophomore feature is a hypnotic, time-traversing portrait of four generations of women living in the same isolated German farmhouse over the course...  [RIETLAND] In a quiet rural community in the Dutch lowlands, hardened widower Johan (Gerrit Knobbe) clings to a quiet existence caring for his granddaughter and harvesting the reeds from his marshy property. But when he discovers the discarded body of a young girl nestled in...  Winner of Berlin’s Golden Bear for ALCARRÀS (AFI FEST 2022), acclaimed Spanish auteur Carla Simón made her Cannes competition debut with this brilliant, deeply personal meditation on identity, memory and family. With a digital camcorder in hand, 18-year-old Marina (Llúcia Garcia) arrives in the glittering...  Jodie Foster impresses in a prickly, funny performance — in French! — as an expat American psychologist living and working in Paris who suspects foul play when her longtime client apparently commits suicide. Foster stars as Dr. Lilian Steiner, an accomplished mental health professional who...  [SVEČIAS] Lithuanian cinematographer Vytautas Katkus, whose short films have screened in competition at the Cannes and Venice film festivals, makes his feature directorial debut with this poignant meditation on loneliness and reconciliation. After welcoming a newborn baby in Norway with his Norwegian wife, Rita (Hanne...  [DOSSIER 137] In this gripping and quietly explosive policier, Stéphanie (a riveting Léa Drucker) is a Paris-based investigator for France’s internal affairs unit — tasked with holding officers accountable in a system built to protect its own. Navigating a fraught terrain of institutional silence and... | |
Sunday 12/ 7 [SOTTO LE NUVOLE] Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, documentary master Gianfrano Rosi’s (SACRO GRA, FIRE AT SEA) new film explores the city and surroundings of Naples, Italy, a place where thousands of years of history echo and resonate for...  In 1975, legendary jazz pianist Keith Jarrett performed a historic concert at the Opera House in Köln, West Germany. Recorded and released as a live album, it became the best-selling solo album in jazz history and the best-selling piano album ever — a monumental achievement...  [SEHNSUCHT IN SANGERHAUSEN] An ethereal, intoxicating comedy, Julian Radlmaier’s fifth feature is as light as a summer breeze, but its simple pleasures hide profound truths about the ghosts of the past and the mysteries of the present. In the sleepy East German village of Sangerhausen,...  [KAJ TI JE DEKLICA] Goaded by her religious mother, introverted teen Lucija (Jara Sofija Ostan) joins her Catholic school’s all-girls choir. She slowly acclimates to the workload while also navigating complex teenage social dynamics and her budding sexual yearnings, and she is soon taken under...  Tarik Saleh’s latest film completes his Cairo trilogy, which includes 2017’s dirty cop thriller THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT (which won the Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic) and 2022’s exposé of murderous clerical corruption, CAIRO CONSPIRACY (awarded Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival)....  Greek billionaire Marcos Timoleon (Willem Dafoe) has everything that money can buy, including his own private island on which he is hosting a 25th birthday party for his daughter, Sofia (Vic Carmen Sonne, THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE). The one thing his money cannot afford...  [100 LITRAA SAHTIA] Descended from a family of expert brewers, sisters Pirkko and Taina constantly ferment and taste their sahti, a traditional farmhouse-style ale, in hopes of achieving the “perfect 10” batch. But their uninhibited lifestyle has worn thin the patience of their small town....  Testing the limits of good taste, Romanian provocateur Radu Jude turns the legend of Dracula on its head with this visionary, metatextual reimagining of the world’s most famous vampire. With a bad case of writer’s block, a young Romanian filmmaker turns to AI to come... In Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s (THE WOMAN WHO LEFT, AFI FEST 2016) gorgeously mounted anti-colonial epic, Gael García Bernal stars as infamous Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan. After the brutal conquest of Malacca in 1511, Magellan returns to Europe poised to continue his expeditions but finds... | Monday 12/ 8In 1975, legendary jazz pianist Keith Jarrett performed a historic concert at the Opera House in Köln, West Germany. Recorded and released as a live album, it became the best-selling solo album in jazz history and the best-selling piano album ever — a monumental achievement... [KAJ TI JE DEKLICA] Goaded by her religious mother, introverted teen Lucija (Jara Sofija Ostan) joins her Catholic school’s all-girls choir. She slowly acclimates to the workload while also navigating complex teenage social dynamics and her budding sexual yearnings, and she is soon taken under... [IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN] Winner of the Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, German director Mascha Schilinski’s (DARK BLUE GIRL) stunning sophomore feature is a hypnotic, time-traversing portrait of four generations of women living in the same isolated German farmhouse over the course... Winner of Berlin’s Golden Bear for ALCARRÀS (AFI FEST 2022), acclaimed Spanish auteur Carla Simón made her Cannes competition debut with this brilliant, deeply personal meditation on identity, memory and family. With a digital camcorder in hand, 18-year-old Marina (Llúcia Garcia) arrives in the glittering... Tarik Saleh’s latest film completes his Cairo trilogy, which includes 2017’s dirty cop thriller THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT (which won the Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic) and 2022’s exposé of murderous clerical corruption, CAIRO CONSPIRACY (awarded Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival).... | Tuesday 12/ 9Testing the limits of good taste, Romanian provocateur Radu Jude turns the legend of Dracula on its head with this visionary, metatextual reimagining of the world’s most famous vampire. With a bad case of writer’s block, a young Romanian filmmaker turns to AI to come... [DOSSIER 137] In this gripping and quietly explosive policier, Stéphanie (a riveting Léa Drucker) is a Paris-based investigator for France’s internal affairs unit — tasked with holding officers accountable in a system built to protect its own. Navigating a fraught terrain of institutional silence and...  [PIETINIA KRONIKAS] Lithuania’s highest grossing film ever is an endearing coming-of-age tale set in Lithuania in the early 1990s, just after the country gained independence from the Soviet Union. Big, brawny working-class teen Rimantas (Džiugas Grinys) spends his days planning get-rich schemes with his best... [RIETLAND] In a quiet rural community in the Dutch lowlands, hardened widower Johan (Gerrit Knobbe) clings to a quiet existence caring for his granddaughter and harvesting the reeds from his marshy property. But when he discovers the discarded body of a young girl nestled in... [IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN] Winner of the Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, German director Mascha Schilinski’s (DARK BLUE GIRL) stunning sophomore feature is a hypnotic, time-traversing portrait of four generations of women living in the same isolated German farmhouse over the course... [SEHNSUCHT IN SANGERHAUSEN] An ethereal, intoxicating comedy, Julian Radlmaier’s fifth feature is as light as a summer breeze, but its simple pleasures hide profound truths about the ghosts of the past and the mysteries of the present. In the sleepy East German village of Sangerhausen,... | Wednesday 12/ 10[ÁSTIN SEM EFTIR ER] Against the backdrop of Iceland’s magnificent landscape — a rugged island filled with winding roads amidst a majestic tundra — a marriage falls apart, threatening to fracture a loving family. Fisherman Magnús (Sverrir Guðnason) has just moved out of the house... In Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s (THE WOMAN WHO LEFT, AFI FEST 2016) gorgeously mounted anti-colonial epic, Gael García Bernal stars as infamous Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan. After the brutal conquest of Malacca in 1511, Magellan returns to Europe poised to continue his expeditions but finds...  [JEUNES MÈRES] From celebrated Belgian auteurs Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne comes a deeply compassionate and finely observed feature that continues the Dardennes’ mastery of empathetic, socially engaged cinema. Widening their signature lens to encompass a multi-character story, YOUNG MOTHERS focuses on a quintet of teenage... Winner of Berlin’s Golden Bear for ALCARRÀS (AFI FEST 2022), acclaimed Spanish auteur Carla Simón made her Cannes competition debut with this brilliant, deeply personal meditation on identity, memory and family. With a digital camcorder in hand, 18-year-old Marina (Llúcia Garcia) arrives in the glittering...  Agnieszka Holland delves into the strange-but-true life story of Franz Kafka, the son of a bourgeois Jewish Prague family, who, rather than follow in his father’s footsteps as a merchant, wrote some of the early 20th century’s most surreal short stories and novels, modern fables... [SOTTO LE NUVOLE] Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, documentary master Gianfrano Rosi’s (SACRO GRA, FIRE AT SEA) new film explores the city and surroundings of Naples, Italy, a place where thousands of years of history echo and resonate for... [PIKAD PABERID] In this stoner comedy for the Letterboxd era, Estonian filmmaker Meel Paliale mines Gen Z ennui to craft a fresh, authentic portrait of a generation left adrift by the modern age. Aimless 20-something Sebastian (Mihkel Kuusk) works a dead-end job at a convenience... | Thursday 12/ 11Agnieszka Holland delves into the strange-but-true life story of Franz Kafka, the son of a bourgeois Jewish Prague family, who, rather than follow in his father’s footsteps as a merchant, wrote some of the early 20th century’s most surreal short stories and novels, modern fables... [SVEČIAS] Lithuanian cinematographer Vytautas Katkus, whose short films have screened in competition at the Cannes and Venice film festivals, makes his feature directorial debut with this poignant meditation on loneliness and reconciliation. After welcoming a newborn baby in Norway with his Norwegian wife, Rita (Hanne... Jodie Foster impresses in a prickly, funny performance — in French! — as an expat American psychologist living and working in Paris who suspects foul play when her longtime client apparently commits suicide. Foster stars as Dr. Lilian Steiner, an accomplished mental health professional who... In their fourth collaboration to date, filmmaker Christian Petzold and actress Paula Beer forge an enigmatic depiction of haunting loss and mysterious connection. After surviving a car crash that kills her boyfriend, Laura (Beer), a music student at university, is taken in by Betty (Barbara... Testing the limits of good taste, Romanian provocateur Radu Jude turns the legend of Dracula on its head with this visionary, metatextual reimagining of the world’s most famous vampire. With a bad case of writer’s block, a young Romanian filmmaker turns to AI to come... [KAJ TI JE DEKLICA] Goaded by her religious mother, introverted teen Lucija (Jara Sofija Ostan) joins her Catholic school’s all-girls choir. She slowly acclimates to the workload while also navigating complex teenage social dynamics and her budding sexual yearnings, and she is soon taken under... | Friday 12/ 12[SOTTO LE NUVOLE] Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, documentary master Gianfrano Rosi’s (SACRO GRA, FIRE AT SEA) new film explores the city and surroundings of Naples, Italy, a place where thousands of years of history echo and resonate for...  Dr. Maurizio Bini is a healthcare provider in Milan, Italy, whose congenial demeanor stands in contrast to the heated rhetoric often used to discuss his clinic’s specialties: in vitro fertilization and gender-affirming care. Through a cinema vérité approach, documentary filmmaker Gianluca Matarrese follows the day-to-day...  [HORS D’HALEINE] Covered in bruises and having just discovered she is pregnant, Emma (Carla Juri, WETLANDS) finds herself in the hospital, afraid to return home to her husband. The nurses suspect domestic violence — a charge Emma herself is not comfortable accepting — and gently...  [RADĚJI ZEŠÍLET V DIVOČINĚ] Nestled within the verdant woods of the Šumava forest, eccentric and inseparable twins František and Ondrej Klišík live a harmonious life secluded from the clamor of civilization. Their daily routine includes soothing naps inside a hollowed-out tree trunk, leisurely nude arm-wrestling,...  Radu Jude won the Best Screenplay award at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival for this scabrous black comedy about a guilt-wracked civil servant who attempts to clear her conscience but instead discovers that guilt is only a relative concept in contemporary Romania. Distraught over an...  Austrian director Johanna Moder (HIGH PERFORMANCE, ONCE WERE REBELS) delivers a darkly humorous take on the horrors of motherhood with this taut psychological thriller exploring the unsettling edges of the postpartum experience. When Julia (Marie Leuenberger), a successful orchestra conductor in her 40s, conceives a... Greek billionaire Marcos Timoleon (Willem Dafoe) has everything that money can buy, including his own private island on which he is hosting a 25th birthday party for his daughter, Sofia (Vic Carmen Sonne, THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE). The one thing his money cannot afford... | Saturday 12/ 13 [MARCEL ET MONSIEUR PAGNOL] Sylvain Chomet, an Oscar® nominee for THE OLD LADY AND THE PIGEONS, THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE and THE ILLUSIONIST, returns with his first animated feature in 15 years. As with THE ILLUSIONIST, which was based on an unproduced autobiographical screenplay by...  In the first flushes of the COVID-19 pandemic, Iva toils away in a Bulgarian clothing factory, working under inhumane conditions. With cases rising in Sofia, employees are already required to wear a mask at work, but when Iva starts to feel under the weather, she... [JEUNES MÈRES] From celebrated Belgian auteurs Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne comes a deeply compassionate and finely observed feature that continues the Dardennes’ mastery of empathetic, socially engaged cinema. Widening their signature lens to encompass a multi-character story, YOUNG MOTHERS focuses on a quintet of teenage...  Eighty-year-old María (Almodóvar muse Carmen Maura, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN) is a lifelong resident of Tangier, where she lives a full life, not anywhere close to slowing down, as part of a dwindling but vibrant community of Spanish expats. She has...  With her career on life support and her savings decimated by the end of World War I, legendary Italian actress Eleonora Duse (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, LIKE CRAZY) is at a crossroads. Her overlooked daughter Enrichetta (Noémie Merlant, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE) rushes to...  [CILDENIE] Anna, a renowned German organist, is contemplating having a baby with her husband, Andris, a Latvian businessman. Arriving back in Latvia for a birthday weekend celebration with friends and family, Anna finds her picturesque life swiftly upended when Andris is arrested at the airport...  [EL CAUTIVO] Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Alejandro Amenábar (THE OTHERS, THE SEA INSIDE) reimagines the imprisonment of “Don Quixote” author Miguel de Cervantes as a swashbuckling epic adventure filled with daring escapes, emotional betrayals and secret romances. In 1575, young Spanish soldier Cervantes (Julio Peña Fernández)...  Set in 1937 at the peak of Josef Stalin’s Great Purge — yet chillingly relevant today — Sergei Loznitsa’s dark parable of tyranny is based on a novella by the dissident writer and scientist Georgy Demidov, who was himself imprisoned for nearly 20 years. Against...  [DEN SIDSTE VIKING] In a last-ditch effort to save a bank heist gone wrong, Anker (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) leaves the loot with his brother Manfred (Mads Mikkelsen) and asks him to hide it until he gets out of prison. Fifteen years later, Anker is ready... Austrian director Johanna Moder (HIGH PERFORMANCE, ONCE WERE REBELS) delivers a darkly humorous take on the horrors of motherhood with this taut psychological thriller exploring the unsettling edges of the postpartum experience. When Julia (Marie Leuenberger), a successful orchestra conductor in her 40s, conceives a... |
Sunday 12/ 14Dr. Maurizio Bini is a healthcare provider in Milan, Italy, whose congenial demeanor stands in contrast to the heated rhetoric often used to discuss his clinic’s specialties: in vitro fertilization and gender-affirming care. Through a cinema vérité approach, documentary filmmaker Gianluca Matarrese follows the day-to-day...  For over a century, a ginkgo tree, standing sentinel in the garden of Philipps University of Marburg in Germany, experiences its surroundings — but how and what it experiences is a mystery. Every day, students, professors and staff pass by the tree, graze its bark,... [HORS D’HALEINE] Covered in bruises and having just discovered she is pregnant, Emma (Carla Juri, WETLANDS) finds herself in the hospital, afraid to return home to her husband. The nurses suspect domestic violence — a charge Emma herself is not comfortable accepting — and gently...  [OTEC] As a high-powered executive and family man, Michal’s (Milan Ondrík) mind is on autopilot as he goes for his morning run, showers off and gets ready to go to work. This ordinary routine is thrown slightly off course when his wife, Zuzka (Dominika Morávková)...  [L’INCONNU DE LA GRANDE ARCHE] Continuing the tradition of films about obsessive architects, Stéphane Demoustier’s THE GREAT ARCH follows the true story of Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, an idealistic and little-known Dane whose design proposal was the surprise winner of a prestigious 1980s international competition...  [ΣΜΑΡΑΓΔΑ] Former children’s television host Smaragda has fallen on tough times. Money troubles loom as she is saddled with debt from the cost of treatment for her late mother’s degenerative eye condition, one that Smaragda herself might be inheriting. After her pitch for a new... Eighty-year-old María (Almodóvar muse Carmen Maura, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN) is a lifelong resident of Tangier, where she lives a full life, not anywhere close to slowing down, as part of a dwindling but vibrant community of Spanish expats. She has...  A chance encounter reunites Charlotte and Jessica, two old friends who have not seen each other in years. Dragging their unenthused husbands along, they gather for dinner and drinks. But it quickly becomes apparent that the husbands are at odds — one a boastful capitalist,... [EL CAUTIVO] Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Alejandro Amenábar (THE OTHERS, THE SEA INSIDE) reimagines the imprisonment of “Don Quixote” author Miguel de Cervantes as a swashbuckling epic adventure filled with daring escapes, emotional betrayals and secret romances. In 1575, young Spanish soldier Cervantes (Julio Peña Fernández)... | Monday 12/ 15[ΣΜΑΡΑΓΔΑ] Former children’s television host Smaragda has fallen on tough times. Money troubles loom as she is saddled with debt from the cost of treatment for her late mother’s degenerative eye condition, one that Smaragda herself might be inheriting. After her pitch for a new... Radu Jude won the Best Screenplay award at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival for this scabrous black comedy about a guilt-wracked civil servant who attempts to clear her conscience but instead discovers that guilt is only a relative concept in contemporary Romania. Distraught over an...  Jen (Natasha O’Keeffe) is a fierce park ranger who oversees a dense, wild patch of forest in southern Ireland, protecting it from encroaching poachers attempting to evade her watchful eye and hunt the woodland creatures inside. When her old boyfriend, Oscar (Aaron McCusker), returns to... [MARCEL ET MONSIEUR PAGNOL] Sylvain Chomet, an Oscar® nominee for THE OLD LADY AND THE PIGEONS, THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE and THE ILLUSIONIST, returns with his first animated feature in 15 years. As with THE ILLUSIONIST, which was based on an unproduced autobiographical screenplay by... [OTEC] As a high-powered executive and family man, Michal’s (Milan Ondrík) mind is on autopilot as he goes for his morning run, showers off and gets ready to go to work. This ordinary routine is thrown slightly off course when his wife, Zuzka (Dominika Morávková)... Eighty-year-old María (Almodóvar muse Carmen Maura, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN) is a lifelong resident of Tangier, where she lives a full life, not anywhere close to slowing down, as part of a dwindling but vibrant community of Spanish expats. She has... | Tuesday 12/ 16With her career on life support and her savings decimated by the end of World War I, legendary Italian actress Eleonora Duse (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, LIKE CRAZY) is at a crossroads. Her overlooked daughter Enrichetta (Noémie Merlant, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE) rushes to... A chance encounter reunites Charlotte and Jessica, two old friends who have not seen each other in years. Dragging their unenthused husbands along, they gather for dinner and drinks. But it quickly becomes apparent that the husbands are at odds — one a boastful capitalist,...  Set in the sun-bleached purgatory of a Fuerteventura resort, German filmmaker Jan-Ole Gerster’s (COFFEE IN BERLIN) ISLANDS is a slinky neo-noir that simmers with unspoken tension and veiled intentions, channeling everything from THE PASSENGER and WHITE LOTUS to CHALLENGERS and THE SWIMMING POOL. Sam Riley... [DEN SIDSTE VIKING] In a last-ditch effort to save a bank heist gone wrong, Anker (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) leaves the loot with his brother Manfred (Mads Mikkelsen) and asks him to hide it until he gets out of prison. Fifteen years later, Anker is ready...  On the brink of the next decade in her life, 29-year-old Ilona (Žygimantė Elena Jakštaitė) moves into a charming flat in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, with her boyfriend, Matas (Šarūnas Zenkevičius). The new abode marks a turning point for Ilona; now that her relationship...  Nanning (Jasper Billerbeck) is a kindhearted 12-year-old who enjoys exploring the beautiful North Sea island of Amrum where he lives with his high-strung mother, Hille (Laura Tonke), and pragmatic Aunt Ena (Lisa Hagmeister). After Hille gives birth to a baby brother, she refuses to eat... | Wednesday 12/ 17[DEN SIDSTE VIKING] In a last-ditch effort to save a bank heist gone wrong, Anker (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) leaves the loot with his brother Manfred (Mads Mikkelsen) and asks him to hide it until he gets out of prison. Fifteen years later, Anker is ready... For over a century, a ginkgo tree, standing sentinel in the garden of Philipps University of Marburg in Germany, experiences its surroundings — but how and what it experiences is a mystery. Every day, students, professors and staff pass by the tree, graze its bark,... Set in 1937 at the peak of Josef Stalin’s Great Purge — yet chillingly relevant today — Sergei Loznitsa’s dark parable of tyranny is based on a novella by the dissident writer and scientist Georgy Demidov, who was himself imprisoned for nearly 20 years. Against...  [صوت هند رجب] On January 29, 2024, five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab and six members of her family attempted to flee to safety during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military shelled and shot at the fleeing vehicle, killing Hind’s family and... In the first flushes of the COVID-19 pandemic, Iva toils away in a Bulgarian clothing factory, working under inhumane conditions. With cases rising in Sofia, employees are already required to wear a mask at work, but when Iva starts to feel under the weather, she... Austrian director Johanna Moder (HIGH PERFORMANCE, ONCE WERE REBELS) delivers a darkly humorous take on the horrors of motherhood with this taut psychological thriller exploring the unsettling edges of the postpartum experience. When Julia (Marie Leuenberger), a successful orchestra conductor in her 40s, conceives a... | Thursday 12/ 18Set in 1937 at the peak of Josef Stalin’s Great Purge — yet chillingly relevant today — Sergei Loznitsa’s dark parable of tyranny is based on a novella by the dissident writer and scientist Georgy Demidov, who was himself imprisoned for nearly 20 years. Against... Radu Jude won the Best Screenplay award at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival for this scabrous black comedy about a guilt-wracked civil servant who attempts to clear her conscience but instead discovers that guilt is only a relative concept in contemporary Romania. Distraught over an...  [SBORMISTR] Inspired by the real-life Bambini di Praga scandal that occurred in the Czech Republic in the 1990s, BROKEN VOICES is a delicate and emotional drama about abuse of power and loss of innocence. Thirteen-year-old Karolína (an impressive Kateřina Falbrová in her debut) joins a... [100 LITRAA SAHTIA] Descended from a family of expert brewers, sisters Pirkko and Taina constantly ferment and taste their sahti, a traditional farmhouse-style ale, in hopes of achieving the “perfect 10” batch. But their uninhibited lifestyle has worn thin the patience of their small town....  [L'ÉTRANGER] François Ozon brings Albert Camus’ acclaimed 1942 novel to the big screen as a sun-baked, black-and-white neo-noir, a potent blend of psychological thriller and anti-colonial critique. The film opens with a vintage travelogue inviting tourists to visit Algeria, then under French control, playing up...  [CHIEN 51] In the year 2045, the grand city of Paris has been subdivided into three class-based zones guarded by military checkpoints and monitored by the omnipresent AI ALMA. When ALMA’s creator is mysteriously murdered, a pair of cops — elite agent Sala (Adèle Exarchopoulos)... [CILDENIE] Anna, a renowned German organist, is contemplating having a baby with her husband, Andris, a Latvian businessman. Arriving back in Latvia for a birthday weekend celebration with friends and family, Anna finds her picturesque life swiftly upended when Andris is arrested at the airport... [L’INCONNU DE LA GRANDE ARCHE] Continuing the tradition of films about obsessive architects, Stéphane Demoustier’s THE GREAT ARCH follows the true story of Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, an idealistic and little-known Dane whose design proposal was the surprise winner of a prestigious 1980s international competition... | Friday 12/ 19 [SORDA] Winner of the Panorama Audience Award at this year’s Berlinale, Eva Libertad’s solo feature debut, adapted from her own short film, is a warm and honest portrayal of a deaf woman’s relationship with motherhood. Ángela (deaf actor Miriam Garlo, Libertad’s sister) is expecting a...  [ÁRVA] László Nemes, an Oscar® winner for 2015’s SON OF SAUL, returns with another trenchant exploration of Hungary’s 20th century history, this time set in 1957, just one year after the USSR brutally suppressed the Hungarian Uprising. Andor (Bojtorján Barabas) desperately longs for the return... | Saturday 12/ 20[DOSSIER 137] In this gripping and quietly explosive policier, Stéphanie (a riveting Léa Drucker) is a Paris-based investigator for France’s internal affairs unit — tasked with holding officers accountable in a system built to protect its own. Navigating a fraught terrain of institutional silence and... Nanning (Jasper Billerbeck) is a kindhearted 12-year-old who enjoys exploring the beautiful North Sea island of Amrum where he lives with his high-strung mother, Hille (Laura Tonke), and pragmatic Aunt Ena (Lisa Hagmeister). After Hille gives birth to a baby brother, she refuses to eat... [L'ÉTRANGER] François Ozon brings Albert Camus’ acclaimed 1942 novel to the big screen as a sun-baked, black-and-white neo-noir, a potent blend of psychological thriller and anti-colonial critique. The film opens with a vintage travelogue inviting tourists to visit Algeria, then under French control, playing up...  [LA VENUE DE L'AVENIR] Celebrated French filmmaker Cédric Klapisch (L'AUBERGE ESPAGNOLE) returns with this sweeping period piece following country mouse Adèle (Suzanne Lindon, SPRING BLOSSOM) as she journeys to turn-of-the-century Paris in hopes of finding her parents. En route, she meets Lucien (Vassili Schneider, THE... Set in the sun-bleached purgatory of a Fuerteventura resort, German filmmaker Jan-Ole Gerster’s (COFFEE IN BERLIN) ISLANDS is a slinky neo-noir that simmers with unspoken tension and veiled intentions, channeling everything from THE PASSENGER and WHITE LOTUS to CHALLENGERS and THE SWIMMING POOL. Sam Riley... |
Sunday 12/ 21On the brink of the next decade in her life, 29-year-old Ilona (Žygimantė Elena Jakštaitė) moves into a charming flat in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, with her boyfriend, Matas (Šarūnas Zenkevičius). The new abode marks a turning point for Ilona; now that her relationship... [SORDA] Winner of the Panorama Audience Award at this year’s Berlinale, Eva Libertad’s solo feature debut, adapted from her own short film, is a warm and honest portrayal of a deaf woman’s relationship with motherhood. Ángela (deaf actor Miriam Garlo, Libertad’s sister) is expecting a...  With her wildly ambitious third feature — a colonial-era musical about the rise of the Shaker movement spanning 30 years — filmmaker Mona Fastvold (co-writer of THE BRUTALIST) crafts a lyrical and visually arresting portrait of one of early America’s most enigmatic spiritual figures and... [SBORMISTR] Inspired by the real-life Bambini di Praga scandal that occurred in the Czech Republic in the 1990s, BROKEN VOICES is a delicate and emotional drama about abuse of power and loss of innocence. Thirteen-year-old Karolína (an impressive Kateřina Falbrová in her debut) joins a... Jen (Natasha O’Keeffe) is a fierce park ranger who oversees a dense, wild patch of forest in southern Ireland, protecting it from encroaching poachers attempting to evade her watchful eye and hunt the woodland creatures inside. When her old boyfriend, Oscar (Aaron McCusker), returns to... | Monday 12/ 22 | Tuesday 12/ 23 | Wednesday 12/ 24 | Thursday 12/ 25 | Friday 12/ 26 | Saturday 12/ 27 |
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