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Alpha

Julia Ducournau follows her Palme d’Or-winning Titane with this powerful family drama starring Tahar Rahim and Golshifteh Farahani.

Anemone

Marking the highly anticipated return to the screen of Daniel Day-Lewis, Anemone is a vivid exploration of family ties.

The Assistant

Celebrated visual artists and filmmaking duo Wilhelm and Anka Sasnal adapt Robert Walser’s novel about an unskilled clerk serving a disgraced inventor.

Blue Heron

In Sophy Romvari’s lyrical debut, a Hungarian-Canadian family’s lives are rocked when their move to a seemingly idyllic new house sees their eldest child displaying erratic behaviour.

The Chronology of Water

Based on writer and educator Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoirs, Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut is an uncompromising depiction of love, trauma and artistic self-expression.

The Devil Smokes (and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box)

Ernesto Martínez Bucio’s audacious debut finds five children deposited in the chaotic and ramshackle home of their eccentric and emotionally absent grandmother.

Dreams

From Mexican director Michel Franco comes a chilling drama about the underbelly of philanthropy, where the assuaging of guilt is compromised by sexual desire.

Dry Leaf

Alexandre Koberidze returns with a mesmerising, enchanting and singular work that ponders life’s most mysterious force: spontaneity.

The Fence

French maestro Claire Denis’ taut chamber piece simmers with dark secrets and emotional tensions in its portrait of a community suffocating from the relentless grip of colonialism.

Good Boy

Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough excel in Jan Komasa’s dark, gripping and twisted thriller, where breaking the rules results in severe consequences.

Hamlet

Following their Academy Award-winning collaboration The Long Goodbye, Riz Ahmed and director Aneil Karia reunite for this bold Shakespearian adaptation, set in contemporary London.

The Ice Tower

Marion Cotillard brings a thrilling magnetism to the screen for this snowbound tale of obsession and wish fulfilment between an actress and a young runaway.

Lady

Sian Clifford gives a larger-than-life performance as a narcissistic aristocrat who hires a struggling filmmaker to record her every move, in Samuel Abrahams’ eccentric mockumentary.

Magellan

A large-scale historical epic, this is a stunningly executed political work that retains Lav Diaz’s key characteristics while offering broader appeal.

Memory of Princess Mumbi

Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker Damien Hauser returns with this dazzling vision of a futuristic Swahili AI kingdom.

Short Summer

In Nastia Korkia’s striking narrative feature debut, the vast Russian countryside is a young girl’s playground, even as the Chechen war threatens to disrupt her rural idyll.

Sirât

Oliver Laxe’s Cannes winner distils a cinematic reverence for the sacred through a landscape simultaneously scarred and sustained by sound.

Sound of Falling

The lives and eras of four young women echo in the walls of a rural German farmhouse, in this ethereal and kaleidoscopic portrait of womanhood.

Straight Circle

Tensions escalate between two opposing soldiers manning a remote desert outpost, in award-winning director Oscar Hudson’s blackly comic and surreal feature debut.