Films

A breath of fresh air for Iranian cinema: Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi’s debut feature transforms from a portrait of Tehran’s young generation into an intense drama about two brothers who share an intimate bond.

Sophie Marceau, armed with bow and arrow: the competitive archer and police inspector Juliane resorts to drastic means when she discovers her husband’s infidelity. A Hitchcockian homage full of surprises.

A few years after the Arab Spring, the Tunisian capital is shaken by the discovery of mysterious burn victims. A beautifully shot, stirring crime drama that brings together politics and the supernatural.

An orphan boy’s experience of puberty and the slow realization that his new foster family harbors a dark secret. A film like a timeless painting, poetic and harrowing.

Just wait, I’ll show you all! In this coming-of-age film, a stubborn 13-year-old refuses to give up his dreams of soccer – despite injury, setbacks and the misgivings of others.

Guilty or innocent? This is much more than a question for the court. Superbly photographed political cinema, revolving around an unforgettable protagonist.

Clare of Assisi is both a saint and a revolutionary: she prays and fights for her freedom, for recognition by the pope and for the rights of women. And she works miracles!

A 13-year-old girl, her devastating loss, and how humor can help her cope. Here’s a poignant film about grieving, directed with much sensitivity towards its characters.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Christoph Waltz meets Willem Dafoe meets Benjamin Bratt – a star-studded, suspense-filled neo-Western from veteran director Walter Hill.

On the art of infidelity and misunderstandings involving sex and passion. A romantic film to love and fall in love with.

Magic, mysticism, superstition, and youthful romanticism. ›El Agua‹ explores the myths of femininity and, in doing so, paints a portrait of a region caught between a lack of perspective and a desire for change.

The dreams and scars of a generation: a dozen theatre students devote themselves entirely to the stage – and to life. With far-reaching consequences.

Who’s cooler, Mahatma Gandhi or an ordinary superhero? It’s difficult to know for two rascally boys who must first learn an important lesson: real strength doesn’t come from violence, but from truth and good deeds.

A social portrait without kitsch or false dreariness, Céline Sciamma’s third feature tells the story of a gang of girls in a Parisian banlieu.

Film highlights by young women directors from the last five editions of the GIRLS GO MOVIE short film festival.

Anna fights back! The loving mother and doctor stands up against a society that doesn’t care about morality and justice. A sensitive portrait and psychological study of Ukraine before the war.

They loved each other, they beat each other – this dense Costa Rican drama portrays a fascinating and conflicted daughter-father relationship. Winner of three prizes at the Locarno Film Festival.

›Joyland‹ immerses us into the nightlife of Lahore, where repressed desires shake the foundations of rigid societal conventions.

The gifted Iranian director Saeed Roustaee crafts a sympathetic portrait of a woman and her dramatic struggle for her family’s future, which is thwarted by patriarchal traditions and a Donald Trump tweet.

In Gaspar Noé’s autobiographically tinged, sexually explicit 3-D flick called ›Love‹, desire and the fear of losing someone meet a love supreme.

The rise and fall of King Ludwig II, directed by the great Italian master as an opulent costume drama. The uncut version is shown in its brand-new restoration.

Julián, a young video game designer, is jolted out of his routine and seclusion after a fire breaks out in the apartment next door. Considered and perceptive, ›Manticore‹ explores the extremes of the human psyche.

What does it mean for someone to flee, start anew, adopt a new culture, and have to fear losing everything all over again? These are the issues addressed in this moving and honest film.

The call center employee Sohee commits a desperate act. When the police start investigating, they dig up a tightly woven network of social violence.

“Vegetables are my meat” is the motto of this wonderfully animated puppet movie. A pig can’t get any cuter than this, and a car chase could hardly be more exciting.

Sally Potter’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando” is a uniquely enigmatic work. Starring Tilda Swinton in the role of the androgynous poet.

Pure cinema. Film as trance. Bodies and movement, bodies in movement – majestically captured by a camera. Albert Serra breaks the boundaries of conventional narrative cinema. Beautiful.

When teenage Lea meets a much older man, he seems to be the solution to all of her problems. But things are not as she thinks.

Shot in 1944 during the German occupation, ›Falbalas‹ is one of the most beautiful films ever made about the work of a fashion designer, as well as an invaluable document of its era.

A silver lining to trauma: how can one remember, process, and even emerge from an assassination attempt more compassionate than before? A powerful film about what happens after – from the winner of the Grand IFFMH Award 2022.

Peter Weir’s poetic horror film. A sensual and mystical masterpiece that ushered in a new era of Australian cinema. Shown in its restored version.

The ultimate filmic definition of camp: James Bidgood’s sensual and erotic queer cinema masterpiece about a young man and his sexual fantasies.

A thoroughly original space drama about an astronaut’s pain of separation. From this year’s Grand IFFMH Award winner – starring Eva Green, Lars Eidinger, and Matt Dillon.

The aftermath of a mental breakdown – in this emotional film, a woman casts a disillusioned look back at her glamorous life as a model.

At the centre of Lola Quivoron’s visionary debut is a young woman, as strong as she is headstrong, amid the male-dominated world of French biker gangs.

A young man gradually succumbs to the darkness of his mind – but his brother and mother won’t think of giving up on him. One of the best films of the year!

A riotous adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play, this queer cult film, brimming with glamorous costumes, has influenced generations of filmmakers.

Getting inside someone else’s skin. An exciting, fantastic love story about the nature of interpersonal relationships.

A charming charlatan is supposedly able to contact the dead. But suddenly he’s involved in a death himself. An atmospherically dense thriller and a portrait of a Parisian neighborhood.

Cult film, exploitation and insanely clever critique of the media: Harmony Korine’s most successful film owes much to Benoît Debie’s camerawork.

A head full of boys and dreams, a life full of obstacles. ›Stella in Love‹ conjures 1980s France in a melancholic coming-of-age story with an atmospheric mixtape soundtrack.

An island serves as the setting for mystical rituals. ›Stone Turtle‹ tells of a woman’s quest for justice in a Malaysia where past and future are intertwined.

A sensitive film about an Indigenous girl living at Lake Titicaca, featuring a charismatic actress gorgeously photographed in front of breathtaking scenery.

A marriage, a house, and the sadness that both can carry. A sensitive portrait of a woman and her exhausting search for a place in a world dominated by men.

Spectacular performance-driven cinema that raises a burning question: Is it possible to escape a cycle of violence? The suspense never lets up in this nerve-racking psychological thriller.

A fashion designer abuses her assistant and yearns for the love of a young woman. One of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s most beautiful films.

In northern Sudan, on the banks of the Nile, men earn their bread with arduous seasonal work. While mass protests rage in the rest of the country, here a destructive force of a very different kind is growing.

The Moomins are back! And this time they embark on a fanciful, carefree journey through Moominvalley. By the end, we know one thing for sure: we will all eventually find our way.

In order to rob a rich heiress, the pickpocket Sook-hee poses as a maid. Park Chan-wook tells this erotic love story as a thriller.

Two teenage boys on skateboards romp through a no man’s land of forests, ruins, rivers, and railroads. Only one of them returns. Contemporary American independent cinema at its best!

Every detective has a case that won’t let them go and hurts more than all the others. This thrillingly realized and superbly acted crime film revolves around such a case.

A baby at all costs? Childless Anna, in any case, is willing to risk everything. A moving drama that pushes its characters to the limits of law and morality, and beyond.

The story of the suicide of five sisters. Sofia Coppola’s debut feature made a lasting impression on the US cinema of the 1990s.

Gossip and scandal in New York: a biting social satire with an all-female cast, and a milestone of Hollywood cinema.

›Apocalypse Now‹ meets ›Bambi‹: this animated mêlée of blood, guts and dayglow colours pits teddy bears and unicorns, of all things, against each other and really lets it rip.

The reluctant bride: director Michal Vinik tells the story of an intimate sisterhood and an Israeli-Ukrainian emancipation.

The daughter of a famous actor performing as the daughter of a famous actor. Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel playfully integrate biographical material into a fictional story.

Emmanuelle Béart and Rufus Sewell are a couple searching for their missing son. Risking everything, they venture into the jungles of Myanmar.

The legendary Filipino director Lav Diaz follows two dirty cops into the depths of the brutal era of the Duterte presidency.

Lust for life and adventure. With fantastic actors alongside Juliette Binoche and the exceptionally talented Paul Kircher, Christophe Honoré’s family drama tells of loss and new beginnings.

To break free in order to live – this feature debut, as visually powerful as it is emotionally charged, surveys how the society of an island of the Azores becomes a prison for its queer protagonists.

A witch makes a great humane decision! Goran Stolevski’s debut feature is a symphonically composed and poetic masterpiece with echoes of Terrence Malick.