Opening Film (In competition)
Jacques Audiard
Overqualified and undervalued, Rita is a lawyer at a large firm that is more interested in getting criminals off the hook than bringing them to justice. One day, she is given an unexpected way out when cartel leader Manitas hires her to help him withdraw from his business and realize a plan he has been secretly preparing for years: to become the woman he has always dreamt of being.
Closing film out of competition
Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi
Based on true events, Marco explores the story of a concentration camp deportee who never existed. Enric Marco, an immensely charismatic man who, for years, was able to maintain, before public opinion and his own family, a deeply complex lie: that he had been a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. A man who rose to the presidency of the Spanish Association of Holocaust Victims, who became a prominent and admired figure for his supposed bravery and suffering. Until one day, a historian discovered that his survival story was, in fact, a complete lie.
Walter Salles
Brazil, 1971. A country in the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence.
Payal Kapadia
France - India - Netherlands - Luxembourg
117 min.
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.
Sean Baker
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
Petra Costa
Hordes of evangelists pray for Jesus to intervene, while in Amazonia thousands of COVID victims are buried in mass graves. A wave of Bolsonaro supporters storms the headquarters of the three powers demanding military intervention. The televangelists promise wealth and happiness in this world, provided that their followers help them to take power. In Apocalypse in the Tropics we see a Brazil ripe for falling to pieces in the name of faith.
Andrea Arnold
Twelve-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids and Bailey, who is approaching puberty, seeks attention and adventure elsewhere.
Mohammad Rasoulof
Iran - Germany - France
168 min.
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.
Emmanuel Courcol
Thibaut is an internationally renowned conductor who travels the world. When he learns he was adopted, he discovers the existence of a younger brother, Jimmy, who works in a school cafeteria and plays the trombone in a small marching band. Everything seems to set them apart, except their love of music.
Tom Volf, Yannis Dimolitsas
France - Italy - Greece
73 min.
An intimate journey through the life of the legendary soprano Maria Callas, portrayed by Monica Bellucci. Through never-before-seen memoirs, letters, and exclusive footage, Callas opens up about her modest childhood in New York to the zenith of her global career. Surrounded by spectral memories of her past, we discover the woman behind the icon, bridging the gap between her public and private personas. A timeless homage to an enduring legend.
Not in competition
Francis Ford Coppola
New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina, a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare.
Adam Elliot
In 1970s Australia, Grace's life is troubled by misfortune and loss. When her family unit falls to pieces and she is separated from her twin brother, Gilbert, she turns to hoarding ornamental snails to ease her loneliness. Grace finds hope when she strikes up a friendship with an elderly eccentric woman called Pinky, who gives her the courage to come out of her shell and step away from the things that overcrowd her home and her mind.
Paul Schrader
Oh Canada is the story of Leonard Fife, an exile who fled to Canada during the Vietnam War. In the winter of his life, Fife gives a final interview to one of his former students to tell the whole truth about his life. A confession filmed in front of his wife. Based on the text by Russell Banks, the film explores the life of an erratic and cowardly man who sought refuge in Canada without political intentions. Schrader weaves a tale of memory and repentance, reflecting errors of the past and the desire for redemption.
Paolo Sorrentino
The long journey of Parthenope’s life, from her birth in 1950 till today. A feminine epic, devoid of heroism but brimming with an inexorable passion for freedom, Naples, and the faces of love, all those true, pointless, and unspeakable loves. The perfect Capri summer, the lightheartedness of youth, which ends in ambush. And then all the others: the Neapolitans, men and women, observed and loved, disillusioned and vital, their waves of melancholy, their tragic ironies.
Coralie Fargeat
"You, only better in every way". That's the promise of The Substance, a revolutionary cell-replicating product that creates a younger, more beautiful, more perfect version of yourself.
Chris Sanders
An epic adventure from DreamWorks Animation follows the journey of a robot who is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive mother of an orphaned gosling.
Not in competition
Hong Sangsoo
Iris, a mysterious traveller, wanders around in the outskirts of Seoul. There she convinces a series of people to receive French classes using a method as unorthodox as it is seductive, despite her lack of experience. Between walks in the park and bottles of makgeolli rice wine, Iris soon feels like one of the family. With a straw hat, floral dress and green cardigan, her carefree character adopts an aura of trust, fun and learning that leads to hilarious moments sparked by her cheek and the odd misunderstanding.