Film-Forward

Festivals

100,000,000,000,000, When the Phone Rang, Windless | First Look 2025

The festival takes viewers to glitzy, gaudy Monaco; the former Yugoslavia; and a rapidly changing Bulgarian village.

Elementary, Songs of Slow Burning Earth, Zodiac Killer Project | First Look 2025

The annual series includes a vital historical document, a playful twist of the true-crime genre, and an engaging film that might make you feel hopeful for the future.

This Life of Mine, Visiting Hours, Winter in Sokcho | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2025

It wouldn’t be a French film festival without Isabelle Huppert, and she arrives this year in Patricia Mazuy’s Visiting Hours.

And Their Children After Them, The Quiet Son, The Second Act, Souleymane’s Story | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2025

Four recommendations for this must-see annual festival.

Three Friends | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2025

Sara Forestier, left, and Camille Cottin in Three Friends (Sebastien Fouque/Film At

Emmanuel Mouret’s, sharply written, breezy, and engaging chamber piece opened the annual festival.

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Another cracking movie that delivers on the thrills, twists, and cheeky British humor one would expect from an Aardman Animations production.

September 5

The tragic events of the 1972 Munich Olympic games, told from the perspective of ABC Sports’ control room.

Endless Summer Syndrome

The tense thriller explores the hidden truths beneath the surface of a seemingly placid, affluent family.

The Return

Uberto Pasolini’s retelling of The Odyssey rewards viewers with profound psychological depth and the electrifying chemistry of Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche.