Film-Forward

Foreign

Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

It features a winning and touching comic performance by Academy Award nominee Rinko Kikuchi (Babel).

Filipiñana

A day in which nothing happens transitions to one in which a great deal happens, wrapped up in a quietly terrifying manner.

Sheep in the Box

Director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest offering could hardly feel less Hollywood in either spirit or execution.

Camp

Shot in Alberta at the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, writer-director Avalon Fast creates a dreamy atmosphere of witchcraft afoot within a tranquil summer camp.

Forastera

A peculiar and unclassifiable ghost story, delightfully subversive in the way it unfolds under bright summer sunlight, in wide-open and illuminated spaces.

Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2026

Four women directors deliver singular films—these works are eye-openers, and each brings a strong point of view.

Silent Friend

Ildikó Enyedi places a ginkgo tree at the center of her new film, as a silent witness to the passing of time.

The Last One for the Road

A woozy road movie, a wistful sketch of an Italy fallen from grace, and a wry comedy.