Film-Forward

Foreign

Wild Diamond

First-time director Agathe Riedinger’s gives us a glimpse into an influencer’s world—a callous yet naive place with its own fickle rules.

Kill the Jockey

A sports-mafia drama and an Almodóvar–esque tragicomedy.

Meeting with Pol Pot

Two journalists and one academic from France receive, and accept, an invitation to interview the notorious dictator.

Sex

The trilogy “Love, Sex and Dreams” is shaping up as this summer’s most sophisticated cinephile secret.

Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2025

Director Ferzan Özpetek and actor Toni Servillo are back in the annual showcase.

Ghost Trail

Restraint here is powerful and multifaceted and dramatically effective, signaling terrors rather than drowning us in them.

Love

A careful observer of human nature, Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud’s script is filled with experiences deeply specific to a time and place, yet universally relatable.

When Fall Is Coming

With an all-around excellent cast, prolific French director François Ozon has crafted an intriguing puzzler.

Viet and Nam

Audacious, expressionistic, and evocative, Viet and Nam blends a secret romance between two young male coal miners with reverberations of the historic past.