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Foreign

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.

Who by Fire

A reunion rife with old grievances and new tensions, often exploding around a dining room table.

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.