Festival films 49th edition in theatres

Holy Spider is both a thriller in which a serial killer is chased by a journalist, and a merciless dissection of Iran, the homeland of director Ali Abbasi (Gräns).

A singing crocodile that loves baths and caviar proves to be a delightful protagonist in this warm family film with music by the duo that wrote the songs for La La Land and The Greatest Showman.

Lukas Dhont's sophomore feature (after Girl) is a sensitive and empathic look at a friendship between two thirteen-year-old boys. Fragile, deeply moving Belgian cinema that was awarded the Grand Prix in Cannes.

In Drii Winter, Michael Koch swaps the metropolitan misery from his lauded debut Marija for an idyllic romance in the mountains. Or so it seems anyway.

Just before the iconic Chelsea Hotel gets a thorough facelift, documentary makers Maya Duverdier and Amélie van Elmbt delve into the past of this symbol of sixties counterculture.

The international press proclaimed Leila's Brothers the best film of Cannes 2022. Through the ups and downs of a family, director Saeed Roustayi paints a staggering portrait of Iranian society.

In her feature debut Rodéo, Lola Quivoron follows a young woman who makes many in the Parisian motorcross scene bite the dust.

Birta is an eleven-year-old girl with a very big heart and a great desire for Christmas. Together with her little sister, she tries to help her mum with her financial problems in this heart-tugging adventure. But how do you earn money as an eleven-year-old?

Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell star as sweet and tender young cannibal lovers in this finger-lickin-good 80s set road movie from Luca Guadagnino.

Ten years after Ulrich Seidl zoomed in on a seaside resort in Kenya with Paradies: Liebe, the Austrian filmmaker focuses on an Italian resort in Rimini.

John le Carré is never far away in this political thriller about a venerable Islamic institution in Cairo where a young student loses his innocence with the snap of a finger. Boy from Heaven won the award for Best Screenplay in Cannes.

A testament to the power of investigative journalism, She Said is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigation by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey and Rebecca Corbett and the New York Times bestseller She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite ...

Phyllis Nagy, screenwriter of Carol, makes her directorial debut with a stylish period drama about 'the Janes', a Chicago women's collective that performed safe abortions.

In Cow, Andrea Arnold not only paints an intimate close-up of hows cows are being completly drained, she also catches a glimp of how they look at the world.

Quentin Dupieux proves once again that you don't need a lot of time, money or a complex story to make a unique, entertaining film. His latest is a parody within a parody starring a kitschy superhero team.

In the profound human comedy Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, filmmaker Sophie Hyde and actress Emma Thompson explore the mystery of female pleasure.

After 3 Days in Quiberon, about a deteriorating Romy Schneider, the French-Iranian filmmaker Emily Atef again refuses to shy away from uncomfortable questions and the confrontation with death. With More Than Ever, she tells the story of a dying young woman, starring Vicky Krieps ...

Documentary filmmaker Alice Diop makes her fiction debut with Saint Omer. By far the most exciting courtroom drama in years.

Part summer idyll about first love, part ghostly youth film, the directorial debut of Canadian actress Charlotte Le Bon is an equally sweet and unheimlich story about the emotional growing pains of young adolescents.

Marie Kreutzer frees Empress Elisabeth of Austria literally and figuratively from her historical straightjacket in Corsage, which shows the oppressive life of an older Sisi.

In the war film Devotion, J.D. Dillard shows the forgotten Korean War (1950 - 1953) through the eyes of a black American pilot and his wingman.

The first Pakistani film ever to be screened in the Official Selection of Cannes, Saim Sadiq's debut Joyland is about a man who falls in love with a trans woman.

A Japanese classic with a British bowler hat. Director Oliver Hermanus (Skoonheid, Moffie) remakes Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru, telling the story of an ageing civil servant fighting in his final days for a small victory over the bureaucracy of existence.

Oscar winner Martin McDonagh ships the team from In Bruges to his homeland Ireland for The Banshees of Inisherin. Set against the beautiful landscape, a tragicomic character study unfolds about the rift between two old friends.

Freedom under Ceauşescu’s despotic regime is a thing of the past. Younger generations live in great uncertainty about their future. Alexandru Belc's fiction debut follows seventeen-year-old Ana, who is dragged into a totalitarian nightmare after she gathers with friends to ...

In her semi-autobiographical Golden Bear winner Alcarràs, Catalan filmmaker Carla Simón shares the joys and sorrows of a family of peach farmers. Together they have to face the uncertain future of their traditional way of life.

In Un petit frère, Léonor Serraille follows a single mother and her two sons who leave Ivory Coast for Paris in the late 1980s.

With Echo Ruben Desiere offers a surprising glimpse into the training of Belgian soldiers, who are subjected to almost theatrical role-plays and the authority of an amiable commander.

Mascha Halberstad's first stop-motion feature – the first ever from the Netherlands – contains as much charm as silicone poo, and puts an innocent piglet in the midst of a sausage competition. After Babe, Piglet and Gunda ... Meet Oink.

After The Father, a compelling portrait of dementia, Florian Zeller now adapts the second part of his trilogy about a father a mother and a son for the big screen.

The pen of director Sam Mendes and the brush of his chief of photography Roger Deakins conjure up a profoundly human ode to love and cinema.

Kristoffer Bergli serves us a hilariously infuriating character that perhaps really embodies Joachim Trier's film title "the worst person in the world". Behind the narcissism, the tragicomedy and the beats of body horror, lurks a lonely young woman who's obsessed with the image ...

Director-screenwirter Valentina Maurel makes her debut with the feverish Tengo sueños eléctricos, in which a daughter and father can only cry out their fierce love for each other. The film won the prizes for best actor, actress and direction at the film festival of Locarno.

For his debut The Quiet Girl, Irish filmmaker Colm Bairéad moulds a short story by Caire Keegan into a tender coming-of-age film.

The impact of war on ordinary civilians is powerfully portrayed in Klondike, a look at life in Donbass in 2014, following the seizure of power by Russian-backed insurgents.