Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a biographical drama film about the famous jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. 

Set in the remote highlands of Montenegro, this year’s Sundance World Documentary Prize winner reflects on the fragile coexistence between ancestral knowledge and the growing pressures of the contemporary world.

Weaving together oral histories, archaeological field notes, regional legends, poetry, and song, Maureen Fazendeiro's The Seasons is a remarkable portrait of the Alentejo region of Portugal, its people, and its stories.

Filmed by William Greaves in 1972 and completed by his son David 50 years later, this is a rapturous love letter to the Harlem Renaissance.

A new feature debut from Sudanese-Russian filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani explores the legacy of colonialism and the fight for self-determination through the tender eyes of a teenage girl.

Featuring a vibrant lead performance, this gripping realist drama, set in a lawless town on the Bulgaria-Turkey border, exudes an atmosphere of danger and paranoia.

Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon) returns to the silver screen with Her Private Hell. As a strange mist unleashes an elusive darkness, a young actress (Sophie Thatcher) and an American GI (Charles Melton) find their lives intertwined in a hypnotic, neon-drenched moodscape where memory, reality, and survival collide. 

In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, Michael Almereyda (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) came up with a moody, postmodern reimagining of the Dracula myth which draws inspiration from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja. 

Playing versions of themselves as the central protagonists, Hoda Taheri and Boris Hadžija make a daring debut: a witty, irreverent and politically astute portrait of lives shaped by the search for belonging.

The film collective Cosmic Salon (Jack Auen and Kevin Walker) make their beguiling and assured feature debut, guiding us through hidden histories and uncanny landscapes of belief, mystery and the unknown.

Weaving together oral histories, archaeological field notes, regional legends, poetry, and song, Maureen Fazendeiro's The Seasons is a remarkable portrait of the Alentejo region of Portugal, its people, and its stories.

The improbable life of French poet Arthur Rimbaud unfolds with all the shock and playfulness of his poetry.

Infused with gentle humour and profound humanity, Sompot Chidgasornpongse’s fiction debut presents a serene passage through family, faith and the cycles of life.

Beatrice Gibson’s feature directorial debut is a luminous nocturne, evocatively capturing the streets of Paris over the course of a single night on 16mm.

A new feature debut from Sudanese-Russian filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani explores the legacy of colonialism and the fight for self-determination through the tender eyes of a teenage girl.

In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, Michael Almereyda (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) came up with a moody, postmodern reimagining of the Dracula myth which draws inspiration from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja. 

Shaped by the tidal rhythms of British Columbia’s oyster farms, this richly cinematic documentary, shot on 35mm, exists where labour, scientific inquiry and the living world meet.

Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a biographical drama film about the famous jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. 

FBI criminal profiler Will Graham is called out of early retirement to assist on a deadly case involving a murderer known as the “Tooth Fairy.” After enlisting the help of imprisoned serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, Graham and the FBI are soon entangled in a menacing cat-and-mouse game.

Weaving together oral histories, archaeological field notes, regional legends, poetry, and song, Maureen Fazendeiro's The Seasons is a remarkable portrait of the Alentejo region of Portugal, its people, and its stories.

In his striking feature debut, long-time Bad Bunny collaborator Stillz captures an intimate, formally daring portrait of Colombia's forgotten youth. Barrio Triste is heightened by a restless, intense debut score from Arca, whose fluid soundscapes anchor the film's vision. Navigating the thin line between desperation and the supernatural, Stillz delivers a beautiful, unclassifiable piece of contemporary cinema.

In this striking British feature debut, a young man living in supported accommodation tries to juggle his musical aspirations and mental health issues.

In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, Michael Almereyda (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) came up with a moody, postmodern reimagining of the Dracula myth which draws inspiration from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja. 

Leonardo Pirondi’s timely reflection on ecological collapse imagines a future in which a biodome spaceship preserves the last traces of life on Earth.

Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon) returns to the silver screen with Her Private Hell. As a strange mist unleashes an elusive darkness, a young actress (Sophie Thatcher) and an American GI (Charles Melton) find their lives intertwined in a hypnotic, neon-drenched moodscape where memory, reality, and survival collide. 

Framed as a cinematic letter to the late Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab, this evocative and timely work reanimates Saab’s 16mm archive as a living space of dialogue and political imagination.

Winner of the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival 2026, Queen at Sea is a riveting drama which poses challenging and heartwrenching questions about care, choice and ageing. Amanda and her stepfather, Martin, struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda’s mother, Leslie, who is suffering from advanced dementia, lost the ability to make critical decisions in her own best interests? And, if so, who is responsible – a spouse, a child, an institution – for making such a determination?

Willem Defoe plays Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, who is sought out by a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius. Kent Jones's thoughtful, witty film is a wistful yet unromantic look at a lost idea of downtown New York.

In Remake, filmmaker Ross McElwee turns his lens on the passage of time and the uneasy space between documenting life and understanding it. The film traces McElwee’s relationship with his son Adrian, and the fragile bond the camera created between them while Adrian was alive, and now that he’s gone.

Master of archival film reconstruction, Sergei Loznitsa, reframes Soviet history once again via the revealing gaze of Italian cameramen who captured life there in the early 1970s.

A new feature debut from Sudanese-Russian filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani explores the legacy of colonialism and the fight for self-determination through the tender eyes of a teenage girl.

Contending with oppression, violence, and dispossession, these four works embody acts of defiance and solidarity; some enacted up close, others from afar. As images narrow the gaps, kinships are formed.

In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, Michael Almereyda (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) came up with a moody, postmodern reimagining of the Dracula myth which draws inspiration from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja. 

Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon) returns to the silver screen with Her Private Hell. As a strange mist unleashes an elusive darkness, a young actress (Sophie Thatcher) and an American GI (Charles Melton) find their lives intertwined in a hypnotic, neon-drenched moodscape where memory, reality, and survival collide. 

Discovering a cache of Super 8 home movies and photographs following the death of his grandmother, Chilean filmmaker Rafael Guendelman embarks on a personal journey through his family’s intertwined political histories.

The second part of Julia Loktev’s epic documentary, detailing the persecution of journalists in Russia, follows her brave protagonists’ escape abroad following the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Willem Defoe plays Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, who is sought out by a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius. Kent Jones's thoughtful, witty film is a wistful yet unromantic look at a lost idea of downtown New York.

In Remake, filmmaker Ross McElwee turns his lens on the passage of time and the uneasy space between documenting life and understanding it. The film traces McElwee’s relationship with his son Adrian, and the fragile bond the camera created between them while Adrian was alive, and now that he’s gone.

In his striking feature debut, long-time Bad Bunny collaborator Stillz captures an intimate, formally daring portrait of Colombia's forgotten youth. Barrio Triste is heightened by a restless, intense debut score from Arca, whose fluid soundscapes anchor the film's vision. Navigating the thin line between desperation and the supernatural, Stillz delivers a beautiful, unclassifiable piece of contemporary cinema.

A new feature debut from Sudanese-Russian filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani explores the legacy of colonialism and the fight for self-determination through the tender eyes of a teenage girl.

Sekja, an ageing and charismatic Korean trans burlesque star, is front and centre in this glorious film about life.

In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, Michael Almereyda (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) came up with a moody, postmodern reimagining of the Dracula myth which draws inspiration from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja. 

Revolution is the beat that drums through this electrifying story about the landmark case against the Bradford 12.

Winner of the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival 2026, Queen at Sea is a riveting drama which poses challenging and heartwrenching questions about care, choice and ageing. Amanda and her stepfather, Martin, struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda’s mother, Leslie, who is suffering from advanced dementia, lost the ability to make critical decisions in her own best interests? And, if so, who is responsible – a spouse, a child, an institution – for making such a determination?

FBI criminal profiler Will Graham is called out of early retirement to assist on a deadly case involving a murderer known as the “Tooth Fairy.” After enlisting the help of imprisoned serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, Graham and the FBI are soon entangled in a menacing cat-and-mouse game.

The improbable life of French poet Arthur Rimbaud unfolds with all the shock and playfulness of his poetry.

Iranian director Mohsen Amiryousefi discusses his eventful career with the Angel of Death in this hilarious cinematic autofiction about the highs and lows of radical filmmaking.

Resisting the enduring legacies of colonial violence and honoring those who continue to gather, speak and dream, these films transform acts of remembrance into radical forms of reclamation, solidarity and world-making.

In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, Michael Almereyda (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) came up with a moody, postmodern reimagining of the Dracula myth which draws inspiration from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja. 

These films invite reflection on places that remember, histories that persist, and cinema’s role in unearthing hidden relationships between ecology, extractive capitalism and collective survival.

Willem Defoe plays Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, who is sought out by a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius. Kent Jones's thoughtful, witty film is a wistful yet unromantic look at a lost idea of downtown New York.

The new film by Alain Gomis is a formally inventive, politically attuned meditation on the enduring ties of the African diaspora, and the meaning of family and community.

A woman (Juliette Lewis) swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair in a surreal, deadpan comedy from director Amanda Kramer.

Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Nolitha Refilwe Mkulisi’s debut feature – a tender love letter to Tapoleng, her hometown in South Africa – offers an intimate evocation of a community in transition.

Set against the backdrop of mass protests in Paris, Case 137 follows Stéphanie, a meticulous internal affairs investigator working on the case of a teenager severely wounded by police fire. As she searches for the truth her inquiry collides with institutional resistance and pressure mounts as the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.

Hanabi is a visceral cinematic adaptation of Yoko Hayasuke’s Journal of a Radioactive Brain, written in the aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and nuclear disaster.