Discovery

Drifter

In a forgotten desert town, a solitary racetrack janitor with a gift for drifting is haunted by his tragic past. Given a single chance to compete at a pro drifting event, he discovers his raw talent is useless without the one thing he's always avoided: connection with others. Under a hardened mentor, he must learn to trust his found family and transform his untamed, lonely art into a dangerous dance of partnership, or be consumed and controlled by the past he's desperate to escape.

• Sung KangDirector
• Sung Kang
• Shane Johnson
• Gregory Cruz
• Tamara Braun
• McCaleb Burnett

Magazine

A young intern faces intoxicating power dynamics at a prestigious New York City literary magazine.

• AAlexandra PechmanDirector
• AnnaSophia Robb
• Jake Lacy
• Daniel Zolghadri
• Iris Apatow
• Lukita Maxwell

Purgatory

In the early 1980s, 13-year-old Beatrice Gravel's comfortable world—family, school, and church—fractures when her mother moves out to 'self actualize', leaving Beatrice and her younger sister Chloe with their devastated father. As Beatrice doubles down on a plan to 'fix' her family, she barrels through bullies, friendship blowups, a make-out party, and a kleptomaniac babysitter—forcing her to decide who she wants to be when she can’t get what she wants.

• Lindsay LanzillottaDirector
• J.K. Simmons
• John Reynolds
• Abby Elliott
• Mary Walsh
• Julianne Arrieta

Seventeen

Set over the course of seventeen hours, the lives of three Indigenous sex workers intersect through chance, relation, and the shared experience of familial and colonial displacement.

• JJustin DucharmeDirector
• Kaniehtiio Horn
• Ray G. Thunderchild
• Mathias Retamal
• Renae Morriseau
• Shannon Baker

Ancestors

1988. Dreams, memories and history collide as a young man searches for his missing friend.

• DDavid TurpinDirector
• Rupert Everett
• Christina Hendricks
• Éanna Hardwicke
• Jack Wolfe
• Jessica Reynolds

I Am Mario

Mario is a trans taxi driver who gets pregnant. He has the possibility of fulfilling his desire to become a father, but this confronts him with his expectations regarding his masculinity. Before exposing himself to a "macho" and prejudice-filled society, he must face himself.

• Sharon KleinbergDirector
• Hector Kotsifakis
• Fermín Martínez
• Kristyan Ferrer
• Mayra Batalla
• Mercedes Hernández

Voices

A group of college besties find their way through adult life with the help of a strange ability: to hear each other's inner voices. When a long-estranged friend invites the others to a housewarming party, simmering tensions between them come to the surface, and supernatural machinations are revealed.

• DDeanté GrayDirector
• Myhraliza Aala
• Tyler Ham Pong
• Rachel Appelbaum
• James Lontayao
• Cynthia San Luis

The Daughters of Abraham

After several years apart, Myriam, a young woman from a Muslim background who grew up in Marseille, reconnects with Eva, who comes from a Jewish family, during the summer vacation. Together, they live out their youth outside the imposed norms. But this carefree summer begins to unravel when a tragedy upends the balance of their social and family circles—and soon, their own destinies.

• HHanaël El YousfiDirector
• Younes Bouab
• Syrus Shahidi
• Melissa Guers
• Ava Baya
• Bilel Chegrani

Krux

In a German village near war's end, women struggle to maintain normalcy as corpses appear along the river. When ordered to leave no Germans alive for arriving Russians, villagers face brutal choices about survival and humanity.

• TTony VahlDirector
• Clemens Schick
• Martin Wuttke
• Jella Haase
• Lukas Miko
• Frida Lovisa Hamann

A Common Story

Erika and Mauro live in the province, living a simple life made up of reassuring habits and small gestures. When their daughter Irene leaves to study abroad, the house empties, and the balance on which the couple has built their existence seems to be shaken.

• Anna FogliettaDirector
• Alba Rohrwacher
• Guido Caprino
• Elio De Capitani
• Caterina Casini

Stuffed

Araminta, a brooding taxidermist whose secret ambition is to stuff a human specimen, meets Bernie, a lonely man so afraid of being forgotten that he volunteers himself, their pact unexpectedly evolves into a haunting romance.

• TTheo RhysDirector
• Harry Melling
• Jodie Comer

Strong Son

A dedicated South Asian bodybuilder returns home to care for his aging father, juggling his own well-being with the demands of care-giving. He strives to balance personal goals and filial duty in this touching exploration of family bonds.

• IIan BawaDirector
• Erik Athavale
• Onalee Ames
• Michaela Kurimsky

Salvation

• TTom NicollDirector
• Stephen McMillan
• Kathleen McDermott
• Conor McCarron
• LLiam Harkins

Memories of a Forest

• KKatharina RablDirector
• Linde Prelog
• Lukas Walcher
• Dominik Warta
• Julia Windischbauer

The Fortunate Isles

In the arid Canary Islands of the 15th century, Fátima is enslaved by a decadent marquis who controls the island’s only source of fresh water. When rebellion erupts and the well runs dry, she ventures into the barren landscape in search of water — and a chance of survival for the entire community.

• Helena Girón
• SSamuel DelgadoDirectors

Nosotros

• JJoaquín RuanoDirector
• LLola Vásquez

Head to Head

Iranian director Ghasideh Golmakani’s absurd and highly political debut feature explores what happens when a female director forces male actors to wear skirts and headscarves.

• Ghasideh GolmakaniDirector

Zjili: A Story of Sisterhood and The Burdens of Excess

The story draws from the experiences of several kayayei, who carry 55-kilogram bales of imported secondhand clothing around Kantamanto, Accra’s principal secondhand clothing market.

• CChristine Boateng
• HHajara Musah ChambasDirectors