2026

From director and artist Kamal Aljafari, constructed from three MiniDV tapes shot in Gaza in 2001 and rediscovered years later, the film transforms recovered footage into a profound cinematic meditation on memory, loss, and the passage of time.

Reis and Cordeiro's final film, is their most unclassifiable endeavor. The film is a work of abstraction drawing on a diverse range of texts ranging from Michel de Montaigne to Carl Sagan. In Cordeiro's words, "Rosa de Areia is a film for those who can see and listen as if for the first time; as if it was the first film that came from the earth and spoke about it."

A film of long shadows and smoke in twilight, Tras-os-Montes is an intensive labor of recollection, an epic of a land and a way of life on the edge of oblivion, and a major turning point in the history of Portuguese cinema.

Through a series of non-linear scenes resembling reminiscences and rituals, with voiceovers adapted from poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Reis and Cordeiro link individual experience to the collective toils of people throughout the ages, and the collective to the earth and its history, all wrapped up in the cycles of life and death and renewal.

In his 33rd feature, Hong Sangsoo spins a bitterly comic fable on the trials of living simply and righteously in our world. As it charts this sincere (perhaps naive) young man?s comeuppance in the face of indifferent realities, What Does That Nature Say to You blossoms into one of Hong?s richest and most revealing character portraits.

Bogancloch is where modern day hermit Jake Williams lives, nestled in a vast highland forest of Scotland. The film portrays his life throughout the seasons, with other people occasionally crossing into his otherwise solitary life. A sequel to Two Years at Sea, the film charts a subtly changing life in a radically changing world.

Shinji Somai's follow-up to his acclaimed Moving is a comic spectacle of movement and play and a stirring contemplation on time's ravages and delights. Evoking other preteen anarchist masterpieces like Typhoon Club and P.P. Rider, the film is another testament to Somai's singular ability to enter into the unruly world of children