Wide Angle

• Japan/United States
• 2024
• 81min

Shige, an indigenous Ainu person from Shiranuka, Hokkaido, goes Marek fishing with his 10-year-old son Motoki. After praying to the gods dwelling in all things, he skillfully catches a large salmon, which he then prepares for that...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• France/India/Netherlands/Luxembourg/Italy
• 2024
• 118min

In the populous city of Mumbai, Prabha, a nurse, is tied to her marriage with a husband who stopped contacting her after moving to Germany, while her roommate Anu is in love with a Muslim man. These young lovers, whose love is not...

• Cannes Grand Prix

World Cinema

• France
• 2024
• 145min

The latest work from comedy writer duo the Boukherma brothers, is a poignant drama. After writing their own screenplays, the duo has adapted a coming-of-age film from the novel by Nicolas Mathieu, who won the Goncourt Prize. Despi...

• Venice Best Young Actor or Actress

Icons

• United States
• 2024
• 140min

Ani is a young Uzbek-American stripper from Brighton Beach, a Russophone enclave in New York City. As she is somewhat conversant in Russian, her boss fixes her up with Russian-speaking clients. After meeting Vanya, the son of a Ru...

• Cannes Palme d′Or

Wide Angle

• Taiwan/Hong Kong, China/France
• 2024
• 84min

On Cheung Chau Island, located 10 kilometers south of Hong Kong, A-Cheung and his wife run an old food stall that serves simple fare like dried grilled seafood and beer. The stall has served a loyal customer for over ten years, ni...

Flash Forward

• Italy
• 2024
• 82min

Iranian-Italian director Milad Tangshir pays homage to the classic neo-realist film Bicycle Thieves (1948) by Vittorio De Sica. In Tangshir’s film, the post-war unemployed man from Bicycle Thieves is transformed into Issa, a young...

• Venice Critics′ Week, Toronto Centrepiece

World Cinema

• France/Italy/Georgia
• 2024
• 134min

Dea Kulumbegashvili is a star of Georgian cinema and a director who makes desperately needed women’s films in the current era. Her debut film, Beginning (2020), features a woman who suffers physical harm, and the director demonstr...

• Venice Special Jury Prize

Special Program in Focus

• Portugal/France/Germany/Switzerland
• 2024
• 126min

After the success of Tabu in 2012, director Miguel Gomes planned to shoot his next film in Mexico. However, due to a sudden economic crisis, he had to cancel the project. Witnessing the rapid political and economic changes in Port...

• Cannes Directors′ Fortnight

Special Program in Focus

• Portugal/France/Germany/Switzerland
• 2024
• 133min

The Arabian Nights trilogy maintains the surreal quality of the original work by shifting between the past and present without hesitation and overlapping them intentionally. It freely utilizes elements of both documentary and fict...

• Cannes Directors′ Fortnight

Special Program in Focus

• Portugal/France/Germany/Switzerland
• 2024
• 126min

In Part 3, Queen Scheherazade, amid the anxiety that she will eventually be killed by the king, meets her father. He advises her to clear her mind and start anew, reminding her that the essence of stories lies in hope and fear, an...

• Cannes Directors′ Fortnight