Competition

• Taiwan
• 2025
• 124min

Hsiao-lee smiles only twice in the entire film?when she goes to karaoke with Li-li, and when Li-li returns after a prolonged absence. A girl who doesn’t show emotions, Hsiao-lee lives with her abusive alcoholic father, harsh hairs...

Vision

• Macao, China/Taiwan/Hong Kong, China/Thailand
• 2025
• 101min

Raised in Macao and having attended college in Taiwan, Lok now lives in Hong Kong, awaiting the opportunity to direct her second fi lm. While her partner Bei Bei seeks stability, Lok is conflicted and embarks on a journey through ...

Competition

• China
• 2025
• 99min

In Luomu, a town small enough to explore in just 30 minutes, Bai arrives at a guesthouse with a three-year-old postcard from her ex-boyfriend Wang that’s inscribed with the mysterious words ‘Gloaming in Luomu.’ As she walks throug...

World Cinema

• Croatia/Italy/Romania/Greece/France/Slovenia
• 2025
• 137min

God Will Not Help is Hana Ju?i?′s second feature film, released nine years after Quit Staring at My Plate (2016), which was invited to the Venice Film Festival and other prestigious events. The film tells the story of a stranger′s...

• Locarno International Competition Best Performance Award

Special Program in Focus

• Italy
• 2025
• 107min

The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Prime Minister Aldo Moro, the architect of the historic compromise between the Italian Communist Party and Christian Democracy, remains one of the most shocking events in Italian modern political ...

• Venice Competition

Gala Presentation

• Korea
• 2025
• 137min

“All you need is a bit of creativity and the will of people to believe in it.” Based on an actual hijacking incident in March 1970, Good News is a unique black comedy where the charm lies as much in the ‘telling’ as in the ‘story’...

• Toronto Special Presentations

Special Program in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2025
• 82min

When a screening of the film Dragon Inn ends and the lights come on, the camera gazes at the empty seats from the screen’s perspective. It was the final screening at an old theater that is soon to be shut down, and for a long time...

• Venice Competition FIPRESCI Prize

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2025
• 107min

Sexual violence victims, survivors, and allies in the art world unite to form Sangyeoja’s Grounding Tactics, a collective that supports sexual assault survivors’ recovery through art. Their activities are a way of reclaiming their...

Wide Angle

• Palestine/Germany/Saudi Arabia/Sweden
• 2025
• 96min

Hussein Darby, the last projectionist of Cinema Jenin in Palestine, thought it a golden opportunity. When a German NGO came to restore the theater, Hussein was ready to prove his skills. He believed that it would help him get his ...

Wide Angle

• Belgium/France/Vietnam
• 2025
• 71min

Co-directed by Tr??ng Minh Quy (director of Viet and Nam (2024), Cannes Un Certain Regard) and Belgian filmmaker Nicolas Graux, this film captures the fading flows of language and memory through the daily life of H?u, a Ruc woman ...

• Locarno Cinema of the Present Golden Leopard