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Cascading through time, Mascha Schilinski’s incomparable Cannes prizewinner orchestrates echoes of past experience into transcendent poetic cinema. Surfacing evocative, gilded imagery from the shadows of femininity, Sound of Falling confirms the tremendous talents of its ambitious writer-director.

Oedipus wrecks in this vigorous domestic provocation from director Karim Aïnouz and Dogtooth screenwriter Efthimis Filippou. With an all-star cast that includes Elle Fanning, Callum Turner, and Riley Keough, Rosebush Pruning is a wickedly cutthroat satire of class, fashion, and privilege.

Framing the Brandenburg landscape with the delicacy of a miniaturist, Christian Petzold’s enigmatic autumnal drama shivers with seasonal moods of pensive disquietude. A bewitchingly mysterious Paula Beer teases riddles from the director’s signature understatement in their fourth collaboration.

At once teasing and empathetic toward its hopeless protagonist, this Cannes prizewinner tussles tragicomic absurdities from threadbare ambitions. Parsing student-teacher relations for hilarious odd-couple antics, Colombian director Simón Mesa Soto undoes conventional verse with this riotous film.

Take a tumble down the rabbit holes of internet culture with this uncanny coming-of-age tale from director Jane Schoenbrun. Skirting the boundaries of horror, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is a nerve-shredding fever dream of collective psychosis from the dark heart of the online zeitgeist.

The first Nigerian film ever to screen in Official Selection at Cannes, this prizewinning debut feature from Akinola Davies Jr. is steeped in feeling and lyrical imagery. Bathing the father-son bond in a tender glow, this vibrant coming-of-age tale gathers up precious things amid political tumult.