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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.

Jane Schoenbrun returns with a new kind of remake, carving up slasher conventions with surreal, campy abandon. Newly-minted scream queens Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson are a revelatory pairing, bringing wit, deep feeling, and sultry eroticism to this visionary dissection of movie nostalgia.

Cementing his status as a seminal voice in British filmmaking, the multi-hyphenate Mark Jenkin crafts another salt-sprayed, hand-cranked vision of haunted Cornish tides. Merging the ghost story with time-warp sci-fi, this eerie mood piece navigates troubled seas of national nostalgia and decline.

A heartfelt exploration of queerness wrapped in unexpectedly furry packaging, this beguiling metacinematic animation is a work of profound imagination and sincerity. Designing its chimerical world with stunning precision, Bouchra bridges the gap between the surreal and the hyperreal.

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.

Charging the pugilistic blows of the prison thriller with sociopolitical force, Wasteman drags its viewer into the chaos of Britain’s dysfunctional carceral system. Rising stars David Jonsson and Tom Blyth prove their mettle, delivering fierce one-twos in this brutal glimpse of life on the inside.

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.