Explore: Germany
Architecton
Rock your world with this mesmerising documentary about the increasingly impermanent building blocks of civilisation.
Cuckoo
Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer goes head-to-head with Downton Abbey alum Dan Stevens in this frightfully weird horror.
Direct Action
Winner of the Berlinale’s Encounters Award for Best Film, this bold and vital documentary explores the militant activist community in France.
Dying
This epic, darkly comic portrait of Franzen-esque family dysfunction won multiple awards at both the 2024 Berlinale and the German Film Awards.
Emperor
An interactive and surrealist voyage into the mind of a father experiencing aphasia.
Heavenly Creatures
A friendship between two teens leads to an unspeakable crime in Peter Jackson’s tour de force, re-emerging for a special 30th-anniversary screening.
Impossible Space
A symphonic journey through fascinating real and artificial visual worlds, inspired by the spirit of science and discovery.
The Memphis Chronicles: Water's Edge
Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.
Motel Destino
From Cannes competition lands a colourful, queered and beachside-set erotic thriller in which desire and destiny clash in a seedy sex hotel.
My Favourite Cake
Tender and funny yet politically daring, this double-Berlinale-winning late-life romance is guaranteed to steal your heart.
Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird
The untold 40-year story of the crowning moments, creative turmoils and deep friendship of the pair behind At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta.
The Outrun
Saoirse Ronan produces and stars in this moving adaptation about a recovering addict who returns to her childhood home on Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
Pepe
The strange, tragic tale of the ‘cocaine hippo’ once owned by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar – narrated by the ghost of the beast himself.
Rumours
A gigantic brain in a forest, masturbating bog zombies, Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander and Charles Dance collide in Guy Maddin’s audacious latest.
Santosh
Premiering in Cannes Un Certain Regard, this scathing, subversively feminist take on the police procedural puts modern-day India under scrutiny.
September Says
An unsettling and oneiric tale of sisterhood is French actor Ariane Labed’s Cannes-premiering directorial debut, based on a Gothic novel.
Teaches of Peaches
Class is in session! Celebrate the world of gender-punk icon Peaches in this audacious Teddy Award–winning documentary.
To a Land Unknown
Acclaimed documentarian Mahdi Fleifel makes his fiction debut with a Midnight Cowboy–inspired Palestinian refugee story.
An Unfinished Film
When an unfinished film, reborn, is stuck in stasis again, its creators meditate on how their lives have been transformed by the pandemic.
The Village Next to Paradise
Hope and familial bonds thrive in dangerous conditions in this groundbreaking feature – the first ever Somali film to screen at Cannes.
Winners
Using football as her vehicle, Soleen Yusef references her own refugee tale through the poignant journey of an 11-year-old’s new life in Germany.