2026 Oscars

Breathing Underwater

Breathing Underwater

The phrase, “You are not alone,” can mean everything and nothing at the same time to someone in despair. While they may genuinely appreciate the consolation at their lowest moment, the hard work to build themselves up to accepting the hand held out to them can feel insurmountable. Breathing Underwater — the debut feature from...
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No Other Choice No Other Choice

No Other Choice

A farcical crimefest with a dark side, Park Chan-wook’s ‘No Other Choice’ amplifies the inhumanity of modern industry and the utter ruthlessness of salaried work in an engaging film full of unexpected twists.

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Young Mothers

Young Mothers

The Dardenne brothers tell another understated story of slices of female life with “Young Mothers”, winner of the Best Screenplay award in Cannes.

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Sentimental Value

Sentimental Value

Joachim Trier makes a powerful return to the Cannes Competition with “Sentimental Value”, a meditation on art, family and depression with a distinctly Nordic flair.

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It Was Just an Accident It Was Just an Accident

It Was Just an Accident

Jafar Panahi has never been more explicit in denouncing the torture political prisoners are subjected to in Iran, or the furious longing for revenge that haunts the state’s victims, than in ‘It Was Just an Accident’.

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Fiume o morte!

Igor Bezinovic engages citizens of his Croatian hometown in a rigorously researched, irreverently punk re-enactment of its brief occupation by Italian poet and self-styled dictator Gabriele D’Annunzio.

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Peacock

A professional friend-for-hire wakes up to the horrors of his soul-destroying job and hollow lifestyle in Austrian writer-director Bernhard Wenger’s sharp-witted, superbly acted black comedy ‘Peacock’.

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Still from Banzo (2024)

Banzo

In the setting of a Portuguese plantation on Principe in the early 20th century, Margarida Cardoso crafts a haunting and unsettling portrait of colonial destruction in the form of Banzo.

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Still from Pepe (2024)

Pepe

Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias’s fanciful exploration of the inner life of one of Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos, Pepe, is an idiosyncratic affair as piercing and beguiling as it is confounding.

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