Sirat
Winner of the Jury Prize at the 78th Festival de Cannes + 2x Nominee at the 2026 Academy Awards! Oliver Laxe’s (“Fire Will Come”) latest is a spiritual road movie exploring themes of physical wandering, borders, and introspection—recurring motifs in the Franco-Spanish filmmaker’s oeuvre. The film stars Sergi López (“Pan’s Labyrinth”) as middle-aged Luis, who, […]
Kokuho
Special Pre-Show live performance by Oto-Wa Taiko – Friday, February 20 Shortlisted for the Best International Feature Film Oscar Directed by Lee Sang-il (“Rage”), “Kokuho” stars renowned Japanese actors Ryo Yoshizawa and Ryusei Yokohama. The film became an unexpected hit, reaching the highest-grossing domestic live-action film mark in 22 years at the Japanese box office. […]
Golden Age: Black Narcissus
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr), are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile, and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron) falls […]
Drawn In: Fantastic Planet (La Planète sauvage)
Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes […]
