Events

Agnès Varda’s Golden Lion winner starring Sandrine Bonnaire as a young drop-out roaming a wintery South of France returns to the Festival for the first time since 1986.

Yemi Bamiro’s enthralling documentary celebrates photographer and activist Kwame Brathwaite, whose monumental work chronicled the joy, beauty, and glory of Black lives and experiences.

When a piano tuner’s extraordinary hearing reveals a knack for cracking safes, his quiet New York routine gives way to a risky life of crime—just as the possibility of love suggests another future. Dustin Hoffman and Leo Woodall star.

In a small town where the dead call from an abandoned phone booth, a young girl discovers she alone can hear them, setting off a whimsical quest to help spirits—and find her father. Recommended for ages 10 and up.

Ambitious and emotionally potent, Cyril Aris’s drama explores one couple’s romantic travails with three tumultuous decades of Lebanese history as the backdrop.

The mushrooms speak in this inventive sci-fi documentary that follows indigenous female mycologists as they document and preserve the intricate bonds between humans and fungi.

Director Sam Green makes his triumphant return to SFFILM with a deeply personal, lovingly crafted film documenting the world’s oldest people, as recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records. This film will be preceded by the short film Paper Trail, directed by Don Hertzfeldt (USA 2026, 14 min).

Writer Andri Snær Magnason reckons with the death of Okjökull, the first glacier lost to climate change, as Sara Dosa’s striking documentary blends vanishing ice, family memory, and urgent witness.

The queen of the Polish town of Łeba does not wear a crown or sit on a throne. Instead, her kingdom is a smokehouse from which she feeds mackerel and cod to thousands.

A yearling polar bear embodies his species in this immersive, poetic Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, revealing the tense, fraught balance between humans and nature’s apex predator.

An ancient ginkgo tree enchants longing souls across more than a century in this spellbinding cinematic triptych starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Léa Seydoux.

Boisterous and unshakable, a young girl’s harmonious world unravels after a public clash and anonymous letters force her to confront long-buried truths, testing her sense of self and resilience.