The coming-of-age drama Renoir, directed by Chie Hayakawa, follows an 11-year-old girl as she navigates childhood loneliness, grief, and the uncertainty surrounding her terminally ill father.
Starring in the film are Yui Suzuki, Lily Franky, Hikari Ishida, Ayumu Nakajima, Yuumi Kawai, and Ryota Bando.
The film premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, then went on to screen at the Bangkok International Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, the Melbourne International Film Festival, and the QCinema International Film Festival, where Yui Suzuki won the prize for Best Lead Performance. At the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, it won the awards for Best Screenplay, along with Best New Performer for Yui Suzuki.
Renoir is now slated be released in theaters in the U.S. beginning May 29, 2026.
Set in the suburbs of Tokyo in 1987, magic, mystery, and mortality collide in Renoir, which follows the imaginative 11-year-old Fuki, who begins her summer break lonely and adrift – her kind, terminally ill father has landed once again in the hospital, and her mother, distracted by the inevitability of his diagnosis, hasn’t much time for her daughter. Fuki, played by Yui Suzuki, responds to the situation not with tears, but with placid curiosity about the prospect of death – becoming fascinated by the occult and experimenting with hypnotism. As the summer passes, Fuki encounters a string of lonely, imperfect adults, all of whom nudge her closer to an emotional truth she isn’t quite ready to name yet.
Renoir marks Japanese writer-director Chie Hayakawa’s second film, following her feature directorial debut Plan 75, which was selected in Un Certain Regard and awarded the Caméra d’Or Special Mention at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
Watch the official trailer for Renoir above.
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