Movies opening in theaters this weekend include the Cannes Grand Prix-winning Indian film All We Imagine as Light, directed by Payal Kapadia and filmmaking duo Kalman & Horn bring an absurdist ’90s cable TV style to their new film, Dream Team, which follows the journey of two Interpol agents.
Altered Innocence debuted the US theatrical trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome (Le syndrome de l’été sans fin), Iranian filmmaker Kaveh Daneshmand’s feature directorial debut following a mother of two adoptees who is tipped off about the possible affair her husband may be having with one of their children.
World-premiering earlier this year at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, Magnus von Horn’s gothic thriller The Girl With the Needle follows a wet nurse working for an underground adoption agency in post-WWI Copenhagen. It was recently selected as the official Danish entry for Best International Feature at the 97th Academy Awards,
BAFTA-winning Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch) returns with her sophomore feature, a surreal dramedy titled On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. The film follows a young Zambian woman who stumbles upon her uncle’s body, uncovering family secrets and lies as funeral preparations unfold.
Directed by Lillah Halla, Power Alley (Levante) is a Brazilian drama that weaves a tale of personal struggle and societal challenges. The film world premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week and won the FIPRESCI Prize for Parallel Sections. Power Alley also won Best Narrative Feature at the 2024 Seattle Queer Film Festival and the 2024 PAFF Jury Award for Best First Feature Narrative, among many other awards.
Selected as Brazil’s official entry for Best International Feature at the 2025 Academy Awards, I’m Still Here is a drama from Central Station’s Oscar-nominated director, Walter Salles. Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s 2015 memoir, Ainda Estou Aqui, the film follows a mother of five whose family’s life is forever changed after the disappearance of her husband, former Brazilian Labour Party congressman Rubens Paiva.
Movies released on November 1 weekend includes a diverse lineup of titles that span genres and styles, from Cannes-winning musical to hard-hitting dramas and thrilling tales of survival. Best Actress and Jury Prize Cannes-winning Emilia Pérez is a daring musical from French auteur Jacques Audiard. Jesse Eisenberg’s comedy-drama A Real Pain explores the process of mourning. Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) returns with a touching WWII drama, Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan. Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) also returns in a small-town thriller, Small Things Like These. The Shameik Moore-starring comedy The Gutter tells the story of an unlikely bowling hero. The Sylvester Stallone-produced drama Lost on a Mountain in Maine follows the true story of a 12-year-old boy’s survival. Hannah Peterson’s Tribeca-winning The Graduates is a coming-of-age film that explores the theme of trauma. Robert Zemeckis reunites with Tom Hanks in Here, capturing human experiences with a unique twist. Finally, Clint Eastwood’s latest film, Juror #2, stars Nicholas Hoult in the leading role.
Marking the third feature film collaboration between co-directors Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn (L For Leisure, Two Plains & a Fancy), Dream Team is an absurdist sci-fi/comedy film shot on 16mm as an homage to ’90s cable TV thrillers. The film had its world premiere at the 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Arriving in US theaters this weekend on Friday, October 25th is a diverse lineup of films from award-contenders to a superhero popcorn flick. Oscar-winning director of All Quiet on the Western Front, Edward Berger, returns this week with the Ralph Fiennes-starred thriller Conclave. Adam Elliot’s clay stop-motion animation Memoir of a Snail, exploring grief in a unique way. Mati Diop’s Dahomey, a documentary on stolen African artifacts won the top prize of Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. Alonso Ruizpalacios’ La Cocina shows the nightmare of working in a fine-dining restaurant as an immigrant, starring Oscar-nominated actress Rooney Mara. For the lighthearted films, modern-day Beauty and the Beast, Your Monster, starring Melissa Barrera, and Stavros Halkias-led comedy Let’s Start a Cult are also coming to the big screen. Daisey Ridley-led neo-noir, Magpie, brings suspense to the theaters, and for fans of superhero movies, Venom: The Last Dance closes the Venom trilogy movies.
Making his directorial debut, four-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto (Killers of the Flower Moon, Brokeback Mountain), who has helmed the cinematography for Martin Scorsese’s last four films, presents Pedro Páramo, an adaptation of the groundbreaking 1955 novel by Mexican author Juan Rulfo.
Thesis on a Domestication (Tesis sobre una domesticación) by award-winning writer-director Javier Van de Couter and based on the homonymous novel written and adapted by the film’s lead, acclaimed Argentine trans author Camila Sosa Villada, will world premiere at the 60th Chicago International Film Festival.
Debuting at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Payal Kapadia’s feature directorial debut All We Imagine as Light made history by being the first Indian film to win the Grand Prix Award, the festival’s second-most prestigious honor. The film tells the story of two nurses navigating the challenges of their love lives in the patriarchal society of India