Genre: Romance

Anime-style illustration of a girl and boy on the floor of a bedroom facing each other. The girl wears all pink and is drawn in the same style as the enviroment. The boy is black and white, in a manga illustration style and nervously sweating as they converse.

Cherry and Virgin

DirMasanao Kawajiri

Stylish visual worlds collide when an erotic manga artist and a talented illustrator—both virgins—connect in this sensitive love letter to anime.

A young man and woman stand against a chain link fence in bright sunlight, the young man looks down as the woman thoughtfully gazes ahead.

New Directors Competition

Clementine Orange

DirLisa Forslund

Over 24 hours, an unlikely connection forms between a woman catfished by her penpal lover and the prisoner on parole who isn’t who he claimed to be.

A man and woman in close up stand face to face, leaning against one another nose to forehead. The man wears a gray sweater and an earring, he has chin lentgh brown hair and a beard. The woman, wearing black, has brown hair worn in a ponytail, they smile at each other against a red background.

International Competition

The Echo Chamber

DirAndrea Pallaoro

A therapist and a music producer are drawn into an unlikely affair in this riveting psychological drama interrogating desire, addiction, and obsession.

A woman in pink with blonde curly hair and a patterned skirt dances happily with a man with black curly hair in a black button down and pants in front of a wall-to-wall library of vinyl records.

Spotlight

It Will Happen Tonight Succederà Questa Notte

DirNanni Moretti

After an unforgettable meet-cute, Matteo and Greta’s paths cross over the years – but the timing is never right in this seductive tale of love and its possibilities.

A woman with long blonde hair in a blue shirt tensely sits in a prison cafeteria opposite a male inmate in a orange jumpsuit during visitng hours.

Special Presentation

The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd

DirTim Blake Nelson

A mesmerizing Amanda Seyfried stars as a writing teacher whose relationship with an Oklahoma prisoner offers both a hope of escape in this riveting drama.

A woman sits in the back of a truck smoking a cigarette with her eyes closed, she has bright red hair and wears a light pink tank in the early evening framed by a tree and a stone wall.

Black Perspectives New Directors Competition

Marie Madeleine

DirGessica Généus

In coastal Haiti, a fiercely independent sex worker and an evangelical preacher’s son navigate desire, Vodou roots, and rigid religious dogma.

In a dim workshop a smiling woman in a gray flannel sweatshirt holds up a clay bust of a woman, while the woman the bust is modeled after stands behind her in a white shirt and blue cardigan, watching.

OutLook

Nagi Notes Nagi Daiarī

DirKōji Fukada

In a bucolic village, a rekindled friendship between former sisters-in-law gently unspools much unspoken longing and mourning within the community.

Two men stand in a dark jungle at night, one standing in front of the other. A shirtless man stands in front looking ahead while the man behind him in red watches over his shoulder.

New Directors Competition OutLook

The Riverbank A Margem do Rio

DirEnock Carvalho, Matheus Farias

When Izaquiel falls for the mysterious fisherman Jeremias, the two journey into the heart of the mangroves to seek justice for encroaching violence.

A woman and man lie on a patterned rug in close up. They both have curly brown hair. They both wear lots of jewelry and light makeup. The woman wears a brown jacket and has a lipstick stain on her hand, the man's white shirt falls off his shoulder. They stare into each others eyes enamored.

Departures Disability in Focus

Stand Up

DirMari Sanders

A young woman whose life is upended by a crash that requires her to use a wheelchair meets an aspiring standup comic whose subversive spirit helps her heal.