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Two Black women sit outside on a porch; the older woman in a brown patterned shirt gazes ahead while the younger woman next to her in a collared gingham tank looks down smiling.

September 17, 2026

Liz Here Now

Anchored by a commanding, powerhouse performance from Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Liz Here Now is a devastatingly poignant and deeply moving exploration of the unsung labor of Black womanhood and caretaking. Taylor stars as Liz, a devoted live-in caregiver in segregated 1960s America who jeopardizes h...

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.

September 17, 2026

The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd

In a small town in Oklahoma, Karen (Amanda Seyfried) finds work teaching creative writing at a nearby maximum security prison. One of the inmates in her class, Wilson Shedd (Scoot McNairy), takes a particular interest in expressing his feelings on paper—and in Karen’s warmth and generosity. What ...

A woman in all black, bags slung over both shoulders, briskly walks away from a group of people who are also all dressed in black formal wear. They follow her with concern through a rain-soaked residential neighborhood on a tree-lined street.

September 17, 2026

The Liberation

It’s the early 1980s: Rita Cooper (Carrie Coon) is a closed-off mother of two who works as a bank executive, unable to come to grips with her traumatic history. At the bank one day, she meets the radiant Ricki (Lily James) who invites Rita to join her women’s self-empowerment group. Discovering a...

A woman looks up, melancholy, she is wrapped in blankets seated inside a rustic thatched shelter in black-and-white, surrounded by woven palm walls and bamboo flooring. With her are an unlit lantern, cups, and a book.

September 17, 2026

Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors

Acclaimed filmmaker and slow-cinema practitioner Lav Diaz (Magellan) returns to the Festival with his latest opus. Set in 1617, Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors examines 17th-century Imperial Spain’s forceful colonization of The Philippines. The film tells the story of Padre Enciso, a Spanish pries...

A young man stands alone in a large museum, he wears a white graphic tee and blue joggers and stands in front of a large classical marble statue and green marble pillars.

September 17, 2026

La Gradiva

A high school trip to Naples becomes the staging ground for a profound coming-of-age experience in cinematographer Marine Atlan’s spellbinding directorial debut. Exhausted-yet-persistent Latin teacher Mme. Mercier is desperate to convince her unruly students to open their eyes and absorb the worl...

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