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DJ Ahmet
DJ Ahmet (Диџеј Ахмет) is a 2025 coming-of-age comedy-drama and the feature debut of North Macedonian director Georgi M. Unkovski, about a 15-year-old Yuruk shepherd who escapes into EDM. It won the Sundance 2025 World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award and Special Jury Award for Creative Vision.
Do No Harm (2025 film)
Do No Harm is a 2025 American drama-thriller, the feature debut of writer-director Chris Hartwell, starring Harry Shum Jr. as Sam Yeong, a burned-out Houston home health nurse whose fatal patient error unravels his life; premiered as the opening night film at Dances With Films 2025 after a Cannes Marché screening.
Don't Call Me Mama
Don't Call Me Mama (Se meg) is a 2025 Norwegian drama, Nina Knag's feature debut, starring Pia Tjelta as teacher Eva, whose affair with 18-year-old Syrian asylum seeker Amir (Tarek Zayat) premiered at Karlovy Vary 2025.
Dreams (2025 film)
Dreams (2025 film), also released as Dreams: Sueños, is Michel Franco's erotic drama starring Jessica Chastain and ballet dancer Isaac Hernández, about a San Francisco socialite's affair with an undocumented Mexican dancer; it competed at the 2025 Berlinale and earned $264,950 worldwide.
Drunken Noodles
Drunken noodles, or pad kee mao, is a spicy Thai stir-fry of wide rice noodles, chicken or other protein, vegetables, Thai basil, and soy, fish, and oyster sauces, with no alcohol; also a 2025 Lucio Castro film.
Dry Leaf
Dry Leaf (ხმელი ფოთოლი) is a 2025 Germany-Georgia road film by Alexandre Koberidze, 186 minutes, shot on a Sony Ericsson W595 phone, about a father searching rural Georgia's football fields for his missing photographer daughter; Locarno Special Mention and FIPRESCI winner.
Enzo (film)
Enzo (2025) is a French coming-of-age drama by Robin Campillo, completing Laurent Cantet's final film after his death in April 2024. Premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight; a 16-year-old apprentice mason falls for a Ukrainian coworker.
Erupcja
Erupcja (Polish for "eruption") is a 2025 romantic drama directed by Pete Ohs, starring Charli XCX as Bethany and Lena Góra as Nel, whose Warsaw reunion coincides with volcanic eruptions; written improvisationally during the shoot, it premiered at TIFF 2025.
Five Seconds
Five Seconds (Cinque secondi) is a 2025 Italian drama by Paolo Virzì, 105 minutes, starring Valerio Mastandrea as lawyer Adriano Sereni and Galatéa Bellugi as Matilde; premiered at the 2025 Rome Film Festival, released in Italy October 30, 2025.
Forge (film)
Forge is a 2025 American crime comedy-drama, Jing Ai Ng's debut feature, premiering at SXSW 2025. Kelly Marie Tran, Andie Ju, and Brandon Soo Hoo star as an FBI agent and Miami sibling art forgers; limited May 2026 release, $56,963 gross, 83% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Girl (2025 film)
Girl (女孩, Nühai) is a 2025 Taiwanese coming-of-age drama, Shu Qi's feature directorial debut, starring Roy Chiu, 9m88, and Bai Xiao-ying. Set in 1988 Taiwan, it premiered in Venice competition, won Busan Best Director, and opened in Taiwan October 31, 2025.
Goodbye June (film)
Goodbye June is a 2025 British family drama, Kate Winslet's directorial debut, written by her son Joe Anders, starring Helen Mirren, Winslet, Toni Collette, Andrea Riseborough, Johnny Flynn, and Timothy Spall; released in theaters December 12, 2025 and on Netflix December 24, 2025.
Green and Gold
Green and Gold is a 2025 American drama, Anders Lindwall's first theatrical feature, starring Craig T. Nelson as a Wisconsin dairy farmer who bets his foreclosure-threatened farm on the 1993 Green Bay Packers winning the Super Bowl; Madison Lawlor plays granddaughter Jenny, and it was M. Emmet Walsh's final film.
Hedda (2025 film)
Hedda (2025) is Nia DaCosta's drama adapting Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, set in 1950s England, starring Tessa Thompson, Nina Hoss, and Imogen Poots; premiered at TIFF, released by Amazon MGM October 22, 2025, then Prime Video October 29.
Hen (film)
Hen (Kota, Κότα) is György Pálfi's 2025 Greek-language drama, a Germany-Greece-Hungary co-production following a Leghorn hen, played by eight real hens, who escapes a farm to a Greek taverna tied to people-smuggling; also a 2025 Afrikaans folk horror by Nico Scheepers.
Henry Johnson (film)
Henry Johnson is a 2025 American psychological drama written and directed by David Mamet, adapted from his stage play, starring Evan Jonigkeit, Shia LaBeouf, Chris Bauer, and Dominic Hoffman; released May 9, 2025.
Hurricanna
Hurricanna is a 2025 American biographical drama about Anna Nicole Smith's final 48 hours, directed by Francesca Gregorini, starring Sylvia Hoeks and Holly Hunter, premiering at Provincetown and set for limited U.S. release January 8, 2027.
I Only Rest in the Storm
I Only Rest in the Storm (O Riso e a Faca) is Pedro Pinho's 2025 Portuguese-French-Brazilian-Romanian drama, premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard, following engineer Sérgio in Guinea-Bissau; Cleo Diára won Best Actress.
I Play Rocky
I Play Rocky (2026): Peter Farrelly's Amazon MGM biographical drama, written by Peter Gamble, starring Anthony Ippolito as young Sylvester Stallone fighting to make and star in Rocky (1976); premiered at TIFF, in US theaters November 6, 2026.
I'm Beginning to See the Light (film)
I'm Beginning to See the Light (Я начинаю видеть свет) is a 2025 American drama directed by Konstantin Khudyakov, starring Jack Huston as a grieving jazz trumpeter who becomes a lighthouse keeper; unrelated to the 1944 song.
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You is a 2025 A24 psychological drama written and directed by Mary Bronstein, starring Rose Byrne as therapist Linda caring for her ill daughter; Sundance 2025 premiere, Golden Globe win and 2026 Oscar nomination for Byrne.
In Whose Name?
In Whose Name? is a 2025 unauthorized documentary by Nico Ballesteros on Kanye West (Ye), built from 3,000+ hours filmed over six years from age 18; released September 19, 2025, grossing $1,022,559 domestically.
Ish (film)
Ish is Imran Perretta's 2025 black-and-white British coming-of-age debut, co-written with Enda Walsh, about 12-year-old friends in Luton divided by a police stop-and-search; it won the Venice Critics' Week Audience Award.
Islands (2025 German film)
Islands is a 2025 German thriller directed by Jan-Ole Gerster, starring Sam Riley as a washed-up tennis coach on Fuerteventura; premiered at Berlinale Special 2025 and won the German Film Award for Best Film Music. Not the Spanish film Islas by Marina Seresesky.
Jay Kelly
Jay Kelly is a 2025 Netflix comedy-drama directed by Noah Baumbach, co-written with Emily Mortimer, starring George Clooney as an aging movie star traveling Europe with manager Ron (Adam Sandler). Venice premiere, R rating, 132 minutes, awards contender.
Jimpa
Jimpa is a 2025 semi-autobiographical drama by Australian director Sophie Hyde, starring Olivia Colman, John Lithgow, and Aud Mason-Hyde; it premiered at Sundance 2025 and follows a family visiting their gay grandfather Jim ("Jimpa") in Amsterdam.
La grazia
La grazia (The Pardon/Grace) is Paolo Sorrentino's 2025 Italian drama, his eleventh film, starring Toni Servillo as fictional President Mariano De Santis facing pardon petitions and a euthanasia bill; it opened Venice 82 and won Servillo the Coppa Volpi.
Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes
Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes (Anoche conquisté Tebas) is Gabriel Azorín's 2025 Spanish-Portuguese debut drama, set at the Roman baths of Bande, Galicia, linking present-day Portuguese boys and first-century Roman soldiers; Venice 2025 premiere, Bisato d'Oro winner.
Late Fame
Late Fame (2025) is a Kent Jones drama, written by Samy Burch from Arthur Schnitzler's posthumous novella, starring Willem Dafoe as rediscovered poet Ed Saxberger and Greta Lee; Venice 2025 premiere, US release August 7, 2026 via Magnolia Pictures.
Late Shift (film)
Late Shift (Heldin) is a 2025 Swiss-German drama by Petra Volpe starring Leonie Benesch as nurse Floria Lind during one understaffed hospital night shift; Berlinale 2025 premiere, Swiss Oscar submission, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, Swiss Film Prize winner.