An immersive experience inspired by the musician Molécule’s adventures in the polar circle.

A South London playground prompts an abstract meditation on work and play.

A hypnotic, futuristic reimagining of a Buddhist folk tale that speaks to our chaotic moment.

Argentinian auteur Lucrecia Martel weaves economic struggle, thriller and diva melodrama into a stunning exercise in bodily language.

Cave paintings collide with cinema in this breathtakingly immersive trip through space, sound and film texture.

Two crocodile men go to a public pool to cool off. It turns out one of them is distinctly more human – and the other is unable to contain his desire.

A deliriously defiant, all-female reimagining of Conan the Barbarian that’s feted to become a new cult classic.

Slow cinema auteur Lisandro Alonso and actor Viggo Mortensen reunite for a free-flowing triptych of meditations on colonialism past and present.

A maximalist mixtape of videogames, pop music and red paint, at once joyous and disruptive.

In this Kafkaesque comedy for the selfie age, a woman must confront just what makes her identity her own after her face abruptly changes overnight.

An arresting mockumentary about first contact and alien sex, which won the Méliès d’Or prize at Sitges.

This multi-award-winning interactive VR experience shows the rise and fall of an entire civilisation.

A mystical experience unfolds as the movements of celestial bodies envelop the landscape and its inhabitants.

A playfully inventive queer pop collage that turns its gaze on mainstream media representations of the male body.

A jovial, dreamy rumination on love, time, what we collect and how we connect.

A maximalist, kaleidoscopic visual essay of hurt and healing, and a one-of-a-kind statement of bodily sovereignty from wunderkind Fox Maxy.

It’s the end of the world as we know it and no-one feels fine in Soda Jerk’s latest cinematic remix, which sassily swipes at deepfakes and Trumpism.

A harrowing yet hypnotic true story from the frontline of North America’s abortion debates, told through hallucinatory episodes.

An immersive 3D trip into the heart of Barcelona’s Laberint d’Horta, where a statue of Eros awaits.

First-time director Hsieh Wen-Yee presents a surreal trip through a post-apocalyptic Taiwan.

A pulsating, eerily ambient collage film exploring the impact of colonialism on human desire.

Forbidden desire, memory, revolution, and cinema collide in this queer feminist gem from Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

Scissors out! Someone literally slays at a hairdressing competition in this exuberant one-take murder mystery.

Man Ray’s classic shorts are reimagined for their 100th anniversary alongside an ecstatic soundtrack from SQÜRL members Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan.

William Greaves’s once-forgotten countercultural masterpiece about a beleaguered New York movie crew turns the conventions of filmmaking inside out.

A melancholic, erotic, ironic journey through the Peruvian Amazon, made with the guidance of Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

From Cannes comes the final work by the late, legendary genius Jean-Luc Godard – a dazzling glimpse into a feature film that never came to be.

An enveloping, awe-inspiring contemplation of the vast universe and humans’ place within it.

From the team behind epic environmental VR installation Gondwana (MIFF 2022) comes an intimate experience of (mis)perception.

The search for a mythical island triggers a fascinating contemplation on historical expeditions and the worlds of virtual reality and AI.

Taiwanese master Tsai Ming-liang quietly contemplates life in the mountains, reflecting on chairs, cats and portraits of his muse, Lee Kang-sheng.