Dahomey

• Opens November 14

From acclaimed filmmaker Mati Diop (Atlantics), Dahomey is a poetic and immersive work of art that delves into real perspectives on far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination and restitution. Set in November 2021, the documentary charts 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey that are due to leave Paris and return to their country of origin: the present-day Republic of Benin. Using multiple perspectives Diop questions how these artifacts should be received in a country that has reinvented itself in their absence. Winner of the coveted Golden Bear prize at the 2024 Berlinale, Dahomey is an affecting though altogether singular conversation piece that is as spellbinding as it is essential.

Paradise Is Burning

• Opens November 15

Paradise Is Burning is an emotional drama that navigates the complexities of society and family in the working-class Swedish suburbia. Three sisters -- sixteen-year-old Laura, twelve-year-old Mira, and seven-year-old Steffi -- are left to their own devices by their absent mother. As summer approaches, the trio revels in the excitement of freedom, letting their days unfold without the constraints of adult supervision. However, when Laura receives a call that threatens to place them in foster care, she frantically searches for a substitute mother to avoid this fate. Keeping the truth hidden from her younger sisters, Laura navigates the blurred lines between the thrill of independence and the harsh realities of growing up, as the sisters’ relationships with each other are put to the test.

Emilia Pérez

• Opens November 15

From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes Emilia Pérez, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. Through liberating song and dance and bold visuals, this odyssey follows the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón) enlists Rita (Zoe Saldaña), an unappreciated lawyer stuck in a dead-end job, to help fake her death so that Emilia can finally live authentically as her true self.

All We Imagine is Light

• Opens November 22

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut. Centering on two roommates who also work together in a city hospital--head nurse Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and recent hire Anu (Divya Prabha)--plus their coworker, cook Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam), Kapadia’s film alights on moments of connection and heartache, hope and disappointment. Prabha, her husband from an arranged marriage living in faraway Germany, is courted by a doctor at her hospital; Anu carries on a romance with a Muslim man, which she must keep a secret from her strict Hindu family; Parvaty finds herself dealing with a sudden eviction from her apartment. Kapadia captures the bustle of the metropolis and the open-air tranquility of a seaside village with equal radiance, articulated by her superb actresses and by the camera with a lyrical naturalism that occasionally drifts into dreamlike incandescence. All We Imagine As Light is a soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, in all its complexities and richness.

You Are Not Alone / Vous n’êtes pas seuls

• Opens November 22

Léo, un livreur de pizza solitaire et anxieux, tombe sur John, un mystérieux chauffeur de taxi à la recherche d’âmes esseulées. Cette rencontre insolite plonge le jeune homme dans un délire vertigineux, bouleversant l’éclosion de sa romance avec Rita. Alors que l’automne tire à sa fin et que les jours raccourcissent, le froid s’installe… Par chance, les premières flammes de l’amour réchauffent le coeur de Léo. Mais, attention : le feu, c’est dangereux.

Leo, a lonely, anxious pizza delivery guy, stumbles upon John, a mysterious taxi driver seeking lonesome souls. This unusual encounter throws the young man into a dizzying delirium, disrupting his blossoming romance with Rita. As the leaves start falling from the trees, days are getting shorter, and the cold is settling in… Luckily, the first flames of love warm Leo’s heart. But beware: if you play with fire, you might get burned.

Dada

• Opens November 28

A young teen and her father take a road trip to a cabin next to the world’s largest nuclear power facility. A nonsense game, born out of their distinctive playfulness, escalates into a power struggle when the girl pretends she can “no longer see” the father. An only child, the girl has long fought between compassion and codependency with her overly eager, divorced dad. Its seeming ridiculousness is her game’s insidious power: it wears down the father’s authority and tears open the relationship. Accepted truths can no longer explain the past, nor can jokes cover the absence of a mother. Under both the hidden surveillance by private nuclear security and the suspicions cast on a man and a girl who travel alone, the game transforms into a manic social performance. The absurdity obliterates logic, language, and paternalism revealing a pantomime of skeletons in their family roles. It is only from under the shadow of this nuclear cloud that the father and daughter can emerge with the possibility of a new light reflected in their exposed and beating hearts.

Allen Sunshine

• Opens November 29

Allen Sunshine tells the story of a former music mogul who retreats to an isolated lake-side home to grieve his famous wife’s suicide. He copes by composing ambient-electronic music and by nurturing an unexpected friendship with two young boys whom he meets on the lake fishing. Throughout the course of his stages of grief, Allen encounters characters that remind him of what he’s lost and forgotten, and what he hopes to gain and reconcile.

Le Cyclone de Noël

• Opens December 5

Pour Isabelle Gagnon (Christine Beaulieu), mère célibataire de trois enfants, Noël est la plus belle journée de l’année, malgré toute la charge mentale qui accompagne cette célébration. Mais cette année, les traditions sont menacées, alors que les membres de sa famille ont d’autres plans. Alors que la neige se fait attendre, que certains rêvent de destinations soleil, que les blagues de lutins ne font plus rire les enfants, jusqu’où une mère peut aller pour protéger les traditions et la magie de Noël?

Isabelle Gagnon (Christine Beaulieu), a single mother of three, views Christmas as the most beautiful day of the year, despite the mental load that comes with it. However, this year, her cherished traditions are at risk as family members have different plans. With snow delayed, some dreaming of sunny getaways, and the children no longer amused by elf jokes, how far will a mother go to preserve the magic and traditions of Christmas?

Anora

• Opens December 6

Sean Baker's Palme d'Or winner ANORA is an audacious, thrilling, and comedic variation on a modern day Cinderella story. Mikey Madison (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood) captivates as Ani, a young sex worker from Brooklyn whose life takes an unexpected turn when she meets and impulsively marries Vanya, the impetuous son of a Russian billionaire. However, when Vanya's parents catch wind of the union, they send their henchmen to annul the marriage, setting off a wild chase through the streets of New York.

The Apprentice

• Opens December 12

A young Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan), eager to make his name as a hungry second son of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong), the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé — someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.

La Cocina

• Opens December 12

La Cocina captures the frenetic energy of the lunch rush at The Grill, a bustling restaurant in Manhattan's Times Square. When money goes missing from the till, suspicion falls on Pedro (Raúl Briones), an undocumented cook who dreams of a better life and is in love with Julia (Rooney Mara), an American waitress who cannot commit to a relationship. Rashid, the restaurant owner, has promised to help Pedro obtain legal status, but a shocking revelation about Julia compels Pedro to spiral into an act that threatens to shut down one of the city's busiest kitchens once and for all. The film is a comic and tragic tribute to the invisible people who keep our restaurants running and our stomachs full, all while chasing an elusive version of the American dream.

Oh, Canada

• Opens December 13

In Paul Schrader’s latest, ailing filmmaker Leonard Fife (Richard Gere) who is fiery but feeling his years and his illness, wants to tell his life story, unfiltered, before it's too late. As the director of lauded documentary exposés, he has much to be proud of, but his avoidance of the Vietnam War draft and his past relationships harbor thorny truths. Finally choosing to reveal the truth and lies in his life and career, Leonard sits for an extended filmed interview with his former student Malcolm (Michael Imperioli), charging ahead with candid stories about his younger self (Jacob Elordi) in the fractious 1960s and beyond. At Leonard's insistence, his wife and indispensable partner, Emma (Uma Thurman), hears it all. Leonard's successes are held up against his failings--the fibs held up against the facts--and as the man in full is cleansed of the myth, Leonard must confront what is left.

Memoir of a Snail

• Opens December 19

From the Academy Award winning director of MARY AND MAX, this dark stop-motion tale is currently whirring in Oscar buzz. In 1970s Australia, Grace's life is troubled by misfortune and loss. After their mother dies during pregnancy, she and her twin brother, Gilbert, are raised by their paraplegic-alcoholic former juggler father, Percy. Despite a life filled with love, tragedy strikes anew when Percy passes away in his sleep. The siblings are forcibly separated and thrust into separate homes. Gilbert finds himself in the care of a cruel evangelical family, while Grace, grappling with intense loneliness, gradually withdraws into her shell, much like the snails she adopts. As the years pass, and despite new disappointments and sorrows, a glimmer of hope emerges when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman called Pinky.

Flow

• Opens December 20

A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land, they must rely on trust, courage, and wits to survive the perils of a newly aquatic planet. From the boundless imagination of the award-winning Gints Zilbalodis (Away) comes a thrilling animated spectacle as well as a profound meditation on the fragility of the environment and the spirit of friendship and community. Steeped in the soaring possibilities of visual storytelling, Flow is a feast for the senses and a treasure for the heart.