Scorsese’s fourth feature film is an uplifting story of a young widow who, seeking a fresh start and independence, searches for her place in the world while discovering the promise of love and freedom in 1970s America.

BIFF 2025 AWARD // BEST FILM

In Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s debut film, a wife returns as a spirit inhabiting a vacuum cleaner to protect her husband from other vengeful ghosts.

Sophy Romvari's Locarno-awarded debut film takes us back to the 1990s. A Canadian-Hungarian family moves to Vancouver Island, but their new beginning is disrupted by the increasingly dangerous behavior of Jeremy, the family's oldest child.

In the summer of 1990, as the Chilean dictatorship nears its end, a family begins to fall apart. At fifteen, a girl searches for her place in a world where everything she knew is slipping away.

One of Scotland’s most distinctive cinematic voices, Lynne Ramsay brings the raw, almost tangible madness of existence on the edge of postpartum depression and disintegration to life, with Jennifer Lawrence delivering a haunting central performance. Alongside Robert Pattinson, they form one of the year’s most intense on-screen duos, portraying a relationship charged with passion and tension.

Eastern Anthems is a unique film that depicts the return of a species of cicada that appears only once every 17 years in the United States, where society is undergoing significant changes.

Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice’s hauntingly evocative memory-film, where a young girl’s gaze uncovers the enigmatic past of her father, and every frame resonates with the unreachable beauty and sorrow of the past.

In Gábor Holtai's tense thriller, a woman is kidnapped and wakes up in a family's apartment's empty room, where she is told that she is Szilvi, the long-lost daughter of them.

BIFF 2025 AWARD // AUDIENCE AWARD

After sixteen years together and two children, François and Julie decide to open their relationship. A perceptive and effortlessly funny exploration of love, desire, and the delicate balance between freedom and commitment — the kind of relationship comedy we’ve been waiting for.

After her festival-favorite debut, director Hana Jušić has come up with an even more complex second film: her beautifully lensed, darkly toned feminist tale is as formally elaborate as it is a bold genre experiment, a costume thriller-eastern combined with ethnographic motifs.

Academy Award–winning director Chloé Zhao’s new film, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, tells the story of the passionate relationship between William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes — the love that inspired Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

A24’s darkly comic tale, threaded with horror, brings together Mary Bronstein – a fierce new feminist voice of New York cinema – with an unlikely constellation of stars: A$AP Rocky, Conan O’Brien, and Rose Byrne in the leading role.

Pedro Pinho’s Cannes debut tells the story of a Portuguese environmental engineer who, in Guinea-Bissau, seeks refuge from neo-colonial tensions, solitude, and chaos in a love triangle. I Only Rest In the Storm is a powerful reflection on the legacy of colonial history.

Winner of this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or, Jafar Panahi’s latest film delves into the fraught terrain of morality and the perilous boundaries of vengeance in today’s Iran.

In Cluj, 2025, a Romanian homeless man’s suicide during an eviction attempt shatters a Hungarian bailiff, whose guilt-driven retelling of the event to friends and colleagues unfolds into Radu Jude’s latest grotesque tragicomedy – a darkly comic portrait of Central Europe’s moral crisis from one of the region’s most original auteur voices.

Winner of the Audience Award at Annecy, follows the story of a little Belgian girl in Japan, as she grows closer to her family’s housekeeper, discovering the wonders of nature and the hidden truths beneath her family’s idyllic yet foreign life in Japan, revealing how loss can make life’s beauty even more precious.

James Benning, a living legend of avant-garde film, expresses his concerns about the deterioration of his country's public conditions from a child's perspective, without departing from his characteristic minimalist cinematic toolset.

Angela Schanelec’s 2004 film captures the spirit of a generation and captivated European cinephile audiences upon its release. It serves as a perfect companion and introduction to Schanelec’s work, a cinema of precision that resonates far beyond mere technical display.

In Akinola Davies Jr.’s semi-autobiographical drama My Father’s Shadow, two young brothers, Remi and Akin, spend a day with their father, unaware that it is one of the most significant days in contemporary Nigerian history.

A time capsule holding the memory of Chantal Akerman's New York.

Park Chan-wook's latest film is a thriller, full of twists and laced with black humor, where a man who has lost his job resorts to other methods rather than changing careers, and in order to secure a vacant position for himself, he plans to eliminate his competitors one by one.

'Please look after this bear. Thank you.'

A shy young man from a small town is completely swept away by a mysterious, attractive biker. Through their unlikely relationship, newest A24-gem Pillion offers a sensitive, honest and humorous glimpse into the world of the BDSM community and into the vulnerability of being in love.

Starting out from a dorm room in a little Hungarian town, Marci—known as Pogány Induló—becomes one of the country’s most popular rappers within just a few months.

BIFF 2025 AWARD // OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT // Sven Bresser and the creative ensemble

The celebrated director of contemporary Chinese cinema, acclaimed across Europe, arrived at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival with a cinephile’s vision – one of the year’s most monumental cinematic experiences, telling the story of a ghost and the enigmatic woman who pursues him across times.

A rare chance to experience the sensorial, mystic cinema of Scottish artist-filmmaker Scott Barley, whose radically independent, iPhone-shot works — from acclaimed features to shorts — arrive in Budapest for the first time in a programme spanning his past and present.

Ildikó Enyedi, the Golden Bear-winning and Oscar-nominated director of On Body and Soul, sensitively and philosophically explores the longing for connection between humans and plants through three stories in her new film.

In Oliver Laxe’s award-winning film at Cannes, a father and son search for the family’s missing daughter, their journey turning into a spiritual odyssey in the rave-fueled Moroccan desert.

This year’s surprise film at BIFF was selected by one of the most influential and internationally acclaimed figures of Hungarian cinema, the director of Sátántangó and The Turin Horse, Béla Tarr, who will personally introduce the screening.

In Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s hypnotic film, an orphaned girl finds refuge in a film studio, where a dangerous, ethereal bond unfolds between her and the Snow Queen, played by the mysterious diva, Cristina (Marion Cotillard).

The Long Day Closes is the semi-autobiographical masterpiece by Terence Davies, portraying 1950s Liverpool through images suffused with melancholy and wonder, seen from the perspective of a solitary boy whose imagination is captured by the magic of cinema.

Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine tells the story of the rise and fall of wrestler Mark Kerr, brought to life by Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson , whose fiercest battle is not in the ring but against himself.

Sergei Loznitsa, one of the most significant contemporary figures in Ukrainian cinema, presents a timely portrait of the deceitful, hypocritical, and above all ruthless workings of totalitarian regimes.

BIFF 2025 AWARD // BEST PERFORMANCE (Myriem Akkheddiou)