Overview
- Edward Berger’s Ballad of a Small Player, a Netflix-backed adaptation starring Colin Farrell with Tilda Swinton and Fala Chen, will premiere out of competition.
- Claire Denis returns in competition with The Fence, an adaptation set around a West African construction site starring Isaach de Bankolé and Matt Dillon.
- Juliette Binoche makes her nonfiction directing debut with In-I In Motion in Special Screenings, revisiting her 2007 collaboration with choreographer Akram Khan.
- James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg is set for the Official Selection, featuring Rami Malek as psychiatrist Douglas Kelley and Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring.
- The new slate also includes Dolores Fonzi’s Belén, Joachim Lafosse’s Six Days in Spring, Olmo Omerzu’s Ungrateful Beings, Xiaoyu Qin’s Her Heart Beats in Its Cage, and Junji Sakamoto’s Climbing for Life, with the festival running September 19–27.