Overview

• Oliver Laxe’s Sirât, a rave-party road trip in the Moroccan desert, reaches theaters with its Cannes Jury Prize and strong critical attention.
• Alex Lutz adapts Nicolas Mathieu’s Connemara with Mélanie Thierry and Bastien Bouillon, drawing praise for its portrait of midlife disillusion and class divides.
• Conjuring: L’heure du jugement returns to the Warren family with Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson, riffing on the Smurl haunting and delivering possession-driven set pieces.
• Michael Angelo Covino’s Libre échange offers a brisk U.S. relationship comedy featuring Dakota Johnson, Kyle Marvin, Adria Arjona and Covino.
• The week’s wider lineup includes Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir, a delicate childhood study, and Kateryna Gornostai’s Premières classes, a documentary on Ukrainian students living with war.