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OPENING NIGHT SELECTION - 2026 ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL (FROM 16 SEP)

The new film from Italian satirist Pif is gently irreverent romantic comedy about love, faith and finding the perfect pastry, following a Sicilian bachelor whose elaborate charade for the woman he loves forces him to confront what he actually believes.

OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2026 ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL (FROM 16 SEP)

Anissa Bonnefont’s atmospheric documentary follows 900 artists, staff and technicians at Milan’s legendary opera house La Scala as they anxiously approach opening night for a new production of a Verdi masterpiece.

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Claes Bang leads a superb cast in Stéphane Demoustier’s darkly comic new film, as an idealistic Danish architect whose quest to build an ambitious landmark in 1980s Paris is threatened by political games, bureaucracy and the limits of artistic freedom.

OPENING NIGHT - 2026 JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL (FROM 7 OCT)

Palme d’Or-winning director Koreeda Hirokazu (ShopliftersThe Truth) brings his signature humanism to LOOK BACK, a deeply moving adaptation of the acclaimed ‘one-shot’ manga by beloved graphic artist Tatsuki Fujimoto.

OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2026 NZ & JAPANESE FILM FESTIVALS

Renowned writer/director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's majestic new historical thriller fuses samurai spectacle with whodunnit intrigue, as a samurai lord is drawn into a series of shadowy murders within his own castle walls in feudal Japan.

OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2026 NZ & JAPANESE FILM FESTIVALS

Resounding well-received at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight 2026, Kōhei Kadowaki's ravishing anime follows two boys whose inseparable childhood friendship is shattered by a single careless moment - one that changes the course of their lives.