Forastera (2025)

Cata will see her summer vacation disrupted by the absurd and sudden death of her grandmother, which only she witnesses. Her grief shifts when she casually turns to play pretend, transforming into the deceased. What begins with a game of dress-up will blur the lines of reality and family roles.

02/32
oh we're doing gay shame again
#sff
https://letterboxd.com/film/plainclothes/
Plainclothes (2025)

In 1990s New York, an undercover police officer receives an assignment to lure and arrest gay men. However, he's surprised to discover a scintillating connection with one of his targets. As their secret connection deepens and internal pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, he finds himself torn between duty and desire.

Hijra (2025)

A drama centered on the bond formed between different generations of Saudi women during a journey across the desert to Mecca. When the eldest granddaughter disappears, the grandmother travels to the north in search of the missing teenager.

04/32
what's the point if you can't dream
#sff
https://letterboxd.com/film/where-the-wind-comes-from/
Where the Wind Comes From (2025)

Alyssa, a rebellious 19 year-old girl, and her friend Mehdi — a shy and introverted 23-year-old young man — who use their imagination to escape their unpromising reality. When they discover a contest in the south of Tunisia that may allow them to flee for real, they decide to undertake the road trip regardless of the obstacles in their way.

Mother of Flies (2025)

When a young woman faces a deadly diagnosis, she seeks dark magic from a witch in the woods... but every cure has costs.

06/32
I'm not crying you're crying
#sff
https://letterboxd.com/film/train-dreams/
Train Dreams (2025)

A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.

07/32
some slow burns could do with a bit of gasoline
#sff
https://letterboxd.com/film/reedland/
Reedland (2025)

Upon discovering the lifeless body of a young girl on his land, a reclusive farmer is overcome by a strange feeling. As he is taking care of his granddaughter, he sets off on a quest for truth, determined to uncover the key to this tragedy. But evil sometimes lurks behind the most ordinary forms...

08/32
imagine how good it could be with an actual script
#sff
https://letterboxd.com/film/marama/
Mārama (2025)

1859. When a young Māori woman is summoned from New Zealand to North Yorkshire, she uncovers her horrific colonial heritage and is compelled to confront and destroy the titled Englishman who devastated her family.

09/32
eurospy but everyone on set was tripping balls
#sff
https://letterboxd.com/film/reflection-in-a-dead-diamond/
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025)

When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d'Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.

10/32
sorry I can't hear your existential hollowness over all the GAZE
#sff
https://letterboxd.com/film/the-stranger-2025-1/
The Stranger (2025)

Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a quiet and unassuming employee in his early thirties, attends his mother's funeral without shedding a tear. The next day, he begins a casual affair with Marie, a work colleague. He quickly slips back into his usual routine. However, his daily life is soon about to be disrupted by his neighbor, Raymond Sintès, who draws Meursault into his shady dealings. Until one blisteringly hot day, a tragic event occurs on a beach...

11/32
now THAT is the kind of slightly unhinged that I'm after
#sff
https://letterboxd.com/film/the-things-you-kill/
The Things You Kill (2025)

Questioning the suspicious death of his mother, a university professor and his enigmatic gardener descend into a hypnotic maze of mirrors and memories. As family secrets surface and painful truths emerge, they spiral toward a devastating reckoning with the darkness lurking within us all.

12/32
can't lose the plot if you never wrote one
#sff
https://letterboxd.com/film/the-message-2025/
The Message (2025)

In the Argentinian countryside, a child's special gift gives her opportunistic guardians the idea of offering consultations with her as an animal medium in order to earn a living.

13/32
that's not harsh noise, you're summoning another metaphor for unprocessed trauma!
#sff
https://letterboxd.com/film/rabbit-trap-2025/
Rabbit Trap (2025)

When a musician and her husband move to a remote house in Wales, the music they make disturbs local ancient folk magic, bringing a nameless child to their door who is intent on infiltrating their lives.

14/32
well this wasted zero time getting down to business
#sff
https://letterboxd.com/film/the-book-of-sijjin-illiyyin/
The Book of Sijjin & Illiyyin (2025)

As a child, Yuli witnessed her parents die at the hands of a mysterious force after her mother became possessed. Branded a cursed and unwanted child, she survived and grew up under the roof of her father's other wife Ambar and her daughter Laras, enduring constant humiliation. Fueled by vengeance, Yuli performs a forbidden ritual. As the dark magic takes root, the world around her begins to unravel.

15/32
I thought this would be much sillier
#sff
https://letterboxd.com/film/magic-farm/
Magic Farm (2025)

A misguided American documentary crew working for an edgy media company travels to rural Argentina to profile a local musician, but their ineptitude leads them into the wrong small town. As they collaborate with locals to attempt to fabricate a viral trend, unexpected connections blossom, while a pervasive crisis looms unacknowledged in the background.

16/32
acceptably weird if slightly undercooked
#sff
https://letterboxd.com/film/egghead-republic/
Egghead Republic (2025)

An alternative reality where the cold war didn’t end, and an atomic bomb has struck Soviet Kazakhstan. Sonja, a 22 y.o. Swedish club-kid, working at one of the hippest magazines in the world, is mysteriously invited to report from inside the radio-active zone, to find or debunk the rumors of mutated centaurs living there…

Sound of Falling (2025)

Over the course of a century, as four girls from different time periods experience their youth on a German farm, their lives become intertwined until time seems to dissolve.

18/32
am I dumb (yes) or was this incredibly messy (also yes)
#sff
https://letterboxd.com/film/alpha-2025-1/
Alpha (2025)

Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

Peter Hujar's Day (2025)

A recently discovered conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974 reveals a glimpse into New York City’s downtown art scene and the personal struggles and epiphanies that define an artist’s life.

20/32
a different woman under the same influence
#sff
https://letterboxd.com/film/die-my-love/
Die My Love (2025)

Grace, a writer and young mother, is slowly slipping into madness. Locked away in an old house in Montana, her increasingly agitated and erratic behaviour leaves her companion, Jackson, worried and helpless.

21/32
you can take the girl out of the soc-bloc but— no wait you actually can't
#sff
https://letterboxd.com/film/perla-2025/
Perla (2025)

In the 1980s, a single mother who fled communist Czechoslovakia has to return to her homeland in order to pay an old debt. The risky trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.

The Secret Agent (2025)

In 1977 Brazil, technology specialist Marcelo, fleeing a mysterious past, returns to Recife in search of peace, but realizes the city is far from the refuge he seeks.

23/32
yeah no it was alright but not best film territory
#sff
https://letterboxd.com/film/father-2025-1/
Father (2025)

The life of a man after he experiences forgotten baby syndrome, unintentionally leaving his infant daughter in the back seat of his car.

24/32
ok that was much funnier than I'd expected, perfect as the festival closer
#sff
https://letterboxd.com/film/splitsville/
Splitsville (2025)

After Ashley asks for a divorce, good-natured Carey runs to his friends, Julie and Paul, for support. He’s shocked to discover that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage, that is until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.

25/32
the threads did not quite connect for me
#pöff
https://letterboxd.com/film/the-muralist/
The Muralist (2025)

Bayaraa, a weather-worn muralist who once tasted glory in Europe, returns to Mongolia with only a box of paints, a rooftop tent, and his loyal stray dog. Each day he descends the wall of an abandoned factory, covering its crumbling concrete with sweeping murals of mythic Mongolian landscapes. Watching him is a sardonic balloon, at once conscience, companion, and a stroke of fable. When officials announce the factory will soon be demolished, Bayaraa becomes determined to leave behind his masterpiece. Yet the deeper battle lies within: the long-buried wound of the wife and daughter he abandoned for art.

26/32
the form overstayed its welcome
#pöff
https://letterboxd.com/film/oh-what-happy-days/
Oh, What Happy Days! (2025)

On the eve of losing her family estate, actress Homa is blackmailed by a government agent with a compromising tape. Forced into a real-time video call with her estranged family, which has been exiled since the 1979 Revolution, decades of silence explode into raw confrontation. As old wounds resurface and accusations fly, the line between past and present blurs. Secrets unravel, betrayals are laid bare, and the long-buried fate of two sons lost to history comes roaring back.

27/32
and here the form was not welcome to begin with
#pöff
https://letterboxd.com/film/duality-2025-2/
Duality (2025)

On a spring day, a young couple drifts apart and back together: Nima, lost in office routines and an evening celebration, and Tara, roaming markets in search of both a dress and a place to bury her secrets. Meanwhile, Aban, a young woman swept up in the tremors of first love, embarks on a journey of her own. Their paths, at once ordinary and fateful, begin to circle and echo one another in ways that move beyond the limits of time and space.

28/32
in hindsight, the disintegration of reality was clearly signposted in the opening scenes
#pöff
https://letterboxd.com/film/blindsight/
Blindsight (2025)

Laura (45) suffers from severe amnesia following an accident, so she can’t remember who the people around her are. She is reluctantly persuaded by her family to go on a boat trip to Turkey, but the closer she gets to her destination, the more unclear the purpose of the trip becomes. They are caught up in a series of situations in which they change their minds depending on the context, their own principles seem to be relativized, their choices become irrational.

29/32
this was pretty damn funny even though the plot went, ehm, places
#pöff
https://letterboxd.com/film/the-megalomaniacs/
The Megalomaniacs (2025)

What happens when desire, intellect, and ego collide under the guise of art and science? Sparks fly – and not just the cerebral kind. Sophia, a fervent archaeologist intoxicated by her own theory, is convinced that ancient amphorae can trap echoes of the past – sound waves sealed in clay, waiting to be played back like forbidden music. Enter Potter, a sardonic artisan whose hands speak the language of form, but not of faith. Their collaboration begins as scholarly curiosity and evolves into a seductive duel of wit, vanity, and power.

30/32
do NOT shoot this up mine
#pöff
https://letterboxd.com/film/veins-2025/
Veins (2025)

In Saint-Étienne, an old forested village, a young woman unravels the mystery surrounding her father's sudden death. As strange incidents multiply around her, what she discovers is even more sinister and horrifying than anything she could have imagined.

31/32
not quite sold on the musical bits
#pöff
https://letterboxd.com/film/they-will-be-dust/
They Will Be Dust (2024)

After receiving the diagnosis of an incurable brain tumor, Claudia decides to undertake her last trip to Switzerland. There she can decide how and when to end her life thanks to the help of an assisted suicide association.

32/32
sickos: yes… ha ha ha… yes! (it's me I'm sickos)
#pöff
https://letterboxd.com/film/dog-of-god/
Dog of God (2025)

In a 17th century Swedish Livonian village, constant rain and drunkenness prevail. When a stolen relic sparks witchcraft accusations, an 80-year-old self-proclaimed werewolf named the Dog of God arrives with a mysterious gift: The Devil’s Balls.