Favorite New-to-Me Films of 2026

The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.

Soon to be a father, Mark feels the pressure of domestic responsibility closing in, so he is more than happy to accept when his old friend Kurt proposes a camping trip in the Oregon wilderness. During their time together, the men come to grips with the changes in their lives and the effect on their relationship.

A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning and cinematic performance that features creative choreography and visuals.

Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundayabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left...

Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to Martin or anyone else, the princess is actually under the spell of the powerful magician Andlobrandini, who is preparing a rejuvenating elixir made from the blood of nine men's hearts.

Martha Rosler explores kitchen utensils by alphabet.

After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.

2015 film by Marcin Wrona

1973 film by Robert Altman

An encounter between the kid and four characters represented by costume props: gloves, foulard, trousers, and pullover, and an encounter between the golden age of American animation and Italian opera.

Anyone who saw Monelle (FID2019) won’t have forgotten it. Genius peculiarto and filmmaker Diego Marcon : creative, explosive sketches, elementary and powerful devices designed to remain burned both on the eye and in the memory. Here, again, there are very few characters: in a bedroom opposite the window, a man sits on an unmade bed, then his two children and finally their mother, each with a contorted face à la Paul McCarthy. Again, the sound is decisive: a chilling, disjointed ditty sweetly describing abomination. The Parent’s Room is a huddled-up horror film that, under the domestic bliss, reveals the truth disrupting any nuclear family: the murder. (Jean-Pierre Rehm)

Shortly after moving to Dallas, a young woman is raped at gunpoint. Her intense anger drives her to seek revenge, and she becomes a hunter on a vengeance mission.

After Acme products fail him one too many times in his dogged pursuit of the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote decides to hire a billboard lawyer to sue the Acme Corporation.

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

1987 film by Jonathan Demme

In his New Jersey study, Richard Nixon retraces the missteps of his political career, attempting to absolve himself of responsibility for Watergate and lambasting President Gerald Ford's decision to pardon him. His monologue explores his personal life and describes his upbringing and his mother. A tape recorder, a gun and whiskey are his only companions during his entire monologue, which is tinged with the vitriol and paranoia that puzzled the public during his presidency.

Dan, un homme pieux qui évolue en marge de sa communauté, la communauté juive du XIXe arrondissement de Paris, est convoqué par Sarah pour ausculter son mari Eli, visiblement pas dans son état normal. Dan réunit alors un minian, un office de dix personnes de confession israélite, afin de performer un exorcisme selon un rite précis et éreintant.

1966 film by Jean-Pierre Melville

Eccentric lottery winner Charles lives alone on a remote island but dreams of hiring his favourite musician, Herb McGwyer, to play an exclusive, private gig. Unbeknownst to Herb, Charles has also hired Herb’s ex-bandmate and ex-girlfriend, Nell, with her new husband in tow, to perform the old favourites. As tempers flare and old tensions resurface, the stormy weather traps them all on the island and Charles desperately looks for a way to salvage his dream gig.

1976 film directed by Jesús Franco