“The Smashing Machine”
Co-writer/director Benny Safdie digs into the bruised psyche of MMA legend Mark Kerr. Dwayne Johnson sheds invulnerability to play a champion held together by tape, pills, and denial; Emily Blunt is the partner trying to pull him back to earth. A sports film that keeps refusing triumph.

“Orphan”
From László Nemes comes a rigorous, time-sculpted portrait of a child marked by Europe’s convulsions—Holocaust shadows, communist bureaucracy, and the quiet violence of memory. The camera clings to thresholds and faces as the film asks what kind of adulthood grows from scorched ground.

Out of Competition

“After the Hunt”
Italian stylist Luca Guadagnino conducts a campus thriller: a celebrated professor (Julia Roberts) is drawn into allegations against a former protégé. Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edebiri, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chloë Sevigny circle a web of mentorship, memory, and how institutions metabolize scandal.

“In the Hand Of Dante”
Painter-director Julian Schnabel runs a double helix through time: a contemporary writer is tasked with authenticating a manuscript said to be Dante’s own while the poet’s life threads the parallel strand—an operatic sprawl with Oscar Isaac, Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, Al Pacino, John Malkovich, Martin Scorsese, and Jason Momoa.

“The Last Viking”
Danish ironist Anders Thomas Jensen (“Men And Chicken”) straps a darkly comic road caper to bruised brotherhood: estranged siblings chase a stolen Thor’s hammer for a Copenhagen gangster, with Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas sparring alongside Sofie Gråbøl, Søren Malling, and a rogues’ gallery of familiar faces.