Year-End Lists

Benoit Rouilly: Best Films of 2025, as posted on Unspoken Cinema

[see also 2024 • 2021]

1. Resurrection
   Bi Gan
2. Magellan
   Lav Diaz
3. The North
   Bart Schrijver
4. Two Prosecutors
   Sergei Loznitsa
5. Renoir
   Chie Hayakawa
6. Sirāt
   Oliver Laxe
7. A Useful Ghost
   Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
8. A Poet
   Simón Mesa Soto
9. Black Dog
   Guan Hu
10. It Was Just an Accident
    Jafar Panahi

Honorable mentions

• Youth (Hard Times)
  Wang Bing
• Youth (Homecoming)
  Wang Bing
• The Love That Remains
  Hlynur Pálmason
• Caught by the Tides
  Jia Zhang-ke