Year-End Lists

Clémence Polès Farhang: Top Ten Films of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019]

• The President's Cake
  Hasan Hadi
• Good Valley Stories
  José Luis Guerín
• I Only Rest in the Storm
  Pedro Pinho
• Afternoons of Solitude
  Albert Serra
• L'Aventura
  Sophie Letourneur
• April
  Déa Kulumbegashvili
• The Smashing Machine
  Benny Safdie
• Hamnet
  Chloé Zhao
• With Hasan in Gaza
  Kamal Aljafari
• Below the Clouds
  Gianfranco Rosi

Notable mentions

• Sorry, Baby
  Eva Victor
• Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due
  Abdellatif Kechiche
• Peter Hujar's Day
  Ira Sachs
• Sirāt
  Oliver Laxe
• Splitsville
  Michael Angelo Covino
• The Voice of Hind Rajab
  Kaouther Ben Hania
• If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
  Mary Bronstein