Year-End Lists

Julian Ross: Best Films of 2025, as submitted to the Film Comment Poll

1. Việt and Nam
   Trương Minh Quý
2. Direct Action
   Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell
3. Afternoons of Solitude
   Albert Serra
4. Sirāt
   Oliver Laxe
5. April
   Déa Kulumbegashvili
6. The Secret Agent
   Kleber Mendonça Filho
7. Caught by the Tides
   Jia Zhang-ke
8. My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
   Julia Loktev
9. Sound of Falling
   Mascha Schilinski
10. The Mastermind
    Kelly Reichardt
11. Happyend
    Neo Sora
12. Pepe
    Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias
13. Resurrection
    Bi Gan
14. It Was Just an Accident
    Jafar Panahi
15. Misericordia
    Alain Guiraudie
16. BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
    Kahlil Joseph
17. Desert of Namibia
    Yoko Yamanaka
18. Invention
    Courtney Stephens
19. Cloud
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa