From Cry Wolf to The Actor, from Cotillard’s boldest roles to Montreux Jazz Festival – ARTE’s Summer 2025 is bold, global, and political.
🎬 Read our full guide: films, series, documentaries, concerts and festivals not to miss on ARTE this August.
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Summer 2025 is packed with award-worthy series, cinematic gems from Venice, and bold new releases across all platforms. Dive into our top picks and teasers.
“Mila isn’t just a caregiver — she’s a woman with desire, contradictions, and a world of her own. I wanted the camera to stay close to her, to let the audience feel everything from inside her skin. When I started writing Mama, I wasn’t interested in a story about migrant women — I wanted to tell a story with them, from their perspective.”
— Or Sinai, director of Mama
Mama follows Mila, a Polish migrant in Israel, facing exile and seeking dignity. A unique, intimate portrait of resilience.
Sean Wang’s debut film Didi is a moving and honest coming-of-age story. A Sundance-winning indie gem to rediscover in July 16, 2025.
Directed by James Gunn, Superman Legacy brings emotional depth and mythic scale to a reboot that could reshape the DC Universe. In theaters July 9.
Explore the best summer 2025 movie releases: all August premieres, trailers, and streaming news in one essential guide.
perience the magic of cinema under the stars this summer! From iconic Parisian courtyards to scenic regional parks, explore free and ticketed open-air screenings across France. Find dates, locations, and insider tips in our complete guide.
Celine Song’s directing style blends emotional precision with strategic clarity. From Past Lives to Materialists, she crafts stories that turn personal history into universal cinema. In this deep dive, discover how her background as a matchmaker shaped her cinematic voice, and why she refuses improvisation on set in favor of tightly scripted emotional truths.
🎥 A director who believes love and money are inseparable, Song is redefining modern romantic cinema—one film, one frame, one silence at a time.
This year’s Champs-Élysées Film Festival honored vibrant, politically charged, and emotionally powerful indie cinema—from Natalie Portman’s poetic animation ARCO to Shatara Michelle Ford’s queer road movie Dreams in Nightmares.
No note played. Yet everything happens.
Vera’s Tempo tells how a 17-year-old made jazz history possible.
Four queer films at CEFF 2025 explore age, desire, and resistance—from love at 40 to queer motherhood and lost bodies on the road.
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