For his feature directorial debut, American filmmaker Charlie Polinger draws inspiration from his own teenagehood to investigate the unsettling social and biological changes that shape adolescent boys' psychology, albeit through an uncanny process that parallels male puberty with cinematic traditions of psychological horror.

A minimalist envisionment of the most Westward borders of the American Civil War, The Damned serves as a stark and eerie rumination on one of the country's most contentious junctures, merging the past and present through vaporous denunciations of war and its impact on the men who wage them.

Belgian filmmaker Leonardo Van Dijl's Cannes-premiering debut feature stars non-professional actor/tennis player Tessa Van den Broek as a rising talent whose career is thrown into a tailspin when her favorite coach is accused of sexual misconduct.