The Unknown
Southeast Asian Premiere
Arthur Harari France, Italy 2026 139 min M18 (Sexual Scenes and Nudity)
A reclusive Paris photographer follows a woman home from a party and wakes up the next morning inside her body, setting off an unnerving search for her identity and what he has become.
David Zimmerman, a reclusive photographer who documents the changing edges of Paris, becomes fixated on a woman he meets at a party and follows her home. He wakes the next day inside her body and panic leads him into an investigation about her identity, coupled with the unsettling work of inhabiting a body, a self and a life that are not his. The swap is less a puzzle to solve than a kind of permanent homelessness, memories and desires contained in a body that no longer fits.
Arthur Harari’s third feature is a psychological thriller that moves adroitly between realist Paris chronicle, investigation, melodrama and dream. Anchoring the film is Léa Seydoux’s masterful performance built on physical unease, playing a man’s mind trapped in another body.
Synopsis Writer: Sim Jiaying
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28 Oct, Wed 8:45PM / 139 min
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The Unknown
L'inconnue
Arthur Harari
France, Italy
2026
French
English
139 min
M18 (Sexual Scenes and Nudity)
Southeast Asian Premiere
Arthur Harari
Arthur Harari is a French filmmaker, writer and actor. He co-wrote the Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall (2023) and won screenplay awards at the BAFTA, Golden Globes and Academy Awards. His directorial feature, Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021), premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard and screened at SGIFF. The Unknown, his third feature, premiered in the main Competition at Cannes.
Lea Seydoux,
Niels Schneider,
Valérie Dréville
Nicolas Anthomé