Films

Babies

Struggling with the decision of whether or not to bring a child into the world, Annie and her husband Aaron become instant co-parents when their newly-divorced friend moves into their home with her 4-year-old. An ensemble comedy drama about the journey to parenthood... or not.

• LLauren Miller RogenDirector
• Seth Rogen
• Ed Helms
• Anna Kendrick
• David Strathairn
• Dan Stevens

Alpha Gang

Alien invaders, in the form of a 1950’s biker gang, are sent on a mission to conquer Earth.

• David Zellner
• Nathan ZellnerDirectors
• Cate Blanchett
• Chris Pine
• Dave Bautista
• Léa Seydoux
• Riley Keough

The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd

A teacher in an abusive marriage takes a job at a maximum security prison, where she falls for a charismatic inmate. The disastrous consequences call into question not only the nature of punishment and retribution, but the very limits of our humanity.

• Tim Blake NelsonDirector
• Amanda Seyfried
• Scoot McNairy
• Tim Blake Nelson
• Missi Pyle
• Wunmi Mosaku

Rogue Trooper

Rogue is a "Genetic Infantryman", a genetically-engineered, blue-skinned, manufactured super soldier who, alongside his three comrades, is searching for the Traitor General. His comrades are with him in the form of biochips—onto which a G.I.'s entire personality is downloaded at the time of death for later retrieval—and are named Gunnar (mounted on Rogue's rifle), Bagman (on his backpack) and Helm (on his helmet). Rogue is designed to be immune to almost all known toxins, can submerge in strong acid unaffected, and is able to withstand a vacuum on his bare skin.

• Duncan JonesDirector
• Sean Bean
• Jemaine Clement
• Hayley Atwell
• Asa Butterfield
• Matt Berry

Evil Genius

Follows the true story of the 2003 death of Brian Wells, a notorious case known as the “collar bomb” or “pizza bomber” incident. The FBI investigation revealed an extraordinarily complex and bizarre plot, later described as one of the most intricate crimes in the Bureau’s history.

• Courteney CoxDirector
• David Harbour
• Tom McCarthy
• Garret Dillahunt
• Patricia Arquette
• Michael Chernus

Slow Horses

Follow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.

• SSaul Metzstein
• Adam Randall
• JJeremy LoveringDirectors
• Gary Oldman
• Hugo Weaving
• Kristin Scott Thomas
• Jack Lowden
• Aimee-Ffion Edwards

Bucking Fastard

Two sisters, Jean and Joan Holbrooke, are so close to each other that they speak in unison, love the same man, and have the same dreams. They even make the same slip of tongue in unison. We cannot see the world as they see it, but we do see how the world reacts to them – through the courts and the press, through those that want to help and those who want to use them, through the eyes of beasts both tame and wild, and even through their own echoes in the core of the earth.

• Werner HerzogDirector
• Orlando Bloom
• Domhnall Gleeson
• Kate Mara
• Rooney Mara
• Simon Delaney

Girl Group

A pop diva, kicked out of her own group's reunion tour and slapped with a community service court order, seizes the chance to stage a comeback by coaching a group of misfit teen girls for a major record label audition, only to push them too far, forcing her to confront her toxic industry — and her own streak of self-destruction.

• Rebel WilsonDirector
• Randall Park
• Rebel Wilson
• Jennifer Coolidge
• Nicole Scherzinger
• Sheridan Smith

Carrie

Misfit high-schooler Carrie White has spent her life in seclusion with her domineering mother. After her father's sudden death, Carrie finds herself contending with the challenges of attending public high school, a bullying scandal, and the emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers.

• Mike FlanaganDirector
• Matthew Lillard
• Samantha Sloyan
• Amber Midthunder
• Summer H. Howell
• Alison Thornton

The Julia Set

Julia, a gifted mathematician, navigates the cutthroat world of academia. Pascal, a teaching assistant, recruits her to join an exclusive training program for the prestigious and notoriously difficult Putnam mathematics competition.

• Niki ByrneDirector
• Jason Isaacs
• Gillian Anderson
• Carmen Ejogo
• KKarl Farrer
• Nina Hoss

American Hostage

A psychological thriller anthology series focusing on a different hostage case every season.

• Adam ArkinDirector
• Jon Hamm
• Giovanni Ribisi
• Mireille Enos
• William Jackson Harper
• Kristoffer Polaha

Atonement

Based on Dexter Filkins’ resonant New Yorker article of the same name, about Marine Lu Lobello, haunted by memories of a deadly incident in Baghdad, whose journey of guilt and remorse leads him to reach out to Nora, the sole surviving member of the family he believes he may have harmed.

• Reed Van DykDirector
• Kenneth Branagh
• Boyd Holbrook
• Hiam Abbass
• Jake Weary
• Dino Kelly

Darlene Love: I Know Where I've Been

A documentary on Darlene Love, the singer and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee known for “He’s a Rebel” and collaborations with Cher, Bruce Springsteen, Dionne Warwick, Sam Cooke and other greats.

• Barry AvrichDirector
• Robert Smigel
• Jimmy Fallon
• Marc Shaiman
• Darlene Love
• Cher

Below

• JJamie ChildsDirector
• Josh Hartnett
• Mackenzie Davis
• Natasha Henstridge
• Charlie Heaton
• Rohan Campbell

Drifter

In a forgotten desert town, a solitary racetrack janitor with a gift for drifting is haunted by his tragic past. Given a single chance to compete at a pro drifting event, he discovers his raw talent is useless without the one thing he's always avoided: connection with others. Under a hardened mentor, he must learn to trust his found family and transform his untamed, lonely art into a dangerous dance of partnership, or be consumed and controlled by the past he's desperate to escape.

• Sung KangDirector
• Sung Kang
• Shane Johnson
• Gregory Cruz
• Tamara Braun
• McCaleb Burnett

Hombre al agua

Thousands of kilometers apart, two married colleagues meet during a corporate crisis, sparking a passionate connection that makes them question their lives and choices.

• Gael García BernalDirector
• Gael García Bernal
• Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
• Esmeralda Pimentel
• Anna Diaz
• Jorge Salinas

All That She Wants

Emma desperately wants a baby but as she sets about getting her life in order to make it happen, she just won't let herself give in to the idea that the man she really loves is a recent college grad ten years younger than her, whom she used to babysit when she was a teenager and he was four.

• Scarlett Bermingham
• AAndrew RhymerDirectors
• Christine Baranski
• Finn Wittrock
• Bill Irwin
• Zosia Mamet
• John Gemberling

The Face of Horror

In medieval England, the beautiful Eleanor pines away for her errant husband, the handsome but adulterous knight Edward. When Edward’s treachery culminates in a tragedy that robs Eleanor first of her beauty and then of her life, she returns as a ghost to eke bloody revenge on Edward and his new bride.

• Anna BillerDirector
• Bella Heathcote
• Brian Caspe
• Jonah Hauer-King
• Perdita Weeks
• Ellie Bamber

A Long Winter

High in the mountains, autumn comes to an end and a family prepares for the long winter ahead.

• Andrew HaighDirector
• Caitríona Balfe
• Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
• Ebon Moss-Bachrach
• Kit Connor
• Fred Hechinger

Crystal Lake

Single mother Pam Voorhees has been unable to shake her grief after her young, sickly son Jason tragically drowned in the town lake almost a year before. When two strangers arrive at Pam’s door digging into her past, a disturbing chain of events are set into motion, leaving the townspeople of Crystal Lake wondering: just who is Pam Voorhees?

• Brad Kane
• Logan George
• Celine HeldDirectors
• Linda Cardellini
• William Catlett
• Cameron Scoggins
• Devin Kessler
• Gwendolyn Sundstrom

Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo

A corrupt gambler in the Metropolitan Police Force finds himself thrown into a tangled case after an enigmatic FBI agent arrives in Tokyo to investigate the disappearance of a politician’s daughter.

• Takashi MiikeDirector
• Lily James
• Jun Kunimura
• Shun Oguri
• Gionna Daddio
• Jun Murakami

How We Stand

Tombs weaves together the triangular story points of three Oklahoma sisters and their mother who travel to Los Angeles as a part of a relocation program in the 1950s that gave Native Americans the opportunity to become “civilized” by getting jobs in urban centres. When they arrive, they begin to understand that like many east-to-west dreams, the reality is not the new beginning they sought. Abandoned by government policy and in acute poverty, they begin to search for their own, finding home in “the tombs” – the cemented riverways of LA. It is here a young mother is killed, and the lives of her children separate down three very different paths that emerge in 1970s Los Angeles – weaving together one telling, one flood.

• Marie ClementsDirector
• Gil Bellows
• Eric Johnson
• Amber Midthunder
• Gary Farmer
• Darren Mann

The Idiot(s)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna travel to Europe for their honeymoon and end up staying in a health resort in Switzerland, only to return to Russia after four years. Fyedya can’t shake his roulette habit and keeps losing their money. His wife accepts this fate since he keeps assuring her that it’s all for inspiration and soon he shall write his to-be masterpiece, 'The Idiot'.

• Małgorzata Szumowska
• Michał EnglertDirectors
• Rainer Bock
• Vicky Krieps
• Johnny Flynn
• Christian Friedel
• Aimee Lou Wood

Everybody Wants to F*ck Me

An original razor-sharp dark comedy thriller set in the world of modern dating in London.

• JJonathan ScheyDirector
• Taron Egerton
• Jessica Henwick
• Mia McKenna-Bruce
• Herbert Nordrum
• Antonia Clarke

Closing Night

A celebrated actress's life begins to unravel on the eve of her greatest performance. When her sister April arrives in New York after a 30-year estrangement, the stage is set for a tense family confrontation.

• Cody FernDirector
• Naomi Watts
• Sarah Paulson
• Dianne Wiest
• Odessa A'zion
• Toby Wallace

Magazine

A young intern faces intoxicating power dynamics at a prestigious New York City literary magazine.

• AAlexandra PechmanDirector
• AnnaSophia Robb
• Jake Lacy
• Daniel Zolghadri
• Iris Apatow
• Lukita Maxwell

Purgatory

In the early 1980s, 13-year-old Beatrice Gravel's comfortable world—family, school, and church—fractures when her mother moves out to 'self actualize', leaving Beatrice and her younger sister Chloe with their devastated father. As Beatrice doubles down on a plan to 'fix' her family, she barrels through bullies, friendship blowups, a make-out party, and a kleptomaniac babysitter—forcing her to decide who she wants to be when she can’t get what she wants.

• Lindsay LanzillottaDirector
• J.K. Simmons
• John Reynolds
• Abby Elliott
• Mary Walsh
• Julianne Arrieta

The Assassin(s)

In 1974, a shooting shocks South Korea. Detective Cheol-gu, who witnesses the attack, Jae-hwan, the city desk editor whose coverage is suppressed, and Young-il, a rookie reporter, begin to dig beneath the cover-up. As their pursuit of the truth deepens, they come to confront forces meant to remain unseen.

• Hur Jin-hoDirector
• Park Hae-il
• Yoo Hai-jin
• You Seong-joo
• Bae Sung-woo
• Lee Min-ho

Trash Mountain

A twenty something gay man travels from Chicago to his home in rural Missouri following the death of his father — an obsessive hoarder who has left a house full of items, some valuable and some not so, to pick through.

• Kris ReyDirector
• Zooey Deschanel
• Jacki Weaver
• Jaboukie Young-White
• Caleb Hearon
• Kyle Marvin

Faith

Gina, a hard-working and devoted single mother, meets a quietly enigmatic stranger, Michael. The presence of someone who appears to care for her brings a new and exciting dynamic to her life, despite the fact she knows nothing about him or what his intentions towards her really are. Is he a friend, a potential lover or something more sinister?

• Paul Andrew WilliamsDirector
• James McAvoy
• Clea Martin
• Erin Doherty
• Liv Hill
• Sandra Huggett

Smudge the Blades

Treaty 6 Blades, an under-18 hockey team from an Alberta reservation, face their last season together while navigating their tough northern league.

• Cody LightningDirector
• Ed Helms
• David Lawrence
• David McNally
• Tom Carey
• Paulina Alexis

The Housewife

A young New York Times journalist tracking down a potential Nazi officer living secretly in Queens.

• BBen ShirinianDirector
• Naomi Watts
• Tye Sheridan
• Michael Imperioli
• Norman Reedus
• Hannah Marks

Whatcha Want

• Mina ShumDirector
• Tzi Ma
• Ming-Na Wen
• Hugh Tran
• Isabella Wei
• Russell Lee

Julián

Wide-eyed Julián is about to spend the summer with a grandmother he barely knows. He is amazed to discover her treasure-trove apartment, his own Caribbean heritage and the lively Brooklyn community he is surrounded by. But most surprising of all, Julián discovers that he is, in fact, a mermaid!

• Louise BagnallDirector
• Kim Roberts
• Stephanie Herrera
• Yanna McIntosh
• Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz
• Milcania Diaz-Rojas

Wild Wild East

In occupied Poland 1943, German official Martin Wolff is sent to a remote village to investigate the disappearance of a Jewish lawyer. His arrival unsettles the fragile order between scarred villagers, corrupt collaborators, and Nazi authorities, unearthing a web of betrayal and greed tied to whispers of the lawyer’s hidden fortune. Yet as the village’s darkest truths come to light, Wolff’s search may be hiding more than it reveals.

• Jan HoloubekDirector
• Jacek Koman
• Joanna Kulig
• Robert Więckiewicz
• Itay Tiran
• Jacek Beler

Alice

• Virginie Verrier
• GGuillaume LonerganDirectors
• Bérénice Bejo
• Irène Jacob
• Oscar Lesage
• François Arnaud
• Yannick Choirat

Seventeen

Set over the course of seventeen hours, the lives of three Indigenous sex workers intersect through chance, relation, and the shared experience of familial and colonial displacement.

• JJustin DucharmeDirector
• Kaniehtiio Horn
• Ray G. Thunderchild
• Mathias Retamal
• Renae Morriseau
• Shannon Baker

Vintage Violence

A livestreamer discovers a cache of vintage denim only to run afoul of the Yakuza when he is lured to Japan to sell the jeans by one of his subscribers.

• Eugene KotlyarenkoDirector
• Cole Sprouse
• Nijiro Murakami
• Kiko Mizuhara
• Pierre Taki
• Nick Corirossi

YAGA

While a private investigator probes the disappearance of the young heir to a powerful fishery, he finds himself at odds with an apprehensive local detective, a charismatic university professor with a taste for younger men, and a labyrinth of enigmatic suspects, secret lives, and ancient magic.

• RRachel Talalay
• DDavid FrazeeDirectors
• Carrie-Anne Moss
• Patrick Gilmore
• Clark Backo
• Noah Reid
• Hudson Williams

Diary of a Mad Old Man

A seventy year old widow recovers from a stroke in the care of his dysfunctional family. While his body is failing him, his libido still rages on -- unwittingly sparked by the attentions of his daughter-in-law, a dancer with a shady past.

• Wayne WangDirector
• Fan Bingbing
• Lily Franky
• Youki Kudoh
• Takumi Saitoh
• Momoka Ayukawa

Lemonade

Danny, a kind-hearted teen about to age out of the care system is facing adulthood without family or support. After a turbulent childhood and separation from his younger brother, Danny is determined to build a future - but one reckless mistake puts him at risk of prison. As his 18th birthday approaches, Josh - his former social worker and the only adult who ever believed in him - returns, offering guidance when Danny needs it most. With new love, big dreams, and overwhelming challenges, Danny must choose whether to repeat the cycle of his past or fight for the life he deserves.

• Kim BartleyDirector
• Barry Keoghan
• Eileen Walsh
• Carla Tous
• John Connors
• Connie Doona

Ancestors

1988. Dreams, memories and history collide as a young man searches for his missing friend.

• DDavid TurpinDirector
• Rupert Everett
• Christina Hendricks
• Éanna Hardwicke
• Jack Wolfe
• Jessica Reynolds

Arrested Memory

A seasoned detective recently diagnosed with dementia is doggedly pursued by both cops and crooks after he unwittingly wanders off with a multimillion-dollar ransom.

• SABUDirector
• Shinichi Tsutsumi
• Reika Kirishima
• Ethan Juan
• Hsieh Ying-shiuan
• Brando Huang

Neil Peart: No One's Disciple

• Scot McFadyen
• Sam DunnDirectors
• Chad Smith
• Stewart Copeland
• Geddy Lee
• Alex Lifeson
• Danny Carey

Oxygen Masks Will (Not) Drop Automatically

1988: A Brazilian flight attendant named Fernando jets between Rio and New York, loves many men, and lives life to the fullest. He ignores the fact that lots of people around him are contracting a mysterious illness. When he himself is diagnosed with HIV, he resolves to fight it. Taking a risk, he smuggles a drug out of the US and into Brazil, where it is illegal.

• Marcelo Gomes
• CCarol MinêmDirectors
• Hermila Guedes
• Carla Ribas
• Rita Assemany
• Júlio Machado
• Johnny Massaro

Paradise Lost

• Yeon Sang-hoDirector
• Koo Kyo-hwan
• Kim Jong-tae
• Kim Hyun-joo
• Lee Hyun-kyun
• Bae Hyeon-seong

I Am Mario

Mario is a trans taxi driver who gets pregnant. He has the possibility of fulfilling his desire to become a father, but this confronts him with his expectations regarding his masculinity. Before exposing himself to a "macho" and prejudice-filled society, he must face himself.

• Sharon KleinbergDirector
• Hector Kotsifakis
• Fermín Martínez
• Kristyan Ferrer
• Mayra Batalla
• Mercedes Hernández

Nobody's Violence

Mira is a solitary woman of few words. She travels around meeting desperate people with whom she seems to have forged strange death pacts. With no apparent destination, she comes across Madeleine and Ludo, two free-spirited hedonists living deep in the forest.

• Denis CôtéDirector
• Philippe Rebbot
• Gabrielle Lazure
• Larissa Corriveau
• Pierrette Robitaille
• Belkacem Lahbairi

The Betrayers

A former Israeli politician and Soviet dissident finds his betrayer at a Crimean resort, sparking a confrontation with past wounds and questions of justice and forgiveness.

• David BezmozgisDirector
• Simon McBurney
• Michael Aronov
• Kaelen Ohm
• Viktorija Portnova

Voices

A group of college besties find their way through adult life with the help of a strange ability: to hear each other's inner voices. When a long-estranged friend invites the others to a housewarming party, simmering tensions between them come to the surface, and supernatural machinations are revealed.

• DDeanté GrayDirector
• Myhraliza Aala
• Tyler Ham Pong
• Rachel Appelbaum
• James Lontayao
• Cynthia San Luis

The Daughters of Abraham

After several years apart, Myriam, a young woman from a Muslim background who grew up in Marseille, reconnects with Eva, who comes from a Jewish family, during the summer vacation. Together, they live out their youth outside the imposed norms. But this carefree summer begins to unravel when a tragedy upends the balance of their social and family circles—and soon, their own destinies.

• HHanaël El YousfiDirector
• Younes Bouab
• Syrus Shahidi
• Melissa Guers
• Ava Baya
• Bilel Chegrani

Back in Black

In a wellness-obsessed small town where nobody dies anymore, struggling mortician Clyde faces bankruptcy — until his granddaughter Sam devises an unexpected solution to save the family business.

• Ron MurphyDirector
• Christopher Walken
• Jane Curtin
• Ella Ballentine

In the Heart of the South

Yura Ivalu is an ambitious Inuk multimedia artist who spirals out of control when an estranged childhood friend, Sesi Ilupaalik, forces Yura to confront the trauma she’s built her career on and the identity she built as an avenue to escape.

• Nyla InnuksukDirector
• Alexander Nunez
• TTara Nicodemo
• Anna Lambe
• Star Slade
• JJack Greig

Krux

In a German village near war's end, women struggle to maintain normalcy as corpses appear along the river. When ordered to leave no Germans alive for arriving Russians, villagers face brutal choices about survival and humanity.

• TTony VahlDirector
• Clemens Schick
• Martin Wuttke
• Jella Haase
• Lukas Miko
• Frida Lovisa Hamann

Djinn Wedding

Explores the relationship between human destiny and the disintegration of a family spanning three generations.

• Ferit KarahanDirector
• Demet Özdemir
• Ushan Çakır
• Tuba Ünsal
• Feride Çetin
• Helin Kandemir

Glaxo

In a small provincial town between the late 1950s and the 1980s, four young men whose friendship is shattered forever when a former policeman and his beautiful wife arrive in the town where the titular factory is located.

• Benjamín NaishtatDirector
• Esteban Bigliardi
• Alan Sabbagh
• Lali Espósito
• Esteban Lamothe
• Marcelo Subiotto

A Common Story

Erika and Mauro live in the province, living a simple life made up of reassuring habits and small gestures. When their daughter Irene leaves to study abroad, the house empties, and the balance on which the couple has built their existence seems to be shaken.

• Anna FogliettaDirector
• Alba Rohrwacher
• Guido Caprino
• Elio De Capitani
• Caterina Casini

Onwards and Sideways

Tony Evans is the deputy head of a local primary school. Emma Dretzin is a pianist, composer and single mother of two daughters. Neither knows the other until a startling encounter changes the course of their lives: on the same morning, they are both confronted with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s.

• John MaddenDirector
• Rhys Ifans
• Laura Linney

The Surgeon

A former surgeon is kidnapped and given an impossible choice.

• RRoshan SethiDirector
• Martin Freeman
• Michelle Yeoh

On Behalf of My Son

Vicentina struggles to cope with the death of her son Wesley after a tragic bus accident, in which he was the driver. As the investigation unfolds, evidence suggests that Wesley’s actions may have been suicidal. Vicentina then embarks on a journey to seek out the victims’ families and apologize, while confronting her own grief and uncertainty.

• Gabriel MartinsDirector
• Karine Teles
• Grace Passô
• Rejane Faria
• Thalma de Freitas
• Renato Novaes

Neverman

A transgender woman with Alzheimer's moves into a retirement home. As her lucidity wanes, she must confront the challenges of her condition and fight for her identity once more.

• Rodrigo BarriusoDirector
• Laura Wilson
• Duane Murray
• Taylor Love
• Justin Vivian Bond

Blindspot Berlin

• DDavid NawrathDirector
• Albrecht Schuch
• Jeanne Goursaud
• Bernd Hölscher
• Bayan Layla
• WWael Alkhatib

Viva Carmen

• Sébastien LaudenbachDirector
• Milo Machado-Graner
• Camélia Jordana
• Carl Malapa
• Soumaye Bocoum

River

• Joshua GiulianoDirector
• Jessica Rothe
• Jane Levy
• Max Mattern

Masc

Robin, a young autistic man desperate to fit in, tries on different roles to understand what kind of man he's supposed to be.

• Bertil NilssonDirector
• Ed White
• Hi Ching
• LLincoln Conway
• Tega Alexander
• Joshua Griffin

Happily Ever After

As one sister prepares for marriage and the other resists every convention it represents, their fragile bond is tested by love, family expectations, and the question of whether happiness can ever truly be chosen.

• Feng-I Fiona RoanDirector
• Jack Kao
• Yang Kuei-mei
• Kent Tsai
• Yeh Shu-hua
• Heather Chen

A Good Little Soldier

• Stéphane BrizéDirector
• Alba Rohrwacher
• Vincent Lindon

God Bless You, Mr Kopu

A struggling Tongan immigrant is taken under the wing of a charismatic American salesman. What begins as a dream job quickly unravels into a nightmare as the protégé begins questioning his mentor’s methods.

• AAlex LiuDirector
• Simon Rex
• Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi
• Grace Palmer

Silenced Nights

An ordinary worker witnesses the extrajudicial killing of a teenage boy by police officers. Inspired by real-life events during the Philippine anti-drug campaign, the film tracks the lone witness who risks his safety in an attempt to make the truth known.

• Lawrence FajardoDirector
• Joel Saracho
• Nico Antonio
• Lotlot De Leon
• Tanya Gomez
• Ina Feleo

Double Freedom

Misael works alone with his axe, cutting down trees in the woods. An unexpected responsibility upends his life, and the logic of his days fades away in a nature where human reason holds no meaning.

• Lisandro AlonsoDirector
• Catalina Saavedra
• Adrián Fondari
• Misael Saavedra
• Laura López Moyano
• IIván Carra

The Smell of Apples

In the insulated bubble of white Apartheid South Africa, Marnus, a sheltered 11-year old boy accuses the grandson of his family’s domestic worker of steeling his fishing rod. A brutal chain of events is set in motion, shattering the illusion of his family’s wholesome facade.

• John TrengoveDirector
• Inge Beckmann
• Hilton Pelser
• Maude Sandham
• Dawian van der Westhuizen
• CCeleste Matthews Wannenburgh

Trees are Watching

• Bahman GhobadiDirector
• Eva Green
• Murat Yildirim

Idda

Adele and Sofia, childhood friends now in their thirties, reunite after years apart to fulfill a dream they once shared: reaching the summit of Mount Etna. But something feels off, and a bitter confrontation breaks out, opening old wounds and unveiling deeply buried secrets. They separate just as the volcano begins to tremble. Adele presses on alone, haunted by the wish that she had turned back and reached the crater together with Sofia to listen to the mountain’s magical breathing.

• Irene DionisioDirector
• Romana Maggiora Vergano
• Giuseppe De Domenico
• Tecla Insolia
• Mati Galey

HALF

• SSamjadDirector
• Amala Paul
• Srikant Murali
• Abbas
• Ranjith Sajeev
• Aiswarya Raj

Stuffed

Araminta, a brooding taxidermist whose secret ambition is to stuff a human specimen, meets Bernie, a lonely man so afraid of being forgotten that he volunteers himself, their pact unexpectedly evolves into a haunting romance.

• TTheo RhysDirector
• Harry Melling
• Jodie Comer

Anchors Aweigh

When a well-meaning loser gets rejected by his much younger and more successful blonde girlfriend, he rents a small sailboat by the airport and spirals into a state of deep personal reflection.

• Matt BaratsDirector
• Mike Holt
• Ana Fabrega
• Matt Barats
• FFelipe Di Poi
• SSerena Profaci

Strong Son

A dedicated South Asian bodybuilder returns home to care for his aging father, juggling his own well-being with the demands of care-giving. He strives to balance personal goals and filial duty in this touching exploration of family bonds.

• IIan BawaDirector
• Erik Athavale
• Onalee Ames
• Michaela Kurimsky

Conversation With The Sea

In Jerusalem, Kamal, a 60-year-old Palestinian man, is ordered by an Israeli court to pay a large social security debt allegedly owed by his son Wael. But Wael drowned in the Red Sea decades ago. When no official record of his death can be found, Kamal follows the only remaining lead to uncover what happened to his son.

• Muayad AlayanDirector
• Amer Hlehel
• Kamel El Basha
• Maria Zreik
• BBahira Ablassi

Salvation

• TTom NicollDirector
• Stephen McMillan
• Kathleen McDermott
• Conor McCarron
• LLiam Harkins

Memories of a Forest

• KKatharina RablDirector
• Linde Prelog
• Lukas Walcher
• Dominik Warta
• Julia Windischbauer

The Remotes

A grieving detective finds himself increasingly ensnared while investigating a case involving a sinister navigation app causing physical and psychological debris.

• John TorresDirector
• Gabby Padilla
• Enchong Dee
• Jorrybell Agoto
• Alcris Galura
• JJulia Richards

Toy Gun Bandit

• Rémi St-MichelDirector
• BBrandon Truong
• Sara Montpetit
• Lou Thompson
• David Beaudoin
• MMathieu Bourret

In Alaska

• JJaap van Heusden
• Vinnie KaretakDirectors
• Noomi Rapace
• LLeo Matthew Temela

The Difficult Bride

Novera, a bride-to-be in present-day Dhaka, is in love with her groom and dreams of a fairytale wedding, but secretly struggles with her body’s resistance to wedding rituals. As stress and emotional pain intensify, a mysterious woman with long hair begins appearing in Novera’s imagination.

• Rubaiyat HossainDirector
• Shatabdi Wadud
• Azmeri Haque Badhon
• Reekita Nondine Shimu
• Sunerah Binte Kamal
• Saberi Alam

The Age of Goodbyes

Set in Malaysia, the film follows a young woman named Du Li An who falls in love with a man named Lin Sang in 1969 before he mysteriously disappears. Years later, after marrying a gangster and becoming stepmother to a teenage girl, Du Li An encounters a man who looks exactly like her vanished lover. The decade-spanning narrative blends elements of romance, mystery and coming-of-age storytelling.

• Edmund YeoDirector
• Vivian Sung Yun-hua
• Troy Liu
• Stanley Yau Sze-Chun

Sunburn

• Serville PobleteDirector
• JJoshua Obra
• MMilan Deng
• Ericka Leobrera
• Arianna Shannon
• TTrinity Lloyd

Life of Jorge Luis Borges

• Mariano LlinásDirector
• Laura Paredes
• MMilva Leonardi
• EErnesto Montequín

Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo

A deeply personal portrait of one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in Japanese cinema: filmmaker, writer, and revolutionary Masao Adachi.

• Kamal AljafariDirector
• Masao Adachi
• Neo Sora
• IIkuyo Shida
• MMakiko Nishigaito
• HHideo Shida

At Night

After an abortion, a woman roams the streets, engaging in a sequence of understated encounters bathed in the glow of neon lights.

• BBeatrice GibsonDirector
• Lily McMenamy
• BBeatrice Gibson
• Laida Lertxundi
• PPauline Curnier-Jardin
• DDenna Cartamkhoob

After Elena

When a family's matriarch dies, four relatives are forced to confront decades of silence, resentment, and buried affection. Led by Alfredo Castro, this sharp ensemble balances humour and melancholy in a moving portrait of grief and reconciliation.

• SShawn GarryDirector
• Alfredo Castro
• Nicolás Zárate

Bleeding Hearts

A music-driven love story about real-life couple Zella Day and Jesse Woods, the musicians behind Chaparelle. Following their first year together, they chase a shared dream while facing pressures that could spark a breakup—or a breakthrough

• Andrew MorganDirector
• ZZella Day

The Pervert's Guide to Utopias

Philosopher Slavoj Žižek is our guide through landscapes of classic film, music, social media, archive and webcasts. Making unexpected twists and turns, he maps the utopian illusions of our times. Through absurd juxtapositions and startling insights, we are seduced into recognising our fate, in order to change it.

• Sophie FiennesDirector
• Slavoj Žižek

Always Lalisa

K-pop idol–turned–global superstar Lisa stars in this intimate and transformative documentary tracing her journey from childhood ambition through BLACKPINK stardom into the artist she is today.

• SSue KimDirector
• LISA

Future Tense

Plot TBA. Described as an eco-thriller film.

• Jenna Cato BassDirector
• Kristen Raath
• LLawrence Maleka

Rapinoe

Soccer star Megan Rapinoe explores what it means to win and lose in this intimate portrait.

• RRebeca HunttDirector
• Megan Rapinoe

The World Before

On a small island, Jin, a teenage girl going through puberty, begins her first love affair with her best friend Dujae.

• Yoon Dan-biDirector
• Sim Su-bin
• Kim Eo-jin

Union Town

Set against the backdrop of New York City, the film follows delivery industry workers as they take on some of the world s most powerful corporate giants, touching on the challenges, joys and human elements that make this movement possible.

• Barbara KoppleDirector
• Saad Kassis-Mohamed

Intermission

Spanning nearly sixty years, Yonfan features his career in music, dance, photography, and writing through fifteen films in Intermission. This captivating cinematic journey stands as a witness to the essence of a changing world.

• YonfanDirector
• Yonfan

Light Pillar

The future. Winter. Space travel is no longer a dream. A lonely janitor tends the grounds of a dilapidated bankrupt film studio with only a former cat actor for company until he embarks on a romantic journey with a female player in a beautiful virtual world.

• XXu ZaoDirector
• Dong Chengpeng
• QQing Yi

Eklipse

Twelve-year-old Tomy spends the summer of the 1999 solar eclipse with his best friend Chris on an alpine pasture. When Chris learns that Tomy's father is in hospital with AIDS, their friendship falls apart – and Tomy suddenly finds himself torn between exclusion and the secrecy of his own family.

• MManuel WetscherDirector
• LLisa Schützenberger
• Hannes Perkmann
• LLenz Moretti
• FFinley Brown
• MMoritz Hohlrieder

Edward Said: Between Worlds

An all archival documentary that chronicles the personal journey and ideas of Palestinian-American intellectual, Edward Said.

• Maiken BairdDirector
• Edward Said

Angh

In 1960s Nagaland, a proud Konyak chief struggles to protect his dying traditions when an American missionary arrives with promises of aid that threaten his people’s identity. As his wife’s health deteriorates and famine looms, he and his mute son must make an impossible choice between survival and staying true to their ancestral ways.

• Theja RioDirector
• Douglas Henshall

Love is the monster

• NNeto Villalobos BrenesDirector
• Paulina García
• NNatalia Regidor
• GGloriana Vargas

Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney

Haunted by visions of the future. Vilified by the political establishment. Charming beyond belief. Behold the dazzling ascent of Brian Mulroney, the “Boy from Baie-Comeau” who built a brand-new Canada.

• Matthew RankinDirector
• Brian Mulroney

Turtle Island Rap

• AAlexandra LazarowichDirector
• Travis Thompson

2.6 Seconds: Death in the Outback

• DDarren DaleDirector
• DDerek Williams
• AAndrew Boe
• KKate Wild

Phoolan

Follows an impoverished 17-year-old girl who becomes a famous outlaw and survives a brutal 48-hour siege when thousands of armed men trap her in a village.

• RRichie MehtaDirector

The Fortunate Isles

In the arid Canary Islands of the 15th century, Fátima is enslaved by a decadent marquis who controls the island’s only source of fresh water. When rebellion erupts and the well runs dry, she ventures into the barren landscape in search of water — and a chance of survival for the entire community.

• Helena Girón
• SSamuel DelgadoDirectors

Man in Motion: The Rick Hansen Story

This galvanizing portrait celebrates Rick Hansen, the great Canadian athlete and activist. It chronicles his 26-month Man In Motion World Tour: a 40,000-kilometre wheelchair journey that raised millions to eliminate accessibility barriers and transform public perception of people with disabilities.

• AAdrian BuitenhuisDirector

Ah Girl

Singapore, 1994. Ah Girl is a curious 7-year-old girl. Since her parents separated, she lives in a small flat with her younger sister, Ah Tian, her easygoing Pa who works nightshifts, and her irritable Grandmother. They see their needy and unreliable Mum on weekends. One weekend, drunk Mum asks if Ah Girl wants to live with her when she gets a bigger flat. This question disrupts Ah Girl's sense of the world, and the rest of the film unfolds as she struggles with the decision. She becomes increasingly aware that her family life is far from normal.

• AAng Geck Geck PriscillaDirector
• Doreen Toh
• James Seah
• Carrie Wong
• XXuan Jing Ong
• Sydney Wong

Pretenders

Based on in-depth interviews with Hynde and archival sources, Pretenders traces the journey of a truly unique rock icon.

• Joss CrowleyDirector

Rehearsals for a Revolution

Through five portraits of relatives and mentors, five expressions of resistance, Pegah Ahangarani sketches her life story. Drawing from personal archives, home videos, street protests footage, newspapers, and recorded voices, she retraces more than 40 years of Iran’s history. From the early days of 1979, until the war that began in 2026, she pieces together intimate and collective memories, forming the portrait of a country shaped by political repression and in constant hope for a revolution.

• Pegah AhangaraniDirector

Brace Your Heart

In a remote Sámi village high in the mountains, 20-year-old Ejva inherits her late father's reindeer herd. As she struggles to keep the herd thriving, local leader Heaika develops romantic feelings for her, and though hesitant, she feels compelled to accept. But everything changes when Nejla, Heaika's cousin, arrives, and Ejva discovers true love for the first time. Betrayed and jealous, Heaika reacts harshly, leaving Ejva with a condition that makes her hands shake uncontrollably, threatening her ability to care for the herd. Now, Ejva must find a way to reclaim control over her life and her future.

• Amanda KernellDirector
• EElli-Sara Valkeapää
• AAndte Gaup-Juuso
• VVincent Niia

Kick On

When a night of partying leads four friends to kick on, at the extravagant drug-fueled lair of a mobster's reckless son, they find themselves fighting for their lives amidst a brutal spiral of paranoia, violence and ultimate betrayal.

• NNick KozakisDirector

Cheyenne

Cheyenne follows a group of fearless cowgirls who compete at riding wild broncos on the rodeo circuit after nearly a century of being excluded because of their gender.

• TTaimi ArvidsonDirector

Re/Pair

• Lacey Schwartz DelgadoDirector

The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs

• ÈÈlia Gasull Balada
• MMatteo NorziDirectors
• SSara Flores

The Ultra Runner

• MMila Aung-ThwinDirector

Black Sunflowers

Black Sunflowers is a mosaic of Ukrainian youth, shuttling between the frontlines and civilian life, captured by the gifted American filmmaker James Marcus Haney (No Cameras Allowed) collaborating with an esteemed Ukrainian crew.

• JJames Marcus HaneyDirector

Where the River Begins

Yajaira, a young but strong Embera woman, lives with her daughter Maria in a violent Bogotá neighborhood. Haunted by dreams of the jungle, she longs to return to the village she once called home. After a tragedy strikes, they have no choice but to leave. Jhon, a charismatic young gang member, joins them on their dangerous journey to the Andágueda River, driven by motives he keeps hidden. Donde Comienza el Río is a poignant, poetic film where a perilous escape becomes a journey of healing. As the jungle reemerges through memory and dream, masks fall and reality is touched by the magic of Yajaira’s inner world.

• JJuan Andrés ArangoDirector
• GGirleza Duave Cerezo
• JJuan David Junca Linares
• AAna Michell Nama Dumaza

Still Night, Burning House

In her deeply personal debut feature, award-winning filmmaker Carol Nguyen charts her family’s first reunion since her uncle’s mysterious death. Travelling together to Vietnam, the family embarks on a revelatory—and at times uncanny—journey through intergenerational trauma and many-layered loss. With care and probing curiosity, Nguyen guides her loved ones as they navigate unsealed medical records and a decades-long silence, ultimately leading them back to each other. A metaphysical poem for complex mourning, Still Night, Burning House shows how storytelling can transform grief into collective healing.

• Carol NguyenDirector

Gail

A superfan of the Canadian band Our Lady Peace follows them on their 30th anniversary tour across Canada.

• MMichael MaxxisDirector

Tehran, Under the Skin

• Afsaneh SalariDirector

The bovine with the curved horns

The bovine with the curved horns follows a boy searching for his missing father through a landscape where myth and violence coexist.

• OOmar E. Ospina GiraldoDirector

Furies

During Lebanon’s corruption-fueled economic collapse, the banks freeze millions of depositors out of their own life savings. Maro, a determined single mom, and her wild-hearted sister Dalia scheme a daring, all-night heist to get their own money back.

• RRami KodeihDirector

Nosotros

• JJoaquín RuanoDirector
• LLola Vásquez

Ba's Book

Production/Post-production. After a father writes a memoir in the form of letters to his daughter about his harrowing experiences of the Vietnam War and the Iranian Revolution, the daughter responds by making a film.

• AAshley DuongDirector

Head to Head

Iranian director Ghasideh Golmakani’s absurd and highly political debut feature explores what happens when a female director forces male actors to wear skirts and headscarves.

• Ghasideh GolmakaniDirector

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Like Magic

Blending archival footage, personal testimony and a decades-long search for answers, Melissa Saavedra Gil transforms a childhood tragedy into a powerful exploration of memory, truth, and healing. An intimate and deeply resonant debut that illuminates both a personal story and a generation shaped by violence.

• MMelissa Saavedra GilDirector

Long Long Night

A jukebox musical featuring the songs of Lionel Richie.

• KKyu Bock YoumDirector

Low Lies The Land

• EEmanuele GerosaDirector

Making Waves With... Hudson Williams

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