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Death Does Not Exist and Peak Everything
Brand New Landscape
(Year: 2025; Director: Danzuka Yuiga; Writer: Danzuka Yuiga; Stars: Kenichi Endo, Haruka Igawa, Mai Kiryû, Kodai Kurosaki)
A delivery driver haunted by the loss of his mother runs into his long-estranged father on a routine delivery.
Dangerous Animals
(Country: Australia; Year: 2025; Director: Sean Byrne; Writer: Nick Lepard; Stars: Hassie Harrison, Jai Courtney, Josh Heuston, Rob Carlton, Ella Newton, James Munn, Jon Quested, Michael Goldman, Liam Greinke, Ryland Pearson-McManus, Teah Fraser, Sean Richard, Jess Tredinnick)
When Zephyr, a rebellious surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape.
Death Does Not Exist
(La Mort n’Existe Pas)
(Year: 2025; Director: Félix Dufour-Laperrière; Writer: Félix Dufour-Laperrière; Stars: Karelle Tremblay, Barbara Ulrich, Zeneb Blanchet, Mattis Savard-Verhoeven, Irène Dufour)
After a failed armed attack on wealthy oppressors, Hélène, the leader of a freedom-fighting group, finds her convictions shaken in a world that becomes more surreal with each step.
Enzo
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Robin Campillo; Writer: Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet; Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Élodie Bouchez, Malou Khebizi, Nathan Japy, Maksym Slivinskyi, Eloy Pohu)
A 16-year-old boy breaks out from his bourgeois family and starts an apprenticeship as a stonemason. He also meets a Ukrainian colleague who turns his world upside down.
The Girls We Want
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Prïncia Car; Writer: Prïncia Car, Léna Mardi; Stars: Houssam Mohamed, Leïa Haïchour, Lou Anna Hamon)
Marseille, the holidays. Omar, 20, oversees the children summer camp with his longtime friends. The adolescents are full of dreams, principles, and prejudices. When Carmen returns after years being away, the group dynamic is put to the test.
Her Will Be Done and The Girl In The Snow
The Girl In The Snow
(L'engloutie)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Louise Hémon; Writer: Louise Hémon, Maxence Stamatiadis, Anaïs Tellenne; Stars: Samuel Kircher, Galatéa Bellugi, Matthieu Lucci, Sharif Andoura)
1899. On a stormy night, Aimée, a young Republican schoolteacher, arrives in a snowy hamlet on the edge of the Alps. Despite the mistrust of the inhabitants, she is determined to shed light on their dark beliefs. As she blends into the life of the community, a sensual vertigo grows within her.
Girl On Edge
(Country: China; Year: 2025; Director: Jinghao Zhou; Writer: Jinghao Zhou; Stars: Zifeng Zhang, Yili Ma)
Figure skater Jiang struggles to salvage her career under the ruthless eye of her mother and coach, Wang. At the rink, she finds a kindred spirit in Zhong, a worker with a buried gift for skating. But when Wang begins to train Zhong, tension builds and Jiang’s ambition spirals into destructive obsession.
Her Will Be Done
(Que Ma Volonté Soit Faite)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Julia Kowalski; Writer: Julia Kowalski; Stars: Maria Wróbel, Roxane Mesquida, Wojciech Skibinski, Przemyslaw Przestrzelski, Kuba Dyniewicz, Jean-Baptiste Durand, Raphaël Thiéry, Eva Lallier)
Nawojka, 20, dreams of escaping her harsh life working at the family farm. Under the influence of the free-spirited Sandra, Naw experiences trance-like episodes and strange powers, just like her dead mother before her.
Indomptables
(Country: Cameroon, France; Year: 2025; Director: Thomas Ngijol; Writer: Mosco Boucault, Thomas Ngijol; Stars: Danilo Melande, Bienvenu Roland Mvoe, Thomas Ngijol, Thérèse Ngono)
Yaoundé, Inspector Billong investigates the murder of a police officer, while his personal life reaches breaking point.
Kokuho
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Sang-il Lee; Writer: Satoko Okudera, Shûichi Yoshida; Stars: Ai Mikami, Takahiro Miura, Emma Miyazawa, Nana Mori, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyûsaku Shimada, Mitsuki Takahata, Min Tanaka, Shinobu Terajima, Ken Watanabe, Ryûsei Yokohama, Ryô Yoshizawa)
A boy born into a family of gangsgters is taken in by a kabuki theatre actor and finds a talent for the craft.
Wild Foxes and The President’s Cake
Lucky Lu
(Year: 2025; Director: Lloyd Lee Choi; Writer: Lloyd Lee Choi; Stars: Alex Veadov, Fala Chen, Chang Chen, Perry Yung, Laith Nakli, Sarah Baskin, Jenni Ruiza, Joanna Carpenter, Fiona Fu, Tom Ukah, Marcos A. Gonzalez, Danny Borbon, John Ramaine, Carabelle Manna, Shing Moussa Chung)
A New York City delivery rider's world is turned upside down when he loses his only source of income.
Militantropos
(Country: France, Ukraine, Austria; Year: 2025; Director: Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova and Simon Mozgovyi; Writer: Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi, Maksym Nakonechnyi)
Captures the human condition through the fractured realities of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The film pieces together everyday lives transformed by war — those who flee, those who lose everything, and those who stay to resist and fight
Mirrors No.3
(Miroirs No.3)
(Year: 2025; Director: Christian Petzold; Writer: Christian Petzold; Stars: Paula Beer, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, Enno Trebs, Victoire Laly)
On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura miraculously survives a car crash. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident and now cares for Laura with motherly devotion. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura's presence, the four of them slowly build up some family-like routine. But soon they can no longer ignore their past...
The Party's Over!
(Classe moyenne)
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Antony Cordier; Writer: Antony Cordier, Jean-Alain Laban, Steven Mitz, Julie Peyr; Stars: Laure Calamy, Laurent Lafitte, Élodie Bouchez, Noée Abita, Ramzy Bedia, Sami Outalbali, Mahia Zrouki, Ryad Ferrad, Candide Sanchez)
Mehdi had planned to spend a quiet summer in his in-laws' sumptuous home. But as soon as he arrives, a conflict breaks out between his girfriend's family and the villa's janitor couple. As Mehdi comes from a modest background, he thinks he can lead the negotiations between the two parties and bring everyone back to their senses. But things start to escalate...
Peak Everything
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Anne Émond; Writer: Anne Émond; Stars: Piper Perabo, Connor Jessup, Gord Rand, Patrick Hivon, Eric K. Boulianne, Gilles Renaud, Élizabeth Mageren, Sienna Feghouli)
A borderline depressive finds himself falling for a woman on a technical support line.
Sorry, Baby and Enzo
The President’s Cake
(Country: Iraq; Year: 2025; Director: Hasan Hadi; Writer: Hasan Hadi; Stars: Banin Ahmad Nayef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat, Rahim AlHaj)
While people struggle daily to survive under sanctions in Saddam's Iraq, nine-year-old Lamia must use her wits to gather ingredients for a cake to celebrate President Saddam Hussein's birthday or face the consequences.
Sorry, Baby
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Eva Victor; Writer: Eva Victor; Stars: Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi, Kelly McCormack)
Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.
Wild Foxes
(La Danse des Renards)
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Valery Carnoy; Writer: Valery Carnoy; Stars: Samuel Kircher, Yoann Blanc, Jean-Baptiste Durand, Frédéric Clou, Faycal Anaflous)
At a sports boarding school, talented young boxer Camille is knocked back by an accident that starts to make him question his place inside the ring.
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