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Appofeniacs and The Bearded Girl
Adorable Humans
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2025; Director: Anders Jon, Michael Kunov, Kasper Jul, Michael Panduro; Writer: Anders Jon, Michael Kunov, Kasper Jul, Michael Panduro, based on tales by Hans Christian Andersen; Stars: Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Knud Klausen, Sus Wilkins, Mille Maria Dalsgaard,
Marinus Refnov, Mie Gren, Adam Ild Rohweder, Peter Høgsbro, Iben Skau)
Anthology re-imagining the tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
Animals Of The Land
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Luke Jaden; Writer: Luke Jaden; Stars: Andrea Tivadar, Abel Lysenko, Jord Knotter, Roan Kyne)
A family at the beginning of time lives in perfect harmony with Mother Nature, until an act of rebellion unearths a violent force of evil.
Appofeniacs
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Chris Marrs Piliero; Stars: Sean Gunn, Jermaine Fowler, Aaron Holiday, Michael Abbott Jr)
An ensemble tale with intersecting storylines that escalate into chaos as each portrays how easily deepfake technology can be weaponised to exploit society.
The Arbiter
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Marc Price; Stars: Craig Russell, Jon Xue Zhang, Georgina Leonidas, Jasmine Summer)
The city is a battlefield with gangs ruling the night, and with the bloodiest one of all making a murderous push, not stopping until every rival mob is erased. In a desperate bid to avoid being wiped out, the remaining gang leaders gather for an unprecedented summit.
Armageddon Road
(Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Karen Lam; Writer: Karen Lam; Stars: Brian McCaig, Natalie Grace, Willie Aames, Landon Liboiron, April Telek, Valerie Tian, Simon Chin, Dejan Loyola, John Shaw)
A hopeless romantic ex-con with big dreams is hired to chauffeur a mob boss' girlfriend for a night. He's blissfully unaware that his passenger has died and is now possessed by one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The Serpent's Skin and The Red Mask
Backstage Madness
(Shermendelik karnavaly)
(Country: Kyrgyzstan; Year: 2025; Director: Amanbek Azhymat)
A 70-year-young director still invents various vivid and bizarre characters on an old-fashioned typewriter.… He has heard the word ‘stop’ far too many times while preparing an art house festival gem.
Bagworm
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Oliver Bernsen; Writer: Henry Bernsen; Stars: Peter Falls, Michelle Ortiz, Robbie Arnett, Corbin Bernsen, Stephen Borrello, Jessy Morner-Ritt, Sydney Winbush, Francesca Galassi)
Carroll’s worldview is dominated by the threat of catastrophe and the decline of morality in the face of human extinction. Then he steps on a rusty nail.
Barrio Triste
(Country: Colombia, US; Year: 2025; Director: Stillz; Writer: Stillz; Stars: Juan Pablo Baena, Samuel Velázquez, Tomás Tinoco Higuita, Samuel Andrés Celis, Brahian Acevedo, Estiven Salazar,Brayan Erlín García, José Arley Marín González, Samuel Ruiz)
Teenagers steal a camera to record their lives.
The Bearded Girl
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Jody Wilson; Writer: Blake Barrie, Thiago Gadelha, Jody Wilson; Stars: Anwen O'Driscoll, Jessica Paré, Skylar Radzion, Ava Anton, Jude Wilson)
Cleo is ready to spread her wings and, tired of tradition and feeling like an oddball, she leaves her sheltered carnival life to find love and adventure.
Beyond The Nest
(Covil)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2026; Director: Rodrigo Lages; Writer: Rodrigo Lages; Stars: Daniel Rocha, Vitória Strada, James Turpin, Darlan Júnior, Juliana Lourenção, Carolina Watts)
A young woman inherits a house marked by family disputes and discovers a room concealing a terrifying secret, which triggers a journey into a dark and mysterious legacy.
Violence and Luger
Bluebird
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Jay Arden Black; Writer: Jay Arden Black; Stars: Alexandre Chen, Lisa Cole, Ama Konadu, Brandon N Nieczpiel, Christanna Rowader)
A near-future love story about Charles and Chloe, who meet and fall in love. When Chloe disappears, Charles sets out to find her in a bizarre world that seems intent on keeping them apart.
Body Blow
(Country: Australia; Year: 2025; Director: Dean Francis; Writer: Dean Francis; Stars: Georgina Haig, Tim Pocock, Chris Haywood, Sacha Horler, Paul Francis, Vincent Andriano, Barbara Hastings)
An undercover cop finds his commitment to the force tested when he falls for a young twink deep in debt to a vicious drug lord in this kinky neon-noir.
Buffet Libre
(Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Zoe Berriatúa; Stars: Yan Huang, Carlos Wu, Antonio Dechent, Lucía Díez, Ismael Fritschi, Macarena Gómez)
A couple try to save their failing business and hold onto their relationship. There is also cannibalism.
Bulk
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Ben Wheatley; Stars: Alexandra Maria Lara, Sam Riley, Noah Taylor, Mark Monero)
Sci-fi nightmare fusing head scrambling multiverse and a conspiracy of global proportions that might mean the end of the world as we know it.
Camp
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Avalon Fast; Writer: Avalon Fast; Stars: Zola Grimmer, Alice Wordsworth, Cherry Moore, Lea Rose Sebastianis, Austyn Van de Kamp, Ella Reeca, Izzy Jarvis)
Emily takes a job as a counselor at a summer camp and finds a coven of witches ready to show her a path to healing.
Body Blow and Lucid
Captivity
(Cautiverio)
(Country: Panama; Year: 2026; Director: Omar Calvo, Sebastián Jiménez Franco; Stars: Ecuador García)
A young boy suffers the torment of a secret as he escapes through the jungle with his older brother. Both must confront the horrors of their upbringing before they are devoured by the spectre that haunts them.
Carrie
(Country: US; Year: 1976; Director: Brian De Palma; Writer: Lawrence D Cohen, based on the novel by Stephen King; Stars: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta, William Katt)
A bullied teenager, pushed to breaking point, discovers something unexpected about herself.
Cielo
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Alberto Sciamma; Writer: Alberto Sciamma; Stars: Fernando Arze Echalar, Juan Carlos Aduviri, Fernanda Gutiérrez Aranda, Cristian Mercado)
How far would you go to reach heaven? Santa, a young indigenous girl, embarks on a rollercoaster journey to take her mother out of a life of hardship and into eternal paradise.
Compliance
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Kyle Mangione Smith; Writer: Kyle Mangione Smith; Stars: Megan Wilcox, Lindsey Normington, Charlie Wood, Neil Wachs)
A found footage horror film about the modern surveillance state, dark web crime, and political conspiracy.
Corporate Retreat
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Aaron Fisher; Writer: Aaron Fisher, Kerri Lee Romeo; Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Odeya Rush, Alan Ruck, Sasha Lane, Benjamin Norris, Ashton Sanders)
Corporate executives on a team-building retreat face a deadly struggle when their leader turns violently against them.
Foreigner and The Curse
The Cramps: A Period Piece
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Brooke H Cellars; Writer: Brooke H Cellars; Stars: Lauren Kitchen, Martini Bear, Jared Bankens, Wicken Taylor, Michelle Malentina, Jude Douces, Halie Madison, Sylvia Grace Crim)
A vibrant collision of horror, comedy, and aching personal truth as seen through the eyes of a young woman dealing with the pain of her menstrual cramps.
The Curse
(Country: Japan, Taiwan; Year: 2025; Director: Kenichi Ugana; Writer: Kenichi Ugana; Stars: Yukino Kaizu, Yu, Reika Oozeki)
A Japanese girl travels to Taiwan to track down the motive behind a friend's bizarre death, which seems to be linked to strange social media posts.
Dead Eyes
(Country: Australia; Year: 2025; Director: Richard E Williams; Writer: Richard E Williams; Stars: Ana Thu-Nguyen, Mischa Heywood, Rijen Laine, Charles Cottier, Alea O'Shea, Stephen Phillips, Freya Callaghan)
Accompanied by his fiancée, a man enters a remote forest in search of his missing father, and encounters the cannibalistic creatures his father has made while endeavouring to resurrect his little sister.
Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon
(Country: New Zealand/Aotearoa, Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Jason Howden; Writer: Jason Howden; Stars: Milo Cawthorne, Kimberley Crossman, James Joshua Blake, Sam Berkley, Daniel Cresswell, Kieran Charnock)
Brodie resurrects his bandmates to win the battle-of-the-bands and reacquire his girlfriend. His uncontrollable undead bandmate raises an army of costumed corpses. Brodie must stop the zombie horde before it ruins his musical dreams and love life.
Deathstalker
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Steven Kostanski; Writer: Steven Kostanski; Stars: Daniel Bernhardt, Christina Orjalo, Nina Bergman, Paul Lazenby, John Ambrose, Conor Sweeney, Laurie Field, John Clifford Talbot)
When a ruthless warrior named Deathstalker steals a mysterious amulet from a dying man, he’s unwillingly thrust into a quest to stop the dark sorcerer Necromemnon and save the world from destruction.
The Cramps: A Period Piece and Fifteen
The Dollmaker
(Encantador)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2025; Director: José María Cicala; Writer: José María Cicala, Griselda Sanchez; Stars: Rodrigo Noya, Mario Alarcón, Alejandra Baldoni, Eduardo Calvo, Santiago Domínguez)
In a quiet village, a charming young man named Tomás leads a simple life: caring for his mother, working at the video store and town clinic, and collecting dolls. As women start disappearing, newly arrived Inspector Porter investigates.
Exile
(Country: Luxembourg, Qatar, France, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia; Year: 2025; Director: Mehdi Hmili; Writer: Mehdi Hmili; Stars: Slim Baccar, Maram Ben Aziza, Younes Ferhim, Mourad Gharsalli, Mohamed Kolsi, Ghanem Zrelli)
After a deadly factory explosion leaves him injured and his friend dead, a steel worker discovers dark secrets behind the incident and sets out on a dangerous path of vengeance.
Fabula
(Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Michiel ten Horn; Writer: Michiel ten Horn; Stars: Fedja van Huêt, Sezgin Güleç, Michiel Kerbosch, David Kross, Georg Friedrich, Anniek Pheifer)
A 55-year-old small-time criminal, scorned by family and mocked by friends, tries to fix a failed drug deal while wondering who or what is punishing him for his misdeeds.
Faust
(Faust - Eine Deutsche Volkssage)
(Country: Germany; Year: 1926; Director: FW Murnau; Writer: Gerhart Hauptmann, based on the play by Johann Wolfgang Goethe.; Stars: Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard, William Dieterle, Yvette Guilbert, Eric Barclay, Hanna Ralph, Werner Fuetterer)
A silent classic in which Faust makes a pact with the demon Mephistopheles, offering his soul in exchange for knowledge.
The Fence
(Granitsa)
(Country: Russia; Year: 2025; Director: Dmitry Davydov; Writer: Dmitry Davydov; Stars: Eva Kuzmenko, Liliana Petrova, Vyacheslav Shatnenko)
Father and daughter are fitting out their house away from civilisation. Shots are heard in the forest and the father is surprised to learn that his daughter has killed an unexpected animal for dinner.
Deathstalker and Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon
Fifteen
(Country: Argentina, Mexico; Year: 2026; Director: Jack Zagha, Yossy Zagha; Writer: Andrzej Rattinger, Ricardo Álvarez Canales; Stars: Greta Marti, Macarena Oz, Aminta Ireta, Martha Claudia Moreno, Enrique Arreola, Mercedes Hernández, Malena Sandy, Cloe Juresa Furgan, Andre Fajardo, Silvia Villazur)
A reimagining of the quinceañera as a chaotic mix of comedy and creature horror.
The Forbidden City
(La città proibita)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Gabriele Mainetti; Writer: Stefano Bises, Gabriele Mainetti, Davide Serino; Stars: Yaxi Liu, Enrico Borello, Sabrina Ferilli, Marco Giallini, Shansan Chunyu)
A woman leaves China for Rome in search of her missing sister.
Foreigner
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Ava Maria Safai; Writer: Ava Maria Safai; Stars: Rose Dehgan, Chloe Macleod, Cassie Collis, Talisa Mae Stewart)
An Iranian-born teenager is desperate to fit in at her new high school in Canada, but the more she tries to absorb and understand the unfamiliar mindset, the more she becomes consumed by a dark entity.
The Ghost Game
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Son Dong-wan; Writer: Son Dong-wan; Stars: Kim Ye-rim, Lee Chan-Hyeong, Seo Dong-hyun, Kim Eun-bi, Park Seo-yeon, Oh So-hyun)
A mystery horror film that depicts what happens when Ja-yeong, who has a secret from her past, and her school friends perform a necromancy ritual to summon ghosts.
Godzilla En Santa Fe
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2026; Director: Alexander Duré)
Godzilla. In Santa Fe.
Marama and Camp
Gravity
(Gravidade)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2025; Director: Leo Tabosa; Writer: Arthur Leite, Leo Tabosa; Stars: Clarisse Abujamra, Danny Barbosa, Marcélia Cartaxo, Hermila Guedes, Helena Ignez)
Four women, including a mother and daughter, are confined in a mansion during an apocalyptic endless night. As tensions rise and a missing maid returns, they must face their fears and buried truths before time runs out.
Heart Of Darkness
(Country: France, Brazil; Year: 2025; Director: Rogério Andrade Nunes; Writer: Rogério Andrade Nunes, based on the work of Joseph Conrad; Stars: Tamara David, Breno de Filippo, Taís Feijó, Rogerio Freitas, Maria Lucas)
Marlon, a police officer in Rio de Janeiro, is assigned on a dangerous mission to search through the outskirts of the city to find Captain Kur, a famous policeman who went missing under mysterious circumstances.
Iai
(Country: Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Zenzo Sakai)
After losing her father, Kana returns to care for her sick mother. She starts having intense dreams and premonitions that hint at a family curse. A suspenseful blend of psychological horror and family drama.
Imposters
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Caleb Phillips; Writer: Caleb Phillips; Stars: Jessica Rothe, Charlie Barnett, Yul Vazquez, Bates Wilder, Luisina Quarleri, Thomas Parobek, Ian Lyons, Taylor Karin, Lee Bennett, Declan Bennett)
After a couple’s baby boy is taken, the desperate mother learns of a way to bring him back. However, her husband begins to suspect that what she has returned with isn't their son.
Interior
(Country: Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Pascal Schuh)
Psychological thriller about a burglar who uses a couch with a secret compartment to break into people’s homes and covertly film them.
Tony Odyssey and Theater Is Dead
In The Mouth
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Cory Santilli; Writer: Cory Santilli; Stars: Colin Burgess, Paul Rothery, Sage Francis, Earl Fechter, Caren Lioce, Jeffrey Alan Solomon)
A perpetual worrywart finds himself unable to leave his house after discovering a giant version of himself protruding from his front lawn.
The Journey To No End
(Wu Jin Zhi Lü)
(Country: China; Year: 2025; Director: Xiang Chen; Writer: Xiang Chen; Stars: Haoming Hu, Yan Sanyuan, Fengyi Xing, Hui Zeng, Yitong Zhang)
A genre film.
Karmadonna
(Karmadona)
(Country: Serbia; Year: 2025; Director: Aleksandar Radivojević; Writer: Aleksandar Radivojević; Stars: Jelena Djokic, Sergej Trifunovic, Milutin 'Mima' Karadzic, Milica Stefanovic, Branislav Jevtic, Milos Lolic)
A pregnant woman gets a call from a god who orders her to commit a series of murders.
The Kirlian Frequency
(La Frecuencia Kirlian)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2025; Director: Cristian Ponce; Writer: Hernán Bengoa, Cristian Ponce; Stars: Nicolás Van de Moortele, Adriana Ferrer, Luciano Guglielmino, Lucía Arreche)
In the midnight hour, a lone DJ broadcasts the strangest - and scariest - tales from the outer edges of Kirlian, a lost city somewhere in Argentina.
Labyrinth Of Lost Boys
(Labirinto Dos Garotos Perdidos)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2025; Director: Matheus Marchetti; Writer: Matheus Marchetti; Stars: Lucas Bocalon, Gustavo Brait, Giuliano Garutti, Thiago Gelli, Tony Germano, Gabriela Gonzalez, Ana Kraut)
A small-town boy gets lost in the big city at night, experiencing increasingly strange sexual encounters while a killer lurks in the metropolitan shadows.
The School Duel and Wrong Husband
Levitating
(Country: Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, France; Year: 2026; Director: Wregas Bhanuteja; Writer: Wregas Bhanuteja, Alicia Angelina, Defi Mahendra; Stars: Angga Yunanda, Maudy Ayunda, Anggun, Chicco Kurniawan, Bryan Domani, Indra Birowo, Ganindra Bimo, Ivonne Dahler, Muhammad Asyrof Al-Ghifari, Buyung Ispramadi)
In a town where pleasure equals being possessed by spiritual beings, Bayu aspires to be the shaman of a trance party so he can fundraise enough money to prevent an impending eviction.
Life At Sandy's
(Country: US, Norway; Year: 2026; Director: Aleksandra Hansen; Writer: Aleksandra Hansen; Stars: Heather Cunningham, Amy Biedel, Marianne Løge, Thea Green Lundberg)
No details as yet.
Lucid
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Deanna Milligan, Ramsey Fendall; Writer: Ramsey Fendall, Deanna Milligan, Claire E Robertson; Stars: Caitlin Acken Taylor, Georgia Acken)
Mia is a rebellious art student who struggles to create the ultimate project for a demanding professor. Desperate to find her artistic voice, she takes Lucid, a candy elixir, to access her creativity, but taps into something much darker.
Luger
(Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Bruno Martín; Writer: Bruno Martín, Santiago Taboada; Stars: David Sainz, Mario Mayo, Ángel Acero, Ramiro Alonso, Ana Turpin)
Two desperate criminals navigate a dangerous industrial complex in real time, seeking redemption while facing mounting threats in this intense thriller.
Luna Rosa: The 7th Ascension Of Atabey
(Luna Rosa: La 7ª Ascensión De Atabey)
(Country: Puerto Rico, Mexico, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez; Writer: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez; Stars: Dunia Alexandra, Waldo Facco, Karent Hinestroza, Dorayma Mercado, Marc Nally, Flora Sylvestre, Jehu Sylvestre, Jean Wolf)
In a future Puerto Rico, Zur'na's quest to rescue her kidnapped brother from US colonial forces unveils a system oppressing her people.
Carrie and The Vile
Mad Mask
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Nagano, Katsuya Arai)
A serial killer who cuts off his victims' faces and wears them like masks gets in too deep after murdering a member of a mysterious cult.
Mag Mag
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Yuriyan Retriever; Stars: Sara Minami, Takumi Saioto, Aoi Yamada)
"If you see her, it's too late. If she falls in love with you, the only escape is death." After her beloved is killed by the Mag Mag ghost, Sanae vows revenge, but soon discovers the true identity of the person to whom she truly owes her retribution.
Marama
(Country: New Zealand/Aotearoa; Year: 2025; Director: Taratoa Stappard; Writer: Taratoa Stappard; Stars: Ariana Osborne, Toby Stephens, Umi Myers, Evelyn Towersey, Errol Shand)
A young Māori woman travels to Victorian England after receiving a letter promising information about her birth parents. As she peels back the layers of colonial deceit, she is driven to avenge her shattered ancestry.
Matapanki
(Country: Chile; Year: 2026; Director: Diego Fuentes; Writer: Diego Fuentes; Stars: Diego Bravo, Ramon Galvez, Rodrigo Lisboa, Antonia Mccarthy, Rosa Peñaloza)
A punk kid gets superpowers from alcohol and tries to reshape society, but a violent error sparks global tensions with him at the centre.
Meat Kills
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2025; Director: Martijn Smits; Writer: Paul de Vrijer; Stars: Caro Derkx, Sem Ben Yakar, Bart Oomen, Chardonnay Rillen)
The night takes a dark turn when a group of activists break into a pig farm to free mistreated animals and find themselves face-to-face with an extremely angry farmer.
Karmadonna and Faust
Narcisa's Will
(Herança De Narcisa)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2025; Director: Clarissa Appelt, Daniel Dias; Writer: Clarissa Appelt, Daniel Dias; Stars: Mariana Costa Pinto, Elvira Helena, Jorge Luiz Jeronymo, Carlos Eduardo Lassah)
A woman returns to her childhood mansion after her famous mother's death to sell it and split proceeds with her brother. While clearing the property, she uncovers unexpected family secrets.
Nesting
(Peau À Peau)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Chloé Cinq-Mars; Stars: Rose-Marie Perreault)
A new mother grappling with sleep deprivation and postpartum depression, finds herself unable to separate dream from reality. After she witnesses a violent hold-up in a convenience store, her already fragile psyche begins to crack.
The Night
(Gaua)
(Country: Spain, US; Year: 2025; Director: Paul Urkijo Alijo; Writer: Paul Urkijo Alijo; Stars: Yune Nogueiras, Elena Irureta, Ane Gabarain, Iñake Irastorza, Xabi López, Erika Olaizola)
Kattalin enters a forest filled with mythical creatures, exploring nighttime folklore and 1600s superstitions.
The Oliver Na Inu, (Gosh!!) Konoyarou Movie
(Country: Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Joe Odagiri; Writer: Joe Odagiri; Stars: Kumiko Asô, Tsubasa Honda, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Joe Odagiri, Amane Okayama)
Some kind of werewolf film.
Olivia & The Clouds
(Country: Dominican Republic; Year: 2024; Director: Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat; Writer: Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat; Stars: Olga Valdez, Héctor Aníbal, Elsa Núñez, Fery Cordero Bello, Dominique Goris, Fidia Peralta, María Rebecca Dalmasí, Lill Taveras, Cesar Calcagno, Ricardo Ariel Toribio)
Cielo and Adorable Humans
Peeping Todd
(Country: Dominican Republic; Year: 2025; Director: Josh Munds; Writer: Chris Alan Evans, Josh Munds; Stars: Holt Boggs, JC Doler, Chris Alan Evans, Kemerton Hargrove, China Jones, Jamie Jones)
When his peeping passions become compromised, Todd decides he'll do whatever it takes to continue stalking his beloved Claire.
The Peril At Pincer Point
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Jake Kuhn, Noah Stratton-Twine; Writer: Jake Kuhn, Noah Stratton-Twine; Stars: Jack Redmayne, Alyth Ross, Os Leanse, Mike Mackenzie, Dashiell Upton, Jason Hogan, Mat Wright, Noah Stratton-Twine, Isobel Laidler, Oliver Woolf)
A lazy sound designer is sent to the remote island where a film was shot to capture a sound powerful enough to elevate its finale. Once there, eerie local fables surface: for years, ambitious and headstrong youth have lost their souls to a ghostly sea captain for his spectral crew.
The Red Mask
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2025; Director: Ritesh Gupta; Writer: Samantha Gurash, Patrick Robert Young; Stars: Inanna Sarkis, Helena Howard, Kelli Garner, Jake Abel)
When an outspoken queer screenwriter is chosen to pen the final instalment of the legendary slasher franchise The Red Mask, she and her girlfriend are harassed by die-hard fans. They escape to a secluded Airbnb, where she concocts a dangerous game to play to unlock her writer’s block. Then two uninvited guests crash the scene.
Remanence
(Remanente: Voltagem)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2026; Director: Kapel Furman; Writer: Kapel Furman; Stars: Ricardo Gelli, Ricardo Oliveira, Clarissa Kiste, Cecilia Guedes)
Two paramedics in Novo Hamburgo stumble upon treasure in an old basement. They accidentally open a dimensional portal, unleashing a cosmic horror-a creature determined to reclaim its gold at any cost.
Sacrificios
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2025; Director: Mauricio Chernovetzky; Writer: Mauricio Chernovetzky, Alexander Ioshpe; Stars: Jorge A Jimenez, Noé Hernández, Costanza Andrade, Moisés Arizmendi, Frida Astrid, Checo Rubio, Sidharta Tonelli)
After suffering a traumatic loss, Juan attempts to find solace in the vastness of the sea. There a miraculous event promises to reverse everything...but at what cost?
Bulk and Levitating
The School Duel
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Todd Wiseman Jr; Writer: Todd Wiseman Jr; Stars: Kue Lawrence, Christina Brucato, Oscar Nuñez, Jamad Mays, Michael Sean Tighe, Hudson Meek)
When an opportunity for twisted notoriety arises, a tormented 13-year old enlists in a deadly competition.
The Serpent's Skin
(Country: Australia; Year: 2025; Director: Alice Maio Mackay; Writer: Alice Maio Mackay, Benjamin Pahl Robinson; Stars: Alexandra McVicker, Avalon Fast, Jordan Dulieu, Charlotte Grimes)
A young woman leaves her transphobic small-town, and develops a romance with tattoo artist Gen with whom she shares a paranormal connection. But their deep-rooted insecurities unknowingly release a demon, which possesses one of their ex-lovers and begins feeding on their friends by sucking out their lifeforce.
Sunshine Express
(Country: Iran; Year: 2025; Director: Amirali Navaee; Writer: Amirali Navaee; Stars: Sam Nakhai, Babak Karimi, Azadeh Seifi, Shayesteh Sajadi, Mohammad Aghebati, Sajad Hamidian)
A group of passengers embark on a unique journey to Hermia, a mythical land of dreams, guided by a show director, symbolizing their struggles and aspirations, completing in a quest for redemption under the totalitarian show's strict rules.
Theater Is Dead
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Katherine Dudas; Writer: Olivia Blue, Katherine Dudas, Madison Lawlor; Stars: Shane West, Madison Lawlor, Colin McCalla, Stephanie Suganami, Decker Sadowski, Olivia Blue, Tammy Tavares)
Sheltered Willow auditions for mysterious director Matthew's play, a Greek tragedy adaptation. Enthralled, she ignores dangers and undergoes self-discovery as the lead under his tutelage.
Tony Odyssey
(Antônio Odisseia)
(Country: Brazil, US; Year: 2025; Director: Thales Banzai; Writer: Kelson Succi, Thales Banzai; Stars: Kelson Succi, Iraci Estrela, Sandro Guerra, Antonio Pitanga, Leci Brandão, Teuda Bara, Luiz Bertazzo)
Tony and his best friend, Ivy, decide to rob the bar where he works to steal a new drug that will take them on a journey to meet God.
The Trail Of The Wolf
(El Rastro Del Lobo)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Ángeles Hernández)
A thriller, set in a futuristic dystopia.
The Trek
(Country: South Africa; Year: 2026; Director: Meekaaeel Adam; Writer: James C Williamson, J Hannah Massyn, Sandulela Asanda; Stars: Morné Visser, Maurice Carpede, Rob van Vuuren, Trix Vivier, Leah Lindeque)
Starvation, suspicion and madness plague a group of 1846 settlers as they journey across the Kalahari under the eyes of two desert spirits.
The Turkish Coffee Table
(Country: Turkey; Year: 2025; Director: Can Evrenol; Stars: Alper Kul, Algi Eke, Hatice Aslan, Asli Bankoglu, Ece Su Uckan, Elif Sevinç, Özgür Emre Yildirim)
A couple's argument over a coffee table spirals into chaos when a simple mistake turns into a desperate web of lies, panic, deception, and the terrifying consequences of trying to cover up the truth.
Under The Burning Sun
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Yun Xie; Writer: Yun Xie; Stars: Stephanie Pardi, Stevie Kincheloe, Madeline Ma Sharrett, Martyna Frankow, Amy Copsey, Abel Lysenko)
In a barren, desolate land where abortion is outlawed, Mowanza struggles with her unwanted pregnancy. When she hears of a distant land with a lenient abortion policy, she embarks on a journey across the desert.
The Vile
(Hoba)
(Country: US, UAE; Year: 2025; Director: Majid Al Ansari; Writer: Majid Al Ansari, Johnnie Alward; Stars: Bdoor Mohammad, Sarah Taibah, Iman Tarik, Jasem Alkharraz, Samira Al Wahaibi)
Amani's peaceful life as a wife and mother shatters when her husband brings home a second wife, unleashing mysterious dark forces into their household.
Violence
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Connor Marsden; Writer: Connor Marsden, Devin Myler, William Woods; Stars: Rohan Campbell, Maddie Hasson, Tomaso Sanelli, Sarah Grey, Jasmine Kar, Joris Jarsky, Greg Bryk)
Henry Violence, an anti-hero in an alternate 1980s world, becomes entangled in a brutal drug war as rival cartels battle for supremacy, forcing him to make difficult choices to navigate the treacherous landscape.
Virtuous Women
(Virtuosas)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2025; Director: Cíntia Domit Bittar; Writer: Cíntia Domit Bittar, Fernanda De Capua; Stars: Bruna Linzmeyer, Maria Galant, Juliana Lourenção, Sarah Motta, Brissa Marques)
What begins as a VIP retreat for women to achieve the best version of themselves, soon transforms into an absurd and dangerous journey.
The Voices Of Our Mother
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2025; Director: Mark O'Brien; Writer: Mark O'Brien; Stars: Sheila McCarthy, Georgina Reilly, Mark O'Brien, Carolina Bartczak, Alex Ozerov-Meyer)
When a family matriarch falls seriously ill, relatives gather and discover their shared ancestral ties bind them in unexpected ways.
The Whistler
(Country: Venezuela, US, Colombia; Year: 2026; Director: Diego Velasco; Writer: Esteban Orozco, Carolina Paiz, Nacho Palacios; Stars: Diane Guerrero, Juan Pablo Raba, Indhira Serrano, Laureano Olivarez, Ernesto Campos)
Reeling from their daughter's loss, Nicole and Sebastian come into possession of a secluded Venezuelan farm, unaware of the dark forces they're about to face.
A Woman Called Mother
(Country: Indonesia; Year: 2025; Director: Randolph Zaini)
Vira and her family move to a new city for a fresh start after a difficult few years, but the demon following them will force them to confront their most primal fears.
Wrong Husband
(Uiksaringitara)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Zacharias Kunuk; Writer: Samuel Cohn-Cousineau, Zacharias Kunuk; Stars: Theresia Kappianaq, Haiden Angutimarik, Mark Taqqaugaq, Emma Quassa, Leah Panimera)
An Arctic fairy tale about a couple who, though promised to each other at birth, become separated.
You Are The Film
(Country: Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Makoto Ueda; Writer: Makoto Ueda; Stars: Riko Fujitani, Takafumi Imai, Kai Inowaki, Gôta Ishida)
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You Gotta Have Faith
(Os Infiéis)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2025; Director: Tomás Fleck; Writer: Lucas Abrahão, Tomás Fleck, Luciana Paes; Stars: Otávia Batista de Castro, Emilio Farias, Leandro Firmino, Rafael Lozano, Edu Mendas)
Faith, love, and irony collide when a priest's sacred duty is to marry the only woman he ever loved - to someone else.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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