Aanikoobijigan
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil)
Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place.
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Ghost In The Machine
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Valerie Veatch)
he untold origins of artificial intelligence lie not in machines but in power, revealing the fantasies behind the hype that got us here and where we go next.
World premiere
If I Go Will They Miss Me
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Walter Thompson-Hernández; Writer: Walter Thompson-Hernández; Stars: Kelvin Adekunle, Bre-Z, Danielle Brooks, Myles Bullock, Bodhi Dell, J. Alphonse Nicholson)
Twelve-year-old Lil Ant struggles to connect with his father when he begins to see surreal, almost spectral visions of boys drifting around his neighbourhood. Their presence reveals a link between father and son, laying bare the threads that bind family, legacy, and place.
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The Incomer
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2026; Director: Louis Paxton; Writer: Louis Paxton; Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Michelle Gomez, Grant O'Rourke, Emun Elliott, Gayle Rankin, Vanessa Donovan)
On a remote Scottish isle, siblings Isla and Sandy hunt birds and talk to mythical beings while fighting off outsiders. Their lives change when Daniel, an awkward official, arrives to relocate them.
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Jaripeo
(Country: Mexico, US, France; Year: 2026; Director: Rebecca Zweig, Efraín Mojica)
A journey to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.
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Night Nurse
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Georgia Bernstein; Writer: Georgia Bernstein; Stars: Cemre Paksoy, Bruce McKenzie, Eléonore Hendricks, Colleen Rose Trundy, Mimi Rogers)
As a series of perverse scam calls unsettles an idyllic retirement community, a starry-eyed nurse becomes entangled with her mysterious patient.
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TheyDream
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: William D. Caballero)
After 20 years of chronicling his Puerto Rican family, a director and his mother face devastating losses. Through tears and laughter, they craft animations that bring their loved ones back to life, discovering that every act of creation is also an act of letting go.
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Zi
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Kogonada; Writer: Kogonada; Stars: Michelle Mao, Haley Lu Richardson, Jin Ha)
In Hong Kong, a young woman haunted by visions of her future self meets a stranger who changes the course of her night — and possibly her life.
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