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Ancestors (Country: Ireland, UK; Year: 2026; Director: David Turpin; Writer: David Turpin; Stars: Éanna Hardwicke, Jack Wolfe, Jessica Reynolds, Rupert Everett, Christina Hendricks)
A gay Irishman searches Eighties London for his missing friend.
Arne Goes To Space (Country: Sweden; Year: 2026; Director: Lars Vega; Writer: Lars Vega, Theodor Österberg; Stars: Rolf Lassgård, Lennart Jähkel, Kiran Shah)
An extraterrestrial visitor upends the lives of two elderly brothers in northern Sweden.
Bedford Park (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Stephanie Ahn; Writer: Stephanie Ahn; Stars: Choi Hee-seo, Son Suk-ku, Won Mi-kyung, Kim Eung-soo, Jefferson White, Taylor Kowalski, Vin Vescio, Cindy Hogan, Ferin Bergen, Toni D'Antonio, Paco Lozano, Simon Kim, Ian Oh, Joohong Jung, Mia Love Kwon)
Haunted by an abusive childhood, Audrey, a Korean American woman in her 30s, faces her emotional past. When her mother’s car accident brings her back to her parents’ home, she meets the man responsible for the accident. Their relationship builds, passions ignite, and they form a loving connection.
A Common Story (Una Storia) (Country: Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Anna Foglietta; Writer: Anna Foglietta, Tania Pedroni, Matteo Ferri; Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Guido Caprino, Elio De Capitani, Caterina Casini)
Erika and Mauro, a seemingly solid couple, see their equilibrium falter when their daughter decides to leave home for her studies and a sense of emptiness begins to surface.
The Daughters Of Abraham (Les Filles d'Abraham) (Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Hanaël El Yousfi; Writer: Hanaël El Yousfi, Mia Grace Brown; Stars: Mélissa Guers, Ava Baya, Gabrielle Cohen, Bilel Chegrani, Syrus Shahidi)
A young Muslim woman raised in Marseille reunites with a young Jewish woman after a period of estrangement, reconnecting as friends over summer break. When a sudden tragedy disrupts their carefree holiday, the pair face the similarities and differences which strengthen and threaten their relationship.
Drifter (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Sung Kang; Writer: Sung Kang, Aaron Strongoni, Ted Chung; Stars: Sung Kang, Tamara Braun, Michael Nehring, Grant Sullivan, McCaleb Burnett, Gregory Cruz, James Pumphrey, Adam LZ, Shane Johnson, Rutledge Wood, Jully Lee, Jo Sung, Taeon Chung, Ilia Smolov, Nikita Rushmanov)
A solitary custodian at Rosamond, California’s Willow Springs Raceway, is haunted by a tragic past and saddled with generational debt, but gets the chance to enter a professional drifting contest in his battered but beloved vintage Toyota AE86 Corolla.
The Fortunate Isles (Las Islas Afortunadas) (Country: Spain, Greece; Year: 2026; Director: Helena Girón, Samuel Delgado; Writer: Helena Girón, Samuel Delgado; Stars: Luisa Ahl Laabiad, Lou Castel, Grégoire Colin)
In the 16th century, on the newly conquered Canary Islands, colonial misgivings intersect with personal desperation. Fátima, an enslaved and pregnant woman, must struggle to survive both the landscape and the other inhabitants.
Head To Head (Sar Beh Sar) (Country: Iran, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Ghasideh Golmakani; Writer: Ghasideh Golmakani; Stars: Mehrnoosh Satari, Saeed Naderi, Ebrahim Azizi, Amir Hajimohammadi, Reza Mohseni, Saman Mazloomi, Lili Farhadpour)
A female director forces male actors to wear skirts and headscarves.
In Waves (Country: France, Belgium, US; Year: 2026; Director: Phuong Mai Nguyen; Writer: Samuel Doux, Fanny Burdino; Stars: Rio Vega, Lyna Khoudri, Paul Kircher, Birane Ba, Gauthier Battoue)
In Los Angeles, AJ, a shy teenager, meets Kristen. She lives for surfing; he loves skateboarding and drawing. They fall madly in love, and a happy future seems within reach. But everything changes when Kristen faces a sudden illness.
I Am Mario (Soy Mario) (Country: Mexico; Year: 2026; Director: Sharon Kleinberg; Writer: Sharon Kleinberg; Stars: Oustin De León, Héctor Kotsifakis, Mayra Batalla, Ruth Ramos, Krystian Ferrer, Fermín Martínez, Fernanda Rivera, Mercedes Hernández)
A transgender taxi driver’s dream of fatherhood becomes a reality when he gets pregnant, forcing him to confront his own notions of masculinity while navigating unexpected social, moral, and emotional consequences.
Krux (Country: Germany, Poland; Year: 2026; Director: Tony Vahl; Writer: Tony Vahl; Stars: Jella Haase, Frida-Lovisa Hamann, Clemens Schick, Lukas Miko)
As World War Two nears its end, the women, children and elderly and disabled men remaining in a small German village discover that their right wing neighbours have been told to leave no German alive for the advancing Russian army.
Magazine (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Alexandra Pechman; Writer: Alexandra Pechman; Stars: Lily McInerny, Joshuah Melnick, Lukita Maxwell, AnnaSophia Robb, Daniel Zolghadri, Ruby Cruz, Jake Lacy, Iris Apatow, Delaney Rowe, Alex Edelman, Sasha Bhasin)
A publishing house intern and aspiring poet with a crush on an assistant manager comes to understand why she has been told that the most important thing for interns to know is when to leave the party.
Memories Of A Forest (Erinnerungen Eines Waldes) (Country: Germany, Austria; Year: 2026; Director: Katharina Rabl; Writer: Katharina Rabl, Karla Cristóbal; Stars: Julia Windischbauer, Johanna Orsini, Linde Prelog, Lukas Walcher, Dominik Warta)
A postgraduate student inherits 15 hectares of forest beside her ancestral village, and must decide what to do with her future.
Nosotros (Country: Guatemala, Mexico; Year: 2026; Director: Joaquín Ruano; Writer: Joaquín Ruano; Stars: Lola Vásquez, Josef Coxaj, Mayra Salvador)
After leaving his Indigenous family for work in Guatemala City, a lonely security guard falls for a business owner at the mall he patrols, discovering an unexpected refuge and a new sense of self in a world not yet ready to make space for them.
Purgatory (Country: Canada, US; Year: 2026; Director: Lindsay Lanzillotta; Writer: Christine Speer; Stars: Ruby McGurrin, Abby Elliott, John Reynolds, Lauren MacRae, J.K. Simmons, Jack Innanen, Mary Walsh, Marcus Ngo, Gemma Rosaria Rae, Julianne Arrieta)
A scrappy 13-year-old is left questioning family structures, the Catholic church, and basically everything else, after her mother chooses to take some time away from her family to find herself.
Salvation (Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Tom Nicoll; Writer: Tom Nicoll; Stars: Liam Harkins, Stephen McMillan, Kathleen McDermott, Conor McCarron)
An overly confident man pursues a career as a life coach, but the road to wealth proves more treacherous than expected, particularly in Inverclyde.
Seventeen (Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Justin Ducharme; Writer: Justin Ducharme; Stars: Aalayna, Nizhonniya Austin, Taio Gélinas, Shannon Baker, Renae Morriseau, Kaniehtiio Horn)
The lives of three young, queer, Indigenous sex workers in gritty downtown Vancouver intersect across 17 hours as they face significant challenges.
Sisters (Hermanas) (Country: Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Ione Hernández; Writer: Ione Hernández; Stars: Elena Anaya, Emma Suárez, Josean Bengoetxea, Carlota Keiko, León Martínez, Nora Otxoteko, Aritz Kortabarria)
Outside of Madrid, two sisters unite their families on a summer weekend, celebrating milestones and the solstice-heralding San Juan Festival. However, joy quickly turns to horror when a serious allegation of sexual abuse surfaces from one of their children.
Stuffed (Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Theo Rhys; Writer: Theo Rhys, Joss Holden-Rea; Stars: Jodie Comer, Harry Melling)
A musical about an isolated mortician-cum-taxidermist with a dream who falls for a lonely factory worker.
Voices (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Deanté Gray; Writer: Sam Buckner III, Charlie T Savage; Stars: Francis Edemobi, Ezekiel Ajeigbe, Raél Ba, Pedro Louis, Joe Maye, Jamal Averett)
A starry-eyed bellhop enlists his friends to help him exploit an unsavoury opportunity that could secure them fame and fortune inthis Sixties-set musical chamber thriller.
We Are Born Good (Country: Hong Kong; Year: 2026; Director: Leung Chuen Yeung; Writer: Leung Chuen Yeung; Stars: Suet Ying Chung, Wai Lun Yeung)
A struggling actress and an ex-con restaurant owner turn a petty dispute into an unlikely bond.
What Lies Between Us (Dobbeltfejl) (Country: Denmark; Year: 2026; Director: Amalie Næsby Fick; Writer: Sara Jønsson, Nikolaj Arcel; Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Sofie Gråbøl, Asta Kamma August)
In a well-to-do suburb, a realtor and shop owner enjoy a close friendship that’s deeply intertwined with their respective family lives. The single mother of a newcomer to the tennis club is eager to get connected. But when details emerge about a possible sexual assault involving the three women’s sons, lines are swiftly drawn.
Zjili: A Story Of Sisterhood And The Burdens Of Excess (Country: Ghana; Year: 2026; Director: Hajara Musah Chambas, Christine Boateng; Writer: Marcia Abdul-Korah, Daphne M Atsutse, Denzel Owoo; Stars: Esinam Semordzi, Zaharawu Fuseini, Rahana Abdallah)
Three Ghanaian women eke out a living as kayayei or porters in the trenches of the world’s largest second hand clothing market.
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