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Oh, Hi! and East Of Wall
After This Death (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Lucio Castro; Writer: Lucio Castro; Stars: Gwendoline Christie, Rupert Friend, Lee Pace, Mía Maestro, Philip Ettinger, Jordan Carlos, Ollie Robinson, Stephanie Jean Lane, Laurent Rejto)
A woman’s affair with an enigmatic underground musician throws her life into chaos when he disappears. Forced to fend off his obsessive fans, she also has to confront her fractured marriage, and reclaim her identity and her future.
North American premiere
The Best You Can (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Michael J Weithorn; Writer: Michael J Weithorn; Stars: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Judd Hirsch, Brittany O'Grady, Olivia Luccardi, Meera Rohit Kumbhani, Ray Romano, Misha Brooks, Heather Burns, Rob Benedict, Victor Williams, Luz Ozuna, Fawad Siddiqui, Mahadeo Shivraj, Pennie Diamond Quintana)
Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, just as her world is turned upside down by the arrival of sharp but chronically underachieving security guard Stan Olszewski.
World premiere
Deep Cover (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Tom Kingsley; Writer: Ben Ashenden, Derek Connolly, Alexander Owen, Colin Trevorrow; Stars: Bryce Dallas Howard, Paddy Considine, Sean Bean, Orlando Bloom, Ian McShane, Sonoya Mizuno, Nick Mohammed, Ben Ashenden, Omid Djalili, Freya Parker, Billy Clements, Assa Kanoute, Sam C Wilson, Daniel Scott-Smith, Nneka Okoye)
A down-on-their-luck trio of wannabe improv comedians are recruited to go undercover and bust petty criminals, but when one decides to go off book, they will have to “yes and...” their way out of an escalating London gang war.
International premiere
East Of Wall (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kate Beecroft; Writer: Kate Beecroft; Stars: Scoot McNairy, Jennifer Ehle, Haley Strode, Grace Diane Jensen, Ryan Caraway, Chancey Ryder Witt, Tabatha Zimiga, Wyatt Mansfield, Porshia Zimiga, Leanna Shumpert, Jesse Thorson, Clay Pateneaude, Brynn Darling)
After the death of her husband, Tabatha - a young, tattooed, rebellious horse trainer - wrestles with financial insecurity and unresolved grief while providing refuge for a group of wayward teenagers on her broken-down ranch in the Badlands.
New York Premiere
Everything’s Going to Be Great (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Jon S Baird; Writer: Steven Rogers; Stars: Allison Janney, Bryan Cranston, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Jack Champion, Simon Rex, Chris Cooper, Laura Benanti, Cady Huffman, Jessica Clement, Ian Ho, Mark Caven, Chick Reid, Doug Murray, Colton Gobbo, Lindsay Leese)
When they are unexpectedly forced to move in with an estranged relative, the Smart Family must navigate oversized dreams, identity struggles and regional theatre.
World premiere
How To Train Your Dragon (Country: US, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Dean DeBlois; Writer: Dean DeBlois; Stars: Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gerard Butler, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, Nick Frost, Ruth Codd, Murray McArthur, Andrea Ware, Nick Cornwall, Samuel Johnson)
As an ancient threat endangers Vikings and dragons alike on the isle of Berk, the unlikely friendship between Hiccup, an inventive Viking, and Toothless, a Night Fury dragon, becomes the key to both species forging a new future together.
New York premiere
Inside (Country: Australia; Year: 2024; Director: Charles Williams; Writer: Charles Williams; Stars: Cosmo Jarvis, Guy Pearce, Toby Wallace, Tammy Macintosh, Nikki Shiels, Vincent Miller, Chloe Hayden, Sean Millis, Steve Mouzakis, Leah Vandenberg, Fletcher Humphrys, Sara Ellis Holland, Michael Logo, Zane Ciarma, Georgia Chara)
When a teenager is transferred from juvenile to adult prison, he comes under the wing of two very different fellow inmates: a soon-to-be-paroled convict and Australia's most despised criminal.
North American premiere
In Cold Light (Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Maxime Giroux; Writer: Patrick Whistler; Stars: Maika Monroe, Allan Hawco, Troy Kotsur, Jesse Irving, Helen Hunt, Patrick Sabongui, David Haysom, Geena Meszaros, Warona Setshwaelo, Jessica Abruzzese, Noah Parker, L. Fernando Becerra Sánchez, Austyn Van de Kamp, Michael Hearn, Scott Janzen)
Fresh out of prison, Ava's attempt to reclaim her drug operation collapses when she witnesses a brutal crime, forcing her to flee for her life and track down who wants her dead.
World premiere
K-Pops! (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Anderson .Paak; Writer: Anderson .Paak, Khaila Amazan; Stars: Anderson .Paak, Jee Young Han, Soul Rasheed, Jonnie Park, Cathy Shim, Kevin Woo, Will Jay, Emi Kim, Riley Lai Nelet, Eddie Park, Yvette Nicole Brown, Cindy Choi, Bonnie Hellman, Jason Her, Masashi Ishizuka)
A down-on-his-luck journeyman musician takes a gig in Seoul with the house band of a K-pop competition show only to discover one of the show's aspiring superstars is his long-lost son.
US premiere
Oh, Hi! (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Sophie Brooks; Writer: Sophie Brooks, Molly Gordon; Stars: Logan Lerman, Molly Gordon, Geraldine Viswanathan, John Reynolds, Jimmy Gary Jr.)
Iris and Isaac’s first romantic weekend getaway goes awry.
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New York Premiere
Paradise Records (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Logic; Writer: Logic; Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kevin Smith, Ron Perlman, David Krumholtz, Diedrich Bader, Martin Starr, Tony Revolori, Kevin Corrigan, Bobby Lee, Nolan North, Phil LaMarr, Jason Mewes, Logic, Mary Elizabeth Kelly, Dana Millican)
Cooper is trying to keep the doors of Paradise Records open with its motley crew of entertaining employees, even as the world works against him.
World premiere
Re-Creation (Country: Ireland, Luxembourg; Year: 2025; Director: David Merriman, Jim Sheridan; Writer: Jim Sheridan, David Merriman; Stars: Aidan Gillen, Colm Meaney, Vicky Krieps, Jim Sheridan, John Connors, Barry John Kinsella, Brendan Conroy, Dagmar Döring, Tristan Heanue, Zahara Moufid, Maja Juric, Janet Grene, Clodagh Amira Sheridan, Steve Hartland, Michael Farrell)
Inspired by the real unsolved murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier, imagines a jury’s deliberations if the main suspect had been tried in Ireland, where Toscan du Plantier was killed.
World premiere
Relay (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: David Mackenzie; Writer: Justin Piasecki; Stars: Willa Fitzgerald, Lily James, Sam Worthington, Riz Ahmed, Matthew Maher, Helen Eigenberg, Pun Bandhu, Eisa Davis, Purva Bedi, Aaron Roman Weiner, Reed Northrup, Sasha Sen, Brian O'Neill, José Báez, Jose Guns Alves)
Elusive professional fixer Ash has his skills put to the test while protecting whistleblower Sarah Grant fromincreasingly ruthless corporate mercenaries.
US premiere
Sham (Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Takashi Miike; Writer: Masumi Fukuda, Hayashi Mori; Stars: Kô Shibasaki, Gô Ayano, Kazuki Kitamura, Kaoru Kobayashi, Fumino Kimura, Kazuya Kamenashi, Masahiro Takashima, Tamae Andô, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Ken Mitsuishi, Kôji Ohkura, Rie Mimura, Rie Minemura, Kisuke Iida, Takaya Sakoda)
When a young student shows signs of trauma, his parents act swiftly against his middle school teacher. But all may not be as it seems.
World premiere
She Dances (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Rick Gomez; Writer: Rick Gomez, Steve Zahn; Stars: Steve Zahn, Ethan Hawke, Rosemarie DeWitt, Sonequa Martin-Green, Wynn Everett, Mackenzie Ziegler, Audrey Zahn, Amy Weaver, Jennifer Uphold, DuZuan Lester, Haley Fish, Michael Jamison, Michael T. Davis, Joshua M. Hancock)
Harried dad Jason and teenage daughter Claire confront their fractured relationship against the unlikely backdrop of the Young Miss Southeast Regional Dance Finals.
World premiere
Sovereign (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Christian Swegal; Writer: Christian Swegal; Stars: Dennis Quaid, Nick Offerman, Jacob Tremblay, Nancy Travis, Martha Plimpton, Thomas Mann, Jade Fernandez, Eric Parkinson, Jobie James, Barry Clifton, Jason Scott Morgan, Alonso Rappa, Ben Matias, Krishna Sistla Ward, Andrew Ortenberg)
Struggling single father Jerry indoctrinates his son Joe into the sovereign citizen movement, teaching him that laws are mere illusions and freedom is something you take. But, as Jerry’s ideology consumes them, they are set on a collision course with a police chief.
World premiere
Tow (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Stephanie Laing; Writer: Jonathan Keasey, Brant Boivin; Stars: Rose Byrne, Corbin Bernsen, Dominic Sessa, Ariana DeBose, Octavia Spencer, Simon Rex, Demi Lovato, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Katie Lee Hill, Ava Monroe Tadross, Tom Johnson, Bill Winkler, Bonnie Rose, Ura Yoana Sánchez, Sung Yoon)
Amanda, an homeless woman living in her car, fights a predatory towing company when they refuse to return her stolen vehicle.
World premiere
A Tree Fell In The Woods (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Nora Kirkpatrick; Writer: Nora Kirkpatrick; Stars: Alexandra Daddario, Jen Tullock, Kevin Pollak, Josh Gad, Daveed Diggs, Ashley Park, Blake Berris, DeMorge Brown, Craig Gregersen)
When a New Year's Eve trip to the woods unearths simmering feelings and the secrets they carry threaten to break two couples' seemingly perfect relationships.
World premiere
Westhampton (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Christian Nilsson; Writer: Terence Krey, Christian Nilsson; Stars: Jessy Yates, RJ Mitte, Ritchie Coster, Finn Wittrock, Jake Weary, Tovah Feldshuh, Dan Lauria, Amy Forsyth, Luke Slattery, Sam Strike, Chris Gray, Eric Tabach, Joy Suprano, Mary Mallen, Joshua Screen)
Years after leaving Westhampton, Long Island to chase his dream as a filmmaker, a damaged director returns to the hometown that inspired his breakout film - where he’s forced to confront buried secrets, broken relationships, and the past he tried to rewrite.
World premiere
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