All Of A Sudden
The director of a nursing home in Paris has an encounter with a terminally ill Japanese playwright that transforms her life.

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Dry Leaf
A father goes looking for his missing photographer daughter across rural Georgia.

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I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
Childhood friends Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli, and Conor played together, skipped school together, and dreamt of the lives they would have one day. Now they’re thirty, and the future they imagined is slipping quietly out of reach.
Journacide: The War On Truth
As of early May 2026, over 260 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023. The UN and various organisations have described this as the deadliest conflict for journalists in history. With Israel’s new surge of ethnic cleansing in South Lebanon the total has now reached 28 for the same period.
Little Shop Of Horrors
A shy young man finds his life transformed when he discovers an unusual plant - but at what cost?

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Maddie's Secret
A food influencer secretly struggles with bulimia as she navigates online fame, close friendships, and a painful past.
A Man Of His Time
Historical drama set against a backdrop of Vichy France as a man strives to help France's renewal.
Minotaur
A high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence begins to unravel.
The Peril At Pincer Point
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.

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Rose
A woman disguises herself as a man in 17th Century Germany.
Skintown
During the 1994 IRA ceasefire, two best friends try to escape their lives in a small Irish town.
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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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