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Sorry, Baby Sorry, Baby
Sorry, Baby and The Blue Trail
The Blue Trail (O Ultimo Azul) (Country: Brazil, Mexico, Netherlands, Chile; Year: 2025; Director: Gabriel Mascaro; Writer: Tibério Azul, Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega, Gabriel Mascaro; Stars: Denise Weinberg, Rodrigo Santoro, Miriam Socarras, Adanilo)
To maximise economic productivity, the government orders the elderly to relocate to distant housing colonies. Tereza, 77, refuses – and instead embarks on a journey through the Amazon that will change her destiny forever.
Couture (Country: France, US; Year: 2025; Director: Alice Winocour; Writer: Alice Winocour; Stars: Angelina Jolie, Louis Garrel, Ella Rumpf, Garance Marillier)
American filmmaker Maxine arrives in Paris for Fashion Week on a life-and-death journey, facing challenges and self-discovery.
Dead Man's Wire (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Gus Van Sant; Writer: Austin Kolodney; Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Al Pacino, Cary Elwes, Colman Domingo, Dacre Montgomery, Myha'la)
On February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis, entered the office of Richard Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off shotgun wired with a "dead man's wire" from the trigger to Tony's own neck.
The Disappearance Of Josef Mengele (Country: France, Mexico, Germany, United Kingdom, Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Kirill Serebrennikov; Writer: Olivier Guez; Stars: August Diehl, Dana Herfurth, Burghart Klaußner, Anton Lytvynov, Heinz K. Krattiger, Maximilian Meyer-Bretschneider, Carlos Kaspar, Alina Lytvynova, Tetiana Lytvynova, David Ruland, Rodrigo Costa Pereyra, Diana Stepanova, Santino Lucci, Ramiro Lucci)
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor at Auschwitz, escapes to South America to rebuild his life in hiding. Through the eyes of his son who finds him again, Mengele is confronted with a past he can no longer ignore.
Divine Comedy (Komedie elahi) (Country: Iran, Italy, France, Germany, Turkey; Year: 2025; Director: Ali Asgari; Writer: Alireza Khatami, Bahram Ark, Bahman Ark, Ali Asgari; Stars: Hossein Soleimani, Mohammad Soori, Amirreza Ranjbaran, Faezeh Rad)
A filmmaker embarks on an underground mission to showcase his film to an Iranian audience — dodging government censors, absurd bureaucracy and his own self-doubts.
The Secret Agent The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent and Sound Of Falling
Hamnet (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Chloé Zhao; Writer: Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell; Stars: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn, Jacobi Jupe)
William and Agnes Shakespeare struggle to come to terms with the loss of their son.
I Swear (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Kirk Jones)
Story of a teenager living with Tourette's in small town Scotland.
No Other Choice (Eojjeol suga eopda) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Park Chan-wook; Writer: Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, Jahye Lee; Stars: Lee Byung-hun, Son Yej-in, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, Cha Seung-won)
When man loses his job he finds himself drifting before deciding to take things into his own hands...
Rental Family (Country: Japan, US; Year: 2025; Director: Hikari; Writer: Hikari, Stephen Blahut; Stars: Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Shannon Gorman, Nihi, Akira Emoto)
A lonely American actor living in Tokyo starts working for a Japanese 'rental family' company to play stand-in roles in other people's lives. Along the way, he finds surprising connections and unexpected joys within his built-in family.
The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto) (Country: Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho; Writer: Kleber Mendonça Filho; Stars: Wagner Moura, Udo Kier, Gabriel Leone, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Hermila Guedes, Alice Carvalho, Thomás Aquino, Isabél Zuaa, Suzy Lopes, João Vitor Silva, Roney Villela, Rubens Santos, Luciano Chirolli, Buda Lira, Jimmy Astley)
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realises that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.
Sorry, Baby (Country: US, Spain, France; Year: 2025; Director: Eva Victor; Writer: Eva Victor; Stars: Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi, Kelly McCormack)
Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.
Sound Of Falling (In Die Sonne Schauen) (Country: Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Mascha Schilinski; Writer: Louise Peter, Mascha Schilinski; Stars: Luise Heyer, Filip Schnack, Lea Drinda, Susanne Wuest, Lena Urzendowsky, Luzia Oppermann, Lucas Prisor, Konstantin Lindhorst, Gode Benedix, Martin Rother, Hanna Heckt, Bärbel Schwarz, Florian Geißelmann)
Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.
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