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No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman and What Belongs To Others
Armony
(Country: Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Dario Albertini; Stars: Valerio Mastandrea, Asia Argento, Clara Tramontano, Pamela Schettino, Ornella Muti)
A 55-year-old truck driver who is only truly comfortable in solitude. After his sister’s disappearance, he is forced to care for his six-year-old niece, Carlotta, but after forging a family the unit comes under threat.
Behemoth!
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Tony Gilroy; Writer: Tony Gilroy; Stars: Pedro Pascal, Olivia Wilde, Eva Victor, Will Arnett, Hank Azaria, Alexa Swinton, Kaya Ralls, Erik Griffin, JoBeth Williams, Margarita Levieva, Matthew Lillard, Adam Rose, Vincent Oppido, Eden Epstein, Miles Anderson)
Portrait of a gifted cellist's complex life.
The Beloved
(El ser querido)
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2026; Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen; Writer: Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Isabel Peña; Stars: Javier Bardem, Victoria Luengo, Raúl Arévalo, Marina Foïs, Mourad Ouani, Raúl Prieto, Melina Matthews, Núria Prims, Pablo Gómez-Pando, Malena Villa, Laura Birn, Chos, Pepa Gracia, Raquel Ferri, Conchi Albiñana Espejo)
A director and his estranged daughter, a struggling actress, make a movie together, forcing them to confront their troubled past
Black Money For White Nights
(Cherni pari za beli noshti)
(Country: Bulgaria, Greece; Year: 2026; Director: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov; Writer: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov, Decho Taralezhkov; Stars: Tanya Shahova, Margita Gosheva, Ivan Barnev, Ivan Savov)
After years of saving money from the small bribes they collect, 60-year-old Marina and her husband Gosha from Bulgaria are preparing for their dream trip to St Petersburg to witness the White Nights. But when Russia invades Ukraine and the travel agency vanishes with all their savings, the couple’s dream collapses.
La Bola Negra
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2026; Director: Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo; Writer: Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo; Stars: Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes, Lola Dueñas, Penélope Cruz, Glenn Close, Lorenzo Zurzolo)
Drama exploring the inter-connected lives of three gay men.
The Incomer and Black Money For White Nights
Brace Your Heart
(Garrat du váimmu)
(Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Bulgaria, Iceland; Year: 2026; Director: Amanda Kernell; Writer: Amanda Kernell; Stars: Elli-Sara Valkeapää, Andte Gaup-Juuso, Vincent Niia, Nils Peder Gaup, Siri Marakatt, Risten Alida Siri Skum)
Ejva inherits her late father's reindeer herd. As she struggles to keep the herd thriving, local leader Heaika falls for her, and though hesitant, she feels compelled to accept. But everything changes when Nejla, Heaika's cousin, arrives.
Brave New Love
(Country: Denmark, Sweden, Greece; Year: 2026; Director: Maria Bäck; Writer: Maria Bäck; Stars: Kathrine Thorborg Johansen, Anders Danielsen Lie, Simon Sears, Noemi Carbone Mannov, Angeliki Papoulia)
Hypnotherapist Kate lives happily with her husband, Orla, and their daughter, Athena,
while simultaneously maintaining a deeply romantic relationship with Andreas. After
years of secrecy, contradictions and forbidden feelings, the fragile balance of her choices
begins to collapse and she is forced to confront her double life.
Bunker
(Country: France, Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Florian Zeller; Writer: Florian Zeller; Stars: Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Paul Dano, Stephen Graham, Eileen Atkins, Mark Gatiss, Nimmi Harasgama, Jamie Bisping, Christos Lawton, Karen Ascoe, Shelley Williams, Abe Jarman, Greta Bellamacina)
When an architect accepts a morally ambiguous project - building a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire - his wife begins to question their marriage after 17 years together.
The Debut
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Jesse Eisenberg; Writer: Jesse Eisenberg; Stars: Julianne Moore, Paul Giamatti, Halle Bailey, Havana Rose Liu, Jesse Eisenberg, Cara Buono, Bernadette Peters, Lilli Cooper, Colton Ryan, Maulik Pancholy, Eldar Isgandarov, Bonnie Milligan, Patrick Fabian, Danny McCarthy)
A shy housewife is unexpectedly cast in a local am-dram original musical. Under the spell of the strong-willed and enigmatic director, she loses herself in the role.
The Echo Chamber
(Country: Italy, Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Andrea Pallaoro; Writer: Ludovica Rampoldi, Ilaria Bernardini; Stars: Luca Marinelli, Alicia Vikander, Susan Sarandon)
Drama focused on a co-dependent couple who cannot let go or break free.
I Play Rocky and The Debut
Elephants In The Fog
(Country: Nepal, Germany, Brazil, France, Norway; Director: Abinash Bikram Shah; Writer: Abinash Bikram Shah)
In a small Nepalese village nestled in the heart of a forest populated by wild elephants, Pirati is the matriarch of a community of transgender women. But when one of her "daughters" disappears, she must choose between love and responsibility to her community.
Everybody Digs Bill Evans
(Country: Ireland, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Grant Gee; Writer: Mark O'Halloran; Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Bill Pullman, Laurie Metcalf, Isabelle Harriet)
When a jazz pianist loses his soulmate in a car crash, this is the story of what happens next.
Everytime
(Country: Austria, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Sandra Wollner; Writer: Sandra Wollner; Stars: Birgit Minichmayr, Tristán López, Lotte Keiling, Carla Hüttermann)
A tragedy brings a mother, daughter, and teenage boy together.
Falling House
(Moragheb)
(Country: Iran, Germany, US; Year: 2026; Director: Mohsen Gharaie; Stars: Farhad Aslani, Laleh Marzban, Rima Raminfar)
A longtime prison guard is suspended for an unforgivable mistake and suddenly discovers his eldest daughter plans to emigrate to become a model. Determined to stop her, he does everything in his power to prevent her from leaving home.
Fatherland
(Country: Poland, Germany, Italy, France; Year: 2026; Director: Pawel Pawlikowski; Writer: Pawel Pawlikowski; Stars: Sandra Hüller, Hanns Zischler, August Diehl, Anna Madeley, Devid Striesow, David Menkin, Joachim Meyerhoff, Enno Trebs, Theo Trebs, Waldemar Kobus, Daniel Wagner, Fritzi Haberlandt, Milan Peschel, Joanna Kulig, Christophe Falconnet)
Drama focusing on Thomas Mann's post-war life, as he and his daughter embark on a road-trip across Germany.
Wild Horse Nine and Low Expectations
Furies
(Country: Lebanon, Brazil; Year: 2026; Director: Rami Kodeih; Writer: Rami Kodeih, Nora Mariana Salim; Stars: Maria Nakouzi, Rym Mroue, Hasan Akil, Issam Bou Khaled)
Amid Lebanon’s real-life, corruption-induced bank crisis – when depositors were and today still are denied access to their own savings – two women scheme a daring all-night heist to get their own money back and pay for a life-saving surgery.
La Gradiva
(Country: France, Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Marine Atlan; Writer: Marine Atlan, Anne Brouillet; Stars: Antonia Buresi, Julie Sokolowski)
A group of French high-school students travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius. There, they are drawn into a dizzying descent.
Heysel 85
(Country: Belgium, Romania, Netherlands, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Teodora Ana Mihai; Writer: Teodora Ana Mihai, Lode Desmet, Isabelle Darras; Stars: Matteo Simoni, Violet Braeckman, Josse De Pauw, Ben Segers, Fabrizio Rongione, Bobby Schofield, Jeroen Van der Ven, Dominique Dauwe, Jonathan Sawdon, Emanuela Ponzano, Pieter Verelst, Julian De Backer, Aran Bertetto, Michel de Warzee, Bruno Georis)
Dramatic reconstruction of the tragedy that unfolded during the 1985 European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus at the Brussels stadium.
The Idiot(s)
(Country: Germany, Poland; Year: 2026; Director: Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał Englert; Writer: Kasper Bajon, Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał Englert, Bríd Arnstein; Stars: Johnny Flynn, Aimee Lou Wood, Vicky Krieps, Christian Friedel, Barbara Marten, Rainer Bock, Raphael Roger Levy, Jürgen Heimüller, Thekla Viloo Fliesberg, Thomas B. Hoffmann, Joshua Seelenbinder, Pawel Morawiak, Frederike Bohr, Alexander Schuster, Ulrich Wenzke)
Anna Dostoevsky loves her husband Fyodor. Fyodor loves his wife, but he also loves gambling and booze. Anna tries desperately to rid him of his procrastination so he can deliver a new novel and they can avoid destitution.
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.
La Gradiva and Fatherland
I Play Rocky
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Peter Farrelly; Writer: Peter Gamble; Stars: Anthony Ippolito, AnnaSophia Robb, PJ Byrne, Toby Kebbell, Tracy Letts, Jay Duplass, Matt Dillon, Stephan James, Kiki Seto)
Sylvester Stallone, then a failing actor, writes the ultimate underdog story and must fight for his chance to play the role of a lifetime - Rocky Balboa.
Jim Queen
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Nicolas Athané, Marco Nguyen; Writer: Brice Chevillard, Simon Balteaux; Stars: Alex Ramirès, Jéremy Gillet, Shirley Souagnon, François Sagat, Elisabeth Wiener, Harald Marlot, Alex Brik)
When a virus that turns gay men straight sweeps through Paris, gym queen Jim has to race against time to find a cure before the community who worship him are wiped out.
Josephine
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Beth de Araújo; Writer: Beth de Araújo; Stars: Mason Reeves, Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan, Philip Ettinger, Syra McCarthy, Eleanore Pienta, Gretchen Klein, Nate Duncan, Tracy Todd, Grace Kelly Quigley, Malcolm Engel)
After 8-year-old Josephine accidentally witnesses a crime in Golden Gate Park, she acts out in search of a way to regain control of her safety while adults are helpless to console her.
A Long Winter
(Country: UK, Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Andrew Haigh; Writer: Andrew Haigh; Stars: Fred Hechinger, Caitríona Balfe, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Kit Connor, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, David Furr, Susan Serrao, Anthony Timpano, Geoff Gustafson, Camille Sullivan, Martin Freeman)
Returning to his childhood home deep in the mountains, Mike is drawn back into the quiet rituals of family life as the clan prepares for the winter ahead.
Love, After All
(Country: Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Andreas Dresen; Writer: Laila Stieler, Andreas Dresen; Stars: Dagmar Manzel, Joachim Król, Anna von Seld, Liane Düsterhöft, Christoph Hein, Clemens Meyer)
The everyday life of a married couple at a turning point: Lore wants a divorce, after almost 40 years of marriage.
A Long Winter and Brace Your Heart
Low Expectations
(Lave Forventninger)
(Country: Denmark, Norway; Year: 2026; Director: Eivind Landsvik; Writer: Eivind Landsvik; Stars: Marie Ulven, Anders Danielsen Lie, Tone Mostraum, Embla Berntsen, Snorre Kinf Monsson, Clara Dessau)
A successful young artist's career derails, forcing her back to her hometown. While teaching high school to make ends meet, she navigates depression and rediscovers herself in unexpected ways.
Minotaur
(Country: France, Germany, Latvia; Year: 2026; Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev; Writer: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Simon Lyashenko; Stars: Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva, Varvara Shmykova)
A high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence begins to unravel.
No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman
(Country: Iran, Norway; Year: 2026; Director: Halkawt Mustafa; Writer: Halkawt Mustafa; Stars: Avan Jamal)
A Kurdish female sniper, has survived war but when she learns the younger sister she believed was dead may still be alive in Mosul, she returns on a rescue mission that forces her to confront the trauma of her past.
The Smell of Apples
(Country: South Africa, Netherlands, Chile, France; Year: 2026; Director: John Trengove; Writer: Christopher Ciancimino, John Trengove; Stars: Dawian van der Westhuizen, Hilton Pelser, Maude Sandham, Celeste Matthews Wannenburgh, Wian Carstens, Karoline Watson, Inge Beckmann, Courtlin Baron)
In the insulated bubble of white Apartheid South Africa, Marnus, a sheltered 11-year old boy accuses the grandson of his family’s domestic worker of steeling his fishing rod. A brutal chain of events is set in motion, shattering the illusion of his family’s wholesome facade.
The Spiral
(L'estrania)
(Country: Belgium, France, Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Paolo Strippoli; Writer: Paolo Strippoli, Salvatore de Chirico; Stars: Jasmine Trinca, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Matilda De Angelis, Adriano Giannini, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi)
A woman unexpectedly shows up at her daughter’s home to reveal the truth about their family.
Josephine and Minotaur
Violette
(Country: France, Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet; Stars: Leïla Bekhti, Matthias Schoenaerts, Sergio Castellitto, Dominique Pinon, Melville Poupaud)
A police officer becomes intrigued by the woman who tends the local cemetery, and he begins to uncover secrets about her past.
What Belongs To Others
(Cudze rzeczy)
(Country: Poland; Year: 2026; Director: Grzegorz Dębowski; Writer: Grzegorz Dębowski; Stars: Monika Kwiatkowska, Robert Mania, Ewa Pająk, Martyna Rozwadowska, Jadwiga Grygierczyk)
Kasia earns her living by breaking into other people's homes. One day on the job she finds a dead body of a man and decides to move into his apartment and find out who he was. As she starts to piece together his memories, relationships and secrets, it awakens in her a dream of another life and gives her strength to make changes in her own.
Wicker
(Country: United Kingdom, US; Year: 2026; Director: Eleanor Wilson, Alex Huston Fischer; Writer: Eleanor Wilson, Alex Huston Fischer; Stars: Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Peter Dinklage, Elizabeth Debicki, Marli Siu, Nabhaan Rizwan)
A fisherwoman asks a basketmaker to weave her a husband.
Wild Horse Nine
(Country: UK, US, Chile; Year: 2026; Director: Martin McDonagh; Writer: Martin McDonagh; Stars: John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Parker Posey, Tom Waits, Mariana di Girolamo, Paola Giannini, Ailín Salas, Samuel Wayt)
Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Rapa Nui.
Yesterday The Eye Didn't Sleep
(Country: Belgium, Lebanon, Palestinian Territory; Year: 2026; Director: Rakan Mayasi; Writer: Rakan Mayasi, Wahid Ajmi; Stars: Jawaher Mawlah, Reem Mawlah, Yasser Mawlah)
When someone sets fire to a car, a spark of trouble spreads through a tightly woven community.
La Bola Negra and Wicker
Youri
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2026; Director: Sander Burger; Writer: Sander Burger, Bastiaan Tichler; Stars: Levan Gelbakhiani, Joes Brauers, Julia Akkermans, Rick Paul van Mulligen, Len Leo Vincent, Julian Cruiming, Maria Gallo, Marco Verhagen, Koen ter Braak)
Amsterdam, 1982. When journalist Jan Brokken meets Youri Egorov – the world-famous Soviet pianist who fled his homeland because of his sexuality – an unexpected friendship begins.
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