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Case 137 and Little Trouble Girls
About A Hero
(Country: Denmark, USA; Year: 2024; Director: Piotr Winiewicz)
Reflection on authorship and the limits of human expression in an age of algorithms, featuring interviews with various artists, philosophers, and scientists.
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.
All The Devils Are Here
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Barnaby Roper; Stars: Eddie Marsan, Sam Claflin, Burn Gorman, Tienne Simon, Suki Waterhouse, Rory Kinnear)
Ordered to lie low in a safe house, a crew of criminals begin to turn on one another.
Brides
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Nadia Fall; Writer: Suhayla El-Bushra; Stars: Ebada Hassan, Safiyya Ingar, Yusra Warsama, Cemre Ebuzziya, Aziz Çapkurt, Hayal Lorena Cercis, Derya Durmaz, Susku Ekim Kaya, Ada Danila Farid Mancuso, Leo Bill, Ali Khan, Fiona Helen Armstrong, Amanda Lawrence, Mitchell Brown, Laura Dalgleish)
Two teenage girls in search of freedom, friendship, and belonging run away from their troubled lives with a misguided plan of traveling to Syria.
Case 137
(Dossier 137)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Dominik Moll; Writer: Gilles Marchand, Dominik Moll; Stars: Léa Drucker, Yoann Blanc, Antonia Buresi, Etienne Guillou-Kervern, Guslagie Malanda, Kevin Debonne, Laurent Bozzi, Dorothée Martinet)
Stéphanie, a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she finds no evidence of illegitimate police violence, the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.
Cutting Through Rocks and The Golden Spurtle
Christy
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2025; Director: Brendan Canty; Writer: Alan O'Gorman; Stars: Danny Power, Diarmuid Noyes, Emma Willis, Alison Oliver, Helen Behan, Chris Walley, Cormac De Bhál)
Two estranged brothers with chequered childhoods in the care system suddenly find themselves living under the same roof.
Crushed
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Simon Rumley; Writer: Simon Rumley; Stars: Steve Oram, Margaux Dietrich, Sahajak Boonthanakit)
In suburban Bangkok, a family's faith is thrown into crisis when their daughter is kidnapped.
Cutting Through Rocks
(Country: Qatar, Chile, Iran, Canada, Netherlands, Germany, US; Year: 2025; Director: Mohammad Reza Eyni, Sara Khaki)
As the first elected councilwoman of her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi aims to break long-held patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages. When accusations arise questioning Sara’s intentions to empower the girls, her identity is put in turmoil.
Deaf
(Sorda)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Eva Libertad; Writer: Eva Libertad; Stars: Álvaro Cervantes, Elena Irureta, Miriam Garlo, Joaquín Notario)
The arrival of a baby to a Deaf woman and her hearing partner causes a crisis in their relationship.
Dragonfly
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Paul Andrew Williams; Writer: Paul Andrew Williams; Stars: Brenda Blethyn, Andrea Riseborough, Jason Watkins, Elliot Benn, Sandra Huggett, Lolly Jones)
When Colleen volunteers to care for her
elderly neighbor Elsie, the two quickly bond. But beneath the pleasantries,
motives start to be questioned leading to a devastating series of events.
Dragonfly and Zodiac Killer Project
Fires Of The Moon
(Tanau'r Lloer)
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Christopher Forster; Stars: Huw Ynyr, Elin Prichard, Annes Elwy, Dylan Morrison Jones)
Adaptation of a Welsh language opera.
The Golden Spurtle
(Country: UK, Australia; Year: 2025; Director: Constantine Costi; Stars: Charlie Miller)
Documentary charting a porridge-making contest in the Highlands.
Grow
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: John McPhail; Stars: Priya-Rose Brookwell, Golda Rosheuevel, Nick Frost, Jane Horrocks, Alan Carr, Joe Wilkinson, Sanjeev Kohli, Dominic McLaughlin)
A troubled young girl begins a new life with her tough aunt and discovers a supernatural talent that might help her win a local pumpkin-growing contest.
Hysteria
(Country: Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay; Writer: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay; Stars: Devrim Lingnau, Mehdi Meskar, Serkan Kaya, Nicolette Krebitz, Aziz Çapkurt, Nazmi Kirik, Tony Attaallah, Lola Klamroth, Zeynel Abidin Cal, Moaid Forani, Ferhat Keskin, Helin Sezen Korkmaz, Zejhun Demirov, Aykut Jançat Sahin, Till Bortloff)
A film shoot turns dark when the burning of the Quran throws the crew into turmoil.
Islands
(Country: Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Jan-Ole Gerster; Writer: Lawrie Doran, Jan-Ole Gerster, Blaz Kutin; Stars: Stacy Martin, Sam Riley, Jack Farthing, Bruna Cusí, Dylan Torrell, Pep Ambròs, Fatima Adoum, Maya Unger, Ahmed Boulane, Fernando Navas)
Tom, a tennis coach at a luxury hotel, has his life changed when a new family arrives. Matters take a dark turn when the husband disappears and both Tom and the wife become suspects.
Hysteria and Walk With Me
Little Trouble Girls
(Kaj ti je deklica)
(Country: Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia; Year: 2025; Director: Urska Djukic; Writer: Urska Djukic, Marina Gumzi; Stars: Jara Sofija Ostan, Mina Svajger, Sasa Tabakovic, Natasa Burger, Marko Mandic, Lotos Sparovec, Sasa Pavcek, Branko Zavrsan, Casson Matia, Popovic Stasa, Frlic Spela, Tomazin Irena, Strle Mateja)
During a weekend of rehearsals with the school choir at a convent, an introverted teenager begins to view the world from a new perspective.
The Memory Blocks
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Andrew Kötting)
An experimental reflection on the changeable and complex nature of memory through the lens of neurodivergence.
Misper
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Harry Sherriff; Writer: Laurence Tratalos; Stars: Samuel Blenkin, Emily Carey, Christine Bottomley, Daniel Ryan, Oliver Ryan and Sunil Patel)
A staff member at a seaside hotel vanishes without a trace.
Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk
(Country: Iran, France, Palestine; Year: 2025; Director: Sepideh Farsi)
The everyday reality for those living in Gaza.
Sanatorium
(Country: Ireland, Ukraine, France; Year: 2025; Director: Gar O'Rourke)
Documentary observing a rundown Soviet-era health resort in war-torn Ukraine.
Brides and Islands
Surviving Earth
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Thea Gajic; Writer: Slavko Sobin, Olive Gray, Stuart Martin)
A Yugoslav refugee rebuilds his life in Bristol, counselling by day and playing ina Balkan band by night.
Walk With Me
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Heidi Levitt)
A filmmaker charts her own journey after her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Young Mothers
(Jeunes Meres, The Young Mother’s Home)
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2025; Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne; Writer: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne; Stars: Elsa Houben, Lucie Laruelle, Janaina Halloy, Babette Verbeek, Samia Hilmi)
Jessica, Perla, Julie, Ariane and Naïma are housed in a shelter for young mothers. Five teenagers hoping for a better life for themselves and their babies.
Zodiac Killer Project
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Charlie Shackleton)
A filmmaker describes his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary and probes the inner workings of a genre at saturation point.
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