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The Incomer and The Education Of Jane Cumming
The Arrow At Rest At Every Instant Of Its Flight
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Theodore Schaefer; Stars: Constance Shulman, Daniel Zolghadri, Gus Birney, Jack Haven, John Early, Roberta Colindrez)
Three seemingly disconnected stories unfold across New York City.
Bel
(Year: 2026; Director: Louise Lockwood; Stars: Beldina Odenyo)
The story of Scottish Kenyan musician Beldina Odenyo, who performed under the stage name Heir of the Cursed.
The Best Summer
(Country: US, Austria, Indonesia, Thailand; Year: 2026; Director: Tamra Davis)
Immersive POV camera footage reveals electric performances, candid interviews, and intimate backstage life with the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Pavement, Rancid, Beck, The Amps, and Bikini Kill — an all-access view inside an era-defining moment in music.
Bodyhackers
(Country: Portugal, Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Carlos Conceição; Writer: Carlos Conceição; Stars: McCaul Lombardi, Joana Ribeiro, Elina Löwensohn, Jenna Thiam, Dinarte de Freitas, Alba Baptista, Vicente Gil, Salvador Gil, Ivo Arroja, André Cabral, Lola Herself)
Intent on exposing the cosmetics industry, an environmental activist falls in love with a ballerina with her own obsession with unattainable beauty,
Borges And Me
(Country: Belgium, Netherlands, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Marc Turtletaub; Writer: Oren Moverman, Ross Clarke; Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Luis Gnecco, Alan Cumming, Peter Mullan, Harriet Sansom Harris)
n the early 1970s writer and student Jay Parini finds himself committed to driving blind poet Jorge Luis Borges across the Scottish countryside. The pair form a bond over the journey.
Sheep In The Box and The Best Summer
Douglas Gordon By Douglas Gordon
(Country: UK, France; Year: 2026; Director: Finlay Pretsell; Stars: Douglas Gordon)
Intimate portrait of the Turner prizewinner.
The Education Of Jane Cumming
(Country: Germany, Switzerland, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Sophie Heldman; Writer: Flora Nicholson, Sophie Heldman; Stars: Flora Nicholson, Clare Dunne, Mia Tharia, Fiona Shaw, Sadie Shimmin, Stephen McCole)
Edinburgh, 1810. Two female teachers find themselves at the centre of a scandal.
Extra Geography
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2026; Director: Molly Manners; Writer: Miriam Battye; Stars: Iyla Sundarsingh McKaig, Alice Englert, Galaxie Clear, Marni Duggan)
In an English girls boarding school, two teenage best friends grapple with the challenges of girlhood — friendship, boys, studies, and growing up — and embark on their school project, falling in love.
The Garden We Dreamed
(El jardín que soñamos)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2026; Director: Joaquín del Paso; Writer: Joaquín del Paso; Stars: Néhémie Bastien, Faustin Pierre, Kimaëlle Holly Preville, Ruth Aicha Pierre Nelson, Carlos Esquivel)
A family settles in a remote forest and tries to carve out a life.
Goodbye Cruel World
(Adieu Monde Cruel)
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2026; Director: Félix de Givry; Writer: Marie-Stéphane Imbert, Félix de Givry; Stars: Milo Machado-Graner, Jane Beever, Emmanuelle Destremau, Maïa Sandoz, Erwan Kepoa Falé, Catherine Artigala)
Otto Vidal, 14, disappears after writing a farewell letter to his classmates. While everyone believes he is dead, Léna, a girl from his high school, spots him one night roaming the streets of the city.
Goodbye Cruel World and Extra Geography
Her Private Hell
(Country: US, Denmark; Year: 2026; Director: Nicolas Winding Refn; Writer: Nicolas Winding Refn, Esti Giordani; Stars: Sophie Thatcher, Kristine Froseth, Havana Rose Liu, Diego Calva, Dougray Scott, Shioli Kutsuna, Charles Melton, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Aoi Yamada, Boy Ewald, Jason Hendil-Forssell)
Thriller. A woman hunts for her father as a mysterious mist engulfs their city.
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.
I Want Your Sex
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Gregg Araki; Writer: Karley Sciortino, Gregg Araki; Stars: Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman, Mason Gooding, Chase Sui Wonders, Daveed Diggs, Charli xcx, Johnny Knoxville, Margaret Cho, Roxane Mesquida, George Todd McLachlan)
When fresh-faced Elliot lands a job with artist and provocateur Erika Tracy, his fantasies come true as she taps him to become her sexual muse. But Elliot finds himself out of his depth as Erika takes him on a journey into a world of sex, obsession, power, betrayal, and murder.
The Last Resort
(Country: Denmark, Norway; Year: 2026; Director: Maria Sødahl; Writer: Maria Sødahl, Eske Troelstrup, Therese Hasman; Stars: Esben Smed, Danica Ćurčić, Sif Lucca Gersby, Chili Olivia Jensen, Antonio Estrada, Aziz Çapkurt, Claes Ljungmark, Rosa Nicolás, Héctor Juezas, Per Kjerstad, Marte Engebrigtsen, Oscar Buer, Petrine Agger, Nanna Finding Koppel, Tania Santana)
An unexpected incident leaves a family bound to a refugee in desperate need.
Mi Amor
(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Guillaume Nicloux; Writer: Guillaume Nicloux, Nathalie Leuthreau; Stars: Pom Klementieff, Benoît Magimel, Freya Mavor, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Anaël Snoek, Elina Löwensohn, Leo Bulgari, Tommy Kunnas, Jaime Jiménez Pérez)
Thriller sees a DJ go on the hunt for her missing friend.
My NDA
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Miriam Shor, Juliane Dressner)
Three people bound by non-disclosure agreements face extreme personal risk to expose how a simple intellectual property contract is weaponised to silence, manipulate and control.
Northbound
(Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: William Scoular; Writer: Ashlin Halfnight; Stars: Bruce Dern, Hunter Parrish, Julia Fox, Joanna Cassidy, Russell Peters, Graham Greene, Walter Borden, Dylan Baker, Rebecca Staab, John Thomas Gauthier, Elizabeth Shepherd, Jenni Burke, Robert Meynell)
Frustrated with living out his final days in a nursing home, elderly rogue Arthur recruits his uptight grandson to break him out.
The Peril At Pincer Point
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Jake Kuhn, Noah Stratton-Twine; Writer: Jake Kuhn, Noah Stratton-Twine; Stars: Jack Redmayne, Alyth Ross, Os Leanse, Mike Mackenzie, Dashiell Upton, Jason Hogan, Mat Wright, Noah Stratton-Twine, Isobel Laidler, Oliver Woolf)
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.
Queen At Sea
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2026; Director: Lance Hammer; Stars: Juliette Binoche, Tom Courtenay, Steven Cree, Florence Hunt, Anna Calder-Marshall, Michelle Jeram, Elizabeth Rushbrook, Noah Hunt Basden)
As advanced dementia erodes an older woman’s ability to communicate her inner life, her husband and daughter struggle to act in her best interests, navigating love and the fragile boundaries between care, protection and autonomy.
Sea Of Glass
(Country: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Serbia; Year: 2026; Director: Alexis Alexiou; Stars: Christiana Matelska Toka, Dimitris Tzoumakis, Evangelia Andreadaki, Michalis Iatropoulos, Nikos Georgakis, Thanos Tokakis)
After experiencing immense family turmoil in the wake of her husband’s death, a woman seeks solace in a quiet seaside town. There, she forms an unexpected bond with a young woman.
Sheep In The Box
(Country: Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda; Writer: Hirokazu Kore-eda; Stars: Haruka Ayase, Daigo Yamamoto, Kuwaki Rimu, Nana Seino, Kanichiro Sato, Hinata Hiiragi, Akihiro Kakuta, Kayo Noro, Mari Hoshino, Ayumu Nakajima, Kimiko Yo, Min Tanaka)
A couple take a humanoid robot into their home as a replacement for their dead son.
These Violent Delights
(Year: 2026; Director: Oscar Sansom, Christopher Hampson; Stars: Kayla-Maree Tarantolo, Ishan Mahabir-Stokes, Christopher Akrill, Marge Hendrick, Grace Horler, Anna Williams, Bruno Micchiardi, Andrea Azzari, Rishan Benjamin, Harvey Littlefield, James Garrington, Yuri Marques, Jessica Hardwick, Roseanna Leney, Darren Panton)
Scottish ballet's retelling of Romeo And Juliet.
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