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On The Sea and Love Letters
Amantes
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Caroline Fournier; Writer: Caroline Fournier; Stars: Nabila Nina Mekkid, Sarah Labhar, Tessa Bazin, Maïa Le Fourn, Angélique Zaïni, Caroline Cristofoli, Mailys Favraud)
A lesbian romantic comedy set in the Paris dating scene.
Another Man
(Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: David Moragas; Writer: David Moragas)
They are young, handsome, in love, and living together in a bustling neighborhood in Barcelona, while considering moving to a bigger house since their toilet is constantly leaking and it refuses to be fixed. When their sexy new neighbor appears on the balcony across the street, the delicate balance between them will shatter with a resounding crash.
Can't Go Over It
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Ethan Fuirst; Stars: Susannah Perkins, Taylor Trensch)
When Miller and Caleb first started going on walking trips together, they were idealistic twentysomethings. Now, in their 30s, the strain upon their friendship is becoming more difficult to ignore.
The Deepest Space In Us
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Yasutomo Chikuma; Stars: Momoko Fukuchi, Kanichiro, Ryutaro Nakagawa)
A young woman falls for the lawyer handling her estranged mother’s estate, but when they travel to a seaside town together, planning to register their marriage, tragedy occurs.
Drunken Noodles
(Year: 2025; Director: Lucia Castro)
Adnan, a young art student, arrives in New York City to flat-sit for a friend. He begins interning at a gallery where an artist who specialises in embroidered queer erotica is being exhibited. This opens a portal to his own desire.
ìfé: (The Sequel)
(Country: Nigeria; Year: 2026; Director: Pamela Adie; Writer: Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim; Stars: Uzoamaka (Power) Aniunoh, Gbubemi Ejeye, Ozzy Agu)
Adaora settled into comfortable domesticity with her husband, while ífé found love in South Africa. But when they unexpectedly cross paths at a Lagos bookstore, old flames ignite, threatening to upend everything they’ve built.
I Am Going To Miss You
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2026; Director: Daniel Ribeiro; Writer: Alice Marcone, Daniel Ribeiro; Stars: Alice Marcone, Gabriel Lodi, Luca Scarpelli)
When a transgender couple move in together, differences quickly surface. One seeks stability while the other seeks something more, in this touching drama tale by Daniel Ribeiro.
Jone, Sometimes
(Jone, batzuetan)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Sara Fantova; Writer: Sara Fantova, Núria Dunjó, Nuria Martín; Stars: Olaia Aguayo, Josean Bengoetxea)
During the Semana Grande annual festival 20-year-old Jone falls in love with Olga. And while experiencing the heady rush of joy, she is simultaneously tormented by the fear of losing her father, who has Parkinson's disease.
Lady Champagne
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: D’Arcy Drollinger; Stars: D’Arcy Drollinger, Matthew Martin, Seton Brown)
Champagne is one of San Francisco’s most notorious dancers. When she’s framed for her recent hubby’s death, she must outwit sinister businesswomen, incompetent detectives and sadistic prison guards.
The Little Sister
(La Petite Dernière)
(Country: France, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Hafsia Herzi; Writer: Fatima Daas, Hafsia Herzi; Stars: Park Ji-min, Aloïse Sauvage, Némo Schiffman, Vincent Pasdermadjian, Sophie Garagnon, Olivia Courbis, Rita Benmannana, Victorien Bonnet, Elisa Libri, Luna Ribeiro, Anouar Kardellas, Nacer Bouhanni)
Fatima, 17, the youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path, grappling with emerging desires, her attraction to women, and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family.
Love Letters
(Des preuves d'amour)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Alice Douard; Writer: Alice Douard, Laurette Polmanss; Stars: Ella Rumpf, Félix Kysyl, Monia Chokri, Anne Le Ny, Noémie Lvovsky, Édouard Sulpice, Eva Huault, Julien Gaspar-Oliveri)
Céline is expecting her firstborn. But she’s not the one who’s pregnant. In three months, her wife Nadia will give birth to their daughter. Under the gaze of her friends, her mother, and the law, Céline looks for her place and sense of legitimacy.
Lunar Sway
(Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Nick Butler; Stars: Noah Parker, Liza Weil, Douglas Smith)
In this offbeat comedy, a bi guy in a desert town receives a surprise visit from his con-artist birth mother, with chaos ensuing.
Madfabulous
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Celyn Jones; Writer: Lisa Baker; Stars: Callum Scott Howells, Ruby Stokes, Rupert Everett)
Meet Toppy, a fabulously flamboyant aristocrat. Born in 1875, he inherited a fortune and promptly set about spending every last penny of it on jewels, theatre productions and scandalously lavish parties. While polite society clutched its pearls, Toppy became a beloved figure to the people of Bangor.
Montreal, My Beautiful
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Xiaodan He; Stars: Joan Chen, John Xu, Charlotte Aubin)
Feng Xia lives a life of dutiful servitude to her husband, children and community of Chinese ex-pats. When she finally decides to put herself first, and explore the sexuality that she has long concealed, she meets the free-spirited Camille.
On The Sea
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Helen Walsh; Stars: Barry Ward, Lorne Macfadyen, Celyn Jones, Liz White)
A love story about a married mussel farmer who falls in love with a handsome newcomer.
Satisfaction
(Country: US, Greece, Ukraine, Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Alex Burunova)
The relationship between Lola and Philip, two young British composers, is falling apart. While spending their holiday on Antiparos, the two struggle to regain their footing as a couple, further unsettled by an encounter with a woman who brings repressed trauma to light.
Skiff
(Country: Belgium, Netherlands; Year: 2025; Director: Cecilia Verheyden)
Teenage tale of first love.
Strange River
(Estrany riu)
(Country: Spain, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Jaume Claret Muxart; Writer: Jaume Claret Muxart, Meritxell Colell; Stars: Jan Monter, Nausicaa Bonnín, Francesco Wenz, Jordi Oriol, Bernat Solé, Roc Colell)
Sixteen-year-old Dídac and his family are spending the summer holidays on a cycling trip along the Danube. An unexpected encounter with another boy changes the course of the journey.
Washed Up
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Isabel Daly; Writer: Issy Brett, Carys Glynne, Isabel Daly; Stars: Anna Ivankovic, Carys Glynne, Anna Liddell)
Morwenna is scraping by, searching for artistic inspiration, battling heartbreak and trying to fend off tourists seeking to buy her grandfather’s house. When she meets the nomadic Inga, her life is transformed. But how can a girl and a selkie make a relationship work?
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