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The Baltimorons and Unidentified
Babystar
(Country: Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Joscha Bongard; Writer: Joscha Bongard, Nicole Rüthers; Stars: Maximilian Mundt, Matthias Matschke, Verena Altenberger, Maja Bons, Maria Matschke)
A family vlogger's teenage daughter discovers that her parents plan to have another child and begins to question the cost of her lifelong celebrity.
The Baltimorons
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Jay Duplass; Writer: Jay Duplass, Michael Strassner; Stars: Michael Strassner, Liz Larsen, Olivia Luccardi, Chris Strassner, Lewis Peterson, Rob Phoenix, Jessie Cohen)
Christmas Eve, a broken tooth, and just one dentist on call – thus begins the strange odyssey of the newly sober Cliff and the lonely Didi through the streets of Baltimore.
Between Dreams And Hope
(Country: Iran; Year: 2025; Director: Farnoosh Samadi; Writer: Farnoosh Samadi; Stars: Reza Amouzad, Sadaf Asgari, Fereshteh Hosseini, Amir Reza Jokar, Amirreza Ranjbaran, Hooman Rahnemoon, Kiarash Rezaei)
A young couple in Iran, one of whom is trans, travel to a remote town to confront his estranged father. Their mission: to obtain documents that allow them to live their love freely, challenging social and family norms.
The Birthday Party
(Country: Greece, Spain, Netherlands, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Miguel Ángel Jiménez; Writer: Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Giorgos Karnavas, Nicos Panagiotopoulos, based on the novel by Panos Karnezis; Stars: Willem Dafoe, Vic Carmen Sonne, Emma Suárez, Joe Cole, Carlos Cuevas)
Markos Timoleon, an Onassis-like Greek tycoon, is celebrating his daughter’s 25th birthday on his private island. There, he will face an unpredictable chain of events that will threaten his dominance and shake his very existence.
Broken English
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard; Writer: Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth, Ian Martin; Stars: Marianne Faithfull, George MacKay, Tilda Swinton)
Portrait of Marianne Faithfull.
We Believe You and The Wizard Of The Kremlin
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.
Decorado
(Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Alberto Vázquez)
Dystopian animation about a middle-aged mouse who challenges everything.
The Dutchman
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Andre Gaines; Writer: Qasim Basir, Andre Gaines, Amiri Baraka; Stars: Kate Mara, Zazie Beetz, Aldis Hodge, André Holland)
A successful black businessman, haunted by his crumbling marriage and identity crisis, is drawn into a sexualised game of cat and mouse with a mysterious white woman on a subway that leads to a violent conclusion.
Effi O Blaenau
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Marc Evans; Writer: Owen Alun, Sion Eifion, Leah Gaffey; Stars: Leisa Gwenllian, Tom Rhys Harries, Mared Llywelyn)
The tale of a young woman who learns firsthand the personal costs of societal shortcomings.
Jaripeo and Kokuho
Erupcja
(Country: US, Poland; Year: 2025; Director: Pete Ohs; Writer: Pete Ohs, Charli xcx, Luke Arreguin, Jeremy O. Harris, Josh Godfrey; Stars: Charli xcx, Lena Góra, Will Madden, Jeremy O. Harris, Agata Trzebuchowska, Maja Michnacka, Jan Lubaczewski)
Bethany travels along with her boyfriend, Rob, from London to Warsaw, where she meets her old crush, Nel, and decides to dump him in order to party with her during the weekend. However, every time the two girls hang out, a volcano – quite literally – erupts somewhere on the planet and this time, it is Etna’s turn.
Father Mother Sister Brother
(Country: US, Ireland, France; Year: 2025; Director: Jim Jarmusch; Writer: Jim Jarmusch; Stars: Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, Françoise Lebrun)
Three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents) and each other. Each of the three chapters takes place in the present, and each in a different country.
Forastera
(Country: Italy, Sweden, Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias; Writer: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias; Stars: Lluís Homar, Núria Prims, Zoe Stein, Mata Angelat, Nonni Ardal Hammarström)
During her Mallorca summer, Antonia recognises similarities with her late grandma. She develops an influence over her mourning grandpa through dress-up, blurring who inhabits who.
A Fox Under A Pink Moon,
(Country: France, UK, US, Denmark, Iran; Year: 2025; Director: Mehrdad Oskouei)
At just 16, Soraya is already creating stunning drawings and sculptures that are as beautiful as they are dark. This strong-willed Afghan sculptor and illustrator has been trying for five years to escape Iran and join her mother in Austria.
Franz
(Country: Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, France, Turkey; Year: 2025; Director: Agnieszka Holland; Writer: Marek Epstein, Agnieszka Holland; Stars: Karel Dobrý, Peter Kurth, Stanislav Majer, Katharina Stark, Sebastian Schwarz)
The life of the writer Franz Kafka, from his birth to his death.
Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie and Think Of England
The Garden Of Earthly Delights
(Country: Netherlands, Philippines, Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Morgan Knibbe; Writer: Morgan Knibbe, Roelof Jan Minneboo; Stars: JP Rodriguez, Benjamin Moen, Francesca Dela Cruz, Bunny Cadag, John Michael Toling)
In the slums of Manila, an 11-year-old scavenger fights for survival and dreams of becoming a gangster, but as he crosses paths with a troubled Dutch tourist, he's forced to make an impossible decision.
The Good Boy
(Country: Poland, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Jan Komasa; Writer: Bartek Bartosik, Naqqash Khalid; Stars: Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough, Anson Boon)
An out-of-control teenager who monetises videos of his criminal deeds online is kidnapped by a stranger who intends to force him into being a ‘good boy’ within a twisted family dynamic.
Hen
(Country: Germany, Greece, Hungary; Year: 2025; Director: György Pálfi; Stars: Yannis Kokiasmenos, Maria Diakopanagioti, Argyris Pantazaras)
After escaping a grisly fate, a hen seeks refuge.
Hen
(Country: South Africa; Year: 2025; Director: Nico Scheepers; Writer: Nico Scheepers; Stars: Dawian van der Westhuizen, Amalia Uys, Stian Bam, Marelize Viljoen, Anoecha Kruger-Chanarin)
After a gruesome massacre, Dawid discovers a feral boy hidden in a chest on an isolated farm. Driven by duty, Dawid and his wife, Hanna, take the boy in. But Lukas is not an ordinary child.
Jaripeo
(Country: Mexico, US, France; Year: 2026; Director: Rebecca Zweig, Efraín Mojica)
A journey to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.
Molly Vs The Machines and Effi O Blaenau
Kokuho
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Sang-il Lee; Writer: Satoko Okudera, Shûichi Yoshida; Stars: Ai Mikami, Takahiro Miura, Emma Miyazawa, Nana Mori, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyûsaku Shimada, Mitsuki Takahata, Min Tanaka, Shinobu Terajima, Ken Watanabe, Ryûsei Yokohama, Ryô Yoshizawa)
A boy born into a family of gangsgters is taken in by a kabuki theatre actor and finds a talent for the craft.
The Last Viking
(Den Sidste Viking)
(Country: Denmark, Sweden; Year: 2025; Director: Anders Thomas Jensen; Writer: Anders Thomas Jensen; Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen, Sofie Gråbøl, Søren Malling, Bodil Jørgensen, Lars Brygmann, Kardo Razzazi, Nicolas Bro, Peter Düring)
Black comedy about a man hunting for the spoils from a heist with his brother... who can't remember where it is buried.
Late Fame
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kent Jones; Writer: Samy Burch, based on the novel by Arthur Schnitzler; Stars: Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee, Edmund Donovan)
Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer appears on his doorstep, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius.
Lomu
(Year: 2025; Director: Gavin Fitzgerald, Vea Mafile'o)
A Tongan/Kiwi warrior who could run 100 metres in under 11 seconds. Lomu was the youngest All Black to put on the jersey and still holds the record for the most tries scored in World Cup history.
Megadoc
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Mike Figgis; Stars: Francis Ford Coppola)
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis.
OBEX and The Dutchman
Midwinter Break
(Country: Netherlands, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Polly Findlay; Writer: Bernard MacLaverty, Nick Payne; Stars: Lesley Manville, Ciarán Hinds, Julie Lamberton, Ed Sayer)
A longtime couple take a life-changing trip to Amsterdam.
Militantropos
(Country: France, Ukraine, Austria; Year: 2025; Director: Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova and Simon Mozgovyi; Writer: Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi, Maksym Nakonechnyi)
A trio of documentarians captures the everyday realities of Ukrainian life amid the Russian invasion, exploring the fractured psyches of soldiers, survivors, and the country's youth.
Molly Vs The Machines
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Marc Silver; Stars: Michael Shaeffer, Kerri McLean, Angela Peters, Ivy Blackshaw)
The tragic story behind a teenager driven to take her life by machines that were built to control people for profit.
My Daughter Is A Zombie
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Pil Gam-seong; Writer: Kim Hyun, Pil Gam-seong; Stars: Cho Jung-seok, Lee Jung-eun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Yoon Kyung-ho, Choi Yu-ri, Geumdong-i, Kim Beong-choun, Jo Han-sun, Jung Hyung-suk, Jeon Su-ji, Lee Yun-chang, Pete Schandall)
My Father's Island
(Sukkwan Island)
(Country: France, Norway, UK, Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Vladimir de Fontenay; Writer: Vladimir de Fontenay, David Vann; Stars: Woody Norman, Swann Arlaud, Ruaridh Mollica, Alma Pöysti)
A haunted young man travels to a remote island to reconnect with his father and confront the traumatic experience they shared ten years prior that transformed their relationship.
Franz and Militantropos
Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Matt Johnson; Writer: Matt Johnson, Jay McCarrol; Stars: Matt Johnson, Jay McCarrol, Ben Petrie, Luke Lalonde, Ethan Eng, Anthony Fantano, Michael Scott)
When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.
No Ordinary Heist
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Colin McIvor; Writer: Aisling Corristine, Colin McIvor; Stars: Eddie Marsan, Éanna Hardwicke, Michelle Fairley, Eva Birthistle, Desmond Eastwood, Jonathan Harden, Paddy Jenkins, Michael Condron, JB Moore)
Inspired by an extraordinary true story. In heavily policed, post conflict Belfast, two Northern Bank workers become pawns when a dangerous gang use tiger-kidnapping in an unorthodox, brilliant bank heist.
OBEX
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Albert Birney; Writer: Albert Birney, Pete Ohs; Stars: Albert Birney, Callie Hernandez, Frank Mosley)
Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and Conor must venture into the strange world of OBEX to bring her home.
One Last Deal
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2026; Director: Peter Howlett; Writer: Brendan Muldowney; Stars: Danny Dyer, Elliott Rogers)
A veteran sports agent races to secure a final lucrative contract for his star client, as both their careers and lives hang in the balance.
Our Hero, Balthazar
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Oscar Boyson; Writer: Oscar Boyson, Ricky Camilleri; Stars: Jennifer Ehle, Noah Centineo, Chris Bauer, Asa Butterfield, Jaeden Martell, Avan Jogia, Anna Baryshnikov, Becky Ann Baker, Will River, Abby Pauly, Pippa A. Knowles)
Satire sees wealthy NYC teenager Balthy make dramatic gun control
videos to impress his activist crush. When an online troll targets his content,
Balthy becomes convinced he's communicating with a potential school shooter
and embarks on an ill-advised journey to Texas to confront him.
Babystar and Late Fame
Primavera
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 2025; Director: Damiano Michieletto; Writer: Tiziano Scarpa, Ludovica Rampoldi, Damiano Michieletto; Stars: Tecla Insolia, Michele Riondino, Andrea Pennacchi, Fabrizia Sacchi)
A talented violinist, Cecilia, confined in an orphanage, meets Vivaldi who becomes her teacher. Under his mentorship and through his music, she gains courage to break free from the life she was destined for and pursue her passion.
Rose Of Nevada
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Mark Jenkin; Writer: Mark Jenkin; Stars: George MacKay, Callum Turner, Rosalind Eleazar, Francis Magee, Mary Woodvine)
A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.
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.
A Second Life
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Laurent Slama; Writer: Thomas Keumurian, Laurent Slama; Stars: Alex Lawther, Agathe Rousselle, Jonas Bachan, Suzy Bemba)
A hearing-impaired American and a free-spirited tourist form an unlikely friendship amid the buzz of Paris during the Olympic games.
Shape Of Momo
(Chhora jastai)
(Country: India, South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Tribeny Rai; Stars: Gaumaya Gurung, Pashupati Rai, Shyama Shree Sherpa, Rahul Mukhia, Janaki Kadayat)
Bishnu returns to her Himalayan village after quitting her job, only to face mounting family pressures and societal expectations.
Father Mother Sister Brother and Sundays
Sinsin And The Mouse
(Year: 2025; Director: Yukinori Makabe; Writer: Noriko Kato; Stars: Yukino Kishii, Tseng Jing-hua, Kisetsu Fujiwara, Seina Nakata)
A young woman, reeling from the death of her mother, goes on a trip to Taipei, where an encounter with a young man begins to help her break through her grief.
Steal Away
(Country: Belgium, Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Clement Virgo; Writer: Tamara Berger, Clement Virgo; Stars: Angourie Rice, Mallori Johnson, Lauren Lee Smith, Idrissa Sanogo, Matteo Simoni, Nola Elvis Kemper)
A teenager forms an intense bond with a refugee taken in by her family. As their obsessive relationship deepens, she becomes enamored with the refugee's lifestyle, leading to desire, jealousy, and a world that is not as it appears.
Sundays
(Los Domingos)
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2025; Director: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa; Stars: Blanca Soroa, Patricia López Arnaiz, Miguel Garcés, Juan Minujín, Mabel Rivera, Nagore Aranburu)
Ainara, an idealistic and brilliant 17-year-old has to decide what university degree to pursue — or at least that's what her family hopes she will do. However, the young woman says she feels increasingly closer to God and is considering embracing the life of a cloistered nun.
Super Nature
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Ed Sayers)
Super 8 consideration of nature.
Think Of England
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Richard Hawkins; Writer: Richard Hawkins, Geoffrey Freeman; Stars: Natalie Quarry, Jack Bandeira, John McCrea, Ronni Ancona, Ben Bela Böhm, Ollie Maddigan, Oscar Hoppe)
During the Second World War group of six people is delivered to an uninhabited island with a secret mission – to make some pornographic films which in the government’s opinion should boost the fighting morale of the boys at the front.
Unidentified
(Country: Saudi Arabia; Year: 2025; Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour; Writer: Haifaa Al-Mansour, Brad Niemann; Stars: Abdullah Al-QahtaniMila Al ZahraniAziz Gharbawi, Shafi Al Harthi, Adwa Alasiri, Othoub Sharar)
A grieving mother, fueled by her passion for true crime, seeks answers when a teenage girl is found dead in the desert and the police investigation stalls.
We Believe You
(On vous croit)
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Charlotte Deville, Arnaud Dufeys; Writer: Charlotte Deville, Arnaud Dufeys; Stars: Myriem Akheddiou, Ulysse Goffin, Adele Pickaers, Alisa Laub, Laurent Capelluto, Marion de Nanteuil, Natali Broods, Mounir Bennaouim)
A mother does everything she can to protect her children from their father at a custody hearing.
Without Permission
(Country: Iran; Year: 2025; Director: Hassan Nazer; Writer: Hassan Nazer; Stars: Behrouz Sebt Rasoul, Setareh Fakhari, Esmaeel Heydari, Mehdi Mehri)
An exiled Iranian filmmaker, denied permission to make his film, secretly turns to children to capture the voices of a new generation, risking everything to explore love, identity, and freedom.
With Hasan In Gaza
(Country: Palestine, Germany, France, Switzerland; Year: 2025; Director: Kamal Aljafari)
What began as a search for a former prison mate from 1989 - a man lost to time and war - led to an unexpected road trip from the north to the south of Gaza, accompanied by Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown. Documentary made from footage shot by the documentarian 21 years ago.
The Wizard Of The Kremlin
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Olivier Assayas; Writer: Olivier Assayas, Emmanuel Carrère, based on the novel by Giuliano Da Empoli; Stars: Paul Dano, Jude Law, Alicia Vikander)
Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov, charts his path. First an artist, then a reality show producer, he becomes the spin doctor to a rising KGB agent: Vladimir Putin.
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