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Police Story and Sentimental Value
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.
The Dead Of Winter
(Country: US, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Brian Kirk; Writer: Nicholas Jacobson-Larson, Dalton Leeb; Stars: Emma Thompson, Judy Greer, Marc Menchaca, Laurel Marsden, Gaia Wise, Cúán Hosty-Blaney, Dalton Leeb, Paul Hamilton, Lloyd Hutchinson, Brían F. O'Byrne)
A woman alone in the middle of a snowy wilderness discovers that a teenager has been kidnapped and that she may be the only person who can save her.
The Deal
(Country: Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Jean-Stéphane Bron; Writer: Jean-Stéphane Bron, Alice Winocour, Eugène Riousse, Julien-Guilhem Lacombe, Stéphane Mitchell, Valentine Monteil; Stars: Veerle Baetens, Juliet Stevenson, Arash Marandi, Anthony Azizi, Fenella Woolgar, Alexander Behrang Keshtkar)
In the wake of a scandal casting a cloud over the start of historic negotiations between the USA and Iran in Geneva, the Swiss diplomat Alexandra Weiss suddenly finds herself at the head of the most important diplomatic mission of the early 21st century.
Heads or Tails?
(Testa o croce?)
(Country: Italy, US; Year: 2025; Director: Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis; Writer: Carlo Salsa, Matteo Zoppis, Alessio Rigo de Righi; Stars: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Alessandro Borghi, John C. Reilly, Peter Lanzani, Mirko Artuso, Gabriele Silli, Gianni Garko)
At the dawn of the 20th century, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show rolls into Italy, peddling the myth of the American frontier and sparking the imagination of Rosa, a young woman trapped in a stifling marriage to a powerful and violent landowner. When a rodeo between American cowboys and Italian butteri ends in tragedy, Rosa flees with Santino, the daring local rider who bested the Americans. But her dreams of freedom collide with reality.
In The Land Of Arto
(Country: France, Armenia; Year: 2025; Director: Tamara Stepanyan; Writer: Tamara Stepanyan, Jean-Christophe Ferrari, Jean Breschand, Jihane Chouaib, Romy Coccia di Ferro; Stars: Camille Cottin, Zar Amir, Shant Hovhannisyan, Hovnatan Avédikian, Alexander Khachatryan, Babken Chobanyan)
Céline arrives in Armenia for the first time to legalize the death of Arto, her husband. She discovers that he has lied to her, that he fought in the war, usurped his identity, and that his former friends consider him a deserter. A new journey begins for her, as she encounters Arto's past.
It Was Just an Accident and The Dead Of Winter
Irkalla - Gilgamesh's Dream
(Irkalla Hulm Jijiljamish)
(Country: Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, France, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia; Year: 2025; Director: Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji; Writer: Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji, Karim Traidia, Shahad Ameen, Hasan Falih; Stars: Youssef Husham Al-Thahabi, Hussein Raad Zuwayr, Samar Kazem Jawad, Ameer Jabarah, Lojin Star Naimal)
A boy, who is diabetic, takes refuge in a fantasy realm as he desperately tries to bring his parents back to life.
It Was Just an Accident
(Un Simple Accident)
(Country: Iran, France, Luxembourg; Year: 2025; Director: Jafar Panahi; Writer: Jafar Panahi; Stars: Madjid Panahi, Ebrahim Azizi, Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari)
What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.
Kiss Of The Spider Woman
(Year: 2025; Director: Bill Condon; Writer: Bill Condon, Terrence McNally, Manuel Puig; Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna, Tonatiuh, Will Fitz, Lynn Favin, Bruno Bichir, Driton 'Tony' Dovolani, Aline Mayagoitia, Thomas Canestraro, Christian Galvis, Debra Cardona, Eduardo Ramos, Kevin Michael Brennan, David Turner, Josefina Scaglione)
Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna.
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.
Police Story
(Ging Chaat Goo Si)
(Country: Hong Kong; Year: 1985; Director: Jackie Chan, Chi-Hwa Chen; Writer: Jackie Chan, Edward Tang; Stars: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Kwok-Hung Lam, Bill Tung)
A virtuous Hong Kong police officer must clear his good name when the drug lords he is after frame him for the murder of a dirty cop.
The Shining and Together
Rosemead
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Eric Lin; Writer: Marilyn Fu, Eric Lin; Stars: Lucy Liu, Lawrence Shou, Orion Lee, Jennifer Lim, Madison Hu, James Chen, Eleven Lee, Susan Pourfar, Zack Calderon, Adam Chanler-Berat, Dana de Celis, Jo Mei, Dave Shalansky, Grace Shen, Eric Leviton)
A Chinese immigrant mother is driven to desperate measures by her unstable son’s escalating mental health crisis and growing obsession with mass shootings.
Sentimental Value
(Affeksjonsverdi)
(Country: Norway, Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden; Year: 2025; Director: Joachim Trier; Writer: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt; Stars: Elle Fanning, Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Cory Michael Smith, Jesper Christensen, Catherine Cohen, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Bjørn Alexander, Jonas Jacobsen, Pia Borgli)
In the wake of their mother's death, two sisters grapple with their relationship with their filmmaker father as he tries to involve one of them in his latest project.
The Shining
(Country: US, UK; Year: 1980; Director: Stanley Kubrick; Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson, based on the novel by Stephen King; Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd, Joe Turkel)
After moving his family to a remote hotel with a troubled past, a writer gradually loses his mind.
Together
(Country: US, Australia; Year: 2025; Director: Michael Shanks; Writer: Michael Shanks; Stars: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Damon Herriman, Sunny S. Walia, Mia Morrissey, Jack Kenny, Karl Richmond, Tom Considine, Charlie Lees, Melanie Beddie, MJ Dorning, Rob Brown)
With a move to the countryside already testing the limits of a couple’s relationship, a supernatural encounter begins an extreme transformation of their love, their lives, and their flesh.
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