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As Light As Air (Country: Pakistan; Year: 2026; Director: Umair Bilal)
Documentary about Sufi pilgrims.
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Blossoming (A teraz wiosna) (Country: Poland; Year: 2026; Director: Kamila Serwicka; Writer: Kamila Serwicka; Stars: Kamila Serwicka)
A daughter returns with her camera to face her family's troubled history, capturing three generations of women bound by silence, resilience, and love, as they confront the men who have shaped their existences.
Concrete Land (Country: Jordan, Palestine; Year: 2026; Director: Asmahan Bkerat)
An intimate story of three generations of a Palestinian Bedouin family in Jordan.
See: Concrete Land director Asmahan Bkerat on learning about herself as she brough a Bedouin family's life to screen
Gabin (Country: France, Germany, Switzerland; Year: 2026; Director: Maxence Voiseux; Writer: Maxence Voiseux)
A young man is torn between loyalty to the family butcher's business and his own dreams.
Only The Serpent Knows (Seul le serpent sait) (Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Olivier Séror, Martin Verdet; Writer: Patrick Séror, Martin Verdet, Olivier Séror)
Two brothers reunite in their childhood home to discuss the incest one of them suffered there as a child.
Petrolheads (Country: Denmark; Year: 2026; Director: Emil Langballe; Writer: Emil Langballe, Christian Einshøj; Stars: Martin Jensen, Casper Størner)
Martin's dream is to be normal, but he gave that up long ago. Diagnosed at nine with severe conditions, he now just wants a 1994 Honda Civic. He shares his all-consuming passion for cars with his best friend Casper.
The Victors (Los Vencedores) (Country: Argentina, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Pablo Aparo; Writer: Pablo Aparo)
An Argentine director travels to the Falkland Islands to explore the traces of the 1982 war. What seemed like a portrait of conflict turns into a story of unexpected friendship with the "enemy".
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