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Anemone Anemone
Anemone and The Ice Tower
Alpha (Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Julia Ducournau; Writer: Julia Ducournau; Stars: Emma Mackey, Golshifteh Farahani, Tahar Rahim, Finnegan Oldfield, Jean-Charles Clichet, Christophe Perez, Ambrine Trigo Ouaked, Louai El Amrousy, Mélissa Boros, Fabien Giameluca)
Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old, lives with her single mother. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
Anemone (Country: US, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Ronan Day-Lewis; Writer: Ronan Day-Lewis; Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Bean, Samantha Morton)
Estranged brothers reunite in a remote cabin and are forced to confront their painful past.
The Assistant (Czlowiek do wszystkiego) (Country: Poland, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Anna Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal; Writer: Wilhelm Sasnal; Stars: Andrzej Konopka, Piotr Trojan, Agnieszka Zulewska, Roman Gancarczyk, Michał Majnicz, Suzanne Lasota, Aleksandra Nowosadko, Ewa Kolasińska, Anka Sasnal)
An engineer and inventor's live-in assistant finds himself trapped in a world that doesn't know what to do with him.
Blue Heron (Country: Canada, Hungary; Year: 2025; Director: Sophy Romvari; Writer: Sophy Romvari; Stars: Eylul Guven, Iringó Réti, Ádám Tompa, Edik Beddoes, Amy Zimmer)
A young girl and her family move from Hungary to Canada in the 1990s, where her brother disrupts their new life. In the present, she seeks answers from the past.
The Chronology Of Water (Country: US, France, Latvia, Spain, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Kristen Stewart; Writer: Kristen Stewart, Lidia Yuknavitch; Stars: Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Jim Belushi, Tom Sturridge, Charlie Carrick, Jeremy Ang Jones, Earl Cave, Michael Epp, Susannah Flood, Kim Gordon, Alexander Johnson, Anton Lytvynov, Esme Allen, Hal Weaver, Alina Lytvynova)
A troubled young woman escapes an abusive childhood, family tragedy and addiction issues by slowly finding her creative voice as a writer.
Alpha Alpha
Alpha and Sound Of Falling
The Devil Smokes (And Saves The Burnt Matches In The Same Box) (El Diablo Fuma (y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja)) (Country: Mexico; Year: 2025; Director: Ernesto Martínez Bucio; Writer: Ernesto Martínez Bucio, Karen Plata; Stars: Mariapau Bravo Aviña, Rafael Nieto Martínez, Regina Alejandra, Donovan Said Martínez, Laura Uribe Rojas, Carmen Ramos, Gamboa Bernardo, Micaela Gramajo)
The fears of five stoic young siblings abandoned by their parents mix with those of their schizophrenic grandmother who now looks after them, blurring and gradually dissolving the boundary between reality and imagination.
Dreams (Country: Mexico, US; Year: 2025; Director: Michel Franco; Writer: Michel Franco; Stars: Jessica Chastain, Rupert Friend, Marshall Bell, Isaac Hernández, Lee Braithwaite, Jim Anderson, Tracy Todd, Tatiana Ronderos, Sedrick Cabrera, Scott Jordan, Jayden Leavitt, Nicholas Gould, Nessa Dougherty, Bobby August Jr., Phillip Caires)
Believing his lover will support him, a young Mexican ballet dancer crosses the border to pursue his dreams in San Francisco. But as ambition and love clash with harsh realities, he must face the true nature of their relationship.
Dry Leaf (Country: Germany, Georgia; Year: 2025; Director: Alexandre Koberidze; Writer: Alexandre Koberidze; Stars: David Koberidze, Irina Chelidze, Giorgi Bochorishvili, Otar Nijaradze, Vakhtang Panchulidze)
A father goes looking for his missing photographer daughter across rural Georgia.
The Fence (Le Cri des Gardes) (Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Claire Denis; Writer: Claire Denis, Suzanne Lindon, Andrew Litvack; Stars: Tom Blyth, Matt Dillon, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Isaach De Bankolé)
As supervisor Horn is welcoming his partner Léone into the hut he shares with engineer Cal, a man called Alboury appears outside. He is determined to stay there until they return the body of his brother to him, who was killed on the site.
Good Boy (Country: Poland, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Jan Komasa; Writer: Bartek Bartosik, Naqqash Khalid; Stars: Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough, Anson Boon)
Nineteen-year-old Tommy lives an unruly life of criminality until he is kidnapped by a stranger. He soon finds himself trapped in a dysfunctional family dynamic, where he is forced to change his behaviour to become a ‘good boy’.
Short Summer Short Summer
Short Summer and The Assistant
Hamlet (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Aneil Karia; Writer: Michael Lesslie; Stars: Riz Ahmed, Morfydd Clark, Joe Alwyn)
Hamlet and his wealthy British Asian family are reunited, but he is driven only to identify his enemies and exact revenge.
The Ice Tower (La Tour De Glace) (Country: France, Germany, Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic; Writer: Geoff Cox, Lucile Hadzihalilovic; Stars: Marion Cotillard, Gaspar Noé, August Diehl, Clara Pacini, Lila-Rose Gilberti, Carmen Haidacher, Wilhelm Bonnelle, Raphael Reboul, Marine Gesbert)
Colder than ice, her kiss pierces the heart ... The 1970s. Jeanne, a young runaway, falls under the spell of Cristina, the enigmatic star of The Snow Queen, a film which is being shot in the studio where Jeanne has taken refuge.
Lady (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Samuel Abrahams; Writer: Samuel Abrahams, Miranda Campbell Bowling; Stars: Sian Clifford, Laurie Kynaston, Juliet Cowan)
A narcissistic aristocrat hires a struggling filmmaker to record her every move.
Magellan (Country: Philippines, Spain, Portugal, France; Year: 2025; Director: Lav Diaz; Writer: Lav Diaz; Stars: Gael García Bernal, Amado Arjay Babon, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Ângela Azevedo, Hazel Orencio, Ronnie Lazaro, Rafael Morais, Bong Cabrera, Tomás Alves, Ivo Arroja, Valdemar Santos, Sasa Cabalquinto, Mario Castro, Paulo Calatré, Max Grosse Majench)
Magellan is a navigator rebelling against the power of the King, due to his humanism and belief in justice. But once he is finally in command of the Spice Fleet, in which he will make the first circumnavigation of the Earth, what will his journey unravel about himself?
Memory Of Princess Mumbai (Country: Kenya, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia; Year: 2025; Director: Damien Hauser; Writer: Damien Hauser; Stars: Shandra Apondi, Ibrahim Joseph, Samson Waithaka)
In 2093, filmmaker Kuve visits Umata to document life after a war banned modern tech. Local filmmaker Mumbi challenges him to create without AI and shows him the beauty in the everyday.
The Chronology Of Water The Chronology Of Water
The Chronology Of Water and Sirât
Short Summer (Country: Germany, France, Serbia; Year: 2025; Director: Nastia Korkia; Writer: Nastia Korkia, Mikhail Bushkov; Stars: Maiia Pleshkevich, Yakov Karykhalin, Aleksandr Karpushin)
An eight-year-old spends summer with her grandparents as the distant echoes of war make their presence felt.
Sirât (Sirat) (Country: Spain, France; Year: 2025; Director: Óliver Laxe; Writer: Santiago Fillol, Óliver Laxe; Stars: Sergi López, Bruno Núñez)
A father arrives at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco with his son, looking for his daughter who has been missing for months.
Sound Of Falling (In Die Sonne Schauen) (Country: Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Mascha Schilinski; Writer: Louise Peter, Mascha Schilinski; Stars: Luise Heyer, Filip Schnack, Lea Drinda, Susanne Wuest, Lena Urzendowsky, Luzia Oppermann, Lucas Prisor, Konstantin Lindhorst, Gode Benedix, Martin Rother, Hanna Heckt, Bärbel Schwarz, Florian Geißelmann)
Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.
Straight Circle (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Oscar Hudson; Writer: Oscar Hudson; Stars: Luke Tittensor, Elliott Tittensor, Neil Maskell)
Tensions escalate between two opposing soldiers manning a remote desert outpost.
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