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Sound Of Falling and The Secret Agent
100 Nights Of Hero
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Julia Jackman; Writer: Julia Jackman; Stars: Emma Corrin, Nicholas Galitzine, Maika Monroe, Amir El-Masry, Charli XCX, Richard E. Grant and Felicity Jones)
Fairy tale about a maid who concocts a plan to help her mistress.
ChaO
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Yasuhiro Aoki; Stars: Oji Suzuka, Anna Yamada)
A junior designer at the leading shipbuilding company might have the key to peaceful relations between humans and merfolk. His role in achieving detente, however, suddenly becomes a lot stranger when the mermaid princess announces her intention to marry him.
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.
Exit 8
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Genki Kawamura; Writer: Kotake Create, Genki Kawamura, Hirase Kentaro; Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya, Yamato Kôchi, Naru Asanuma, Kotone Hanase, Nana Komatsu)
A man trapped in a endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don't, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor?
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.
Romería and Palestine 36
Fuori
(Country: Italy, France; Director: Mario Martone; Writer: Ippolita Di Majo, Mario Martone; Stars: Valeria Golino, Matilda De Angelis, Elodie, Sylvia De Fanti, Stefano Dionisi, Francesco Gheghi, Antonio Gerardi, Corrado Fortuna)
Rome, 1980. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer Goliarda Sapienza ends up in prison for stealing jewelry, but the encounter with some young inmates turns out to be a life-changing experience.
Gavagai
(Country: Germany, France; Year: 2025; Director: Ulrich Köhler; Stars: Jean-Christophe Folly, Maren Eggert, Nathalie Richard)
A radical new movie production of Medea, drastically altered from Euripides’s original play, becomes the center of a series of unresolvable contemporary tensions.
Hi-Five
(High Five, Haipaibeu)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Kang Hyung-chul; Writer: Kang Hyung-chul; Stars: Park Jin-young, Oh Jung-se, Yoo Ah-in, Lee Jae-in, Ha Mi-ran)
Five ordinary people, who developed their superpowers after receiving organ transplants from a previously superpowered being, fight against a psychic, who also gained the power through a transplant and covets their powers.
The History Of Sound
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Oliver Hermanus; Writer: Ben Shattuck; Stars: Paul Mescal, Peter Mark Kendall, Josh O'Connor, Chris Cooper, Molly Price, Raphael Sbarge, Hadley Robinson, Emma Canning, Briana Middleton, Alessandro Bedetti, Will Fitz, Gary Raymond, Alison Bartlett, Michael D. Xavier, Dan Bittner)
Two young men in 1920 set out to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen.
I Swear
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Kirk Jones)
Story of a teenager living with Tourette's in small town Scotland.
Late Fame and No Other Choice
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.
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.
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)
No Other Choice
(Eojjeol suga eopda)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Park Chan-wook; Writer: Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, Jahye Lee; Stars: Lee Byung-hun, Son Yej-in, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, Cha Seung-won)
When a man loses his job he finds himself drifting before deciding to take things into his own hands...
Palestine 36
(Country: France, Palestinian Occupied Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UK, Denmark, Jordan, Norway, US; Year: 2025; Director: Annemarie Jacir; Writer: Annemarie Jacir; Stars: Jeremy Irons, Robert Aramayo, Liam Cunningham, Billy Howle, Christopher Villiers, Hiam Abbass, Sam Hoare, Yasmine Al Massri, Nicholas Moss, Mo'min Swaitat)
In 1936, as Palestinian villages revolt against British colonial rule, Yusuf navigates between Jerusalem and his rural home, amidst escalating unrest and a pivotal moment for the British Empire.
The Testament Of Ann Lee and Two Prosecutors
Romería
(Country: Spain, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Carla Simón; Writer: Carla Simón; Stars: Tristán Ulloa, José Ángel Egido, Sara Casasnovas, Miryam Gallego, Janet Novás, Mitch Martín, Celine Tyll, Mitch Robles, Llúcia Garcia, Sergio Quintana, David Saraiva)
Marina, 18, orphaned at a young age, must travel to Spain’s Atlantic coast to obtain a signature for a scholarship application from the paternal grandparents she has never met.
Scarlet
(Hateshinaki Scarlet)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Mamoru Hosoda; Writer: Mamoru Hosoda; Stars: Mana Ashida, Masaki Okada, Masachika Ichimura)
A character's grief and vengeance disrupt both world and afterlife, blending timeframes.
The Secret Agent
(O Agente Secreto)
(Country: Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho; Writer: Kleber Mendonça Filho; Stars: Wagner Moura, Udo Kier, Gabriel Leone, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Hermila Guedes, Alice Carvalho, Thomás Aquino, Isabél Zuaa, Suzy Lopes, João Vitor Silva, Roney Villela, Rubens Santos, Luciano Chirolli, Buda Lira, Jimmy Astley)
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realises that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.
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.
Special Unit - The First Murder
(Country: Denmark, Poland; Year: 2025; Director: Christoffer Boe; Writer: Christoffer Boe, Lasse Kyed Rasmussen; Stars: Alex Høgh Andersen, Mathilde Arcel Fock, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Mille Lehfeldt, Lars Ranthe, Katrine Greis-Rosenthal, Kristian Halken, Flemming Enevold, Niels Hausgaard, Peter Flyvholm, Emil Hyldeborg, Clara Rugaard, Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, Oliver Due)
Am ambitious young cop heads a newly formed unit as they investigate a body found in a burnt-out summer house.
The History Of Sound and The Little Sister
The Stranger
(L'Etranger)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: François Ozon, based on the book by Albert Camus; Writer: François Ozon; Stars: Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin, Swann Arlaud, Denis Lavant)
Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a quiet and unassuming employee in his early thirties, attends his mother's funeral without shedding a tear. The next day, he begins a casual affair with Marie, a work colleague. He quickly slips back into his usual routine. However, his daily life is soon about to be disrupted by his neighbor, Raymond Sintès, who draws Meursault into his shady dealings.
The Testament Of Ann Lee
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Mona Fastvold; Writer: Mona Fastvold, Brady Corbet; Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Stacy Martin, Tim Blake Nelson, Christopher Abbott, Matthew Beard, Scott Handy, Jamie Bogyo, Viola Prettejohn, David Cale)
An epic fable inspired by the life of Ann Lee, the founder of the Shakers, a radical religious movement that began in the late 1700s.
Two Prosecutors
(Country: France, Germany, Romania, Latvia, Netherlands, Lithuania; Year: 2025; Director: Sergey Loznitsa; Writer: Sergey Loznitsa; Stars: Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Aleksandr Filippenko, Anatoliy Beliy, Andris Keišs)
Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination... the desk of a newly appointed local prosecutor, who embarks on a quest for justice.
Whitetail
(Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland; Year: 2025; Director: Nanouk Leopold; Writer: Nanouk Leopold; Stars: Natasha O'Keeffe, Andrew Bennett, Aaron McCusker, Rory Nolan, Simone Kirby, Aidan O'Hare)
The past catches up with a woman.
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.
Father Mother Sister Brother and The Stranger
The Wolf, The Fox And The Leopard
(Country: Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ireland, Croatia, Taiwan; Year: 2025; Director: David Verbeek; Writer: David Verbeek; Stars: Marie Jung, Nicholas Pinnock, Jessica Reynolds, Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, Naomi Kawase, Eoin Duffy, Alessia Raschella, Robert Beg)
A feral girl who has spent her life living among wolves is taken on an odyssey through contemporary human life while the threat of climate apocalypse looms.
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