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Josephine and All Of A Sudden
All Of A Sudden
(Soudain)
(Country: Japan, France, Belgium, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi; Writer: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Léa Le Dimna; Stars: Virginie Efira, Tao Okamoto, Kyōzō Nagatsuka, Kodai Kurosaki, Jean-Louis Garçon, Marie Bunel, Jean-Charles Clichet, Margot Maricot, Lazare Gousseau, Jérôme Chappatte, Evelyne Istria, Elisabeth Tamaris, Aurélia Petit, Heidi Becker-Babel)
The director of a nursing home in Paris has an encounter with a terminally ill Japanese playwright that transforms her life.
The Black Ball
(La Bola Negra)
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2026; Director: Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo; Writer: Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo; Stars: Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes, Lola Dueñas, Penélope Cruz, Glenn Close, Lorenzo Zurzolo)
Drama exploring the inter-connected lives of three gay men.
Club Kid
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Jordan Firstman; Writer: Jordan Firstman; Stars: Jordan Firstman, Cara Delevingne, Diego Calva, Reggie Absolom, Eldar Isgandarov)
A washed-up party promoter is forced to take in the young son he didn't know he had.
Coward
(Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands; Year: 2026; Director: Lukas Dhont; Writer: Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens; Stars: Valentin Campagne, Emmanuel Macchia, Jonas Wertz)
Soldiers try to keep their hope alive on the frontline in the First World War.
Fatherland
(Country: Italy, Poland, France, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Pawel Pawlikowski; Writer: Pawel Pawlikowski; Stars: Sandra Hüller, August Diehl, Anna Madeley)
Drama focusing on Thomas Mann's post-war life, his family's stand against Nazi rule and their journey into exile.
Minotaur and Fjord
Fjord
(Country: Romania, France, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden; Year: 2026; Director: Cristian Mungiu; Writer: Cristian Mungiu; Stars: Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Giulia Nahmany, Ingvild Lien, Turid Vatne, Alin Panc, Emilie Hetland, Sofie Vartdal)
Mihai and Lisbet Gheorghiu, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, move from Romania to Norway with their children to be closer to Lisbet’s family. But tension mounts when one of the children arrives at school with bruises.
Hope
(Country: K; Year: 2026; Director: Na Hong-Jin; Stars: Jung-min Hwang, In-sung Zo)
Thriller set near Korea's heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone. When a tiger is reported to have been sighted, the community is thrown into chaos
The Invite
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Olivia Wilde; Writer: Rashida Jones, Will McCormack; Stars: Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz, Edward Norton)
Joe and Angela are on thin ice, and tonight might be when it all falls apart. Unfortunately, their upstairs neighbours are about to arrive for dinner, and everything that can go wrong goes worse.
Iron Boy
(Le Corset)
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Louis Clichy; Writer: Louis Clichy, Franck Salomé; Stars: Alexandre Astier, Dimitri Colas, Gary Clichy, Brune Moulin, Rod Paradot, Aurélie Vassort, Jean-Pascal Zadi)
When a young boy is forced to wear an iron corset for health reasons, he has to reinvent his life on his family farm, discovering friendship and a new passion for music. Animation
It Will Happen Tonight
(Succederà Questa Notte)
(Country: Italy, Spain, France; Year: 2026; Director: Nanni Moretti; Writer: Nanni Moretti, Valia Santella, Federica Pontremoli; Stars: Louis Garrel, Jasmine Trinca, Angela Finocchiaro, Elena Lietti, Antonio De Matteo, Andrea Lattanzi, Hippolyte Girardot, Pietro Ragusa, Paolo Sassanelli, Nanni Moretti, Melina Åkerman Kvie, Edoardo Purgatori, Tania de la Cruz, Laura Nardi, David L. Bengoetxea)
Loosely based on the short story collection Hungry Heart by Lev Raev.
The Invite and Coward
Josephine
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Beth de Araújo; Writer: Beth de Araújo; Stars: Mason Reeves, Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan, Philip Ettinger, Syra McCarthy, Eleanore Pienta, Gretchen Klein, Nate Duncan, Tracy Todd, Grace Kelly Quigley, Malcolm Engel)
After 8-year-old Josephine accidentally witnesses a crime in Golden Gate Park, she acts out in search of a way to regain control of her safety while adults are helpless to console her.
Just An Illusion
(Juste Une Illusion)
(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano; Writer: Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache; Stars: Louis Garrel, Camille Cottin, Simon Boublil, Alexis Rosenstiehl, Pierre Lottin, Jeanne Lamartine, Rony Kramer, Giorgia Sinicorni, Augusto Fornari, Ragnar Le Breton, David Ayala, Adèle Jayle, Elise Luguern, Lilian Wallet, Samuel Maïmoun)
In 1985 suburban Paris, 12-year-old Vincent lives with his distant older brother and quarrelling parents. Amid laughter and unease, he navigates friendship and first love.
The Man I Love
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Ira Sachs; Writer: Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias; Stars: Rami Malek, Rebecca Hall)
Musical fantasy set against the backdrop of New York's AIDs epidemic in the 1980s.
Minotaur
(Country: France, Germany, Latvia; Year: 2026; Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev; Writer: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Simon Lyashenko; Stars: Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva, Varvara Shmykova)
A high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence begins to unravel.
Tangles
(Country: US, Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Leah Nelson; Writer: Leah Nelson, Trev Renney; Stars: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Abbi Jacobson, Bryan Cranston, Samira Wiley, Beanie Feldstein, Seth Rogen, Wanda Sykes, Bowen Yang, Pamela Adlon, Sarah Silverman, Adam Shapiro, Fern Grandin)
When Alzheimer's disease begins to strip away her mother's vibrant personality, a headstrong young woman is forced to return to her oddball family in the conservative small town she recently fled in order to care for her
Wild Horse Nine
(Country: UK, US, Chile; Year: 2026; Director: Martin McDonagh; Writer: Martin McDonagh; Stars: John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Parker Posey, Tom Waits, Mariana di Girolamo, Paola Giannini, Ailín Salas, Samuel Wayt)
Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.
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