Zodiac Killer Project and By Design
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kahlil Joseph; Writer: Saidiya Hartman, Irvin Hunt; Stars: Shaunette Renée Wilson, Penny Johnson Jerald, Zora Casebere, Kaneza Schaal, Jermell Deshauan, Peter Hernandez, Hope Giselle)
Preeminent West African curator and scholar Funmilayo Akechukwu’s magnum opus, The Resonance Field, leads her to the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, drawing a journalist into a journey that shatters her understanding of consciousness and time.
World premiere
By Design
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Amanda Kramer; Writer: Amanda Kramer; Stars: Juliette Lewis, Robin Tunney, Samantha Mathis, Ruby Cruz, Melanie Griffith, Mamoudou Athie, Udo Kier, Clifton Collins Jr., Betty Buckley, Alisa Torres, Cristo Montt, Jessie-Ann Kohlman)
A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair.
World premiere
East Of Wall
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kate Beecroft; Writer: Kate Beecroft; Stars: Scoot McNairy, Jennifer Ehle, Haley Strode, Grace Diane Jensen, Ryan Caraway, Chancey Ryder Witt, Tabatha Zimiga, Wyatt Mansfield, Porshia Zimiga, Leanna Shumpert, Jesse Thorson, Clay Pateneaude, Brynn Darling)
After the death of her husband, Tabatha - a young, tattooed, rebellious horse trainer - wrestles with financial insecurity and unresolved grief while providing refuge for a group of wayward teenagers on her broken-down ranch in the Badlands.
World premiere
Mad Bills To Pay (or Destiny, Dile Que No Soy Malo)
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Joel Alfonso Vargas; Writer: Joel Alfonso Vargas; Stars: Juan Collado, Destiny Checo, Yohanna Florentino, Nathaly Navarro)
Rico’s summer is a mix of chasing girls and hustling homemade cocktails out of a cooler on Orchard Beach, the Bronx. But when Destiny, his teenage girlfriend, crashes at his place with his family, it’s only a matter of time before his carefree days come spiraling down.
World premiere
OBEX
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Albert Birney; Writer: Albert Birney, Pete Ohs; Stars: Albert Birney, Callie Hernandez, Frank Mosley)
Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and Conor must venture into the strange world of OBEX to bring her home.
World premiere
Mad Bills To Pay (or Destiny, Dile Que No Soy Malo) and Rains Over Babel
Rains Over Babel
(Llueve sobre Babel)
(Country: Colombia, Spain, US; Year: 2025; Director: Gala del Sol; Writer: Gala del Sol; Stars: Jhon Narváez, Sofia Buenaventura, John Alex Castillo, Saray Rebolledo, Felipe Aguilar Rodríguez, Celina Biurrun, Jose Mojica, Jhon Bayron Quintero Valencia, Mairen Valoyes, William Hurtado, Jacobo Velez, Johan Zapata, Román Escobar, Santiago Ortiz, Christian Calles)
A group of misfits converges at Babel, a legendary dive bar that doubles as purgatory, where La Flaca - the city’s Grim Reaper - presides. Here, souls gamble years of their lives with her, daring to outwit Death herself.
World premiere
Serious People
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Pasqual Gutierrez, Ben Mullinkosson; Writer: Pasqual Gutierrez; Stars: Pasqual Gutierrez, Christine Yuan, Raul Sanchez, Miguel Huerta)
A successful music video director and expectant father pushes his work-life balance to the extreme as he hires a doppelgänger to work in his stead.
World premiere
Zodiac Killer Project
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Charlie Shackleton)
A filmmaker describes his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary and probe the inner workings of a genre at saturation point.
