Brides and The Virgin Of The Quarry Lake
Brides
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Nadia Fall; Writer: Suhayla El-Bushra; Stars: Ebada Hassan, Safiyya Ingar, Yusra Warsama, Cemre Ebuzziya, Aziz Çapkurt, Hayal Lorena Cercis, Derya Durmaz, Susku Ekim Kaya, Ada Danila Farid Mancuso, Leo Bill, Ali Khan, Fiona Helen Armstrong, Amanda Lawrence, Mitchell Brown, Laura Dalgleish)
Two teenage girls in search of freedom, friendship, and belonging run away from their troubled lives with a misguided plan of traveling to Syria.
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DJ Ahmet
(Country: North Macedonia, Czechia, Serbia, Croatia; Year: 2025; Director: Georgi M Unkovski; Writer: Georgi M Unkovski; Stars: Arif Jakup, Agush Agushev, Aksel Mehmet, Dora Akan Zlatanova, Selpin Kerim, Atila Klince)
Ahmet, a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love - a girl already promised to someone else.
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Luz
(Country: China, Hong Kong; Year: 2025; Director: Flora Lau; Writer: Flora Lau; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Pinna, Xiaodong Guo, David Chiang, Lu Huang, Enxi Deng, Yvette Tang, Yunyao Zhang, Yu Ren, Aric Chen, Mimi Xu, Benjamin Baroche, François Caron, Tiejun Chen, Léon Garel)
In the neon-lit streets of Chongqing, Wei desperately searches for his estranged daughter Fa, while Hong Kong gallerist Ren grapples with her ailing stepmother Sabine in Paris. Their lives collide in a virtual reality world, where a mystical deer reveals hidden truths, sparking a journey of discovery and connection.
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Sabar Bonda
(Country: India; Year: 2025; Director: Rohan Kanawade; Writer: Rohan Kanawade; Stars: Bhushaan Manoj, Suraaj Suman, Jayshri Jagtap)
Anand, a 30-something city dweller compelled to spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in the rugged countryside of western India, tenderly bonds with a local farmer struggling to stay unmarried. As the mourning ends, forcing his return, Anand must decide the fate of his relationship born under duress.
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Sauna
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2025; Director: Mathias Broe; Writer: William Lippert, Mads Ananda Lodahl; Stars: Magnus Juhl Andersen, Nina Terese Rask, Dilan Amin, Klaus Tange, Peter Oliver Hansen, Morten Burian, Billie N. Hviid Andersen, Theo Suissa, Anton Hjejle, Fuad Gumas, Sam Koosha, Niels Munk Plum, Christian Gade Bjerrum, Daniel Muniz, Kenneth Cockwhore)
Johan thrives as a gay man in Copenhagen, enjoying endless bars, parties, and casual flings. Everything changes when he meets William, a transgender man, and falls into a deep love that defies societal norms around gender, identity, and relationships.
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Sukkwan Island and Sauna
Sukkwan Island
(Country: France, Norway, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Vladimir de Fontenay; Writer: David Vann, Vladimir de Fontenay; Stars: Swann Arlaud, Woody Norman, Ruaridh Mollica, Alma Pöysti, Tuppence Middleton, Maria Arlén Larsen)
On the remote Sukkwan Island, 13-year-old Roy agrees to spend a formative year of adventure with his father deep in the Norwegian fjords. What starts as a chance to reconnect descends into a test of survival as they face the harsh realities of their environment and confront their unresolved turmoil.
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The Things You Kill
(Country: Turkey, Poland, Canada, France; Year: 2025; Director: Alireza Khatami; Writer: Alireza Khatami; Stars: Hazar Ergüçlü, Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, Ekin Koç, Ercan Kesal)
Haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother, a university professor coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance.
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Two Women
(Director: Chloé Robichaud; Writer: Catherine Léger; Stars: Karine Gonthier-Hyndman, Laurence Leboeuf, Félix Moati, Mani Soleymanlou, Sophie Nelisse, Juliette Gariépy)
Violette is having a difficult maternity leave. Florence is dealing with depression. Despite their careers and families, they feel like failures. Florence’s first infidelity is a revelation. When having fun is far down the list of priorities, sleeping with a delivery guy could be revolutionary.
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The Virgin Of The Quarry Lake
(Country: Argentina, Spain, Mexico; Year: 2025; Director: Laura Casabe; Writer: Benjamín Naishtat; Stars: Fernanda Echevarría, Dady Brieva, Dolores Oliverio, Luisa Merelas, Agustín Sosa)
In 2001, three teenagers from the outskirts of Buenos Aires all fall in love with Diego. Natalia has always had the most chemistry with him, but when it seems inevitable that their friendship will turn into something more, the older and more experienced Silvia appears and soon captures Diego’s attention.
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Where The Wind Comes From
(Country: Tunisia, Qatar, France; Year: 2025; Director: Amel Guellaty; Writer: Amel Guellaty; Stars: Slim Baccar, Eya Bellagha, Maya Blouza, Sondos Belhassen, Lobna Noomene)
Alyssa, a rebellious 19-year-old girl, and her friend Mehdi, an introverted 23-year-old man, use their imagination to escape their unpromising reality. When they discover a contest in the south of Tunisia that may allow them to flee, they undertake a road trip regardless of the obstacles in their way.
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