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Akkurat nå is the latest instalment in a series of shorts, featuring Marte and Ole, an artsy, middle-class couple in Oslo. As Ole pursues a deeper connection with his spiritual self, the now middle-aged Marte finds herself unmoored and can’t seem to catch a break. Akkurat nå plays out in both mundane and surreal fragments, continuing the series' exploration into the droll discomforts of togetherness.
Jan 2026
Experimental short movie shot during Christmas.
Feb 2026
2025 Áramótaskaup, an annual Icelandic TV movie, satirizing the events of the past year
Dec 2025
After a life spent travelling the globe, the world’s most famous naturalist turns his attention closer to home to explore the wildlife of England’s iconic capital. Having lived in London for 75 years, Sir David has an intimate knowledge of the city’s natural history, and there's no better guide to introduce us to its most spectacular wildlife secrets. Captured over his centennial year, this personal and poignant film is a timely insight into how cities can become homes for wildlife as well as ourselves.
On a lonely new year’s eve, a woman walks across the city in search of fireworks at midnight. Shot in a single night with an old handheld camcorder, 'streetlights' is the re-creation of a filmmaker's own futile night walk several years prior. While carrying buried emotions of the past and contemplations of the present, the filmmaker documents her journey and allows the filmmaking process to be informed by the emotions that surface. With no script or plan, the film's narrative is shaped entirely by the inner world. What results is an experiment in making a film by finding it.
A young girl arrives in the city to begin her university life. As she struggles to adapt to its fast-paced rhythm, her nightmares begin to blur into reality, pulling her into a descent into madness.
After Dev finally convinces his girlfriend, Ishika, to try LSD with him in their apartment, she wakes up the next morning feeling lucky to have come out of that crazy trip. But Dev is missing, and right about then, she’s struck with a memory of her killing him, the night before. While she’s trying to wreck her mind to distinguish between the trip and the reality, she’s met with another surprise in the form of her Dev’s parents’ visit!
Lidia goes with her mother, Gina, to the beach house where they used to vacation during her childhood. What should have been an opportunity to relax by the sea, begins to reveal unresolved issues in their relationship.
Dec 2026
Stéphane is a drifter, a man passing through, who quietly slips from house to house. One evening, he pushes open the door of a large estate and comes face to face with a corpse. With Christian, a stranger he meets there, they decide to bury it.
A passionate sea swimmer turned reluctant activist, Jo Bateman takes on one of the UK’s biggest water companies in a David-and-Goliath battle to protect our oceans from devastating sewage pollution. As Jo’s courage helps ignite a growing movement, this film exposes the dire state of our water system and asks: who will stand up for our right to swim in clean natural waters, for the species and communities that rely upon them?
Mar 2026
Hanna is a real estate photographer from Mississauga who commutes daily to Toronto to snap pictures of luxury apartments for a network of shady, elusive corporations. With his debut feature, director Christopher Beaulieu provides an illuminating insight into the notion of liminality and the economic dispossession of younger generations. Favouring a detached approach, where the warmth of his celluloid images clashes with the cold functionality of Hanna’s digital photographs, where the nostalgia of past prosperity seamlessly seeps into the film material, Otium shows a rare kind of lucidity. Probing the spacious depths of empty dwellings, it tells of the contemporary Tantaluses of Hanna’s generation, for whom the gig economy provides dreams of wealth that it will make sure to keep unfulfilled.
The settings unfold, seemingly devoid of human presence. Dialogues emerge...
A psychological horror in which a man named Mark wanders a dark, deserted hospital looking for his supposedly dead wife, whose spirit continues to call out to him beyond the halls…
A group of friends travel to Maine to make a low-budget horror film, only to discover the behind-the-scenes chaos is far more terrifying.
Oct 2026
When a quirky, middle-aged woman interviews for a job at a slick London consultancy firm, she attempts to win over her doubtful millennial interviewers with offbeat honesty and sheer force of personality.
Added due to popular demand, the Met-premiere production of Mason Bates’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay arrives in cinemas, recorded live earlier this season. The exhilarating operatic adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel follows two Jewish cousins who create a comic-book superhero, hoping to recruit America into the fight against Nazism. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the dynamic new production by Tony Award–winning director Bartlett Sher.
A gang of small-time criminals has everything under control in the quiet little municipality of Bikkert, a place where no one would ever imagine anything sinister happening behind the scenes. But things are about to change when the arrogant mayor announces a new construction project in the very forest where Benny and the Brits have hidden a body. Now, the gang must act fast, before a construction site becomes a crime scene.