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Single-gender schools allow few chances for campus romance. Will inter-school activities provide the right opportunity? Ryan is both eager and afraid of mingling with the opposite sex after studying in an all-boys school for years. One day his friend Jayden makes him join a mixed choir formed with an all-girls school. There, he meets the enthusiastic singer Carol. Unexpectedly, Cupid’s arrow carries more than love itself. Ryan will also have to face life lessons such as a test of friendship and the unfairness of the school system. The film’s manga-like style and humourous scenes establish perfect comic timing. The innocence and ignorance of youth come alive while the ending suddenly turns into an anti-climax that reveals the bitterness of growing up amidst shattered ideals.
Dec 2025
Twelve-year-old Kazakh shepherd boy Biek (帕拉沙提·阿依克什) lives in the Altay pastures of Xinjiang. When he hears that the beloved “Grandpa Camel” – the Han-Chinese agronomist who once brought camel-industry know-how to the village – is seriously ill in Chengdu, the child becomes convinced that only the magic of fresh white-camel milk can save him.
Nov 2025
Meet Francis and Sinead. The last two people left on the frontline of Mid-Ulster’s social care system. They both want the best for their clients - they just have very different ideas on how to do it. A hilarious, heart-warming and authentic look at the care system today, starring Seána Kerslake and Vittorio Angelone.
The controversial Doctor of Philosophy and YouTuber Antonín Dolák lies in the timelessness of his bare room on the top floor of an unnamed villa. Because of his work, he has been expelled from the University of Ostrava, as well as from lectures at DAMU and other institutions. He has offended everyone and has resigned from everything else; he no longer seeks the Truth with a capital T – artificial intelligence will surely do it for us. The final blow for him was the deletion of his channel, which had a ten-year history: from philosophical lectures to provocative anti-art and childish philosophical theater. To some fans he is a self-centered parasite while for others he is a kind of virtual fiction on the internet that they cannot imagine as part of the shared world. Is there anything left about Dolák that is lovable? Is there anything sacred to him? Crippling loneliness sets in.
A lonely young man tries to go about his daily life as normal when he begins to encounter mysteries that challenge his own sanity.
A group of five find themselves trapped somewhere with no light, no way out, and no memory of their former lives. With no way out, the group tries to figure out who could've done this to them and what it takes to escape the inescapable.
On a quiet college campus, a student approaches a vending machine expecting a soda, but instead receives a key, a photo, and a cassette tape with a chilling message: “You’ve already chosen.” As reality begins to unravel, the student is drawn into a surreal cycle of fate and identity. The machine hums like something alive, demanding one final act: Insert Coin.
When Alya loses her daughter in a tragic accident, she buries her in the backyard of her mother’s village home. But the land is cursed—now her daughter has risen and she’s no longer the same.
Aug 2025
The seventeenth and final night of New Japan Pro-Wrestling's annual heavyweight tag team tournament took place on December 14, 2025, at Grand Messe Kumamoto in Mashiki, Kumamoto, Japan, and featured the match to crown the winners of World Tag League 2025.
In communist Czechoslovakia in 1984, Mara dreams of leaving her village to study in the city and become a pilot. But her father, a widowed Ruthenian farmer, insists she stay and work the land. When her village faces destruction due to a new dam, their generational conflict intensifies, revealing the struggle between tradition, identity, and the desire for freedom in a context of historical change.
An endless, dark alley becomes the gateway to a truth buried deep within a man’s nightmare
Where do eggs come from? Do you know? Chickens!!! Tractor Ted is off to the farm to see them with his friends Farmer Tom and Midge the dog. Sing along as Farmer Tom fills up the hopper with food for the chickens and watch with Tractor Ted as the farmer checks the engine on the huge tractor with caterpillar tracks. Tractor Ted has fun spinning around in the field with it too! At the end of the day Tractor Ted and Midge tell the children all about it and see the eggs that they have been busy painting.
Two small-town real estate agents help a city doctor establish a surrogacy hospital, battling local prejudices and traditional mindsets in their conservative community.
Adem Ekiz lives in Trabzon, Turkey, with his wife and 3 children. He is Muslim and his native language is Greek. He is playing "kemenche." Through his music, he silently breaks the chains between peoples by singing his traditional songs in both Turkish and Greek languages.
A young Mexican woman (Reyna) is hungry for tacos, her young Mexican-American friend (Romel) is hungry for her. Aware of her charm over him she uses it to rope him into a quest to find the perfect, authentic tacos.
In a near future America, all forms of birth control have been illegalized, leaving no doctors to administer such operations. A woman with an implanted birth control device must now remove it herself, if she ever wants the chance of having a family of her own.
Poonga is a Tamil movie written and directed by KP Tanasekar.