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A reporter and a documentary filmmaker join forces to trudge alongside the treacherous wilderness of Lika in order to find out the fate of a missing immigrant worker.
Apr 2026
A fleshed out verion of the classic plot compact "A Hard Time" with over 4 minutes of extra unseen footage, carfully put together by the director. What will change, and how will the stakes play out, in this alternate story of the 4 man friendship.
'Stuck in the Middle' is a nostalgic short dance film set in the early 1970s. It follows the lively journey of four young girls confined to their home during a record-breaking heat wave.
Two exes unexpectedly reunite, but they have very different ideas on what they want their relationship with each other to be.
After returning home from work, a man realizes that his TV is missing. Spiraling into a confused state, he finds himself asking everyone he knows where his TV could be. As the day comes to a close, will he ever find his missing property?
May 2026
The year is 2016, and an experimental filmmaker decides to switch up her style, by speaking, in her first film with dialogue.
Valeria scouts out available pastures, spins wool, serves as midwife delivering lambs into the world, trims hooves, slaughters, cuddles with sheep, speaks to and watches over them, smoking cigarettes all the while.
Mar 2026
Summer 2025, Italy, Hou begins her diary. Combining her notes and elegant still shots, she documents the places, the strangeness, and all that distances her from her native China. Her mother’s voice, her orders, and even the ideograms evaporate: Cassine, cinema and English become refuges, new spaces for creation, memory and life.
Charlyne pushes open the door of a bar to see “how others find ways to cope with their loneliness”. There, she meets Alain, Joufflu, Pascal and the others. As the buses and the jass card games come and go, Charlyne becomes a regular. From this immutable backdrop emerges a brilliant filmmaker, in search of her place both in the frame and in life.
Memories of the Beginning tells the story of survival and unlikely friendship between two 13-year-old prison guards at one of Cambodia’s earliest killing fields. Filmed 50 years later at the former prison site, it traces a hard-won journey of compassion and freedom.
The Midnight Hour is about a grieving woman, whose hopes for marriage is re-ignited when the ghost of her dead fiance appears.
Kai, a student and only child with his mentally ill mother, resorts to crime to keep them afloat. With the help of his loyal and hardened childhood friend, Traye, they go on an extortion job that ends in a fatal accident, breaking Kai’s bond to his mother and his home.
Women of the Revolution is a film that celebrates the multitude of revolutionary women: the mothers of our democracy. Through the voice, gaze, silence, and actions of each of these women, we learn about the richness of their experiences, which together give us a legacy of trust, justice, perseverance, respect, and freedom. These are women who defeated fascism, colonialism, and social inequalities in Portugal and the occupied African territories and transformed the world around them.
Avi, a loud and unpredictable extrovert who’s constantly at odds with the world around him, encounters Raunak, a quiet boy who is trying to find his place. Raunak is drawn to Avi’s fearlessness and begins to copy him, believing it will help him make a place for himself.
Andrea shares her memories of her years working at the gay nightclub Enigma. Among memorabilia and photographs emerges Miriam, with whom she forged an intense and forbidden romance interrupted by cancer. Thirty years after Miriam’s passing, Andrea seeks closure to that chapter of her life.
In the heat of summer, a family drifts through the rural towns of Chungnam, working temporary promotion jobs for mobile phone stores. Their van is both their ride and the only place they call home. One day, a box of phones goes missing. Two months of work suddenly hang in the balance.
Elena, a fisherwoman from the Empordà region in Catalonia (Spain), struggles to keep alive the craft inherited from her family, but it becomes harder every day, and her livelihood risks disappearing.