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When filmmaker Nathan Silver and his wife Nicole Fuentes moved halfway around the world, Nathan’s parents took up birdwatching and began sending them audio recordings from their bird identifying app. It wasn’t so much the birds you can hear on the recordings but discussions about the birds, life in the United States, and aging as a couple. From their new home in France, Nathan and Nicole began pairing these recordings with footage of the birds and life around them.
Sep 2026
Sixteen-year-old emo teen Johanna dreams of a glittering twilight vampire prince. What she gets instead is Martti — a balding, beer-bellied 49-year-old bloodsucker who slips into a santa suit to gain entry to homes and devour entire families. When Johanna crosses paths with Martti on Christmas Eve, she thinks her dark fairy tale has come true. But instead of eternal romance, she finds herself trapped in a horrific and bloody nightmare of aging masculinity, family trauma, and festive slaughter.
Nov 2026
Andy, a young adult, is housed by his mother and friends in a small town. After a traumatic experience with his church, he is forced to undergo one of the hardest years of his life, and uncover his own individuality while unbeknownst to him, he is being followed by a mysterious figure known only as The Phantom.
Jul 2026
Dave is an amateur film maker who little bit too much of a Nolan and Tarantino fan. When his start making his first movie with friend and family, his flaws start to destroy his relationship and his film to being any good.
Apr 2027
Introvert Mikko is anxious that he won’t be able to come out of his shell during the weekend at his relatively new spouse’s cottage. His spouse Hanna is certain that Mikko will make a great first impression on her chosen family, the three friends that they are hosting. When it’s time for the sauna Mikko has not, despite all his attempts, figured out the sauna dress code of this new social bubble. As he steps into the sauna, Mikko realizes he’s the only one wearing swimwear—everybody else is naked. This traumatising event causes mixed emotions which Mikko is unable to shake away. Mikko tries to come out of his shell with his own way but everything ends up going even worse.
Aug 2026
A young man has to grapple with an intense moral dilemma.
A rainy bus ride becomes a poetic reflection on memory, love, and the small details of urban life. Through imagined cinema, conversations, and drifting memories, two voices travel across a city suspended in nostalgia and time.
When two stoners go on a journey from Sedgley to a charity shop in Dudley, they run into trouble with a sergeant, two rival stoners (Stupid caveman Chris and chill annoying Sam) and his special “Anti-Weed Task Force” (A.W.T.F) When they finally get a copy of a dvd from the charity shop, a mysterious evil character called “Gimp Man” comes to take it from them. With the help of samurai’s and good luck, they come out on top.
A high-profile documentary about 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, who, in 2025, become the Roman Catholic Church’s first millennial saint.
Oct 2026
Nov 2027
Plot TBA; inspired by the real-life scandal surrounding the self-styled godman Ashok Kharat alias 'Captain'.
Jan 2027
This is the true story of Honza, who started drinking very early. Then he tried something lighter a few times. He figured, everybody's lying, he'll never have the problem. But the drugs start to wrap around him more and more. He moves on to harder and harder, until one day he reaches for meth. We follow the story as it mercilessly plunges into the depths, alternately through the eyes of Honza and through the eyes of his parents. Their perspectives diverge more and more as Honza's lies and emerging paranoia escalate. A raw and uncompromising story of a teenager who wanted to taste everything the wide range of contemporary drugs has to offer. And the story of his parents, who are desperate to save their son, even though they are gradually losing all hope.
Aug 2027
Dec 2026
Jul 2027
Envious of his northern counterpart, the Anta Claus of the South Pole embarks on a penguin-powered journey to uncover the secret of a flawless Christmas. Along the way, he learns that the true spirit of the holiday lies not in perfection but in the lovable community of oddballs he left behind.
With fairy-tale inhabitants, everything is the same as with people - when a marriage breaks up, Resentment remains... That is the name of the daughter of the powerful magicians Bolotnitsa and Chernogor, who divorced but continue to share power over the child. On the day of Resentment's coming of age, it turns out that she is deprived of the magical power that was supposed to be inherited from her parents. To fix the situation, Resentment urgently needs to find a groom in the human world, have a wedding and sacrifice the person - turn him into a tree... Together with Resentment, her mysterious friend, Chudo Yudo, goes to the human world. He can transform into anyone: a bird, an animal, and even a handsome prince.
Trapped in a series of looping dream timelines, Nyra is hunted by an unknown killer and must find a way to escape before the cycles consume her.
EDJOP tells the story of student activist Edgar Jopson, who was killed in Davao during Martial Law in the Philippines.