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A quiet celebration triggers a painful past. In confronting it, she finds closure.
May 2026
Across the country, many garages were emptied of cars to be filled with drums, basses, guitars, and amplifiers in the 1980s and 1990s. Before studios, often with no one really knowing how to play very well and without a plan, many bands started and ended in garages. What mattered was playing. Each decade has its own sound. In the 1980s and 1990s, it was that of alternative rock and its many variations. This is the story of the garage bands of Viseu, many of them local in scope, several reaching national dimension.
With a psychopathic killer on the loose a lonely girl must run for her life from a dark figure.
Élène is a sweet and tender young woman in a relationship with her lovely partner, who seems to lead a more or less normal life. But this will change quickly when she is confronted with the dismissal and the various difficulties related to her past unknown to everyone. This is the story of a woman with multiple faces.
52 Pick Up is a comedy thriller about two young men, who form their relationship inside an apartment building, searching behind every door to uncover the truth. The first young man is a quirky P.I., whose job is synonymous with his life. After his terrible disappointment from a failed case, he persistently searches for the reason for his failure. Once he finds it, he decides to follow him to the apartment building of the other young man, Mitsos. Mitsos is an idle car mechanic, working in his father's business. His carefree life is turned upside down when a daily puzzle outside his own door seems to be trying to shake him up strongly. Through an allegory, audio documents, a pineapple juice, a near encounter with radishes, a key and a harlequin, Mitsos is called upon to keep his cool and untangle the tangle - always for his own good.
The opening night of New Japan Pro Wrestling's annual junior heavyweight round-robin tournament took place on May 14, 2026, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
On the night of their anniversary, Sarah is unexpectedly called into work but when a sudden zombie outbreak traps her inside, Brian must fight through the chaos to reach her before it's too late.
Little Anna dreams of growing up and becoming part of the adult world. But when her mother and father begin to argue, she doesn’t just grow up magically fast—she even ages prematurely…
Jun 2026
Diagnosed as completely nearsighted at age 6, I have spent my life in a blur. A journey through the not always clear twists and turns of ophthalmology.
Oct 2026
Inscribed on 16mm, animism sings anarchy is a performative and poetic attempt to translate archaeological research and materials into songs, feelings, movement, and altered states. The film draws on the late Lithuanian anthropologist and archaeologist Marija Gimbutas’s research into Neolithic matrilineal, animist societies—a source of inspiration for artists, academics, and environmentalists associated with second-wave feminism.
On their annual summer camp, a group of Boy Scouts are attacked in the woods by a creature with legs for arms.
Jan 2027
Oct 2027
A film-diary that jumps through time and space, and finds connections between various sceneries and situations, which ordinarily would not exist together.
As television eclipses live theater in the early 1950s, a headlining tap-dancing showgirl is offered a shot at national fame - if she'll trade her artistic integrity for the constraints of the studio system.
Aspiring screenwriter Louis has finally caught a big job but what looks like his dream come true turns out to be much harder than he thought. With help from his spiritually lost and borderline-alcoholic best friend, Pierre, he takes on the challenge.
After a night out, Nessa returns home, and she’s greeted by her rapist.
When a grieving father is diagnosed with terminal cancer, his desperate attempts to reconnect with his estranged sons force them all to confront the weight of loss, love, and the inevitability of being left behind.
Jul 2026
Power-Man, the masked vigilante of Vancouver, meets a new enemy when he seizes control of television and uses it to brainwash the people of the city to become his minions.
The story follows Danielle Stanbreaker, a paranormal consultant investigating a strange supernatural occurrence at a local Bed and Breakfast that ultimately ends up being real.