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Dec 2025
A school project, this horror-comedy pits an unwitting student against a message carrying creep.
Nov 2025
Jessica is a digital influencer that shares her daily life online. She's being followed by a stalker that is patiently waiting for the right opportunity to have her just for himself.
Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti recount the birth and development of Bestiari, erbari, lapidari, their latest film, presented out of competition at the Venice Film Festival in September 2024.
In a dystopian future, a German journalist is deported to Nigeria under a fascist regime's "remigration pact." There, he struggles against a dehumanizing bureaucracy and, in his desperate attempt to reach his family in Ghana, must grapple with the limits of pride and morality.
When an outlaw finds out his partner-in-crime and gambling-loving twin brother has gone missing the night of them getting hungover, he must attempt to uncover the disappearance of his twin, fight his psychological torments, and play in a suspenseful game of poker with a psychopathic countryman.
Gui, an 18-year-old trying to deal with the grief and legacy of his art curator father, begins his first day at university determined to survive emotionally. But everything changes when he meets João again, a childhood friend and son of his father's greatest professional rival. Forced to work together, the two revisit memories, wounds and desires until, between works of art and difficult truths.
Year 1900, July 28: Gaetano Bresci, an Italian anarchist who had moved to America, arrives in Milan. The man has only one thought in his mind: to assassinate the King of Italy, Umberto I of Savoy.
A guy that looks like Santa Claus wanders the streets of LA.
In a rural town gripped by fear, a mother struggles to break free from a haunting cycle that defies time itself.
"Río Seco" tells the story of Omar, a police officer of Mapuche descent who tries to solve a cattle rustling case in the Chubut municipality of Gualjaina. To his surprise, the case turns out to be much more complex than he initially thought.
In a quiet garden where time feels suspended, a young dreamer with a broken watch and a plucked flower shares a bench, unknowingly sparking a quiet venture. Shepherded by an enigmatic individual, through time, mortality, and the fragility of life.
When an Italian gangster plans to sabotage the taste of Swiss chocolate, a special task force is put together to avert the impending disaster.
Safar Palani is a lover of Indian cinema and Mr. Amitabh Bachchan himself, after his children find out that their father has a dangerous disease.
Laura, idealistic and passionate about television, and Mario, a rebellious director who dreams of cinema, start out clashing but gradually develop mutual respect and affection. Over twenty years of encounters, successes, and mistakes, their relationship evolves until they discover that love can appear in the most unexpected places—right in the world of Carosello and the TV stories that marked a generation.
Following a woman's death in a post-apocalyptic world where pollution has made much of the Earth toxic, a man ventures out to fulfill her last wish: spreading her ashes on the last remaining flowers.
A film student is dealing with a break-up.