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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.
Nov 2025
A film student is dealing with a break-up.
During a freak blizzard, a remote British lodge is shut down with just two guests: Ellie, a sarcastic travel blogger, and a handsome, overly polite guest who's definitely not from around here. Turns out, he's Prince Alaric, stranded while trying to escape royal duties. With only each other and no Wi-Fi, sparks (and snowballs) fly.
Dec 2025
Angga is trapped in mounting online loan debt. At his lowest point, a friend invites him to a financial seminar led by Mira Prameswari, a charismatic motivational speaker. What begins as a promise of financial freedom turns into an absurd spectacle. As the line between motivation and manipulation begins to blur, Angga finds himself caught in an inner conflict between logic and the seductive dream of false salvation.
Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano’s Fedora in the 2022–23 Live in HD season, Beczała reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their fates.
Memory, fantasy, and cinema come to life as young filmmaker Adolfo walks along the studio-named streets of Jd. Hollywood, on his way to meet his ex-boyfriend, the Californian Vincent.
For the first time in history, a quantum computer was installed at a university—in a century old chapel at the oldest engineering school in America. And along with it came the pitfalls, wonder, and adaptation that comes from doing something that’s never been done before.
A timid young man's promising date is ruined when his lingering ex-girlfriend still living in his apartment unexpectedly intervenes, forcing him to confront their unresolved feelings.
After narrowly avoiding a car crash, a sleep deprived drifter decides to find a place to get some shuteye. But when he finds every hotel is booked, overnight parking is restricted, and people just keep telling him he needs to move his car, getting a good night's rest proves harder than it sounds.
Following the death of Amina Filali, a 16 year-old girl who killed herself after she was allegedly forced to marry the man who raped her, a young woman carries a personal investigation into the representation and perception of rape in Morocco. Here rapists are offered to marry their victims as a means to save the "honour" of the family. By liberating the voices of these victims, 475 : Break the Silence gives an unprecedented view of family, the deceit of love, relationships, marriage and honour in urban deprived areas of a country seeking to find its identity between modernity and tradition.
If life is a journey, Zoe’s has had more than its share of potholes and diversions: from diving with sharks, to sitting in a shed in Vietnam with a former health secretary (and discovering that MPs aren’t the only parasites she has to worry about). Navigating the road to happiness can be exhausting and baffling; Zoe’s begun to think that even Wim Hof would prefer to be tucked up with a nice hot water bottle every now and then. But Zoe’s been on that road long enough now that she’s felt a change – not as in the menopause. A real change. If happiness is ending up the best version of yourself, Zoe is finally getting there. She is where she needs to be. She is… werewolf.
Every species feels the passage of time, and Eve’s is no exception. Weak and spiraling out of control, she crashes into a factory on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. What should have been her final moment becomes the key to her survival. There, she’ll find what she craves most: human collagen… and she won’t mind spilling a little blood to get it.
The seemingly perfect life of Chloe, a recognized influencer, turns upside down when one of her classmates finds out her little secret: she's cheating on her boyfriend.
Every year, Mylène, a teacher, faces challenges in her work. This year, it's little Axelle and her mother who are putting her through the wringer. Patience, firmness, and trust will guide the teacher in helping both the child and her mother feel secure - each of them having a heart much softer than they let on at first glance.
Unwrapping the best Christmas TV of days gone by - from the 1960s through to the early 1990s remembering a time when, with audiences topping 20 million, Christmas TV really was appointment viewing for the entire nation.
"| love how monad 5 defies the other monads by being a person, you" My personal history of 2025 as it runs through everyone I know. Monad 5 is a film composed of parts of me and parts of others, texts, images, and found footage gathered over a year, a shitting portrait of how we move through the world now.
Childhood poverty in Pakistan can be nearly impossible to escape...but some local gyms are giving the street kids of Pakistan a potential chance to climb their way out into a better life in the world of MMA.