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When James is looking to submit his new short film to a festival, chaos ensues when he realises he submitted the wrong film.
Jun 2026
May 2026
Yuji Nagata Produce Blue Justice XVIII was a professional wrestling event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and organized by Yuji Nagata. Held on June 20, 2026, at City Gymnasium in Kimitsu, Chiba, Japan, the annual Blue Justice show served as Nagata’s hometown charity event.
The eleventh night of Best of Super Juniors 33 took place on June 2, 2026 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
Daisy feels distant from the world and everyone in it. So, when a party is sprung upon her by her childhood friend in the effort to help her 'meet new people', she begins to realise that she is more complicated than she had thought.
After a middle-aged father falls mysteriously into a coma that transports him to an idealised version of his past, his daughter must do all things necessary to rescue him from an eternal trap.
A look at how a russian scientist created a manual on how to construct a UFO.
Dec 2026
Film selected for the Cannes Film Festival Short Films Competition lineup.
Las Casas en Mí follows musician León Guallart in a historic debut, touring 40 icons of 20th-century architecture. Beyond the milestone, the film strips away the romanticism of success to reveal the financial risk, uncertainty, and solitude of pursuing an artistic endeavor. An honest journey about ambition, identity, and the determination required to accomplish an impossible project.
Bèstia is a portrait of three hunters from inland Catalonia: Palomero, Bernat, and Nen. Their lives reveal the tension between traditional rural masculinity and the modern urban mindset. Without judgment or dramatization, a young vegan filmmaker observes their contradictions and seeks the primitive essence of humanity in the present day.
This documentary exposes the devastating impact of fisheries, specifically by-catch on ocean ecosystems. We will highlight how the ocean can bounce back once left alone and not fished.
Sep 2026
A multi-generational family of outspoken Puerto Rican women takes center stage as they conceive and perform fantastical film vignettes as a way to navigate painful pasts in this visually-arresting, kaleidoscopic documentary.
Clémentine, a student in residence at the Cité Universitaire, goes about her day in Paris when suddenly things take an unexpected turn.
Expertly merging old VHS home movies with new family interviews, filmmaker Eddie Sánchez traces his parents' journey from Mexico to the U.S. in this poignant and affecting documentary debut.
Who was Helene Weigel? Using impressive archive material, the film follows the convinced communist, acting icon, and free spirit from her early days in theater to her escape from the Nazi regime to the founding and management of the Berliner Ensemble. The result is a powerful portrait that finally puts the “woman at Brecht's side” in the spotlight.
Nov 2026
Bunkers—whether they are piles of rubble from a war that is gradually fading into oblivion, or spruced-up local history museums—the monuments to Germany’s wartime past still stand. A cautious and evocative exploration on the edge of Europe. J.S.