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At the height of her career, Lina, a 34-year-old Argentine stylist, is driven by a sudden impulse after an award ceremony in Switzerland. Back in Buenos Aires, she says nothing, but something in her has shifted – quiet and invisible, it subtly unravels a past she thought she had left behind.
Nov 2025
A home of struggling actors will stop at nothing to create a haunted house to catch the eye of their new neighbor, a legendary horror filmmaker.
Jun 2026
Film reconstructs the historic match Argentina vs England at the 1986 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals, famously remembered for the the hand of God goal by Maradona. Also exploring the sporting, political, and cultural dimensions of the encounter, in the background of the recent deadly Falklands War between the two countries.
May 2026
After a mother and son get in a car wreck, they soon become hunted by Bambi, a mutated grief-stricken deer on a deadly rampage seeking revenge for the death of his mother and wife.
Jul 2025
Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his Yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wings of a famous Kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. For decades, the two young men grow and evolve together – and one will become the greatest Japanese master of the art of Kabuki.
Jun 2025
An insecure Chinese-American teenager undergoes experimental surgery to appear white, hoping to secure the prom queen title and peer acceptance.
Mar 2026
When a mysterious stranger moves in next door to Robert and Tabitha, boundaries are tested, loyalty is questioned, and danger comes for all.
Jul 2026
Set by a beautiful river canyon in Western Ukraine, a pacifist community with unique religious beliefs, sees their peaceful way of life gradually distressed by regular floods and eventually an unexpected war.
Amidst the riots in Poso, Kai and his older brother, Ringgo, who has Down Syndrome, are separated from their mother, Emmy. While searching for their mother, they encounter a police officer named Idham, who is on duty handling the riots. Idham helps search for Emmy, while taking Kai and Ringgo along on his journey through dangerous situations. An emotional bond like family begins to emerge between Idham, Kai, and Ringgo.
Nellie and Eleanor both live with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), navigating the weight of daily anxiety, finding connection in a most unexpected way.
Fedya is a failed business psychologist. During one of his training sessions, while intoxicated, he makes a scene and becomes a laughing stock in the eyes of those around him. In his blog, Fedya broadcasts the "secrets of success," but he himself has long lost control of his life. His daughter Sonya is a withdrawn, problematic teenager. After her mother's death, an insurmountable wall grew between her and her father, and her grandfather took upon himself the girl's upbringing. After a fight with her peers, Sonya risks ending up in a penal colony - to avoid punishment, she is sent to a summer correctional program at a provincial school. Fedya goes with his daughter: to look after her and at the same time work as a school psychologist until the information noise around his name dies down. There is one summer ahead that can change everything.
In a Spanish villa, American siblings Jack, Ed, Anna and Robert wallow in isolation and their inherited fortune. When Jack wants to move in with his girlfriend and Ed uncovers the truth about their mother’s death, the fabric of the family begins to unravel.
Apr 2026
George Fahmy, Egypt's most adored actor, is pressured to star in a film commissioned by the highest authorities. He reluctantly accepts and finds himself thrown into the inner circle of power. Like moth drawn to flame, he begins an affair with the mysterious wife of the general overseeing the project.
Sep 2025
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
Aug 1978
Misanthropic novelist François writes gripping crime stories – “Agatha Christie meets The Scarlet Pimpernel” – but outside of the swashbuckling imaginary world of his Marquis la Rose-novels, life is far from thrilling. His partner Colette, a professor at the Sorbonne and world-renowned expert on Alfred Hitchcock, is tired of watching François sit around their apartment in his pyjamas and yearns for the excitement of the classic films she watches with her students. When Colette begins to suspect their flamboyant actor neighbour of murdering his wife, the couple’s mundane lives are turned upside down – and their stale relationship is jolted back to life.
An unsettled therapist individually counsels both members of a troubled couple, becoming dangerously entangled in their relationship, to the point of her complete family uprooting.
When Mahendra, the son of Bāhubali, learns about his heritage, he begins to look for answers. His story is juxtaposed with past events that unfolded in the Mahishmati Kingdom.
Apr 2017
Jevan moves her family into her late mother's home, only to discover her mother, Iris, a genetic scientist, created a deadly raptor that's now on the loose. As the creature hunts them, Jevan and her family must fight to survive and find a way to stop the ultimate predator.
After a failed suicide attempt, Zhang Xiaobing (Jiang Long) is sent to Ward 10 — a ward for the critically ill, but strangely full of joy. Among patients clinging to life, a man who wanted to die discovers the courage to live.
When a massive alien flower known as "Darol" unexpectedly erupts in a deadly event, unleashing monstrous creatures that decimate the population of Japan, Rita is caught in the destruction—and killed. But then she wakes up again. And again. Caught in an endless time loop, Rita must navigate the trauma and repetition of death until she crosses paths with Keiji, a shy young man trapped in the same cycle. Together, they fight to break free from the loop and find meaning in the chaos around them.
Jan 2026