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A father abandons his young daughter at a playground. Immediately full of remorse, he comes back and finds a child that looks exactly like his daughter but doesn’t recognize him.
May 2026
From Mark Cousins, creator of the groundbreaking The Story of Film: A New Generation & Women Make Film, comes the definitive history of documentary. Tracing the evolution of documentary film across time, encompassing landmark works and hidden treasures, while revealing how the form has helped us see and make sense of our world.
A curious boy and a serene girl meet by the edge of a lake. There, reflections on life emerge in subtle and unexpected ways. After all, what does it mean to be a stone?
Jun 2026
DERNSIE is an intimate portrait of Bruce Dern—tireless, uncompromising, and one of the last living legends of his generation—whose endurance has shaped both a turbulent life and one of Hollywood’s most enduring careers. A relentless runner on and off screen, Dern has outlasted the very industry that defined him.
A documentary feature film about Vittorio De Sica, one of the greatest masters of world cinema. Through a new access to his family, rare archives and testimonies of contemporary artists and filmmakers from the entire world, the ilm retraces his life, his work and legacy. An intimate portrait of an author able to transform the observation of the real in an universal emotion and reveals the modernity of a gaze which keeps on illuminating cinema and our way of seeing the world.
It’s the story of two guys — a comedian and a journalist — who become friends and get up to all sorts of antics. It’s the story of two men reflecting their era. It’s the story of one man, Coluche, seen through the eyes of his friend, Michel Denisot. It’s the story of his Coluche.
Guided by the evocative narration of Charlotte Rampling, Nostalgia for the Future is a descent into the labyrinthine world of Chris Marker, the “best-known author of unknown films” who spent a lifetime concealing himself behind a veil of pseudonyms and images of cats. Moving through a constellation of personal documents and film fragments, an archivist attempts to decode the man through the material traces he left behind.
Aug 2026
Leo and Julia, owners of a rural property, want to have children but are facing fertility issues. Ava and Mia, a lesbian couple, have just moved to the neighboring property. The arrival of the two women will create tension with the neighbors.
Newborn ibeji Ayomi and Zola receive their first ebó of words — an offering of protection, faith, and ancestry.
In the future, a traveling android arrives in a deserted Havana in search of Las Vegas, a mythical cabaret founded by a guerrilla fighter.
Beau is in search of his purpose. Everyone else around him seems to know theirs. But with the help of his friends, Beau finds his true purpose was right beside him all along.
“A Holandesinha” follows Luiza Godoi Acosta, a young woman with Down syndrome who dreams of becoming a filmmaker and sets out to create her first short film, "Lágrimas de um Pierrot". The documentary traces every stage of the creative process, revealing her worldview, the challenges she faces, and her triumphs over ableism. Produced in the countryside of Paraná, the film celebrates inclusion and affirms cinema as a space of possibility, belonging, and perseverance.
Short horror film about the horrors of the pool drain
Stripped of color and clothes, ready to be cleansed. A young man's midnight bath becomes a surreal nightmare the moment he realizes he is not alone.