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A child embarks on a dark journey through his house to tell his mother he vomited in his room.
Jul 2026
A visceral action-thriller where a lone fighter is forced into a relentless pursuit by a grim ancestral decree. To satisfy a blood mandate that haunts his family's legacy, he must cut through a web of enemies and shifting alliances. As the hunt intensifies, the line between justice and revenge blurs in a raw struggle for survival.
Aug 2026
An artist’s memoir navigating the scars of his own past through the lens of Thailand’s fractured political history and surreal contemporary art. The film traces nearly four decades of growth—from a boy with a meaningless name to a young man awakening amidst the smoke and blood of history. It is a profound exploration of grief, intertwining personal loss with the death of an internal patriarch, the cost of freedom, and the lingering aesthetics of the soul.
A teenage girl who has felt different for as long as she can remember becomes isolated after years of bullying and loneliness. Everything changes when she discovers cinema, a place that helps her find hope, peace, and a way back to herself.
A sad movie about love and dying.
A documentary about some disabled children go on a trip to a deserted island in Okinawa.
Jun 2026
A sixty-year-old widower living with dementia, clings to the handwritten notes he leaves for himself in order to make it through each new day. As his daughters pack up his home in preparation for his move to a care facility, The Father wanders through the fragments of his fading memories, struggling to understand why the people he loves seem to be slipping away from him. As the boundaries between memory and reality begin to dissolve, The Father finds himself repeatedly reunited with the imagined presence of his late wife, Michal. Through these encounters, he embarks on an intimate emotional journey that forces him to confront an impossible choice: whether to hold on to everything he has lost, or embrace the love that still surrounds him. In a rare moment of clarity, The Father and his daughters discover one final way to connect before the disease separates them forever.
The virtuoso guitarist Artur Miranda Azzi shatters the conventions of classical guitar, reinventing the instrument as a dynamic medium for avant-garde experimentation. Through six bold and innovative performances of contemporary works, Azzi dismantles traditional techniques, transforming the guitar into a living, evolving entity—one that defies expectations at every turn.
A man struggles in his bathroom through a severe panic attack as he desperately tries to work through it and get to work on time.
A boy attempts to understand a girl through the memories of others. As different versions emerge, the truth becomes unclear. A story about perception, memory, and the impossibility of a single truth.
Ex-cons Bob and Kevin navigate the challenges of modern life when an old nemesis unexpectedly returns and threatens their retirement.
Three people walk down the street.
Hidden behind a horse mask, a young lonely woman ventures into the world of adult content creation. She must face her fear of being truly seen when a connection with a client springs unexpected feelings of love.
Whether it's finding the strength to speak truth to power, making a decision that will mark you as an outsider, or taking a risk that will expose a secret - these men and boys prove that sometimes courage is not learned. It is an instinct.
"Who made the humans? AMBITION ..." An experimental short film by ShubHankar.
As a boy, he witnessed his father’s murder at the hands of a gun-wielding demon - trauma that ignited a burning desire for justice. As a man, he now struggles to walk the razor’s edge between justice and vengeance. In a neon-lit city’s dark criminal underbelly, his path of destruction begins to spiral out of control, with cash piling higher than the mountain of bodies left in his wake. But when the long-awaited confrontation arrives, the stakes shift — A snake lunges at its prey only to bite its own tail.
A study of light, wind, and shadow -- made among friends. Shot and edited in less than 24 hours.