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No one would have bet on Jérémy, stuck behind the counter of a video store, or on Bouna, who cleans airports. With no money, no connections, and painfully poor English, who could have predicted they’d one day become big-name agents in the NBA? What they lack in experience, they will make up for in audacity, while remaining true to their one credo, doing business with a human touch. Scouting raw talent while improvising their way up, they’ll fake it until they make it – chasing their American Dream and landing multi-million-dollar deals.
Feb 2026
When loyalty to country becomes loyalty to a lie, one teen risks everything to expose the truth. With the Gestapo closing in, he must decide what it really means to be a good German.
Oct 2025
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Jul 1971
A young couple, Charlie and Steph, both realize they're trans after having sex while wearing gender-swapped Halloween costumes. Charlie comes to terms with it faster than Steph, causing unexpected friction in their relationship.
Aug 2026
"Why Religion?" is a feature-length documentary film exploring the extraordinary work and personal journey of renowned scholar Elaine Pagels. Celebrated for her groundbreaking research on the Gnostic Gospels, Pagels challenges conventional religious narratives and invites us to rethink how early western religions approached divinity, enlightenment, and the human experience. The film offers intimate access to her life and work, revealing how her research of ancient texts shaped her own path of spirituality and self-discovery.
Home for winter break, Clyde asks his estranged brother, Sean, to reunite with the family for Christmas Eve dinner. The table is set, and still, no response.
Jul 2026
Yukino, a part-time worker at a convenience store, and the strange experience she has when she encounters a mysterious customer in the middle of the night.
A celebration of girlhood and the complexities that come with it, Cookie Queens is a coming-of-age story about the joys, pressures, and tensions woven into one of America’s most cherished rituals: Girl Scout Cookie season.
It's the last day of Camp Firewood's season, but there's still time for the big talent show, a little romance… and for everyone to be wiped out by the piece of NASA's Skylab that's hurtling toward Earth.
Jul 2001
When a defiant young girl stages a silent protest, refusing to return home until the disruptive presence of her father is gone, her mother must decide whether to follow her or let her go.
Sep 2026
The world replaced six thousand phones this morning. All of them are burning in Agbogbloshie, in the heart of Accra, where six thousand people make a living stripping copper from what you replaced. They breathe air five times more polluted than what the WHO considers safe. No one keeps track of what they die from. He lives there. And while everyone else scavenges for weight, he searches for the part that still works. With a washing machine motor, laptop batteries, and spliced wires, he raises a streetlight in the middle of the alley where he lives. That night, for the first time in twenty-two years, the street had light. That's why they found him. Fiction set in a place that exists.
The romantic comedy follows Soluchi, a hopeless romantic still healing from being jilted by her former lover, Kalu. When a regular work call puts her in touch with the charming Eli, Soluchi begins to see the possibility of the love story she has always wanted.
May 2026
In search of inspiration for her new novel, Sylvie spies on her neighbors in the building across the street using a telescope. When she hires young Adam to help her with her daily routine, she has no idea that he will turn her life and her work upside down, until the fiction she had imagined surpasses the reality of them all.
Five social media influencers spend a weekend at a forest retreat but inadvertently awaken and confront the world's first vampire.
Munir travels to a remote island to contemplate a drastic action. He is haunted by a cryptic parable passed down to him by his mother. In the silence of his isolated island sanctuary, he encounters the enigmatic Valeska and her rough-hewn but loyal son, Karl. Although few words are spoken, simple acts of kindness begin to overcome their mutual distrust. Munir’s heavy burden is gradually eased and his desire for life reignited
Nov 2025
Aboard a high-speed train, a nun who has lost her faith must perform her first exorcism on a possessed passenger hellbent on crashing the runaway train.
Selay seeks refuge in a women's shelter with her newborn baby, but isolation, mistrust, and envy make her stay difficult. Faced with the choice between returning to her violent ex-partner and searching for safety, she must decide which path to choose for herself and her child.
Angela's deafness raises concerns during her pregnancy regarding connecting with her daughter. Post-delivery, partner Héctor supports her as she learns to mother in a society lacking adequate accommodations for the hearing-impaired.
Apr 2025
In the late 1990s, a family of six settles into their new home on Vancouver Island, as internal dynamics are slowly revealed through the experiences of the youngest child, Sasha. Their fresh start is interrupted by the increasingly dangerous behavior of Jeremy, the family's oldest child.
Mar 2026
Dual timelines explore a Japanese widow's memories spanning post-war Nagasaki in 1950s and England during 1980s Cold War era, unraveling secrets that intertwine her past and present experiences across borders.
Sep 2025