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Intergalactic Botox Bimbos fight over a bloodthirsty well endowed alien studlord.
Apr 2026
Mark has second thoughts about proposing to his girlfriend of six years, after a crisis strikes during an important dinner.
PLANT launch their album "Evenimentul Major" in Control Club, January 24th 2026.
Young man Jack Curtis gets his life turned upside down when his deadbeat father attempts to reconnect into his life
A withdrawn teenage boy wanders through a dreamlike suburban night, led by a horned apparition toward the buried anguish waiting beneath his home.
Bellwether Corporation rings the bell of success in society and anyone that works for them is well-respected in the city. It has always been Sunny’s dream, as her life was set up to work for Bellwether. In order to be accepted in the company, she must complete an examination alongside other participants. Their social class has a determining fate on whether they can proceed. Luckily, Sunny passes their requirements, and is able to complete the series of tests. But she is left in dismay learning the true nature of the company, which asks her to compromise her principles in order to be accepted.
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens the future of the Cine Universitario del Uruguay. A director abandons his documentary due to safety concerns. Drawing on the techniques of the audiovisual essay, the short film concludes with the reopening of theaters under restrictions and the hope of overcoming the crisis.
The film emerges from the hieroglyphic writing on the body—marks of violence that inscribe memory. A meeting in Montevideo between the director and Martín reveals bodies that resist the onslaught of power, reminding us that no one knows what a body is capable of.
Nicola writes his first play basing it on his relationship with Franca, a drama student he met a week before he left Montevideo. While he rehearses, he goes through a crisis and starts blending fiction with the present.
Nicole, 55, and her mother Alberte, 87, live together in a villa on the shores of Lake Geneva. Through their habits, they become trapped in codependency: Nicole seems incapable of autonomy, while Alberte is terrified at the idea of being alone. But as she grows closer to Lauren, her filmmaker niece, Nicole begins to explore the possibility of emancipation.
Stéphane and Mehdi use their personal histories as the basis from which to question this concept and its history up to the UN Security Council. But in our world of increasingly polarising conflicts, is there trully any other option that to take sides?
In the streets of Algiers, jacaranda trees bloom like shards of memory. Following in the footsteps of his father, Ameziane, a writer haunted by these purple trees, Hassen Ferhani explores the city, legacy and love. A rich and intimate quest in which writing, filming or choosing beauty become acts of resistance.
Police investigate Dream Harvester, a political faction opposing the digitization of consciousness.
The Drift Queen is a high-octane documentary feature following Sandra Janusauskaite - a fierce and resilient woman carving her path in the male-dominated world of professional drifting. Filmed across Europe - from Spain, Latvia, and Lithuania to Hungary, Germany, Estonia, Greece, and Cyprus - the film captures the sport's intense physical and technical demands, along with the emotional and psychological toll it takes. Through Sandra's eyes, we witness the grit behind the glamour: the podiums, the breakdowns, the comebacks, and the relentless pursuit of speed. It's more than a racing story - it's a raw, cinematic journey into passion, identity, and what it takes to lead in a world that rarely hands over the keys.
The libretto of this opera tells the story of D., a young boy called to military service. Desperate to escape his fate, he seeks advice from the Mysterious Lake. It sends him off to seek salvation deep in the bowels of the city, where the march of autocracy will eventually engulf him.
In the heart of the Beauce plains, strange phenomena are reviving memories of a local star: the Aérotrain. The memory of this revolutionary invention, which some had wanted consigned to oblivion, is kept alive by a handful of enthusiasts and model makers. Théo Audoire pays tribute to them in this crime thriller born from an unlikely mix of genres.
Websites mimicking the appearance of journalistic media, but which mainly generate advertising revenue by disseminating disinformation, are spreading like wildfire online. In this 3D animated documentary, Spray and Pray plunges us into the dark side of the web, where the anti-LGBTQ+ political agenda serves the economic interests of an unscrupulous minority.
In the historic centre of Palermo, another Italian city ravaged by overtourism, two filmmakers document a liminal moment in the life of a noble palace falling into ruin, where they live alongside other castaways of a city facing extinction, between the end of a centuries-long glorious decline and the beginning of a treacherous rebirth.
Mai Gang, the father of the filmmaker, starts making a map, which over the weeks invades the floor of the family living room. The itinerary of his clandestine escape from Communist China to Hong Kong in the seventies resurfaces. From the making of a homemade buoy to sea swimming techniques, this film offers a unique survival guide.
May 2026