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In New York City, an enthusiastic young mouse dreams of becoming a world-famous dancer. When his father dismisses those ambitions, he embarks on a journey alongside an unlikely group of misfits who must discover their own unique rhythms while fighting to save the only place they’ve ever truly called home.
Following a failed suicide attempt, Clara is in a coma and discovers that the afterlife is a giant Scrabble tournament. It all makes no sense, and yet, she must win the competition to overcome her demons.
Two upper-class wives, their husbands away for the day, share a few toasts to their pre-marital dalliances—with the same man, who just may be en route from France to visit. Old rivalries and past scandals bubble to the surface in this intoxicating romp from one of theatre’s comedy masters.
In 1990s Nigeria, two estranged sisters forced to live under the same roof while caring for their paralysed mother navigate grief, ambition, love, and the fragile bonds of family.
At the age of five, Chris, a young village boy meets his mother, Czesława, who is at the cusp of conquering entertainment industry by adopting a new persona - Violetta Villas. An unbelievably talented, ambitious mother and a sensitive child go on a decades long journey through Warsaw, Paris and Las Vegas.
Lily and Peter is a modern romantic drama about timing, connection, and love tested by real life. When a quiet online connection pulls two people together, distance, delay, and unexpected loss challenge what they're building. As they choose to show up for one another, their bond deepens into a love shaped by family values, resilience, and emotional truth. Warm, intimate, and universally relatable, Lily and Peter is a character-driven love story made for audiences who believe the strongest romances are earned.
A family of American tourists wander innocently into Taylor's hunting grounds. When the parents sacrifice themselves to save their children, the kids find themselves alone, lost and hunted in the vast Australian wilderness.
Nina and Miki travel to a small village in Mazuria to spend the summer with their long-estranged father. Their mother accepted a job offer in the US, ignoring the protests of Nina who blames her father for breaking up the family and wants nothing to do with him.
After her death, 17-year-old Aisha finds her way into Elias' dreams from the afterlife and a passionate romance begins in which the boundaries between dream and reality become blurred.
Alma Lancaster, 18, leads a seemingly perfect life in a wealthy family, who believe she is studying law. In secret, she pursues her true dream — cinema. On campus, she meets 20-year-old Vadim Arcadi, a rebellious and magnetic solitaire with a troubled past. Forced to collaborate on a student film, they compete, get closer and start to fall in love – in spite of themselves. But someone is watching them. A mysterious figure begins to send anonymous threats, determined to separate them and expose secrets that could destroy Alma and Vadim.
1943. Soviet soldier Ivan escapes from a death camp in the Italian Alps. However, his plans are thwarted by two unexpected companions: the famous German film star Dieter Schulze and the Italian anti-fascist Giulia.
Two female producers are commissioned to create a short documentary for an exhibition dedicated to Rubén Santantonín, an elusive figure of the Argentine avant-garde who died very young, in the late 1960s. However, the client imposes one unexpected condition: the video must be made together with David Lamelas, Santantonín’s former collaborator and today an internationally recognized figure of conceptual art. At first, the plan seems clear and limited in scope: Lamelas, accompanied by a young film crew, gathers archival materials, documents the few surviving works, and interviews curators and major artists – such as Luis Felipe Noé and Marta Minujín – who, along with Santantonín and Lamelas, peopled the legendary scene at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella. Lamelas gradually realizes that reconstructing the story of his friend also means confronting a series of gaps and contradictions.
A father and son have nothing in common except a first name, Richard, and an apartment on a housing estate. The burly, good-natured, 30-something factory worker listens to heavy metal and occasionally lets his girlfriend into his life. The frail, retired teacher, who raised the boy after his mother’s departure, is the embodiment of care and understanding. However, their tranquil, shared reality, which embraces both the hardcore band Našrot and Bergman’s “Cries and Whispers,” is disrupted by the sudden death of the mother. Young Richard sets out on a peculiar initiation journey with bizarre encounters and moments of unexpected enlightenment.
Instead of finding a “proper” job, Alf, pushing 40, lives with his mum and drifts though Norrköping’s cultural scene. Chats & faces, routines & intuitions, local politics & everyday life – the intimate and the social, in black-and-white analogue images.
Nora is an eccentric young woman with a debilitating infatuation with her newspaper delivery man — a man she has never even dared to speak to... Things begin to change when one fateful night, he appears to her in a dreamlike vision where he promises her everything she has ever longed for. Convinced this is her chance at true love, Nora decides to take a leap of faith in pursuit of her prince charming’s undivided affection.
It's Grand Final Day and in a suburban police station about to be replaced by an AI 'Terminal', the two remaining cops (Nicolette Minster and Ray O'Leary) are tasked with babysitting a drug dealer for 24 hours.
