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Every year, a family home is turned into a haunted house. The purpose is not only to be as terrifying as possible, but also to create a spectacular attraction to draw the neighbors in. The situation grows increasingly complicated, broken and distressed as the family’s problems intercede in their plans and as their real lives become the film’s true and overriding scary haunt.
Nov 2025
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
Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise builds upon the original TV series' unique setting with an expanded scale. The idol group Franchouchou, which initially set out to revitalize a region, is reborn in this film as a symbolic entity carrying the future of the Earth. While preserving the quirky charm of zombie idols, the film’s direction is more dazzling, suited to the theater screen. In particular, the climax's live performance scene introduces new potential in idol anime by seamlessly blending music and drama, offering both laughter and heartfelt emotion.
Oct 2025
Saipul and Jamal are furious when their share of the money goes missing from their suitcase. It turns out Marwan was determined to use the money to buy back their father's house, which was seized by the bank. However, Marwan finds a photo with mysterious numbers written on it in the torn suitcase, which puts the three brothers in a critical situation. It involves a very dangerous businessman, a corrupt prosecutor, and their own terrifying pasts.
Dec 2025
When a mysterious toy company seeks to profit off the turtles' new hero status, the brothers follow the clues to New Jersey and make a shocking discovery in this all new original short.
Mehdi had planned to spend a quiet summer in his in-laws' sumptuous home. But as soon as he arrives, a conflict breaks out between his girfriend's family and the villa's janitor couple. As Mehdi comes from a modest background, he thinks he can lead the negotiations between the two parties and bring everyone back to their senses. But things start to escalate...
A writer touched by tragedy that has prevented him producing a follow-up to his celebrated first novel gains a new perspective on life when he meets a blind woman who is unaware as to who he is.
Ursula and Neda, an East German waitress with a broken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm, both feel trapped and lonely in their precarious lives. One summer evening, Ursula falls for a mysterious musician from the city, while Neda is convinced that she recognized an old friend from Tehran in an equally enigmatic street sweeper. The winding paths of chance draw the two women together on an unexpected ghost hunt in the mountains...
A daughter sets out to find out the truth about the man who was her father, a legendary musician, who died when she was 8 years old. He is Antonio Flores, and she the also famous actress Alba Flores. Alba stopped singing when she lost Antonio and is now determined to recover her voice and her background, asking family members and friends for the first time.
A nanny's hometown return over the Christmas holiday sparks a heartfelt journey of second chances and unexpected romance amidst the adrenaline-fueled world of skijoring.
Blagoje Jovović, a war hero, after World War II moves to Buenos Aires. There he tries to lead a normal life, but an encounter with a man with ustasha tattoo brings up old wounds and desire for vengeance.
An aspiring filmmaker, Raghunath wants to make a film with Marathi superstar Saie Tamhankar as his heroine. What happens when his admiration becomes a dangerous obsession, blurring boundaries?
On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to support herself and her two teenage children. She finds work at a late-night radio show and encounters a troubled teenager named Talulah whom she invites into her home.
May 2022
When Jacob’s wife, Maja, is admitted to a psych ward with severe depression it sets them on a slow descent into a suburban nightmarish hell where Jacob must put his own beliefs and sanity on the line if he wants to save his family.
The Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning, total sell-out, global cult sensation is coming to the Eventim Apollo for its biggest and most spectacular show yet. CLASH OF THE COMICS is an epic, jaw-dropping night in which the biggest names in comedy really – yes, really – step into the ring, to take on each other and some of the UK’s biggest and best professional wrestlers
In the 1980s, a boy named Hajduk moves with his family from a small village to the capitol of Yugoslavia, where he's going to start spreading his way of honor and true values.
Two strangers meet on a layover and fall for one another — but forget to exchange numbers. The next day, they fly to Chicago separately, just miss each other, and “embark on separate quests to find one another."
North Korea, facing international sanctions, seeks assistance from a Hungarian NGO to build churches in Pyongyang as a way to bypass the sanctions.
A year into their marriage, unable to distinguish between toxicity and mere misunderstandings, Sakthi decides to part ways with Siva. The couple navigate their separation, and whether they ultimately proceed with divorce forms the emotional climax.