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Sacha Gallo is a 21-year-old tennis prodigy whose life is strictly controlled by his demanding father. Obsessed with winning his first major title in Paris, he trains relentlessly under the intense sun of the French Riviera.Everything changes when a new, magnetic rival arrives on the professional circuit. The fierce athletic competition between the two young men rapidly shifts into an electric, sensual attraction. They spark a secret and passionate gay romance that directly challenges the high-stakes, hyper-masculine world of elite sports.As the pressure mounts, the young athlete finds himself torn between his lifelong obsession with victory, his father’s rigid expectations, and an irresistible queer desire that forces him to redefine his entire identity.
A man struggles to stay strong after a painful divorce, moving through his days with a quiet loneliness that no one notices. This PSA explores how a single moment of genuine care can change everything for someone who feels forgotten.
Amziah King, beekeeper, musician, and anchor of his community, reunites with former foster daughter Kateri after many years apart, and fends off threats to his honey business.
November 1943, German-occupied Belgium. In the face of grave danger if caught, the Independent Front, a Belgian resistance organization, publishes a spoof edition of Le Soir to satirize the German occupiers and the nation’s main propaganda-controlled newspaper. Le Faux Soir is considered the first act of media hacking in history.
Stitch is tasked with looking after Scratch, a cat Lilo has found but Scratch has more similarities with Stitch than meets the eye.
After a misunderstanding, a famous strength athletics trainer accidentally finds himself at the position of training an elite dance squad, creating a conflict of interests which only increases after his protege Sashko falls in love with Milana, one of the the dance squad's most talented members. Will the two sides use their strengths to work together or will this match made in Hell crash and burn?
Wealthy merchant Stanislaw Wokulski falls tragically in love with beautiful yet vain Izabela Lecka. His unfulfilled love leads to many foolish decisions sealing his fate.
WISHFUL THINKING follows Julia, an ambitious game designer, and Charlie, a struggling musician, who are at a loss for how to repair their volatile relationship. After attending a couples-therapy seminar run by mysterious twin healers, they find that the ups-and-downs of their relationship have supernatural effects on the world around them. With earthquakes, the stock market, and entire nations at risk, Charlie and Julia must confront whether their passionate love can survive amidst so much chaos.
Jason Statham in the role of a lifetime, playing global action superstar Jason Statham. Plot TBA.
After a jewelry heist, a father and son are on the run from the police. They find refuge in a coach full of people with disabilities who are on their way to a holiday camp in the Alpine foothills with their carer. Without further ado, they pretend to be a missing fellow passenger and his carer.
An intuitive self-portrait and esoteric geographic exploration of the filmmaker's astrocartography line of Venus and Midheaven in Los Angeles, a prominent point in her birth chart for creativity and harmony. With each version of herself comes a distinct relationship with the city and cinema, and each version shares an unavoidable fate: the passing of her grandmother.
Fresh parents Karl and Emilie are looking forward to a weekend at a seaside hotel, where they plan to announce their child’s name and thus officially welcome him to the world. A day before the celebration, however, Karl’s mother Vibeke shows up, with whom he hasn’t spoken in several years.
Seven unemployed friends move into a cursed mansion and discover a mysterious coin. Using it in planchette sessions for quick cash, they awaken ancient forces. Now spirits and occultists hunt them as dark secrets emerge.
A live Action/CGI hybrid film. Plot TBA.
Zheka is a war veteran from a small southern town who fixes cable TV and occasionally raps at local weddings. Returning to civilian life, he is completely alone and sees no prospects for his own future, until he learns that he has an 8-year-old daughter he never knew about.
Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas was born a Caribbean slave in 1762 and beat the odds by rising through the ranks to become a revolutionary French general. The son of a nobleman, Marquis Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, and an African slave, Marie-Cessette Dumas, he became the first and highest-ranking Black leader in the French military and served under Napoleon Bonaparte. But despite his many exploits, which earned him the nickname of “Black Devil,” his role in the French Revolution was underplayed and he was even denied a full pension and legion of honor by Bonaparte.
