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Blues musician Al Cook lives in an apartment filled with memories. Outside, the world carries on without him. But when his home is slated for demolition, out of the ruins of his existence, a long-forgotten dream suddenly resurfaces.
Amy is a devoted social service worker who puts her heart and soul into her job to care for those in need. At home, however, she finds herself confronting new challenges as her beloved father begins to show the early signs of dementia, and she and her mother must begin to make peace with their new reality. Through it all, Amy finds comfort, perspective, and plenty of laughter through sips of wine with her lifelong friend Rosie, whose warmth and wit become a vital anchor as both women navigate the shifting rhythms of approaching middle age.
A meticulously planned desert couples' vacation spirals into chaos when family tensions and a pair of mysterious hosts with devilish intentions transform a romantic getaway into a nightmare.
When a young woman receives mysterious phone calls from her future self, she is given the chance to ask three questions about the life ahead of her. Unsure what to ask or what the calls might mean, she must decide how much of her future she truly wants to know.
A small town legend returns from the dead to serve vengeance on Thanksgiving night.
Jennerwein has barely started his job in Garmisch-Partenkirchen when a Danish ski jumper falls to his death, the president of the Winter Games Committee narrowly escapes an assassination attempt, and anonymous letters announce further crimes. Amidst suspicious villagers and vain local politics, Jennerwein must unmask a perpetrator who craves attention and is playing a deadly serious game.
The school’s cool, prince-like heroine has never questioned her role—until a fellow “Prince” enters her life and sees her as more than a hero, awakening feelings she’s never faced before.
In an intriguing cinematic exercise that straddles fiction and documentary, 'Faderhuset' seeks to bare intricate workings of domination and manipulation, as ex-members of the notorious Christian sect Faderhuset direct scenes with well-known Danish actors, including Trine Dyrholm and David Dencik.
A girl revisits her family and complications arise.
A down-and-out food delivery driver, Josh, and a fiery restaurant worker, Kayla, team up for a comedic and chaotic night of deliveries. Demanding customers, stolen sushi, and the festive mayhem on Christmas Eve push some life back into their lives and get them to dream just a bit more. Set in urban Honolulu, DASHER is a local take on what’s likely a nationwide story for young people living the gig economy – where working long hours just to get by discourages any life beyond the next gig.
A modern re-imagining of the fable of the same name. Three brothers leave their ailing sister in the company of a devout and honourable figure as they are guided by an ambiguous stranger through treacherous terrain in search of a remedy.
In an immersion into the little-known Necropolis upon which the foundations of St. Peter's Basilica rest, we will learn the story of the tomb of the first apostle. The first Pope, the "rock" upon which all of Christianity was built and which has cemented the history not only of the Catholic religion, but of all Western civilization. A fascinating journey through a sacred place that has survived for millennia and whose history is intertwined with the life of the apostle himself and the construction of the Basilica, which in 2026, when Petros Eni arrives in the rooms, will celebrate the 400th anniversary of its inauguration.
Bahar is an acclaimed Iranian director, having made numerous films selected in international festivals. So when she casts actors and asks them to wear women’s outfits for her latest film, they agree in the hope of an international career — or even a visa to leave the country. But wearing skirts and headscarves under the heat is harder than they expected … as is the hit to their pride.
Three friends, Naika, Zhenya, and Alisa, embark on a traditional spa weekend to escape their routine and family roles, but especially their mothers-in-law. Their plans are ruined when Naika's future mother-in-law, Margarita Pavlovna, unexpectedly joins them, and the three friends' escape from reality and everyday life turns into a true test of their friendship. It turns out they all view life differently.
Based on the work from Mariana Enriquez and directed by Pablo Larraín, My Sad Dead follows Ema, who can see and hear the dead. After her mother’s death, Ema receives an unexpected visit from her niece Julie, with whom she shares the same unsettling gift. With Julie’s return, family secrets and wounds that never fully healed will resurface —but so will a strange phenomenon from which no one will emerge unscathed. The entire neighborhood will sense presences and hear the distinctive sounds of their own dead.
A seemingly perfect middle-class Chinese family faces an unprecedented situation when Lei brings a man home on NYE to pretend to be her boyfriend. Her same-sex girlfriend's unexpected visit intertwined her with a real intimacy crisis.
In 2060, after decades of heat waves and water shortages, the government places the elderly in air-conditioned facilities intended to protect them from the heat, but where access to water becomes a means of control.
