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Apr 2026
Simon, a struggling documentary filmmaker, enjoys free flights courtesy of his best friend and roommate, Bruce, who works for an airline. However, when Beatrice, a more successful filmmaker, enters the picture and starts dating Bruce, Simon risks flying too close to the sun.
Rahul, a 7-year-old South Asian boy, is teased at school for his traditional food and decides to change himself in order to fit in. Meanwhile, his mother, Deepika, wants to celebrate Holi, a vibrant Hindu festival, with her son.
Mar 2026
When Edie becomes the new caregiver to an extremely rich elderly woman, she soon starts to suspect that someone wants her client dead - and that she's now the only thing standing in their way.
Follows BMX legend and Hollywood stuntman Eddie Fiola's career, personal life, and pursuit of making it to the top in his sport and second career as an elite stuntman on some of the biggest budget movies in Hollywood.
B.P.R.D. sends Hellboy on a mission to save a woman kidnapped by Beleth and his legions of demons.
Mia, 12, is spending her vacation at a lake in the Black Forest with her parents, who have been separated for years, and their new partners. While the adults try to keep things light, Mia escapes more and more often into the forest, where she meets a mysterious boy. On the morning of her birthday, Mia disappears. The fragile family structure is turned upside down and Mia's new freedom becomes increasingly dangerous.
Set against the dim glow of streetlights and the hum of passing sirens, Stay in the Car captures one night in the life of a fifteen-year-old girl waiting in her mother's El Camino and the quiet reckoning that unfolds in the stillness. Based on real events, Stay in the Car explores the fragile line between safety and survival, love and neglect. It invites audiences into a world where survival depends on silence, and one young girl must decide whether to remain in her mother's chaos or step into her own uncertain freedom.
A troubled young woman, an artist and a painter, gives birth to a deformed infant, following an unwanted pregnancy forced upon her. She now has to come in terms with herself, living in two parallel realities.
Nov 2025
A portrait of a relationship between three generations and how it shifts between the search for closeness, understanding and acceptance, as the teenage son steps closer to adulthood. The film continues to follow the lives of Tero and his son Henri, both previously featured in Kärkkäinen’s documentary The Living Room of a Nation.
Set in a Somali neighbourhood in Toronto, teenagers Farah and Halima as they fall in love despite warnings to stay apart because they’re from different tribes. When Farah’s family relocates to Vancouver, the relationship ends abruptly — until they reconnect in their twenties in Toronto. But the same cultural barriers that once divided them soon resurface. Will their love be strong enough to rewrite their fate, or are some histories destined to repeat themselves?
Witnesses, survivors and front-line heroes recall the first days of the Chernobyl disaster of April 1986. Featuring rare archive footage of the world's worst ever nuclear accident.
A group of filmmakers sets out to document an isolated rural community rumored to practice ancient rituals, but their investigation quickly unravels as they encounter something far older and more disturbing than expected.
A feature documentary that explores the legacy of the San Francisco chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a global, secular order of queer and trans "nuns" who combat guilt, shame, and exclusion through joy, humor, activism, and irreverence, serving their communities while challenging bigotry and redefining spirituality.
Bumbershoot is a silent comedy about a hapless man desperate to find an umbrella strong enough to make his life whole.
BAFTA and Grierson award-winning filmmaker Gerald Fox celebrates the centenary of the 'dream film' in cinema and its years of flowering during the silent film period in this kaleidoscopic, stylised documentary.
Kamel, a former boxing champion, swapped fame for a peaceful life with his beloved wife, Samia, and their son, Sabri. But when a simple accident reveals Sabri has a bone tumour, their world is shaken. As their son bravely fights for his life, Kamel and Samia are pushed to their emotional limits. Sabri’s courage inspires, Samia’s hope endures, and Kamel, driven by love and pain, must face his deepest fears. After a painful separation, the family reunites for one final round: a fight not in the ring, but for love, strength, and survival.