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When cab driver Ludwig “Wiggerl” Brunner, a true Munich bon vivant, is hit by a streetcar and ends up in heaven, there is only one way back to his beloved Bavaria: he has to improve his karma balance as quickly as possible.
Apr 2026
In the wake of a traumatic incident at a funeral, an aging widow is faced with a bizarre, impossible choice.
A girl just broke up with her boyfriend and needs to talk.
Dec 2026
Father Cyril Nouvel has mysteriously disappeared. Yet it is at his initiative that his brother, Gendarme Louis Nouvel, and his mentor, Abbé Gomis, find themselves gathered at the site of an abandoned old fort. As they set out to search for him in this vast and oppressive place, tension rises between the two men. Even if they cannot admit it to themselves, each knows deep down that he holds a part of the truth.
Jan 2026
Feb 2026
The events deal with the idea of religious extremism and atheism affecting young people and its impact on society.
Dec 2025
A coming-of-age historical fiction story about Pierre Joubert, a diver with depth recovery unit and the first recorded diver to salvage gold off the ship, The Birkenhead.
A stray puppy's adventure transforms lives: helping a child heal, bringing a family together, and causing political mayhem while finding her way home.
Mar 2026
In the near future, a technical diver couple, Ina and Claude, join the crew of an underwater drilling station on a mission to stop a cataclysmic oil spill. While working cut off from the world in extreme conditions, the onboard doctor is infected by a parasitic worm. One by one, the crew members are infected by this tapeworm, which exacerbates its host's most extreme impulses, feeding off their endorphins like an emotional vampire.
Aug 2027
A spin-off from the Abandoned city movie focusing on the mysterious man and his son in the night of the Abandoned city
May 2026
A group of teens set out to the ruins of an abandoned amusement park that burned down fifteen years earlier. The incident is known to have killed two brothers who were trapped inside, but the brothers survived and now haunt the park.
When two low-level criminals scam a vicious London mob and are in over their heads, they flee to rural Greece to avoid the bloody repercussions. But escape isn't that simple.
Revisits the 2010 death of Anastasio Hernández-Rojas, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who died while in custody at the border. When eye-witness video emerges, it sparks a far-reaching investigation from a border checkpoint to Washington D.C. CRITICAL INCIDENT chronicles journalists’, lawyers’, and family members’ efforts to explore the Border Patrol’s involvement in the incident, ultimately pointing to cover-ups, and uncovering the existence of a little-known unit inside the agency that had been involved in other border related incident.
Edgar wakes up in the caravan without knowing how he got there. He discovers that he is at the lake where he spent his childhood. However, the place that created so many beautiful memories does not look the same.
Oct 2026
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.
Nov 2026
In the near future a documentarist captures a great tragedy while making a story about an experimental theatre that uses technology to immerse audience in the consciousness of actors on stage