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Jun 2026
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A groundbreaking VR concert experience to theaters, showcasing a virtual, intimate performance featuring hits like "Bite Me" and "XO (Only If You Say Yes)" in special formats including ScreenX, 4DX, and Ultra 4DX for an immersive, 360-degree experience.
Apr 2026
The series starts with a village boy named Jitu who reaches Virginpur to study. He plans to live at Madam Niwas. There, he sees Rai, a beautiful, intelligent girl, and instantly falls in love with her. But his dream turns into a nightmare when both Jitu and Rai are involved in a kidnapping scandal. Will Jitu and Rai come out of the situation and get into a relationship?
Jul 2026
Haya's convinced she's going to die before thirty, so she's living like it — loud, reckless, completely unfiltered, no brakes. Then one of her stunts goes wrong and lands her in the ER... right into Youssef. A heart surgeon. Calm, controlled, lives by a schedule. The human opposite of her in every way. Naturally, she decides he's her destiny. What follows is chaotic, funny, and a little bit ridiculous — neon nights, strange rituals, the kind of moments you can't plan for. Her countdown keeps ticking. His walls keep cracking. And somewhere in between, they both start remembering what it actually feels like to be alive. A love story for anyone who's ever felt like too much.
Locked in an attic, a neglected little girl escapes into a miniature world full of promise, until she discovers its terrible secrets: behind every shadow lurks a monster.
July 4th, 1976. Two hundred years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, America has changed a lot. Far removed from the original ideals are some individuals. The youth becoming more and more opposed to the "freedom" promised, while others use their power for their own personal gain. It's enough for the Founding Fathers to be rolling in their graves, literally.
Two married couples living next door to each other become entangled in forbidden love. A powerful attraction develops between a special woman and her daring neighbor, with no idea where it will lead.
Davi, an online motorcycle taxi driver, fakes a wealthy image on social media to attract Grace's attention. Their relationship is opposed by Grace's ex-fiancé, who hires a detective to uncover Davi's true identity. The revelation of the truth triggers a series of misunderstandings, conflicts, and chaos involving both families.
Director Wang Jian visits a desolate village at night and learns from an old woman, who has been guarding the ancient village for decades, about a massacre caused by greed: After the villain Hu Rencheng struck a gold vein, poisoned his benefactors, sexually assaulted a young girl, and drowned the witnesses in the lake, he was eliminated by his senior, Uncle De, at the cost of Uncle De's life. Uncle De blocked the spring with his body, and the lake water became clear again. The old woman telling the story is Uncle De's young apprentice who swore to guard this place back then—what goes around comes around, and the guardianship never ceases.
Ines reenacts her sister's wartime abduction through a game of dolls, only to discover that some games are really just memories wearing a disguise.
May 2026
In this sweeping love story that spans three decades of passion, heartbreak, and hope, Nino and Yasmina find themselves drawn together by a magnetic relationship. As they face an impossible choice between love and survival, they must decide if they want to build a family and chart a path to happiness in Lebanon, despite the tragedies ravaging the country.
Told in two semi-fictional acts, this 16mm film serves as an elegy for Europe’s last wallabies — a marsupial animal from Australia, introduced in Scotland in the 1940s. Reflecting on humanity’s enduring urge to record animals, from prehistoric cave art to early cinema, Alasdair Asmussen Doyle links the extinction of species with the evolution of image-making.
A married man and his mistress face a dilemma when their sex tape accidentally captures a mysterious incident they were never meant to witness during their vacation.
In a country dominated by repressive police and institutional powers, The Nebula operates clandestinely at night. To strengthen the Resistance, it reconstructs and revives corpses. Two members embark on a mission to break this cycle of violence.
It’s hard to dislike Mila; at 30, she carries her insecurities close, overanalyses everything, and is much kinder to others than to herself. When her friend cancels their trip at the last minute, Mila swallows her fear and sets off alone for a pole dance camp. Among sculpted dancers, scant costumes, and sky-high platforms, she feels awkward, alien, and instantly out of place.