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On Christmas Eve, emotionally distant mother Manuela's six-year-old Iván disappears from a mall. As two Guardia Civil investigators pursue the case, Manuela is driven toward a more unsettling possibility: she may be losing her grip on reality. With no evidence of a kidnapping, the case escalates when authorities uncover her criminal past — and no one claims to remember ever seeing her with a child. As time tightens, Manuela must prove her innocence before it’s too late.
A cruise ship bartender meets a mysterious day drinker, only for both of them to find themselves entangled in a criminal underbelly and connected in unexpected ways.
New York, 1941. When his father mysteriously vanishes at Grand Central, a boy and his new friend must navigate a city crawling with spies to find him and uncover a conspiracy that's bigger than either of them imagined.
A decade after Jallow's sexual relationship with his teacher, Miss Watkins, they meet again and are forced to confront the past they never quite escaped.
A neighborhood Fourth of July celebration is interrupted by a ferociously bizarre anomaly who overpowers a family in order to teach them how to become better people and more compliant citizens.
Taking place as an untold story in the same world as Vetrimaaran's Vadachennai, a man holds a struggling, dark past in the 1990s.
Freelance proofreader Fuyuko's carefully ordered life in solitude begins to transform after meeting Mitsutsuka, a quiet high school physics teacher.
Based on the podcast Prasodjo Muhammad “Nikah Sama Jin” with Sherly Indria (4.8M++ views on Youtube).
The film will explore contemporary emotions, fears, and relationships through intertwined stories, resembling Nevo's narrative style.
Inspired by Asian myths about supernatural bazaars where the living & dead interact. Plot TBA.
a nun sets out on a quest of bloody vengeance to kill the sadistic criminals responsible for her sister's death.
When Pirjo Heikkilä embarrasses herself in public at a charity event, she begins to believe that she needs a change of scenery. Pirjo learns a surprising secret about her family that leads her to Sweden. Pirjo sets off on her journey convinced that her true life awaits her in Stockholm—surrounded by royalty, new friends, and greater human dignity. But the trip turns out to be anything but dignified. She faces one awkward situation after another and an endless need to appear more Swedish than she really is.
A boy who no longer speaks, shaped by a tyrannical father and a mother he both resents and loves, grows up on Japan's northern coast. With nowhere to belong, he returns to seek his father and sets his fate in motion.
After a social media meltdown, a middle aged man embarks on a wild journey to restore his reputation.
In 1994 Vigo, two disgraced police officers team up to rob a local businessman. One is a suspended father on the brink, the other a volatile high-stakes gambler. As their scheme unfolds, their fragile alliance begins to crack.
When a young woman gets the chance to have a conjugal meeting with her imprisoned husband after a long time, she decides to re-experience a romantic time in the apathetic and harsh atmosphere of the prison.
