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Jul 2026
In late summer 1939, the French learned that Adolf Hitler had attacked Poland. On September 3, France entered the war, twenty years after the carnage of World War I. Although France was considered the world’s leading military power, with a vast empire and a powerful ally in the United Kingdom, everyone was overcome with a sense of dread. Yet the fighting would not begin until May 1940 and would end with France’s defeat in June. How did the French people experience those few months—among the most decisive and darkest in the country’s history?
Jun 2026
When Victoria, a pharmaceutical executive, discovers her long-lost brother Damian is homeless and struggling with addiction, she takes a bold step-secretly administering an experimental drug to help him get back on his feet. All seems to be going well until the drug runs out.
A filmmaker roams around to film the lives of people during the longest day of the year.
"A body horror film about body hair." After being rejected by her stalker for being too hairy, a trans woman spirals into a dysphoric limbo, and the only way out of it is through her own skin.
Aug 2023
May 2026
Akiko, a girl living a hard life after her father passes away and her mother's new boyfriend turns abusive, starts receiving encouraging letters from her 30-year-old-future self. Akiko also starts to get bullied in school, and her teacher Shinomiya tries to help her, but ends up losing her job. Akiko also unearths a story written to her by her father, telling her how he originally met her mother, who was the abused daughter of a politician.
The beginning of summer. Yuka, who has just divorced Haruki after three years of marriage, goes on vacation to a seaside town with her best friend Shina and her boyfriend Dazai. Reunited with Dazai, who she was once in love with, after a long time, Yuka's feelings for him gradually begin to rekindle. Meanwhile, Shina is attracted to Tenma, a poet who lives in the seaside town. Unrequited feelings and a peaceful daily life. The vacation has only just begun.
Two homeless companions discover a magical hourglass with the power to rewind time… but only for ten seconds. They soon realise that this could be an opportunity to drastically change their situation. However, their plan requires two people, and neither one fully trusts the other.
Elinor, a young woman brimming with life and imagination, arrives at Adam’s apartment in Jerusalem, where he lives surrounded by piles of boxes that have sat sealed since his parents died. They plan to travel to his childhood home in Ukraine – a journey Elinor sees as the start of a shared life – but over the night before the flight it becomes clear that Adam cannot leave: not the apartment, not the objects, and not his past. Every object ignites a memory in him, and Elinor is drawn into the stories, spinning them into fantasies of a future together. Yet as the night wears on, the enchanted veneer cracks and the relationship is exposed as toxic and deceptive. By the end of the film, Elinor must choose whether to stay in the relationship as it is, or step out into an unknown world.
Moon travels through a mysterious unexplained world free of adults. Moon meets a scholar turned sage and her translator in a mountain hut, where she tries to understand what is happening, based on a play by Don DeLillo. She meets many others who perform for her, show her a film, give her gifts, show her different possibilities for living. She observes and moves on into an unknown future.
This is a tale, which almost became a true story. It unfolds in the late Eighties and early Nineties, when the country was going through a dark phase both politically and socially a time when turmoil was writ all over the political scape of the nation.
Lola, a young animal rights activist, mysteriously travels to Paris during the Salon de l'Agriculture. As she settles into her hotel room, where nothing works, she calls on the room boy, Felix, a whimsical young man who is having a panic attack on his bed.
What starts as harmless fun with a voice assistant becomes a countdown to destruction when the AI begins predicting a couple's relationship's demise with terrifying precision.
A seemingly perfect couple's life takes an unsettling turn when an unexpected presence enters their world. What begins as admiration slowly spirals into emotional chaos, blurring the lines between love, attachment, and obsession.
A young trainee teacher begins his journey into the teaching profession with hopes and ideals. His convictions are put to the test when he finds himself caught in an emotional triangle involving a female student and a male LGBTQ+ student, both deeply devoted to him. As affection turns into an increasingly complicated bond, he must confront difficult choices between professional responsibility and personal emotions.
During a pregnancy photoshoot, a woman sells her taemong - a baby conception dream - which contains a dark desire triggered by her past.
Driven by her ambition to win a scholarship to study abroad, a college student leads her close-knit group of friends into an abandoned junkyard to film the season finale of their ghost-hunting channel, hoping to create a viral sensation. But what begins as a quest for views soon turns into a deadly nightmare.
Devoted son Tom struggles to care for his elderly mother Mary, whilst battling his own mental health issues. When Mary goes missing, Tom's grip on reality begins to crack.