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Dec 2025
Nov 2025
From a small apartment in Buenos Aires, disturbing material was recovered. What begins as a simple documentation of everyday life turns into a dark and nightmarish descent. The discovery of apartment 1C was no coincidence… and you shouldn't look at this poster at night either.
When wife Bao Yimeng, full-time husband Song Li, and her younger brother Bao Peng magically swap bodies, they must live each other’s lives—managing work, school, and family—discovering empathy, personal growth, and the true meaning of family before returning to their own bodies.
Single-gender schools allow few chances for campus romance. Will inter-school activities provide the right opportunity? Ryan is both eager and afraid of mingling with the opposite sex after studying in an all-boys school for years. One day his friend Jayden makes him join a mixed choir formed with an all-girls school. There, he meets the enthusiastic singer Carol. Unexpectedly, Cupid’s arrow carries more than love itself. Ryan will also have to face life lessons such as a test of friendship and the unfairness of the school system. The film’s manga-like style and humourous scenes establish perfect comic timing. The innocence and ignorance of youth come alive while the ending suddenly turns into an anti-climax that reveals the bitterness of growing up amidst shattered ideals.
There is no place for fantasies in the life of lawyer Pyotr Bezuglov. His life is nothing but rules, which he strictly observes. One day, his son Vanechka finds the letters that Pyotr wrote to Santa Claus as a child and puts them in the New Year's mailbox. In the morning, all of Bezuglov's childhood wishes begin to come true and not only Pyotr himself is in danger, but also his family and, possibly, the whole world.
When Chotu`s surprise party for his don father ends in tragedy, he inherits the criminal empire and uncovers his uncle Murthy`s deceit. Meanwhile, Kittu, a struggling cab driver pretending to be deaf, becomes entangled in danger after unknowingly helping twin murderers.
A serial killer disrupts a live streaming true crime podcast and challenges the hosts to nightmarish tasks, that expose their darkest transgressions, for the chance to uncover their identity.
Elementary school teacher Michele Cortese is about to start a whole new life. After 40 years of teaching in the metropolitan Roman jungle, he had to move to a village in Central Italy, to teach in a tiny school with just a few children aged 7-10. Struggling to overcome his urban inadequacy, he finds a friendly face in vice-principal Agnese and gradually manages to fit in, thanks to her and their spirited pupils. As everything seems to be falling into place, unwelcome news comes through: the school has failed to meet its student quota for the next year and will soon be shut for good.
Mar 2024
At the center of this social absurdist comedy, filmed like a performance, are beautiful and bold women. They meet men and introduce them to their way of life. The men like where they've ended up and become part of the unique world of their chosen women. "Freedom" is a leftist pamphlet on the immodest charm of the bourgeoisie, made with a love of irony and the excessively free spirit of humanity. This is an auteur film, if only because the author himself periodically appears on screen throughout the story, narrating it to the viewer.
An animated spinoff from the Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, this feature length film compiles the ONA footage from the "Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans – Urðr Hunt" mobile game.
Oct 2025
Work too hard, and stress might crawl out of your head and destroy your room. Pixilation meets plasticine in a stop-motion tangle of mind and matter.
Jun 2025
The story about Tiến, a student with a dream of creating a video game that reaches global standard. Despite judgments and setbacks on his startup journey, the love and trust from his grandmother is the fire that helps him continue to stay strong and turn his dream into a miracle.
Lars Jessen accompanies Robert Habeck during the 2025 federal election campaign and talks to companions from all phases of Habeck's life. He examines the question of how politics functions in the current era and in the context of the eruption of democratic systems.
When Patrick returns to his childhood home in the wake of his father's death, he must escape from the ghost of his father that haunts the East Tennessee wilderness around him.
Nov 2024
When superstar Louis (also known as "Mr Sun" for his golden locks and grand personality) realizes that he is going bald, he embarks on a cosmic journey in which he reevaluates his relationship to his aging body.