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The Battle of Passchendaele, 1917. For three years the great war has been waging, and the two armies find themselves entrenched along the four-hundred-mile Western Front. At the start of a pivotal allied offensive to break the stalemate, the nine-man crew of a British MKIV Tank set out to destroy a series of heavily defended German bunkers.
In the neon-lit streets of Kolkata, a woman searching for redemption crosses paths with a mysterious bar singer whose past remains hidden. Over the course of a restless day, their lives intertwine with strangers carrying their own conflicts and secrets, until a buried truth changes everything.
In the near future, a grieving man turns to groundbreaking technology to reunite with an AI generated version of his deceased fiancé, but as he delves deeper into their virtual encounters, he notices something is off with her programming.
Two years after moving to the French countryside and seeing hunting banned, Adelaide and Simon discover that living close to nature can be rewarding, peaceful... and unbelievably boring. Desperate to make new friends, they're overjoyed when Bernard's witty, wealthy son Stan and his smart, aristocratic wife Bennie move to town—with kids the same age as theirs. But what seems like a gift from heaven turns out to be a Trojan horse: Stan and Bennie are die-hard coursers, determined to hunt on horseback with their hounds wherever they please. Chaos ensues. The clash becomes a full-blown war as Stan buys up land, bribes the locals, and plans to turn the forest into a playground for the ultra-rich. With help from Bernard and his old hunting buddies, can Addie and Simon rally the villagers and spark a rural revolt to save their peaceful corner of the world?
A wannabe kpop idol meets her famous lookalike.
Morgane wakes up after a sexual assault to the sound of a female voice whispering her name. She tries to seek help and make her way home, but strange occurrences appear on her path. Apparitions of women clothed in identical red sheets, incomprehensible phone calls, and hands reaching out toward her disrupt her journey. Morgane loses control of her body and consciousness, forced to relive the night that sealed her fate. She becomes trapped in a nightmare from which she cannot escape. Her only way out might require for blood to be bled.
Following a suspicious, near-miss doomsday event, an amateur astronomer and a stoned conspiracy theorist turn to Banterbot, an AI chatbot, for answers.
Sex, power, and mischief intertwine as Kira and Nico, two restless caregivers, seek meaning through power games at a nursing home. Their actions blur the lines between playful challenges and abuse, tainting the world they inhabit.
A new purchase opens the door to sexual liberation.
Irma, a woman originally from an indigenous region in Mexico, migrates to the city. As she navigates the streets of this new environment, she engages in a dialogue with herself. With each word, memories of a past life in which Irma was a jaguar roaming the vast Chinantec region start to emerge.
A hybrid film that paints a collective portrait of people who share a strange dimension of time within the silence of the asphalt wilderness – at motels, on the side of the road, and in tire shops, savoring the pure joy of the present moment while longing for loved ones far away.
A lacklustre news broadcast gets hijacked by a series of unrelated clips.
Sadie struggles to find balance as she juggles work, her social life and her erotic fascination with insects.
The grandson of a boxing legend travels to a manor to reclaim his inheritance, but the past has other plans.
An unflinchingly funny satire following three millennial couples whose relationships are thrown into disarray when they descend on a luxury Southern Highlands farmstay for a birthday weekend they'll never forget.
In search of absolution, a grieving man descends into a nightmarish inferno of guilt, fear, and judgment
Benjie's obsession with long-dead Filipino movie star Jaime Reyes leads him to the rooftop where the actor ended his own life. Here, he summons Jaime's ghost for a conversation.
On a cold winter night, Chloé (18), a clerk at her family’s convenience store, stages a fake robbery with her girlfriend Rosalie in order to make off with the money from the store’s safe. The arrival of her uncle Marc (47), whom she hasn’t seen in two years, at the convenience store late that evening throws their plans into disarray. Marc is at the end of his rope. He doesn’t have a penny to his name and is willing to do anything to get his brother David, the convenience store’s owner, to come and see him so he can ask him for money.
