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A young woman studying far from home, faces heartbreak, she begins to feel lost in life. She decides go back to home in the countryside make her know what is true love
Martynas, a cocky but kind-hearted Vilnius native, loses his driver’s license due to his foolishness and arrogance. Shrugging it off, Martynas once again upsets his pregnant fiancée, who leaves him and goes to stay with her parents. In an attempt to win her back, he embarks on a seemingly ordinary journey to get his license back, during which he meets an instructor at a strange driving school—and an even stranger teacher.
A single mom fights to keep one little promise to her daughter on the absolute worst day of her life.
Emil is spending his summer vacation with his grandmother in Berlin. But on the train there, he is robbed by the ruthless con artist Max Grundeis and a wild adventure begins! Together with his friends Pony, Gustav, Dienstag, Anh, and Jason, Emil sets off in pursuit and embarks on a fast-paced detective hunt across Berlin.
During a book signing in Normandy, Annie Ernaux, 70, revisits her memories of the summer of 1958, when she was 17. That summer, she left her hometown to work as a camp counsellor. At the first party, the head counsellor set out to deflower her. Finding him handsome, she lets him do it, as if against her will... Her body becomes a foreign place for her, an offering to be sacrificed.
A pop diva, kicked out of her own group's reunion tour and slapped with a community service court order, seizes the chance to stage a comeback by coaching a group of misfit teen girls for a major record label audition, only to push them too far, forcing her to confront her toxic industry — and her own streak of self-destruction.
A global catastrophe hits the vaccinated population when the government finally decides to pull the plug on overpopulation.
Filmmaker Jafar Panahi recalls the cinephilia of his youth from the surreal remove of the 2025 New York Film Festival.
A short film exploring the cultural impact of George Michael's 1988 Faith Tour, featuring previously unseen photos and interviews.
As one sister prepares for marriage and the other resists every convention it represents, their fragile bond is tested by love, family expectations, and the question of whether happiness can ever truly be chosen.
Efe’s day begins, Efe’s day ends. While others lose something, everything carries on for him.
Two exorcist priests, Romo Thomas and Romo Rendra, must confront an immensely powerful entity of darkness: the demon Rephaim, born from an ancestral blood covenant. The gripping terror begins when a failed ritual in a remote town in Indonesia unleashes chaos, forcing the church to perform an exorcism to save the souls possessed as a result of a pact for wealth (pesugihan).
Chaos ensues when four university students accidentally submit fanfiction for a major assignment. What follows is an attempt to break into the lecturer's office and delete the file, a spontaneous mission which gradually spirals into mayhem.
Two brothers are roped into a scheme to rob from the rich and give to the poor, only to find their victims are not who they think they are.
A short film by Mari Mantela.
An artist who lost her sight in a tragic accident relies on her caregiver’s descriptions to paint the world she can no longer see, but when her companion mysteriously disappears, she must navigate, on her own, a reality built on her fading memories to find what's hiding within the fog.
