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In a remote village, over a single day, four characters respond differently to the death of an upper-caste man named Shivaji.
Dec 2025
This documentary offers a rare look at domestic abuse through the concept of coercive control. With exceptional access to hearings in Poitiers, Colmar, and Paris, Karine Dusfour captures the first French trials to address this form of psychological violence. The film shows how coercive control traps partners through constant monitoring, a hidden terror affecting hundreds of thousands of women and children in France.
Nov 2025
Tawa, a rising stand-up comedian, builds her fame on jokes about her estranged father, Pak Keset, a veteran comic whose career collapses as hers takes off. When she reunites with him to find new material, their uneasy collaborations blurs the boundary between performance and personal reckoning, pulling long-buried scars back into the spotlight.
Neuroatypical extroverted Australian Andy charms the introverted elite of the “Happiest Country in the World” and talks himself into teaching at Aalto University in Helsinki. His achievements are praised and Andy acts as the spearhead of Finnish educational projects in Africa, refugee camps in the Middle East and even the Nevada desert for the Burning Man festival. At the peak of his career representing Finland in the Netherlands, Andy is attacked. A head injury causes PTSD and the deal is done. Almost everything possible in the Finnish healthcare system goes wrong and Andy falls through the safety nets of the Nordic welfare state into a “black hole.” Andy receives a bewildering number of different F-code diagnoses and eventually ends up in a closed ward, holding the unofficial world record for the most different F-code diagnoses given to one person.
Jean Valjean is released from prison after nineteen years of hard labor, violence, and suffering. Filled with anger and a deep sense of injustice, he has become a dangerous man who trusts no one and nothing. When he arrives in a small village in Provence, he is repeatedly turned away. Desperate, he unknowingly finds refuge at the house of Bishop Bienvenu, who lives simply, with his sister and a single servant. There, he is surprised by their warm welcome, and his inner demons start to waver. But the temptation to be what society sees in him still haunts him, and he steals the Bishop’s silverware. When the police ultimately catches him, the Bishop forgives him and gifts him the candlesticks. This acts becomes the starting point of Jean Valjean’ transformation into a new man who reclaims his humanity.
Two astro-biologists take care of a flowering pink magnolia on the moon. A renaissance romance grows between them until they receive notice of an incoming solar storm that threatens their secret affair with fire, lust and broken hearts. In the flames, desire and reality blend to revive the memory of the beloved.
In 1998, a group of friends' summer getaway in the Georgia woods turns into a fight for survival when a brutal throat killer crashes their party.
A neighborhood soccer field. Rana and his team feel humiliated by the Brazilians from the neighborhood next door, who have been beating them for a long time. But today they are not going to allow themselves to lose, especially in front of Alba, Rana's ex, who comes out to play against them in a five-on-five game where everyone has something against everyone else. This is the perfect opportunity for the boys from the Polígono X neighborhood to do something they have been waiting for a long time: expel the Brazilians from their neighborhood.
Two young men find themselves stuck alone together at a bus stop only to discover they have more in common than they expected
Lita has been afraid of lizards since she was little. Every summer, he returns to Lagartera, where his family's traditions are deeply rooted. During the celebration of Corpus Christi, while her grandmother dresses her, Lita discovers the roots of her fear.
Aderonke “Ronky-Fella” Faniran, a mother of two and successful real estate mogul, is loved for her generosity. But as everyone around her grows to expect her kindness, she gives until there’s nothing left, neglecting herself in the process.
A once-beloved talk show host finds herself battling alcohol addiction and personal demons that destroy everything she holds dear. On the road to recovery, she must confront her past, repair broken relationships, and rediscover her purpose before she can truly heal.
Amidst the Italian Civil War, two childhood friends, Rocco and Marco, unknowingly reunite on opposite sides of a battlefield.
Two lifelong friends and aspiring musicians begin to spiral downwards as one of them decides to move away to pursue a new career.
Jul 2025
After an unexpected encounter, Fleur and Julian fall madly in love. Soon after Julian proposes, an ambitious, yet challenging idea starts to dawn on Fleur. Slowly but surely, she works out a plan to get married in every country where she and her wife are allowed to do so. Fueled by their love and a rising sense of urgency, they take a leap of faith. After only four marriages, their journey comes to an inevitable, painful halt.
Oct 2025
A documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1972 classic film The Getaway.