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The near future of the outbreak of the new HIV virus. One day Seong-han, who has a child through artificial insemination, visits Young-sook after being called by her.
Zohar, a young dancer, arrives in Berlin to visit her best friend Shira. She meets Gillen, an insecure German poet, and together with Shira’s boyfriend, the four form a friendship that, for a moment, makes anything seem possible. But as the bond between Zohar and Gillen deepens, the bubble they have built around themselves begins to unravel. When a violent incident reveals sides of each other, they had never seen before, the two refuse to let go. What begins as an attempt to repair their relationship, culminates in an intimate and extreme event that will change them both. An intimate portrait of young people searching for belonging and meaning in the world, struggling with the gap between fantasy and reality.
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.
It’s hard to dislike Mila; at 30, she carries her insecurities close, overanalyses everything, and is much kinder to others than to herself. When her friend cancels their trip at the last minute, Mila swallows her fear and sets off alone for a pole dance camp. Among sculpted dancers, scant costumes, and sky-high platforms, she feels awkward, alien, and instantly out of place.
A married man and his mistress face a dilemma when their sex tape accidentally captures a mysterious incident they were never meant to witness during their vacation.
Paani follows a heartfelt story of two brothers torn apart by militancy, loss, love, and painful social traditions.
Over two summers, between city streets and forest paths, young art student Adnan has a series of unexpected intimate encounters.
Caught between a rock and a hard man, long-time loser Dante finds himself embroiled in a gruelling endurance contest in order to pay back a debt. As time runs out, he must decide whether to keep running or face his problems head on.
A casual game of Jenga between Rigsy and Dearden becomes the battleground for a simmering argument neither of them can keep stacked.
Shigeo Takahashi, a video director tasked with creating a tourism PR video for Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, arrives for a 3-day, 2-night shoot with his rookie AD Maika and a cameraman. However, disaster strikes immediately when they accidentally knock out their client, city official Natsumi! Fearing their careers are over if caught, Shigeo forces Maika to pose as Natsumi to keep the shoot going. But the chaos only escalates when they knock out the person inside the city’s mascot costume next! As the crew desperately relies on lies and cover-ups to get by, the peaceful tourist destination gradually devolves into a bloody, chaotic brawl. Can Shigeo and his crew survive the trip and actually finish the PR video?!
Told in two semi-fictional acts, this 16mm film serves as an elegy for Europe’s last wallabies — a marsupial animal from Australia, introduced in Scotland in the 1940s. Reflecting on humanity’s enduring urge to record animals, from prehistoric cave art to early cinema, Alasdair Asmussen Doyle links the extinction of species with the evolution of image-making.
A group of teens are trying to make a horror short film for a summer class but they cant get it right.
Sasha, 20, returns to her family’s sun-soaked home in the south of France with her friends—her first visit since her older sister’s death. What begins as an idyllic summer escape slowly curdles into something far more suffocating.
A tale inspired by traditional craft, about the Saudi bisht as a symbol of identity, pride, and dignity, and its journey from the hands of craftsmen to global stages.
The first night of G1 Climax 36 took place on July 11, 2026, at the NOW Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, marking the first time since 2019 that New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) opened its annual round-robin heavyweight tournament in the United States, and was headlined by an A Block match between Konosuke Takeshita and Yota Tsuji.
When anything's on the menu, a condemned inmate's request becomes the prison's worst nightmare.
A global poultry pandemic sets the stage for a wealthy tech tycoon to attempt to relaunch a failed fast-food empire using lab-grown synthetic chicken. Things go horribly wrong when these artificial food supplies unleash a wave of mutant chicken zombies.
