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When his abusive father is about to be taken off life support, Joaquin avoids the hospital and escapes with his best friend, while his wife Lucia urges him to go say goodbye. Joaquin must decide whether to face the past or keep running.
Jul 2026
An unknown actor from Korea, having lost everything after appearing in pornography, hides away as an online sex worker under the alias "Smile Charles." The painful gap between his inner emotions and his forced expressions breeds an unbearable awkwardness that severs him completely from the world. One day, Mari—a con artist who swindled 2 billion—pierces through the cracks of his isolated life. The uneasy companionship between the slick scammer and the awkward sex worker weaves through Bangkok's humid nights and Ayutthaya's silent ruins, leading Charles to confront the forgotten dreams and phantoms of his past.
During a seemingly ordinary school vacation, eight-year-old Diego struggles to understand why his older brother, Nicco, has suddenly become distant. While Diego clings to the simple rituals that once brought them together, Nicco retreats further into silence, carrying a pain no one around him fully sees. As memories of happier Julys blur with the present, Diego is forced to confront a reality beyond his understanding. Through the eyes of a child, JULY explores the quiet weight of depression, the bonds between siblings, and the small acts of love that can become lifelines in moments of darkness.
Attempting to wash her late older sister’s Hawaiian shirt, locks SUN, 23, in a space between memory and nightmare. Haunted by a tropical monster in a surreal dreamscape, Sun is forced to confront the one thing she has avoided since her sister’s death: herself.
Jesse Bronske runs the melancholy bar Klaus Meine, navigating love, work, and paranoia while haunted by his twin, as daily life and risky plans spiral amid alcohol and obsession.
Jun 2026
A music student’s testimony ignites a feminist uprising on her campus, where protest becomes performance and collective voice becomes an act of resistance.
Aug 2025
A hostage situation occurred at a TV station. The kidnapper K was not after money, he just wanted to terminate the monthly subscription to the TV station.
Eli Manning recruits WNBA superstar Sabrina Ionescu to go undercover at her alma mater, the University of Oregon. Sabrina transforms into Jennifer Scone, an enthusiastic Ducks fan who's attending her first basketball game. She fools coaches, mingles with fans, and shocks the crowd at halftime.
Seokja runs the transgender club Yeobo in Seoul's Itaewon district. Now 68 years old, she has spent her life defying social norms. A young man embarks with her on a journey through her memories and into a world where such norms do not exist.
A simple phone call between two friends.
A superstar Korean actor stranded in Vietnam ends up crossing paths with a sweet, ordinary barista-to-be, kicking off an unpredictable, heart-fluttery romance that shakes up both their worlds.
Oct 2025
Vishwakarma is a photographer whose art is misunderstood by everyone around him. While the world calls him a failure, he finds beauty in capturing life's final moments. As poverty, love, and sacrifice test his marriage with Mala, they are forced to make an impossible choice that changes everything.
Gary and Garry live a tedious life of TV and rigatoni. Until jealousy strikes...
The story of a woman living in a village in the lower Himalayas. In this area, people depend entirely on the forest for their daily needs of firewood, food and water. But the forests have been destroyed by powerful timber traders. And along with the forest, the livelihood of the people has been greatly altered. The women of this region played an active role in the "Chipkow Movement". Sudesha was imprisoned for her protest.
A random Wednesday. A routine office Zoom call. A life forced to start over.
When her daughter goes missing and kidnapped into a world of high-class corruption - a dishonorably discharged mom stops at nothing to find her.