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Nov 2025
Her final university party ended in a twelve-hour blackout. Waking up in her room with a terrifying blank, Mithila is convinced something horrific occurred—and now, trapped by her own fractured memory, she trusts absolutely no one.
It tells how 14 characters travel in a mysterious vehicle that they cannot easily get out of. Along the way, they fabricate about their identity and travel through unreal landscapes on a journey between life and death, sleep and wakefulness. According to the synopsis, "a tragicomedy with no certainties".
Dec 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.
A medical sales rep excels at selling KydoXin, but upon learning of its harmful effects on patients, he faces a moral crisis and must decide whether to challenge the corporate powers behind it.
2025 – Donald Trump was re-elected US president, but he did not make it to the papacy after all. Incidentally, Germany held elections early in the year and Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor without any alternative candidates. So Dieter Nuhr will once again have plenty of material for his satire this year.
David has spent days without sleep, craving someone to talk to. One night, a lost traveler arrives at his door. David insists he stay, and their small talk begins. But what starts as a way to calm his anxiety soon grows into something far beyond his control.
A daughter tries to end her relationship with her volatile mother, but their goodbye unravels into a painfully honest conversation neither expected. In the quiet space between anger and affection, they find a fragile connection worth holding onto.
When a gang shooting leaves her son in a coma, a single mother grapples with faith and morality as she seeks vengeance against the perpetrator.
Over eight spectacular years, these award-winning queens have delivered unapologetically extravagant camp, belly-aching comedy, original numbers, and jaw-dropping looks. Crowned by Entertainment Weekly as "the reigning queens of Christmas," this show is a joyful gathering of community when we need connection most.
Telmen wants one last normal day with his friends before leaving Mongolia, but they’re determined to make it unforgettable.
Mehdi's life lies on a fragile balance. He plays the role of the perfect Algerian son for his mother Fatima, while hiding his relationship with Léa and his passion for French cuisine and wine, which he pursues as a chef at the bistro where he works. But Léa can no longer tolerate his family secrets and demands to meet Fatima. Cornered, Mehdi comes up with the worst possible solution...
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.
We follow several cleaners in their daily battle against dirt. Floors are mopped, toilets scrubbed, a car washed, windows polished and a lawn cleared of leaves. These are everyday, unavoidable and universal forms of cleaning that play an obvious role in everyone’s life. Only here, the setting is highly specific: the car turns out to be a hearse, the lawn a cemetery and the interiors those of a crematorium. The everyday tragedy of cleaning is thus placed in relation to the fundamental tragedy of death.
During a nighttime stroll, Giorgio, a burnt-out painter, encounters the beautiful Emanuelle, whom he makes his new muse. What he doesn't know is that Emanuelle has gotten herself into a dangerous deal with gangsters.
The end of the Tokugawa shogunate, a turbulent era that shook Japan. Were the men who created the new era really heroes?
Freud once said dreams are disguised fulfilments of repressed wishes. Some recurring dreams may have awakened the unfulfilled desires buried deep inside one’s heart. Ceci has passed away at a young age. At night, when her soul wanders and encounters sleepers deep in their thoughts, she will enter their dreams and listen to their hearts. One night, she meets Kate, who is bothered by mundane matters. She finds Kate’s dreams familiar. As she recalls fragments of her memories, can past regrets between the two of them be fulfilled in dreams? The film connects the dimensions of dreams and reality with the girls’ delicate emotions and sings an elegy of lost youth.
When 65-year-old Fatima discovers that her husband has been living a double life in Morocco for the past ten years, her world collapses. Furious and determined not to let fate get her way, she decides to pick up where she left off 50 years earlier, when she was to play Hamlet. Together with her best friends Mériem, Romaissa and Inès, three other grandmothers from Molenbeek, these "Baronnes" are about to make a decision that will turn their lives, those of their entourage, their neighborhood and the whole country upside down.