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Mali Azulai (38), a bus inspector in Ashkelon, is on the verge of losing her job after a violent altercation with a teenage passenger. When she returns to an empty bus to retrieve the body camera she left behind, she finds an abandoned baby on the floor and decides to take him home. Her brother Shimon (32), a prison guard struggling through a marital crisis, joins her, and the two shut themselves away with the child. His presence stirs the siblings’ shared wound of abandonment, as long-buried secrets come to light. When the baby falls ill and a hospital visit becomes unavoidable, Mali is forced to choose, hold on or let go and face the cost.
Jul 2026
Jun 2026
In the near future, a struggling single mother living out of her car with her young daughter sees a life-changing opportunity when a global online retail giant launches a hiring initiative for people in need. After an unexpected setback threatens her chances, she's offered an experimental alternative that could secure her future, but at a cost she never anticipated.
Teenager Salman and psychiatrist Ahmed are having a conversation that is being watched by the German ambassador. Salman claims to be Syrian and wants to go to Germany, to be accepted to a university. Police are looking for him as he disappeared and his mother reported his disappearance. He and his mother live in poverty. At a physics competition, he was disqualified for the mayor’s son to take the scholarship. This injustice inspired him to make a plan to leave for Germany.
Three years have passed since Joji Uehara lost his father and took over his eatery "Yurie". Despite Joji's impressive culinary skills, his business continues to dwindle. One day, Kim Joo-ri, who came from South Korea to learn Japanese cuisine, arrives at the restaurant by coincidence. Although they clash over their differing values, the two of them gradually become closer as they work together to revive the struggling business. Guided by Kim's charmingly unconventional approach to life, the people around her begin to break free from their rigid minds.
After ruining yet another friendship, Alina finds herself tormented by the fear of eternal loneliness and decides to try to reconnect with Cacá, the only girl she never fought with.
Pata Seca (1828), a man whose back bore the whip marks of his enslavers , whose eyes held the haunted memory of being forced to breed over 200 slave children in order to sustain his master’s plantation. Men broken but unbowed, transformed from field hands into soldiers from the civil war to Vietnam. This documentary weaves together authentic narratives from the 1800s, accompanied by original images and footage, highlighting the significant influence that Black men in uniform had in Hollywood and addressing ongoing relevant issues to date.
Davi, an online motorcycle taxi driver, fakes a wealthy image on social media to attract Grace's attention. Their relationship is opposed by Grace's ex-fiancé, who hires a detective to uncover Davi's true identity. The revelation of the truth triggers a series of misunderstandings, conflicts, and chaos involving both families.
Paris 2007. Elsa, a Peruvian trans woman, is serving a sentence in a men's prison. Sergio, a detainee, makes her his sex slave. Furthermore, the administration refuses her hormone treatment. When Elsa is released, she begins a new life and meets Yena, a young Korean woman who introduces her to Aymeric, her French husband. The attraction between Elsa and him is lightning-fast, calling into question her sexual identity. However, the final obstacle is Sergio. He has just escaped from prison.
Sep 2025
An anxious woman goes about her day as normal, but nothing seems to be going her way.
An amateur sleuth named Morton attempts to uncover the identity of a legendary detective known as “The Eye” during a chaotic and deadly Hollywood luncheon
A forensics professional returns to her childhood home for a weekend of soul-searching only to find mobsters waiting for her with a tempting offer.
In 1971 reporter Alec Shimkin discovers a secret US-led military campaign: Operation Speedy Express. This discovery may reveal war crimes on an immense scale. Yet nobody knows about Alec’s scoop, who went missing-in-action in Vietnam himself. In Alec’s footsteps, Soldier’s Bones searches for Speedy’s deadly echo in the Mekong Delta.
During a tense encounter in a bar bathroom, Bash gets trapped in a time loop with his ex-best friend—and his only hope of escape is to confront what tore them apart.
Naoya and Katsuhiro are boyfriends, new in their relationship. Things are uneven at first—Naoya is open and free while Katsuhiro is cautious and closeted—but nothing compares to the chaos that arrives when Asako, a troubled woman with a history of psychiatric problems, abortions, and casual sex, asks Katsuhiro to conceive a child with her.
Sep 2001
A live-action short film to accompany the DLC of the video game of the same name.
Over the course of a day, from a café to the water’s edge, Hoàng and Hân drift into a detached romance whose reality seems to lie only in the telling, which comes later.
Mar 2026