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Stuck in the bonds of sleep paralysis, a Woman struggles to escape as a creature lurks in the corner of her bedroom.
Jul 2026
A film about the painful and unrequited love of a young girl, Masha, for an aging actor, Seryozha.
An elderly shepherd takes on big business when he becomes the only holdout against property developers building a luxury resort in his tiny Sardinian village.
Oct 2025
Set against the backdrop of modern society swirling with the need for self-affirmation and codependency, this psychotherapy thriller depicts the unraveling of an ordinary couple's life after they embark on a bizarre "hobby."
Jun 2026
Paid Mourners follows a family of professional mourners, where the unique trade is passed down through the women of the household. 16-year-old Margo, however, has other plans. A rising TikTok star, she has no interest in continuing this decidedly unglamorous tradition. Her resolve is put to the test when her grandmother, Bavo, announces she has only one week to live. With Margo’s mother absent, the responsibility of inheriting the family legacy falls squarely on her shoulders. Determined to pass on the mantle, Bavo has only seven days to help Margo prepare her for the role she was born to take.
Sergio, who has traveled to Utrecht with his family to attend a soccer match, suffers a panic attack just before taking the flight back to Barcelona.
Apr 2025
Special feature from Criterion’s release of Desperate Living, where writer-director John Waters tours the Baltimore location that served as the site of Mortville, the twisted penal colony inhabited by fugitives, outcasts, and deviants – including hysterical housewife Peggy Gravel and her fed-up housekeeper – and presided over by the despotic Queen Carlotta.
On a bustling footbridge separating Argentina and Paraguay, where people traffic all kinds of things in a mix of Guarani and Spanish, we meet Angel. Over the course of the next ten years, Angel will have to make decisive choices for his future.
Tummy Tom’s favourite toy is Bear. One evening, when Tummy Tom is sleeping, Bear goes missing. Tummy Tom and his best friend Cat Mouse start looking in and around the house. But in order to find Bear, they decide to leave their garden and discover a new world with new friends. Together, they manage to find Bear.
Jun 2024
This short improvised fiction film is affectionately called Yugantar’s ‘hit’ film. In the midst of the very active autonomous women’s movement in India, Yugantar collaborated with the research and feminist activist collective Stree Shakhti Sanghatana, provoked by an urgency to broaden discourses and political practice on domestic violence. Through an intense period of a consciousness raising style sharing of their own varied and multi-layered experiences of domestic violence, members of both collectives created a script that focuses on isolation and depression while also developing a complex female character in the process of articulating her situation and finding support in female friendship.
Feb 1983
Have you ever felt incredibly alone in the world? Have you ever suspected that everything around you is unreal? Ah Zhi is a strange young man who spends his spare time searching for evidence that this world is a virtual world. He spends his spare time searching for proof that this world is a virtual one, until the appearance of a quirky girl named Xiao Yi, who makes him almost give up on the search for the truth. Through the fast-igniting love between Ah Zhi and Xiao Yi, life seems so romantic and real. But is Xiao Yi an NPC in a virtual game or the perfect lover in real life, and can they live happily ever after in this world? ......
As time explodes, it leaves Debris. Check it out. The new film 'Corduroy Plants. (C) 2026 Shakey Pictures, Inc.
Through photographs, home videos, letters and personal recollections, Ester Geislerová composes a portrait of Japanologist, translator, journalist, educator, calligrapher—and her father—Petr Geisler, a charismatic charmer who remained mysteriously elusive even to his closest family.
In a future ruled by algorithms, Sam (22), a young architect, undergoes a job interview with a strict AI interviewer. A series of failed interviews leaves him trapped within algorithmic standards that grow increasingly absurd and inhuman. In his efforts to adapt to the system, Sam is forced to change his way of thinking and suppress his humanity, until he gradually loses his sense of self.
Tasha, a college student, finds herself caught between Layson, a devoted hockey player who loves her, and Aaron, who is only using her. As loyalties are tested on and off the ice, she has to decide who truly has her heart.
Poet, performer, and local legend Eva Hrubá is a woman of contradictions, sparking both devotion and public outcry. This documentary dives into her dual existence of vibrant joy and silent suffering. Moving beyond her reputation as the "eccentric lady on a purple bike," the film explores how she transforms loneliness into art and pain into a shared celebration of life. The film explores the world of a remarkable woman, seeking the boundary between her persona as an author and her performance.