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Justin, a brash young lawyer takes a job in Aspen as a Deputy D.A. To make ends meet, he moonlights as a bartender, and shares an apartment with the idealistic Mercedes, a social worker who doubles as a ski instructor on weekends. Sparks fly, but when Justin prosecutes Darla, a widow and favorite social work client of Mercedes, they can kiss their budding romance goodbye. Mercedes takes Justin to task over his strict law-and-order approach, while he simply can't abide her bleeding heart, and hijinks ensue. However, when it appears that Darla is the victim of a much larger conspiracy, Justin and Mercedes must put aside their differences to make sure true justice and mercy are meted out. And they just might find out that they are just opposite sides of the same coin.
Nov 2025
A month after D-Day, a German lieutenant and an American soldier are forced to cooperate to survive in the dunes of Normandy.
Bodies in water, merging, submerging, emerging. Our last summer in Sea Bright; chosen family in a bright sea. My beautiful queer and trans friends, finding heaven on a nude beach, their youth and euphoria captured in amber. Matisse. A rebirth and a return to the source.
Dec 2025
Following a recent breakup, Selva returns to her childhood home. There she meets her mother, with whom she will share a weekend filled with recriminations, complaints, and also moments of understanding. The days they spend together will mark the end of one grieving process and the beginning of another.
A broken heart. A wooden horse. One woman’s rememberance at the water’s edge summons wild steeds to prove that true devotion never washes away
Jul 2025
A journalist embarks on a 40-year quest to uncover the motives of one of the most prolific killers, resulting in 500 hours of secret tapes.
The 45-minute film tells the moving story of Léo Slemett, from his childhood to his rise in the world of skiing. He overcame adversity to pursue his dreams and push his limits. We discover the majestic snow-capped mountains of Chamonix and the incredible challenges Leo faced in his career. We also see how the loss of Estelle and Adèle shaped Léo's life, and how he learned to live with this pain and keep moving forward. This contradiction that high mountains represent for Léo is the central theme of the film.
The mental mess of trying to understand your own gender.
What is the connection between a pension reform and motorcycle racing, between the Louvre Museum and tenderness, between a phoenix and the work of a cinematographer, between abandonment and cruelty, between alcohol and memory? There is this film—woven like an essay, like a journey… or perhaps a journey on trial.
Flo & Joan bring their razor-sharp musical comedy to Sky Comedy. Sweet Release is the musical pair’s latest hour of critically acclaimed songs and comedy. Their unique, sharp-tongued style has taken them around the world and the internet with multiple sell-out tours, millions of views online, and now they are gifting to you one final exhibition of the hit show.
After gaining alcohol-fueled superpowers, Ricardo —a young punk from the outskirts— sets out to change society. But one brutal mistake will ignite an international conflict, with him at the heart of the storm.
Following the death of Amina Filali, a 16 year-old girl who killed herself after she was allegedly forced to marry the man who raped her, a young woman carries a personal investigation into the representation and perception of rape in Morocco. Here rapists are offered to marry their victims as a means to save the "honour" of the family. By liberating the voices of these victims, 475 : Break the Silence gives an unprecedented view of family, the deceit of love, relationships, marriage and honour in urban deprived areas of a country seeking to find its identity between modernity and tradition.
"Bibi and Bobby in the World of Fairy Tales" is a compilation of four favorite and new fairy tales: "The Snow Queen", "Bibi and the Spindle", "Bibi and the Pea" and "Bibi, Bobby and the Wolf (The Three Little Pigs)" which will take children on an unforgettable winter adventure filled with Christmas carols, magic, humor and lessons about friendship and kindness.
Waterloo will now have its own semi-pro men's hockey team, thus expelling the amateur women's leagues from the arena. To avenge their lost ice time, an impulsive hockey player and a ruthless octogenarian—a former derby champion—have a plan: recruit the city's disenfranchised and form an underground roller derby team. With the help of the Women's Club, they will prove that women's sports can also inspire crowds and that sisterhood is the ultimate act of resistance.