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MDK Fight Club 2026 was a professional wrestling show presented by Game Changer Wrestling on 4.17.26
Apr 2026
A drama centered on the bond formed between different generations of Saudi women during a journey across the desert to Mecca. When the eldest granddaughter disappears, the grandmother travels to the north in search of the missing teenager.
The twisted story of a woman who is held hostage by her greatest fear, and she must learn to overcome what’s tying her down.
Mar 2026
A group of friends takes a trip to Varkiza, a suburb of Athens, every year.
Openly gay soldier Pavlo and his boyfriend Vlad become a public couple. Constant media attention takes a toll on their relationship. The film follows their year-long struggle to maintain intimacy under the weight of war, distance, and unhealed trauma.
HOMELESS is a documentary that humanizes unhoused people and explores their backgrounds, dreams and struggles to find the way home. The film aims to raise awareness and funds to end homelessness, which is an ever more urgent global challenge: The United Nations Human Settlements Program estimates that 1.6 billion people live in inadequate housing, and the best available data suggests that more than 100 million people have no housing at all.
A short film that explores themes of familial relationships and crime, wrapped in the setting of a second-hand car dealership.
A young contract killer turns murder into a personal brand, inviting a documentary crew along and exposing how violence, content, and ambition feed off each other.
Jeremy and Tom Fidgerald are two conspiracy-minded cousins and beekeepers who believe the company they work for is a front for aliens who are exploiting Earth's resources. Jeremy and his cousin take action on climate change, kidnapping the company's CEO to force her to admit she's an alien and establish contact with their mothership. The short film addresses the exploitation of resources by large corporations and encourages people to take climate action, even though it's not always possible.
Gorizia, 1930. Through the gaze of the cameraman of the Fascist Afterwork Club (OND) we see the regime’s marches and the celebration. By imagining the voice of his thoughts, we delve into his insecurities and his surrender to a silent dissent. The images remain, continuing to tell of a time that has yet to pass.
Other Voices presents a legendary night of music as Foo Fighters bring their stadium anthems to St James’ Church, An Daingean.
United Europe, the Baltic Sea coast. It is the Day of Thanksgiving, the most important national holiday since the denazification of the late 1960s, carried out almost two decades after the end of World War II. A war won by the Nazis. Europeans denounced the crimes of Nazism and took on themselves the blames of the victors.
The Yamazaki family arrives at Akikawa Station and heads into a cicada-filled forest to carry out a mission assigned by Headquarters Chief Tamura. With bug nets in hand, they excitedly begin their search, spotting a praying mantis and later a stag beetle—only to be startled by a sudden “black shadow.” After the scare, they finally find a rhinoceros beetle and celebrate like kids again. Having achieved their real goal of bonding, they spend the rest of the day playing in the river and enjoying a barbecue. Once fully relaxed, the general producer takes on the role of MC, and the group sets aside their characters to enjoy a “real summer vacation” as fellow actors. In the laid-back atmosphere, they share candid memories of joining Unification of Japan (Nihon Touitsu), their fellow Yamazaki members, and their feelings toward the director.
The subtle but persistent feeling of constantly being out of place.
In April 2022, a student at Milbrook High filmed himself committing a horrific act of violence. His phone was seized by police as evidence. Its contents have remained unseen... until now.
May 2026
A young woman struggling with her relationships meets an old friend in her childhood treehouse.
On a quiet day in a small Irish secondary school, one janitor decides that enough is finally enough.