New Movies
Front Row
Up bright and early with their pet in tow, Zohra Bouderbala and her five children are heading to the beach. This is not a drill! In Algiers, the coveted front row spot waits for no one, but it’s not this family’s first time having to beat the summer seaside crowds. The unmotivated and out-of-luck masses who arrive too late will be left to a viewless laze in the sun, the alleged horizon blocked by a fortress of parasols and flowing canopies.
Tango at Dawn
Ji-won, who had cut ties with everyone, takes a job at a factory that provides lodging and meals. She finds her roommate Ju-hee, a girl who dances the Tango all the time, both burdensome and intriguing. Ji-won gets involved in Hyun-woo's accident and feels uneasy as she watches Ju-hee try to take all the responsibility herself.
Hotel Excelsior
A mysterious concierge guides us through stories that unfold in the same room over a century. A Jewish businessman celebrates a lonely family festivity with his daughter. A planned suicide leads to a life-changing encounter. An ageing rock band struggles with their image, and a young woman sees a callboy as her big chance for financial independence.
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A family returns to the house under construction that they abandoned after the father's untimely death. The return coincides with the anniversary of their loss and turns the day into an intimate tribute to their shared life.
Finding Satoshi
At the center of Bitcoin lies the greatest unsolved mystery of the digital age. Who created it, and who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Finding Satoshi presents the conclusion reached after a four-year, evidence-based investigation, drawing on original reporting and rare access to key figures in crypto to uncover the human ideas, motivations, and philosophy behind the code that reshaped global finance.
Two Dads, And Me
Santiago was born prematurely, with little hope of survival and the risk of being forgotten by both his biological parents and a system that rarely guarantees a stable home. The documentary follows Víctor and Fernando, the first gay couple to marry in Baja California, as they face years of discrimination and bureaucracy in their fight to adopt. Their struggle sheds light on thousands of children left in institutions and affirms a simple truth: every child deserves to grow up in a loving home. Santiago’s arrival, "love at first sight", transforms a legal battle into an act of justice and tenderness.
3 Words
What would you say if the world were ending in a few hours? As an asteroid speeds toward Earth, three high school students race against time to confess the truths they've long buried - a girl ready to risk her heart, a son afraid to reveal who he is, and a boy hiding a life-altering secret. But as emotions collide and relationships unravel, their "last words" may change everything - if they're brave enough to say them before time runs out.
Der Runde Tisch
The announcement of the opening of a centre for asylum seekers causes a stir in a small Swiss village.
Drunken Noodles
Adnan, a young art student, arrives in New York to spend the summer in an apartment. He interns at a gallery that exhibits the work of an older, unconventional artist he once crossed paths with. As moments from his past and present intertwine, a series of encounters, both artistic and erotic, open gaps in his everyday reality.
La ahorcada
Rosa Martín, a singer-songwriter known as La Ahorcada, takes her own life in the garden of the man she loved, Fran, who treated her as nothing more than a sexual object. The ghost of La Ahorcada remains in Fran's mansion, refusing to be ignored and determined to teach him a lesson. Her obsession will end up turning the lives of Fran and his family into a living hell.
What The River Knows
For the past several years, a lost Eden drowned under Lake Powell has been re-emerging, revealing the follies of the past and a new way forward for the Colorado River. What The River Knows is a film that explores this unique inflection point in a centuries-long history. At the same time that we are met with the need to redesign our systems of water management in the West, we are presented with the opportunity to restore one of the most stunning landscapes on the planet.
Orangutan
Narrated by Josh Gad, journey high into the rainforest canopy of Southeast Asia where a magnificent and mysterious community filled with playful personalities lives. Witness the exhilarating action, heartwarming encounters, and a closeup look at a stunning jungle teeming with wildlife as the inquisitive adolescent orangutan Indah prepares to leave her family and venture out on her own for the first time.
City of the Dead
Amid earthquakes, accidents, and crimes, Enrique has photographed thousands of dead bodies since childhood, inspired by police and detective films. When a corpse appears inside a suitcase, Enrique becomes involved in the investigation of a secret service agent who is pursuing a serial killer, setting in motion an unorthodox investigation process.
The Party - Die Party (La Prune)
It is June 18, 19**. On this astonishingly hot afternoon, Étienne Pignon is sitting—unusually upright by his standards—at the head of a long, lavishly set table on the shore of a lake, grinning from ear to ear.
Into the Blue
Philippe Croizon, a 26-year-old metal worker at Fonderies du Poitou, had no idea that his life would be turned upside down on March 5, 1994. On that day, the young father received three 20,000 V shocks while trying to dismantle the TV antenna hanging from the chimney of his house in Saint-Rémy-sur-Creuse. After two months in a coma, he woke up with all four limbs amputated. Thus began what he calls his "second life", which has enabled him to overcome his disability, meet his partner, Suzanna Sabino, and achieve some incredible sporting feats, including a swim across the English Channel in less than 24 hours.
Singing of the Evening Stars
Observed by an otherworldly gaze, the modern commercial downtown Los Angeles, immersed in the deepest night, becomes the setting for a sound ritual and visual symphony. Thanks to one man’s dreams, the songs of the many species of birds that once inhabited the area return – back from the time when a river still flowed through it and a native village stood there.
Nous l'orchestre de Paris
How can people play together as one? How can one contribute to something greater than oneself? How can a group cohabitate for decades without falling apart? And what role does the conductor really play? For the first time, cameras and microphones slip among the 80 musicians of the Orchestre de Paris, under the baton of their young prodigy conductor, Klaus Mäkelä. A total immersion to share their experiences, emotion and beauty, at the heart of music in the making.
Lainey Wilson: Keepin' Country Cool
Lainey Wilson redefines what it means to be a modern country star while exploring her struggles and triumphs at a pivotal career moment.
Casi todo bien
Hilario is a frustrated 40-year-old writer, trapped between nostalgia for classic literature and cynicism about the contemporary publishing world. While his novel is rejected by all Spanish publishers, he makes a living selling books at the bookstore La Ménsula and teaching an online writing workshop for older ladies, although his caustic attitude and disdain for sentimental stories only serve to alienate them.
Facing South
The voice we hear comes from far off-screen, thousands of kilometres away from the vistas of Toronto unfolding before us. These are countless voicemails from Colombia left by the director’s loving grandmother.
The Deceptively Simple Need for a Home (on Other People’s Land)
A woman revisits her 14 childhood homes as one might reread a personal diary. The camera, with its static grace, allows the memories to flow. A wall leaks, a tree becomes a friend, a body changes, Diana dies, a mother struggles. Between anecdotes and pivotal events, a political consciousness takes shape: for these homes are built on Aboriginal land.
The Colloquium of the Birds
There was once a group of Peruvian anarchist poets forced into hiding who, during their secret meetings, sought to assume a non-human identity. Drawing on the famous Persian fable of the same name, the filmmaker translates the power of poetry and friendship into images and sound, serving as def iant stances against the established order.
Travelers' Suite
Forms of the universe, rocky landscapes, and a green and lush human-made city. It originates from a dream I had; it is both mine and from a traveler aboard a spaceship. The dream and traveler belong within the universe of my film Fractais Tropicais. Here, the hopeful and utopian human-centric imaginary of space travel and the future, filled with surveillance, control, and illusions, all fleeting like the images a dream can contain.
Les Homards
Surrounded by his best friends for a bachelor party at the family vacation home, Sami runs into a childhood friend who accuses him of abusing her a few years earlier. Throughout the weekend, Sami navigates his own conscience, sometimes misguided, sometimes pushed around by his friends. To recognize the truth, he will have to break through and abandon his shell.
A Fire There
In an isolated village in the high plains of southern Georgia, three lifelong friends from the Armenian community discuss their future.
The Silent Run
Sara and Adam, and their two-year-old daughter, arrive in Belgium illegally, hoping to finally make their way on to England. Crammed together with other hopefuls in the back of a van, fear begins to prevail. Redouane has been a policeman for 20 years. Every night, he and his team hunt down smugglers throughout the busy motorway network. That night, when he and his partner try to force a van suspected of transporting migrants to stop, everything changes.
The Doll
Eastern France, nowadays. Rémi, who has never recovered from a heartbreak, shares his life with a doll called Audrey. But the day his new coworker, Patricia, arrives at his company, Audrey comes to life. The two women will turn Rémi’s life upside down.
The Con Artist
Fanny, 30 years old and pregnant, is exhausted from living with her father alongside Virgil, her partner who’s a master of procrastination. When she stumbles upon a rent-to-own listing for a charming Parisian apartment with vintage appeal, she begins to believe she’s found her chance to finally turn her life around. But the saleswoman, Masséna, is far from fitting the image of a fragile, dying property owner. Determined to seize what she sees as her chance at independence, Fanny launches into a ruthless war against the woman she perceives as a calculating con artist.
Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars
Seventeen-year-old Kellou has been gifted with supernatural powers she does not understand. Her disquiet and uncertainty only change when she meets Aya. It is an encounter with destiny that forges a mystical world where the visible and invisible converge.
A Wishy Washy Man
Dumped by his girlfriend without an explanation why, Cheolsu seeks the help of a psychiatrist who tells him that to reunite with his ex, he needs to break free of the Korean male stereotypes that are holding him back.
Abraxas
Struggling to complete his college thesis, a frustrated environmentalist starts to receive “divine inspiration” which liberates him from writer's block. However, as his ideas intensify, he spirals into a dangerous fixation, crafting an enraged manifesto against techno-industrial civilization.
In Between, a Place
Three Iranian women, filmmakers and childhood friends, explore through filmed correspondence the different paths their lives have taken: remaining in their native country, emigrating or living in exile. Over the course of thirteen years of life, the images examine the notion of home and the relationships that matter.
