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In A Whisper and La Gradiva
9 Temples to Heaven
(Country: Thailand, Norway, France, Singapore; Year: 2026; Director: Sompot Chidgasornpongse; Stars: Amara Ramnarong, Surachai Ningsanond, Jirawut Chiwaruck, Yaneenan Jiraphatjittrin, Klaichan Phunman, Sompop Songkampol, Sirapop Sanhabhakdi, Yada Karnjanisakorn, Nichmon Shintadapong)
A family of nine takes their grandmother to 9 temples in 1 day, hoping to prolong her life. But the trip takes an unexpected turn.
Ah Girl
(Country: Singapore; Year: 2026; Director: Geck Geck Priscilla Ang; Writer: Geck Geck Priscilla Ang; Stars: Ong Xuan Jing, Sydney Wong, Doreen Toh, James Seah, Carrie Wong. Benjamin Heng)
A curious 7-year-old girl lives in a small flat with her younger sister, her easygoing father who works nightshifts, and her irritable grandmother. One weekend, her drunk mother asks if she wants to live with her when she gets a bigger flat.
Al Baraneya
(Country: The Netherlands, Egypt, Belgium, Saudi Arabia; Year: 2026; Director: Ashgan El-Hamus; Writer: Roelof Jan Minneboo, Ashgan El-Hamus; Stars: Reem Amer, Fatma Ibrahim El-Hamus, Nadia Ahmed El-Hadary, Asmaa Ahmed El-Hadary, Farida Alsayed El-Hamu, Fatma Farahat El-Hadary, Sara Ali El-Hadary, Alsayed Mohamed El-Hamus, Mostafa Noureldin)
Drama focused on a pregnant young woman and her family in a village just outside Cairo.
Atonement
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Reed Van Dyk; Stars: Boyd Holbrook, Hiam Abbass, Kenneth Branagh)
Based on a 2012 New Yorker article about a Marine who seeks to reconcile with the survivors of an Iraqi family victimised by his unit years earlier.
Ben’imana
(Country: Rwanda; Year: 2026; Director: Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo; Writer: Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo)
A female survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide finds her stability rocked when her teenage daughter becomes pregnant.
A Man Of His Time and Fjord
Black Church Bay
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Rhys Marc Jones; Writer: Rhys Marc Jones; Stars: Joe Locke, Tom Cullen, Marli Siu, Rakie Ayola, Ifan Huw Dafydd, Aneirin Hughes, Julian Lewis Jones, Celyn Jones, Iwan Charles, Morfudd Hughes, Gwen Ellis)
A school teacher must deal with the aftermath of the disappearance of one of his students.
Black Money For White Nights
(Cherni pari za beli noshti)
(Country: Bulgaria, Greece; Year: 2026; Director: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov; Writer: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov, Decho Taralezhkov; Stars: Tanya Shahova, Margita Gosheva, Ivan Barnev, Ivan Savov)
After years of saving money from the small bribes they collect, 60-year-old Marina and her husband Gosha from Bulgaria are preparing for their dream trip to St Petersburg to witness the White Nights. But when Russia invades Ukraine and the travel agency vanishes with all their savings, the couple’s dream collapses.
La Bola Negra
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2026; Director: Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo; Writer: Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo; Stars: Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes, Lola Dueñas, Penélope Cruz, Glenn Close, Lorenzo Zurzolo)
Drama exploring the inter-connected lives of three gay men.
Bollywoof
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Frederik Du Chau; Writer: Mark Huckerby, Stephen Leslie, Nick Ostler; Stars: Danny Ashok, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Olivia Colman, Rhys Ifans, David Jonsson, Ambika Mod)
An English springer spaniel gets lost in the streets of Kolkata.
Caity
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Lindsay Calleran; Writer: Lindsay Calleran; Stars: Chiara Aurelia, Morgan Spector, Zach Cherry, Michelle Mao, Jordan Hull, Olivia Rouyre, Emily Shaffer, Christian Lees, Jonah Lees)
Every Halloween, 16-year-old Caity runs her family's haunted house alongside her father, whom she idolises. As a new spooky season starts, Caity juggles a new crush Hannah, the arrival of twins Liam and Sean to work at the haunt, and her father's tenuous sobriety.
Lady and Josephine
Congo Boy
(Year: 2026; Director: Rafiki Fariala)
Tale of a teenage refugee, whose musical dreams face challenges in the Central African Republic.
Conversation With The Sea
(Hiwar ma’ albahr)
(Country: Palestine, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Qatar; Year: 2026; Director: Muayad Alayan; Stars: Kamel El Basha, Amer Hlehel, Bahira Ablassi, Maria Zreik)
In Jerusalem, Kamal, a 60-year-old Palestinian man, is ordered by an Israeli court to pay a large social security debt allegedly owed by his son Wael. But Wael drowned in the Red Sea decades ago. When no official record of his death can be found, Kamal follows the only remaining lead to uncover what happened to his son.
Coward
(Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands; Year: 2026; Director: Lukas Dhont; Writer: Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens; Stars: Valentin Campagne, Emmanuel Macchia, Jonas Wertz)
Soldiers try to keep their hope alive on the frontline in the First World War.
Dao
(Country: France, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal; Year: 2026; Director: Alain Gomis; Writer: Alain Gomis; Stars: Katy Correa, Katy Correa, D’Johé Kouadio, Samir Guesmi, Mike Etienne, Nicolas Gomis, Fara Baco)
A wedding in Paris and a ceremony in Guinea-Bissau are intertwined in this consideration of family and heritage.
A day In The life Of Jo: Chapter Phaedra
(Country: Greece, Romania, France, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Jacqueline Lentzou; Writer: Jacqueline Lentzou)
Jo, melancholic, wild and only 15 feels shy to listen to music she truly likes, yet with Phaedra’s etheric song, her heart skips a beat and all quietly shifts. It's a day of changes.
Ink and Memorizu
The Debut
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Jesse Eisenberg; Writer: Jesse Eisenberg; Stars: Julianne Moore, Paul Giamatti, Halle Bailey, Havana Rose Liu, Jesse Eisenberg, Cara Buono, Bernadette Peters, Lilli Cooper, Colton Ryan, Maulik Pancholy, Eldar Isgandarov, Bonnie Milligan, Patrick Fabian, Danny McCarthy)
A shy housewife is unexpectedly cast in a local am-dram original musical. Under the spell of the strong-willed and enigmatic director, she loses herself in the role.
The Education Of Jane Cumming
(Country: Germany, Switzerland, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Sophie Heldman; Writer: Flora Nicholson, Sophie Heldman; Stars: Flora Nicholson, Clare Dunne, Mia Tharia, Fiona Shaw, Sadie Shimmin, Stephen McCole)
Edinburgh, 1810. Two female teachers find themselves at the centre of a scandal.
Elephants In The Fog
(Country: Nepal, Germany, Brazil, France, Norway; Director: Abinash Bikram Shah; Writer: Abinash Bikram Shah)
In a small Nepalese village nestled in the heart of a forest populated by wild elephants, Pirati is the matriarch of a community of transgender women. But when one of her "daughters" disappears, she must choose between love and responsibility to her community.
Elsinore
(Country: Italy, UK, US; Year: 2026; Director: Simon Stone; Writer: Stephen Beresford; Stars: Andrew Scott, Olivia Colman, Billie Piper, Johnny Flynn, Luke Thompson, Peter Mullan, Monica Dolan, Juliet Stevenson, Joe Locke, Adeel Akhtar, Matthew Beard, David Dawson, Kadiff Kirwan, Dickie Beau, John Hollingworth)
Account of Ian Charleson’s life, capturing the moment when he faced his own mortality as he prepared to play Hamlet at the Royal National Theatre.
Everytime
(Country: Austria, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Sandra Wollner; Writer: Sandra Wollner; Stars: Birgit Minichmayr, Tristán López, Lotte Keiling, Carla Hüttermann)
A tragedy brings a mother, daughter, and teenage boy together.
Black Money For White Nights and Al Baraneya
Filipiñana
(Country: Philippines, Singapore, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands; Year: 2026; Director: Rafael Manuel; Writer: Rafael Manuel; Stars: Jorrybell Agoto, Carmen Castellanos, Teroy Guzman, Carlos Siguion-Reyna, Isabel Sicat, Nour Houshmand)
Tee girl Isabel feels strangely drawn to Dr. Palanca, the president of the country club where she works. However, after piecing together a violent picture of what lies beneath the club’s pristine surface, she realizes that what began as an innocent infatuation is actually rooted in a sinister shared history.
Fjord
(Country: Romania, France, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden; Year: 2026; Director: Cristian Mungiu; Writer: Cristian Mungiu; Stars: Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Giulia Nahmany, Ingvild Lien, Turid Vatne, Alin Panc, Emilie Hetland, Sofie Vartdal)
Mihai and Lisbet Gheorghiu, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, move from Romania to Norway with their children to be closer to Lisbet’s family. But tension mounts when one of the children arrives at school with bruises.
Flies
(Moscas)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2026; Director: Fernando Eimbcke; Writer: Fernando Eimbcke, Vanesa Garnica; Stars: Teresa Sánchez, Bastián Escobar, Hugo Ramirez)
Olga rents out a room to a man whose wife has been admitted to a hospital nearby. However, the man has a nine-year-old son he has been sneaking into the room, which leads to Olga’s carefully controlled world shifting as their lives become intertwined.
La Gradiva
(Country: France, Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Marine Atlan; Writer: Marine Atlan, Anne Brouillet; Stars: Antonia Buresi, Julie Sokolowski)
A group of French high-school students travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius. There, they are drawn into a dizzying descent.
Heysel 85
(Country: Belgium, Romania, Netherlands, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Teodora Ana Mihai; Writer: Teodora Ana Mihai, Lode Desmet, Isabelle Darras; Stars: Matteo Simoni, Violet Braeckman, Josse De Pauw, Ben Segers, Fabrizio Rongione, Bobby Schofield, Jeroen Van der Ven, Dominique Dauwe, Jonathan Sawdon, Emanuela Ponzano, Pieter Verelst, Julian De Backer, Aran Bertetto, Michel de Warzee, Bruno Georis)
Dramatic reconstruction of the tragedy that unfolded during the 1985 European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus at the Brussels stadium.
Filipiñana and I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
Ink
(Country: 2026; Year: 2026; Director: Danny Boyle; Writer: James Graham; Stars: Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce, Claire Foy)
Drama charting Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of The Sun newspaper and its upturning of the landscape under editor Larry Lamb in 1969.
In A Whisper
(A Voix Basse)
(Year: 2026; Director: Leyla Bouzid; Writer: Leyla Bouzid; Stars: Marion Barbeau, Eya Bouteraa, Hiam Abbass, Feriel Chamari)
Lilia returns to Tunisia for her uncle’s funeral and reunites with a family that knows nothing about her life in Paris, especially not about the woman she loves.
Iron Boy
(Le Corset)
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Louis Clichy; Writer: Louis Clichy, Franck Salomé; Stars: Alexandre Astier, Dimitri Colas, Gary Clichy, Brune Moulin, Rod Paradot, Aurélie Vassort, Jean-Pascal Zadi)
When a young boy is forced to wear an iron corset for health reasons, he has to reinvent his life on his family farm, discovering friendship and a new passion for music. Animation
I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming
(Country: Germany, Ukraine; Year: 2026; Director: Isabelle Stever; Writer: Anna Melikova; Stars: Tania Myronyshena, Markus Bright, Iryna Mak, Viktor Zhdanov, Maiia Sobolevska, Maria Myronyshena, Oleksandr Rudynskyi)
The love of Olya and Oleh, a young queer Ukrainian couple, is put to the test when one partner’s
gender transition collides with Russia's full-scale invasion.
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
(Country: UK, France, US; Year: 2025; Director: Clio Barnard; Writer: Enda Walsh; Stars: Joe Cole, Anthony Boyle, Lola Petticrew, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack, Millie Brady, Lucie Shorthouse, James Eeles)
Childhood friends Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli, and Conor played together, skipped school together, and dreamt of the lives they would have one day. Now they’re thirty, and the future they imagined is slipping quietly out of reach.
Minotaur and The Red Hangar
Josephine
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Beth de Araújo; Writer: Beth de Araújo; Stars: Mason Reeves, Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan, Philip Ettinger, Syra McCarthy, Eleanore Pienta, Gretchen Klein, Nate Duncan, Tracy Todd, Grace Kelly Quigley, Malcolm Engel)
After 8-year-old Josephine accidentally witnesses a crime in Golden Gate Park, she acts out in search of a way to regain control of her safety while adults are helpless to console her.
Lady
(Country: United Kingdom, Nigeria; Year: 2026; Director: Olive Nwosu; Writer: Olive Nwosu; Stars: Jessica Gabriel's Ujah, Amanda Oruh, Tinuade Jemiseye, Binta Ayo Mogaji, Seun Kuti, Bucci Franklin)
In the sprawling African metropolis of Lagos, a fiercely independent young cab driver meets a band of radiantly reckless sex workers whose sisterhood pulls her into danger and joy, setting her on a journey toward her own transformation.
A Long Winter
(Country: UK, Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Andrew Haigh; Writer: Andrew Haigh; Stars: Fred Hechinger, Caitríona Balfe, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Kit Connor, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, David Furr, Susan Serrao, Anthony Timpano, Geoff Gustafson, Camille Sullivan, Martin Freeman)
Returning to his childhood home deep in the mountains, Mike is drawn back into the quiet rituals of family life as the clan prepares for the winter ahead.
Look Back
(Country: Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda; Writer: Hirokazu Kore-eda, Hirokazu Kore-eda; Stars: Natsuki Deguchi, Aju Makita, Fuuri Nanase, Rokka Okada, Masaki Suda, Kankuro Kudo, Kayo Noro, Ryo Ikeda, Miyu Sasaki, Maho Yamada)
Fujino, a gifted and determined teenager, is confident in her talent as an aspiring manga artist while the reclusive Kyomoto rarely leaves her room, devoting herself entirely to drawing. Brought together by their shared passion, the two small-town girls pursue their dream of becoming manga artists.
A Man Of His Time
(Notre Salut)
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2026; Director: Emmanuel Marre; Writer: Emmanuel Marre; Stars: Swann Arlaud, Sandrine Blancke, Mathieu Perotto)
Historical drama set against a backdrop of Vichy France as a man strives to help France's renewal.
The Debut and The Education Of Jane Cumming
Master
(Country: Bangladesh; Year: 2026; Director: Rezwan Shahriar Sumit; Writer: Sabbir Hossain Shovon, Rezwan Shahriar Sumit; Stars: Nasir Uddin Khan, Azmeri Haque Badhon, Zakia Bari Momo)
A once popular, idealistic teacher and activist gets elected an undergoes a dramatic change after he is caught up with a proposal to replace a slum with a luxury resort.
The Meltdown
(Country: Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Germany, Spain, France, US; Year: 2026; Director: Manuela Martelli; Writer: Manuela Martelli; Stars: Saskia Rosendahl, Jakub Gierszał, Paulina Urrutia, Mauricio Pesutic, Roberto Farías, Maia Domagala, Maya O’Rourke)
A young woman in early 90s Chile befriends a skier staying at her grandparents resort. But then the European goes missing...
Memorizu
(Country: Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Miiku Sakanishi; Writer: Miiku Sakanishi; Stars: Tasuku Emoto, Moeka Hoshi, Issey Ogata, Yuu Kashii, Masayo Umezawa, Hiroko Isayama, Yusuke Narita, Fusako Urabe)
A man goes to help his photographer father-in-law, who has fractured his leg, in a rural town, keeping in touch with his wife and young daughter via spontaneous phone snaps and videos.
Minotaur
(Country: France, Germany, Latvia; Year: 2026; Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev; Writer: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Simon Lyashenko; Stars: Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva, Varvara Shmykova)
A high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence begins to unravel.
Mouse
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Kelly O’Sullivan, Alex Thompson; Writer: Kelly O’Sullivan; Stars: Sophie Okonedo, Katherine Mallen Kupferer, Chloe Coleman, Tara Mallen, Iman Vellani)
When two girls' friendship is upended one forms a complicated relationship with the other one's mother.
A Long Winter and Rose
Our Share Of Sand
(Country: India, UK, Greece; Year: 2026; Director: Shalini Adnani; Writer: Shalini Adnani; Stars: Maya Mehta, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Ellora Torchia, Krish Raj More, Ravi Patel, Jyoti Dogra)
After years apart, 12 year-old Maya returns to India with her mother to reunite with her father - a sandmining businessman. Immersed in a world where labour, legacy and extraction collide, she forms a fragile bond with Kiran, a young worker. After a tragic event, a police investigation turns Maya into a key witness.
The Red Hangar
(Hangar rojo)
(Country: Chile, Argentina, Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Juan Pablo Sallato; Writer: Luis Emilio Guzmán; Stars: Nicolás Zárate, Boris Quercia, Marcial Tagle, Catalina Stuardo, Arón Hernández)
As the military coup unfolds across the country, Captain Jorge Silva – the former head of Air Force Intelligence – is torn between duty and conscience.
Red Rocks
(Les roches rouges)
(Country: Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland; Year: 2026; Director: Bruno Dumont; Writer: Bruno Dumont; Stars: Kaylon Lancel, Kelsie Verdeilles, Louise Podolski, Mohamed Coly, Alessandro Piquera, Meryl Pires)
On the French Riviera, two gangs of kids compete in their favourite game: jumping off the red cliffs of the Mediterranean. Géo, barely five years old, discovers over the course of a summer a world where friendship blends with rivalry, and where the first stirrings of the heart become a source of tension.
Rose
(Country: Austria, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Markus Schleinzer; Writer: Markus Schleinzer, Alexander Brom; Stars: Sandra Hüller, Caro Braun, Marisa Growaldt (voice), Godehard Giese, Maria Dragus, Augustino Renken, Robert Gwisdek, Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Rainer Egger, Maurice Leonhard, Bastian Trost)
A woman disguises herself as a man in 17th Century Germany.
Sad Girlz
(Chicas Tristas)
(Country: Mexico, Spain, France; Year: 2026; Director: Fernanda Tovar; Writer: Fernanda Tovar; Stars: Rocío Guzmán, Darana Álvarez, Tatsumi Milori, Tomás García Agraz, Mónica del Carmen, Raúl Villegas, Lucio Lemus, Luisa Almaguer, Andrea Jiménez Camacho, Áyax, Óscar Lever, Mario Flores, Héctor Kuri Hernández, Daniel Aranzubia)
La Maestra and Paula are the best swimmers in their team and best friends, until an incident at a party changes everything. La Maestra, intense and unstoppable, realises that something in her best friend has changed, making her sad. When the truth comes to light, the two are faced with an impossible decision: Paula wants to keep quiet about it, while La Maestra wants revenge.
Tender Loving Care and Iron Boy
Shana
(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Lila Pinell; Writer: Lila Pinell; Stars: Eva Huault, Noémie Lvovsky, Sékouba Doucouré, Palachandiran Thyshaant, Inès Trabendo, Agnès Host, Ines Anane, Jacky Abdillah, Lalla Rami)
Shana is 25, and after yet another disappointment with a boyfriend, she decides to get on with her life. But when she misses her grandmother's funeral, everything goes haywire.
Six Months In A Pink And Blue Building
(Seis meses en el edificio rosa con azul)
(Country: Mexico, Brazil, Denmark; Year: 2025; Director: Bruno Santamaría Razo; Writer: Bruno Santamaría Razo)
Mexico City, early 90s. The day Bruno turns 11, his growing feelings for his best friend Vladimir clash with the sudden announcement that his father has HIV. Like in salsa songs, his family tries to sing and dance their pain away. Thirty years later, Bruno films and reimagine the memory of what he could not quite perceive as a child.
Take Me Home
(Year: 2026; Director: Liz Sargent; Writer: Liz Sargent; Stars: Anna Sargent, Ali Ahn, Victor Slezak, Marceline Hugot, Shane Harper, April Matthis, Shannon DeVido, Eric Diaz, Steve Way, Naida Nelson, Nikki Christie, Jim Findlay, Dominique Brown, Robert Sargent, Sean Liang)
Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting one another’s needs. When a Florida heat wave shatters their family and Anna’s routine, her future is uncertain until she creates a world where she can thrive.
Tender Loving Care
(Country: UK, US, Singapore; Year: 2026; Director: Mike Leigh; Writer: Mike Leigh; Stars: Kate O'Flynn, Alice Bailey Johnson, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson)
In contemporary London, social workers Amy and Rosie navigate the stressors and joys of life together, be that work, family or messy dating lives.
Variations On A Theme
(Country: South Africa, Netherlands, Qatar; Year: 2026; Director: Jason Jacobs, Devon Delmar; Writer: Devon Delmar, Jason Jacobs; Stars: Hettie Farmer, Gladwin van Niekerk, Magdalena Links, Regan Nontas, Albertus Smit, Helen Jacobs, Jason Jacobs, Elton Landrew)
When Ouma Hettie falls victim to a scam promising reparation for her father’s unpaid service during the Second World War, her family becomes more involved that she would like them to.
Coward and Elsinore
Words Of Love
(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Rudi Rosenberg)
Details coming soon
Zejtune
(Country: Malta, Germany, Qatar; Year: 2026; Director: Alex Camilleri; Writer: Alex Camilleri; Stars: Michela Farrugia, Nenu Borg, Michael Azzopardi, Frida Cauchi, Sean James Sutton)
A young woman set on leaving Malta meets an aging troubadour whose music reawakens a love for the country she is determined to escape.
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