ONE SWEET HOUR
A FILM BY/ Declan Recks
WITH/ Gary Lydon, Brían F. O’Byrne
COUNTRY/ Ireland
2026 / 107min / Drama
An ageing Elvis impersonator finally faces up to his demons as he travels through the Irish midlands with his long-lost brother, who has recently quit his life in a monastery.
FAMILY INSTINCT
A FILM BY/ Maurice Hermet
WITH/ Éric Caravaca, Jérémy Lopez, Alice Dufour COUNTRY/ France
2026 / 76min / Real-time Dramedy
What begins as a simple introduction quickly spirals into a night of reckoning when Julie invites her two ex-boyfriends to dinner to meet Christel, her new girlfriend. As old wounds resurface and tensions rise, the evening takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of Julie’s mother—and a life-changing announcement about plans to have a child. Confined within the walls of a single apartment, one dinner is enough to shatter unspoken truths, expose buried resentments, and redefine the fragile balance of this modern blended family.
HUNKY JESUS
A FILM BY/ Jennifer M. Kroot
COUNTRY/ US
2026 / 85min / Documentary
For 45 years, the San Francisco–based Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have wielded humor, irreverent wit, shock value, and radical joy as tools of resistance, exposing the forces of bigotry, complacency, and guilt that chain the human spirit. A secular order of queer and trans nuns devoted to community service and ministry, the Sisters’ annual Easter celebration, Hunky Jesus, is as subversive, controversial, and fun as it sounds.
RIHANA
A FILM BY/ Chandran Rutnam
WITH/ Vidhushika Ramaraj, Jeremy Irons
COUNTRY/ Sri Lanka
2026 / 90min / Drama
A 17-year-old girl from Sri Lanka goes to work in Saudi Arabia to support her family. She ends up in a job she never signed up for. A trial she doesn’t understand. A sentence beyond her comprehension. Will a group of human rights activists from around the world, led by London law professor Julian Miles (Jeremy Irons), be able to save her?
HER FIRE
A FILM BY/ Lou-Brice Léonard
WITH/ Jean-Baptiste Durand, Mélanie Martinez
COUNTRY/ France
2026 / 93min / Drama / Debut film
On the Mediterranean coast, Bic, a solitary artist living in the dim garage of a housing project, sketches the hidden desires and forbidden bodies of the city. When Ornella, a mysterious Venetian woman tracing the scandalous shadows of her mother’s past, drifts into the neighborhood, their paths intertwine through art, desire, and long-buried secrets.
Drawing becomes their language, to rehabilitate the memory of silenced women.
TIME AMONGST OLIVE TREES
A FILM BY/ Fany de la Chica
COUNTRY/ Spain
2025 / 63 min / Documentary / Debut Film
Returning to her Andalusian roots, Fany de la Chica chronicles
the life of olive farmers across a decade, transforming a story
of olive oil into a poetic exploration of memory, climate change,
immigration, and the struggles of rural Europe.
BLACK BUTTERFLIES
A FILM BY/ David Baute
COUNTRY/ Spain, Panama
2024 / 83min / Animation, Documentary
Tanit, Valeria and Shaila are three women from very different parts of the world who face the same problem: climate change. They will lose everything because of global warming effects and they will be forced to emigrate to survive.
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KAÏROS
A FILM BY/ Jennifer Alleyn
WITH/ Emmanuel Schwartz, Olivia Palacci, Elsa Guedj
COUNTRY/ Canada
2026 / 90min / Comedy, Drama
After a year of filming abroad, Manu, a once prominent actor, returns to his hometown. He’s keen to get back to work, but getting back into the business isn’t as easy as he thought. Against all odds, he lands a job hosting a nightime call-in radio show. His listeners are from all walks of life. Manu gradually appropriates this space, this gathering of mixed voices, to pose the philosophical questions that plague him. He finally feels useful. His life takes on new meaning.
AMIR, MY LITTLE PRINCE
A FILM BY/ Julien Cadieux
COUNTRY/ Canada
2026 / 75min / Documentary
Amir My Little Prince tells the story of Dounia, a mother who has made it her mission to transform her destiny and that of her son Amir, who suffers from a rare genetic mutation that affects barely a hundred children worldwide. Together, they set off on a trip from Canada to Vietnam, passing through Tunisia, France, and Colombia. This journey becomes both a reason to live and an invitation for society to embrace its differences. Unable to say the word “mom,” but hungry for life and flavors, Amir embodies the glowing fragility of childhood.
WISHFUL BEGINNINGS
A FILM BY/ Mikael Schutz
WITH/ Nagisa Morimoto, Isaiah Hodges, Dominic Gould
COUNTRY/ France
2025 / 88min / Film Noir, Thriller / Debut film
Leaving her precarious past behind, Ridley joins her new partner in a faraway city. But her plan falls apart when he seems to be avoiding her. Hindered, Ridley is helped by her best friend Jean who slowly goes silent. Wondering who she can trust and weakened by her insomnia, Ridley must figure out the trap she’s drawn into, putting at risk her fight for her son’s custody.
ANORGASMIA
A FILM BY/ Jon E Gustafsson
WITH/ Mathilde Warnier, Edward Hayter
COUNTRY/ Iceland, Canada, Czech Republic
2025 / 92min /
After a failed attempt at a hostel luggage room hook up, Sam and Naomi think they will never see each other again. When a volcano erupts, grounding all flights, they suddenly find themselves stranded – together.
In a stolen car, the pair embark on a quest to capture the first images of the eruption. The ensuing road trip into the Icelandic highlands uncovers their vulnerabilities as they navigate their fears of commitment, the weight of their secrets and the thrills of connection in a world where they can no longer swipe left.
ANA + YEK (ME + YOU)
A FILM BY/ Zohra Benhammou & Romy Mana
COUNTRY/ Belgium
2025 / 85min / Documentary / Debut film
Ana + Yek (Me + You) follows twin sisters Sanaa and Zohra. What begins as Zohra’s exploration of their Moroccan heritage gradually reveals the shifting dynamics of their relationship, as Sanaa’s deepening love for Islam becomes more apparent. The film unfolds as a journey of mutual understanding — a cinematic dialogue fueled by their desire to connect.
MORLAIX
A FILM BY/ Jaime Rosales
WITH/ Aminthe Audiard, Samuel Kircher, Mélanie Thierry
COUNTRY/ Spain, France
2025 / 120min / Drama
Gwen is in her final year of high school. Her mother has just passed away. She lives in Morlaix, a small town in Brittany, France. Midway through the school year, Jean-Luc, a sophisticated, cultured, and magnetic Parisian, arrives in Morlaix. Intrigued by his poetic personality, Gwen finds herself irresistibly drawn to Jean-Luc. One day, Gwen and her group of friends go to the movies and discover a film whose plot seems like a reflection of what the young woman is going through. Watching the film, it’s obvious that Gwen will choose young Jean-Luc. Their story is brief, intense and disrupted.
EXIT MEDEA
A FILM BY/ Tony Paraskeva
WITH/ Loren O’Dair, Jonny Liron, Tom Lyall
COUNTRY/ UK
2025 / 78min / Experimental Horror Tragedy / Debut film
EXIT MEDEA envisions the Greek myth of Medea as a horror road movie. Torn between loyalty to her family, and her love for Jason, Medea attacks her father and flees with Jason to unknown lands. Medea’s brother pursues them. When Jason betrays and abandons her, she is driven to the ultimate act of vengeful destruction.
UNSEEN PICTURES
A FILM BY/ Avril Tembouret, Vladimir Rodionov
COUNTRY/ France
2025 / 71min / Documentary, Classics / Debut film
Alexandre Trannoy might be the most intriguing filmmaker you’ve never heard of.
This 1960s filmmaker is said to have worked with icons like Marlene Dietrich, Marcello Mastroianni and Stanley Kubrick. But none of his films were ever completed, and all the rushes have mysteriously disappeared.
Is he a legendary filmmaker or just a legend? With the help of Trannoy’s renowned collaborators—Claude Lelouch, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Claude Carrière—a young filmmaker pieces together the enigma of his life and elusive work.
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
A FILM BY/ Philippe Prouff
WITH/ Lucas Englander
COUNTRY/ France
2025 / 96min / Indoor Road Movie / Debut film
What on earth am I doing here? This is the question Nicolas, a friendly, whimsical and disillusioned French author in his thirties, asks himself when he lands in the New Mexican town of Truth or Consequences. At first, all he wanted was to answer, without quite believing in it, an unexpected call for help sent out by an old man from his retirement home, whom he knew nothing about…
PAUL & PAULETTE TAKE A BATH
A FILM BY/ Jethro Massey
WITH/ Marie Benati, Jérémie Galiana
COUNTRY/ UK
2024 / 108min / Black Comedy, Romance / Debut film
Paul & Paulette have a charming but unusual friendship and flirtation that grows around a dark game… They visit the sites of historical crimes to recreate moments in the lives of victims and perpetrators.
For Paul, the game is a way of getting closer to Paulette.
For Paulette, it is a way of escaping her own pain, and processing her traumatic family history.
Through the game and this new relationship, they both find ways to overcome and reinvent themselves.
POISON
A FILM BY/ Désirée Nosbusch
WITH/ Trine Dyrholm, Tim Roth
COUNTRY/ Luxembourg, The Netherlands, UK
2024 / 89min / Drama / Debut film
Poison is a love story about a couple reunited years after tragedy drove them apart. Their brief but intense meeting will bring simmering pain and resentments to the surface but will be a reminder too of cherished intimacies and the love they once shared.
KING BABY
A FILM BY/ Kit Redstone & Arran Shearing
WITH/ Graham Dickson & Neil Chinneck
COUNTRY/ UK, Canada, France
2024 / 92min / Dramedy, Fantasy / Debut film
A modern fairytale plays out in a crumbling kingdom populated only by a King and a Servant. The arrival of a “Queen” throws their carefully constructed world into chaos.
MAOUSSI
A FILM BY/ Charlotte Schioler
WITH/ Charlotte Schioler, Moustapha Mbengue
COUNTRY/ France
2024 / 75min / Romantic Comedy / Debut film
Babette unexpectedly finds herself sharing her small Parisian apartment with Edo, a Congolese refugee. When Maoussi, an escaped lab mouse makes an appearance, their lives are turned upside down as they try to navigate cultural misunderstandings and conflicting expectations, about what love and parenthood are supposed to look like nowadays..
THE VIRGIN AND CHILD
A FILM BY/ Binevsa Berivan
WITH/ Hêvîn Tekîn, Laëtitia Eïdo
COUNTRY/ Belgium
2024 / 81min / Drama / Debut film
Avesta, a young Kurdish-Yazidi woman and ISIS survivor, winds up in Brussels to wreak vengeance upon the man who enslaved her.
Between a struggle for justice that sees her revisit her darkest hours, and having to mother an unwelcome child, Avesta fights to be heard whatever it takes.
BEST SECRET PLACE
A FILM BY/ Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel
WITH/ Sania Halifa, Vimala Pons, Idir Azougli
COUNTRY/ France
2023 / 61min / Drama
“Within my walls, many people are taking a break. Waiting to live.” One night, Sara wakes up in an unknown place. Soon she realizes she is not alone. Many folks, gamers, spirits, murals, a nightwatcher… coincidentally find themselves together in this secret place every night. In the course of their wanderings, they each reveal a flaw, a solitude, a shared sadness that offers light, and enchants this hidden place.
GRANDMOTHER’S FOOTSTEPS
A FILM BY/ Lola Peploe
WITH THE VOICE OF/ Charlotte Rampling
AND WITH/ Clare & Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci
COUNTRY/ France
2023 / 64min / Documentary / Debut film
An intimate portrait of a singular female artist told by her granddaughter who goes in search of her footsteps. The discovery of a talented painter, a modern, free and daring woman.
PANDEMONIUM
A FILM BY/ Quarxx
WITH/ Hugo Dillon, Arben Bajraktaraj, Ophelia Kolb, Manon Maindivide
COUNTRY/ France
2023 / 95min / Horror
After realizing he has died at the scene of a car crash, Nathan descends into the depths of hell, where he is doomed to experience the pain of tortured souls along the way.
PORTRAITS OF DANGEROUS WOMEN
A FILM BY/ Pascal Bergamin
WITH/ Tara Fitzgerald, Yasmin Monet-Prince, Jeany Spark
COUNTRY/ UK
2023 / 95min / Comedy / Debut film
The lives of three women collide on a country lane at the scene of a road accident. A dog has been run over and killed. With no owner in sight, the women decide to deal with the corpse together, and begin to forge unlikely friendships.