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Peaches Goes Bananas and Queens
Bob Trevino Likes It (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Tracie Laymon; Writer: Tracie Laymon; Stars: Barbie Ferreira, John Leguizamo, French Stewart, Lauren 'Lolo' Spencer, Rachel Bay Jones)
After searching for her estranged father online, a people-pleasing young woman unexpectedly forms a close bond with a grieving, childless man with the same name as her father on Facebook. Inspired by a true story.
Daniela Forever (Country: Spain, US, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Nacho Vigalondo; Writer: Nacho Vigalondo; Stars: Henry Golding, Beatrice Grannò, Aura Garrido, Rubén Ochandiano, Nathalie Poza)
Follows a man as he joins a sleep trial that allows him to rebuild his life with his girlfriend who died in an accident through the use of lucid dreams.
Ebony And Ivory (Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Jim Hosking; Writer: Jim Hosking; Stars: Sky Elobar, Gil Gex, Carl Solomon)
Two musical legends gather at a Scottish cottage on the Mull Of Kintyre for a tense summit to discuss a potential collaboration that will ultimately result in a global number one smash hit single.
Ghostlight (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson; Writer: Kelly O'Sullivan; Stars: Dolly De Leon, Katherine Mallen Kupferer, Keith Kupferer, Tara Mallen, David Bianco)
When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.
Hill (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Alex Holmes; Stars: Damon Hill, Georgie Hill)
A documentary about F1 champion Damon Hill and his fellow F1 champion father Graham, who died in a plane accident went Hill was a teenager.

McVeigh and The Return
Kill The Jockey (El Jockey) (Country: Argentina, Spain, United States, Mexico, Denmark; Year: 2024; Director: Luis Ortega; Writer: Fabian Casas, Luis Ortega, Rodolfo Palacios; Stars: Úrsula Corberó, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Mariana Di Girólamo, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Roly Serrano, Luis Ziembrowski, Daniel Fanego, Roberto Carnaghi, Osmar Núñez, Adriana Aguirre)
A jockey embarks on a new identity after an accident but a mobster is on his tail.
The Luckiest Man In America (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Samir Oliveros; Writer: Maggie Briggs, Samir Oliveros; Stars: Paul Walter Hauser)
McVeigh (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Mike Ott; Writer: Mike Ott, Alex Gioulakis; Stars: Alfie Allen, Brett Gelman, Ashley Benson, Anthony Carrigan, Tracy Letts)
Over days and nights, McVeigh eats, sleeps, watches the news, meets a girl… all while inside his mind brews an unthinkable plan that will forever change the collective American psyche.
Peaches Goes Bananas (Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Marie Losier; Stars: Peaches, Suri Nisker, Marlene Saldana)
From sold-out concerts to family moments with her parents and sister, the passage of time brings loss but also provides liberation for an artist whose body is a canvas for artistic expression.
Planet B (Planète B) (Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Aude Léa Rapin; Writer: Aude Léa Rapin; Stars: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Souheila Yacoub, Eliane Umuhire, India Hair, Marc Barbé, Paul Beaurepaire)
France, 2039. One night, a group of activists pursued by the state vanish without a trace. Julia Bombarth is one of them. When she awakens, she finds herself trapped in an entirely unfamiliar world: Planet B.
Ghostlight Ghostlight
Ghostlight and Kill The Jockey
Queens (Reinas) (Country: Switzerland, Peru; Year: 2024; Director: Klaudia Reynicke-Candeloro; Writer: Klaudia Reynicke-Candeloro, Diego Vega Vidal; Stars: Susi Sánchez, Gonzalo Molina, Luana Vega, Jimena Lindo, Abril Gjurinovic)
Lucia, Aurora, and their mother, Elena, plan to leave Lima in 1992 and seek opportunities in the US. Their farewell involves reconnecting with the kids' estranged father, adding to the emotional turbulence of their departure.
Red Path (Country: Tunisia; Year: 2024; Director: Lotfi Achour; Writer: Lotfi Achour; Stars: Eya Bouteraa, Wided Dabebi, Latifa Gafsi)
The Return (Country: Italy, UK; Year: 2024; Director: Uberto Pasolini; Writer: John Collee, Edward Bond, Uberto Pasolini; Stars: Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Charlie Plummer, Marwan Kenzari, Claudio Santamaria, Ángela Molina)
Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca after returning from the Trojan war.
Some Nights I Feel Like Walking (Country: Philippines, Italy, Singapore; Year: 2024; Director: Petersen Vargas; Writer: Petersen Vargas; Stars: Jomari Angeles, Argel Saycon, Tommy Alejandrino, Gold Aceron, Miguel Odron)
When an old man dies the sex worker he was with decides to fulfil his last wish.
Went Up The Hill (Country: New Zealand, Australia; Year: 2024; Director: Samuel Van Grinsven; Writer: Samuel Van Grinsven; Stars: Vicky Krieps, Dacre Montgomery, Sarah Peirse)
When the estranged son of a woman who has just died arrives at her wake, he and her former partner find themselves alternately possessed by the dead woman while they sleep.
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