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Film Country: Sweden

September 17, 2026

Clementine Orange

Angelica has fallen hard for John, a prisoner with whom she exchanges letters and phone calls that have sparked her fantasies of a dangerous, tattooed criminal lover. When John is released on a 24-hour parole, they finally meet face-to-face, and her illusion shatters—the real John could not be fu...

September 17, 2026

The Girl with the Leica

Seeking refuge in Paris to avoid Nazi persecution, Gerda Taro (born Gerta Pohorylle) connects with a group of like-minded artists and left-leaning radicals and, most importantly, with a camera. Merging her activism with her artistry, she joins up with André Friedmann (soon to be Robert Capa) and ...

September 17, 2026

Mariinka

Spanning a decade, this sprawling yet profoundly intimate war-time epic set in the embattled Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine follows several young lives as they adapt to their crushing reality. Natasha, a promising boxing talent, becomes a military paramedic. Angela, who lost her parents at a yo...

September 17, 2026

Animation Shorts: Altered States

The End of the End’s striking style, reminiscent of paper cutouts and puppet shows, mythologizes the journey of a recently deceased woman through her final moments with the five senses she used in life. In two ice creams please, inky 2D animation bleeds into stop motion as two increasingly fever...

September 17, 2026

The End

The absurd, liminal space of the airport just might be the perfect place to await the apocalypse—especially if you’re too absorbed in reality television and souvenir shopping to notice the end is here. Alexander Skarsgård and Noomi Rapace lend their voices to oddly existential animals in this sto...

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