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September 17, 2026

Three Colors: Pan-African

A three-part narrative anthology mapped across the symbolic spectrum of the Pan-African flag, Three Colors: Pan-African explores three distinct stories of contemporary Black survival. In Red: Black Men Don't Cry, directed by Elijah Davis, a college football star (Peyton Alex Smith) faces an id...

September 17, 2026

Tangles

In 1990s San Francisco, Sarah is living her best gay life—her illustration career is taking off, and she’s just started dating a badass new girlfriend—when a trip back to her conservative hometown reveals that her mother Midge has Alzheimer’s. Midge’s vibrant and headstrong personality begins to ...

September 17, 2026

Stand Up

After a night out drinking with friends in Rotterdam ends in a terrible crash, twentysomething Vera wakes in the hospital to discover one of her legs has been amputated. Frustrated and angry, she struggles to accept her new reality until she encounters kindred spirit Xander inside her rehabilitat...

September 17, 2026

Ray Gunn

From Academy Award winner Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) comes this retro-futuristic noir about private eye Raymond Gunn (Sam Rockwell), and a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova (Scarlett Johansson). Set in the gigantic city of Metropia, the story trac...

September 17, 2026

Paper Tiger

In James Gray’s deeply felt and intense drama, two brothers, Gary Pearl (Adam Driver), a tough ex-cop, and Irwin Pearl (Miles Teller), his younger engineer sibling, become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through the dangerous world...

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