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A woman and two young people sit on a mountian overlook above a rugged coastline, gazing at the landscape as the young girl hugs the woman from behind.

September 17, 2026

Everytime

Nine-year-old Melli, her mother, and 17-year-old Lux find themselves tenuously united in grief in the wake of a sudden and incomprehensible tragedy. One year later, the unlikely trio sets out for an island vacation they had postponed following their loss. Over aimless days wandering the sunny sho...

A man stands alone, facing away, in a simply decorated yet elegant room. He has gray hair and wears a blue checkered suit and stares into his reflection in a distant standing mirror.

September 17, 2026

The Loneliest Man in Town

Austrian blues legend Al Cook spends his twilight years in a state of reflection. Surrounded by his treasured possessions—mostly music ephemera assembled over the course of a life in the scene—the widower’s collection brings quiet comfort in a world that seems to have left him behind. When a merc...

A person in black-and-white wears a large hat and a burlap collared shirt, they have their necklace in their mouth as they stare into the distance, tall grasses and an empty sky behind them.

September 17, 2026

Rose

Early 17th century, rural Germany: a mysterious soldier, soft-spoken and marred by a battle scar across his face, arrives in a Protestant village. The odd stranger claims to be the heir to an abandoned farmstead, yet the document he provides to support his claim doesn’t quite convince the suspici...

A man in head-to-toe snow gear faces away towards a vast stretch of snow-covered mountains near dusk. He wears a red coat and harness and carries walking gear as he walks down a snowy road flanked by the mountains.

September 17, 2026

The Ultra Runner

Romanian athlete Tiberiu Uşeriu competes in some of the toughest contests in the world, running, most famously, in the 6633 Arctic Ultra, a 380-mile race that takes its name from its high latitude across Canada’s icy northern terrain. But The Ultra Runner is no extreme sports documentary. While m...

September 17, 2026

Drama Shorts: We’ll Meet Again

When a mixed-race German and Indonesian man visits his sister in Indonesia, he finds himself caught between two identities in “Vaterland” or A Bule Named Yanto. In White Musk, a teen girl becomes her terminally ill mother’s primary caretaker, which creates a new dynamic they both struggle to acce...

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