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Elon Musk wearing a black jacket and pants with a large belt buckle stands with his arms raised in front of an American flag lifted by construction cranes, a light blue sky in the background and a saluting crowd with flags and signs.

September 17, 2026

Musk

From Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) comes an unflinching examination of one of the wealthiest, most controversial, and unchecked figures of our time. Tracing Elon Musk’s rise during the dotcom bubble of the 1990s to his corporate ascent in the 2000s, when he found...

A young woman with brown curly hair lies back in a hospital bed holding up her shirt, a man and a woman lean over her, the man is a doctor with a clipboard skeptically looking at her stomach, the woman is older in patterned clothing and looking at the young woman with concern.

September 17, 2026

Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant

Mary is a depressed slacker living at home with a mother who lacks boundaries and spending her days under the covers with tentacular erotica. Her new neighbor, Boo, is her mirror image, an antisocial adult living with his mother and spending most of his time locked in his room. As luck would have...

A man, woman, and their son sit at a long wooden dinner table at night, behind them is a dark forest seen through large windows. They converse among their plates of food and wine glasses, the teen and woman happily interact as the man at the head of the table sits tensely with his hands folded at his mouth.

September 17, 2026

Minotaur

Gleb, a middle-aged businessman, lives comfortably in modern-day Russia with his wife and teenage son. On the surface, the blissful family personifies success: he has a prestigious and powerful job, they own a luxurious home in the woods and enough money to indulge a penchant for fine dining. The...

A woman in army fatigues sits pensively on a dilapidated truck staring off into the distance at sunset, overgrown brush and metal fences surround her.

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...

A woman sits in the back of a truck smoking a cigarette with her eyes closed, she has bright red hair and wears a light pink tank in the early evening framed by a tree and a stone wall.

September 17, 2026

Marie Madeleine

Following up her acclaimed debut Freda, Haitian filmmaker Gessica Généus directs and stars in Marie Madeleine, tracking the sensual interior life of a fiercely independent sex worker in Jacmel. When her path crosses with Joseph, a young man trapped under the thumb of his fanatical father and an a...

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