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A bride and groom shout and celebrate as they bike along a busy city street, the groom wears an olive suit and the bride a simple wedding dress.

September 17, 2026

Dao

Spanning France, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau, Dao follows a West African diasporic family navigating two major community gatherings across parallel timelines: a modern wedding celebration in the French countryside and an ancestral funeral ceremony for a patriarch back in Guinea-Bissau. With this e...

A man stands in an energetic concert crowd as he stares knowingly into the camera, bathed in orange light.

September 17, 2026

Corpus

It’s a steamy summer in New York in 1998, and the club scene is thriving. Sayo is a nightlife photographer who makes ends meet by selling drugs, and his sometimes-lover, Vince, is a star on the rise. Together with a mutual friend, they hesitantly accept an invitation to a party upstate, but the r...

A young man in a red cap and lots of bracelets performs into a microphone as he gestures to the crowd, the atmosphere is colorful and moody and the lighting is low.

September 17, 2026

Congo Boy

Based on director Rafiki Fariala’s own lived experiences, Congo Boy is an autobiographical coming-of-age musical drama set amid the civil unrest of Bangui, Central African Republic. When both of his parents are suddenly imprisoned for carrying false passports, 17-year-old Congolese refugee Robert...

A woman with blonde hair smiles warmly, looking off into the distance.

September 17, 2026

A Common Story

After dropping off their beloved daughter (and only child) Irene at university, Erika (Alba Roherwacher) and Mauro (Guido Caprino) return to their small-town home. Slipping back into the quotidian routines that have stitched their lives together, from morning coffee rituals to suppers together, n...

A young man and woman stand against a chain link fence in bright sunlight, the young man looks down as the woman thoughtfully gazes ahead.

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...

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