It is the day of the Miss Eternal Grace pageant—the beauty contest popularized by the famous Charlène. Cléo, the heavy favorite, is competing under her mother's tyrannical supervision. But as the evening unfolds and the pressure mounts, something cracks within her, allowing a new emotion to surface.

A seamstress tries to make her grandmother’s impossibly-narrow-waisted-heirloom dress fit. After it refuses to be altered, visions of her grandmother encourage her to alter herself instead.

This year’s gallery of artistically inspiring portraits of uncompromising eccentrics (among them The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld, Robert Richardson: The White Devil and A Pint of Ink) features another unobtrusive stand-out in the shape of Igor Luther, a key figure of Slovak and European cinematography. Ivan Ostrochovský’s perspective is rare, dynamic and also meditative, while Luther himself co-authored the project during the last few months of his life. Works such as Juraj Jakubisko’s Birds, Orphans and Fools, Volker Schlöndorff’s The Tin Drum and Andrzej Wajda’s Danton, in the persuasive words of their creators, wouldn't have the same timeless energy today if it weren't for Luther's visionary endeavours.

"120 beats per minute—at this tempo, twice as fast as the human heartbeat, disco music gets the blood pumping and revs up the libido. In the 1970s, when eroticism took over the silver screen and sex ceased to be a purely private matter, disco became the soundtrack of the sexual revolution. A film about the surprising connections between disco and pornography—and how erotic content increasingly found its way into pop culture.

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The Badger of Ballybog is a comedy mockumentary following the contestants of Ireland’s premier men’s beauty pageant, including five-time reigning champ Little Johnny, legacy entrant Mícheál Milk, competition bad boy Big Daddy, the young and eager Declan Dweeb, international man of mystery Nakamura Ozu, English pariah Paddy Maguire and American folk singer Duke Davis. It’s like the Rose of Tralee, but for lads.

THE PROPHET OF ECSTASY explores themes of art, politics and consciousness through the improbable life of Michael Clegg, the former Catholic priest who introduced MDMA to the world - a drug he would later dub ‘Ecstasy’. The documentary will take viewers on a wild ride, from Clegg’s life as an MDMA drug kingpin, to his present-day transformation as an enlightened yogi. It also examines how the destinies of Michael Clegg, chemist Carina Leveriza, and psychedelics advocate Rick Doblin, are inexorably bound with that of the socio-cultural explosion of MDMA through its epic journey of discovery, criminalization, and re-emergence from the shadows.

A continuous shot tracks a family during their traditional New Year’s Eve throughout the years, when on one night a winning scratch card lands on the table.

After a personal loss, Savannah’s grief begins to distort her perception of reality. As she tries to understand what she is experiencing, her sense of faith, memory, and truth begins to break down.

A neurotic, alcoholic trans man struggles through navigating his social and love life.

(X: @hm0z0) Hisham reflects on his journey from maintenance engineer to actor and writer, revisiting his early days in independent cinema, his successful comedy work, memorable personal stories, football rivalry, and upcoming AI-themed projects, while naming El Ragol El Anab as the work he is most proud of

Between the Caspian Sea and the Strait of Hormuz, through the reanimation of archives and documentary observation, a frenetic plunge into the parallel economies of a region shaped by imperial ambitions and survival instincts.

I couldn't afford to buy marijuana. Then I pretend to smoke any.

After two femme presenting queer women get married on the beach, a group of three cishet men tell them “congratulations.” As the couple thanks the group, the men propose that they have a drink together and that the couple should “go grab their husbands.” Via this stereotypical heteronormative assumption, the wives are transported to a hyper queer affirming world containing queer couples dressed in their wedding best, but before they can join these empowering beautiful humans the wives must defeat their own inner colonial heteronormative insecurities.

A woman's quarter life crisis is exacerbated by the sweltering summer heat.

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to life once again.

He has been staying in the town for three days. He seems to be investigating something, although nobody can tell exactly what. One evening, as he stands by the edge of the lake, she approaches him.

Niki has two kids, two jobs, and no money. After a fire turns her life upside down, her children are placed in foster care. Banned from contact, she assumes a new identity risking everything to stay close to them.