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Summer 1996 – Minato, a 10-year-old boy, is neglected by his alcoholic father and keeps to himself at home in a town by the sea. His only source of solace is Ben-chan, a girl goddess that appears on Benten Island. As Minato faces a new life in an orphanage and a painful parting from Ben-chan, he makes a wish to Shiranui for her. However, growing hatred toward his father gradually turns the wish into a malicious "curse" against him…

Daeng Sarro, the owner of a mortuary supplies business, asks his children and grandchildren to come and stay at his house in a remote village after his wife dies, until the mourning period is over. However, due to urgent matters, Rahma must return to the city, while her children remain at home. Day by day, various mysterious events begin to haunt Daeng Sarro's grandchildren.

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Gun-woo, drowning in a failing business, meets Yo-sup, a mysterious boy who lives in dreams, and glimpses a future that lets him win big on a sports bet. While searching for Yo-sup again, he crosses paths with Min-a, a guarded high school girl. Struggling to understand one another, the three are drawn into a strange journey shaped by dreams and fate.

In a forgotten corner of the city, an unassuming bodega serves as a gateway to ancestral wisdom. Patrons searching for everyday items receive something far greater — TEACHA brand products, unlocking visions of a world where Black people thrive beyond limitation. Blending afrosurrealism with the aesthetics of ’70s and ’80s urban culture and African and Caribbean spirituality, the Hood Botanica transforms the bodega into a portal of self-discovery. The silent store clerk, adorned with cowrie AirPods, serves as the quiet guide to transformation.

Based on a true story, USC graduate Shalin Shah leaves behind the expectations of his Indian-American family and his girlfriend Fiona to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru. But when a persistent cough leads to a devastating diagnosis of synovial sarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer, Shalin is forced to return home and confront a future he never anticipated. Surrounded by his family, Fiona, and his closest friends, he begins to reconsider what it means to live with purpose when time can no longer be taken for granted. As Shalin’s perspective deepens, his reflections on gratitude, love, and mortality inspire the essay “Thank You, Cancer,” which is published by HuffPost and goes viral with readers around the world. A devastatingly beautiful story of family, resilience, and the lasting impact of one life, Paper Flowers is a reminder to cherish the people we love and the moments that give life meaning. #SunsetsForShalin

Bojovník

Claire and Yves, trained as physicists, have worked in the nuclear industry their entire lives. During a visit to the National Gallery, Claire is deeply moved by three Rembrandt paintings. This encounter with these three masterful works will change them forever.

When a former activist-turned-architect joins a redevelopment project led by his old comrade, now the city mayor, he finds himself wandering through a landscape of demolition, as memory, reality, and the ideals they once shared begin to collapse.

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Mikha and her entire family were forced to be expelled from the village because of accusations by the villagers about Helsye, her stepmother, who was thought to be able to transform into Songko. Mikha also tries to clear her family's good name, including Helsye, who she loves very much.

In a world shaped before her time, Kya is learning softer, slower, freer ways to exist. When her mother, Gigi, unexpectedly arrives, she brings with her the generational discord Kya has been quietly working through. Rather than resist her mother’s presence, Kya learns to move with it. She seeks refuge in healing rituals with a circle of women she trusts, guided by a powerful healer named Martha, whose ancient medicine, Rapé, loosens something long buried in Kya and begins to soothe her generational wound. Through tears and sacred smoke and the roar of the ocean, her journey is revealed. And she finds the courage to hold her mother’s story, her grandmother’s story and her great-grandmother’s story with tenderness.

With their second film, Shatara Michelle Ford (Test Pattern) puts their singular stamp on the American road movie. Dreams in Nightmares, which stars Denée Benton (The Gilded Age) and Jasmin Savoy Brown (Yellowjackets, Scream 7) follows a group of queer friends in their mid-30s navigating love, identity, and belonging across America. Anchored in themes of chosen family and self-discovery, the film blends humor and emotional depth against the backdrop of a journey through the Midwest and beyond. Dreams in Nightmares is an expansive and tender ode to the chosen family and to the radical act of claiming space to dream—and to exist—in an increasingly fraught country.

Renowned documentarian Thomas Heise begins a film on Berlin's Schönhauser Allee, the road he lived on for decades. A few months later, Heise dies unexpectedly.

Close confidants, friends and family of Elvis Presley recall never-before-told stories of their life around the King of Rock-N-Roll and his lifelong spiritual quest of balancing his faith and international fame.

Rusmee keeps interacting with Chalerm, her dead husband, in the form of an AI chatbot.

In the waiting room of a hospital's Cardiac Care Unit, two strangers, Sophia and Emilio, await word about their respective loved ones in surgery. Seeing Sophia is near panic, Emilio starts a conversation about topics innocuous (incompetent winking, the meaning of corniness) and profound (life's journey). In the process they make a connection that will forever alter the course of both of their lives.