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Poison is a love story about a couple reunited years after tragedy drove them apart. Their brief but intense meeting will bring simmering pain and resentments to the surface but will be a reminder too of cherished intimacies and the love they once shared.

“The nuanced, deeply-felt performances carry this emotionally charged two-hander”  – Screen Daily

Critically acclaimed and well received at film festivals, this beautiful drama has already been greenlit for a sequel, due to start filming at the end of 2025.  

Something is haunting Andrea, but no one can see it with the naked eye, not even herself. Twenty years ago, ten thousand kilometers away, the same presence terrorized Marie. Camila was the only person who could understand what was happening to her, but no one believed them. When they face this oppressive threat, all three hear the same thing: a wailing.

“The dramatic execution is steely and super-controlled, Martín-Calero making ingenious use of space, in particular with cleverly seeded glimpses of a mysterious apartment, the locale for the film’s climactic revelations” – Screen International

Sicily, early 2000s. After serving several years in prison for Mafia-related crimes, Catello, a long-serving politician, has lost everything. When the Italian Secret Service “persuades” him to help capture Matteo, the last major Mafia boss still on the run, whom Catello has known since he was a boy, he sees an opportunity to stage a comeback. A shrewd man of a hundred masks, a tireless illusionist who turns truth into falsehood and falsehood into truth, Catello begins a correspondence with the fugitive, as unique as it is improbable, exploiting the younger man’s emotional emptiness. A gamble which, with one of the most wanted criminals in the world, is always going to involve a degree of risk…

“Servillo is impressive as this slippery, slightly ridiculous but sharp-witted man. Germano is authentically dangerous as the big shot in hiding” – Screen International

Top local film at the Italian box office during first two weeks of release!

67-year-old Edgar is the most successful elderly comedian in Germany. Every evening on stage, he makes fun of everything that concerns older people: failed relationships, ungrateful children, a declining libido, rapidly deteriorating health, general uselessness and imminent death. But as soon as the show is over, what’s left is a man who is really lonely and tries to fill his empty evenings with groupies and alcohol. When, after 25 years, he meets his ex-wife Eva again, who is terminally ill with cancer, the two begin to fall in love again against all odds and Eva decides to accompany Edgar on his comedy tour.

Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie drops off her son Lucas to spend school vacation with his grandma, Michelle, stressed out by her daughter, serves her toxic mushrooms for lunch. Valérie quickly recovers, but forbids her mother from seeing her grandson anymore. Feeling lonely and guilty, Michelle falls into a depression… until Marie-Claude’s son gets out of prison.

“An elegant, slippery game of tonal bait-and-switch” – Variety

“François Ozon’s talent for directing actors is admirable. Hélène Vincent and Josiane Balasko are brilliant, forming a heartbreaking duo” – Les Inrockuptibles

A captivating young woman agrees to work as a maid in an affluent household. With her unique charm, she sparks attraction in each member of the family, but soon discovers that behind their seemingly happy lives lies unexpected complexity.

Premiering at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival’s Discovery section (devoted to directorial debuts) this is an exploration of class, gender politics and the laws of attraction by Argentina’s newest major talent, director Mariana Wainstein, featuring a stellar cast.  Don’t be fooled by first impressions – this powerful film is a truly thought-provoking, expertly observed and tightly scripted piece of modern cinema.

“the best kind of thriller, one that forces its audience to maintain rapt attention.  Wainstein and Suárez superbly reveal the pathos behind an enigmatic and tantalizing lead character” – Variety

“Wainstein leaves the mystery of what might happen next up to the viewer” – Cineuropa

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On December 20^th, 1989, Romania stands on the brink of revolution. The streets are alive with demonstrations, students mock the regime through art, and New Year’s shows glorify Ceausescu. Yet, behind closed doors, families grapple with personal conflicts and the omnipresent Secret Police.

Six seemingly disconnected lives intersect in unexpected (and unexpectedly humorous) ways. As tensions reach a boiling point, an explosive moment brings them together, culminating in the dramatic fall of Ceausescu and the communist regime.

“a confident and, at times, savagely funny work which captures the exhilarating impact of history in the making” – Screen International

When estranged siblings Joseph and Sidney rendezvous at a local diner after a close-call robbery, they hightail it to an abandoned farmhouse that transports them to a different time in order to escape the local cops. Their getaway is derailed when an unknown and cryptic metaphysical force emerges and blocks them from returning home. Trapped on the puzzling plot of land, their captor makes it clear that no one can leave until their deadly demands are met. What results from their entrapment not only bends the forces of spacetime —forcing the two to question everything they know about their own reality— but bends Joe and Sid’s familial bonds beyond the point of trust and forgiveness.

Michael Felker makes his feature debut through this twisty science-fiction thriller with dark doses of horror and suspense. THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT is a tragic puzzle of a film where time, blood, and isolation spur endless cycles of false hope and damning despair.

Jasmine is 40 and has everything she ever wanted: a devoted husband, three loving sons, and a thriving hair salon just south of Naples. But after her father’s death, she experiences a recurring dream in which a little girl runs into her arms, offering Jasmine a new sense of fulfilment which she can’t ignore. She decides to follow her dream of having a daughter and dives headfirst into the challenging world of international adoption, risking her marriage, her sons’ well-being, and her own moral compass along the way. The entire family is in crisis, until they finally realize that the only way out is together.

Based on true events and featuring non-professional actors portraying their own lives, VITTORIA delves deep into the complexities of family dynamics and the seemingly irrational desires of the human psyche.

“grounded in an intensely real place but with more than a touch of the fable about a story which is scripted with admirable efficiency” – Screen International

An impossible love story that begins outside a movie theater, continues in a café and could end with the two protagonists together… if real life wasn’t much more complicated than the movies. United by their love of cinema, these two main characters decide to live the lives they dreamed of and not the lives they are destined to live. In a series of encounters, imagination triumphs over reality and everyday reality takes a back seat.

From one of Latin America’s most important directors: Buenos Aires Vice Versa; Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves starrer The Lake House; No somos animales, with John Cusack.

The Maynards and their children lead an almost perfect billionaire family life. Amon is a passionate hunter, but it’s not animals he shoots, as the family’s wealth allows them to live free from consequences.

“Like a (less violent) version of ‘American Psycho’ presented in the ironic, arm’s-length style of double Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund“ – Variety

“Mixes a spikily provocative edge with pleasingly poisonous glamour“ – Screen International

Operating alone in the field for more than 20 years, a CIA hitman uses the “Help Wanted” section of the newspapers to get his orders from the Agency. A young UK MI6 analyst) tracks him down to deliver shocking news: his CIA boss has been dead for years and the division long since shut down. Together, they set out to discover whose orders he’s been executing.

Lucia and Aurora are about to leave their country forever with their mother – and they need

their absent father to sign exit papers. It’s been convenient for Carlos to not be a dad, but now if he wants his daughters’ love, he has to earn back his place before they leave.

“Klaudia Reynicke’s compact feature Reinas deals in intimate moments with an understated charm” – The Hollywood Reporter

“An accessible, tenderly observed heartwarmer” – Screen International

“Director Klaudia Reynicke combines grounded wonder and realism for a cleverly written family story embedded into a larger historical context” – Variety

Carole enjoys a tranquil life in rural France, where she teaches English. Her world crumbles when she learns that her son, Martin, who is conducting research for his Ph.D. in Indonesia, has been arrested for drug trafficking and could be sentenced to death. Convinced of his innocence, Carole discovers that Martin is, in fact, a crucial witness to crimes committed by powerful palm oil producers. To save her son, she decides to attend the trial and confront the powerful lobbies protecting the interests of the so-called “biofuels”. She soon realizes that to rescue Martin she will have to unmask the forces endangering the environment and human lives.

Julien, a young teacher, is wrongfully accused of misconduct by a teenage girl from his class. As he faces mounting pressures from the girl’s older brother and her classmates, the situation spirals out of control: allegations spread, the entire school is thrown into turmoil, and Julien must fight to clear his name.

“A tense and enlightening film, carried by a formidable François Civil” – Le Parisien

Love. Fear.
Can the threat of a secret being revealed make you live as an honest man? Based on the novel by Domenico Starnone, CONFIDENZA (TRUST) is a thriller of the soul, telling us how love and fear can affect our lives forever.

Original score by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke

“A film which forces you to think, doubt and hypothesize” The Hollywood Reporter

Louise, an aimless, 28 year-old Brooklynite, recently single, sort of a musician, depressed without admitting to it, drunkenly falls while doing something stupid and breaks her hip. This lands her in a physical therapy ward full of people twice her age. There, she meets Antonina – a cranky elderly Polish woman, who speaks no English. Louise gets a job caring for her. Neither woman loves the arrangement but it’s time to face the truth about aging. We all have to grow up sometime.