Upcoming Movies

Stranglehold

Bailey is an exotic dancer with big dreams. She and her Army vet husband Tim are fed up with their lives of barely getting by in small-town Arkansas, so they decide to rob the strip club that employs her.

Pile On

On a weekend morning, Xiaohu invites his friends to his home since his parents are away at a wedding banquet. While playing, they attempt to step into the adult world, only to realise that things are slowly spiralling beyond their imagination.

The Skull

The Skulls is a dream come true. But Luke soon comes to realize just how powerful The Skulls organization really is -- and that the truth, like success, comes at a very high price.

Kono koi wa kakuchō genjitsu?

Elena, who lives with her fiancé Koichi, harbors secret feelings for a woman but is unable to confess them to her. One day, Elena learns that her neighbor Jiro has been selected as a test user for a mysterious service that allows him to experience the romance of his dreams. She decides to snatch the right from Jiro... (R15+ version premiered at the OP PICTURES+ Festival 2025).

Mo Papa

Eugen is released from prison at 28 years old, he has no one except his father Helmar who abandoned him when he was born, and friends Stina and Riko from the orphanage. Eugen attempts to begin a new life and contacts his father, but he finds himself returning to an endless cycle of violence.

Survive or Die ?

Caravaggio

Five years in the making, this is the most extensive film ever made about this revolutionary artist. With first-hand testimony from the artist himself on the eve of his mysterious disappearance, this film reveals Caravaggio as never before. Featuring masterpiece after masterpiece and testimony from leading experts from around the world, Caravaggio immerses audiences in the hidden narratives of the artist’s life, piecing together clues embedded within his incredible art.

Melt

How do people live in snowbound areas? What are the mechanisms for simply moving snow around? How have ski resorts mechanised what ought to be a natural process? Above all, MELT shows us the catastrophic impact of climate change. Glaciers are melting; seasonal snowfall rates are askew; and at the South Pole, an entire continent is breaking apart. What will happen if all these places succumb to rising temperatures? As one scientist states, “that water has to go somewhere.” A film of imposing beauty, MELT is also a comprehensive study of global warming as it is directly experienced by arctic and alpine communities. Geyrhalter offers a stark warning about an ominous future, one we may still be able to avoid.

The Mime

When a murderous mime starts a killing spree in a quiet neighborhood, an already injured teenager must survive his onslaught of terror.

Flight of the Swans

A female conservationist takes to the skies in a paramotor to follow Bewick’s Swans on their annual migration in a bid to understand their dramatic decline; 7,000 kilometers, eleven countries, from Russia to England, across tundra, forests and industrial landscapes, where she encounters people just as passionate about saving and protecting these birds and their wetland homes.

Below the Clouds

Naples faces dual volcanic threats from Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei. Amid increasing tremors, archaeologists work as residents live anxiously, haunted by Pompeii's fate while emergency services strain.

Nikki hako no koi

After her grandfather, who ran an antiques shop, passes away, Nanami decides to take over the business. As she prepares to reopen the shop, she buys a small box from a friend who runs a recycle shop. Inside is a diary in which a woman candidly describes her relationship with her partner... (R15+ version premiered at the OP PICTURES+ Festival 2025).

Resurrection

Filmed in J. Hood Wright Park located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, this film portrays the jarring reality of integrating back into society in a search to find “normalcy” after isolating and quarantining during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. What was once mundane and routine may suddenly feel uncomfortable and unsettling, especially in navigating boundaries in both the public and private spheres. Nevertheless, this piece also seeks to provide a sense of hopefulness and optimism in that our communities will continue to be resilient and thrive.

GAME

Late summer 1993. After stealing a stash of money and drugs, aging raver David crashes his car deep in the woods - trapped in the wreckage, injured and helpless, he hangs suspended between life and death. When a mysterious poacher discovers him, no rescue comes, only a watchful, unsettling presence that seems intent on letting nature finish the job. As the hours stretch and the elements close in, a tense and claustrophobic battle of wills, and wits, unfolds - where survival hinges on outlasting both the wilderness and the predator at its edge.​

Mãe Fora da Caixa

A Royal Christmas Hope

Julia Carter, the director of a nonprofit called Hope For All, prepares for the busy Christmas season. Despite financial challenges, Julia is determined to keep the holiday spirit alive for families in need. Prince Christopher of St. Monica, seeking a break from royal duties, travels to America for a different Christmas experience. He meets Julia, and, under the guise of a tech executive, volunteers at her nonprofit. As he becomes more involved in her world, an unlikely romance blossoms between Julia and Christopher.

ek • stasis

At Martina's New Year's Eve party, a young influencer from the Argentine scene, her lifelong but strained friendship with Joaco takes a dramatic turn followed by an unexpected and tragic accident.

Emergency Exit

It tells how 14 characters travel in a mysterious vehicle that they cannot easily get out of. Along the way, they fabricate about their identity and travel through unreal landscapes on a journey between life and death, sleep and wakefulness. According to the synopsis, "a tragicomedy with no certainties".

Shadow Transit

A grief-stricken photojournalist and a haunted DJ are forced to navigate the underbelly of Manila and Hong Kong, while evading a powerful crime syndicate.

Early Winter

Ferhat (49), a factory manager in Istanbul, and Handan (45), a bank manager, decide to have a child through surrogacy with Lia (28), a young artist of Georgian and Ukrainian descent. Shortly after their daughter Ada (1) is born, war breaks out between Russia and Ukraine. As a result, Lia is forced to stay in Istanbul with Ferhat and Handan for a while longer. Believing that surrogacy is the formula that will take her to Europe, Lia does not want to leave Ada.