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Aster and Sidney(en)

The Emissary(en)

A mysterious interplanetary diplomat arrives at a post-apocalyptic planet earth in order to facilitate the adoption of a member of an ancient royal family.

THE MESSENGER(de)

The "Steaua Bucureștiului" Battalion is trapped in the heart of Germany and runs out of ammunition, food and medicine. So Private Mihailovici Anton is sent with an important message to the main base, but his journey is not so easy.

Outside the Wire(en)

In the near future, a drone pilot is sent into a deadly militarized zone and must work with an android officer to locate a doomsday device.

From Splinters(uk)

The heroine lives in Kyiv in the present and sees dreams with the recurring motif that takes place eighty years ago. In these dreams, she searches for her home and waits for her beloved husband. The dreams are permeated with fear and the foreboding of a war that could leave her without a husband and home. The film was conceived as a psychoanalytical visual essay on how a subject who has experienced loss tries to assemble themselves from splinters: fragments of memories, dreams, bodily sensations - to find this new self-image 'on the other side of the mirror' after the Other has disappeared.

Bittersweet(en)

Ukrainian refugee Sofiy living in Edinburgh with a host couple Martin and Emilly becomes homeless when the couple who are struggling with the cost of living crisis is forced to 'kick' her out after six months of sheltering her in their study. Homeless and jobless, Sofiy finds a diamond ring in a public washing machine and her decision to do with the diamond ring becomes a life-changing move for her.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga(en)

As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland they come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.

Rouge(en)

"Described as 'Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut,' Rouge is a horror-tinted gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Set in California, the story explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry — as well as 'the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze.' Set to be published in September this year by Simon & Schuster/Marysue Rucci Books, Rouge is the latest novel from [Mona] Awad, behind All’s Well, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Bunny, which was listed among the best book of 2019 by Time, Vogue and the New York Public Library." (THR)

G.I. Joe: Sgt. Savage and His Screaming Eagles: Old Soldiers Never Die(en)

In 1944, Master Sergeant Robert Steven Savage was betrayed by one of his fellow soldiers, Krieger, a double-agent for the Axis Powers. He had Savage's entire squad killed and used him for various genetic experiments. Savage was then cryogenically frozen and sealed inside a secret bunker. 50 years later, G.I. Joe discovered the hidden bunker, Savage now has super-human strength, speed and agility and is in charge of the Screaming Eagles. Krieger is alive and known as General Blitz, leader of the terrorist organization the IRON Army. Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles must stop him!

I Don't Fight the Dark as Well as I Used To(en)

After making his granddaughter sleep with the light off, Frank struggles coming to terms with the dark.

Asy Syahid KH. Zainal Musthafa(id)

Because they were considered disobedient to the Japanese Government, four Japanese officers came to the Sukamanah Islamic Boarding School to force KH Zainal Mustafa to be taken to Tasikmalaya. Hundreds of students stood in front of the Sukamanah Islamic Boarding School armed with bamboo swords. All four Japanese officers were killed. In response the Japanese Government sent troops in greater numbers. Many Santri died as martyrs in the battle known as the bloody Sukamanah incident. The incident occurred on February 25, 1944.

A Day in the Park(sv)

A Swedish woman prowls through her childhood memories after a Chinese plane crash.

3020(en)

An apocalyptic world set in the year 3020

After The End(en)

A young woman's hometown is flooded and she starts to remember her childhood

Cannibal Clown Killer(en)

Cannibal Clown Killer is an 80's style post-apocalyptic landscape where half the earth's population has been killed off by a bacteria which contaminated gluten food filler and MSG products. Of those who did not die they awoke to a new nightmare, half the survivors had been turned into man-eating mad clowns hell-bent on consuming the world. In the dawn of this new world filled with blood, horrors, and painted faces a single female warrior has emerged. With a blade at her back, this nameless hero tracks across this wilderness saving those she can while on her quest for the clown that killed her parents. Happy Jack.

Bunker or Tales I Heard When the World Fell(pt)

In a world polluted by atomic radiation, five survivors find shelter in an underground bunker. The sudden discovery of a rare and miraculous medicine will become a source of quarrel within the group.

The Library at the End of the Universe(en)

Mildred must choose between authenticity and safety when the only world she knows is the inside of a Library.

Guano(ro)

A guy's night is disturbed by pigeons. Maybe it's too late to take action.

Three Promises(ar)

Yousef Srouji’s childhood in Palestine wasn’t something that he and his parents spoke of as a family, so when he found a box of his mother’s home videos from the early 2000s, an especially perilous and tumultuous period in the West Bank, the tapes became a means for remembering and comprehending a painful past. The stories she captured illuminate the nature of life in a war zone, and familial bonds that cannot be broken. – Bedatri Choudhury (DocNYC)

Ambition: Epilogue(en)

After her long, arduous training, our young Apprentice is now a fully fledged Master of cosmic origins, exploring an alien planet rich with water and life. But something familiar crosses her mind. Memories from her training and Rosetta’s historic journey to catch a comet. She returns to the archives. The epilogue to the award-winning 2014 short film Ambition, released as the Rosetta spaceship is set to complete its historic mission in a controlled descent to the surface of its comet on September 30, 2016.