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Title: Heysel 85 Foreign Title:  Year: 2026 Country: Belgium/Netherlands/Germany Language: In Dutch, French, English, and Italian with English subtitles Director: Teodora Ana Mihai Click here to see the cast and crew Heysel 85 is a fictionalized telling of the real-life Heysel Stadium disaster that occurred during the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus in Brussels Belgium, 1985. The film, which is directed by Teodora Ana Mihai (La civil, Traffic),

Title: Rotation Foreign Title: Ротація Year: 2026 Country: Ukraine/Sweden/Turkey Language: In Ukrainian with English subtitles Director: Maryna Er Gorbach Click here to see the cast and crew Maryna Er Gorbach has created a thought-provoking film about a Ukrainian woman’s therapeutic hypnosis meant to help her transition into life in the military. The film plays more like a dream than a traditional narrative with its celestial camera movement, ethereal score, and

Title: Who Killed Narin G**** ? Foreign Title: Qui a tué Narin G**** ? Year: 2025 Country: France Language: In Turkish with English subtitles Director: Ayçe Kartal Click here to see the cast and crew Who killed Narin G**** ? takes a remarkably unconventional approach to the telling of a true-crime story. Directed by Ayçe Kartal, the surrealist animated short explores the real-life murder of eight-year-old Narin Güran in southeastern

Title: Free Fish Foreign Title:  Year: 2025 Country: Palestine/Portugal Language:  Director: Bisan Owda Click here to see the cast and crew Free Fish, directed by Bisan Oda and Carolina Pereira, offers a rare look into life in war-torn Gaza. The short documentary follows two fishermen brothers, both displaced, separated, and fishing to survive. The film explores the plight of Gaza through both the words of these brothers and through capturing