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Title: Lust Foreign Title:  Year: 2026 Country: Bulgaria/Denmark/Sweden Language: In Bulgarian and English with English subtitles Director: Ralitza Petrova Click here to see the cast and crew In its story of sex addiction, cultural tension and father-daughter alienation, Lust feels like a deeply personal work, but writer-director Ralitza Petrova maintains a clinical distance from the emotions she’s exploring. Lillian (Snejanka Mihaylova), a psychologist who works in an American prison, has

Title: A Girl Unknown Foreign Title: Wu ming nü hai Year: 2026 Country: China / France Language: In Mandarin with English subtitles Director: Zou Jing Click here to see the cast and crew There are films that announce their directors’ talent with the very first shot, and A Girl Unknown is one of them. Its opening image, of a young girl flailing underwater, is composed with the assurance of a

Title: The Flight Foreign Title: Le vol Year: 2026 Country: Canada Language: In Farsi, Kurdish, and English with English subtitles Director: Soran Mardookhi Click here to see the cast and crew January 8, 2020: amid violent conflict with the US, the Iranian military shoots down Flight PS752 after its takeoff from Tehran. The crime results in 176 casualties, most of them Persians, many of them citizens of Canada. Soran Mardookhi

Title: Sometimes, I Imagine Them All at a Party Foreign Title: Was an Empfindsamkeit bleibt Year: 2026 Country: Germany Language: In German and Portuguese with English subtitles Director: Daniela Magnani Hüller Click here to see the cast and crew Daniela Magnani Hüller explores a harrowing incident from her past in this sobering documentary. In late high school, she was harassed and then brutally stabbed by a male classmate. It was