The Bride: Directed by Lee Thongkham. With Rima Thanh Vy, Narupornkamol Chaisang, Duangjai Hiransri, Kritsanapoom Pibulsonggram. Young Vietnamese woman engaged to wealthy Thai man. Visiting his rural hometown, she tries on heirloom wedding dress harboring sinister family secrets, encountering ghostly bride presence.
SOULM8TE: Directed by Kate Dolan. With David Rysdahl, Claudia Doumit, Lily Sullivan, Oliver Cooper. A man acquires an Artificially Intelligent android to cope with the loss of his recently deceased wife. In an attempt to create a truly sentient partner, he inadvertently turns a harmless lovebot into a deadly soulmate.
Super-Charlie: Directed by Jon Holmberg. With Orlando Wahlsteen, Silas Strand, Sven Björklund, Ulla Skoog. Willie’s dream of fighting crime with his cop dad is shattered when his baby brother Charlie arrives. Besides stealing all the attention, Charlie turns out to have actual superpowers.
Four Mothers: Directed by Darren Thornton. With James McArdle, Fionnula Flanagan, Anne Nolan, Nicola Devine. A struggling novelist who is forced to take care of three eccentric older women – and his own mother – over the course of one chaotic weekend in Dublin.
Zycie dla poczatkujacych: Directed by Pawel Podolski. With Magdalena Mascianica, Michal Sikorski, Bartlomiej Kotschedoff, Malgorzata Rozniatowska. Monia is an introvert – and a vampire. Working at a nursing home allows her to feed on blood collected in sanitary conditions, and her human interactions are limited to conversations with elderly people suffering from dementia. She feels safe and secure, and she could keep it up indefinitely if it weren’t for a certain mortal named Czarek, the first person to discover Monia’s secret. Meanwhile something disturbing is happening at the nursing home: bite marks are found on the bodies of deceased patients. It turns out there’s a second vampire prowling the facility. The predator in question is Mirek, a would-be suicide who was turned into a vampire by Monia. He finds eternal life to be a real drag, especially since he can only be killed by the person who created him. Mirek gives Monia an ultimatum: either she kills him or he will go after every patient in the facility. But will he change his mind when he realizes how beautiful nightlife can be? A unique Polish vampire film with a unique sense of humor is combined with reflections on the fragility of life and the refusal to accept its transience, creating a genuinely explosive mix.
The Carpenter’s Son: Directed by Lotfy Nathan. With Nicolas Cage, Noah Jupe, FKA twigs, Isla Johnston. Family hiding in Roman Egypt. Son known as ‘the Boy’ doubts guardian ‘the Carpenter’, rebelling with mysterious powers. As he uses abilities, they face natural and divine horrors.
Hamnet: Directed by Chloé Zhao. With Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Zac Wishart, James Lintern. A powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
The Penguin Lessons: Directed by Peter Cattaneo. With Bruno Blas, Steve Coogan, Julia Fossi, Jonathan Pryce. A disillusioned Englishman who goes to work in a school in a divided Argentina in 1976 finds his life transformed when he rescues an orphaned penguin from the beach.
