<p>A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman&apos;s baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.</p>

<p>Based on an upcoming memoir by Air Force Major Mary Jennings Hegar, who served three tours in Afghanistan as a rescue helicopter pilot and transported hundreds of soldiers off the battlefield in hot zone areas. During one of those tours, her helicopter was shot down in the midst of a rescue mission. </p><p>She got shot by the Taliban, but battled through her injury to save the three Americans she had been sent to rescue, along with her own team. They got out of there in a daring and death defying escape. </p><p>Beyond her battlefield heroics that included winning the Purple Heart and becoming only the sixth woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, Hegar successfully waged and won an important battle on U.S. soil: She sued the Department of Defense over the Combat Exclusion Policy that kept women from direct combat. The policy was ruled unconstitutional as a result, and was repealed. </p>

<p>A young photographer&apos;s eye is caught by a solitary man with a balloon. The boy tries to approach the stranger unnoticed and take a picture of him, but the moment he presses the camera shutter, the world stops.</p>

<p>A documentary capturing photographer and activist Misan Harriman&#8217;s journey documenting global protest movements that drive social change. Follow Harriman as he highlights the resilience of grassroots activists fighting for equality, civil rights, and social justice, the film showcases the intersectionality of these movements and their collective power. With historical context, interviews with activists, and explorations of digital activism, the documentary reveals how Harriman&apos;s lens brings the world&apos;s activism to light, inspiring viewers to recognize their own power in shaping a more just society.</p>

<p>A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government official convinces him to help thwart a plot to kill the President of the United States. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, Swagger becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt. He goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why, eventually seeking revenge against some of the most powerful and corrupt leaders in the free world.</p>

<p>With a bunch of friends, £1000 and a vision, teenager James Will Day shot his first feature film in the summer of 2025. This documentary shows what it was like on the set of a film made from nothing. Displaying the fun, exciting and tough moments of making a dream come true.</p>

<p>Based on Steve Martin's bestselling novella, "Shopgirl" is a funny and poignant story of love in the modern age. Mirabelle (Claire Danes) mans the glove counter at a high end department store in Beverly Hills, selling things that nobody buys anymore. An artist struggling to keep up with even the minimum payment on her credit card and student loans, she lives a quiet life and keeps to herself until a rich, handsome fiftysomething named Ray Porter (Martin) sweeps her off her feet. Mirabelle revels in the attention, the sex, and especially, being in love, but somewhere, subconsciously, she realizes that the relationship cannot last. Soon, she has to make a decision: will she stick with Ray, hoping that his feelings for her might grow, or does she take a chance with Jeremy (Jason Schwartzman), a musician who may offer more?</p>

<p>A Japanese couple stuck with part-time jobs and hence inadequate incomes avail themselves of the fruits of shoplifting to make ends meet. They are not alone in this behaviour. The younger and the older of the household are in on the act. The unusual routine is about to change from care-free and matter-of-fact to something more dramatic, however, as the couple open their doors to a beleaguered young girl. The reasons for the family's habit and their motivations come under the microscope.</p>

<p>Denver, summer 1987. A group of quirky and confused teenagers are about to have their lives changed forever over the course of one night when the news hits them that their heroes, iconic British band The Smiths, are splitting.Young and feisty Cleo doesn't know what to do with her life and dreams of running away to Paris. Ryan, who works in the local record store, has a huge crush on her but doesn't know how to tell her.</p><p>As Cleo and her friends start a night of hard partying to mourn their musical loss, Ryan is driven to a more daring and dangerous form of tribute: he decides to hold up the local radio station at gunpoint and make the DJ play nothing but Smiths tracks for the entire night. And with the radio at full blast, the group of friends will go on a journey of self-discovery that will transform them forever.</p><p>Inspired by true events, "Shoplifters of the World" is a spirited and moving comedy, that celebrates youth and the power of music to change people's lives, showcasing the iconic sound and style of England’s greatest 80s band: The Smiths.</p>

<p>Based on the book "The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League" by Jeff Hobbs. It's true story centers on Peace, a young African-American man who left the crime-ridden streets of Newark to attend Yale. There, he studied molecular biochemistry and biophysics and excelled at school, but the troubles from his upbringing continued to plague him until his violent and all-too-soon end.</p>

<p>Remake of the 1986 film, the original introduced Number 5, a robot built by the military to be a highly sophisticated weapon. It developed a conscience and a personality after being hit by lightning, and then needed the help of humans after it was targeted for destruction by its makers, once it became a peacenik.</p>

<p>A series of vignette style short films that cover grief in many different ways.</p>

<p>It follows Nathan Fisher (Bryan Greenberg of "Prime" and "One Tree Hill"), a thirtysomething Brooklyn hipster whose ambitious girlfriend (Emmanuelle Chriqui) leaves him after his writing career stalls. Nathan soon gets a call from his brother in Florida that their father (Harris Yulin) has been hospitalized. Nathan arrives home to find his father recovering, if grouchy, and his mother (Linda Lavin) in a hazy state. While there, he meets his mother's manicurist (Kathleen Rose Perkins), the polar opposite of his girlfriend, but perhaps what he needs to recover.</p>

<P>Teenage Nola grew up living out of a van with her charismatic father, Clint; two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone. She'll need to take the wheel for the first time learning to own her grief, her past and her new destination.</P>

<p>Fear isn&apos;t always irrational.</p>

<p>In a chilling twist on the day of love, "Short Sharp Scares: Valentine" plunges viewers into a haunting tale where affection turns to dread. The story follows a group of unsuspecting individuals whose Valentine's Day celebrations take a sinister turn as they confront eerie occurrences that unsettle the very essence of romance. Central to the narrative is a character grappling with past heartbreak and the desire for connection, whose journey becomes entwined with inexplicable horrors lurking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary encounters. As tension escalates, the film masterfully blends suspense and psychological terror, creating an atmosphere thick with unease and anticipation. The tone oscillates between intimate vulnerability and spine-tingling menace, delivering a compact yet impactful horror experience. With its brisk pacing and sharp storytelling, this short film invites audiences to reconsider the darker possibilities hidden within love’s most celebrated day.</p>

<p>Short Stop is a short film about a kid with cystic fibrosis trying to join his college baseball team but can&apos;t due to his condition and needs to find a new meaning for his life other then baseball</p>

<p>"Short Term 12" is told through the eyes of Grace, a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her charge - and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason. </p><p>But Grace's own difficult past - and the surprising future that suddenly presents itself - throw her into unforeseen confusion, made all the sharper with the arrival of a new intake at the facility: a gifted but troubled teenage girl with whom Grace has a charged connection.</p><p>While the subject matter is complex and often dark, this lovingly realized film finds truth - and humor - in unexpected places.</p>

<p>Written and directed by Mitchell (who previously starred in and directed the film adaptation of his international stage hit, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"), "Shortbus" explores the lives of several characters living in present-day New York as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex. Male and female, straight and gay, the characters find one and other - and eventually find themselves - when they all converge at a weekly underground salon called "Shortbus," a mad nexus of art, music, politics, and polysexual carnality. Mitchell developed the film's story along with his ensemble cast, all of whom are making their feature film debuts, and who were selected after submitting videotaped interviews/auditions in response to a well-publicized open casting call posted on a website. Over a half million people visited the website and nearly 500 people sent in tapes before the final seven leading performers/characters were selected to workshop the storyline with Mitchell.</p><p>The resulting film, one of the true sensations of this year's Cannes Film Festival, presents sex and sexuality as never before seen in mainstream entertainment, and promises to be one of the most talked-about films for months - and years - to come.</p>

<p>Set in contemporary New York's literary world, this is a re-telling of "The Devil and Daniel Webster" the classic fable of a man who sells his soul to the devil for fame and fortune and ultimately decides that he wants to get it back. Jabez Stone, a down and out writer, exchanges his soul for a successful literary career, but soon realizes it was a mistake. Jabez must enlist the help of Daniel Webster in order to win his soul back from the Devil.</p>

<p>When Derek moves to a new town and discovers a shortcut through the woods to his high school, he learns about a crazy old man who lives near its path: Legend has it that he abducted a group of teenagers years ago. Ignoring the warning, Derek and his friends set out to uncover the dark secret that&apos;s buried deep in the woods. But will they survive to tell it?</p>

<p>"Shorts" is set in the suburb of Black Falls, where all the houses look the same and everyone works for BLACK BOX Unlimited Worldwide Industries Incorporated, whose Mr. Black's BLACK BOX is the ultimate communication and do-it-all gadget that's sweeping the nation. Other than keeping his parents employed, however, Mr. Black's BLACK BOX has done nothing for 11-year-old Toe Thompson, who just wants to make a few friends...until a mysterious rainbow-colored rock falls from the sky, hits him in the head and changes everything. The Rainbow Rock does Mr. Black's BLACK BOX one better: it grants wishes to anyone who holds it. Before long, wishes-gone-wrong have left the neighborhood swarming with tiny spaceships, crocodile armies, giant boogers...and outrageous magical mayhem around every corner. But it's not until the grown-ups get their hands on the Rock that the trouble really starts. Now Toe and his newfound friends must join forces to save their town from itself, discovering along the way that what you wish for is not always what you want.</p>

<p>A gripping drama about three lives irrevocably changed when a gun is accidentally fired on a busy Los Angeles street, "Shot" is a visceral roller coaster ride unflinchingly exploring the consequences of gun violence in America. "Shot" begins as sound mixer Mark Newman (Wyle), is pumping up the volume on a bloody shootout scene in an action film. </p><p>Hours later, after an argument with his wife Phoebe (Leal), Mark is suddenly felled by a real random bullet, and lies bleeding on the pavement with a chest wound. With Phoebe desperately trying to stop the bleeding, they both agonizingly wait for an ambulance to arrive as Mark fights for his life. </p><p>Meanwhile, hidden behind a fence across the street, a teenager, Miguel (Lendeborg), watches in horror with the still smoking gun in his hand. A gun that was just handed to him by his cousin and meant to protect him against gang bullies.</p>

<p>Poet Punch&apos;s submission to the Shot4Shot film festival in 2026</p>

<p>A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.</p>

<p>A young Chinese-American cop unravels after accidentally shooting an innocent African-American man through a wall.</p>

<p>Legendary music photographer Mick Rock is best known for his iconic photographs of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Queen, and countless others. In a documentary as rock-n-roll as its subject, Mick Rock guides us through his psychedelic, shambolic first-hand experiences as the visual record-keeper of these myths and legends.</p>

<p>Follows the friendship between four men in their early 30s who live near one another in the same Wisconsin town where they grew up. Some in the quartet have left their birth state while others have not, and they are just now coming into their own as husbands and fathers with each hoping to finally find real purchase in the world.</p>

<p>In "Shotgun Wedding", Grace (Jennifer Lopez) and Tom (Josh Duhamel) gather their lovable but very opinionated families for the ultimate destination wedding just as the couple begins to get cold feet. And if that wasn't enough of a threat to the celebration, suddenly everyone's lives are in danger when the entire party is taken hostage. "Til Death Do Us Part" takes on a whole new meaning in this hilarious, adrenaline-fueled adventure as Grace and Tom must save their loved ones -- if they don't kill each other first.</p>

<p>In the gripping documentary [m=Should I Marry a Murderer], viewers are drawn into the harrowing true story of a woman who finds herself at a terrifying crossroads of love and violence. The film follows her as she discovers that the charming man she has fallen for is not only accused of a heinous crime but is also suspected of being a serial killer. Torn between her deep emotional connection and the chilling evidence piling up against him, she must navigate a labyrinth of doubt, fear, and manipulation. The documentary masterfully explores the psychological toll of loving someone who may be a monster, delving into themes of trust, denial, and the dark complexities of the human heart. With a tense, atmospheric tone that keeps the audience on edge, [m=Should I Marry a Murderer] raises unsettling questions about how well we can ever truly know another person, leaving viewers to ponder the impossible choice at its core.</p>

<p>A self-centered, middle-aged pitchman for a potato chip company loses his job and his livelihood just as his octogenarian grandfather is dropped on his doorstep unexpectedly by his mother on her way to a singles cruise.</p>

<p>A man inherits his estranged father&#8217;s home and grapples with the rationale; much to the agitation of his close friend.</p>

<p>Narrated by Academy Award winning actress Meryl Streep, "Shout Gladi Gladi" celebrates the extraordinary people who rescue African women and girls from obstetric fistula, a medical condition that can turn them into reviled outcasts. Directed by Adam Friedman and Iain Kennedy, and filmed in Malawi and Sierra Leone, the film spotlights the quest of Ann Gloag, the indefatigable philanthropist and former nurse who drives the movement to save these vulnerable women, and presents the patients as they tell stirring tales of their struggles and triumphs. Everything culminates with the exuberant Gladi Gladi ceremony, a singing and dancing blowout that marks the day the women and girls return home cured.</p>

<p>A group of friends attempt to successfully complete a list of tasks assigned to them as the &quot;Shovel List&quot; by their dead friend.</p>

<p>In a bombed-out, near future New York City where most of the population escapes reality by tapping into a digital fantasy world, a contract killer is hired to kill the daughter of a powerful, maniacal evangelist. Ultimately, the killer becomes the girl's protector.</p>

<p>Max, a macho, solitary Rottweiler police dog is ordered to go undercover as a primped show dog in a prestigious Dog Show, along with his human partner, to avert a disaster from happening.</p>

<p>Everyone has a unique father story. Whether positive or painful, it&apos;s always personal and can deeply affect the core of our identity and direction of our lives. Providing a fresh perspective on the roles of fathers in today&#8217;s society, Show Me the Father invites you to think differently about how you view your earthly father, and how you personally relate to God.</p>

<p>After a dating show ends in violence, its host Adam Rogers (Duhamel) and a ratings-hungry network exec launch a terrifying new program that promises fresh kills every week. The tension mounts as a kindhearted janitor joins the deadly program, hoping to help his struggling family survive...at any cost.</p>

<p>"Showbiz Kids" offers an unvarnished look at the high risk, high reward business of working as a child actor in the entertainment industry. The film chronicles the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a child. Those who know the industry best, including several successful child actors and two aspiring hopefuls, unpack their own complicated experiences as they reconcile the hardships they've faced and sacrifices they've made on their way to finding success in show business.</p>

<p>Private detectives Nick (Alexander Nevsky) and Charlie (Casper Van Dien) live and work in Manila. A murder investigation leads them to the jungle camp of an international terrorist called The Wrath. Not trusting the police, Nick and Charlie assembly a team of daredevils to walk straight into the Wrath's lair and fight an army of his goons.</p>

Fresh to Las Vegas with no connections, Nomi Malone takes a job as an exotic dancer. Her talents are quickly noticed by Cristal, a headlining dancer who senses an opportunity to bolster her own act. But Nomi won’t play second fiddle and soon begins her venomous path to the top, ruthlessly backstabbing anyone who gets in her way.