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The shipping news / Blanchett, Cate

A typesetter from upstate New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the local newspaper finds an audience, and his experiences in the town begin to change his life.

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The last supper / Faulkner, James

In the days leading to betrayal, a gathering of disciples unravels into a web of secrets and hidden motives. As tensions simmer beneath the surface, trust is tested, and loyalty is questioned. The Last Supper becomes a night where nothing is as it seems, and every glance hides a deeper truth.

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Mob land / Dillon, Kevin.

Deep in the heart of Dixie, in a small town struggling with the ravages of addiction, a local sheriff tries to maintain the peace when desperate family man Shelby robs a pill mill with his reckless brother-in-law, Trey. But the supposedly easy score takes a violent turn, alerting the New Orleans mafia's revenge-seeking enforcer, who threatens Shelby's wife and daughter. With its unpredictable twists and turns, Mob Land is a heart-pounding, action thriller.

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Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League / Kaji, Yūki
Batman Ninja versus Yakuza League
Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League takes place immediately after the events of the first film. Upon returning from feudal Japan to present day, Batman discovers that historical changes have caused an upheaval in the present. Japan has disappeared from the world map and a huge island called "Hinomoto" appears in the sky over Gotham. Batman and his friends head for Hinomoto to seek the cause of the upheaval. There they find a world where the yakuza rule and where there is no honor. Everything comes to a head when Batman and his friends battle Superman and the Justice League, now members of the yakuza, to return the world back to normal.

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The monkey / Elevation Pictures

When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father's old monkey toy in the attic, a series of ghastly deaths commence. The brothers decide to throw the toy away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years.


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The wedding banquet / Ahn, Andrew.

Angela and her partner Lee have been unlucky with their IVF treatments but can't afford to pay for another round. Meanwhile their friend Min, the closeted scion of a multinational corporate empire, has plenty of family money but a soon-to-expire student visa. When his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris rejects his proposal, Min makes the offer to Angela instead: a green card marriage in exchange for funding Lee's IVF. But their plans to quietly elope are upended when Min's skeptical grandmother flies in from Korea unannounced, insisting on an all-out wedding extravaganza.

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The penguin lessons / Cattaneo, Peter

Inspired by the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, Tom discovers a divided nation and a class of unteachable students. However, after he rescues a penguin from an oil-slicked beach, his life is turned upside-down.

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The friend / Bleecker Street (Firm)

Iris's life is upended when her best friend leaves her his Great Dane. Despite a small New York apartment and threats of eviction, she bonds with the regal beast and begins to heal, in this story of love and friendship.

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Presence / Fox, Julia

It's there before the family even moves in. It witnesses the family's most intimate uncomfortable moments. It navigates the family's new house at supernatural speed. It wants, no, it needs, something.