Him: Directed by Justin Tipping. With Marlon Wayans, Julia Fox, Tyriq Withers, Tim Heidecker. A promising young football player joins an isolated compound to train under a dynasty team’s aging quarterback.
Code of Fear: Directed by Appolain Siewe. With Marc Lambert Lamba, Appolain Siewe, Basile Ndjio, Alice Nkom. The fruit of long reflection and a personal quest for understanding, this essential documentary aims to highlight the discrimination suffered by gay people in Cameroon, where same-gender sexual orientation is considered a crime and is punishable by law, with a maximum sentence of six years in prison. In 2013, the young journalist Eric Lembembe was murdered in Cameroon. He was tortured and beaten to death because he was gay and had fought for gay rights. Shocked by this gruesome murder in his home country, filmmaker Appolain Siewe sets off for Cameroon to find out more about the situation of LGBTQI+ people there. He soon realizes that Lembembe’s murder is no isolated case. Same-gender sexual orientation is still a criminal offense in Cameroon, as it is in almost all African countries. Being gay is completely taboo and is considered an embarrassment for families. While making the film, Siewe examines his own homophobic upbringing and seeks contact with members of his family. Since living in Europe, his outlook has changed. For his father, on the other hand, making a film on the subject is enough for him to break off all contact. Why is homophobia so firmly anchored in Cameroon’s society? What role does colonization have to play in this? Siewe’s own experiences, moving encounters with activists who fight for tolerance in their country despite all the risks, and his conversations with Cameroonian scientists, sociologists, and human rights activists offer a comprehensive insight into society in Cameroon.
Mortal Kombat II: Directed by Simon McQuoid. With Tati Gabrielle, Karl Urban, Hiroyuki Sanada, Damon Herriman.
Black Ops: Directed by Tom Paton. With Shayne Ward, Bentley Kalu, Samantha Schnitzler, Alana Wallace. Special ops squad “Hell’s Bastards” are sent to infiltrate a civil war to retrieve intel. The unit soon find themselves trapped on a never-ending stairwell forced to climb or die. To survive, they must revisit their past sins if they ever want to get off.
Die, My Love: Directed by Lynne Ramsay. With Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek. In a remote forgotten rural area, a mother struggles to maintain her sanity as she battles with psychosis.
Stockholm Bloodbath: Directed by Mikael Håfström. With Sophie Cookson, Claes Bang, Alba August, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard. Anne and Freja seek revenge on the men who murdered their family. They end up in Stockholm, where they are drawn into a political power struggle between Sweden and Denmark which culminates in a mass execution.
Elio: Directed by Adrian Molina, Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi. With Yonas Kibreab, Zoe Saldaña, Brad Garrett, Jameela Jamil. Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.
The Rideshare Killer: Directed by Ashley Scott Meyers. With Tuesday Knight, Victoria De Mare, Croix Provence, Jeffry Druce. The young female CEO of a new ridesharing app must stop a serial killer who’s using the app to lure victims into his car, before he destroys the company and kills her entire technology team.
Paramasivan Fathima: Directed by Esakki Karvannan, Muthuramalingam, Sakthi Selvaraj, Sivakumar. With M.S. Bhaskar, Chaya Devi, Vimal, Aruldoss.
