Films

The Whisper Man

2026

23 000 Lives

2026

A group of young Berliners — nonprofessionals, driven rather than trained — crowdfund a decommissioned vessel and sail it into the Mediterranean to pull refugees from the sea. Markus Goller builds the film as an activist procedural: less interested in the voyages themselves than in the legal and institutional friction that accumulates around them, as the crew's improvised mission collides with maritime law, European politics, and their own conflicting ideas about what doing the right thing actually permits. Louis Hofmann and Mala Emde lead a cast working in a register that stays close to the documentary texture of the events the film draws from.

Desire

2026

Lucero's household runs like a proof of concept: the wealthy husband, the children, the arranged life. Teresa Simone builds the film as a domestic thriller that keeps its pressure entirely interior for as long as possible — the danger is relational rather than physical, arriving through accumulated compromises rather than incident. When a young swimming coach enters the family orbit, what follows is a triangle that eventually draws in Lucero's daughter, shifting the dramatic weight from affair to something closer to rivalry. Ludwika Paleta and Óscar Casas carry the central pull; the film's engine is the slow collapse of the distance Lucero thinks she can maintain.

Heartstopper Forever

2026

Kit Connor and Joe Locke return as Nick and Charlie for what is framed, structurally, as a culmination: the film picks up the Truham-Higgs ensemble at the threshold of life after school, with the central relationship now settled enough that the drama turns on what comes next rather than what's being negotiated. Wash Westmoreland works in a register closer to bittersweet pastoral than the series' lighter early chapters — the same world, the same ensemble including William Gao and Yasmin Finney, but with the calendar pressing down on it. It's a romance that shifts its weight from becoming to continuing, asking what a relationship looks like once the first version of the story is over.

Kara

2026