2026 Spring Hot Films

The misadventures of medical student James Rigby as he unintentionally becomes entangled in the dark underworld of London's cadaver business, led by the strange and mysterious Oliver Cross.

When Pro Rodeo's hottest star, Cole Langam, hits rock bottom after coming out, he believes he's lost everything. Until an unexpected journey of self-love redefines what it truly means to be a champion.

"Cowboy" follows a professional bull rider as he navigates his life after coming out in the world of rodeo. Through reconnecting with his estranged father and building a chosen family of queer friends, he learns to shed shame and embrace self love, unraveling the sense of “otherness” society often engrains in those who grow up feeling outside the norm.

When a 1948 plane crash in California kills 28 Mexican braceros (farmworkers) whose names are omitted from the news and official records, folk singer Woody Guthrie immortalizes their erasure in his iconic protest song, “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos).” Decades later, Tim Z. Hernandez—the son of farmworkers—undertakes a 16-year journey to uncover the identities of the forgotten victims, restoring their names, stories, and dignity while answering Guthrie’s enduring question: “Who are these friends all scattered like dry leaves?”

Moments after a teen is caught kissing a her girlfriend in the church rectory, she must stand before her traditional grandfather testing the limits of their relationship.

In 1980s Peru, battle-scarred American war correspondent Leslie Baxter reunites with his former lover—now a relentless TV anchor—when a cryptic videotape sends them into the Andes to find two missing reporters, only to uncover a military massacre and a cover-up that turns the insurgency, the state, and their unfinished past against them.

WOMEN WHO RIDE follows Tish, founder of D’Vious Wayz, Oakland's first Black women's motorcycle club. As mounting obstacles now threaten its survival, Tish must balance it all as she works to keep the organization alive and secure her legacy.

When a cynical single mom running her family's historic Wyoming Dude Ranch clashes with a cocky LA developer during Christmas week, they must overcome their prejudices and painful pasts to discover that reconciliation and family are the greatest gifts of all.

Seven Idaho men walked into a river with cancer in their bodies and silence in their hearts. They came out with brotherhood, purpose, and proof that asking for help takes more courage than going it alone.
Husbands, fathers, grandfathers, and sons, all battling cancer, casting lines not just for fish, but for hope. Through Idaho2Fly's fly-fishing retreats, they discover that vulnerability and connection make better patients with better outcomes. Currents of Courage is not a film about dying. It's a film about how men choose to live and the permission it gives every man watching to stop carrying illness alone.

In 2025, after a record breaking season, Cal Poly decided to cut their swim and dive team, citing House vs NCAA as the reason. Kim Carlson and her team at Cal Poly chose to fight to save their program in order to continue to pursue their passion for swimming. What do they need to do to save the sport they love? Raise 25 million dollars in under 100 days.

With no money left to her name, an emerging LA director accepts an invite to her favorite star's home party, but the star is nowhere to be found, until the next day when the director wakes up hungover and is invited to stay and film her documentary about the star, herself. What begins as a dirty game of cat and mouse, turns into a cry for true connection as Los Angeles burns before their eyes.

In this harrowing tale of redemption and the family we choose, we re reminded that we have two choices in life: leave or stay.

A love story to the artists, the Los Angeles community, and the enduring power of our dreams.

A blow to the head can change a life—but for many women, the moment of impact is only the beginning of their struggle with post concussion symptoms. WHY OUR BRAINS HURT follows women living with the lasting effects of concussion as they navigate dismissal, isolation, and a medical system that often fails to acknowledge or treat them. Blending intimate stories with emerging research, the film exposes a critical gap in brain injury care and shines a light on the resilience of those women determined to be heard and to find ways to heal.

When a war famous bomber-pilot-turned-actor is killed on the "Country Express", expert detectives John Hubbard and Brian McNeely must solve the "muduh" before their train (metaphorically) reaches its station...in the 1950's.

Film Noir, Comedy

Death’s Door is a thriller-comedy story from an award-winning writer-director that begins with a routine food delivery and spirals into one horror after another.

A group of film school graduates research the teaching legacy of film educator, Colin Young, the former chairman of UCLA’s film department, wherein, during his tenure many of UCLA’s most famous alumni graduated, such as Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Schrader, Jim Morrison, Joan Churchill, among many others. And despite his various contributions to UCLA’s Film School, there is little to no mention of him on UCLA TFT’s Website or film building today. Through research & interviews with former students and colleagues this documentary will shed light on the legacy of Colin Young’s film education in the US & the relevancy of his teaching philosophy for the next generation of filmmakers.

On a night devoted to questions, an unexpected answer arrives at the Passover table. Set in the 1960s, a Jewish family's carefully upheld traditions begin to crack when a long-buried secret surfaces, forcing 17 year-old Carolyn to hold her family together as the night unravels.

Inspired by lived experience, Mah Nishtanah is a personal, proof-of-concept short that aims to uplifts Jewish and female voices – while inviting audiences into a deeply human story about the traditions we inherit, the truths we grapple with, and the love that binds us together through it all.