JULIAN to Head Canada's Line-Up at Annecy.

Big congrats to Toronto's Aircraft Pictures and Ireland's Cartoon Saloon!!! 

As reported in Playback, JULIAN will be heading Canada's line-up at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this year. Scored by Core composer LA-NAI GABRIEL, and written by Dominican-American writer juliany taveras, Julián is based on U.S. author Jessica Love’s picture book "Julián is a Mermaid". The film follows a seven-year-old boy who, inspired by his grandmother’s storytelling, undertakes a magical mental voyage in which he transforms the streets of Brooklyn into the mystical depths of the sea.l

CROCODILE at Tribeca 2026

Pietra Brettkelly's film CROCODILE will see its USA premiere at The Tribeca Festival June 5, 6, and 8. A huge hit, the film sold out quickly at its world premiere in Berlin earlier this year. 

Scored by Core composer TOM THIRD, the film follows a young Nigerian art collective creating DIY sci-fi films with homemade equipment, documenting their lives while exploring fantastical alternate realities. An energetic celebration of creativity and resourceful storytelling.

THE SANDBOX Premieres at CPH:DOX to Rave Reviews

Kenya-Jade Pinto‘s film THE SANDBOX, which goes inside “a global black box of migration, surveillance and control', premiered in the main competition at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen on March 17 to a 4-star review in Variety. Scored by Core composer ROBBIE TEEHAN, the film takes us inside cutting-edge technology, including artificial intelligence and its role in surveillance, power politics and border control amid discussions about migration. The film will also screen at HotDocs in April. 

Read more about the film in The Hollywood Reporter. Read the review in Variety.

CEREMONY Wins SXSW Audience Award

Big congratulations to CEREMONY for winning the SXSW audience award in the Documentary Spotlight section of the SXSW Film & TV Festival. 

Scored by Core composer JESSE ZUBOT, Nuxalk filmmaker Banchi Hanuse's documentary traces the vanished ooligan run, uncovering a buried history of erasure and the quiet revolution of a Nation that refuses to disappear. 

Read more about it in Playback.

YUNAN coming to theatres in January 2026.

Directed by Ameer Fakher Eldin and scored by Core composer SUAD BUSHNAQ, Yunan tells the story of an exiled Syrian author who travels to a remote island in the North Sea to commit suicide. There he stays at a modest hotel run by a devoted elderly woman whose quiet humanity incites a reawakening of his desires and instincts for life.

Nominated for a 2025 Golden Berlin Bear award at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. Watch the trailer here.