Film Movement Plus - July 2026 Streaming Premieres

By Film Movement | July 1, 2026

JULY 3


How I Learned to Fly
Two teenage boys are mysteriously abandoned by their parents and have to learn how to survive on their own. From this desertion, comes an experience of beauty, meaning and enduring love.


Fancy Dance
Yohei becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to return to his punk roots.


Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
Shuhei gets coerced into joining his school's sumo team so it can compete in the regional tournament. Through trials, tribulations and some hilarious shenanigans, the team slowly learns how to cultivate a winning spirit.


JULY 10


Millie Lies Low
Millie is on her way to New York for a prestigious internship when a panic attack causes her to miss her flight. As she tries to cover up her mounting lies about her new life, she finds a hilarious path to self-discovery.


Hot Girl Summer
Three best friends make a pact over the summer to finally have an orgasm. Inken tries to help her boyfriend find her G-spot, Lena struggles to ask out her crush, and Vicky gets herself into a predicament with a surprising love interest.


JULY 17


Under the Fig Trees
On a hot summer morning, a crew of workers arrive at a fig orchard in Tunisia. Through sun-drenched leaves, the young women joke, argue, gossip and flirt while stealing precious moments of respite from the foreman’s gaze.


Caro Diario
Nanni Moretti recounts three entries from his “diary” in this hilarious and intimate self-reflective comedy, which follows the filmmaker’s musing on cinema atop a Vespa, his trip to the Aeolian Islands, and his search for a cure to a nagging rash.


Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Frantz Fanon was the preeminent theorist of 20th century anti-colonial movements. Weaving together interviews, archival footage, and vivid dramatizations, Isaac Julien integrates the facts of Fanon's life with his tortuous journey.


Bilitis
During a summer holiday, a sheltered boarding school student experiences the thrill and heartbreak of first love while becoming captivated by her beautiful guardian.


JULY 24


Close Your Eyes
Filmmaker Miguel Garay reflects on his final and still unfinished project. During its production, his lead actor and friend, Julio Arenas, disappeared without a trace. Now, years later, he reconnects with members of the crew and Julio’s daughter, seeking closure.


JULY 31


Red Island
Living on one of the last military bases in Madagascar, ten-year-old Thomas begins to find cracks in his family’s blissful existence. Spying on those around him, he observes the hidden lives of both the colonizers and the colonized.


The Mission
Four Latter-day Saints teenagers from Utah struggle while being immersed in a new culture after they are sent across the world to preach the gospel in Finland as part of their two-year rite of passion.


The Chronicles of Libidoists
Four lonely strangers pursue sex, love, and connection in modern Taipei. As their lives intertwine, desire gives way to vulnerability, forcing each to confront the emotional emptiness hidden beneath their pursuit of pleasure.