Agnieszka Smoczyńska, the Polish director behind 2015 mermaid horror musical The Lure, has unveiled the first trailer for Hot Spot, a sci-fi noir set in a late 21st-century world governed by sentient artificial intelligence.
The film stars Noomi Rapace alongside Andrzej Konopka and Reika Kirishima in a Polish-Greek co-production filmed entirely in English. Written by Robert Bolesto, the story follows a private investigator working in a refugee camp who uncovers a murder and, in doing so, discovers a rebel faction capable of toppling the digital overlord. As the case develops, the investigator's own identity comes apart.
Focus Features will release Hot Spot in North American theaters on August 21, 2026. The film's world premiere is set for Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, running July 16 through August 2. Focus Features President Kiska Higgs described Smoczyńska as "a singular visionary" in materials accompanying the trailer release.
Hot Spot is Smoczyńska's most ambitious English-language project to date. The trailer positions it as something between Philip K. Dick and the procedural: a world where the real threat may not be the AI, but the investigator who can no longer trust his own mind.