The "Oh-No" Girls.
Rated PG-13, Language(s) English, Japanese. Run Time 45 minutes. Proposed release date, Spring 2026. The Oh-No Girls is a darkly comic government satire presented as a 45-minute digital anime opus. Utilizing five distinct visual styles from the golden age of anime, the film follows Hiroki James Johnson, an ambitious IT technologist who moves to Tokyo from Dallas and dreams of one day becoming a Chief Technology Officer. Unbeknownst to him, his creation of revolutionary cybersecurity software places him under surveillance by a shadowy task force of monochromatic, uniformed women — the Oh-No Girls — led by their stern commander, The Eye. What begins as career ambition spirals into a global chase as Hiroki is hunted across surreal, shifting worlds.At its core, The Oh-No Girls is a study in control, paranoia, and identity — a sharp-edged visual satire about a man whose innovation costs him his reputation, sanity, and peace.
In I Love You, (Winter 2026) HAIQEEM stars as Kael Mercer, a morally conflicted semi-independent mercenary who survives by taking dangerous off-the-books security contracts across collapsing regions of the world. Hardened by war, betrayal, and years of emotional isolation, Kael drifts through life believing attachment is weakness—until one mission in the Libyan desert goes catastrophically wrong.
After a convoy ambush orchestrated by a rival private militia, Kael is captured, beaten, and buried alive beneath the endless dunes outside Sabha. Trapped in a crude coffin with only a failing flashlight, dwindling oxygen, and the crushing weight of sand above him, he discovers that the emergency GPS beacon implanted beneath his skin has activated automatically.
There is only one person still authorized to receive the signal.
Aiko Vale—played by Nemuri Vyza—a brilliant but emotionally guarded Japanese-American cyber-intelligence specialist and Kael’s former lover, now living in Tokyo after vanishing from his life years earlier. Their relationship ended after Kael chose violence and contracts over love, leaving Aiko devastated and determined never to hear his name again.
But when her phone begins emitting an encrypted emergency ping in the middle of the night, displaying Kael’s vitals dropping minute by minute beneath the Libyan desert, she realizes something horrifying:
He’s still alive.
With governments refusing involvement and the clock suffocating him second by second, Aiko assembles a desperate rogue rescue operation spanning Tokyo, Rome, Tripoli, and the Sahara itself. As Kael slowly loses oxygen underground, drifting between hallucinations, memories, and regret, the film becomes both a race against death and a meditation on whether love can survive betrayal, distance, and the people we become in order to survive.
The deeper Kael sinks into darkness beneath the earth, the more Aiko is forced to confront the truth she buried long ago:
She never stopped loving him.
Blending psychological thriller, romance, survival drama, and neo-noir espionage, I Love You asks a single terrifying question:
If the only person who can save you is the one you destroyed… would they come?
