File name begin with period

TMM is not detecting media files that begin with a period.
Example files:
1) .on.Flux.2005.strm
2) .Re.Assignment.2016.strm
These files names are how they are saved directly from Kodi. The periods are in place of special characters. The way Kodi placed them is with underscores in the directory name and periods in the file name. If I manually change the file name to remove the leading period, all is detected just fine in TMM. In Kodi, there is never any issues with detection.

The movie names are: 1) Æon Flux and 2) (Re) Assignment.
The folder names are: 1) __on Flux (2005) and 2) _Re_ Assignment (2016)

I have tried removing them and readding them, the file names are named in the same way.