Sergio G Sánchez has lofty ambitions, involving guilt, coming of age and a whisper of the supernatural - but without the emergency brake he is usually offered by whichever director he is working with to rein him in.
A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence.
The Pope family’s Christmas Eve dinner goes horribly and hilariously wrong when someone puts something in the party punch causing everyone to tell the unvarnished truth at the already dysfunctional holiday reunion.
It’s the sort of story rarely told in cinema today, and one which seems destined to attract a cult following.
When a hiker gets lost in the desert, a gang of feral children propelled by haunting legacies traps him in a sadistic battle for survival with a frightening endgame.
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.
Filmed in and around Iceland, the documentary encounters its participants in the course of their day to day lives – at home, at work or out and about – immediately dispelling many of the myths about their difference.
A documentary exploring the role that autism plays in the lives of 17 Icelandic women, and asking why autistic women and girls have remained invisible in society for so long.
Jones and Ross are both strong personalities and the personal aspect of the film is one of its strongest suits.
Launched in the late Eighties, educational software Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions globally, but the program's Haitian-born cover model vanished decades ago. Two DIY investigators search for the unsung cultural icon, while questioning notions of digital security, AI, and Black representation in the digital realm.
What really makes See Know Evil fascinating is the contrast in the ways different interviewees present the story.
Born to a family of celebrated fashion photographers, and with a terminal disease that gave him a fearless approach to life and art, Davide Sorrenti took 1990s New York City by storm. This is his story.
It's a beautifully written script and the performances are top notch.
A decade after abruptly breaking up with Naomi, Kris invites her to dinner to catch-up on their complicated lives, relationships, and Kris’ transition.
A slow burn of a film which disturbs and unsettles, recalling insomniac night and too-bright mornings, a familiar world where everything seems slightly askew.
A new father strives to protect his baby for the 21 days during which it is vulnerable to spiritual attack.
Bloomquist invites us to think again about the type of people who are drawn into cults, and to reflect on what is missing that they need to replace in this way.
Members of an underground online community attend a secret weekend retreat to confront their fears and regain their sense of self. Two girls discover that one of their mothers has become romantically entangled with its leader, whose unusual self-actualisation methods may be deadly.
It’s well handled throughout and effectively shows off Pierro’s talent for creating tension.
Facing mounting expenses and the unrelenting pressure of modern living, a down-on-his-luck cab driver is lured onto a mysterious new app that promises fast, easy money.
There's a comedy of misunderstanding underlying all this as well as more overt comedy as the friends banter with one another and are forced to deal with some of the consequences of their hypocrisy.
A couple find their relationship coming under strain while dealing with career issues and the tangled lives of their friends.
Undeniably, powerfully, tragic, a tale of ambition, bad decisions, cover-ups if not conspiracy - actual smoke-filled back rooms and dirt-road meetings notwithstanding - it is sympathetic to its protagonist but only so far.
A dramatisation of events around Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claimed the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.
Poor Simon, bless him, acts his socks off trying to make it make sense.
When a lowly postman is inducted into a top-secret superhuman DNA program at a research facility, it's revealed that he'll be able to receive, control and send information based on the senses of others.
It doesn’t posture about whether primates are sentient. It treats that as the baseline fact, then asks what kind of civilisation keeps behaving as if it isn’t?
An investigation into laboratory research on animals exposes a hidden world in which it’s not just the animals getting hurt. The story of Dr. Lisa Jones Engel, a primatologist turned animal welfare advocate, asks whether harming animals and ourselves in science’s name is justified.
What marks Trier out is his ability to take on intellectual ideas like this but make them play out in ways that don’t feel forced or overly constructed.
In the wake of their mother's death, two sisters grapple with their relationship with their filmmaker father as he tries to involve one of them in his latest project.
Full of potent observations, this film is a triumph of editing and a valuable record of events on that pivotal night.
A documentary recounting the events surrounding the imposition of martial law in Korea in December 2024, and the peaceful uprising of civilians against dictatorship.
September 5 might not be a masterpiece but it is a tense, nail-biting thriller.
Set during the 1972 Munich Olympics, the film follows an American Sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage.
Sequin in A Blue Room is a reminder of Nineties angst media and queer celebration, within the dark corners of adolescence.
When a teenager's thrill-seeking leads to a memorable encounter at an anonymous sex party, he resolves to track down the mystery guy - even if he has to rely on a menacing former hook-up to help him.
Its vision of the western frontier is a bleak one, full of grim railroad towns and the dusty bones of unsuccessful settlers, a place where even missionaries cannot be trusted.
One man hunts another across the treacherous landscapes of the old west.
Whilst the film will surely help to promote her as an artist, one cannot help but feel that, from an artistic perspective, she took on this challenge too soon.
Prune Nourry is a French multi-disciplinary artist and a survivor of breast cancer. This documentary merges the artist and the cancer patient, offering an appraisal of her oeuvre and its newfound connection to her illness.
Not only is the film thorough and engaging, it explains what's happening in such a way that viewers will be able to identify examples of similar events in their own local environments.
A band of young scientists discover a radical new theory of the natural world — one that could help confront some of the biggest environmental challenges of our time.
There's a good supply of bloody violence which will entertain horror fans and any number of people who have limited patience for those selling dubious remedies or telling them to smile more.
A frustrated thirtysomething woman stuck in a small seaside town meets a charismatic life coach who promises to transform her world with alternative therapy - and who is also a serial killer.
Alice Maio Mackay’s...most accessible film to date.
A young woman leaves her transphobic small-town, and develops a romance with tattoo artist Gen with whom she shares a paranormal connection. But their deep-rooted insecurities unknowingly release a demon, which possesses one of their ex-lovers and begins feeding on their friends by sucking out their lifeforce.
Bogarde, proving not for the first time that he was a whole lot more than just a pretty face, brings a real subtlety and edge to Barratt, letting just enough of the Machiavellian glint through to let us know there's more to this than first appears.
Psychological thriller about a servant who begins to manipulate his employer.
We don’t get much explicit backstory, so it’s the chemistry between the actors that’s important to making this slight story convince, and for the most part, it’s there.
A retired sniper in hiding on an Australian ranch must reunite her elite kill squad when a vengeful warlord threatens her daughter.
The frantic pacing of the film might be a bit exhausting if you're over six (and the blood a bit daunting if you're under it) but if you can stick with it, there's plenty here to enjoy.
A small-town couple finds the perfect apartment in the big city, except there's one catch: the apartment is home to the ritualistic suicides of a deranged cult.
Salome’s story has been shaped again and again by men; she is, perhaps, the first recorded subject of the male gaze. Egoyan is conscious that he is not in a position to resolve this, yet strives to bring female perspectives to the fore
An earnest theatre director has the task of remounting her former mentor's most famous work, the opera Salome. Some disturbing memories from her past will allow her repressed trauma to colour the present.
In 2007, Reyhaneh Jabbari, 19, is sentenced to death in Iran for the murder of a man who tried to rape her. The efforts her family and supporters undertake open a window into the mass oppression and silencing of women in the country and the risks it takes to support them.
The footage of his stay among the Tibetan nobility reflects the undeniable warmth and generosity of a people whose lives adopt an air of inherent tranquillity.
True story of Heinrich Harrer, who escaped from a PoW camp over the Himalayas.
Right and wrong are blurry concepts here. What might mean justice for an individual could be devastating to the community.
Magpie lives in an isolated church community ruled over by her father, The Pastor. When a man is murdered, paranoia sets in and people start to whisper about a strange 'Beast' that lives in the forest.
When killer alligators unleash chaos from the sewers of a small Louisiana town, it's up to a local sheriff, an alligator expert and an old gator hunter to kill the beasts.
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