Where state-recorded testimony was dry, often cut down by cautious lawyers or diminished by patronising questions, here it is led by the survivors themselves.
Women from Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes are suing for justice, accountability, and legal action against church and state institutions, supported by Justice for Magdalenes.
Where a lesser filmmaker might concentrate on notions of justice or a desire for revenge, Ford explores aspects of what it is that makes rape so damaging, such a violent interruption to the patterns of life.
A relationship is put to the test when a black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit.
I was entertained, but unlike an actual game of Tetris I didn't want to go straight back to it.
A thriller based on the true story of American video game salesman Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton) and his discovery of Tetris in 1988. When he set out to bring the game to the world, he entered a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain.
The film's vision of creation and destruction as coexisting drives within the steely heart of man has lost none of its arresting force over the years – or been outdone by Tsukamoto's two sequels.
The seminal work of extreme Japanese cyberpunk, newly restored from the original negative by cult director Shinya Tsukamoto, who will be in attendance at EIFF.
At the very least, the film does prominently feature the state of Texas, a massacre, and a large chainsaw.
After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorise a group of idealistic young friends who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world.
When the cast of a recent completed horror film arrives at the studio to celebrate what it just created, it emerges that someone has dressed up as Mistress, the central slasher, and has decided to make the art real by staging personal and highly stylised kill scenes.
The first half is packed with clues and double entendres. The second becomes more about action.
Sheltered Willow auditions for mysterious director Matthew's play, a Greek tragedy adaptation. Enthralled, she ignores dangers and undergoes self-discovery as the lead under his tutelage.
When Abby’s boyfriend drops out of the high school play, she finds herself helping a school outlier step into the role opposite her. They spend a long night wandering around their town, examining their futures and unearthing surprises from their past.
Silly in places but smart in others, and well structured throughout.
When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.
Rasoulof schools us in the ins and outs of a judicial system in which not only those who are directly sentenced to death can find themselves condemned as a result.
Four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty.
While the physical violence of the war stays in the background with the constant noise of war sirens and bombs, the psychological one is impossible to hide.
Four women try to rebuild their lives in Artsakh decades after the war, as another one breaks out.
Far from delivering dry moral pondering, the film is stunningly shot and full of sensual imagery.
A trans woman who has achieved success as an actress faces an internal crisis as she finds herself increasingly compromised by the demands of a conventional life.
The documentary lifts the various stones around the movie's creation and lets us have a good look at the monsters hiding underneath Welles's barely watchable, misogynistic hate parade.
Documentary about Orson Welles unfinished film, The Other Side Of The Wind.
A man staying with a friend he hasn't seen for years receives a call, in the wee small hours, telling him to prepare for war, leave the city and beware of infection. Should he protect his friend from the impending apocalypse, or from himself?
This is not a film for newcomers to the genre. It requires a familiarity with ancient things, yet it is in the unfamiliar that it anchors its emotional affect.
Two scientists investigating strange ecological changes find themselves at the mercy of Primeval forces.
Jackson’s interventions into archive material are often startling and sometimes very transporting and moving, but in my view this film is best approached as more of a well-intentioned artistic reinterpretation.. than a restoration.
Archive, colourised footage tells the story of the First World War.
This kind of quality is incredibly difficult to achieve with such limited resources.
Amy and her adopted son Adrian are on the run from her abusive ex-girlfriend, Judith, and take refuge in her family's abandoned farmhouse. Soon, a supernatural force from Amy's dark past rises up and begins haunting Adrian.
As character studies go, it's familiar ground but Funes succeeds in exploring it with some tenacity and strikes emotional chords without resorting to melodrama.
When a woman's father reappears on the scene after a spell in prison, she has a difficult choice to make.
A group of scientists at an Antarctic research station discover a killer alien that can mutate into any life-form it touches. See it in all its glory in big-screen re-release.
Van Heijningen Jr tragically fails to exploit our fear of the unknown and the potential tension of the paranoia-stoking premise.
At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson.
Where other such tales have become overly enmeshed in their own structural entanglements, Felker has the good sense to focus on character.
In order to escape police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a metaphysical farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking points.
A sometimes compelling, often baffling work that doesn’t really solve the inherent problem of its subject matter, but swings for the fences trying.
Struggling to process the sudden and unexpected death of his wife, a young father loses his hold on reality as a seemingly malign presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
This is about war being fought in a moral maze as Hawkins considers the invasion of space owned by others and the way that borders, both physical and ethical, can be redrawn from a very corporeal perspective.
During the Second World War group of six people is delivered to an uninhabited island with a secret mission – to make some pornographic films which in the government’s opinion should boost the fighting morale of the boys at the front.
