Memorable for its array of humble and humbling characters as well as its jaw-dropping, white-knuckle footage, this will surely stand as one of the best documentaries of the year.
A 3D documentary look at the thrills and spills of the world's most dangerous road race.
It has little teen humour, with the majority of the cast unlikely to see 40 again, and there is not enough plot substance to constitute an incentive for the older crowd.
A boy falls for his stepmother in this coming of age comedy.
DeFreece is excellent and provides the backbone of the film.
A queer, coming of age drama set in Rochester, NY about an anxious teen girl who is manipulated into a romantic encounter with her best friend during the funeral service of their former Hebrew school classmate.
Crijns handles the action set pieces well, creating a real sense of danger and dynamism despite the smallness of the setting, but it's in the film's chillier moments that he really comes into his own.
Hans is a self-confident, cocksure man who decides to visit his parents on the other side of the country. With his wife and two young daughters along for the ride, the road trip goes well. Until a road raging, traffic fight with a weird van driver causes a major family upset. Ed, the van driver, wants revenge.
There is practically nothing in the plot of this film that viewers won’t have seen before, yet it works, largely due to the combination of engaging characters and expertly delivered action.
A burned-out professional sniper finds himself trapped in an all-glass penthouse by a lethal competitor and must find a way to survive and escape with little to no cover between him and the killer.
It’s a film to be watched late at night, sunken into the sofa with one eye open. And then entirely forgotten about come the morning.
As the summer of 1988 winds down, three friends on the verge of adulthood attend an out-of-control party in celebration of their last night of unbridled youth.
Take Out Girl delivers a simple and well-known lesson: taking a shortcut almost never pays off.
To give her family a chance at a better life and save her family's failing restaurant, a young woman parlays her Chinese food delivery expertise into a profitable drug hustle.
The idea of the cyclical nature of love and life is ripe for exploration and Margot is a pleasingly complex character, whose motivations are believable.
A romantic drama about a young woman torn between the man she has and the man she wants.
The film is, necessarily, shocking but Fox handles what must have been difficult emotional material for her in a cool and responsible way that makes the message she delivers all the more devastating.
An investigation into one woman's memory as she’s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
A solid little film which delivers well within the scope of its simple ambition.
When a group of old friends spend the night telling stories of murders, ghosts, zombies and possessions they soon become aware of another tale unfolding around them. And this one is real.
Serves as a teaching tool of sorts that bridges the gap between the generations and opens up a communication regarding some unpleasant topics that are very present in everyday life.
Three children spend the night with their grandfather after losing their grandmother and discover the power of imagination.
The use of traditional folk song and the fact that the language shifts from Italian to Spanish also highlights the way that stories are passed from mouth to ear down the generations and across borders.
Italy, today. Some elderly hunters reminisce about the tale of Luciano - a drunk who locks horns with the head of the region over right of passage and is later exiled.
A film that celebrates the joy and fears associated with youthful lust, while exploring ideas of internal cultural conflict, without making it feel tacky or like a diatribe.
Ahmed’s world is thrown off-balance when he encounters Farah, newly-arrived from Tunis, who challenges everything he thought he knew.
Kotevska leans into the metaphor with the full force of a Disney film – but it is hardly inappropriate given the state of many modern farming communities who find their livelihoods dwindling and their younger family members forced to fly the nest in a bid to provide for their own children.
A farmer's bond with a white stork intertwines with North Macedonian folklore.
The reason the film works so well is in its well-established teenage relationships - with the Philippous showing the attraction of being in with the cool kids and that the dangers this presents are particularly acute for those, like Mia, who are already emotionally vulnerable or, like Riley, desperate to be included in an older peer group.
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an ancient embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill. Until one of them goes too far and opens the door to the spirit world.
Heder shows no signs of nerves with her first feature, boldly creating a trio of women who are, initially, prickly at best, slowly fleshing them out to reveal each as altogether more complex.
A woman 'kidnaps' a toddler and passes her off as her own.
Tightly paced and styled after the manner of a 1940s creature feature, this is a film peppered with bad jokes and innuendo yet played absolutely straight between its two leads.
When Michael is mauled by some big cats at the local zoo, a mad scientist transplants his brain into a full-sized animatronic T-Rex! In order to be reunited with his high school sweetheart, Tammy, Michael will have to stomp and chew his way through all who stand against him.
The joy is in the animation, with the non-speaking characters, particularly Rapunzel's chameleon pet and dogged palace horse Maximus stealing every scene they are in.
Director Scott Walker knows how to deliver on scares...and in a film of this type, that’s what really counts.
After mysteriously inheriting an abandoned coastal property, Ben and his family accidentally unleash an ancient, long-dormant creature that terrorised the entire region-including his own ancestors-for generations.
Documentary examining events surrounding the depopulation of a Palestinian village in 1948 and the implications for the way the state of Israel records its own history.
Kampmeier's choice of drab locations, dimly lit, means this is far from the imagined glamour of Hollywood, and anybody who has been unemployed and gone through the drudgery of pursuing one slight lead after another will be able to relate to it.
The story of two aspiring actresses who cross paths with the darker side of the entertainment industry.
The office setting means that we spend most of the film inside small white-walled room with no sense of place and only these cardboard characters to entertain us.
A mysterious creature rises from the depths of the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles to threaten local residents.
It really looks impressive when you bear in mind that all the cast and crew had to eat during much of the shoot were the coconuts they managed to knock down from trees.
When a professor who knows secret information is kidnapped and taken to the Caribbean, top agents are dispatched to track her down.
Chaos is everywhere, along with the fear of straight-out societal collapse.
Seven women are forced to taste Hitler's food to check for poison. As they spend time together, their relationships evolve between loyalty and betrayal.
Construction and destruction are the twin poles of Ziad Kalthoum's meditation on exile, which employs silence as much as sound to give the viewer time to think about the continuum between the two opposites.
Essay documentary about Syrian builders in exile.
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