All Of A Sudden
The director of a nursing home in Paris has an encounter with a terminally ill Japanese playwright that transforms her life.
Blaise
The Sauvage family just wants to be loved. Carole is trying to improve her poor reputation among her employees, while Jacques is trying to do the same with his friends. As for their son Blaise, politely, he's about to embark on a revolutionary, violent, and completely impromptu crusade for a girl.
Colony
A biotechnology professor is among those trapped at a biotech conference after a rapidly mutating virus is released.
Crescendo
Satire sees the cast of an opera rocked by an accusation of sexual assault.

D

Death Has No Master
In Venezuela, the heiress of a colonial cacao plantation and its entrenched guardians enter a duel for the land, where the only harvest left is violence.
Dernsie: The Amazing Life Of Bruce Dern
A documentary examining the life and cinematic achievements of the celebrated actor.
De Gaulle: Résistance
The story of Charles de Gaulle's rise to power.
Dua
Prishtina, Kosovo, late 1990s. As war looms and ethnic tensions escalate, 13-year-old Dua struggles to find her place among her peers and within her changing body.
The Electric Kiss
A grieving artist tries to reconnect with his dead wife via a clairvoyant, who is in fact a penniless performer who has cooked up a ruse.
The Fast And The Furious
LA street racers are infiltrated by undercover cop.
Fatherland
Drama focusing on Thomas Mann's post-war life, as he and his daughter embark on a road-trip across Germany.
Fjord
Mihai and Lisbet Gheorghiu, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, move from Romania to Norway with their children to be closer to Lisbet’s family. But tension mounts when one of the children arrives at school with bruises.
Flesh And Fuel
Étienne is a lorry driver. Fastened to the road, his love life is reduced to fleeting, nameless encounters in parking lots. When he meets Bartosz, a Polish lorry driver, his loneliness is turned upside down.
Full Phil
Absurdist comedy centring on a wealthy American industrialist trying to reconnect with his daughter on a luxury trip.
Goodbye Cruel World
Otto Vidal, 14, disappears after writing a farewell letter to his classmates. While everyone believes he is dead, Léna, a girl from his high school, spots him one night roaming the streets of the city.
La Gradiva
A group of French high-school students travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius. There, they are drawn into a dizzying descent.
Hope
A thriller set near Korea's heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone. When a tiger is reported to have been sighted, the community is thrown into chaos

I

I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
Childhood friends Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli, and Conor played together, skipped school together, and dreamt of the lives they would have one day. Now they’re thirty, and the future they imagined is slipping quietly out of reach.
Low Expectations
A successful young artist's career derails, forcing her back to her hometown. While teaching high school to make ends meet, she navigates depression and rediscovers herself in unexpected ways.

M

Man Of Iron
At the height of the Solidarity movement, a Polish TV journalist is assigned by the government to undermine an independent trade union leader.
Madame
Laura works for Souria in a luxurious Paris mansion. Souria, kept by a Saudi prince, awaits his visits. As Laura adapts to this world of wealth and surveillance, the women bond. But Laura senses danger closing in on them both.
A Man Of His Time
Historical drama set against a backdrop of Vichy France as a man strives to help France's renewal.
Minotaur
A high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence begins to unravel.
Pan's Labyrinth
In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, a lonely girl encounters a mysterious faun.
Paper Tiger
Two brothers pursue the American Dream but get entangled in a dangerous Russian mafia scheme.

R

Sheep In The Box
A couple take a humanoid robot into their home as a replacement for their dead son.
Species
Margot dreams of becoming a life-saving doctor. But as an intern at the most competitive ER in the country, she has trouble keeping up. Soon, young burnt out patients come to her with unusual symptoms, just as she starts developing a strange metamorphosis…
Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma
When the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed to a new director, she visits the original movie's star only to fall into a blood-soaked world of desire and delirium.
Tin Castle
Along a long-forgotten road, the O’Reillys live in a rundown trailer stranded in the middle of the fields. Pa’, Lisa, and their ten children weather the seasons in their tin castle, heirs to a way of life on borrowed time. Under threat of eviction, their tenuous balance falters, yet – steadfast in their tradition – they resist.

V

Victorian Psycho
Trouble brews at a gothic manor after they hire a governess.
We Are Aliens
The story follows Tsubasa, a quiet boy, and Akitarō, a child prodigy. Jealousy and misunderstanding sever their childhood bond. Years later, as their lives take different directions, each must make a decision when the weight of the past resurfaces.
A Woman’s Life
A dedicated surgeon whose private life is under strain because of the demands of her work finds things beginning to shift when a novelist comes to observe her work for a book.
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