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The Oscar-qualifying film festival returns for another exciting year with some of the hottest titles on the festival circuit, including both features and shorts looking likely to win big awards in the months ahead. It also includes some fantastic retrospectives, with a particular focus on cult ozploitation classics.
The festival runs from 1 to 17 November.
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The tale of two Black teenagers who become wards of a barbaric juvenile reformatory.
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli authorities and the unlikely alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.
Shot entirely inside the video game Grand Theft Auto, this documentary charts the story of two out-of-work actors as they try to stage a full production of Hamlet within this notoriously violent digital world.
In Copenhagen in the aftermath of World War one, a young woman in desperate circumstances takes on a job which will lead her to still greater depths of despair.
Absurdist drama sees family secrets gradually revealed during the preparations for a funeral.
Drama surrounding the election of a new Pope.
A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mother, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn.
A clan gathers for what could be their last Christmas together at their family home.
An animated adventure about a group of animals who must work together to survive a catastrophe in a post-human world.
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch.
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