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A former rock star now working in a convenience store discovers that his childhood stories have inspired a megalomaniac with apocalyptic visions.
Epic manga trilogy sees a boy and his friends fight to save mankind.
A group of teenagers experiment with ketamine and find themselves out of their depth.
Raw Russian recruits join an elite brigade in the mountains of Afghanistan.
A man takes an unorthodox and dangerous path in order to seek justice for the murder of his father.
A woman seeks refuge at her uncle’s farm, but the demons from her past are not far behind.
Two dancers find a connection that goes beyond their art.
A disaffected teen finds solace in music and fan chat rooms.
A well meaning but thinly stretched British volunteer becomes the last hope for a young teenager alone in a refugee camp.
Lucy and Jane have been best friends for most of their lives and think they know everything there is to know about each other. But when Jane announces she's moving to London, Lucy reveals a long-held secret. As Jane tries to help Lucy, their friendship is thrown into chaos.
Mob boss has mental health difficulties - wants to become a "normal, well-adjusted gangster"
Science-fiction drama about a passenger spaceship lost in the void.
Two boys fall prey to charming but dangerous aliens. Can the famous monster Gamera save them in time?
The teenage daughter of a military chief bonds with an alien after his spacecraft is shot down.
Recreation of one woman's flight from the Armenian Genocide.
Remake of Sixties film about womanising lad about town who gets his comeuppance.
A teenager joins a travelling magazine sales crew and gets swept up in hard partying and young love.
Seymour “Swede” Levov, a once legendary high school athlete, is now a successful businessman married to Dawn, a former beauty queen. But turmoil brews beneath the polished veneer of Swede’s life.
When a rural farmer injures himself he develops an unlikely friendship with the farmhand he hires to help.
Chuck Norris is an undercover narc in San Francisco who goes feral.
A teenager is caught between his desire to rebel and his desire to please his father.
Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption... before everything goes to hell.
A young heavy, following in his father's violent footsteps yearns for something more.
A teenager, haunted by his mother’s tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, who bears a striking resemblance to his mum. His strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who dubs him the “long-awaited one.”
Final season of the Scandi crime drama.
A French musical about the contrasting romantic experiences of a mother and daughter.
A guilt-ridden philanthropist tries to help a young couple but isn't so good at caring for himself.
A bullied teen takes refuge in a world of online gaming.
A rock star's holiday is interrupted by the arrival of her old flame and his daughter.
After a bank heist goes south, the surviving robber tries to get rich quick in Senegal, only to fall foul of a millionaire who is morphing into a snake and gaggle of other weirdos vying for power.
The true story of violent criminal turned FBI informant Whitey Bulger in Boston.
A group of hostage takers in America desperately tries to save the life of a community activist sentenced to death in Nigeria.
A young stonecutter is sent on a mission by an evil queen who intends to sacrifice the beautiful princess who has captured his heart.
Revenge tale about a mute midwife in the American West.
Found footage tells the story of a group of young people mysteriously found dead after a party at a remote house in the woods.
A monk with no name protects a scroll with special powers.
Jarvis Cocker, Robyn Hitchcock, Martha Wainwright, KT Tunstall, Marcus Brigstocke, Ryuichi Sakomoto tackle climate change.
Betrayed Red Army General, Sergei Kotov, attempts to clear his name and regain his honour.
A magical cat arrives at the home of two bored children to show them how to have fun.
Two girls fight over men.
A directionless college graduate embarks on a relationship with a young mum and her teenage daughter while learning the boundaries of his new bar mitzvah party-starting gig.
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a muscle-bound brute in the days of sword and sorcery.
A lonely girl discovers a fantastic hidden world, but all is not as it seems - 15th anniversary reissue.
A housewife tends to a soldier with a mysterious sleeping sickness and begins to experience strange dreams.
The farmer's daughter and a talkative spider try to save the life of the smallest piglet in the barn.
Conan sets out to steal a crystal from a magic fortress in order to restore his dead girlfriend to life.
A teacher who thinks two of her pupils are responsible for the death of her daughter takes revenge.
The mind plays tricks in a beautiful landscape where relationships are explored.
When a graffiti artist in Copenhagen meets a girl on magic mushrooms, his slacker days are numbered.
In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs.
When a screenwriter is sentenced to community service, he finds his work with juvenile offenders offers him an unexpected outlet.
Piccolo and his former student Gohan go on a mission to save the world.
The story of a racehorse with a broken leg and a little girl who won't give up.
Ensemble drama about members of an estranged family.
A young Maori man sets out to avenge the death of his father.
Biographical documentary about an underground singer/songwriter extraordinaire.
Sexual humiliation and dark desires amongst disillusioned overweight Austrians in hot weather.
An odd-couple find themselves on a roadtrip to LA.
Two boys are forced to face up to their crime.
A former detective uncovers his daughter's secret life and the reasons why people want her dead.
A dramatisation of the marriage of John Ruskin and Euphemia Gray.
Ready for a night of partying, a group of Black and Latino college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an unusual emergency.
Four American teenagers travel to Europe looking for sex and adventure.
An agoraphobic young man hacks the webcams of local women and comes to suspect that one of them is a serial killer.
The 10 days that shook Eisenstein.
A glimpse into an ageing woman’s oppressive world where alcohol is quickening the process of decline.
Two young women with a dark past come under suspicion when a child goes missing.
Rather difficult to sum up in a one-liner - a barmy Greek zombie flick meets Doctor Who.
A drama about the life of Stanley Milgram and his famous experiments on obedience.
The moral and practical outcome of a drone strike in rural Kenya is thrashed out at British HQ as an American pilot in Nevada awaits orders to fire the missiles that may cause unacceptable collateral damage
Japanese female fighter, famous for wardrobe malfunctions, takes on a gang of kidnappers.
Nikola’s children are taken away from him after social services decide that he is too poor to provide them with a decent living environment. He sets off on foot to lodge a complaint in Belgrade.
A student's life is irrevocably changed when she meets a tormented billionaire.
Three thieves escape from a heist, two of them dying as they make their way across a turbulent strait. The survivor is sheltered by a sex worker and sought after by the police, but ten years go by before his true motivation becomes apparent.
Christian and Ana decide to rekindle their relationship, except this time there are no more rules or punishments.
The story of an 84-year-old Kenyan man's fight for education and equality.
A record shop owner insists that one of the records in his store will "save the world".
A young couple find it's tough to make it down the aisle.
An Australian tourist finds a trip to Bosnia changes her life forever.
A group of people experience crises in their lives after surviving a shooting in a diner.
Ichiko works as a private nurse for a family she has almost become a part of. But when the youngest member of the family disappears, the kidnapper's identity causes trouble.
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.
A bold young girl with a mysterious destiny sets off to rescue endangered children from the frozen north.
A documentary about the women of Greece's Golden Dawn party.
A fun filled flight to a remote atoll turns into a nightmare for five passengers when their seaplane is destroyed in a freak accident and they are trapped on a raft, 100 miles from shore with man-eating sharks lurking beneath the surface.
A young boy is chosen as the defender of good and must team up with Japan's ancient spirits and creatures of lore to attempt to destroy the forces of evil.
After he takes a call from a woman in a desperate situation, an emergency operator feels unable to let go.
Third episode of Sono's 'Hate trilogy' tells the story of two women, within the framework of a detective narrative.
A woman begins to question her life after she is diagnosed with cancer.
A charming geek finds spiritual fulfilment – and true love – while compiling a new Japanese dictionary.
The chain of J-horror continues. Shimizu's original sequel is out to own on double-disc DVD just in time for his US remake.
The killer ghosts from the Tokyo haunted house spread their deadly virus into a wider world.
When a visiting conservationist accidentally trespasses in an ancient wood, its denizens set their sights on his family.
A collection of shorts from America, South Korea and Israel showing very strange sides to family life.
A miserable musician finds love comes lately after he heads to Serbia for a marriage of convenience.
Through three different life possibilities a middle-aged woman tries to get out of her skin.
After the death of his wife, De Niro becomes increasingly concerned about his daughter's imaginary friend.
A teenager finds herself caught between cultures on the road to self-determination
Teen backpackers get more than they bargain for in sex-fuelled horror.
Conflicts of love and loyalty for a good samurai.
An amnesiac man tries to piece his life back together.
Two young couples leave Albania and Serbia in search of a better life further west, but find the reality is out of step with their dreams.
Drama about a girl growing up in the Deep South.
An estranged father and son get to know each other on a road trip from hell.
A teenager faces the choice between life and death.
A civil servant, told he has incurable cancer, resolves to change his mundane life before he dies. Out on re-release.
Biopic of composer Josef Mysliveček.
An old inn is about to shut its doors for the final time and two of its employees get more than they bargain for when they go ghost hunting.
A puppet and an abandoned stuffed animal toy they cross paths in Central Park and pair up for an epic adventure in New York City.
An Interpol agent and a lawyer try to uncover an international banking scandal.
An 80-year-old translator, Ali Ungár, comes across a book written by a former SS officer recounting his war experiences in Slovakia and realises that one of the chapters may well describe his own parents’ execution.
Dramatisation of the story of ice skater Tonya Harding.
A father and daughter finds themselves caught up in a battle for human souls by the keepers of dreams and nightmares.
Vengeance thriller.
Posthumous investigation into reclusive artist and writer Henry Darger.
Sean Penn is a mentally handicapped father, who fights for the right to keep his daughter.
A grave robber looks back on the life he has led and the unburied bodies that haunt his memories.
A young student's life spirals into catastrophe after he meets a mysterious young man.
When a man receives a party invitation from a woman he doesn't remember meeting, vengeance is on the cards.
An odd-couple friendship forms between two teens in small town Japan.
Family drama about decades-old betrayal to the communist secret police.
A Soviet adaptation of The Fellowship Of The Ring, in which four young hobbits are charged with carrying a dangerous treasure.
A dad and his twin kids go on a boat holiday filled with unexpected encounters.
Re-telling of anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl’s transformational 1947 journey by raft from Peru to Polynesia.
A young Japanese woman obsessed with Fargo heads to Minnesota in search of lost treasure.
Medieval epic about 13th Century civil war in Norway.
A widow tries to persuade her daughter to wed, even though it means she will be left alone. Re-released in cinemas in 2010.
A young girl with a band tries to help an amnesiac petty criminal.
A car mechanic tries to defend his property with tragic consequences.
A mysterious woman arrives at dawn in an unknown country, fleeing some terrible secret in her past.
A Slovakian man, who works in Germany, returns home for Christmas to discover some brutal truths about his eldest son.
A man with an unusual talent tries to get back to the woman he once lived with, who has no idea what he is.
A young woman vows revenge on the man who sexually exploited and bullied her sister online.
In the days before the school's culture festival, a girl's music group is facing a dilemma.
World champion windsurfer Robby Naish aims to surf the world's longest wave.
In pursuit of a serial killer, an FBI agent uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying spree.
A holidaying professor finds an encounter with another family triggers memories of motherhood from her past
A teenage musician attracts the attentions of a mermaid.
A Californian sheriff and a Japanese novelist both have close encounters with strangers who subsequently disappear.
A game of hide and seek has tragic consequences for two brothers during the 1999 bombardment of Yugoslavia. Showing at the EIFF as part of European Shorts 1.
A drifter with telekinetic powers sets out for revenge.
An epic journey through all the layers of hell.
An assassin goes all out for vengeance after the family he is hired to protect are attacked.
The story of why Stanislav Petrov saved the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
When a man arrives at her court claiming to be the son she thought long dead, Queen Margrete fears that her life's work, the Kalmar Union and the peace it has brought to warring states, could be in peril.
Five stories on interpersonal trust and unspoken truths intertwine.
When, less than two decades since the war ended in Yugoslavia, a diverse group of veterans gathers at a remote mountain hotel to undergo days of therapy, it’s hard to expect absolute harmony.
Atsushi Sakahara, a victim of the 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo's subway system, travels with Hiroshi Araki, an executive of Aleph (formerly Aum Shinrikyo), the attack's perpetrators, visiting their respective hometowns and the university they both attended.
When a grave illness strikes down her father Paris, Artemis decides to return home to Greece after an absence of some years and the pair embark on a new beginning.
Funny, delicately drawn animated vignettes of married life in Japan.
Magical film about two girls who have adventures with the forest spirits they encounter. Twenty-fifth anniversary re-release.
Biopic covering the early life and battles of the man who, as Genghis Khan, would go on to conquer half the known world.
A carer and a patient from a small retirement home become stranded in the forest.
A retired Sherlock looks back on his life and an unsolved case.
A street racer from upstate New York drives to California to compete against the man who sent him to jail.
Three people plot an act of eco-terrorism.
The forces of Light and Darkness storm and battle through the conflicted consciousness of 21st century Moscow.
A bystander who intervenes to help a woman being harassed by a group of men becomes the target of a vengeful drug lord.
When a Sydney playboy discovers he's about to be rendered infertile by testicular cancer, the heat is on to become a dad.
Eliška moves back with her daughter Karolínka to her husband’s native village. But something strange is going on and, as the temperature rises, Eliška becomes increasingly jittery. Fear is all-pervading and spectres move freely between dream and reality.
A teenage leukaemia sufferer embarks on romance and a bucket list.
Two women in Tokyo face a wave of anxiety after the south-east Asian tsunami.
The porn industry in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Two years after an alien invasion, the survivors fight back with the help of unexpected allies.
TV star Rick Dalton and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth make their way around an industry they hardly recognise any more.
Boss is a consummate ladies' man, a free spirit and a bar owner in NYC. One day, he gets a surprise call from Aood, an estranged friend who has returned home to Thailand. Dying of cancer, Aood enlists Boss' help to complete a bucket list – but both are hiding something.
A slaughterhouse becomes an unlikely setting for romance.
A couple celebrate their first anniversary with friends in a remote house in the woods. Not everyone will make it through the night.
A tame animated bear is returned to the mountaintop in time for the hunting season, with a neurotic deer who wants to be his friend.
An ex con is seduced by the allure of a thrill-seeking female gambler, while returning to his old gang to settle a score.
Boy from the Australian outishback competes in the world junior paper planes contest in Japan. Frankie should have sung a song.
A surreal investigation of a closed society's dark psychic underbelly.
A visit to a half remembered childhood home reveals a terrifying secret.
Pamfir wants to be a decent family man but challenged by the circumstances he is forced to give up honest breadwinning to help his family.
Unfaithfulness dogs a couple on the verge of marriage.
The chief retainer of a small domain in Echigo called Nagaoka is caught between the Eastern and Western armies after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
The three-hour, $139 million take on the historical event that launched the USA into the Second World War.
A man seeks out an unsuspecting stranger to help him purge the dark torments of his past. His plan goes awry when he encounters a woman with plans of her own. A playful psycho-thriller game of cat-and-mouse.
The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
Ash and his colourful pals make the leap to big-screen merchandising.
Czech political satire.
A clever girl in a Beverly Hills private school has no inhibitions about causing emotional havoc.
Romantic and fantastical cow farming odyssey.
Young telekinetics and clairvoyants band together to try to escape a sinister government agency.
A UN translator in Srebrenica when the Serbian army takes over the town faces a difficult choice.
A young woman rents out cats to lonely people.
Absent Russian father returns to take sons on mysterious journey to an isolated island.
Effective sequel to the original Ring.
A mysterious excavation awakens something sinister in the vicinity of an isolated northern Finnish settlement.
A hustler in the robot-fighting business, down on his luck, finds himself responsible for the son he walked out on years before.
Set in Madagascar in the early 1970s, on one of the last air bases of the French army, where military families live the last throes of colonialism. Influenced by his reading of the intrepid comic book heroine Fantômette, ten-year-old Thomas sweeps with a curious glance what surrounds him, while the world gradually opens up to a different reality.
Jelena wants to end her life and she’s only got a week to sort things out... a situation that proves difficult.
Starting out as a petty thief, a young man nicknamed “Rhino” quickly works his way up the criminal hierarchy in 1990s Ukraine. Rhino has only known power and cruelty, but with nothing left to lose, could he finally find a chance at redemption?
A cursed video that spawned a thousand sequels and remakes makes its debut.
When the happiness of children is under threat, an unlikely new hero emerges to help Father Christmas, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy save the day.
Rock biopic.
Samba migrated to France ten years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs...
A man on the run escapes, along with his daughter, into a dream.
A level-headed engineer arrives to repair a creaking old wind turbine. Out there in the misty woods he also goes in search of something else deep inside him.
A man battles bureaucracy to bury his father.
Controversial film about a porn star's descent into depravity.
Lysergic adult anime series about a young schoolgirl caught between the real and the virtual.
Pinky violence film about a female yakuza out for vengeance.
A lonely binman finds solidarity with a mistreated shop assistant. Out to own as part of the Aki Kaurismäki Collection: Volume 1.
Two brothers feel unable to build a life they are happy with.
Filmmaker Johannes and his wife, schoolteacher Signe, try to come to terms with unspeakable grief.
A young girl, escaping from her tyrannical father in Civil Rights era South Carolina, finds a very different surrogate family.
An account of life in a Czech-Austrian border village from the 1930s-1950s.
A goatherd finds his life thrown out of balance by the arrival of his siblings and a stranger from the city.
Five police officers struggle to protect a murder suspect afer a powerful man puts a price on his head.
Portrait of Michelangelo, who finds his loyalty between clients tested.
Portrait of a middle-aged woman facing choices and change.
Life for siblings on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
A boy goes in search of his father's lost soul.
According to myth, Laika, the first dog sent to space, returned to earth as a ghost that has roamed Moscow since... this film is told from the perspective of her descendants, two street dogs in today's city.
Forbidden memories on disk, yours for the right price.
A teenager forms an unlikely friendship with a detective. Together they investigate her mother's murder and uncover the supernatural force that threatens her family.
A train-wreck leads to an encroaching mystery.
A nightmare brews in a dance company.
A band of Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army
The artist as victim of The Patriot Act.
A teenager becomes a religious zealot and mounts a campaign against his biology teacher.
Two men struggle to escape a childhood of neglect.
French remake sees the squad try to catch a gang of jewel thieves.
An American Major interrogates the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic in 1945.
A mother tries to unravel a legend of a child abductor after her child goes missing.
Tongue-in-cheek Thai tale of love and revenge, in glorious technicolor.
When a town cop is reassigned to a provincial beat, he finds that rather than inflicting order on the locals, they have a disturbing affect on him.
Teenager from the 'burbs attempts to quit suckin'.
The heroes in a half shell are back on the big screen.
Portrait of the Finnish artist famous for his homoerotic work.
Frank Martin is forced into another ‘transporter’ job. But this time the package is human – and very beautiful.
A young scientist secretly leaves his family's ranch to travel across the country to receive a prize.
An insight into the society of underground Tehran.
Leading attorney Shigemori takes on the defence of murder-robbery suspect Misumi - a crime he admits - but as he digs into the case, he begins to wonder if his client is guilty after all.
A scriptwriter struggles to find a successful narrative for his own life in this ambitious romantic comedy.
A little rich girl becomes a nanny and faces the tribulations of love after being swindled out of the family fortune.
Dramatic comedy about the strange goings on of a police officer obsessed by making the world a fairer place.
The people of a small town gradually become obsessed with spirals.
A Japanese serial killer goes on the run.
The story of a powerful man and his potentially dangerous sexual appetites.
Bleak lives intersect in a small town in the Czech Republic.
A young girl sent to recuperate in the countryside finds an unsual friend.
Mystery surrounds a man with memory loss and a dead body found with no identification.
A casual pick-up leads to an abusive affair between a construction worker and a redheaded woman.
A French comedy as a man finds himself the victim of mistaken identity.
Earth is under attack and survival at a premium as giant alien robots gather for Armageddon.
On the day dedicated to the celebration of innocence, a girl is robbed of her own, and her ignorant surroundings push her into treating it like a normal event.
An unexpected love triangle, a failed honey trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
Mischievously self-assured Mára and somewhat eccentric Heduš set out into the frozen wastes in search of adventure – by car, naturally. After all, Mára's turning 15 soon.
A family full of women in a society where 'gender' is not a familiar word.
An opera singer's son disappears on a visit to an isolated community.
The son of a murdered crime boss exacts his revenge by pitting two rival clans against each other.
A quiet, middle-aged zoo employee wakes up to discover that she has grown a tail.
About a bear Iain Gardner on immigration, community and A Bear Named Wojtek
Tests of love Dennis Iliadis and his star Konstantina Messini on twisty meet-the-parents thriller Buzzheart
You must remember this Loïc Espuche on childhood revulsion, shyness, shame, kissing and Yuck!
Lights and shadows Dustin Pittman with Ed Bahlman on Alan J Pakula, James Ivory, Brian De Palma and Jerry Schatzberg
Innocence lost Sebastián Parra R on growing up too fast and world building in Seed Of The Desert
UK hopes ride high as Oscar International Film shortlist announced Ireland also makes the grade
That's a wrap on festival coverage for 2024 now. We've recently covered DOC NYC, the French Film Festival UK, Tallinn Black Nights, the Leeds International Film Festival, Abertoir, the London Korean Film Festival, the Belfast Film Festival and Halloween Frightfest.
Looking a little further back, we were at the London Film Festival, Newfest, the New York Film Festival, the Scottish Queer international Film Festival, Beyond Fest, Grimmfest, San Sebastian, Fantastic Fest and the Toronto International Film Festival.
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