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Age swop rom-com, as a feisty 13-year-old high school girl goes Big and wakes up as a man-eating magazine executive.
A writer of guides to haunted houses finds himself out of his depth in a creepy hotel.
A coming-of-age rebellion fueled by Riot Grrrl music, a dysfunctional family, and LSD
It's a distant future, on a savage planet, where only women can survive. The lonely teenager Roxy frees a criminal buried in the sand. Once freed, the woman, who goes by the name of Kate Bush, starts spreading fear and death again.
Portrait of larger-than-life visual artist Apolonia Sokol.
A man caught up in an amnesia pandemic tries to construct a new life for himself.
As protests against the West German government of the late 1960s become increasingly violent, a group of young left-wingers decide to take direct action.
Barbie suffers a crisis which leads her to question her world and her existence.
A young man who returns home is welcomed by his mother, little realising trouble is coming through the door with him.
A filmmaker sets out to impress the actress Anne Hathaway, with disturbing results.
New Wave brat scholar Tarantino swears blind this was not the inspiration for Kill Bill? You decide.
A Hollywood agent tricks an ageing action star into appearing as King Lear in an amdram production.
The arrival of an exchange student reawakens a middle aged man's musical ambitions.
A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.
The short, anguished life of Joy Division's lead singer.
Sixties series mixing spy and sci-fi gets all-singing, all-dancing release.
A teenage boy confronts adulthood as he waits to join the army.
Daniel Auteuil pretends to be gay to save his job at a condom factory.
A former salsa star attempts a comeback.
An ambitious young actress takes on her first horror movie, but when people start disappearing for real, she has to become her character in order to survive.
Javier Bardem is the cop who searches for a revolutionary leader in a South American republic.
When a man awakens in a basement with three other prisoners, he must engage in a twisted battle to solve the puzzle to his past and save his family's future.
German dramatisation of the last days of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.
Over-the-top parody of US beauty pageants.
A dinner party organised with guests bringing an 'idiot' goes awry.
The inside story of an energy drink marketing ploy gone wrong.
The journey to womanhood of rebel and misfit Emily Brontë.
Soft-porn adventures of a glamorous bisexual.
Ten trafficked women attempt to escape from a ruthless gang after being abducted from a holiday resort.
A writer with only a day to live finds himself helping an illegal immigrant.
A dying mother is determined to manipulate her family to the very end.
A romance between two people, who met too briefly over a winter weekend while on the run from themselves.
A young man becomes obsessed by a woman he keeps seeing in his dreams.
A woman desperate to save her ailing husband manages to acquire the scientific journal of Victor Frankenstein.
A suicidal man struggling to avoid sliding back into alcoholism visits former friends and lovers to say goodbye.
Following in the footsteps of a goalie after he is sent off in a game.
Two men go on the prowl after being the week off marriage by their wives.
A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. He is given new ones - taken from a man executed for murder.
A young woman hopes to find peace when she goes to stay with her friend and her friend's boyfriend, but everyone has a secret.
Portrait of designer Zac Posen.
Biopic of Margaret Thatcher.
Biopic focusing on the life of Judy Garland six months before her death.
In the early years of the 20th century, the Kingsman agency is formed to stand against a cabal plotting a war to wipe out millions.
A mysterious stranger arrives in a small town and begins to play two rival gangs off against one another...
A get-together takes an unexpected turn after a power cut.
A young teenager worries that his family will discover he's gay before he's ready, and finds himself falling in love with a similarly closeted classmate he talks to online, without either of them knowing who the other is.
A woman who believes she has a 'loser in love gene' goes on the hunt of her exes in a bid to change her romantic future.
Alone in the house she grew up in, Molly uses a camera to try and capture the thing she thinks is stalking her.
First-person perspective chiller about a serial killer with a fetish for scalping.
Two sisters' love for one another becomes destructive.
A ruthless Washington lobbyist takes on gun control.
A group of Salem witch trial re-enactors find themselves at the centre of a modern day witch hunt.
1993: after being caught having sex with the prom queen, a girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center.
A son searches for the spiritual heart of his architect father through his life and work.
Boy meets girl on a rail replacement bus.
The surviving victim of a serial killer becomes embroiled in a dangerous game of cat and mouse.
A serial killer with multiple personalities takes on the cops who have caught him.
A slaughterhouse becomes an unlikely setting for romance.
When a woman suspects her husband of an affair, her dad encourages her to join him on a mission to uncover the truth.
Teenage gods and monsters - classical, but not a classic
Percy and his pals go on a quest to find the Golden Fleece.
Two white witches are shackled with a curse that makes men who fall in love with them meet an untimely demise.
Trouble brews for a man on his release from jail and only worsens after he buys his girlfriend a dream dress.
Biopic of The Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin while on assignment in Syria.
A high flying lawyer develops a habit of using escort services, putting his marriage and career in danger.
Surreal drama in the sea.
Story of two ordinary people who go on to have a most extraordinary child.
Following her mother’s death, River Allen finds herself spiralling out of control, when her friend steps in to help, River discovers she has secrets of her own.
Portmanteau film in which four directors “limit themselves to recounting the joyous beginning of the end of the world”. Out to own as part of Pier Pasolini Volume One box set.
The rivalry between Formula One drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda comes to a fateful head at the 1976 German Grand Prix.
Portait of an artist as a rebel.
The four friends face life's crises and head for Abu Dhabi.
A teenaged girl develops a crush on her female pal.
A recent college graduate goes to Paris after breaking up with his girlfriend of five years. Once there, he falls in love with a young prostitute and their fateful journey begins.
An unexpected reaction to medication persuades an ordinary man that he's developing superpowers.
A rescue pilot tries to save his family in the aftermath of a gigantic earthquake.
A thirtysomething finds his life spiral out of control after his sister moves into his apartment.
Toys installed with the wrong computer chips go to war.
Tensions rise for a couple who have moved to a fishing lake.
A fading television star tries to restore her fame with the help of a suspicious drug.
The true story of of a whistleblower who shook the French nuclear industry.
A couple’s relationship is tested when the husband is struck by a rare disease.
The group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton, Los Angeles, in the mid Eighties and revolutionises hip hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.
An unknowing descendant of the orginal Sawyer clan goes to visit the old house she's inherited.
A Brooklyn mother finds comic relief from domestic drudgery.
High school seniors McKayla and Sadie are obsessed with their social media presence as authorities on crime - the only trouble is, they're the hands-on type.
The picaresque adventures of a pregnant Italian in rural Romania.
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.
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.
A mysterious creature rises from the depths of the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles to threaten local residents.
On the cusp of his 30th birthday, a promising young theatre composer navigates love, friendship and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City.
James Hamilton's compelling photographic journey through five decades of New York's cultural evolution.
A widow in denial about her husband's death, imagines he is still at home.
Mockumentary about a family of vampires.
A mystical totem grants its owner three wishes... with deadly consequences.
Nothing will be the same at the end of this summer for Gelsomina and her three younger sisters.
An ancient, super-powerful mutant arises, planning to kill all humans and with a nasty fate in mind for Charles.
Jean Grey struggles with her cosmic powers, tearing the X-Men family apart.
When her doctor husband order that she be confined for the sake of her mental health, a frustrated writer becomes obsessed by the pattern in her wallpaper.
A university professor is struck by lightning and finds himself growing younger.
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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