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A dancer falls in love with his fiercest rival.
Tragedy strikes a small-town community.
Road movie about an elderly piano tuner who forms a friendship with an unsettling puppeteer.
During World War III, the American government initiates a secret project codenamed ‘Army Bacon’ in order to create super soldiers by inbreeding humans with pigs. 25 years later the hybrid Muzzles have occupied the top of the food chain, eating and farming humanity.
Manga tale of an immortal warrior, who cannot be released from his torment until he has killed 10000 evil-doers.
Drama based on the life of herbalist Jan Mikolášek
A Japanese astronaut who dies during a mission is subsequently resurrected as a clone and returns to his childhood home.
Three separate stories of love lost in the beautiful landscapes of Japan.
Cultural changes in post war Japan come close to home when the concept of arranged marriage is questioned.
A writer with only a day to live finds himself helping an illegal immigrant.
Zombies on a plane.
A man rescues his lover from marrige to a yakuza and the go on the run to Tokyo, only to find it increasingly difficult to escape his violent past.
Sixties Japanese avante garde take on the Oedipus legend.
Supernatural revenge beckons after a woman commits a jealous murder.
Two brothers find their relationship tested after one of them becomes a magnet for attention because of his gigantism.
A group of teenage girls go to stay at a country house only to realise it's haunted as they begin to disappear one by one.
A magical tale in a troubled kingdom on the brink of war.
A son grapples with his feelings of hurt about an episode from the past as his mother succumbs to dementia.
Conflicts of love and loyalty for a good samurai.
A civil servant, told he has incurable cancer, resolves to change his mundane life before he dies. Out on re-release.
Nelson Mandela's attempt to unite his nation with the help of the rugby world cup.
Christian nobleman Eneko must fulfil the promise he made to his late father, to protect and lead his people into the new era. To do so, he must recover his father’s body, buried next to Charlemagne's treasure. However, despite his faith, he needs the help of his childhood friend, the pagan Irati.
Tale of a little boy who makes a big difference.
A young girl grieves for her missing father.
The Disney villain battles to save her realm.
A failed assassin gets out of prison to find that his clan is at war with itself, putting him in untenable position.
A traditional Indonesian tale of love and tragedy recounted through the medium of dance.
In a near future Japan, over-75s are offered a payment to encourage them to accept an assisted death.
A warlord splits his kingdom between his sons only to see the older two cause chaos as they battle for supremacy in this vivid Japanese reworking of King Lear.
The race is on to evacuate Japan after an earthquake threatens its existence.
An uneven relationship between a westerner and a Thai former sex worker.
Bergman classic about a knight who plays chess with death. Out on re-release.
A fed up accountant joins a dance class to find romance.
Five young women visiting the tropics for a wedding find themselves in deep water, with hungry sharks on the prowl.
A musical epic and a romantic parable of a man whose family falls from grace after a tribal feud in a nomadic village.
Eugene prefers a life of dreams to everyday reality in surrealist animator Jan Švankmajer's extension of one of his own dreams.
A recently married youth attempting to overcome impotence goes out searching for sexual release.
When her village is threatened with forced resettlement due to reservoir construction, an 80-year-old widow finds a new will to live and ignites the spirit of resilience within her community.
Yasujiro Ozu's masterpiece about the indifference of families.
A man dreams of becoming a shepherd in the Kazakhstan steppe, but is there room for such dreams in the modern world?
A Japanese serial killer goes on the run.
Zombies and samurai battle it out for eternal life.
A middle aged hostess struggles to preserve her virtue as she faces financial difficulty and a critical life decision.
A casual pick-up leads to an abusive affair between a construction worker and a redheaded woman.
A teenager's perspective of the world around her begins to shift as she is confronted with its capacity for injustice.
A boy falls in love with a girl who can control the weather.
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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