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Two enterprising brothers from the Australian boondocks launch a rickety business selling organic fertiliser - with a secret ingredient.
The largest tornado on record threatens to ravage a small town, leaving residents with only 13 minutes to find shelter, search for loved ones and fight for their lives.
Mother-daughter drama sees the fractious pair face a challenge when a new neighbour turns up on their doorstep.
An epic portrait of the legendary conqueror.
Ice age survival drama involving a wounded teenager and an injured wolf
Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in US history.
Tales of a yuppie serial killer.
A factory worker is ostracised after refusing to join a wildcat strike.
A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellin, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city.
When the zombie apocalypse hits the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - teenager Anna and her high school friends have to fight, sing and dance to survive, with the undead horde all around them.
A silent film star fears the advent of the 'talkies' will end his career.
Recreation of one woman's flight from the Armenian Genocide.
Sprawling epic sees English toff and drover bond over cattle and kids.
Many years following the apocalypse, a devout cult of mute zealots hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment.
Celebration of creative energy in anti-festival venues that give music back to those who appreciate its anarchic roots.
After discovering a body up in the hills, a young Edinburgh man gets drawn into a situation where he can no longer be sure what's real.
Gangland tale of a boy who falls in with the wrong crowd and - after a stretch inside - plans revenge.
Ex-con and nephew take a road trip in search of a bride.
In an isolated village in Denmark, dominated by puritanism, two spinsters nostalgically recall their distant youth and the rigid upbringing that forced them to pass up their chance at Earthly happiness.
A weekend getaway for four friends at a snowy resort turns into a psychological tailspin and bloody nightmare.
After a German woman falls out with her husband in the Mojave desert, she storms off to a truck stop, where she begins to transform - and be transformed by - the people who live there.
A teenage boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, adopts a bullied kid into his group of violent misfits.
Moving into the home of her dead mother, a woman starts seeing things. Is she remembering the past, losing her mind or being haunted?
A 13-year-old boy makes a wish at a fairground and becomes a man overnight.
Reconstruction of famous aboriginal murder trial in South Australia in 1959.
An LAPD officer makes a discovery that leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former blade runner who has been missing for 30 years
Documentary on the DIY independent film movement that emerged in tandem with punk rock and No Wave in late Seventies downtown New York.
A high school teacher undergoes transition to her new life while working in a conservative small-town school.
A woman falls for an older man after her husband is locked up for stealing.
Documentary about Swedish football player Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Fly-on-the-wall look at the juvenile detention system in Brazil.
A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.
Journey of self-discovery for dead-pan, retired Lothario.
Jarvis Cocker, Robyn Hitchcock, Martha Wainwright, KT Tunstall, Marcus Brigstocke, Ryuichi Sakomoto tackle climate change.
A couple hope to strengthen their bond by murdering a stranger, but instead discover that they have some serious differences.
A trafficked boy is saved from his fate, but is the alternative any less bleak?
Thriller about a crime enforcer for a clan of drug dealers, while also trying to be a good father to his autistic son.
A shop resisting gentrification.
A young girl's life begins to unravel after a car accident.
Drama based on the life of herbalist Jan Mikolášek
James looks back at the last Christmas he and Bob spent scraping a living on the streets and how Bob helped him through it.
Murder mystery chiller unfolds across two time periods as a man and his daughter try to come to terms with a suicide while he investigates historic deaths at a juvenile centre.
A middle-aged dairy farmer rebels against the all powerful local co-operative.
A mother and daughter are suspected of witchcraft by their devout rural community.
A housewife tends to a soldier with a mysterious sleeping sickness and begins to experience strange dreams.
Triptych of stories about women in small-town America.
The days leading up to the assassination of John Lennon.
A documentary following a group of US soldiers in Afghanistan.
Trials and tribulations of a wannabe comic.
An enigmatic woman walks back into the life of a man she knew before.
A youngster receives bad advice from his soon-to-be-jailed older brother.
Apollo Creed's illegitimate son begs his dad's former friend and rival Rocky to train him in the ring.
A Halloween stalker in an orange ski mask might , or might not, be the invention of campus japesters in a Scream-style slashfest.
Teenagers take up a sinister urban sport.
When a fast-living heterosexual redneck develops AIDS, he refuses to take it lying down, and in his struggle makes some unlikely friends.
So-so adaptation of Hideo Nakata's Japanese horror movie.
Documentary tackling the claims in Dan Brown's best-selling thriller.
Road movie about the friendship of a wounded young man in the western frontiers, who hooks up with a Native American.
Georges, 44, and his jacket, 100 per cent deerskin, have a plan.
Teenage egos collide when a self-proclaimed "Broadway Legend in the Making" is forced to share the spotlight with the school's star athlete in the high school musical.
A futuristic Marines vs monsters video game adaptation.
The death of Jon's mum forces him to take a trip with her corpse in the backseat to fulfill her last wish, with a dog along for the ride.
The story of a taxi driver who stole a Goya from London's National Gallery and began to send ransom notes.
After an accident offworld, an astronaut returns home looking for those responsible.
The story of a man who survived for nine hours in freezing seas after a shipwreck, and the impact of his legacy.
monochromed young man in pub starts seeing the future in colour
A gang of juvenile delinquents pool their resources to pay for one of their number to be put on the bill of a bull-fighting contest.
The Devil sends Don Juan to tempt a virgin but complications ensue when he falls for her for real.
A couple decide to take in a holocaust fugitive - a move which has unexpected consequences.
A bank clerk having a bad day crosses an old gypsy woman and is afflicted with terrible curse.
Germans infiltrate a British squadron in a bid to sabotage a radar warning system.
Paul is taking his first steps as a DJ in the world of French house music.
Two half-brothers head to Blackpool in search of lost family.
In a futuristic world, a man who is confined to the slums of earth, finds the space station retreat of the rich offers his only hope of survival.
A German-American returns to the land of his forbears to help with the reconstruction after the Second World War.
Black comedy about a man who puts animals to sleep... and begins to do the same 'favour' for the owners.
A glimpse into an ageing woman’s oppressive world where alcohol is quickening the process of decline.
Two parents race to find a cure for their children's genetic illness.
Two 'dads' go on a comic roadtrip to find a runaway teen.
Animated version of Roald Dahl's tale about a wily fox.
Jules is a drag artist in London. After a performance, he is brutally attacked and, traumatised, withdraws into himself. Months later, he recognises his assailant in a gay sauna and begins an affair with him, incognito. A revenge thriller.
An insomniac hooks up with a man on a plane who will change his life forever.
A bored 15-year-old girl collides with her mother's frustrating but charismatic boyfriend.
The director considers the critical relationship between humans and wild animals and the consequences of climate change.
The owner of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, the world's foremost penis collection, considers which of two volunteers should provide him with a human specimen.
Concerned by local gossip, a father follows his daughter one night and discovers a tragic secret.
Russian fairytale about a woodcutter who wins the heart of a princess.
A season of piss poor rugby in Finland and what the players think about sex.
Jason Vorhees is back... and he's angry.
Two people at a remote drilling station on a glacier grow increasingly concerned about missing colleagues.
In 1906, Gandhi’s eldest son Harilal joins his father at his recently-founded communal farm/ashram in South Africa. But as Gandhi’s civil rights campaigning gathers pace, the relationship between the two men becomes strained.
In a foreign city, a young girl begins to catch glimpses of the mother she lost in a car crash.
A Danish summer: A tunnel is being built to connect Denmark and Germany. An ethnologist comes to the island of Lolland to study its inhabitants and record their traditions and objects.
Mimmi, Emma and Rönkkö are girls at the cusp of womanhood, trying to draw their own contours. In three consecutive Fridays two of them experience the earth-moving effects of falling in love, while the third goes on a quest to find something she’s never experienced before: pleasure.
Sissy St. Claire graces the small screen for her first ever television special, an evening full of music and laughter, glamour and entertainment. But Sissy's live event quickly begins to curdle into a psychedelic nightmare.
Documentary makers explore corporate claims about sustainability.
A 17-year-old's stay in a mental hospital at the end of the Sixties - based on a true story.
Four young people face pivotal moments that could shape their lives.
Finland, 1962. Boxer Olli Mäki is 26 years old and in love. Expected to win a bout against an American, but he would rather be with his girlfriend than train.
An enigmatic stranger may not be as much of a godsend as he first appears to a lonely mum and her daughters.
Does the War on Drugs do more harm than good?
When an outsider from humble beginnings marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel their legacy, leading to a spiral of betrayal and violence.
A young mum tries to navigate her way out of a blackmail situation, while her attacker also finds herself under unexpected interrogation.
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.
Inquisitive teenagers in ghost town, where evil twins turn visitors into wax museum exhibits.
A man hit by tragedy takes matters into his own hands.
The moral decay of American East coast aristos, as experienced by a 17-year-old survivor.
Biopic of composer Josef Mysliveček.
A fireman with an anguished past finds himself on the run for a crime he has no memory of.
An amateur drama troupe rehearse the Čapek Brothers’ The Insect Play.
Jonas pretends to be blind and enters a TV dance contest where he meets his attractive dance partner, Saulé. They soon become the show’s most popular contestants. Meanwhile, Vytas, an old acquaintance of Jonas, is released from jail thirsty for revenge...
A man and a teenager are find themselves unexpectedly conneceted by a car crash.
This documentary follows the efforts by various Palestinians to cross the 7m high wall that separates the Palestinian Territories from Israel.
Czech new wave classic about the reunion of two friends.
Dangerous intruders on an uninhabited island.
Poverty and isolation in modern Iran.
Lesbian love blossoms across the cultural divide.
Mayhem ensues after a high school nerd declares his love for a cheerleader in his valedictory speech.
Selection of surrealist shorts gets a polished release from the BFI.
The opening chapters of The Jimi Hendrix Story in London
A sports agent tries to go it alone... with just one client.
A Judge prepares for retirement in Mega City One - and for a new, still more dangerous life beyond it.
On the American frontier a young woman is forced to go to any means to defend her kin from the ravages of the barbaric outside world.
A First Nations teenager sets off on a journey, determined to kayak the Inside Passage in British Colombia.
The story of the childhood of the 14th Dalai Lama.
Retelling of the Kursk submarine disaster.
An accident blackspot holds a supernatural secret.
A self-centred politican has to deal with the politics of relationships when she returns to her home town.
A lonely security guard is exploited by a group of gangsters including a beautiful femme fatale.
The president's battles in the Civil War and within his own cabinet.
Grotesque take on the story of the little wooden boy.
Britpop: a look back at the bubbles and bursts.
A woman sold into a loveless marriage develops a mind for murder after starting an affair.
An ageing farmer is determined to do things his own way.
A tribute concert for Leonard Cohen, with snatches of interviews and scrapbook photos.
After an automobile crash, the lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man, as he reflects back on a past love.
The cynical dark world of an unscrupulous arms dealer.
Big screen adaptation of the Sixties sci-fis series about a family sent to colonisation new worlds.
Horror film addresses madness, both in and out of the asylum.
A peasant is befriended by 'Death' and given a water that can heal any disease... but his new powers attract unwanted attention.
Napoleon Solo teams up with a KGB operative for a joint mission.
Story of an unusual romance between a narcoleptic woman and a man who can't recall his past.
A criminal seeks redemption.
Comedy drama about a family who gather in New York to celebrate the work of their dad.
A family buy a hologram to help their matriarch, who is losing her memory.
A Croatian ex-pat is has to return home due to her mother's declining health, forcing them to face the ghosts of their past.
A Second World War platoon are given the job of rescuing artwork form Nazi thieves.
Two children make a pact and run off, prompting the local community to go on the hunt for them.
Biochemist Michael Morbius tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead.
A tale that spans different time zones of the 20th and 21st centuries.
A film about Spanish colonial rule and aswangs.
Adam Sandler plays a small town bumpkin who inherits $40billion and goes to New York.
Girly fantasy about rich pretty twins fulfilling their dreams
A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.
A man who struggles to communicate learns a lesson from his son.
A masseur from the East enters the lives of the rich residents of a bland, walled off community.
A notorious serial killer is also a cop tasked with his own apprehension.
Era evoking and provoking with the Fifties S&M pin-up
A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human.
Danny Ocean gets the gang back together to pull of a trio of European heists.
A slaughterhouse becomes an unlikely setting for romance.
Fifties spoof sees not-so-super spy go on a mission to Cairo.
A top French secret agent hunts a Nazi war criminal in Rio and meets a beautiful woman with an agenda of her own.
A wealthy woman dupes a carpenter, but when she ends up with amnesia he hatches a plot to get his own back.
A middle-aged restaurateur befriends a young refugee.
Story of a bus driver and a poet and a maker of cup cakes and a dog walker and a week in New Jersey where small things happen
The Farrelly Brothers do Nick Hornby in an Americanisation of Fever Pitch.
Portmanteau horror.
A family's suburban idyll is shattered after they youngest daughter is taken captive by evil forces.
In the Swedish backwoods rock-and-roll becomes act of rebellion for pubescent teenagers.
The mystery of a gay porn star who disappears.
A woman and her daughter are stalked by a trio of thieves on their first night in a luxury apartment, with contains a monitor-equipped safe room.
Architect Alicia, a Mexican in Panama, can’t quite seem to fit in anywhere. The only constant in her life is the 14-year-old boy Alexis, who looks after the cars parked on her street... but tragedy is about to strike.
A volcanic rebuke of Rome's corrupt society? Or an effects driven disaster movie with a romantic sub plot and gladiatorial massacres?
The legendary wrestling princess of Mongolia leads a small band of warriors to retrieve a sacred scroll.
A Priscilla Presley biopic based on her memoir Elvis And Me.
A lonely woman allows a man to transform her into a puppet.
An elderly woman gives shelter to a younger one but they are haunted by their past.
A documentary following a child labourer in Goa through the eyes of the Canadian who wants to save her.
A University physics professor assembles a team of students for an experiment upon a possessed girl
Glasgow kids await a busload of asylum seekers with a mixture of fear and confusion.
A documentary about the films caught up in Hollywood's hunt for Communist infiltrators.
Study of dysfunction, addiction, loneliness and love amongst four characters in Coney Island
Snappy creature feature sees croc go wild in the outback.
A mysterious excavation awakens something sinister in the vicinity of an isolated northern Finnish settlement.
Tension mounts for a couple when a woman claiming to be their daughter, who went missing 10 years before, arrives back in their lives.
Return of Mila Jovovich and the city of slavering zombies.
A teenage boy finds his world turned upside down when he learns a secret about his beloved father.
An unnamed father and son travel through a post-apocalyptic America in this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
The story of the Scottish king.
Documentary about one of rock's most enigmatic and influential heroes.
A mischievous boy sees a carrot lying just outside the Warsaw ghetto and tries to retrieve it with a piece of wire.
A man and his girlfriend become haunted by the spirit of a girl after a road accident.
Part murder mystery, part political rant, John Sayles goes looking for trouble in Colorado.
A psychologist is sent to a space station to find out what has become of the occupants.
A coming-of-age story about the 16-year old boy Ari, who has been living with his mother in Reykjavik and is suddenly sent back to the remote Westfjords to live with his father Gunnar.
Low budget monster horror with romantic undertones.
A teenager explores issues around gender identity and sexuality in a seemingly hostile world, finding support from a church group.
Secrets in a smoke sauna.
A young girl who was supposed to be sacrificed to the sea refuses to surrender to her fate.
A dive into the world of competitive eating.
When a young girl stows away on the ship of a legendary sea monster hunter, they launch an epic journey into uncharted waters - and make history to boot.
Holmes and Watson confront a nefarious plot that threatens world stability.
Infidelities and secret passions over a weekend in a Swedish country house.
Consideration of the downsides of social networking.
After his grandmother’s death, a Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown, nestled in the majestic monarch butterfly forests of Michoacán. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his hybrid identity, sparking a personal and spiritual metamorphosis.
An Uber driver finds himself in a spot of bother after picking up a detective on the trail of a drug dealer.
A lonely hair stylist becomes obsessed with the lives of her clients and descends into murderous madness.
A secret government agency recruits jailed supervillains to take on a dangerous mission.
A high-caste Indian landowner discovers a wart on his chin that grows like Topsy.
Portrait of the father of Base jumping Carl Boenish.
FBI agents try to track down a group of masked killers with the help of three survivors.
Two tribes go to war in an undead apocalypse.
The psychologically damaging marriage of two poets in the Sixties.
Life in a poor Moroccan village, where a school chair is the most valued object.
Famous Dutch actress faces bankruptcy by hiring an accountant and giving another party.
Talking the long route under sail to Australia in the 19th century.
The picaresque adventures of a pregnant Italian in rural Romania.
Exploration of the Guadalcanal conflict during the Second World War.
The powerful story of the most iconic heavy metal/art collective/monster band in the universe, as told by the humans who have fought to keep it alive for over 30 years.
Time travellers arrive with a warning about the future and to recruit people from the present to join the fight. A schoolteacher signs up.
A young girl seeks out a lawman to hunt down the killer of her father.
A cyber crimes expert hunts a serial killer who posts videos of his murders on the internet.
A young woman finds herself clashing with the patriarchy in a bid to rescue her sister.
Indigenous artist Uýra harnesses the interconnecting power of their native, queer, and trans identities to blaze a trail of ecological activism and LGBTQ+ pride through the villages and cities of the Amazon.
A killer on campus draws on modern myths for his modus operandii.
A man steps in to help a woman attacked in the street, and gets more than he bargained for.
A fortysomething man, who still lives at home finds a surprising catalyst for change at a line-dancing class.
A frustrated housewife decides to explore her wild side in this sexploitation spoof.
A boy takes on the school establishment in Sixties Denmark.
A comedy from Uruguay that tackles the absurdities of solitude and the pretense of a marriage.
Backpackers go looking for hedonism in the Aussie outback... and find horror.
Cops and tourists fall foul of an outback serial killer.
Cosmos gives way to chaos in Tarr's whale of a tale - 4k reissue.
Based on the true story of the rise and fall of a financial high roller.
An ex-con goes on the run with his new-found love, while chasing his dream of opening a cinema.
A nurse, working for the Resistance in Prague, 1943, escapes to the Moravian mountains.
Story of a talented bass player on the path to self-destruction.
Documentary about the ground-breaking TV channel.
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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