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11 year old Mildred's world is turned upside-down when her estranged father, the washed-up magician Strawn Wise comes to look after her and agrees to take her camping to find a mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.
A skeleton crew in a decommissioned submarine launch a clandestine search for Nazi gold under Russian waters.
When film censor Enid discovers an eerie horror that speaks directly to her sister's mysterious disappearance, she resolves to unravel the puzzle behind the film and its enigmatic director – a quest blurring the lines between fiction and reality in terrifying ways.
After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Norval travels to his dad’s oceanfront home for what he hopes will be a positive experience. If only he’d known the dark truth about his old man beforehand.
Killers consider retribution round the kitchen sink.
Four men have a strange encounter during the English Civil War.
A meeting between two gangs in a deserted warehouse turns into a shootout.
A young cab driver tries to save his mum from alcoholism.
When a visiting conservationist accidentally trespasses in an ancient wood, its denizens set their sights on his family.
After hitting rock bottom, former youth boxing champion Jimmy McCabe returns to his childhood boxing club and his old team.
A hitman's moral compass becomes badly skewed.
A wealthy American persuades her Spanish maid to pretend to be a noblewoman in order to make up the numbers at dinner, only to have an English aristocrat fall in love with her.
A priest and a novice investigate devilish goings on in an isolated Romanian nunnery in the Fifties
A group of soldiers find themselves facing an ancient and seemingly unstoppable enemy.
An intense story of two people who struggle to keep their longings for freedom under control, set against a beautiful and remote landscape that reflects their isolation back at them.
A troubled Belfast boy befriends an English kid, with disturbing results.
A toll booth operator's secret past comes back to haunt him.
Shaping the cut Valerie Krulfeifer and Mickey Keating on their unreleasable past work and Invader
Peering into the heart of darkness Jeremy Strong on playing Roy Cohn in The Apprentice
The show must go on Nina Gantz on exploring grief with humour in Wander To Wonder
Going for gold Sebastian Stan on playing Donald Trump in The Apprentice
Finding the magic Jenn Wexler on her approach to filmmaking, The Ranger and The Sacrifice Game
Beautiful and difficult Sandhya Suri on semi-urban outposts, moral ambiguity and Santosh
About a bear Iain Gardner on immigration, community and A Bear Named Wojtek
We're looking forward to kicking off our festival coverage for 2025 with Palm Springs.
Towards the end of 2024, we 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.
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