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An Arab scholar is recruited to help a group of Norsemen protect a village under seige.
Eminem plays a budding white trash rapper in a black ghetto of Detroit
The story of an informant who was killed by an FBI agent.
Live-action remake of the Disney animation about a thief who gets his hands on a magic lamp.
An international group of 'gentlemanly explorers', all with pseudonyms to protect their identities, come together in a quest to solve the mystery of the missing tomb of Alexander the Great.
Pressures mount as summer intensifies for a group of entertainers at an all-inclusive resort.
Remake of Sixties film about womanising lad about town who gets his comeuppance.
In post-war Beirut the planned eviction of two refugee families divides the local community.
A British couple's Spanish holiday turns to horror after a disturbing discovery on a hunting trip.
High-minded school musical.
Mariam lives in a Western Saharan refugee camp in Tindouf and dreams of becoming a soldier and liberating her people.
Two young school friends meet after 16 years, with tragic consequences.
A vivid recreation of the events leading up to Algerian independence.
After a man witnesses an attempted murder, he soon finds himself the next killer's next target
Stranded on a crumbling rig in Baja, a family faces off against a vengeful megalodon shark.
A man tries to turn the rising celebrity of Christ to his own advantage.
A tale of obsessive love and contested identity within the world of filmmaking.
An exiled yakuza leads a drug war against the mafia.
A French musical about the contrasting romantic experiences of a mother and daughter.
A drama which explores the tensions between the white and indigenous cultures of Brazil.
A Manila street kid tries to save up to buy a mum.
Documentary about the Cuban stars who went on to become an international phenomenon.
A Michelin-starred chef who squandered his career tries to rebuild his life in and out of the kitchen.
A stag cruise leads a group of friends to stumble on a research facility... unleasing a deadly virus.
A family are forced to sell their Italian home.
Thriller based on the true story of the seizure of the Maersk Alabama cargo ship in 2009 by four Somali pirates.
An artist who joins a commune tries to uncover her past lives to end a cycle of violence.
An enigmatic woman walks back into the life of a man she knew before.
Communication breakdown and teenage bullying in a privileged Spanish day school.
A devout communist witnesses a government shooting during a strike - which changes her life forever.
Restored version of the Lean classic sees an idealistic poet/physician and the fiancée of a political activist meet and fall in love against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution.
Two former convicts are torn between going straight and returning to their old lives.
Contemporary take on the Dracula myth is a sorry mess.
An insight into the life of a man who is kidnapped and subjected to extraordinary rendition.
A father enlists in the French army in 1917 to join his 17-year-old son.
Someone wants four mathematicians out of the equation. Plus read our exclusive interview with Luis Piedrahita
True stories about plane passengers who tried to avert a 9/11 attack.
Real life gangster rap fairy tale, with 50 Cent.
A gravedigger finds himself up against it as he tries to get the cash together to help his gravely ill wife get medical treatment.
An ambitious would-be lifeguard learns the ropes from a man who's seen it all.
After he takes a call from a woman in a desperate situation, an emergency operator feels unable to let go.
A killer gets out of jail and starts hacking up prostitutes with a chainsaw... all in God's name, of course.
Existentialist low-budget comedy "about one of life's losers".
The Halloween night when Michael Myers returned isn’t over yet.
At the end of the 1950s, beginning of the 1960s, the war in Algeria continued. Salah, Kaddour and other destitute young Algerians join the French army as harkis.
The story of freedom fighter Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into an American hero.
A young mum tries to navigate her way out of a blackmail situation, while her attacker also finds herself under unexpected interrogation.
A half-breed American cowboy races his mustang across the Arabian desert, circa 1890.
An undercover cop takes cover in Florida to avoid the vengeance of the Mafia drugs cartel he helped put inside.
The doctor tries to fight his psychological demons.
After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart by figures from their past – both real and imagined.
Surprisingly restrained duo from the Spanish sleazemeister.
A young woman who is slowly losing her sight fears she is being stalked as she investigates the death of her sister.
The addition of a new creature to the Jurassic World theme park leads to trouble.
A Russian teenager is abandoned by her mother and must fend for herself.
The life of a plainclothes narcotics detective in the French police is a balance between les cock-ups and camaraderie.
A biopic of TE Lawrence focused on role in the Arab/Turkish conflict during the First World War.
A story set in London's West Indian community in the early 1980s.
Faust meets Arabic myth in the Moroccan desert.
A teenager who stops off to see his dealer to test a new drug before heading off for a night of partying. On the way home, he picks up an injured woman and the night takes a surreal turn
The most famous soprano in the world, a true diva, recounts her life 40 years after her death.
Satire on the arms trade, tracking one man's plan to blow up arms manufacturers.
A devoted wife finds her life is on hold whilst her husband is in prison.
A young master at the Tsukiji Fish Market, accidentally drops his meal of mixed seafood into the Sumida River. Some time afterwards a gigantic mutated squid monster arises from the water.
This dreamlike story of two pairs of lovers, a cook and a kitchen mouse is an adaptation of the cult novel by French writer Boris Vian.
A notorious serial killer is also a cop tasked with his own apprehension.
Blackmail and murder on a long haul transatlantic flight with 150 passengers on board
A nerdy parole officer witnesses a murder and, with three ex-crooks, attempts to expose the killer
A smalltown boy lives a fantasy life of a cop, indulged by the other residents, but trouble is on the horizon.
A Palestinian family is subjected to Israeli occupation of the most personal kind.
Asian pusher has one week to find the money he owes a ruthless London drugs lord.
After a man is disappeared by the government, his wife fights to save him and a CIA analyst questions the morality of his job.
Markus has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident - or so it seems until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.
A woman whose boyfriend refuses to have sex with her begins to embrace sadomasochism.
Sentenced for an unexplained stabbing, a young man enters a violent prison.
Samba migrated to France ten years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs...
A young woman struggles to cope with the expectations of tradition.
As detectives hunt for a serial killer, a tabloid crime writer uncovers the truth about the cannibal clan responsible for increasing disappearances, but he doesn't know their darkest secret.
A lonely young man muses on murder.
A family man in a mid-life crisis spices up his life by secretly learning ballroom dancing.
Rites-of-passage for teenage Spanish girl growing up with a manic mother in Sixties Australia.
A documentary about the life of one of the world's foremost exponents of Afro-Latin music, community activist and seven-time Grammy nominee, John Santos.
Love story between two women who face a struggle against a patriarchal society.
Rottweiler, working undercover for the NYPD, is flown to Florida to catch the thieves of a panda cub.
In a speculative and dystopian not-too-distant future, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him into a macabre universe.
A musical about six strangers who get stuck on a New York City subway together and change each others lives in unexpected ways.
A young girl escapes real life through a superhero fantasy world.
In a town of depressives, one family has found a suicidal niche.
Halle Berry is a widow trying to come to terms with grief with the help of her hubbie's troubled best pal.
A gangster finds new life in a town waiting for him to die.
The injustices and little victories of farm labourers and their families in Lombardy's feudal past.
Ahmed’s world is thrown off-balance when he encounters Farah, newly-arrived from Tunis, who challenges everything he thought he knew.
Filmmaker documents her own experience - and that of others - with ME.
A ragtag bunch of musicians are forced to rob a bank during the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival in the hope they will save their iconic but indebted nightclub in the Bo Kaap.
The story of emergency crews working to save lives in Aleppo.
After her mother’s death, Ida moves in with her aunt and cousins... whose ethics are dubious.
Deputy Leifur is a total wreck. Nonstop parties, hangovers, sexual escapades and drug abuse have gnawed his life to the bone. He decides to throw his last party before entering rehab. How will it turn out?
Two rival groups of black inner city kids from L.A thrash it out for the prize of best dance crew.
A teenager in a Senegalese village will do anything to meet his hero.
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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