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An actor buys capsule monsters online to defeat Covid-19.
Epic manga trilogy sees a boy and his friends fight to save mankind.
Anna is stuck: she’s approaching 30, living in her mother’s shed, and spending her time making movies with her thumbs. Her mom wants her to move out; she just wants to be left alone.
The classic anime tale of rivalry between two boys who uncover the mysterious secret of a post-apocalyptic world. On re-issue.
Vicaria is a brilliant teenager who believes death is a disease that can be cured. After the brutal and sudden murder of her brother, she embarks on a dangerous journey to bring him back to life.
A linguist is given the task of helping to communicate with extra-terrestrial beings when they touch down around the globe.
A gang of dissolute teenagers protect their block of flats from an alien attack.
Rites of passage drama about a youngster on a summer break with her family.
Multi-stranded film sees four lives collide.
Japanese high school kids are forced to hunt down a dangerous renegade, or die.
Re-imagining of Abel Ferrara's film, starring Nic Cage as a cop in post-Katrina New Orleans, whose moral compass slips after he is put in charge of a murder investigation.
Slave rebellion... with added turkey.
T'Challa, the King of Wakanda, rises to the throne in the isolated, technologically advanced African nation, but his claim is challenged by a vengeful outsider who was a childhood victim of T'Challa's father's mistake.
A teenager, haunted by his mother’s tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, who bears a striking resemblance to his mum. His strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who dubs him the “long-awaited one.”
An exiled yakuza leads a drug war against the mafia.
A skeleton crew in a decommissioned submarine launch a clandestine search for Nazi gold under Russian waters.
An ex-cop is drawn into a missing persons case.
An IRA man questions his ways after befriending a captured soldier, then flees to London and finds himself out of his depth in the soldier's world.
Cops versus the Japanese mafia thriller.
A renegade cyborg locks horns with a hard-boiled cop in the final part of Takashi Miike's sci-fi trilogy.
Piccolo and his former student Gohan go on a mission to save the world.
Three separate stories of love lost in the beautiful landscapes of Japan.
A qi expert detective is suspicious when a seemingly ordinary paper maker fights off notorious bandits.
A hard pressed single mother gets a job in a Japanese restaurant and is inspired to pursue a career as a sushi chef.
Tale of a middle-aged suburbanite whose life is crumbling.
The most ordinary people and places can be quite extraordinary.
A group of people experience crises in their lives after surviving a shooting in a diner.
Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history and get turkey off the holiday menu for good
Santa Claus is on the run.
A modern-day contract killer in New York, who works according to the Samurai code.
The story of how Jann Mardenborough went from being a gamer to a professional motor racer.
A literate anime that sets a dog loving, once-human detective to discover why female sex droids are killing their users.
Korean youth in Japan fights against prejudice.
A period tale of Samarai warriors and their obsessions with honour, love and death.
An examination of the people who thought of themselves as 'good', yet allowed the Nazis to rise to power.
The story of Terri Hooley, Ulster’s Godfather of Punk, and the record shop and music label through which he promoted cult bands.
One man's quest to win back his ex takes him on a series of adventures through London
Running a guest house proves deathly for a family. Just as well they know a few good songs.
When a man who thinks his child has been kidnapped discovers they've nabbed the wrong kid, he has to decide if the life of another's son is equally worth saving.
Knives, passion, police, bamboo, disguise, a blind dancer, a dangerous quest in 9th century China.
A high school girl and highly skilled karate expert sets about proving herself as the ultimate fighter.
The worst twisters anyone can remember in a small American town. Bad weather, boring people, big winds. Where can they hide?
A courier who transports data in his brain faces a race against time and those who want the information he is carrying.
Adaptation of Kevin Lewis' autobiography of the same name.
A boy goes looking for his mum, accompanied by an intolerant thief.
A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past.
A former labourer turned yakuza plots to avenge the murder of the boss who changed his life.
A failed Japanese suicide makes friends with a neurotic, spoilt Thai girl in Bangkok.
A small town sheriff is the only one who can prevent the leader of a drug cartel from escaping justice.
An insurance investigator probes the suspicious death of a conman whose sister and dodgy hubby inherit $1million after his demise.
Ugandan dictator's rise to power as seen through the eyes of a young doctor.
A butler's eye view of the White House staffer who served seven presidents.
Two lonely American tourists in Tokyo find solace in each other.
The assassin and his child take on another assignment.
A ronin wanders the Japanese countryside with his child, having adventures.
Lord Retsudo musters the last of his resources in an attempt to destroy the father and son team once and for all.
Tragedy strikes a couple on holiday.
A tender relationship forms between a cab driver and a young prostitute.
The story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been forced to become soldiers.
Power play and corruption unfold in a futuristic city.
Study of brutality in a Japanese PoW camp
Atsushi Sakahara, a victim of the 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo's subway system, travels with Hiroshi Araki, an executive of Aleph (formerly Aum Shinrikyo), the attack's perpetrators, visiting their respective hometowns and the university they both attended.
Two women in Tokyo face a wave of anxiety after the south-east Asian tsunami.
A girl uses a target of earning a million yen to dictate when she moves from place to place.
A man with a passion for astrophysics experiences a schizophrenic break after suffering a bereavement.
Shooting a zombie movie in one take is harder than you think...
Will they/won't they romance set over two decades.
Two families clash when their offspring decide to tie the knot.
Complex relationships develop between cast and crew members working on a musical.
A Dublin wastrel finds his troubles piling up when he attempts to pay off a debt to a gangster.
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.
Colin Farrell is trapped in a New York telephone box by a mysterious sniper.
Facing the apocalypse, as a secret website devotes itself to the terrible isolation of ghosts and the parable of techno terror.
Trailblazing artists, activists, and everyday people from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality defy social norms and dare to live unconventional lives in this kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQ culture in contemporary Japan.
Japanese futuristic action pic about a probable alien invasion.
Effective sequel to the original Ring.
Rebels set out to steal the plans for the Empire's deadly Death Star.
The story of an ancient Chinese battle in which a ragtag southern alliance tried to hold out against a powerful warlord from the north.
A biopic about Aretha Franklin.
A cursed video that spawned a thousand sequels and remakes makes its debut.
World leaders become stranded in the woods during a G7 summit.
Ethnic tensions complicate working class lives in the industrial town of Kofu.
Pinky violence film about a female yakuza out for vengeance.
A dive into the world of competitive eating.
A fed up accountant joins a dance class to find romance.
Japan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster.
Explosives exert Lionel Crabb joins frogmen to root out an Italian wartime secret base.
A GI Joe spin-off centered around the character of Snake Eyes.
Boxer Billy Hope turns to trainer Tick Willis to help him get his life back on track after losing his wife.
A test-tube sci-fi girl grows up into a man-eating centrefold nymphomaniac.
A training cruise for Kirk turns deadly with the return of an old enemy.
Capt Kirk, now an Admiral, brings the old team back to save the world from a fresh alien attack.
A lone cop goes up against a corrupt system.
The story of a beautiful princess found in bamboo who goes on to be wooed by the Emperor of Japan.
Hybrid of Yakuza gang action and hip-hop musical.
The story of two aspiring actresses who cross paths with the darker side of the entertainment industry.
Caught in a timeless world of passions and betrayals, Mia searches for the truth behind a mysterious woman's death.
A road movie which draws from the archives of artist Audrey Amiss.
After a presidential assassination, secret service agents try to work out what happened via five different perspectives.
Love, with catheters, for an ageing act-or who is seduced by the beauty of passion’s young promise.
A group of art students seem to fall under the influence of demonic clay.
Nineteenth century battle epic about blood brothers who find their bond is tested.
A journalist recounts her wartime coverage in Afghanistan.
Hayao Miyazaki brings together the engineer Jiro Horikoshi and the author Tatsuo Hori in a fictional epic tale of love.
Two brothers face the fight of a lifetime – and the wreckage of their broken family.
Mischievous lad learns how tough it is to be a parent when he is crowned king of a family of magical monsters.
Animation set in the Ireland of the Cromwell period, when a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland to wipe out the last pack... only to discover the magical world of the wolfwalkers.
When a Japanese gang boss is killed, his only heiress is sent abroad as a baby. 20 years later she discovers her inheritance and unleashes a war against her pursuers.
Japanese myth of the blind warrior made flesh by Takeshi Kitano.
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
Questlove film heads to Sundance A bumper year for star author and filmmaker
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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