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A masterclass from the French filmmaker.
Verida is due to marry in three months. According to a Mauritanian tradition, she has to put on a lot of weight to appeal to her husband. The weight gain process gets harder as it progresses, and Verida begins to ask herself if this is what she really wants.
A buddy comedy in a world that won't let it be one.
A couple mount a hunt for a bride-to-be's AWOL mum, so that they can can tie the knot.
After discovering a disturbing video from a night she doesn’t remember, 16-year-old Mandy must try to figure out what happened and how to navigate the escalating fallout.
Inside a snake-handling church deep in Appalachia, a forbidden relationship forces a pastor’s daughter to confront her community’s deadly tradition.
When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters. Capturing their uncertain journey, Fazili shows firsthand the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run.
Profile of Sicilian photographer Letizia Battaglia.
Two teenagers demonstrate a singing game.
Documentary about the Millennium-trilogy author Stieg Larsson and his pioneering work of fighting right wing extremists and neo-Nazis.
In the second part of this sometimes musical drama, two women rehearse a production of Hecuba while fighting to save the arts centre to which they have devoted their lives.
Dorothea and her partner Greta have devoted 40 years to transforming their small-town’s disused bread factory into a civic centre promoting theatre, dance and film. As they prepare to stage Hecuba, they learn that their funding may be cut in favour of a glitzy, commercial rival.
A child's eye view of life in a religious cult.
The lives of four people cross over the course of a day in China.
Those who took part in the 1963 Chicago schools boycott tell the story.
Documentary about volunteers aiming to save refugees in the Mediterranean.
A dinosaur tries to save his friend - and so does a fox.
Life for rail workers on Tunisia's rundown Normal Line.
A sister becomes determined to stop her brother leaving the family home.
The connection between a Norwegian seed vault and farmers in Lebanon trying to replicate seeds lost to war.
Violence is sparked on the eve of Argentina's dictatorship.
An exploration of coming-of-age in the Black Belt of the American South.
Drama tracks a group of strangers who come together at an overworked Casablanca hospital.
Drama about a dysfunctional family.
A Danish couple face emotional and moral dilemmas after picking up a Lebanese refugee while on a romantic sailing holiday.
Eight children rescued from a concentration camp, find themselves under siege from a freshly pack of former camp guard dogs.
After the train of a retiring driver snags a blue bra, he embarks on a quest to return the under garment.
A child's eye view of the Soviet occupation of Estonia.
A father takes his estranged son on a rafting trip into the wilderness that suddenly turns into a struggle for survival.
A drama with roots in the historic character of Judith Ferreto, the nurse of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, who spent her latter days in Costa Rica.
A greedy boy seeks out hidden riches in the dungeon beneath an ancestral house guarded by a terrifying deity.
A musical epic and a romantic parable of a man whose family falls from grace after a tribal feud in a nomadic village.
Profile of Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari'a court in the Middle East.
A musician famous in the 80s thanks to a song, his best friend, an apparently famous painter, and the crossovers between two worlds.
Poetic essay on the documentarian's memories.
Documentation of the Sun King’s final breaths. A filmed performance of an installation.
Diamantino was once the greatest football player in Portugal. Now, in the middle of the worst crisis of his life, he decides to fill his void by adopting a refugee boy.
A woman keeps silent after a rape.
The tribulations and potential romance of a small town hotel waiter.
A woman's life begins to slip into a nightmare after a reunion with a childhood friend turns sour.
Women left in debt by their dead husbands' crimes conspire to pull off a heist.
Two stories about a cursed dress and its victims.
Leonor wants to leave home, but she doesn’t dare to tell her mother. Estrella doesn’t want her to leave but is unable to keep her by her side either. Mother and daughter will have to face this new stage in life in which the world they share starts to fall apart.
Manuel, an influential deputy secretary of an regional government who has everything going his way, finds himself fighting for survival when news of his involvement in a corruption ring leaks out.
A stylised portrait of an authentic Czech neo-Nazi, who hates his life but doesn’t know what to change.
The story of the East Kilbride factory workers who refused to carry out repairs on warplane engines in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile.
Memories of the residents of a Turkish retirement home.
Dramatisation of events surrounding hte 1819 Peterloo Massacre when a pro-democracy rally turn bloody as forces stormed the crowd.
A mechanic steals a stash of marijuana to use as a cure for his dad... only to find himself chased by dealers and hounded by people who think he's a healer.
Character study of a maid in a Mexican hotel.
'History is constantly repeating itself' Ferit Karahan on recurring cycles and the end of childhood in Djinn Wedding
Expanding the possible Fernanda Salgado on fantasy, reality, Jan Švankmajer and Ana, En Passant
A burning thing Sneha Mehta and Teddy Stern on falling in love with Mumbai, and making Getar Hero
Nothing is impossible Paul Rowley on moving to New York, the Pulse massacre, and Gays Against Guns
‘The only thing that makes a story universal is emotions’ Warsaw’s Industry panel discuss reaching audiences abroad
European Film Academy shortlist announced 68 features vie for nomination
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