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The Irish Midlands, 1862. A young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year old Anna O'Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months.
Biopic of composer Josef Mysliveček.
Helena and Ivan decide to make a new life for themselves among cork trees, but their different points of view on how to live on the land surface, challenging their future as a couple.
A son grapples with his feelings of hurt about an episode from the past as his mother succumbs to dementia.
Set over the course of one winter, a 17-year-old high school student struggles with grief.
In a near future, a family reckons with questions of love, connection, and loss after its A.I. helper unexpectedly breaks down.
Sometime in the Nineties, somewhere in a Turkish coastal resort, a young, divorced father is spending the vacation with his daughter pre-teen daughter Sophie.
The lives of three suburban teenagers intersect.
A young girl finds herself separated from her mother and working in a recycling plant.
A religious Filipino sailor working on a transatlantic ship, discovers a hidden Romanian stowaway. Convinced by a Bible this emigrant has, the sailor starts playing a dangerous game, involving his crew, his faith in God and an innocent man’s life.
Twin brothers find their lives disrupted after a phone call about their long-estranged dad.
A man and a teenager are find themselves unexpectedly conneceted by a car crash.
A man and his two daughters find themselves fighting for survival against a rogue lion.
A tale of scheming and romance set in Regency England.
When a network of Brazilian farmers seizes a protected area of the Amazon rainforest, a young Indigenous leader and his mentor must fight back in defense of the land and an uncontacted group living deep within the forest.
Laura and Bruno are stuck in a hapless marriage with frigid chemistry and ample unspoken tension. To spice things up and hopefully save their relationship, they head to a peculiar hippy-dippy retreat where inhibitions are discouraged.
The life story of Dame Whina Cooper, who in 1975 united her people to lead an epic march across Aotearoa (New Zealand) for Māori land rights.
Exploration of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, Hallelujah.
In the bucolic hills of Mexico's Jalisco highlands, iron-willed businesswoman Maria Garcia fights the impending collapse of her tequila factory.
In search of significance and social prestige, a billionaire businessman decides to make a film to leave his mark. To do it, he hires the best: a stellar team... but they have egos to match.
A flatulence-plagued narrator guides us through the closed space of a manor house where an arts patron and director of the Sonic Catering Institute uses various forms of manipulation in order to get a trio of performance artists to provide ever better results.
Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.
A naive 26-year-old finds herself on a sexual odyssey.
Drama based around a road trip in a borrowed car.
A woman planning to give up her baby finds herself on an oddball roadtrip with a 12-year-old.
When Krypto the dog loses his super-powers and his owner Superman is captured, he must team up with a team of shelter pets who have accidentally acquired special abilities.
Filmed entirely inside the world of VR, this vérité documentary captures the excitement and surprising intimacy of a burgeoning cultural movement, demonstrating the power of online connection in an isolated world.
'Anti-rock doc’ captures the sights, sounds and insecurities of Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett.
A peek behind the pages and personalities of International Male, one of the most ubiquitous and sought-after US mail-order catalogues of the Eighties and Nineties.
The story of two women who fell in love whilst imprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Julian Assange’s wife and father battle the British establishment on behalf of the WikiLeaks founder, who faces a 175-year prison sentence if extradited to the US.
The Financial Director for a democratic super PAC behind a frontrunner presidential candidate investigates donations uncovering a conspiracy.
Documentary tracing a young immigrant’s path from coastal Mexico to a life sentence for murder in California.
Two urbex and parkour-obsessed teenagers face-up to reality following the death of their friend.
We follow Afro-Latina filmmaker Rebeca Huntt, the titular Beba, as she takes us on the journey through her experience growing up.
The film that spawned Andy's 'favourite' toy.
The wife of a Jewish theatre director forced into hiding tries to keep a production afloat in occupied Paris.
The story of a taxi driver who stole a Goya from London's National Gallery and began to send ransom notes.
Poland, 1983. The country is shaken by the case of Grzegorz Przemyk - a high school student beaten to death by militia. Based on true events, the film follows the story of Jurek - the only witness of the beating, who overnight became the number one enemy of the state.
Sara has been in a stable, loving relationship with Jean for years. But then a man from their past reappears and, without warning, an old passion reignites.
A woman finds herself dicing with danger after she is asked for help.
A teenager finds herself grappling with love and the authorities during the rule of Ceaucescu.
A submarine operator finds herself on a rescue mission after a disaster in the North Sea.
Drama about a former prisoner of war, who struggles to resume her life in Ukraine.
Crime caper sees an actor caught up in international intrigue after the death of a member of his troupe.
The French schoolboy's adventures mix with the biography of his creators.
Film within a film about a group of youngsters who are street cast and how it changes their lives.
First love plays out against a backdrop of a hot summer and local myth.
During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveal their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren't looking.
Experimental abstract animation about a bird.
See what's underneath Jennifer Kent on creating a legend in The Babadook
Life lessons Shuchi Talati on rebellion and relationships in school-set drama Girls Will Be Girls
Observing different ways of being Lisandro Alonso on John Ford, Alice Rohrwacher, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Eureka
The invisible worm Anand Tucker on the making of monsters and The Critic
An epic work of art Alessandro Nivola on Brady Corbet and The Brutalist
Wild card Emile Hirsch on playing poker, suffering for his art and Dead Money
Life in full colour Fawzia Mirza on intergenerational connection, Bollywood, queerness and The Queen Of My Dreams
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