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A man carefully plans and carries out the murder of the man whom he blames for his girlfriend's death, only to wake up with a confirmed sense of déjà-vu and his target alive and well, repeating the same routine as the day before.
Two friends seek spiritual salvation in India, away from their hedonistic and disconnected London lives, in advance of the impending collapse of the cosmos.
A schoolboy becomes fascinated by the colony of penguins that has mysteriously appeared in the middle of his town.
An Englishman in Uruguay adopts a penguin, smuggles it back to his home in Argentina, and gradually wakes up to the political violence going on around him.
A graduation weekend away goes drastically wrong when a masked killer shows up.
An aspiring clown grappling with her gender identity combats a fascistic caped crusader.
A documentary exploring live streaming, fame and fandom in China.
During a pandemic, a pregnant restaurateur tries to rob a priceless truffle from a reclusive veteran.
The story of culinary treasure the goose barnacle and its influence on life in the Algarve.
A bereaved man turns to a medium to channel the spirit of the woman he loves, but nothing goes as planned.
A Canadian farmer takes on a giant corporation after its GMOs interfere with his crops.
In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe.
A chef and an epidemiologist fall in love, just as the world is falling apart.
A gangster on the run hides out in a hippie household and starts to lose his grip on his identity.
Capturing scents in 18th century France can be a deadly business.
A lazy sound designer is sent to the remote island where a film was shot to capture a sound powerful enough to elevate its finale. Once there, eerie local fables surface: for years, ambitious and headstrong youth have lost their souls to a ghostly sea captain for his spectral crew.
An author whose first novel has unexpectedly radicalised a generation is persuaded to use new software to write her second, but her discomfort grows as it becomes more and more intrusive.
Dealing with a pregnancy termination in Ireland has been hard for Sarah Dekker. Shunned by her religious zealot family and unforgiving boyfriend, she travels to a friend’s country house to recover. But unbeknownst to her, it sits atop a mass grave of unwanted babies and their lost, confused sprits want to be reborn.
Afrooz has given her life to football. Now, she is about to captain Iran’s national team as they head to the final of the Asian Nations Cup in Malaysia. That’s when her estranged husband Yasser exercises his legal right and forbids her permission to leave the country.
On her 18th birthday, tough-girl Jonny eats a cake baked by her aunt according to a magical family recipe and undergoes a radical metamorphosis.
Suburban London, the 1980s. A stranger in the family becomes a ghost child and awakens the monsters and desires of a queer childhood.
When a large Iranian-American family gathers for the patriarch's heart transplant, a family secret is uncovered that catapults the estranged mother and daughter into an exploration of the past. Toggling between the United States and Iran over decades, mother and daughter discover they are more alike than they know.
Exploring the criminalisation of pregnant women as seen through the eyes of a young mother swept up in new laws.
A little film about gender identity, Little League baseball, the people who inspire change by trying to be themselves, and the superheroes who allow that change to happen.
A doting grandmother takes the kids on holiday and discovers that she doesn't want to let them go.
When Laura learns that she has breast cancer, her partner Sylvain doesn't respond in the way she might have hoped.
A young man tries to explain to his ailing father a vision that he may not understand himself.
Steve Glew spent the 1990s smuggling rare pez dispensers into the USA from Eastern Europe, making millions of dollars. It was all magical until his arch-nemesis, The Pezident decided to destroy him.
A politician faces blackmail on the verge of an important vote.
Somewhere on the Brazilian coast, teenagers Lucas and Martin fall in love while investigating the disappearance of a local kid, but their blossoming romance is threatened by sinister forces lurking beneath that idyllic summery landscape.
A documentary portrait of Martin Shkreli.
Phases of Matter follows living and inanimate residents of a teaching hospital in Istanbul, moving from the operating room to the morgue, between life and other states, the real and the virtual.
From a young age, Jill has acted as the responsible adult in her small family. She cares for her loving but mentally unstable mother and her younger brother. The news that their estranged father will be visiting on Jill's birthday gives the children much needed hope.
Colin Farrell is trapped in a New York telephone box by a mysterious sniper.
A mathematician searches for a code which could explain the universe, but his research attracts some unsavoury interest.
An introverted foley artist, Eva struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse. Empowered by a horsetail growing out of her body, she lures a botanist into an affair, through a game of submission.
A mute woman in an arranged marriage makes a dangerous bargain in an attempt to retrieve her stranded piano.
Pick of the Litter follows a litter of puppies from the moment they're born and begin their quest to become Guide Dogs for the Blind, the ultimate canine career.
A group of schoolgirls and their teachers mysteriously disappear whilst visiting Hanging Rock.
A 12-year-old girl gets into arguments with her mother ahead of getting her annual school photo taken.
A young woman commits to standing by her husband after he is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour.
A man seeks out an unsuspecting stranger to help him purge the dark torments of his past. His plan goes awry when he encounters a woman with plans of her own. A playful psycho-thriller game of cat-and-mouse.
The most famous hangman in Britain goes about his business.
Hasan, a blacklisted filmmaker, starts to sulk when he isn't bumped off by a serial killer.
Sara deals with constant teasing from girls in her small town. But it comes to an end when a stranger kidnaps her tormentors. Sara knows more than she's saying and must decide between speaking up and saving the girls or saying nothing to protect the strange man who spared her.
A writer is fascinated by the local legend of the pig people of Pig Hill, revolting creatures who breed and cause havoc in the area of Radio Tower Hill, where women keep going missing.
Aparna Rajawat, India's 16-time women's national champion in martial arts, attempts to break the Guinness World Record for most women trained in a self-defence lesson, drawing attention to violence against women in India.
A student finds herself trapped in a remote house where a ruthless couple are conducting medical experiments.
Trouble brews after the unusually close bond between a mother and daughter is disrupted when they move to a new town.
After her mother takes up the position of history teacher at the Hamelin International School in Germany, a teenager finds herself haunted by increasingly disturbing visions of the legendary piper, and a dark secret is revealed.
Family dynamics Sterling Macer Jr. on creating complex characters in Liz Here Now
Ode to joy Jorge Parra Jr, on his Oscar-qualifying student short film ¡Que Suene La Banda!
'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
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