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A young woman studies criminal law and advocates for women's rights and at night she performs in front of a live sex cam. One night watching a film awakens her dark impulses for a more dangerous means of sexual gratification.
A young couple leave behind their party lifestyle and find tranquility in an isolated rental cabin only to realise they have checked into a sinister nightmare as the locals reveal the true reason for their solitude.
In Pittsburgh in 2018, a white supremacist opened fire at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history. The survivors recount the harrowing experience and detail how their lives have fundamentally changed.
The director goes in search of the truth about his brother Jimmy, a Vietnam veteran, who died in Saigon at the age of 24 and whose parents never explained how it happened, rarely mentioning his name.
A kaleidoscopic journey through the fault lines of race, gender, history and sexuality in America, focuses on the intersectional lives of black queer people fighting for equality within their own community.
A crime scene photographer becomes the target of a gruesome witch’s curse which strips away his senses one after another.
When she discovers that her daughter has dyslexia, an ordinary Chinese mother is ready to cross an ocean in order to ensure that she gets the specialist help she needs.
Based on Nina Menkes' acclaimed talk "Sex & Power: The Visual Language of Cinema", a mesmerising journey into how shot design intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women.
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 remote mountain village is under threat from a bloodthirsty witch named Marie, whose spirit is capable of entering the bodies of murder victims and slain animals. One day the witch leaves her mark on the newborn Nevena, and the girl’s fate is sealed forever…
The story of Leak, a teenage trans man who plays football in the under-21s women's team of Kampong Chhnang, and Pa Vann, the coach and father-figure to Leak and other LGBTQ+ players on the team.
An exploration of the life and work of the artist Edward Hopper.
A group of elves, dwarfs, humans and hobbits contend with events which could bring mass destruction to Middle Earth.
A young man gets more than he bargained for on a climbing expedition in the French Alps.
Elena is a single mother dependant on Social Services and finds her custody of her child under threat after he is diagnosed with ADD.
Two years ago, William Langston made a mistake that would affect the course of his life. Now, with a killer loose in his home town and his circle of friends falling away one at a time, William faces his greatest fears as well as his own mortality.
A young woman who has been assaulted by a supernatural creature struggles in the face of a society which is unwilling to believe her.
After being fired from her job, Ren, an aspiring writer and mid-twenty-something, accompanies her Canadian-Italian family on vacation.
A young woman and her estranged father fight to survive after being stranded on a remote mountainside during a winter storm.
A matriarchal witch passes on her sinister inheritance to her grand-daughter, triggering horrific curses.
Just after the end of the Second World War, a tormented Holocaust survivor infiltrates a group of others who are planning to avenge themselves on Germany with a devastating terrorist attack.
Astronaut twins go through a lot when one of them is contaminated with a mysterious residue from space.
Returning to a Vienna they hardly recognise after two years in a Russian PoW camp, a group of Austrian soldiers are hunted by a sadistic serial killer.
Deep in the English countryside, Lisa and George prepare for their wedding at a Tudor mansion. But an angry crocodile lies in wait, determined to ruin their big day.
Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into a meditative journey exploring the history of freakdom, vision, and (in)visibility.
After discovering case files from a 1950s gender clinic, a cast of transgender actors turn a talk show inside out to confront the legacy of a young trans woman forced to choose between honesty and access.
Saul works as the undertaker for the local Hasidic community, and a corpse carries a Jewish demon with plans for his unborn child. His family must dive into Kabbalah lore to ward off the entity and protect their future.
An anthology of short horror films.
A documentary about two conservative, Christian mothers who have become fierce advocates for LGBTQ+ people—and a young lesbian whose struggle for self-acceptance exemplifies why the mama bears are so important.
A filmmaker who grew up alongside Chucky the killer doll seeks out the other families surrounding the Child's Play films as they recount their experiences working on the ongoing franchise and what it means to be a part of the Chucky family.
At some point in the future the Earth’s ecosystem collapses. A tough 13-year-old called Vesper, whose father is paralysed, tries to get food for them wherever she can. When she finds a mysterious woman in the forest one day she starts to hope that things will change.
A documentary about the more than 80 feature films based on the work of Stephen King.
This documentary explores the challenges and aspirations of LGBTQ+ Catholics and, more broadly, the hurdles that religious doctrine presents to full acceptance of LGBTQ+ people everywhere.
Three thieves escape from a heist, two of them dying as they make their way across a turbulent strait. The survivor is sheltered by a sex worker and sought after by the police, but ten years go by before his true motivation becomes apparent.
A rural rancher and his ailing husband, struggling against poverty and isolation, make a heartbreaking decision in order to preserve the dignity of their marriage.
West Point cadet Edgar Allan Poe and four other cadets on a training exercise in upstate New York are drawn by a gruesome discovery into a forgotten community.
A Vietnam veteran with a psychic connection to sharks discovers their exploitation by the local aquarium and begins an underwater reign of terror to avenge them.
When 15-year-old Ruby realises she is having her period, she doesn't want to ask her mother to buy her period products, because she knows their financial situation doesn't really allow it.
A Middle Eastern militant wakes up in the Syrian desert, the lone survivor of a IED explosion. Badly concussed and out of supplies, he must reach an outpost soon -- but he can't remember which faction of the war he was fighting for.
After a lifetime of bus rides to the US to visit his children, Julián quietly starts building a house in rural Mexico. In filming his work, his granddaughter crafts a personal and poetic love letter to him and his homeland.
Zara, a schoolgirl in Karachi, shares a sensual dance video with her virtual boyfriend, who then blackmails her.
A couple feeling the pressures of parenting and adulthood, send their kids to winter camp for the first time and embark on a series of sexual adventures to reinvigorate their relationship.
A US marine plots a terrorist attack on a small-town American mosque. His plan takes an unexpected turn when he comes face-to-face with the people he sets out to kill.
A rural family who make their living from a charcoal factory accepts a proposal to host a mysterious foreigner, who turns out to be using their home as a hideout.
Eight stories by and about First Nations people.
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.
A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.
A young woman undergoes a psychiatric evaluation before her sentencing in an unusual murder trial. But as the tests become more personal and frightening, she begins to question the true motives of her doctors.
A pair of thieves get more than they bargained for when they target Beryl, a seemingly innocent elderly widow.
An anthology horror film set in a haunted peepshow booth.
A collection of moments Mickey Keating on the metaphor and technique behind Invader
Family ties and trauma Laurynas Bareisa on relationship dynamics in award-winning drama Drowning Dry
Looking back RaMell Ross on basketball, filmmaking, overcoming objectification and Nickel Boys
In dialogue with time Bookworm director Ant Timpson on the changing landscape of cinema
Shaping the cut Valerie Krulfeifer and Mickey Keating on their unreleasable past work and Invader
Peering into the heart of darkness Jeremy Strong on playing Roy Cohn in The Apprentice
The show must go on Nina Gantz on exploring grief with humour in Wander To Wonder
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