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At the beginning of the 20th century, the great comic actor Eduardo Scarpetta was the king of the box office but when he decided to stage a tragedy, trouble ensued...
A group of teenage girls living in the sleepy hamlet of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, discover an impending alien invasion and set out to defend their homeland.
A documentary about long term political prisoners who, though they ‘converted’ through coercion, still hope for repatriation to North Korea.
Karen is an entitled middle-aged woman whose demanding nature has alienated her neighbours and family. One Christmas Eve, she receives an 'intervention' from some unconventional spirits.
Drama based on the filmmaker's own experiences as a gay man in Marine Corps basic training following a decade of living on the streets.
A young woman with Down syndrome refuses to be defined by disability and takes control of her own life. Her ambition is to become a qualified motor mechanic.
Two young business partners are invited to a week-long yachting voyage with a potential investor. At night, Jennifer's dreams begin to bleed into reality as the others realise that Jennifer may have unknowingly brought something on-board.
A group of celebrities are scheduled to appear at a concert in a village hall. An elderly man and his choir of schoolchildren, fearing that the celebrities will steal their limelight, take drastic measures to stop their appearance…by murdering them.
Timothée meets an almost unbelievable character while shooting a short film. As time goes on their jovial and eccentric talks become something far more sinister.
The journey to womanhood of rebel and misfit Emily Brontë.
A wealthy game hunter invites a group of people to his remote mansion, suspecting one of them to be a werewolf. What follows is part action thriller, part Gothic whodunnit.
A documentary about the mass migration of elephants to Botswana after it made hunting them illegal, and the family who found their tourist lodge on the front line when the new arrivals sought water.
October 1992. A group of law students head to a remote home upstate where a girl disappeared two years earlier.
A documentary study of the polar bears who draw tourists to Churchill, Manitoba.
Six strangers are invited to a dinner party by a charming and enigmatic host, lured by the promise of substantial financial reward if they last the whole evening.
A father and daughter move to a small town in rural Ohio only to discover that it's run by a Satanist cult.
Two sisters who live in the woods with their mother, going out only by night, begin to doubt that the world is really as dangerous as she claims.
In the Fifties and Sixties, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers.
A dramatisation of the historical Battle of Myeongnyang and its star naval admiral Yi Sun-sin, who led a small fleet to improbable victory over a much larger Japanese fleet.
When 13-year-old Tommy loses his father to a drug raid, he embarks on an urban odyssey guided by a phone sex operator and with the help of his two best friends.
Following the death of his wife, Santoshi has sunk into depression and debt, much to the consternation of his daughter, high school student Kaede. To ease their debt, Santoshi tells Kaede he will track down a serial killer and collect the reward, but Santoshi disappears and Kaede must find out what happened to him.
The story of Opportunity, the Mars Exploration Rover affectionately dubbed Oppy by her creators and scientists at NASA. Oppy was originally expected to live for only 90 days but she ultimately explored Mars for nearly 15 years.
A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbour is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he commences an independent investigation in an effort to prove his claim.
An afternoon in the life of Emily, a female white supremacist and elementary school teacher.
Two detectives begin an investigation into a disastrous secret military experiment where five prisoners were kept awake for 30 days in a sealed bunker.
A coming-of-golden-age look at Florida's most dedicated dance team for women over 60, shaking up the outdated image of "the little old lady," and calling for everyone to dance their hearts out, while they still can.
Following the disappearance of a child and a monstrous encounter, a family disintegrates, but the missing girl's brother keeps on hunting for the truth.
A nun prepares to perform an exorcism and comes face to face with a demonic force with mysterious ties to her past.
A young German soldier's terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I.
A young woman returns to her home town and is persuaded to help an old friend engage in witchcraft.
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.
'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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