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Honeymooners are persuaded to give a ride to a stranger who wants to be dropped off on an uninhabited planet, but they're not prepared for what they find there.
11 year old Mildred's world is turned upside-down when her estranged father, the washed-up magician Strawn Wise comes to look after her and agrees to take her camping to find a mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.
In the remote Portuguese mountain village of Pé da Serra, a monk arrives wielding a demonic sword. Before long, the mystical weapon ends up in the hands of the town drunk. Now, the drunkard and the sword will have to learn to fight an encroaching evil together.
A strange creature, Animalia, roams an abandoned building. Dressed in rags and gas mask she moves like an alien dancer, crawling and stretching across concrete, plastic waste. She collects and fills empty bottles for a modest bath.
A musical documentary about grief and the creative power of love, told through the astonishing story of Alan and Adrianne St-George and their hand-built castle in rural Illinois.
After five insane children are involved in a minibus crash, they start killing people at a lodge who insulted them or were rude to them.
A high school girl engages in compensated dating in order to buy an expensive ring before the day ends.
A blind medium uncovers the truth behind her sister's death with the help of a frightening wooden mannequin.
The story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th century.
During the 1990s, at a Scandinavian psychiatric hospital, a man known as Mads Lake confessed to multiple murders and was convicted. However, the uneasy triumvirate of Mads, therapist Anna Rudebeck and policeman Soren Rank all have a vested interest in unearthing the truth, while a deepening co-dependency threatens to consume them all.
A poetic, non-linear journey that explores the impact of white supremacy on connection, relationships, and life.
Two female cable car operators fall in love as they pass each other in their gondolas.
When true-crime podcaster and sleuth Lola visits her hometown for the first time since running away and transitioning, the local urban legend, The Toymaker, is the least of her worries. But then the vengeful ghost of the historical murderer seemingly rises again.
An international group of 'gentlemanly explorers', all with pseudonyms to protect their identities, come together in a quest to solve the mystery of the missing tomb of Alexander the Great.
A nightmarish essay film on the history of the doorbell, tracing its invention and constant reinventions through 19th century labour struggles, the nascent years of narrative cinema, and contemporary surveillance cultures.
Biodiversity and generation gaps collide in a politically urgent and thoughtful film about two young activists' fight to save the vast Finnish forests.
Shot in Paris, Death Valley, and the Nevada nuclear test site, this film essay examines the complex historical relationship between photography, cinema and science.
A documentary following the struggles of three resilient women determined to battle poverty by establishing and sustaining local businesses, thereby empowering their communities.
Joe and his Belfast neighbors reenact childhood memories from the violent Troubles era in their Catholic district, exploring the collective experiences that shaped their lives and community.
A young, pregnant woman finds emancipation as aliens land in Morocco.
A troubled actor begins to exhibit a disruptive behaviour while shooting a remake of The Exorcist. His estranged daughter wonders if he's slipping back into his past addictions or if there's something more sinister at play.
A filmmaker with cerebral palsy documents his developing romantic relationship and family life.
Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt-performer daughter, Dylan.
On the remote island of Chiloé in the late 19th century, an indigenous girl named Rosa lives and works with her father on a farm. When the foreman brutally turns on Rosa’s father, she sets out for justice, seeking help from the king of a powerful organisation of sorcerers.
Documentary profile of comic Janey Godley.
When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. Their stories reveal a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity.
One afternoon a polite young boy, Elio, meets his tutor's secret lover. When he confides in her, sharing an even bigger secret, she's convinced he's joking and bursts out laughing.
An imagined meeting between Sigmund Freud and CS Lewis, to discuss the existence or non-existence of God.
In this true-crime documentary, a charismatic rebel in 1990s Seattle pulls off an unprecedented string of bank robberies straight out of the movies.
The story of the National Gallery of London and what it means to its staff, visitors and the country at large.
Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
The story of a man who violently breaks free from his banal environment, evading society with its principles, codes and institutions.
A lonely man starts to piece together the story of his estranged father after his death and discovers the older man didn't believe he was human.
Just a week before Jo gets married, she is reunited with Scarlet, rekindling their friendship and memories of teen romance.
A criminal lawyer faces difficult moral and emotional choices.
During their final weekend together, two best friends test the limits of their friendship while making a double-meta film.
A portrait of William Shatner's personal journey over nine decades on Earth.
An experiment with artificial intelligence, looking at the world from a different perspective.
A man tries to help his in-laws celebrate their wedding anniversary at his country hotel while fending off foreclosure.
A troubled young woman who has lived an isolated life inherits her grandmother's schoolhouse. There she begins to experience strange visions and terrifying dreams.
Men and women perfect the art of the pitch to make their livelihood selling various products with visual demonstrations.
A young woman unwittingly sets off a gruesome chain of revenge.
Abang and Adi are undocumented orphans in Malaysia. While the older brother, who is deaf mute, has resigned himself to a life of poverty, his younger sibling burns with indignation. A brutal accident upsets their relationship's fragile balance.
Looking after his gay actor uncle, filmmaker Simon is engulfed in a whirl of Shakespeare and clutter, as uncle David lends his credit card to neighbours, greets visitors in the nude and teaches Simon a profound lesson on dying happy
A young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland flounders in a maze of social services and bureaucracy as her situation becomes increasingly dire.
An archaeologist and an architect fight to re-imagine a future after traumatic brain injury leaves them adrift from the people they love.
In a dystopian South Korean city, a soon-to-be-evicted tenant decides to complicate the process by renting his toilet out to an eccentric couple, but their strange behaviours soon become unbearable.
When troubled assistant bank manager Andy McNeary's baby daughter goes missing, he must follow the instructions of a mysterious voice on the other end of a baby monitor to save her before she disappears forever.
After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew.
The story of a Japanese reality TV star left naked in a room for more than a year, tasked with filling out magazine sweepstakes to earn food and clothing.
About a bear Iain Gardner on immigration, community and A Bear Named Wojtek
Tests of love Dennis Iliadis and his star Konstantina Messini on twisty meet-the-parents thriller Buzzheart
You must remember this Loïc Espuche on childhood revulsion, shyness, shame, kissing and Yuck!
Lights and shadows Dustin Pittman with Ed Bahlman on Alan J Pakula, James Ivory, Brian De Palma and Jerry Schatzberg
Innocence lost Sebastián Parra R on growing up too fast and world building in Seed Of The Desert
UK hopes ride high as Oscar International Film shortlist announced Ireland also makes the grade
That's a wrap on festival coverage for 2024 now. We've recently covered DOC NYC, the French Film Festival UK, Tallinn Black Nights, the Leeds International Film Festival, Abertoir, the London Korean Film Festival, the Belfast Film Festival and Halloween Frightfest.
Looking a little further back, we were at the London Film Festival, Newfest, the New York Film Festival, the Scottish Queer international Film Festival, Beyond Fest, Grimmfest, San Sebastian, Fantastic Fest and the Toronto International Film Festival.
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