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When Edna, the elderly and widowed matriarch of the family, goes missing, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam travel to their remote family home to find her. Soon after her return, they start to discover a sinister presence haunting the house and taking control of Edna.
A romantic getaway for two troubled college sweethearts turns into a struggle for survival when unexpected guests - and the surrounding environment - exhibit signs of a mysterious infection.
Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions.
Adaptation of the book concerning modern wealth and power.
Loosely based on the 1930 Olaf Stapledon novel of the same name, Tilda Swinton voices a human from its 18th distinct evolution from some two billion years in the future (the Last Men), reaching back to the First Men (us) for help, as the end of time approaches.
The story of Lella Lombardi, who, at the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix, became the first and only woman ever to score a point in Formula One - and a look at the legacy she left for others.
On Easter Island, the most isolated community in the Pacific uses lessons learned from their past to solve environmental and social challenges brought on by booming tourism and rapid development.
Found footage from a little-seen horror film is reconstructed and given a new score.
A severely injured man and woman awake in an abandoned sanitarium only to discover that a sadistic caretaker holds the keys to their freedom and the horrific answers as to their real identity.
Having spent much of his early life in prison, actor Danny Trejo discusses his career and how he has overcome a life of crime and addiction.
The story of a woman living with her puritanical husband in 17th Century Shropshire and the two strangers who cause upheaval in her world.
She roams the neighbourhood with her best friend, attempts to fall in love, is sent to the hospital with an unclear diagnosis. Untethered from the wider world, 14-year-old Eun-hee floats through Seoul.
A military veteran returns home and works in law enforcement. She's assigned to a supernatural case that's surrounded by urban myth and legend.
The story of two aspiring actresses who cross paths with the darker side of the entertainment industry.
In 1973, director-on-the-rise Peter Medak nabbed notoriously difficult comic genius and box-office star Peter Sellers for his new pirate comedy, Ghost In The Noonday Sun. Sellers immediately began sabotaging the film.
An accidental meeting online turns into a lengthy correspondence that comes to feel more and more important to the two people involved.
Atsushi Sakahara, a victim of the 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo's subway system, travels with Hiroshi Araki, an executive of Aleph (formerly Aum Shinrikyo), the attack's perpetrators, visiting their respective hometowns and the university they both attended.
Maxine Trump turns the camera on herself and her close circle of family and friends as she confronts the idea of not having kids.
In the early 1960s, a family man-turned-vampire struggles with his beastly nature while his devoted wife tries to keep anyone from finding out, including their teenage daughter.
Charts a transgender man’s path to parenthood after he decides to carry his child himself. The pregnancy prompts an unexpected and profound reckoning with conventions of masculinity, self-definition and biology.
A cinematic journey around the United States following migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honey bees as they pollinate the flowers that become fruits, nuts and vegetables.
Insurance agent Max is in the midst of an existential crisis. Whilst investigating the claim made by a suspected widow he chances upon the secretive Hotel Aurora, a luxury resort which specialises in suicide.
Puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering but Punch's driving ambition and penchant for whisky lead to a inevitable tragedy that Judy must avenge.
A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.
A documentary following the students and family members who became fierce leaders of a national movement for gun reform following the shooting of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.
Under small town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer’s daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.
An ancient mask used in a military experiment possesses a body and starts to carry out sacrifices to avenge a murdered god.
Reformed ex-con Wayland returns to his hometown and reconnects with his high school girlfriend Dolores, now a single mom with dreams of Hollywood in Doyle’s fable-like tale of second chances.
In Whithren, a line of women pass a recurring dream through multiple generations.
A teenage inventor's life spirals into chaos when a nefarious group discovers he's invented a device that can hear into the past.
A woman goes to the countryside to spend a quiet weekend after losing her job and having her last complicated relationship implode. She rents a country house to an old-fashioned widower, who struggles to hide his psychopathic tendencies.
A young man surviving by himself years after the Earth has been devastated by nuclear war finds his orderly life thrown into chaos when he encounters other survivors.
Documentary about humanity's love affair with nuclear power.
A 'Diablo Rojo' bus driver, his helper, a priest and two policemen fall victim to a mysterious spell and end up lost somewhere in the Chiriqui jungle, where they will have to survive the creatures that inhabit the roads, with the old bus as their only refuge.
A documentary about the rise and fall of St. Louis, Missouri's premier black hospital, which trained the largest number of black doctors and nurses in the world from 1937 through 1979, before and after desegregation.
A bored schoolgirl reinvents herself as a professional music critic.
A family is terrorised by an eight-year-old boy's imaginary friend.
A documentary about the evolution of the blockchain industry and its new promise.
Alone at home one evening, a woman decides to have a solo pleasure session — but not everything goes according to plan.
A young novelist and her cinematographer boyfriendare waylaid by a snowstorm on their way to visit a friend and are taken in by the kindly yet enigmatic Clip, who puts them up for the night. But a discovery months later recasts events.
Troy and his young transgender son Joe are on the run from his conservative mother in the Montana wilderness, with a detective in hot pursuit.
A defiant teenage boy, struggling with his parent's imminent divorce, faces off with a thousand year-old witch, who is living beneath the skin of and posing as the woman next door.
A personal investigation into the mysterious life of the director's Aunt Sally, an Ethiopian aristocrat-turned-communist-rebel who disappeared after the revolution that lead to the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie.
The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'gMaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.
A grumpy pensioner hires a migrant from Afghanistan to bury his dead dog.
Terror in an apartment complex.
The story of the environmental movement, why it matters and why it might not always be what it appears to be.
A documentary about two climbers exploring a remote Indian valley who discover what is perhaps the biggest treasure trove of unclimbed ice in all the Himalaya.
Drama following a conscript through his military service in the South African Defence Force in the 1980s.
A gambling addict agrees to do a favour for a triad boss in order to pay off his debts, only to find himself in a perilous situation that neither of them could have imagined.
'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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