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Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
In a near-abandoned subdivision west of Houston, a wayward teen runs headlong into her equally wilful and unforgiving neighbour, an ageing bullfighter who’s seen his best days in the arena; it’s a collision that will change them both.
A detective convinced that his wife didn't die by suicide but was murdered hunts obsessively for the truth and finds something worse than he imagined.
A mother secretly videotapes her son because she's worried that he may be a psychopath.
A man trying to come to terms with the death of his wife keeps the man who killed her prisoner in his basement.
A mother and her daughter are pushed to their emotional limit during a family celebration.
After a child goes missing, a newly sober detective comes to suspect that his sponsor has a super power that makes animals, objects, and humans disappear up his backside.
A cheeky, irrepressible 11-year-old racing through life with boundless energy is confronted by the harsh realities of the adult world and the tragedies that lie locked in his family history.
An unemployed Welshman with no hot water travels to Denmark in an attempt to get arrested because he believes that his life will be better in prison there.
While escaping from the police, Óliver accidentally stumbles into a flat and saves Lóa’s life. The pair are both users and dealers, but want nothing more than to escape and start a new life. However, the situation becomes considerably more complicated when they decide to use stolen narcotics from an infamous drug lord to fund their escape plans.
Sam inquires about a Help Wanted sign outside a funeral home and in her interview with owner Montgomery Dark, four gruesomely disturbing stories are told.
A group of war veterans must defend their local VFW post and an innocent teenager against a deranged drug dealer and his relentless army of punk mutants.
Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation.
Eight-year-old Cody is spending the summer in an unfamiliar setting with his mom Kathy. Though he can’t relate to the neighbourhood kids, things take an unexpected turn when he develops an unusual friendship with grouchy old Del from next door.
The crew of a West of Ireland trawler, marooned at sea, struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.
A documentary exploring the role that autism plays in the lives of 17 Icelandic women, and asking why autistic women and girls have remained invisible in society for so long.
Millennial entrepreneurs, Drew and Max, run a webcast that streams live exorcisms that are, in fact, elaborately staged hoaxes. They get their comeuppance when today's actress becomes mysteriously possessed by a real demon that holds the crew hostage.
In a beautiful mountain village in Kyrgyzstan, a 12-year-old is fiercely loyal to a father brought low by drink and divorce. The kid can run faster than anyone else in school and his ability might be the key to the family’s salvation, especially given the prizes in some local races
An ageing Argentine Serge Gainsbourg wannabe struggles with a career he can't seem to get on track, an affair he doesn't want, and a crime he didn't mean to commit.
A girl is hidden from view, confined from modern society by her family. Yet as Liv’s curiosity to an existence outside her confinement comes to the fore, she starts to question her parents’ worldview.
In a decaying forest on the Yugoslav-Italian border in the years after World War II, a stingy, old carpenter and a lonely, young chestnut seller share imaginative memories of the past.
Mother-daughter drama sees the fractious pair face a challenge when a new neighbour turns up on their doorstep.
A documentary set in British Columbia, Canada, about an immigrant Punjabi family who have a dark secret they can finally tell.
An off-duty police chief begins to suspect a local man to have had an affair with his wife, who has recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.
Documentary about the life of the neurologist.
A Colombian fisherman returns from a long fishing night to discover that his village has been ransacked by paramilitary forces, with his two sons abducted. Painfully aware that they wouldn’t have survived, he sets off on a journey down the endless Colombian rivers in the search for their bodies.
Two space hunters are tracking down a machine trying to free itself. After taking it down, they witness a mystical phenomenon: the ghost of a young woman pulls itself out of the machine, as if the spaceship had a soul.
Hard working widow, Leila, is tirelessly trying to provide for her infant daughter and 12 year-old-son, Amir. A marriage proposal from kind hearted Kazem could be the solution to all of her financial troubles. Unfortunately, as Kazem has a young daughter of his own, tradition dicates that Amir will be unable to live with them.
In a near-future war-torn Ukraine a man with PTSD takes a volunteer job exhuming the dead.
Widowed preacher and leader to a small mountain community, El Señor has preached to his followers that a new messiah will appear and shepherd them into a new era. His faith is absolute, regardless of how many false prophets he has to go through. But the faith of his three daughters is beginning to waver.
Chalk and cheese brothers seem fated to remain forever single in this romantic comedy. One tries much too hard, the other doesn’t try nearly enough.
A naive heiress is swept off her feet by a Chicago newspaper reporter and aspiring playwright. They marry in haste and repent at leisure as success tempts him to stray and she retaliates by declaring that theirs will be an open marriage.
A faux biopic that charts the roller coaster rise to power of famed Canadian Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King.
A documentary following a man's journey to recovery years after he was sexually assaulted in a taxi in Mexico City.
It's autumn at Krossnes in Árneshreppur, an isolated part of north Iceland, and Úlfar and Oddný are facing their last autumn as farmers.
Far from his home in Shanghai, Cheng is in search of a cherished benefactor whom he promised to visit. He is welcomed by diner owner Sirkka. He repays her kindness by cooking food that the entire community appreciates.
A sorcerer tries to sacrifice a group of people inside his house with the intention of using their vitality to revive his wife.
In 1979 apartheid-era South Africa, two men imprisoned in Pretoria Prison plot to escape.
In 1981, a new channel burst onto the rising spectrum of cable TV offerings. It became a touchstone for young people and a new format for musicians and filmmakers to show off their talents.
When Michael is mauled by some big cats at the local zoo, a mad scientist transplants his brain into a full-sized animatronic T-Rex! In order to be reunited with his high school sweetheart, Tammy, Michael will have to stomp and chew his way through all who stand against him.
A documentary about the man behind the first ever commercial album recorded inside an American prison by an inmate, charting his journey out from prison into industry adulation and life as a free man, eventually leading to his reinvention as a performer for hire.
A documentary that brings to life Barry Gifford’s autobiographical collection The Roy Stories, capturing a childhood in a vanished 1950s Chicago through a jazzy, impressionistic combination of beguiling archive footage, animation and spoken word.
Trond Sander, 67, recalls the summer of 1948. When this blissful time came to an end, nothing was the same as before.
Three men, one place, and one event that will change each of their lives.
Portrait of Icelandic pioneer Snorri Magnusson, who has been patiently teaching babies to float and paddle for over 25 years.
A woman's panicked decision to cover up an accidental killing spins out of control when her conscience demands she return the dead man's body to his family.
A documentary which reflects on the connections between historical resistance and the current political landscape. It amplifies the voices of politically engaged womxn and fosters hope for solidarity and inclusion.
A documentary about a learning centre where women hoping to find domestic work abroad prepare themselves what for what lies ahead - including homesickness and potential abuse.
A worldwide panic is sparked when the US and Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices.
An exploration of issues around abortion, based on real-life interview recordings.
Pushing boundaries Torill Kove on family relationships, different worlds and Maybe Elephants
The star from the streets Adam J Graves on Salaam Balaak, Sajda Pathan and making Anuja
A little lightness Colman Mac Cionnaith and Michael Whelan on Room Taken
A hair's breadth from happiness Nicolas Keppens on low budget, high quality animation and Beautiful Men
Golden boy Krit Komkrichwarakool, Matt Dejanovic and Kenny Brain on Auganic
A collection of moments Mickey Keating on the metaphor and technique behind Invader
Alliance of Women Film Journalists announces EDA Awards The Brutalist named best film
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