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When a troubled young woman returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls, the memory of a long-ago kidnapping quickly ensnares her.
Documentary about the lasting trauma of female genital mutilation and the filmmaker's reconstructive journey.
In 2016 Colten Boushie, a young Cree man, was killed in Saskatchewan. This documentary explores the case and shines a light on the vast inequality and systemic racism within the Canadian legal system.
A documentarian who knew FM-2030 when young explores the possibility of the cryopreserved futurist being revived in the present day.
A group of orphan rebels are fortified in a villa with heavy arms to brace for a drone war with a faceless enemy in a dystopian future.
An unlikely friendship between a failed comedian and a charming, alcoholic dermatologist helps both confront long-simmering regrets in this warm-hearted buddy comedy.
When a young woman discovers that her lifelong dream of participating in the Olympics doesn’t match up to reality, she finds herself adrift amongst the crowds. That is until she befriends a volunteer dentist, forging a bond which forces them both to rethink their courses in life.
‘Do no harm’ is an abiding principal of psychiatry. It is abandoned time after time in this exploration of the profession’s collusion with state sponsored torture over the past 70 years.
A young woman with a fondness for tanks takes on a megacorporation which is trying to hoard all the water and power in a post-Apocalyptic wasteland.
In the Kenyan bush, a crackdown on ivory poaching forces a silver-tongued second-generation poacher to seek out an unlikely ally in this fly-on-the-wall look at both sides of the conservation divide.
A young woman and her reticent new stepchildren find themselves isolated in the family’s remote winter cabin, locked away to dredge up the mysteries of her dark past.
A dramatisation of events at the Virgen de La Asuncion Safe Home in Guatemala in March 2017.
In the south of Tunisia, two football-fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the border of Algeria. Strangely, the animal wears headphones over its ears.
A troubled college freshman, Luke, suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel to help him cope.
In the grip of trauma, hundreds of refugee children in Sweden withdraw from life's uncertainties into a coma-like illness called Resignation Syndrome.
Two estranged sisters are driven to extremes when their mother dies, leaving them with one week to pay back her mortgage.
Two former best friends get together to try and develop the next great app, with the aim of becoming billionaires.
An ageing painter and his wife struggle increasingly to cope with his advancing dementia.
A man thinks back to his childhood memories of growing up with an annoying little sister in China in the 1990s. What would his life have been like if things had gone differently?
Disturbed by the resurgence of fascism and anti-Semitism around the world, a psychoanalyst based in New York travels to Germany, Israel, and Palestine to confront her own deep-seated feelings about Germans and Palestinians, and the tensions between the Holocaust and the Nakba.
The story of young Afghan girls learning to read, write - and skateboard - in Kabul.
He's a priest, but he's also a velociraptor. Together they fight crime.
A dad and daughter try to reach a mutual understanding.
A documentary exploring the consequences of poor or absent regulation in the US cosmetics and skincare industries.
In 1938, Philippine President Manuel L Quezon agrees to welcome Jewish refugees from Germany in the Philippines.
After losing her parents in a car accident, Okko starts living in the countryside with her grandmother who runs a traditional Japanese inn, where she meets some friendly ghosts.
A night. A car. A young woman is in danger. To escape, she must make the most important phone call of her life.
When Baekdu Mountain unexpectedly erupts and threatens to cause an earthquake that could devastate the Korean peninsula, a South Korean team must enter North Korea and steal American-guarded nuclear material in order to stop it.
A documentary about the sinking of the MV Sewol off the coast of South Korea in 2015.
A corporate defence attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.
An African American father tries to do his daughter's hair for the first time.
An spoiled young aristocrat sent to learn responsibility as a postman in a remote northern town meets an elderly toymaker and has a brilliant idea.
A young woman recovering from tragedy joins a trip to a Swedish midsummer festival with her boyfriend and his friends, only to be caught up in an ancient ritual.
A kind but naive man loses his job, his girlfriend and his home on the same day but his warmth and honesty set him on the road to unexpected good fortune.
Two young people on a blind date go on the run after shooting a racist police officer in self defence.
A documentary about the Kinetic-Optic artist Carlos Cruz-Diez and his mission to free colour from shape.
The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.
A married couple is forced to reckon with their idealised image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher threatens his status as an all-star student.
John Wick is on the run after killing a member of the international assassins' guild, and with a $14 million price tag on his head, he is the target of professional killers everywhere.
A documentary about the making of the original Ghostbusters.
A group of women take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
Animation about a young mother sent to a Khmer Rouge forced labour camp, who is separated from her son and has to fight to survive and not lose hope.
Complications ensue when a couple try to sell an inherited sword believed by some to be proof that the Confederacy won the American Civil War.
A documentary about a US Olympic gymnastics coach who abused young trainees, and the cover-up that followed.
When a factory is threatened with closure, a desperate worker kidnaps the boss' toddler son.
The story of the first designated hospital ward for AIDS patients in the US.
A young nobleman asks a peasant to help fake his own kidnapping.
A teenager bullied because of his weight is persuaded to learn to box so he can defend himself.
A bored man suddenly realises that everyone around him has disappeared and he isn't sure what happened.
Filmmaker chronicles his own efforts and that of his wife, to trade in their city life for a small farm dream.
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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