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The Oscar-qualifying Leeds international Film Festival opens this year with Yorgos Lantimos' Poor Things and has a packed line-up of high profile films and intriguing independent selections to enjoy.
With not all the films announced as yet, we're still adding details, so watch this space for more information.
The festival runs from 3 to 19 November.
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A rural village faces disruption from the construction of a glamping site for Tokyo tourists.
One winter in Kibune, Kyoto, people find themselves stuck in a two minute time loop. As others try to work together to find out what's going on, one woman finds herself increasingly isolated.
Samsara is the Buddhist cycle of death and reincarnation. From the temples of Laos, alongside with teenage monks, we will accompany a soul in its transit from one body to another through the bardo.
Popular anonymous blogger Aubrey Gordon spent five years writing about the realities of living as a self-described “very fat person.” Now, she is about to face the public for the very first time.
A screenwriter embarks on a relationship with a neighbour at the same time as making a journey into his troubled past.
Two old friends, a detective and psychiatrist, investigate a murder of their colleague.
A mum who has lost her baby tries to work through her grief as she attempts to donate her milk.
The story of a young woman who has been brought back to life.
In 1858, a six-year-old Jewish boy is forcibly seized from his family by the Catholic church.
Against the backdrop of a shared obsession with Bollywood fantasy, Mariam, a Pakistani Muslim woman, and her Canadian-born daughter Azra come of age in two different eras.
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