Abel
A peculiar young boy, blurring reality and fantasy, assumes the responsibilities of a family man in his father's absence.
Amigo
Set during the American-Philippine war as the head of a bario has to answer to both the Americans and the Filipino patriots, with deadly consequences.
Barney's Version
Four decades in one man's life, told as a personal confessional.
Buried
A contractor awakes to find he is buried alive.
Carancho
An ambulance-chasing lawyer forms a relationship with a young doctor.
Cell 211
When a prison guard is knocked unconscious at the start of a riot, he wakes to find he is trapped within the prison and must pretend to be a con to stay alive.
Countdown To Zero
A history of the atomic bomb and the current nuclear arms race.
Cold Water Of The Sea
A couple on a trip to the beach have an unexpected encounter with a runaway child.
The Colours Of The Mountain
A boy and his pals in a mountainside village find their lives under the threat of conflict.

D

Exit Through The Gift Shop
A documentary about a French shopkeeper who tracked down the famous graffiti artist Banksy... or a very clever piece of performance art.
Elisa K
The effect of childhood abuse on a young girl, both at the time and in later life.
Father
The passage of time in an elderly house.
Happythankyoumoreplease
A mumblecore romcom following a group of friends struggling with their relationships.
Honey
Examination of the bond between a little boy, the forest and his beekeeper dad.

I

It's Your Fault
When a single mother takes her injured son to the hospital, the suspicions she encounters turn her world upside down.
I Saw The Devil
After the daughter of a police chief is murdered by a serial killer, her fiance vows to hunt him down.
L'Amour Fou
Documentary charts the relationship between the fashion designer and his lover Pierre Bergé.

M

NEDS
Story of a boy who finds growing up in Glasgow in the Seventies is tough.
Nostalgia For The Light
A documentary about astronomers in Chile's Atacama Desert who gather to consider the stars while beneath the ground lie the remnants of ancient civilisations.
Nothing's All Bad
Four troubled, lonely people gradually find themselves connected through a series of coincidences in a film which blends dark comedy with touching insight.
The Oath
The story of two men whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the US Supreme Court.
Post Mortem
A mortuary worker begins an unlikely romance with a burlesque dancer against the backdrop of Chile's 1973 military coup.
Poetry
A grandmother discovers poetry and begins to reassess the world around her.

R

[REC] 2
Satanic zombie action following on from where [Rec] left off as a TV crew's abandoned camera keeps rolling in a quarantined apartment building.
Sarah's Key
A journalist uncovers family secrets that link her to a young Jewish girl persecuted 60 years previously.
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