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15 March 2024

High & Low - John Galliano
Documentary about controversial fashion designer John Galliano.
Monster
A mother is shocked when she learns what a teacher has said to her son, but the truth is more complicated.

08 March 2024

Copa 71
Told by the pioneering women who participated, this is the extraordinary story of the 1971 Women's Soccer World Cup, a tournament witnessed by record crowds that has been written out of sporting history - until now.
Origin
An exploration of the roots of racism as experienced in the US.
Do Not Expect Too Much Of The End of the World
Overworked and underpaid, Angela drives around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a 'safety at work video' commissioned by a multinational company. When one of the interviewees reveals the company’s liability in his accident, a scandal erupts.
Soul
A music teacher finds himself in The Great Before, an incredible place where new souls are born.

04 March 2024

Frankenstein Legacy
A woman desperate to save her ailing husband manages to acquire the scientific journal of Victor Frankenstein.
Tropic
Astronaut twins go through a lot when one of them is contaminated with a mysterious residue from space.

03 March 2024

Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life Of Cliff Twemlow
Polymath Twemlow was a nightclub bouncer, novelist, composer, singer, screenwriter, producer and actor, who for a decade was the most prolific indie filmmaker in the UK! Witness how this 20th century Renaissance man created his own innovative micro-film industry in Manchester.

01 March 2024

Dune: Part Two
Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.
Red Island
Set in Madagascar in the early 1970s, on one of the last air bases of the French army, where military families live the last throes of colonialism. Influenced by his reading of the intrepid comic book heroine Fantômette, ten-year-old Thomas sweeps with a curious glance what surrounds him, while the world gradually opens up to a different reality.
Four Daughters
A creative documentary following ten years in the life of a fortysomething Tunisian mother, a cleaning lady from a poor environment, who sees her two teenage daughters become radicalised, run away and join the terrorist organisation Daesh in Libya.
Shayda
Shayda, an Iranian mother, finds refuge in an Australian women’s shelter with her six-year-old daughter. Over Persian New Year, they take solace in Nowruz rituals and new beginnings, but when her estranged husband re-enters their lives, Shayda’s path to freedom is jeopardised.
Driving Mum
The death of Jon's mum forces him to take a trip with her corpse in the backseat to fulfill her last wish, with a dog along for the ride.

27 February 2024

The Moon
A man is left in space due to an unfortunate accident while another man on Earth struggles to bring him back safely.
Painting The Modern Garden
A tour of the exhibition of the same name with additional documentary content looking at the history of garden paintings.

26 February 2024

Monolith
Recently disgraced and desperate for a story, a young journalist holes herself up in her parents’ luxurious home and gets to work on the only job she can get - hosting a clickbait investigative podcast. Then she discovers a strange artefact and begins to convince herself it is evidence of an alien conspiracy.

23 February 2024

Spaceman
An astronaut, has been on a space mission for months. He realises that his wife might not be waiting for him once he returns to Earth. In his desperation, he turns for help to a mysterious creature lurking deep in the bowels of his spaceship.
Wicked Little Letters
When people in Littlehampton start receiving scandalous and obscene letters, suspicion immediately falls on fiery Rose, who might lose the custody of her daughter. A group of women set out to solve the mystery.
Perfect Days
The story of an urban renewal project which involves the creation of 17 public toilets in key locations in the Japanese capital.
Out Of Darkness
In the Old Stone Age, a disparate gang of early humans band together in search of a new land. When they suspect a malevolent, mystical, being is hunting them down, the clan are forced to confront a danger they never envisaged.
City Of God
A gritty look at gang life in Rio De Janeiro.

16 February 2024

Eureka
Three stories set in wildly different terrain reflect lives haunted by the specter of colonialist violence.
The Promised Land
In 1755, the impoverished Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer the harsh, uninhabitable Danish heath with a seemingly impossible goal; to build a colony in the name of the King.
Les Misérables
All-singing, no-dancing rendition of the Schönberg and Boublil musical.
One From The Heart
After a couple split up on their anniversary they find the grass is not necessarily greener on the other side.
Interview With The Vampire
A vampire tells his life story to a young reporter.

14 February 2024

The Taste Of Things
The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the fine gourmet she has been working for over the last 20 years.

12 February 2024

Bad Girl Boogey
When a killer starts targeting her community, a young queer woman realises that they're wearing the same mask as the person who killed her mother decades before.
River
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.
The Seeding
When a hiker gets lost in the desert, a gang of feral children propelled by haunting legacies traps him in a sadistic battle for survival with a frightening endgame.

09 February 2024

The Iron Claw
The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s.
Double Blind
When an experimental drug trial goes horribly wrong, the surviving test subjects must fight off sleep, and each other, to stay alive.
Your Fat Friend
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.
Turning Red
Adolescence unleashes a young girl's inner panda.

02 February 2024

American Fiction
English professor and author Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison writes a satirical novel under a pseudonym, with the intention of exposing the hypocrisies of the publishing industry.
Dalton's Dream
The story of Dalton Harris' rise to X Factor fame and what happened next.
The Zone Of Interest
The daily lives of the Höss family outside the walls of Auschwitz.
10 Things I Hate About You
A high school version of The Taming Of The Shrew.

01 February 2024

Argylle
A reclusive author who writes espionage novels about a secret agent and a global spy syndicate realises that the plot of the new book she's writing is starting to mirror real world events, in real time.

31 January 2024

Blue Giant
When a student receives a saxophone as a gift, he starts practising immediately, and finds himself drawn into the world of jazz.

26 January 2024

The Color Purple
A woman faces many hardships in her life but ultimately finds strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
Jackdaw
A former motocross champion and army veteran is now caring for his younger brother. Broke, he agrees to do an open water pick up of a mysterious illegal package in the North Sea.
Samsara
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.

22 January 2024

Punch
Local bogeyman Mr. Punch is stalking the town, and he knows just the way to do it. As the carnage escalates, a group of friends must fight to stay alive in this seaside-gothic, end-of-the-pier slasher.

19 January 2024

In Broad Daylight
Posing as the granddaughter of a private extended care home patient, an investigative journalist uncovers a culture of abuse and corruption at the facility.
Werner Herzog – Radical Dreamer
A portrait of the celebrated filmmaker.
The Holdovers
An unpopular teacher, a talented but badly behaved student and a cook who recently lost her son in Vietnam spend Christmas together in an otherwise empty boarding school.
All Of Us Strangers
A screenwriter embarks on a relationship with a neighbour at the same time as making a journey into his troubled past.
The Civil Dead
A misanthropic, struggling photographer just wants to watch TV and eat candy while his wife is out of town, but when a desperate old pal resurfaces, his plans are thwarted, with spooky consequences.
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