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11 year old Mildred's world is turned upside-down when her estranged father, the washed-up magician Strawn Wise comes to look after her and agrees to take her camping to find a mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.
A skeleton crew in a decommissioned submarine launch a clandestine search for Nazi gold under Russian waters.
When film censor Enid discovers an eerie horror that speaks directly to her sister's mysterious disappearance, she resolves to unravel the puzzle behind the film and its enigmatic director – a quest blurring the lines between fiction and reality in terrifying ways.
After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Norval travels to his dad’s oceanfront home for what he hopes will be a positive experience. If only he’d known the dark truth about his old man beforehand.
Killers consider retribution round the kitchen sink.
Four men have a strange encounter during the English Civil War.
A meeting between two gangs in a deserted warehouse turns into a shootout.
A young cab driver tries to save his mum from alcoholism.
When a visiting conservationist accidentally trespasses in an ancient wood, its denizens set their sights on his family.
After hitting rock bottom, former youth boxing champion Jimmy McCabe returns to his childhood boxing club and his old team.
A hitman's moral compass becomes badly skewed.
A wealthy American persuades her Spanish maid to pretend to be a noblewoman in order to make up the numbers at dinner, only to have an English aristocrat fall in love with her.
A priest and a novice investigate devilish goings on in an isolated Romanian nunnery in the Fifties
A group of soldiers find themselves facing an ancient and seemingly unstoppable enemy.
An intense story of two people who struggle to keep their longings for freedom under control, set against a beautiful and remote landscape that reflects their isolation back at them.
A troubled Belfast boy befriends an English kid, with disturbing results.
A toll booth operator's secret past comes back to haunt him.
Uncovering everyday moments Alvin Hall and Sam Pollard on uncovering the history of The Lorraine
Driven by love and capitalism Director Pierre Le Gall on the themes of Flesh and Fuel
The ultimate act of friendship Robin Campillo on picking up the threads from the late Laurent Cantet
Reaching for a better future Daniel E Catullo, Julie DeVercelly and Gary DeVercelly on hazing and 4000 Days
Escaping perfection Andrew Durham on adapting Alysia Abbott's memoir Fairyland
Playing it safe Will Bates on early musical influences and scoring Tuner
Farewell to Anthony Head Much-loved star dies at 72
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It's a busy time for festivals and here's the latest:
Fantasia Second wave of titles announced
Tribeca Artistic director Frédéric Boyer discusses the highlights of this year's edition
Cannes The 2026 Palme d'Or has gone to Fjord
Cannes Everytime wins Un Certain Regard prize
Cannes Yuri wins Palm Dog for La Perra
Cannes La Gradiva tops Critics' Week awards
