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A cop becomes an FBI go-between in a bid to snare a sniper.
Sudan, near the Merowe dam. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly builds a mysterious construction made of mud.
Some people spend their lives wondering why a marriage didn’t last. Signe Baumane set out to get some answers. The result is this animated film, which combines ancient mythology and contemporary neuroscience.
A giant talkative frog, a lost cat, and a tsunami help a bank employee, his wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.
An aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Damascus, Syria, Lina starts to report on the events around her until she is compelled to become a war reporter and, later, the unexpected narrator of her own destiny.
Drama unfolds at a Lithuanian guard post.
It is said that every investigator has a crime that haunts them, a case that hurts him more than the others, without him necessarily knowing why. For Yohan that case is the murder of Clara.
Documentary about one man's obsession with the lynx who live in the forests around him.
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
In 2020, Belarus’s military practice of violent bullying conscripts as a means of control becomes a flash point for a growingly dissatisfied populace.
In 2007, Reyhaneh Jabbari, 19, is sentenced to death in Iran for the murder of a man who tried to rape her. The efforts her family and supporters undertake open a window into the mass oppression and silencing of women in the country and the risks it takes to support them.
From the first camera to 45 billion cameras worldwide today, the visual sociologist filmmakers widen their lens to expose both humanity’s unique obsession with the camera’s image and the social consequences that lay ahead.
Bobby, Tata and Nieves – a charismatic lawyer, a former illegal logger and a fearless politician – are three magnetic leaders fighting to stop corporations and governments seeking to plunder increasingly valuable natural resources from the island of Palawan.
Christmas rebellion brews at an all-girls Catholic boarding school.
Documentary portrait of a life touched by addiction.
A young teacher is sent to the most remote school in the world, where he finds himself undergoing a transformation.
The directors become the first women to drive the entirety of Central Asia’s Pamir Highway.
As the Ranas, a happily patriarchal joint family, yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theater and falls for an ambitious trans starlet. Their impossible love story illuminates the entire family's desire for a sexual rebellion.
After her dad's death at sea, a teenage girl becomes convinced his boat was capsized by a sea monster.
Documentary about the Disco star.
In a large house, friends and family meet for a dual ritual: it is the birthday of young father and painter Tona, but also a farewell ceremony.
Charting the journey and experiences of North Korean defectors.
Aspiring martial artist Ria Khan believes she must save her older sister, Lena, from her impending marriage. With the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.
The improbable tale of a short kid from a Canadian army base who became the darling of 1980s Hollywood — only to find the course of his life altered by a stunning diagnosis. What happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease?
Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognises her.
A reclusive English teacher living with severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
In the darkness of a smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.
College student Margot meets 33-year-old Robert at the cinema where she works. After a casual flirtation at the concession stand, they carry on conversations through texts. As their perceptions of each other collide, events spiral out of control. Based on The New Yorker short story by Kristen Roupenian.
Eleven-year-old Ama and her mother, Grace, take solace in the gentle but isolated world they obsessively create. Ama’s growing up threatens the boundaries of their tenderness and forces Grace to reckon with a past she struggles to forget.
In summer 2014, sunflower fields and coal mines in eastern Ukraine turned into a 12 square kilometer crime scene. A multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped shrapnel was found in the pilot's body, implicated the state responsible for a war crime that remains unpunished.
Playing with the forms and tropes of various cinema genres, the filmmaker sets off on a quest to find a legendary lost video collection of 55,000 movies in Sicily.
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an ancient embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill. Until one of them goes too far and opens the door to the spirit world.
The threats facing India's Koli fishing community are explored through the story of two friends with very different approaches to their tradition.
In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries a radical new method to break through his students’ apathy and unlock their curiosity, their potential… and maybe even their genius. Based on a true story.
Bemani has spent ten years in jail for killing her husband. Her child was taken away in prison and allegedly given to her husband’s family. Temporarily released, she immediately starts looking for her son.
Documenting a marine biologist as he observes walruses in Siberia.
The story of playwright Liza Jessie Peterson's performance of The Peculiar Patriot at Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary and its impact.
A journalist tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering sex workers.
A Russian activist and her family prepare to say a last goodbye.
The Solé family spends the summer picking peaches - but this year’s crop may well be their last as new owners plan to replace the peach trees with solar panels and the family’s livelihood is threatened.
Otto is a grump who's given up on life following the loss of his wife and wants to end it all. When a young family moves in nearby, he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol, leading to a friendship that will turn his world around.
A tenants' vote turns sour after a revelation.
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
Documentary charting the rise to fame of basketball star Jeremy Lin, the racism he faced and his impact on the wider Asian-American community
A boy goes on an adventure with a cake-loving mole, a fox and a horse.
A young girl and a cop recall the same fateful night.
Adolescence unleashes a young girl's inner panda.
Famed Southern detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece for his latest case.
A schoolteacher is forced to live a double life against the backdrop of Thatcher's Britain.
Five street kids set out on a journey to the promised land.
An innocent angle Lu Po-Shun on coming at the themes of Will You Still Be My Friend from a child's perspective
She's out of sight Luka Marcetic, Lara Wolf and Urban Kuntaric on Girl In The Night
The first time and the last Agata Trzebuchowska on keeping it fresh when making her feature début with Sick
The changing light Yoon Dan-bi on music, sound, Moving On and The World Before
Flipping the script Ghasideh Golmakani on using absurdist comedy to tackle misogyny in Head To Head
Spotlight on forgotten history Miwa Nishikawa on telling the story of post-war street orphans in Children Untold
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