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The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott’s Alien – rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O’Bannon and HR Giger.
Released from a psychiatric hospital where she was 'treated' for her homosexuality, a deaf mute young woman goes looking for her first love.
Action adventure sees a morgue taken over by gunmen.
A semi-retired associate of the Jewish mafia in Los Angeles tries to save his young grandson from a life of crime as three corrupt cops crack down on local criminals
The intrepid creator of the documentary That Sugar Film sets off on another journey, this time to scour the world for solutions and measures to combat climate change.
Musical comedy sees a singer-songwriter wake after a global blackout to discover a world where The Beatles never existed.
A call centre worker begins to work a scam on the elderly.
A filmmaker explores the life of the mother who died when he was just three years old.
Documentary about the relationship between a daughter and trans-parent as they embark on the road to transition.
Martin is a cove fisherman whose brother has started using their father’s boat to shuttle tourists, soon causing latent familial tensions to explode.
Consideration of farm animals.
Documentary about competitive medieval combat.
An anarchic cocktail of generational politics, hip-hop loving farmers and hallucinogenic rabbit shites, set in the highlands of Scotland.
A group of kids from the ghettos of Kingston undertake a Hero Journey, progressing through adversity to triumph with an international production of their own show.
The incredible, against-all-odds story of sailor Tracy Edwards, who skippered the first all-female international crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race.
A unicorn-obsessed woman meets a salesman who claims he can supply her with one of her own if she fulfils a series of chores.
The shiny red skin of the jujube brings back vague memories of the director's stepmother, recreated on expired film.
After sundown, a man walks the motorway verges, gathering roadkill. An investigation of the border between life and death, and the edges of the manmade world.
The filmmaker's mother, a sociologist, used index cards throughout her career to make notes on all that she read. Now that she no longer has an office her house is filled with these cards.
Faced with the ageing of his faithful workhorse, a man is forced to confront his own mortality and consider a sacrifice to ensure his family's survival.
Glasgow rapper Lumo committed suicide aged 21, sending shockwaves through the Scottish hip hop community. As family and friends struggle to make sense of his death, they uncover hidden clues in lyrics and videos he left behind.
In a black hair salon in gentrifying Brooklyn, the local residents fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.
A triptych of documentary images play simultaneously, united by the same geographical space but offering both complementary and contradictory narrative clues as to what is really going on.
A free-spirited woman in her fifties looks for love in LA dance clubs.
A fuzzy yarn about what happens when patience runs out.
A political revenge fable which offers an un-writing of Australian national mythology.
A woman tries to stop smoke from leaking into her home.
A man picks the wrong stranger to expose himself to.
After a young couple puts their daughter to sleep, a paranoid mother starts to believe something else is in her daughter's room.
When a woman undergoes a frightening transition, her vigilant five year old daughter must decide between saving her or protecting herself.
An experimental horror short that explores the link between social media, isolation and eating disorders.
Cerulia returns to her childhood home to find that it is haunted by her memories.
A hit woman working for an organised crime family in Boston finds her life turned around by a boy whose path she crosses when a hit goes bad.
A young man contemplates suicide after losing someone close to him. He never feels that it’s possible to share his feelings until a care home owner Jeff becomes a source of support and a flirtation with a single mother presents a reason to choose life.
Two best friends in a small Scottish town in the summer of '94 head out for one last night together before life takes them in different directions.
A middle-aged woman declares war on the heavy industry in her small town, but everything changes when a Ukrainian orphan enters her life.
A pair of cops suspended for strong-arm tactics descend into the criminal underworld.
The story of a young man who is born without pain receptors and dreams of becoming a martial arts master but takes it all too far.
The story of a teenager and his life between domestic violence and the newfound recognition from a group of local skaterboarders.
After the death of Superman, several new people present themselves as possible successors.
A documentary asserting that the CIA manipulated musicians and activists to promote drugs for social control, particularly regarding the Civil Rights and anti-war movements, and that some musicians that resisted these manipulations were killed.
A former top national security advisor, haunted by having signed off on a controversial military action that cost thousands of innocent lives, sets out to tell the truth
An ambitious woman treads a dangerous path as she attempts to crash the corporate boys’ club.
Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called Stem.
A man has to release his alter ego to save his life.
Biopic of Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon.
A dramatisation of events around Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claimed the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.
As Scott Lang balances being both a superhero and a father, Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym present an urgent new mission that finds Ant-Man fighting alongside The Wasp to uncover secrets from their past.
A journalist investigates a woman's claims to have seen the Virgin Mary.
The drug war on the US-Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border. To fight them, federal agent Matt Graver re-teams with Alejandro.
Putting a festival in the frame Georgis Grigorakis on shooting a hybrid documentary about Thessaloniki Film Festival
Encouraging reel growth How Spanish/Greek co-production Yerma took root at the Evia Project
Age and urgency Daniel Talbott and Andrew Klaus-Vineyard on Welcome To Tool Shed
Little games Alicia Scherson on adapting Bolaño and making The Summer War
Without context Matt Eames on declining political discourse, life without social media, and Deepfake
Such a suff'ring Joe Fria on exploring his personal fears in Shadows Of Willow Cabin
McGregor, Branagh and Vachon bound for Edinburgh Film festival launches 79th programme of premieres and encounters
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