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In a suburban village, a house belonging to a young family who recently lost their firstborn is burning. Neighbours say that the house bears the mark of a curse, as no one understands how the fire started, and eyewitnesses to the incident each have entirely different versions of what happened.
The forbidden love between Andrea, the reluctant heir of the Malatesta family, and Marilena, the beautiful wife of the Camporeale boss, rekindles an old feud between two rival families.
The story of an affair unfolds backwards over a series of summers to reveal long-held secrets.
In the sea, a man swims. As he does, memories come to the surface. From his early childhood to his life as a man, all his memories are linked to water.
A man and his son compete for the affections of the same woman.
After a child goes missing, a newly sober detective comes to suspect that his sponsor has a super power that makes animals, objects, and humans disappear up his backside.
Animated feature about the master of Spanish surrealist cinema.
Two young people undertake a doomed summer road trip through Japan, which in turn reflects on the dissipating promise of 1960s counterculture and free love.
Invisible immortals watch over their human subjects and intervene in (or interfere with) their lives.
A conventional young gay man struggles to come to terms with his attraction to bears and inadvertently falls in love in the process.
A lonely old bear tells his life story through the mechanical puppet show he has created.
,A search for sunken gold inadvertently disturbs a nest of sea vampires.
The story of the legendary hop hop act, from high school to superstardom and beyond.
Drama sees old wounds reopened when a man returns home to his dying father.
A desperate young mother tries to get money from the man who abused her when she was a child.
Born with a female anatomy, the child of musicians Sonny and Cher, Chaz Bono is now transitioning to live as a man, and he discusses his experiences in this very personal documentary.
A new look at the Scottish highlands as imagined by the Victorian aristocracy.
A hotel handyman glimpses the prospect of success when the bedtime stories he tells his nephew and niece start to come true.
Two naive Americans encounter a secret German beer-drinking society and must start training in order to defend their honour.
Two twins face choices as they reach adulthood.
An HIV positive man comes to terms with age, illness, and the death of his lover.
An candid portrait of American icon Robert "Evel" Knievel and his legacy.
Matt Busby comes out of retirement to help a young football team.
A waitress facing a crisis in her personal and work life makes an unexpected discovery about the chef who takes her side.
A pregnant woman goes to extreme lengths to stay glamorous and thin.
Animated tale of a boy who loves cycling, his supportive Gran and a dog called Bruno.
Forty years later, two of the characters from Belle De Jour are reunited, with a vengeful Henri determined to make Séverine face up to the past.
Two women embark on a passionate affair that derails their lives.
An ambitious young man seeks to attain power in 1890s Paris by seducing and manipulating the bored wives of important men.
Frustrated art teacher Benavidez is sick of living in the shadow of his formidable artist father and seeks refuge at his psychiatrist’s house where equally tormented creative spirits live in the basement in return for producing artworks sold at elite auction.
A group of homeless blues musicians disabled by childhood polio join forces with a street kid with a home made instrument and make plans to tour Europe.
A documentary about a group of doctors whose lifesaving work in a rural Haitian village inspired them to campaign for access to healthcare for all.
A documentary focusing on the enduring physical and psychological effects of torture.
A private detective with a passion for disco tries to clean up the streets of Kolkata in a documentary like no other.
An imaginative retelling of the Old English story about a hero who saves a kingdom from a monster and its mother.
A teacher working with young people who have severe learning difficulties attempts to prepare them for life in the wider world.
An auctioneer becomes obsessed by a reclusive heiress who collects fine art.
Documentary about Troll 2 - considered by many to be the worst film ever made.
As a 12-year-old prepares to confess his romantic feelings for his babysitter one Christmas Eve, something starts trying to break into the house.
A documentary portrait of a family's experiences following the homophobic murder of their son.
A survivor of rape begins a tentative relationship with a former priest, only to discover that he has a troubled past of his own.
Two brothers get into trouble playing the old VCR board game that led to their father's disappearance.
Two friends decide to save the planet by undertaking the first ever carbon-neutral, organic, vegetarian expedition to the North Pole.
Three ambitious young women look for stardom in Hollywood but find sex, drugs and rock'roll instead.
A pianist and a double-bass player find their new love tested.
After moving to a new home, a man starts seeing otherworldly entities when he has sleep paralysis, and goes on to learn that they have a terrible purpose.
When his boss dies mysteriously and the police write it off as suicide, a record store clerk becomes determined to find out the truth.
A Holocaust survivor with an outsized personality faces her biggest fear: retirement.
A documentary about traffic problems in cities around the world and the push by bike enthusiasts for a new way of thinking about transport.
An angstful adolescent finds a new lust for life upon daring to wear a bikini.
This land of ours Max Keegan on the ancient conflicts underlying The Shepherd And The Bear
Home truths Marijana Janković on Balkan representation, and the immigrant question of belonging
The division belle Suzannah Herbert on facing the US' troubled history and making Natchez
Spin-off alchemy Claude Schmitz on bringing back cop pairing for Conrad & Crab – Idiotic Gems
Past crime Christoffer Boe on creating a world for his period mystery Special Unit - The First Murder
It Was Just An Accident screenwriter arrested in Iran Jafar Panahi speaks out
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César nominations Nouvelle Vague leads the race for France's biggest awards
BAFTA nominations One Battle After Another and Sinners almost neck and neck
Critics' Circle Awards One Battle After Another wins fight
Oscars Sinners dominates the nominations
