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A dramatisation of the historical Battle of Myeongnyang and its star naval admiral Yi Sun-sin, who led a small fleet to improbable victory over a much larger Japanese fleet.
An adult woman puts herself up for adoption and forms a bond with the misanthropic patriarch of her adoptive family. Based on a true story.
A musical documentary about grief and the creative power of love, told through the astonishing story of Alan and Adrianne St-George and their hand-built castle in rural Illinois.
Siblings Megan and Noah discover a dead body, long buried in their parents' basement, sending them down a rabbit hole of crime and murder.
A woman who aged out of the group home system tries to find her place in the world.
A young woman acquires a cursed advent calendar and plays a game against the devil in the run up to Christmas.
The unbelievable but (allegedly) true story of the exploits of Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen and a small girl.
Classic version of the outlaw tale.
An ex-dancer who now needs a wheelchair is given an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas. She realises each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life: some of them good, but most of them bad - so she will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again - even if it causes death around her
A look at the rise and rise of gay zombie porn meister BruceLaBruce.
Matinee serial-style space opera set in a crystalline Martian city - a silent film accompanied by new music.
A family is obsessed with everything from drawing to taxidermy.
Ellie is stuck in a cyclical nightmare grappling with a medical condition that erratically resets her memory. Left unable to remember her loving husband or young daughter, each reset leaves her disoriented and haunted with vivid memories and scattered recollections of an unfamiliar life she’s never lived. What is the cause of her rare illness, and can her husband really help cope with her affliction?
A documentary about the ten year Soviet presence in Afghanistan and its impact on world politics.
Young Afghan women fight for the right to ride bicycles.
Cliff is the owner of Omega Bar, a place for criminals and diamond dealers. When his friend Grigg runs into trouble, he agrees to help him in exchange for a handful of diamonds.
A grieving rideshare driver picks up a passenger who helps him confront the past.
After a nuclear holocaust a group of survivors retreats to a cellar in a desperate attempt to survive.
Disturbed by the resurgence of fascism and anti-Semitism around the world, a psychoanalyst based in New York travels to Germany, Israel, and Palestine to confront her own deep-seated feelings about Germans and Palestinians, and the tensions between the Holocaust and the Nakba.
A man struggles with loneliness, the possible collapse of his relationship and the fact that every night a monster tries to break into his house.
A look at the suffering caused by Russia's nuclear testing programme in Kazakhstan, where villagers who knew nothing of what was happening have suffered appalling, generational effects of radiation poisoning.
A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.
In 1926, with her personal life in tatters and her writing in crisis, a young Agatha Christie decides to solve a real-life murder.
Rumours of demonic possession at a religious convent prompts a church investigation into the strange goings-on among its nuns. A disaffected priest and his neophyte are confronted with temptation, bloodshed and a crisis of faith.
Mother-daughter drama sees the fractious pair face a challenge when a new neighbour turns up on their doorstep.
A discontented New York family woman called unexpectedly to Tuscany to execute her estranged mother's will. There, she deciphers visions of her forgotten childhood and confronts a terrifying spectre.
Documentary portrait of the band behind Take On Me.
A blow-up sex doll develops a sense of self and begins to explore the world around her.
A young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland flounders in a maze of social services and bureaucracy as her situation becomes increasingly dire.
A funeral parlour assistant is possessed by a spirit which is seeking revenge.
A man who finds contentment in the simple pleasures - buttered toast, bicycle rides and walking his dog - discovers that his beloved dog park has been transformed into a 'blog park', a digital sanctuary where youths gather to open their laptops. He feels compelled to take action, to set things right.
A group of people tries to solve a riddle.
Albert is a servant with a secret, born as a girl but living and working as a man in a world where everybody seems to be hiding something.
An international group of 'gentlemanly explorers', all with pseudonyms to protect their identities, come together in a quest to solve the mystery of the missing tomb of Alexander the Great.
The door of time opens between the swordsman who wants to seize the legendary divine sword at the end of the Goryeo Dynasty and those who chase after an alien prisoner imprisoned in a human body in 2022.
Ancient Taoists and aliens travel through time and space in an effort to obtain a crystal blade which could determine the future of the Earth.
Reeling from the news of an unexpected pregnancy, Jimmy and Everly unknowingly release an alien invasion in their small town and learn to work together in order to save each other, their town and evidently, the entire galaxy.
The story of the Dorset Bus Drivers whose amateur dramatics group created a serious stage adaptation of the science fiction horror classic Alien and ended up performing in London's West End.
Alien vs Predator, with man in the middle.
Two dancers find a connection that goes beyond their art.
A severely injured man and woman awake in an abandoned sanitarium only to discover that a sadistic caretaker holds the keys to their freedom and the horrific answers as to their real identity.
A discarded baby alligator grows into a giant in the sewers of Chicago and then emerges to go on a rampage.
When adult Laura offers teenage Eva an escape from her repressive home life, the unbalanced pairing brings into question dynamics of age and maturity, dominance and submission.
A desperate young couple go on the run with a stolen baby.
A documentary about the history of voter suppression in the United States.
A blind woman's relationship with her husband changes when she regains her sight and discovers disturbing details about the two of them.
A wriggling, drug-induced creature feature.
In Japan, people still struggle to cope with the legacy of the 2011 tsunami, whilst on the Hawaiian island of Kaho’olawe, volunteers collect Japanese debris from the beaches.
A screenwriter embarks on a relationship with a neighbour at the same time as making a journey into his troubled past.
A young German soldier's terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I.
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
Sacred and profane Hannah Peterson on adapting David Hornsby's Via Negativa
Suspicious minds Rebecca Zlotowski on building past lives and working with Jodie Foster on A Private Life
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