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A silent film director forms a bond with a woman who has a hidden agenda.
The story of Leak, a teenage trans man who plays football in the under-21s women's team of Kampong Chhnang, and Pa Vann, the coach and father-figure to Leak and other LGBTQ+ players on the team.
Variously labeled as a deadbeat by his ex, a failure by his mother, and a shell of himself by his best friend, Lousy Carter is falling apart, debt-ridden and cast adrift. As he interprets The Great Gatsby for an antipathetic graduate class, one of the students offers Lousy Carter one last chance at living the dream.
Moroccan-Dutch Karim returns to his family home and opens up to his parents about being attracted to men.
A new back-country ranger travels alone through the dangerous wilderness, hoping to uncover the origins of a tragedy which has haunted her since she was a child.
Seven years after he survived the monster apocalypse, a young man leaves his underground bunker on a quest to reunite with the woman he loves.
A high school girl engages in compensated dating in order to buy an expensive ring before the day ends.
A portrait of the life and career of actor Anton Yelchin.
A woman who is struggling with intimacy in her relationship finds her love revived by a romantic fantasy.
A young woman disguises herself as a man in order to access a university education.
One of the co-founders of the Lesbian Herstory Archives talks about its importance and contemplates its future.
Makoto Kashiba is an elite bank clerk and works for a big bank at its Tokyo HQ. Due to a minor mistake, he is demoted to a small branch office in a country town. He is devastated by his situation. There, he meets beautiful Yoshino Ikoma, who runs a goldfish scooping store. Makoto falls in love with her at first sight.
A thirtysomething drifter, stumbling from party to party, unsure of his place in the world meets a passionate and carefree woman. A summer of love, drugs and parties whips them into a passionate affair, until reality bites and he begins to question if he’s really ready to get serious.
A dreamlike conversation with the past and the present, this film reimagines a more nuanced narrative of Latasha Harlins by excavating intimate memories shared by her cousin and best friend.
A documentary about the importance of getting back to nature.
A documentary portrait of the enigmatic novelist.
A married couple is forced to reckon with their idealised image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher threatens his status as an all-star student.
Mia is a rebellious art student who struggles to create the ultimate project for a demanding professor. Desperate to find her artistic voice, she takes Lucid, a candy elixir, to access her creativity, but taps into something much darker.
Natalia is a 19-year-old novice who reluctantly returns home to say goodbye to her dying father. However, when she meets up with her sister and her friends, she decides instead to travel the jungle and explore the spiritual world through ayahuasca.
A suburban woman fights to be believed as she finds herself stalked by a threatening figure who returns to her house night after night.
Between mean girls, her first romance, and budding hormones, Lucy begins to realise that she's not like the other teenagers in her class.
A hardworking and exhausted nurse battles coworkers, clients and one impatient bus driver to learn her self worth as she chases the American Dream in Miami's Little Haiti neighbourhood.
Two desperate criminals navigate a dangerous industrial complex in real time, seeking redemption while facing mounting threats in this intense thriller.
Amaia has just given birth to her first daughter. She would prefer not to give up her career as a translator, but it’s not easy to balance it with her family and looking after a young child. When her partner goes away on business for seven weeks, the young woman capitulates and goes to stay with her parents in the countryside.
Two burnt out high school Lunch Ladies do whatever it bloody takes on their quest to become Johnny Depp's personal chefs.
Widowed preacher and leader to a small mountain community, El Señor has preached to his followers that a new messiah will appear and shepherd them into a new era. His faith is absolute, regardless of how many false prophets he has to go through. But the faith of his three daughters is beginning to waver.
After being told that his heart is failing, a man living in a dystopian future world tries to resolve family issues and deal with an insurance policy that would see him replaced by a clone.
A dramatisation of a failed US assassination mission in Afghanistan.
Fourth part of the series, sees the toddler get in on the action after his father is hired to kill a female assassin.
The assassin and his child take on another assignment.
The ronin assassin and his infant son take on a corrupt lord and his vassals.
After the rest of his family is killed, a former Shogunate executioner takes his baby son on the road with him and they make a living as assassins while awaiting an opportunity for revenge.
A ronin wanders the Japanese countryside with his child, having adventures.
Lord Retsudo musters the last of his resources in an attempt to destroy the father and son team once and for all.
A volunteer firefighter who witnesses the aftermath of a car crash finds his life turned upside down by an obscure, destructive longing.
A documentary about the 30 year career of The Grateful Dead
A lonely postman, struggling to cope, turns to his hero Eric Cantona for advice, and the footballer magically appears to inspire him.
Two young men rob a bank and hide the money in the coffin of one's recently deceased mother, but the police are on their trail.
A group a schoolboys stranded on an island quickly turn to savagery and fiercely hierarchical behaviour in this adaptation of William Golding's classic tale.
Documentary and fiction blend in a tale of ancient palaces, devoted shepherds and a young calf contemplating his fate.
A documentary about people who were sentenced to life without parole by the US court system for crimes they committed as teenagers.
Spence Cutler is a vicious psychopath who stalks his victims relentlessly without emotion, empathy or guilt. But one fateful encounter in a nightclub with a new designer drug is about to give him a dose of way too much reality.
A documentary portrait of the backyard punk scene in Los Angeles.
A look back at the extraordinary life and legacy of sculptor Louise Bourgeois.
Marooned on a beach with her rock star idol, a starstruck teenager neglects to tell him that they're actually still on the same island as their holiday resort.
After a Samurai goes blind his wife makes a terrible sacrifice to try and help him, but is she doing so at the cost of their love?
A girl who once lived in a cult commune falls in with gang of delinquents.
Punk rock, magical turtles and underground sewer communities.
A documentary about a man who says he has been in regular contact with aliens throughout his life.
Invisible crisis Seemab Gul on a scandal in education, and making her first feature, Ghost School
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
McGregor, Branagh and Vachon bound for Edinburgh Film festival launches 79th programme of premieres and encounters
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Fantasia Full line-up revealed; Her Private Hell to open
MIFF Festival director discusses London line-up as doors open
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The Evia Project Event returns for a 5th year with focus on the forest
DocFest Winners announced
Tribeca Awards announced
