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In this animated musical, a girl builds a rocket ship and blasts off, hoping to meet a mythical moon goddess.
A cheeky, irrepressible 11-year-old racing through life with boundless energy is confronted by the harsh realities of the adult world and the tragedies that lie locked in his family history.
One night in Nineties rural England, a retired couple finds their isolated house besieged by a gang of young criminals. The thieves think it will be easy to make them give up the secret of their safe. But they have no idea what nightmare they’ve gotten themselves into as they fight to escape the house alive.
A traditional Indonesian tale of love and tragedy recounted through the medium of dance.
A woman is haunted by unfulfilled dreams.
A social worker struggles to reunite families after discovering the (real life) scandalous deportation of British children to other Commonwealth countries, which often resulted in abuse.
A woman tortured by her loss of religious faith falls for a charismatic psychologist.
A documentary tribute to the dying art of Indian cinema posters, with each cinema once employing a dedicated artist to paint a massive original mural for that week’s Bollywood blockbuster.
In a future world where the remnants of humanity are threatened by a sentient forest, a youth must reinvent himself in order to prevent people from the past destroying all that he holds dear.
The mystery and surprising history of the man with Elvis Presley's voice.
An ornithologist searching for black storks is swept away by rapids and awakens in a mysterious, dark forest.
A dramatisation of the Boleyn sisters' competition for the affections of King Henry VIII.
An encounter with punk heroes who are adjusting to fatherhood.
A collection of three of Otto Preminger's most celebrated film noir works.
A man with spiritualist powers is told by his mentor that a demonic entity is returning to destroy his daughter's soul and that he should take drastic measures to prevent this from happening.
Two families clash when their offspring decide to tie the knot.
Super-8 film shot by Nixon's aides documenting the presidency.
The daughter of a Nazi hunter is looking for revenge and stumbles across an undead Nazi army.
An Israeli lawyer and a Palestinian student begin a secret gay love affair.
A young couple and their child move to Colombia to start a new life, but old legacies could threaten everything they hold dear.
Two young men who share an incurable illness face death together and try to find something precious in life.
Pablo has had seven heart attacks but, despite the pleas of his wife and doctor, has no intention of giving up smoking.
An exploration of the techniques and aims behind abstract expressionism.
A bored bank employee gradually begins embezzling money so she can live the life she wants, but nothing goes quite as she expected.
A woman wakes up after a car crash to find herself living a life she knows nothing about.
A man cursed to roam the seas forever can escape only through the love of a woman willing to die for him, but in his brief period of shore leave the woman he falls for is a socialite with a string of admirers and apparently no feelings...
A music journalist gets out of his depth when he goes looking for his missing neighbour in London's gangland.
A community outraged by a murder focuses on a misfit loner.
A Russian member of the French resistance, a collaborator and a naive SS officer collide with tragic consequences.
A group of workers try to take over their music hall when it's threatened with closure, but the arrival of a beautiful new singer leads to tragedy.
A boy grows up in a commune, trained to become an assassin, and begins to doubt its leader.
During the chaos following Partition, a Sikh man and a Muslim woman meet and fall in love, but the course of history is against them.
Three girls plan a party but things don't turn out the way they expected.
A young couple are rescued from their crashed car by a man who lives alone in the middle of nowhere. Everyone has secrets.
A film director struggling for inspiration is blackmailed into directing a Passion Play in a small Tuscan town.
A security guard blackmails a TV host.
An exploration of the prose, poetry and artwork of WG Sebald and its place within European history and geography.
A young woman survives a rape and her response confounds everyone around her.
A career security guard who always dreamed of greater things finds himself put to the test when criminals take over the mall where he works.
A day in the life of 12 residents of a Melbourne suburb.
A man whose young son has disappeared gradually uncovers a terrible secret as he searches for him.
The man who established Utah's first SWAT team investigates the death of his son-in-law at the hands of another SWAT team, unwilling to accept the official ruling.
Leading female Iranian artists discuss the social and political importance of their work.
A portrait of Fritz Bauer, a man who defied his own government in working with Mossad to track down Adolf Eichmann.
A relationship comes under strain after sexual fun gives way to questions on the morning after.
A couple experiment with sleeping with other people and find it has unexpected effects on their lives.
Three young American women visiting Thailand fall foul of a vengeful hong phrai.
An Iranian gangster wrongly accused of stealing from his boss is forced to hunt down stolen goods.
A psychoanalytical look at film.
A retrospective on the work of photographer, artist and adventurer Peter Beard.
Telling tales Alex Vlack on comedy, cruelty, moral rationalisation and The Revisionist
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
McGregor, Branagh and Vachon bound for Edinburgh Film festival launches 79th programme of premieres and encounters
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