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A love triangle unfolds between the legendary diva Irina, her lover Boris, and the ingénue Nina.
Charts a transgender man’s path to parenthood after he decides to carry his child himself. The pregnancy prompts an unexpected and profound reckoning with conventions of masculinity, self-definition and biology.
A woman in mourning communicates with seals.
A group of teenagers at an elite boarding school become convinced that a ghost is coming for them.
Director Margarethe von Trotta, extremely appreciated by Ingmar Bergman, follows the filmmaker’s footsteps as well as her own past and questions the new generation about the place left by the Swedish master.
A woman struggles to get by after her husband disappears while out fishing.
A short documentary goes behind the scenes with the state representative from Montana as she makes international news fighting for trans medical care - and making a momentous decision in her own life.
When a young girl stows away on the ship of a legendary sea monster hunter, they launch an epic journey into uncharted waters - and make history to boot.
The crew of a West of Ireland trawler, marooned at sea, struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.
A French colonial family in Forties Cambodia face financial ruin after their rice fields are flooded.
A journey through the subconscious in the aftermath of a bereavement.
Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.
Unexpected unemployment and a friend's wedding force a thirtysomething woman to confront her dissatisfaction with her life.
While mourning the death of his wife and fending off an ambitious detective who thinks he killed her, Ben encounters a man who claims that he can teach him to fly.
The Pope family’s Christmas Eve dinner goes horribly and hilariously wrong when someone puts something in the party punch causing everyone to tell the unvarnished truth at the already dysfunctional holiday reunion.
Just as the Earth is, our inner selves are made up of many layers that make up our identity and tell the story of our existence.
What starts out as girls weekend away in the Mojave desert becomes a tale of horror, death and alien invasion.
When a hiker gets lost in the desert, a gang of feral children propelled by haunting legacies traps him in a sadistic battle for survival with a frightening endgame.
A documentary exploring the role that autism plays in the lives of 17 Icelandic women, and asking why autistic women and girls have remained invisible in society for so long.
A documentary following one Honduran family's efforts to be accepted into the US as refugees.
Launched in the late Eighties, educational software Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions globally, but the program's Haitian-born cover model vanished decades ago. Two DIY investigators search for the unsung cultural icon, while questioning notions of digital security, AI, and Black representation in the digital realm.
A legally blind housesitter turns to a mobile app service for help when the remote mansion she’s looking after is targeted by a gang of thieves.
Born to a family of celebrated fashion photographers, and with a terminal disease that gave him a fearless approach to life and art, Davide Sorrenti took 1990s New York City by storm. This is his story.
A decade after abruptly breaking up with Naomi, Kris invites her to dinner to catch-up on their complicated lives, relationships, and Kris’ transition.
A new father strives to protect his baby for the 21 days during which it is vulnerable to spiritual attack.
Members of an underground online community attend a secret weekend retreat to confront their fears and regain their sense of self. Two girls discover that one of their mothers has become romantically entangled with its leader, whose unusual self-actualisation methods may be deadly.
Facing mounting expenses and the unrelenting pressure of modern living, a down-on-his-luck cab driver is lured onto a mysterious new app that promises fast, easy money.
A couple find their relationship coming under strain while dealing with career issues and the tangled lives of their friends.
When a lowly postman is inducted into a top-secret superhuman DNA program at a research facility, it's revealed that he'll be able to receive, control and send information based on the senses of others.
An Iranian couple's trial separation is complicated by their interactions with another troubled family.
One man hunts another across the treacherous landscapes of the old west.
Prune Nourry is a French multi-disciplinary artist and a survivor of breast cancer. This documentary merges the artist and the cancer patient, offering an appraisal of her oeuvre and its newfound connection to her illness.
A band of young scientists discover a radical new theory of the natural world — one that could help confront some of the biggest environmental challenges of our time.
A frustrated thirtysomething woman stuck in a small seaside town meets a charismatic life coach who promises to transform her world with alternative therapy - and who is also a serial killer.
Things get ugly when a nice, middle class, suburban housewife runs out of patience.
A young woman leaves her transphobic small-town, and develops a romance with tattoo artist Gen with whom she shares a paranormal connection. But their deep-rooted insecurities unknowingly release a demon, which possesses one of their ex-lovers and begins feeding on their friends by sucking out their lifeforce.
The story of pianist and unsung hero Nicky Hopkins, who played with the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Kinks and many more.
In Nazi-occupied Bosnia, a Muslim woman risks her life to save her Jewish friend. 50 years later, her friend returns the favour. Based on a true story.
A retired sniper in hiding on an Australian ranch must reunite her elite kill squad when a vengeful warlord threatens her daughter.
A small-town couple finds the perfect apartment in the big city, except there's one catch: the apartment is home to the ritualistic suicides of a deranged cult.
An earnest theatre director has the task of remounting her former mentor's most famous work, the opera Salome. Some disturbing memories from her past will allow her repressed trauma to colour the present.
Magpie lives in an isolated church community ruled over by her father, The Pastor. When a man is murdered, paranoia sets in and people start to whisper about a strange 'Beast' that lives in the forest.
When killer alligators unleash chaos from the sewers of a small Louisiana town, it's up to a local sheriff, an alligator expert and an old gator hunter to kill the beasts.
A documentary about how women got together to assert their rights after facing exploitation in the burgeoning Korean garment industry and at the sewing factories of Pyeonghwa Market in Seoul.
To right the wrongs of his all-American sex education, a 36-year-old goes on a quest to uncover naked truths and hard facts - no matter how awkward it gets.
When a junkie wakes up covered in blood and discovers that there's a warrant out for his arrest, he turns to his psychiatrist older brother for help and the two set out for the Canadian border.
A study of an esoteric community hidden within the French Pyrenees, supposedly the home of the Holy Grail.
Two sisters who live in the woods with their mother, going out only by night, begin to doubt that the world is really as dangerous as she claims.
Gato's safe, isolated world is throw into chaos when his teenage daughter gets a mobile phone and makes herself visible to the world.
When a Deaf young man asks his estranged older brother to join him in a musical contest, this blue collar worker must dust off his musical chops in order to be his little brother's voice, so that the world can finally hear him.
Pilgrims' progress David Andrew Ward on capturing spiritual journeys in Human Tide
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
McGregor, Branagh and Vachon bound for Edinburgh Film festival launches 79th programme of premieres and encounters
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