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An aging hairdresser escapes his nursing home and embarks on an odyssey across his small town to style a dead woman’s hair for her funeral.
A few days before her Quinceañera, a girl is introduced to a cousin she has never met before, prompting her to question the values she has grown up with.
Musical mayhem, murder most foul, and meat pies with a difference in a gothic tale of doomed love and deadly obsession.
A socially awkward, environmentally conscious teenager is dragged to a coastal holiday park by her painfully family, where she becomes unexpectedly captivated by a chlorine smelling, sun-loving lifeguard.
Four sex workers caught in the spiral of addiction turn to a self-proclaimed healer offering friendship and a path to salvation from the streets inside his roadside RV. But just as they begin to rebuild their lives, a shocking betrayal comes to light that will change them all.
When a chance encounter with her rock star crush leads 16 year old Rylee to discover that he's a dysfunctional drug addict, she takes it upon herself to help him, ultimately forcing her teenage fantasies into reality.
When Dutch patriarch and plantation owner Jan dies suddenly in Indonesia, his son arrives from Europe with plans for radical change. But when Jan’s will puts his Indonesian concubine Siti at the forefront of the family estate, ideals prove to be futile and blood thicker than water.
When four struggling band members stop at a lonely roadside cafe for a slice of pie they find themselves imprisoned in the deranged cafe owners bizarre art collection and must battle a sinister force with an appetite for souls.
A middle aged woman begins to break down under the pressures of day to day life.
Having earned himself a coveted spot at an elite training camp, talented swimmer Erez finds himself thrust into an unforgiving world of sporting rivalry, battling against his peers for a place on the Israeli Olympic swimming team - while falling for a teammate.
The presence of a mysterious houseguest exposes subtle fractures in the marriage between a poet and a war correspondent.
A prickly English author looks for inspiration in a hedonistic housemate.
A blind swordsman fights to protect his daughter and is forced to confront an old enemy.
Complications ensue when a couple try to sell an inherited sword believed by some to be proof that the Confederacy won the American Civil War.
After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.
A pair of paramedics find their friendship put to the test after a series of deaths are linked to a drug.
Nine-year-old Benni radically defies every rule. But this feared ‘system crasher’s’ only desire is to stop living in a residential home and go back to her mother.
A struggling novelist retreats to her remote country home to work, but the PA who turns up to help her may have an agenda of her own.
A boy with Asperger's syndrome goes riding on the New York subway for days as his distraught mother searches for him.
A documentary about controversial issues around the funding of higher education in America.
When Alex accidentally kills his girlfriend and she won't stay dead, their disintegrating co-dependent relationship just gets worse.
The effete son of a riverboat captain gets the chance to win over his father when he is called upon to save the day.
A street dancer attends a dance academy and encounters a conflict of ideals, as well as meeting a guy who changes her outlook on life.
A former gymnast turned delinquent is given the choice between prison and going back into training.
For Mary, the joy of her son Adam’s birth is overshadowed by the stillborn death of his twin brother. Now she can't shake the feeling that something is coming for Adam too.
A single father, concerned about his kids, tries to find out what 'fragrance' means and uncovers some worrying secrets about US safety standards.
A documentary watching the detectives looking for stolen works of art.
Saharawi refugees in the Algerian desert speak out about slavery, and two filmmakers find themselves in unexpected danger.
A medical school graduate gets more than he bargained for at a mental institution.
A collection of stories about LGBT life in Kenya.
Legal drama about a prosecutor of war crimes given a 'cast iron case' but who finds her chief witness unreliable.
A young woman travels to Peru in the hope of better understanding a troubling family legacy.
A couple, brought together by a chance encounter, react to a horrific attack by plotting vengeance.
A car thief runs into trouble when he experiences love at first sight.
When two teenage children go missing in the desert, their parents' lives begin to unravel.
A young couple are terrorised by a group of masked home invaders.
A documentary about possible alien contact incidents The Hill Abduction And the Exeter Encounter.
Seven years after a killer is jailed, a murder occurs in town - is it a copycat or has the wrong man been jailed?
Portrait of American war vet and biker Ronnie ‘Stray Dog’ Hall.
After suffering humiliation by the crew Invincible, street dancer Ash (Hentschel) looks to gather the best dancers from around the world for a rematch.
A dark comedy following a young man's return to his secretive Romanian family as the dead shudder in their graves and Ceausescu rises to power.
The filmmaker investigates the shooting of his brother.
Parasitic wasps party on down.
A typographer with a speech impediment must summon up all his courage to meet the woman he's romanced online in person.
A documentary about the first ever performance by pioneering Deaf and disabled theatre company Graeae.
A attempt to capture the experience of a refugee falling into despair in a lonely cell.
A young soldier who has never left the safety of the militarised underground warrens before is assigned to a solitary lookout post in the forest where the silence begins to scare him and prompts rumination about the real nature of the enemy.
A stark look at the financial cost of keeping asylum seekers in detention.
Relationships break down in a dystopian future in this, the first film ever written by an AI.
The Man of Steel returns to save lives - but can he salvage his own?
Hoffman still working out life’s mysteries Eternal star of The Graduate receives top Karlovy Vary accolade
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
McGregor, Branagh and Vachon bound for Edinburgh Film festival launches 79th programme of premieres and encounters
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