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A mixture of drama and documentary exploring the reasons why few British black people swim and the impact this can have on life more generally.
A young woman running from an abusive relationship seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house; a historic home with an ominous past, where she finds herself trapped within disturbing dreams.
15-year-old Rihana is put into a coffin at the hands of her father to be sold off to an old Taliban soldier.
As an attack on Finland's Independence Day celebrations leads to a hostage crisis, one special agent is desperate to ensure that his colleague is not abandoned to her fate.
A documentary about people who worked to overturn the Roe versus Wade ruling on abortion in the US.
Taken in by a wealthy couple after her sudden divorce, an isolated woman spirals into a surreal nightmare of manipulation, paranoia, and betrayal.
A woman in mourning communicates with seals.
When a grave illness strikes down her father Paris, Artemis decides to return home to Greece after an absence of some years and the pair embark on a new beginning.
Behind every breakthrough are the patients who risk everything for everybody else.
Tensions rise when a stripper and religious protester are trapped together in a peep show booth and must come together to survive the apocalypse in 1980's Chicago.
Summer, 1997. A holiday to Cornwall forces troubled 13-year-old Grace to confront her demons.
A holidaying couple face a relationship crisis after agreeing to ingest a new computer system which gives them moral advice and tells them when they hear a lie.
When a young couple with a newborn baby move into a house with a troubled past, strange things begin to happen.
A teenager with unusual powers escapes from an experimental facility and finds refuge with two siblings, but very dangerous people are looking for her.
After receiving a mysterious letter, a woman travels to a desolate island town and soon becomes trapped in a nightmare.
A lowly redneck has to up his game quickly when the puppy-eating leader of a ninja cult kidnaps the woman he has a crush on and plans to sacrifice her.
A documentary about the testing of psychotropic drugs on US soldiers at the Edgewood Arsenal between 1955 and 1975.
Taranto is a ghost town that no one dares to enter. The poorest are left fighting for survival, while gangs are competing for territory. Two 13-year-old orphans, who grew up together, dream of joining one of the gangs.
A documentary which follows the tragic murders that took place at the hands of a well-known Democratic political donor.
In this colourful trip back in time, filmmaker and activist Pat Rocco shares his incredible life story as one of Hollywood's original boundary pushing gay pioneers.
The most ordinary people and places can be quite extraordinary.
Women who have experienced misogynistic violence decide to take justice into their own hands.
A young woman moves into a new apartment with her fiancé and is tormented by the feeling that she is being stalked by an unseen watcher in an adjacent building.
A documentary about the history of Mongolia and life there today.
Two South Korean detectives are sent to Vietnam to extradite a suspect where they uncover a series of connected murders and crimes against tourists.
Rising from the nihilistic ashes of the punk movement in the late 1970s, a fresh crowd of flamboyant fashionistas, who would later be christened the New Romantics, began to materialise on the streets of London.
Mimmi, Emma and Rönkkö are girls at the cusp of womanhood, trying to draw their own contours. In three consecutive Fridays two of them experience the earth-moving effects of falling in love, while the third goes on a quest to find something she’s never experienced before: pleasure.
On the outskirts of Beirut, Lilas and Shery, co-founders and guitarists of the Middle East's first all-female metal band, wrestle with friendship, sexuality and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars.
Divided into two chapters, Miracol follows a young novice as she sneaks out of an isolated convent to attend to an urgent matter. The second part deals with a determined police detective trying to understand what happened to her.
A survivor of the Pulse Nightclub massacre recalls and reflects on the experience.
In Brazil, a lower-middle-class Black family of four tries to keep their spirits up and their dreams going in the months that follow the election of a right-wing president, a man who represents everything they are not.
A lonely dwarf and his unstable, alien-obsessed neighbour are thrown together on an impossible road trip that will alter their strange friendship (and their sense of reality) forever.
Nine-year-old Johnny sends his spirit into his babysitter Melanie and gets to be a woman for a day.
A dive into the world of competitive eating.
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.
An intimate look at the journey of members of the Queer, Christian community of colour and their attempts to answer the question: Can you be both Christian and Queer?
A documentary about the artist Camille Pissarro,, centred on an exhibition at the Asehmolean Museum in Oxford.
Exploring the hidden history of the Nazi genocide of the Roma.
A woman who is traumatised by an abusive relationship runs away from her former husband with her seven-year-old son, but in their new, idyllic and remote sanctuary, they find they have another, bigger and more terrifying monster to deal with
A group of friends enjoying spring break steal a couple of jetskis, racing them out to sea, ending up in a horrific head-on collision. They struggle to find a way back to shore with a badly injured friend while in the waters below, predators lurk.
A documentary team connects with military personnel, scientists and even William Shatner in an attempt to re-capture, in real-time, the US Navy 'TicTac' UFOs, using state-of-the-art, military-grade equipment and technology.
A self help author mourning the loss of her husband retreats to a cabin on the bayou to finish her next book, only to find that more than just her past is haunting her.
After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.
Six strangers wake up trapped in a seemingly endless cornfield and discover that something mysterious is hunting them.
Antonio is a sorcerer from a powerful bloodline, trapped in an asylum against his will. After an omen informs him that his daughter will be sacrificed by an evil entity, he must use his magical skills to escape and save her.
A mother needs to confront the unbearable truth about her surviving twin son.
Somewhere on the Brazilian coast, teenagers Lucas and Martin fall in love while investigating the disappearance of a local kid, but their blossoming romance is threatened by sinister forces lurking beneath that idyllic summery landscape.
To escape writer's block, a famous novelist moves into a house near an isolated and strange village, where pages apparently written by the former resident of the house begin to appear on his desk, prompting him to question his sanity.
A search for snow leopards high on the Tibetan Plateau.
A tale of dirt, soap, and magic set in a cult on a remote Greek island.
Conflicted characters Alexis Manenti on Too Many Beasts and Flesh And Fuel
Love, not reason Pawel Pawlikowski, Sandra Hüller, August Diehl and Hanns Zischler discuss Fatherland
The monstrosity of the form Katie Aselton and Mark Duplass on relatable storytelling and Magic Hour
Going off-plan Ben Wheatley on early inspirations, developing his craft and making Normal
The accidental revolutionary Dimitri Planchon and Jean-Paul Guigue discuss artistic evolution and Blaise
Embracing complexity Nigel Santos on the messiness of real life romance, and Open Endings
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