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Iris is 17 and takes each day as it comes. When she meets the cool Renata, her life changes abruptly.
An ex-dancer who now needs a wheelchair is given an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas. She realises each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life: some of them good, but most of them bad - so she will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again - even if it causes death around her
On the eve of the 2020 election, a posse of progressives ride into red country. They have no idea what's waiting for them.
A medical student suffering from sleep paralysis finds herself plagued by a demonic entity, after moving in with her boyfriend.
An evangelical family offers a traveling knife salesman a ride on their way through upstate New York.
A teenager struggles to fit in, finding herself caught between the Chinese and American aspects of her identity.
In the dead of winter, a musician travels to a remote cottage to work on new material, but soon finds herself under attack from a mysterious dark presence.
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.
The story of Mississippi basketball legend Lusia 'Lucy' Harris.
A grieving widower is overcome by malevolent forces.
A man is contacted by a version of himself two minutes in the future.
A group of toy store employees must protect each other from a horde of parasite infected shoppers.
Two boys let their imagination run wild in a barren desert, but the fun and games come to a shocking halt.
Two African-American women who can "pass" as white choose to live on opposite sides of the colour line in 1929 New York in an exploration of racial and gender identity, performance, obsession and repression.
A young woman's ghost investigates the mysterious events that led to her own murder.
A documentary about factory workers who have found ways to express their frustration through creativity after being made redundant.
Reflection on loneliness through the life of a solitary woman.
A man who is still living in his girlfriend's apartment after their break-up finds his life transformed in unexpected ways by her photographer father.
A lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the elevators of a new office building.
A vulnerable young boy finds his mother pushed out of the family home by a strange new woman, and he must confront the terrifying supernatural forces that seem to move in with her.
A climber who has recently miscarried after a car accident is determined not to miss out on the world championships, but she begins to receive text messages from what is apparently another, still pregnant version of herself.
This documentary explores a group of gay women songwriters who have successfully navigated the male dominated country music genre and have written number one hits for some of country music's greatest stars.
The story of Ricky Kasso, an American teenager who murdered his friend, Gary Lauwers, in an alleged Satanic sacrifice during the summer of 1984.
In 16th Century England, a cruel witch-hunting magistrate, who often tortures innocent villagers for his entertainment, runs afoul of a witch who conjures a banshee to kill the magistrate and his family.
After his boyfriend leaves him, a young man moves in with his best friend and they spend the summer hanging out on the rooftop.
A Turkish immigrant gravedigger in New York finds himself unable to tell his daughter a painful truth.
A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. He is given new ones - taken from a man executed for murder.
An elite squad of Navy SEALs, on a covert mission to transport a prisoner off a CIA black site island prison, are trapped when insurgents attack.
Many years after a little girl's disappearance, a teenager arrives at her grandmother's home,, claiming to be her, but something doesn't feel right.
Coaxed into playing a racial typecast in a fellow student's play, Jonathan is faced to either challenge prejudice or play it safe.
An ailing vampire count travels to Italy with his servant to find a bride.
In 17th Century England, the children of a village slowly convert into a coven of Devil worshipers.
An indigenous Australian family is torn apart by powerful white landowners, prompting fierce resistance.
A group of young billionaires who are always trying to surprise each other wake up after a strange ritual with fangs in their mouths and a body nearby.
A woman finds a damaged android in the forest and takes it home. They form an uneasy relationship.
A sound technician for a news station becomes a vigilante ninja in New York City after his pregnant wife is murdered.
Fraternal twins spend a hellish night at the remote inn their father disappeared from the night they were born.
A woman goes to desperate lengths to get an illegal abortion.
Let go from the bomb squad due to disability, Poon wakes up in hospital with amnesia and is forced to go on the run as terrorist bombers threaten to destroy Hong Kong International Airport.
Denny, a free spirit and artist falls for Ryan, a strait-laced lawyer. When Denny questions gender their love is tested.
An intersex boy comes of age and explores the ambiguities of his identity and desires.
A singing cowboy faces his final duel - with Death.
The director of a low-budget queer thriller tries to solve a violent murder mystery that threatens his set.
An inventor whose daughter is missing develops a device which he believes he can use to communicate with the dead.
A madcap romp through the 1980s NYC art scene amid the colorful career of painter, Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it.
Following the overdose of an estranged friend, recovering addict Will, still struggling with his own sobriety, returns to his hometown where he begins a troubled affair with his friend’s grieving mother.
In a fictional meta-critique on trans representation, a transgender actor struggles with what it means to be seen after the beloved captain of his lesbian bowling league dies and a mysterious stranger shows up at the funeral.
A brief encounter in a Berlin nightclub changes the course of two lives.
A portrait of a gay man who confronts the ghosts of his past. After fleeing war and repression 37 years ago, Miguel returns to Lebanon where he traces hidden longings, unrequited love and tormenting feelings of guilt.
Two mismatched roommates discover and relive the murky secrets of their new Upper East Side apartment.
Making it Michael Townsend on Tape Art, art education and Secret Mall Apartment
This land of ours Max Keegan on the ancient conflicts underlying The Shepherd And The Bear
Home truths Marijana Janković on Balkan representation, and the immigrant question of belonging
The division belle Suzannah Herbert on facing the US' troubled history and making Natchez
Spin-off alchemy Claude Schmitz on bringing back cop pairing for Conrad & Crab – Idiotic Gems
It Was Just An Accident screenwriter arrested in Iran Jafar Panahi speaks out
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