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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.
Joana, 13, wants to find out why her great aunt died at 70 without ever having dated anyone - but she uncovers more secrets than she expected.
A dramatisation of events in 1990 when diplomats in the South Korean embassy found themselves trapped when war broke out in the Somali capital.
Upon the death of her grandfather, a woman and her husband return to her birthplace in the Black Forest, only to find a terrifying secret awaiting them.
A tiny film webseries exploring Deafness, love, and the lengths we go to find it. This tiny film follows Lauren as she navigates relationships and connection in a world of complex communication.
A celebrated architect is commissioned by a dying billionaire to build a mausoleum.
A news editor, working from home, unexpectedly receives secret footage which gives him a new perspective on an incident in which an attorney general was killed.
A queer masculine bodyscape where the spices used in Chinese cooking grow as spectacular natural landscapes.
A documentary about the life and work of the artist Raphael.
A filmic response to Lynn Hershman Leeson’s text, Romancing The Anti-body (1995), exploring the jarring juxtapositions of friction, toxicity, joy and liberation that trans people, queers and femmes experience when playing as their own custom character creations in video game spaces.
A girl living in war-torn Aleppo forges a connection across time with the poet Rumi as he flees the Mongols.
A trans boy facing bullying at a girls' school tries to find a refuge in the world of online games.
A young woman undergoes a disturbing transformation after her daughter's newfound faith threatens her health.
A woman meets the girl of her dreams in a library. Everything seems perfect - almost.
A personal, visual essay about gender transition.
The camera lingers over the faded white scars on a variety of body parts, then black ink animates over the top of them as a voice recounts the power and shame that comes with being a cutter.
Part biography, part testimonial and part imagined queer heavenly utopia, The Devotions explores the intersection between queerness and Catholicism.
A man takes his new wife to meet his children in their remote country home.
A vampire in a prairie city reflects on whether or not she can sustain a successful relationship with her mortal girlfriend.
Over an evening a wealthy family gathers for a sumptuous dinner with guests in their ostentatious house in the Welsh mountains. Served by a mysteriously disturbing young woman, the assembled party do not realise they are about to eat their last supper.
Determined to fit in at a sleepover, 15-year-old Sam ignores cruel taunts from mean girl Blair and her growing feelings for Willow, but she can't ignore the strange things happening to her body.
Just before the pandemic, the world experiences a phenomenon never seen before. Marilene looks for her daughter Roberta, a trans woman who went missing. While running out of time, she discovers a hope for the future.
A young boy is chosen as the defender of good and must team up with Japan's ancient spirits and creatures of lore to attempt to destroy the forces of evil.
The story of a romance between a woman and a non-binary person.
A high school student falls in love with the teacher who organises a secret book club in contravention of the White Terror martial law.
A young woman lies dying far from home. A boy sits beside her. She is not his mother. He is not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, an invisible threat and the power and desperation of family.
A hospice nurse takes care of terminally ill patients all while trying to move past the tragedy of having lost her daughter in a school shooting.
A giant rat escapes from a scientist's laboratory and wreaks havoc on the local population.
A documentary portrait of Martin Shkreli.
The animated tale of a stranded horticulturist-astronaut who meets an ethereal visitor on a desolate world.
A family’s outing descends into terror when teacher Alan Hoaganraad, his wife Jill and stepsons Maika and Jordon explore an isolated coastline. An unexpected meeting with a pair of drifters, the enigmatic psychopath Mandrake and his accomplice Tubs, thrusts the family into a nightmare when they find themselves captured.
A teenager struggles with his dad's ideas about the sort of behaviour that will make him a proper man.
Four lifelong friends head to a remote lodge for a weekend of fun, only to find themselves having to fight for their lives when a local cult offers them up to a goddess as a sacrifice for the Solstice.
A feature length adaptation of the cult zomcom web series following the adventures of three inept survivors of a zombie apocalypse.
A bereaved woman whose husband is struggling with mental illness encounters a starling who wants to claim her garden for himself.
Retelling of the legend of Sir Gawain's quest.
A thumb drive from the dark web reveals disturbing footage documenting three American filmmakers on a script writing trip to rural Quebec.
A young woman gets involved in a dangerous world as she tries to find out what has happened to her missing sister.
A groovy mushroom dealer and a man from the 5th dimension journey through Hollywood to find the meaning of 'mondo'.
A grieving father grapples with the seedy, manipulative world of high stakes debt collection while struggling to shed the tragedies of his past. He'll find himself pitted against his best friend, his prodigy and his love.
The rivalry between two ageing actresses only becomes more bitter when they acquire the gift of eternal youth.
A young woman tries to come to terms with bereavement in the London indie music scene in 2007.
A documentary portrait of the famous film director.
A high school social outcast is taken under the wing of a mysterious mentor, only to be groomed as the hive's next queen.
A couple go to stay in a mountain cabin to have one last go at saving their marriage.
A dejected bartender and an aging drag queen try to survive the eccentric and hostile nightlife of a corrupt city, as a masked maniac slaughters young gay men and drains them of blood.
Gato's safe, isolated world is throw into chaos when his teenage daughter gets a mobile phone and makes herself visible to the world.
A ride share driver's life is turned upside down after an unexpected series of misfortunes.
The disappearance of a young woman threatens to change the beige and banal lives of Anne Fedder and her pastor husband Jakob Fedder forever.
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
Little games Alicia Scherson on adapting Bolaño and making The Summer War
Without context Matt Eames on declining political discourse, life without social media, and Deepfake
Such a suff'ring Joe Fria on exploring his personal fears in Shadows Of Willow Cabin
McGregor, Branagh and Vachon bound for Edinburgh Film festival launches 79th programme of premieres and encounters
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