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Sam, an Indian-American teen, lives in an idyllic suburb with her conservative mother and her assimilated father. Sam’s cultural insecurities grow due to her estranged friend, Tamira, who mysteriously carries around an empty mason jar all the time. In a moment of anger, Sam breaks Tamira’s jar and unleashes an ancient Indian demonic force that kidnaps Tamira.
Ivalu is gone. Her little sister is desperate to find her. Her father does not care. The vast Greenlandic landscape holds secrets.
After the sudden death of her estranged sister, an actor leaves Los Angeles and returns to her hometown in search of answers.
A woman finds a damaged android in the forest and takes it home. They form an uneasy relationship.
An aspiring YouTube influencer becomes convinced she's a channel to a high plane of existence when she receives an otherworldly visitation.
Every year in cities around the United States, it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of rape kits are left untested in police storage facilities. The film sheds light on these disturbing statistics.
Frankelda, a determined 19th-century Mexican writer, journeys into her subconscious to face the monsters she's written about. Guided by a tormented prince, she must restore the balance between fiction and reality before it's too late.
A personal story about growing up with horror films and coping as a gay man under Thatcherism.
After Fang, a mean dinosaur, attacks the brave king of the dinosaurs, the king’s son, a young T-Rex, vows to train hard until he is finally strong enough to challenge Fang and restore peace to Green Valley.
An exploration of Wiz’s controversial and banned 1992 film about the UK acid house scene.
Kasumi doesn't know what love is and she doesn't have any feeling of romance. Due to her sister's marriage, her mother arranged a formal marriage arrangement without her permission. At the meeting, she finds a man who is just seeking a friend.
A crooked legal guardian who drains the savings of her elderly wards meets her match when a woman she tries to swindle turns out to be more than she first appears.
This is the story of Monet as expressed through his personal letters as he painted.
Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into a meditative journey exploring the history of freakdom, vision, and (in)visibility.
A gay musician spends his weekend trying to find the money for HIV-preventive treatment after being sexually assaulted by a stranger.
A documentary about the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-Winning photographer Cathal McNaughton.
A jaded Japanese movie star stranded in NYC without money or phone meets a passionate indie filmmaker and his crew, leading to an unexpected creative journey that could reignite her love for cinema.
A man trying to come to terms with the death of his wife keeps the man who killed her prisoner in his basement.
Explores Catherine E Coulson's life and her role as Twin Peaks' Log Lady, featuring interviews and archival footage that reveal her artistic journey and the character's cultural significance.
A socially inept 17-year old cinephile gets a job at a video store where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.
Blocked on social media and concerned for his son’s life, a father impersonates a waitress online and starts checking in with the boy. But things begin to spiral when his son falls for this imaginary girl.
A make-up artist and fashion designer enjoying life in a thriving queer community has to open up about being straight when he falls for a beauty queen.
Shot in Paris, Death Valley, and the Nevada nuclear test site, this film essay examines the complex historical relationship between photography, cinema and science.
The apocalypse proves a blessing in disguise for one lucky recluse – until a second survivor arrives with the threat of companionship.
An exploration of issues around abortion, based on real-life interview recordings.
A man descends into paranoia after trapping what he believes to be the devil in his basement, but things take a dark turn when his family unexpectedly arrive for Christmas.
Found footage from a little-seen horror film is reconstructed and given a new score.
In 1981, a new channel burst onto the rising spectrum of cable TV offerings. It became a touchstone for young people and a new format for musicians and filmmakers to show off their talents.
A sexual relationship between siblings is complicated by a pregnancy.
The life and times of notorious Italian politician Guilio Andreotti.
A captured conman is persuaded to impersonate a rebel leader to get information in a prison.
An exploration of the way in which creating art can help residents of the world's oldest psychiatric institution to cope with their problems.
A family struggles to find its way after the death of its eldest son.
A mysterious being appears in the desert and assumes the identity of the first person she sees – a magazine cover girl. Taken in by Iranian immigrants, she forms an understanding of her new surroundings, and comes to appreciate the beauty and the sadness of her new world.
Musician and visual artist Maki Yamazaki discusses visible and invisible disabilities, barriers to access for disabled and trans artists, and the intersection of race, gender and ability.
The family life of superheroes, living incognito in the 'burbs, while saving the city from destruction.
Following exposure to a mysterious gas, a man begins to shrink - and doesn't stop.
A young couple buy a boarding house in New England only to find things going bump in the night.
As a hurricane rages outside, distorting time itself, a young woman tries to escape from a hospital.
In a prequel to the first two Insidious films, medium Elise helps a teenager who is desperate to contact her deceased mother.
A documentary about the fate of Armenians living in Turkey in the early 20th Century.
An attempt to recreate 40 minutes of gay bdsm-focused footage cut from William Friedkin's 1980 crime thriller Cruising.
A documentary exploring the secrecy and shame around intersex births, and the lives of intersex adults.
A boy who has lost his father learns the skills he needs to survive on the ice.
Transformed by a mysterious alien power, the women of a small town form a hive-like cult and start killing men by sexually exhausting them.
In a world where there is no concept of deceit, one man's life is transformed when he figures out how to lie - but will it bring him what he really wants?
A Jewish blacksmith's son becomes a strongman in Berlin on the eve of Hitler's rise to power.
Three Palestinian women share a flat in Tel Aviv.
A self-centred, anti-Semitic, Catholic sewer worker shelters Jews from the Nazis, at first for money but gradually because he comes to care about them as a human being.
After their Hollywood producer father dies, three brothers hold a wake for him, but each has his own agenda and things don't quite go to plan.
Spectators Marie Kreutzer, Léa Seydoux, Laurence Rupp and Catherine Deneuve on Gentle Monster
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
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