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A documentary constructed from home movies made inside Saudi terrorist training camps.
Patrick lives with his parents on a naturist campsite. When his dad dies and he finds himself in charge he has other things on his mind... namely a quest for his lost hammer.
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.
Two British comic book geeks visiting America pick up a hitchhiking alien and determine to help him return to his mothership, but the FBI are on their tail.
A charity shop worker is set on winning the big national talent show. But when the actions of five selfish people cause him to miss his audition, he sets out to seek deathly revenge.
Elpida is a housewife confronted with the first signs of menopause while trapped in a loveless marriage to a heartless, despotic man. When a young painter arrives to decorate her building, her grip on reality starts to slip.
From sold-out concerts to family moments with her parents and sister, the passage of time brings loss but also provides liberation for an artist whose body is a canvas for artistic expression.
The psychosexual journey of a young woman into the dark recesses of the Afrikaner psyche and its compromised past.
Steely Shin Myung is a fierce trans queen on the Seoul nightclub scene who reconnects with her Buddhist heritage after the death of her father.
When a Cornish fisherman's wife performs a medical miracle, a doctor goes to investigate, but discovers a lot more than he bargained for.
A hand-painted animated film about an early 20th Century Polish peasant woman who creates havoc by marrying an older rich man.
The tale of an impoverished, alcoholic man and a young boy on a long walk together.
A young photographer becomes fascinated by expressions of fear, with deadly consequences.
Peggy's social graces are put to the test when she throws a birthday party for her eight-year-old son.
A man carefully plans and carries out the murder of the man whom he blames for his girlfriend's death, only to wake up with a confirmed sense of déjà-vu and his target alive and well, repeating the same routine as the day before.
Two friends seek spiritual salvation in India, away from their hedonistic and disconnected London lives, in advance of the impending collapse of the cosmos.
A schoolboy becomes fascinated by the colony of penguins that has mysteriously appeared in the middle of his town.
An Englishman in Uruguay adopts a penguin, smuggles it back to his home in Argentina, and gradually wakes up to the political violence going on around him.
A graduation weekend away goes drastically wrong when a masked killer shows up.
An aspiring clown grappling with her gender identity combats a fascistic caped crusader.
A documentary exploring live streaming, fame and fandom in China.
During a pandemic, a pregnant restaurateur tries to rob a priceless truffle from a reclusive veteran.
The story of culinary treasure the goose barnacle and its influence on life in the Algarve.
A bereaved man turns to a medium to channel the spirit of the woman he loves, but nothing goes as planned.
A Canadian farmer takes on a giant corporation after its GMOs interfere with his crops.
In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe.
A chef and an epidemiologist fall in love, just as the world is falling apart.
A gangster on the run hides out in a hippie household and starts to lose his grip on his identity.
Capturing scents in 18th century France can be a deadly business.
An author whose first novel has unexpectedly radicalised a generation is persuaded to use new software to write her second, but her discomfort grows as it becomes more and more intrusive.
Dealing with a pregnancy termination in Ireland has been hard for Sarah Dekker. Shunned by her religious zealot family and unforgiving boyfriend, she travels to a friend’s country house to recover. But unbeknownst to her, it sits atop a mass grave of unwanted babies and their lost, confused sprits want to be reborn.
Afrooz has given her life to football. Now, she is about to captain Iran’s national team as they head to the final of the Asian Nations Cup in Malaysia. That’s when her estranged husband Yasser exercises his legal right and forbids her permission to leave the country.
On her 18th birthday, tough-girl Jonny eats a cake baked by her aunt according to a magical family recipe and undergoes a radical metamorphosis.
Suburban London, the 1980s. A stranger in the family becomes a ghost child and awakens the monsters and desires of a queer childhood.
When a large Iranian-American family gathers for the patriarch's heart transplant, a family secret is uncovered that catapults the estranged mother and daughter into an exploration of the past. Toggling between the United States and Iran over decades, mother and daughter discover they are more alike than they know.
Exploring the criminalisation of pregnant women as seen through the eyes of a young mother swept up in new laws.
A little film about gender identity, Little League baseball, the people who inspire change by trying to be themselves, and the superheroes who allow that change to happen.
A doting grandmother takes the kids on holiday and discovers that she doesn't want to let them go.
When Laura learns that she has breast cancer, her partner Sylvain doesn't respond in the way she might have hoped.
A young man tries to explain to his ailing father a vision that he may not understand himself.
Steve Glew spent the 1990s smuggling rare pez dispensers into the USA from Eastern Europe, making millions of dollars. It was all magical until his arch-nemesis, The Pezident decided to destroy him.
A politician faces blackmail on the verge of an important vote.
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.
A documentary portrait of Martin Shkreli.
Phases of Matter follows living and inanimate residents of a teaching hospital in Istanbul, moving from the operating room to the morgue, between life and other states, the real and the virtual.
From a young age, Jill has acted as the responsible adult in her small family. She cares for her loving but mentally unstable mother and her younger brother. The news that their estranged father will be visiting on Jill's birthday gives the children much needed hope.
Colin Farrell is trapped in a New York telephone box by a mysterious sniper.
A mathematician searches for a code which could explain the universe, but his research attracts some unsavoury interest.
An introverted foley artist, Eva struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse. Empowered by a horsetail growing out of her body, she lures a botanist into an affair, through a game of submission.
A mute woman in an arranged marriage makes a dangerous bargain in an attempt to retrieve her stranded piano.
Rock star spirit Shane Belcourt on Louis Cameron and Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising
Heir presumptive Rob Rice on the power of comedy, political disappointments and Ponderosa
Keeping the rhythm Hugo Ruíz on storytelling techniques, kinky cinema and Dante
From personal to universal Karla Murthy on The Gas Station Attendant and her relationship with her dad
Family reunion Tasha Hubbard on exploring the aftermath of the Sixties Scoop in Meadowlarks
Throwback Adam Rehmeier on the spirit of Seventies cinema and Carolina Caroline
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