About Dry Grasses
A young teacher hopes to be appointed to Istanbul after mandatory duty at a small village. After long time waiting he loses all hope of escaping from this gloomy life. His colleague helps him to regain his perspective.
All To Play For
A mum battles to get her child back after an injury while she was out sees him taken into care.
Anatomy Of A Fall
A woman is accused of her husband's murder.
The Animal Kingdom
Sci-fi adventure set in a world where humans are mutating into "creatures".
Asteroid City
The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
The story of a 40something in a dead-end town who discovers love for the first time.
Black Flies
A young paramedic makes his way through his first year on the job in New York City.
Chicken For Linda!
When a mum makes a promise to her daughter after unfairly punishing her, she finds herself having to go the extra mile to make it come true.
La Chimera
The story of a group of archaeologists and the black market in historical artefacts.
Close Your Eyes
A TV show looking into the mysterious disappearance of an actor leads a director on a journey into his own past while making discoveries in the present.
Club Zero
A teacher takes a job at an elite school and forms a strong bond with five students - a relationship which eventually takes a dangerous turn.
Cobweb
An experimental and genre-defying drama shot entirely on sound stages in support of a film-within-a-film narrative.
Creatura
A woman realises the source of her trauma and sexual appetite after returning to her coastal-town home.
Classe Tous Risques
A gangster goes on the run with his family.

D

The Delinquents
Two bank staff rob their own establishment.
The (Ex)perience Of Love
A couple who are unable to have children learn that because they suffer from Past Love Syndrome, the only solution is for them to sleep with all their exes again.
Fallen Leaves
The course of potential love does not run smooth for a shelf-stacker and a metal worker.
Firebrand
A dramatisation of the marriage between King Henry VIII of England and Catherine Parr.
Four Daughters
A creative documentary following ten years in the life of a fortysomething Tunisian mother, a cleaning lady from a poor environment, who sees her two teenage daughters become radicalised, run away and join the terrorist organisation Daesh in Libya.
The Goldman Case
A chronicle of the trial of Goldman, a French left-wing revolutionary who was convicted of several robberies and was mysteriously murdered.
How To Have Sex
Three friends contend with peer pressure in their decision to “do it”.

I

Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny
As the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up his whip once more to make sure an ancient and powerful artefact doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
Inshallah A Boy
A mother fights for her rights in a partriachal system after her husband's death.
Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell
A man has to return his sister-in-law's body to her hometown after an accident while, along with his nephew, he searches for his long-lost brother.
In Flames
After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart by figures from their past – both real and imagined.
In The Rearview
This fly-on-the-wall film captures Ukrainians as they are forced to leave their homes and drive into the unknown.
Jeanne Du Barry
The life story of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.
Kidnapped
In 1858, a six-year-old Jewish boy is forcibly seized from his family by the Catholic church.
Killers Of The Flower Moon
Members of the Osage tribe in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking a major FBI investigation involving J Edgar Hoover.
Légua
When one of the women looking after a mansion with absent owners falls ill, her younger colleague takes on the responsibility of caring for both her and the mansion, even to the detriment of her own family.

M

Marguerite's Theorem
The life of a maths genius shifts after she makes a mistake.
May December
20 years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
Monster
A mother is shocked when she learns what a teacher has said to her son, but the truth is more complicated.
The Mother Of All Lies
The filmmaker doesn’t have any pictures of herself as a child. This is the starting point of a documentary investigation that unfolds the secrets of a Casablanca family.
Le Mépris
An American producer and Austrian director clash over the making of a film.
The New Boy
The story of a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun, where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world.
The Old Oak
A musing on the future of The Old Oak, the last remaining pub in a village in Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available, thus making it an ideal location for Syrian refugees.
Perfect Days
The story of an urban renewal project which involves the creation of 17 public toilets in key locations in the Japanese capital.
Pictures Of Ghosts
A portrait of the city of Recife, re-envisioned in its 20th Century glory through the remains of the cinema palaces which were central to its busy social milieu.

R

Riddle Of Fire
Three mischievous children on dirt bikes, armed with paint guns and cocky attitudes, launch an attack at a local warehouse, outwitting a security guard and 'liberating' the very latest video game console for themselves - but to make use of it, they need to figure out the password with which their mother has locked the TV.
Spellbound
A psychologist finds herself drawn to an enigmatic amnesiac.
The Taste Of Things
The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the fine gourmet she has been working for over the last 20 years.
Tits
Following an unpleasant run in at the beach, teenagers Oscar and Iben are left behind by their friends. When one of them makes a friendly gesture, they experience an unexpected connection.

V

Vincent Must Die
Vincent finds himself under attack for no apparent reason overnight. When the phenomenon intensifies, he must run and change his way of life completely.
Wild Summon
A natural history fantasy film, following the dramatic lifecycle of the wild salmon in human form.
The Zone Of Interest
The daily lives of the Höss family outside the walls of Auschwitz.
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