Adam's Sake
Following a court ruling, four-year-old Adam is hospitalised for malnutrition. The head nurse faces a tricky battle to balance the competing interests of child, parent and hospital.
Alpha
Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old, lives with her single mother. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
Amores Perros
Interlinking stories, connected by a car crash and dogs.
Barry Lyndon
The rise and fall of an Irish rogue.
Bono: Stories Of Surrender
A vivid reimagining of Bono’s critically acclaimed one-man stage show, Stories of Surrender: An Evening of Words, Music and Some Mischief…
Case 137
Stéphanie, a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she finds no evidence of illegitimate police violence, the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.
The Chronology Of Water
A troubled young woman escapes an abusive childhood, family tragedy and addiction issues by slowly finding her creative voice as a writer.
Colours of Time
After a group of distant relatives inherit a house, they begin to investigate the life of their predecessor.

D

Dalloway
Clarissa, a writer lacking inspiration, joins a prestigious artist residency at the cutting edge of technology. There, she finds support - and even a confidante - in Dalloway, her virtual assistant, who helps her write. But Clarissa begins to grow uneasy with the AI’s increasingly intrusive presence.
Dandelion's Odyssey
Dendelion, Baraban, Léonto and Taraxa - four dandelion achenes that survive from a series of nuclear explosions destroying Earth - are propelled into the cosmos. After crash-landing on an unknown planet, they set out in search of soil where their species might survive.
Dangerous Animals
When Zephyr, a rebellious surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape.
Death Does Not Exist
After a failed armed attack on wealthy oppressors, Hélène, the leader of a freedom-fighting group, finds her convictions shaken in a world that becomes more surreal with each step.
Die, My Love
A woman battles her demons.
Dogma
The last known descendant of Christ has to stop a pair of errant angels from destroying humanity.
Eddington
A stand-off between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbour is pitted against neighbour in Eddington, New Mexico.
Enzo
A 16-year-old boy breaks out from his bourgeois family and starts an apprenticeship as a stonemason. He also meets a Ukrainian colleague who turns his world upside down.
The Girl In The Snow
1899. On a stormy night, Aimée, a young Republican schoolteacher, arrives in a snowy hamlet on the edge of the Alps. Despite the mistrust of the inhabitants, she is determined to shed light on their dark beliefs. As she blends into the life of the community, a sensual vertigo grows within her.
The Great Arch
1982. French President François Mitterrand decides to launch an international architectural competition for the flagship project of his mandate: the Great Arch of La Défense, aligned with the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe. Against all odds, Otto von Spreckelsen, a Danish architect, wins the competition...
Her Will Be Done
Nawojka, 20, dreams of escaping her harsh life working at the family farm. Under the influence of the free-spirited Sandra, Naw experiences trance-like episodes and strange powers, just like her dead mother before her.
The History Of Sound
Two young men in 1920 set out to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen.

I

It Was Just an Accident
What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.
I Only Rest In The Storm
A Portuguese environmental engineer, travels to Guinea Bissau to conduct an impact report for a road-building project. As he grapples with heat and isolation, he meets two locals equally yearning to find their own way. But tensions arise within their ambiguous relationship.
Kika
A grieving new mother, while struggling to make ends meet for her family, uncovers an unexpected passion within herself.
Leave One Day
Cécile is about to open her own gourmet restaurant, finally making her dream come true, when suddenly her father has a heart attack and she is called back to the village where she was born... and runs into her teenage crush.
Love Letters
Céline is expecting her firstborn. But she’s not the one who’s pregnant. In three months, her wife Nadia will give birth to their daughter. Under the gaze of her friends, her mother, and the law, Céline looks for her place and sense of legitimacy.
Love Me Tender
One late summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she’s having romantic relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he takes custody of her son. Clémence must fight to remain a mother, a woman and a free woman.

M

A Magnificent Life
Animated consideration of the life of the cinema pioneer.
Mama
After many years working far from home, Mila is forced to temporarily leave her seaside mansion - and her secret romance - to return to her family in a remote Polish village. But the long-awaited reunion is far from what she imagined.
The Mastermind
In a quiet corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney, an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plots his first major heist. But when things go south, his life is turned upside down.
Militantropos
A trio of documentarians captures the everyday realities of Ukrainian life amid the Russian invasion, exploring the fractured psyches of soldiers, survivors, and the country's youth.
Mirrors No.3
On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura miraculously survives a car crash. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident and now cares for Laura with motherly devotion. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura's presence, the four of them slowly build up some family-like routine. But soon they can no longer ignore their past...
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Our lives are the sum of our choices.
Nino
Seventy-two hours before Nino's chemotherapy, he must complete the two missions given to him by his doctor.
Nouvelle Vague
This is the story of Godard making Breathless, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made Breathless.
Peak Everything
A borderline depressive finds himself falling for a woman on a technical support line.
The Phoenician Scheme
The story of a family and a family business.
The President’s Cake
While people struggle daily to survive under sanctions in Saddam's Iraq, nine-year-old Lamia must use her wits to gather ingredients for a cake to celebrate President Saddam Hussein's birthday or face the consequences.

R

Romería
Marina, 18, orphaned at a young age, must travel to Spain’s Atlantic coast to obtain a signature for a scholarship application from the paternal grandparents she has never met.
The Secret Agent
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realises that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.
Sentimental Value
In the wake of their mother's death, two sisters grapple with their relationship with their filmmaker father as he tries to involve one of them in his latest project.
Sirât
A father arrives at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco with his son, looking for his daughter who has been missing for months.
Sleepless City
Toni, a 15-year-old Roma boy, lives in the largest illegal slum in Europe, on the outskirts of Madrid. Proud to belong to his family of scrap dealers, he follows his grandfather everywhere. But when demolition companies start closing in on their land, the family is divided and choices must be made.
Sorry, Baby
Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.
Sound Of Falling
Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.
Sunshine
Sobering and powerful film that follows three generations in upper-class Jews amid the early 20th Century.
Two Prosecutors
Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination... the desk of a newly appointed local prosecutor, who embarks on a quest for justice.
A Useful Ghost
March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing the vacuum cleaner. But to become a useful ghost, she first needs to get rid of the useless ones.

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Wild Foxes
At a sports boarding school, talented young boxer Camille is knocked back by an accident that starts to make him question his place inside the ring.
Yi Yi
Study of a Taipei family at an intense moment of their evolution when father questions his life, mother goes into a Buddhist retreat and daughter falls in love.
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