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Portrait of the ACT UP activist group, a direct action collective aiming to impact the lives of people with AIDS.
Two siblings coping with grief find their lives disrupted by the arrival of three brothers who have a surprising connection to their farm.
A documentary about journalists sent by their employers to the Mediterranean to cover the unfolding humanitarian tragedy.
Archive study of Britain's relationship to the land.
A group of low-budget filmmakers make a horror movie.
Survey Corps members are faced with a second Titan invasion.
A widowed father and his son meet two women who slowly begin to transform their lives.
A teenager finds herself torn between the control of her family and an outsider who is suspected of murder.
A triptych of animated adventures.
After someone puts the pee into rug, its owner goes in search of recompense from the man who shares his name.
A vampire half-breed wages war on his killer brethren.
When a teenager who has trouble with her parents moves to Zurich with them, she starts to walk on the wild side.
A documentary about the celebrated actress and inventor.
A young girl in Afghanistan disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
A young criminal hides out with a woman who can't decide whether or not she loves him. Plus read our exclusive interview with assistant director Pierre Rissient.
Jane Austen romance, Bollywood style.
Four people undertake a three year voyage to the shrine of the apostle St James in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in A Coruña, in their own homemade boat.
An intense psychological drama about a young Iranian man who is desperately trying to meet women who can secure his stay in Denmark.
A former blogger and painter confronting what she believes is her calling: becoming a cloistered contemplative nun in a strict religious orders.
A teenager faces choices as he comes of age.
A rich high school student tries to give a fellow student a makeover but finds herself falling in love.
A young man who takes up the role of weather observer on a remote island finds himself trapped in a battle with sinister people from the sea.
Two people meet by chance and forge a connection.
After a zombie disease has been cured, former sufferers face discrimination in society.
A couple embark on a bitter custody battle for their son.
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Making a game out of sex, love and relationships has dire consequences in eighteenth century France.
During a zombie apocalypse, a small group of survivors seeks refuge in an abandoned shopping mall.
Two escaped convicts chained together, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.
Bruce Willis is a lone cop in an office skyscraper, taken over by terrorists.
A small business owner and part-time cab driver is pushed to the edge by corruption.
An upbeat comedy about three boys that escape from Soviet Estonia to Sweden via Finland in the Eighties to fulfill their dreams in the free world.
A small-town mum joins the suffrage movement in Switzerland.
A bank job goes horribly wrong.
The inside story of an energy drink marketing ploy gone wrong.
A transgender woman fights for the right to grieve after the death of her partner.
The director and photgrapher travel through France as their friendship blossoms.
Documentary about the working relationship between actor Leon Vitali and Stanley Kubrick.
A teenager becomes the focus of a witch hunt after her brother posts a video of her dropping live puppies into a river online.
A family's world is rocked when they are told about the death of their son.
A trio of spooky tales.
When an injured teenager stumbles into a remote Christian community he is cared for and supported. Then the children become convinced that he has holy powers.
A gangly schoolboy develops a crush on a girl who plays some of the best football he's ever seen - but dealing with girls is even more complicated than it first appears.
A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
The director reflects on the fate of her grandparents, who moved from Italy to Japan and were interned in a civilian prison camp after refusing to pledge their allegiance to Mussolini’s Republic of Salò.
A group of four young South African friends go on a camping trip in the Northern Cape and experience a supernatural body-swap incident.
Three teenage punks gatecrash a party on the Queen's jubilee night in London and have an unexpected experience that feels out of this world
An estranged father and son get to know each other on a road trip from hell.
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A documentary about John Hume and his contribution to bringing the Troubles in Northern Ireland to an end.
In a future world where dogs have been exiled to the giant rubbish dumps of Trash Island, a Japanese boy sets out alone in search of his beloved pet.
Revenge thriller set in the aftermath of a bombing.
The unlikely love story of two people who meet in a support group.
A teenager longs to escape her seaside town and finds solace in her imagination. When her disillusionment calcifies into an obsession with a troubled stranger, she becomes entangled with a dangerous local gang.
A travelling scholar is assigned the task of translating a Buddhist scripture for a ceremony honouring dead soldiers. On his journey through the haunting mountain landscapes, he encounters temptress ghosts and Taoist priests, ancient abandoned fortresses and inns.
Isabelle, single mum, divorced artist with one child, is looking for love. True love at last.
Story of a single mother and her two children trying to make ends meet in Florida.
A supervisor tries to get to the truth after a popular swimming instructor is accused of kissing one of his young pupils.
Twins in a crumbling family home live according to rules set by a mysterious supernatural entity, but when one of them falls in love, the stage is set for conflict.
A young teenager worries that his family will discover he's gay before he's ready, and finds himself falling in love with a similarly closeted classmate he talks to online, without either of them knowing who the other is.
The spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist.
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A wealthy American persuades her Spanish maid to pretend to be a noblewoman in order to make up the numbers at dinner, only to have an English aristocrat fall in love with her.
A petty criminal moves from Gdansk to São Paulo to try and do the right thing after he learns that a woman he barely knows is pregnant as a result of their one night stand.
An immortal girl and mortal boy meet and become friends, sharing a bond that lasts throughout the years.
A dramatisation of the story of the man who was Deep Throat.
A woman seeks revenge after she is raped.
A girl finds a strange plant that gives her magical powers but finds herself in danger as a result.
Estranged sisters reunite after the death of their father and form a daring plan to pay off debts.
A teenager living in a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and is sentenced to three months in prison.
A boisterous man in a red tie and baseball cap wants to invest in Irena's pig farm and make it great again.
A film about language, masculinity and speedway racing.
A family is cursed by a witch and transformed into monsters.
Gaza lives with his father Ahad on the shores of the Aegean Sea. The intelligent kid would like to continue his studies, but Ahad sees his son’s future differently. He gets Gaza to help with his side business – smuggling refugees from the Mideast.
Before Jeffrey Dahmer became one of the most notorious serial killers of all time, he was a teenage loner.
The story of the East Kilbride factory workers who refused to carry out repairs on warplane engines in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile.
Biopic of the German singer, who sang with the Velvet Underground
A pathologist is riven with guilt after the death of a child.
A man who lies, cheats and steals without conscience finds himself beginning to get into serious trouble.
Jet black comedy about family tribulations in the run up to a funeral.
Trouble brews after the unusually close bond between a mother and daughter is disrupted when they move to a new town.
The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
A frustrated, angst-ridden teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill her mother.
Five men, five stories.
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The film which invented the teenager and introduced the world to James Dean.
In a remote village, locals have turned against their loved ones. A handful of survivors goes into hiding, looking for others like them.
A young cowboy tries to carve out a new identity.
An interview with the Australian actor.
A woman has 20 minutes to find cash and save her boyfriend.
The Pope family’s Christmas Eve dinner goes horribly and hilariously wrong when someone puts something in the party punch causing everyone to tell the unvarnished truth at the already dysfunctional holiday reunion.
When a boy disappears, a young girl goes looking for him in the dark world that has swallowed him.
A happy couple find their lives turned upside down by political chaos and civil unrest.
A troublesome girl sent to stay on a farm for the summer comes of age as she gets to know the animals around her and gradually understands the adult world.
Australian frontier drama, told from an Aboriginal perspective.
When a dessert starts taking on a life of its own, it spells trouble for the local populace.
Leading attorney Shigemori takes on the defence of murder-robbery suspect Misumi - a crime he admits - but as he digs into the case, he begins to wonder if his client is guilty after all.
Two rich girls contemplate murder in Connecticut
A dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war.
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A group of art students seem to fall under the influence of demonic clay.
A young village girl in northeast India wants to start her own rock band.
A 72-year-old divorcee plans to rent out rooms in her home and take swimming lessons, but has to deal with family members and financial institutions that think they know what's best for her.
The director investigates her Hungarian mother-in-law's story and, through it, the story of the 20th century.
Ben and Rose are children from two different eras who secretly wish their lives were different. Both set out on quests.
A humble secretary, betrayed by her boss, makes the most of a brief time left in charge to pursue her own ambitions in the world of high finance.
A group of German construction workers on a job in Bulgaria begin to compete for the approval of the locals.
A documentary about the artist John McLean and his experience of Parkinson's disease.
A young woman returns from a hospital stay to find rumours circulating in her village.
A would-be sorceror enlists the help of a warrior to take an abandoned baby to safety.
A tormented assassin tries to rescue a girl but trouble lies ahead.
A lawyer is anxious to have a baby but her artist girlfriend keeps putting it off. Then her neighbour gets involved.
A 17th century army officer in Ascuncion, awaits transfer to Buenos Aires.
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