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Rural policewoman Andrea wants to end her marriage and become a detective inspector in the city. After a birthday party, her drunken soon-to-be ex-husband runs out in front of her car. In a state of shock, Andrea commits a hit-and-run.
On a working holiday in Miyazaki, the teenage killers find themselves up against a deadly freelancer.
Eccentric lottery winner, Charles, dreams of getting his favorite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer, back together. His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.
A portrayal of Irish writer Edna O'Brien's writing, loves, stardom, and unconventional life.
Suburban Florida is transformed into a 3D animated wonderland in this musical comedy.
A middle-class family’s fate becomes intertwined with their only son’s enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope.
A smalltown girl heads for the bright lights to make it as a singer.
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Three siblings cut off from society spend their lives trapped in their family’s home.
During the Second World War, a band of misfits must come together to save the galaxy.
Johanne’s intimate writings about her crush on her teacher ignite both tension and self-reflection within her family, as her mother and grandmother confront their own unfulfilled dreams and desires.
Ensemble drama about members of an estranged family.
After the sudden arrival of a stranger, Girl, threatens Mother and Father's family’s luxurious compound deep underground, Son begins to question their seemingly perfect existence.
In Berlin 1942, Hilde finds her place within an anti-Nazi resistance group as gradually as she falls in love with one of its members. The two spend an unforgettable summer until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant.
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.
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.
What dark secrets lie behind the mysterious video stalker?
Three Trump supporters from different backgrounds unite to campaign across America in 2020, advocating for his re-election while laying foundations for what they hope will be a long-lasting political movement.
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A woman living with her husband on a remote farm in the near future discovers that he has been keeping a big secret.
Teenage traumas in Sacramento, Cal, for 17-year-old Lady Bird who has love issues, sex issues, mom issues, when what she wants most is to be out of there, anywhere, especially New York because it's a long way away and packed with artistic promise.
Ugandan dictator's rise to power as seen through the eyes of a young doctor.
A documentary about the real-life 1945 witchcraft killing of Charles Walton - the terrifying event that inspired The Wicker Man and birthed the folk horror genre.
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Scots teenager Ethan Walker as he defies life-threatening injuries to cycle from Glasgow’s Hampden Park to Munich Football Arena for Scotland’s opening Euro24 match.
Over days and nights, McVeigh eats, sleeps, watches the news, meets a girl… all while inside his mind brews an unthinkable plan that will forever change the collective American psyche.
Siblings Elsa and Franck were very close. Since Franck disappeared during a space mission three years ago, Elsa has struggled to move on with her life. Until one day she is contacted by an unidentified life form.
A woman tries to juggle being a revolutionary with motherhood.
Desperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional to go undercover and break up her husband's affair.
A young drifter finds shelter in a seedy motel and embarks on a dangerous love affair.
During massive 1996 Rio storm, firefighter Ana and her firefighter team must evacuate a collapsing nursing home, but the mysterious residents have other sinister plans.
A magician checks into a hotel full of strange occupants... and discovers there is no way to leave.
Coming of age story about five Turkish girls.
A young girl, who believes her mum is a ballet icon, is determined to try to find her.
Trapped between the confines of her workplace and the solitude of her flat-share, a Portuguese warehouse picker in Scotland seeks to resist the loneliness, alienation and ensuing small talk which begin to threaten her sense of self.
Chain gang escapees in Deep South emulate a comic Odyssey.
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.
A pupil becomes infatuated with his teacher.
A teenager finds herself caught up in a web of tangled power dynamics when she joins a theatre group.
Lucia, Aurora, and their mother, Elena, plan to leave Lima in 1992 and seek opportunities in the US. Their farewell involves reconnecting with the kids' estranged father, adding to the emotional turbulence of their departure.
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After two young shepherds are attacked on a mountainside, Achraf, 14, is ordered to take the severed head of his cousin Nizar back to their family as a macabre message.
The banal life of a middle-aged empty nester is violently shaken in the blink of an eye when hard-partying - and potentially dangerous - new neighbours move in next door.
Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca after returning from the Trojan war.
A wannabe detective's hunt for his older brother reveals a dangerous side of Eighties Dublin.
On Christmas Eve a cab driver is counting down to seeing the International Space Station... but his night will hold a series of encounters with strangers first.
Humiliated in front of his son by a surf gang, a man gets drawn into an escalating conflict.
A young boy adopted by a group of skinheads struggles to find his own identity in a world dominated by racism and war. Now out to own on two-disc DVD.
A Japanese puppeteer's daughter gets caught up with criminals when their show crosses paths with a crime gang, led by Sugarman and his son Little Sugar.
Growing up poor in Brooklyn, with an irresponsible father and the dream of becoming a writer.
A family in East Germany finds millions in soon-to-be-worthless East German currency during reunification, and take what they can carry.
In the distant future, a space trucker from Khmelnytskyi is trying to get rid of over three billion tons of waste. When he hears from a woman on a distant space station, he becomes determined to reach her.
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A teenage girl continues to follow her music dream.
Two Americans find themselves in Dakar, Senegal with bombs strapped to their chests and ten hours to find out why.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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