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An exploration of the shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice. As surveillance technologies become a fixture in everyday life, the film interrogates the complexity of an objective point of view, probing the biases inherent in both human perception and the lens.

A sensorial meditation on how the public administration of light and darkness became an essential policing tool.

A glimpse into the world of a family who have turned the previously derelict hotel into a place of respite for international fishermen when they come to land.

A trip into the psyche of a Chilean torturer.

After ten years apart, a Scottish filmmaker tries to reconnect with her closest cousin after their paths were separated by war.

A neurotic waitress with a phobia of coins fights to control her darkest fears, as her reality falls apart.
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An immersive insight into the last hours of 13-year-old Sasha’s life in a boarding school for children deprived of parental care.

A guilt-stricken Angela, visits her parents for what at first seems to be a routine family dinner, only for a painful truth to bubble to the surface, and the evening descends into a nightmare.

In post-war Kosovo, driven by the ambition of keeping their beloved sport alive, two local table tennis players wander from one obscure location to another.

Essay about a filmmaker in a relationship with a woodland ecologist.

One night, when the city of Rio de Janeiro was asleep, the flora and fauna took over Flamengo's Park.

Delving into deep water, a disabled woman finds a sense of wholeness.

A young Indigenous Bunong woman and her brother spend one last day in their village, before moving to the capital in search of a more prosperous life.

When a young Palestinian woman tries to claim asylum in the UK, she faces the indifference of British bureaucracy.

In the days following the presidential election in Belarus in August 2020, numerous protests erupt throughout the country.

A re-contextualised a scene from a lost silent German title, Liebeshölle.
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Found footage and archival sound come together as an urgent and potent piece of anti-deportation activism.

Following an explosion, a mysterious and elegant elderly woman wanders deserted city streets, recalling what was and what could have been.

An impressionable youngster is thrust into a dangerous and adult world when he is initiated into a gang made up of older locals.

Recalling the endless scrolling of social networks, a camera shifts from space to space, settling on the profiles of various young people.

Karoline’s life is turned upside down when her father, Kjeld, manically starts digging a pit in their backyard.

Our world is being drained of its substance and digital life forms are multiplying, like these couples who meet in a virtual universe.

A 13-year-old will stop at nothing to win the heart of the girl of his dreams.

The fractured relationship between a mother and daughter in crisis.

A headstrong homeless man must take responsibility for his own actions after his dog is hurt.

An author rediscovers love letters her dad used to write to her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again.
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It's Tonio's first time in Corsica. He wanders across the island and on dating apps until stumbling upon the Oracle, a user who tells him about gay life in Corsica.

She-wolf Naya, monitored on her journey from her birthplace in Germany through the Netherlands to Belgium, becomes more and more famous and visible.

João works on the streets of Rio de Janeiro as a delivery driver in the so-called gig economy. He and his friend dream about buying a motorcycle, travelling the country, and transforming their lives into a musical.

A man walking home from his local one night is tormented by a terrifying sound: The Nicky Nack.

After an earthquake in Naples bay, the body of a man is found.

The eighth audio-visual collaboration of Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca references the work of Bob Quinn, Irish filmmaker.

In a hyperconnected and mapped world, are there still unknown areas?

On a rainy night, a sad man leaves his home to deliver a letter to someone who recently left him.

Set in Charlottesville during the early 1990s, Pride follows an aspiring writer as she finalises stories for the latest issue of Pride, a student run newspaper at the University of Virginia.
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A relationship between three friends is fractured after a reality-destroying moment of possession.

A father and his son are losing the folk race. In order to win, the boy turns himself into a car tyre.

A meditation on the self through lurid and liquid forms; filtered through both old and foreseeable technology informed by Thai animation history and contemporary culture.

At the girls' orphanage, the group’s unchecked pack mentality alienates a new arrival, who invents a new nighttime game.

An attempt at mourning both personal and political futures that never arrived, organised around a broad interpretation of the trope of the ghost.

Oskar Salomonowitz, the 12-year-old son of the filmmakers Anja Salomonowitz and Virgil Widrich, had already drawn 206 pictures for a flip book when he died.

Footage from a forgotten Stephen King mini-series is edited, printed and animated into a hypnotic paper nightmare.

What can happen when the families we’re born into and the families we make for ourselves collide.

James Bushe's journey has been a turbulent one. Here we accompany James on a flight through personal and cultural memory.
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Haruka, Nana, and Takanori visit the house of Souta, a band member who has lost contact with them. But when they arrive, they find Souta's behavior a little strange.

New laws against witchcraft trouble three fishwives from North Berwick in 1590.

Following lockdown, children from Maryhill in Glasgow express their rights to outdoor play and learning as they explore a green space that was established through 10 years of community activism.

An experienced Somali prison officer accompanies a young inmate once again through the procedures of the Somali justice system.

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