Aftersun
Sometime in the Nineties, somewhere in a Turkish coastal resort, a young, divorced father is spending the vacation with his daughter pre-teen daughter Sophie.
Alcarràs
The Solé family spends the summer picking peaches - but this year’s crop may well be their last as new owners plan to replace the peach trees with solar panels and the family’s livelihood is threatened.
All That Breathes
Against the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the black kite.
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
The story of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty often blamed for the US opioid epidemic.
Armageddon Time
Coming-of-age drama set against the backdrop of the Reagan era.
Bones And All
Maren, a young woman, learns how to survive on the margins of society.
Blood
After their father dies, two brothers find themselves facing up to his troubled legacy.
Corsage
A period drama about Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi.

D

The Dam
Sudan, near the Merowe dam. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly builds a mysterious construction made of mud.
Decision To Leave
A detective investigates a man's death in the mountains.
Enys Men
A volunteer observing a rare wild flower finds the different worlds that have inhabited the island where she is beginning to collide.
EO
Tale revolving around an unassuming grey donkey.
Human Flowers Of Flesh
Ida and her crew travel across the Mediterranean’s land and seascapes, lured by the mystique of the French Foreign Legion.

I

The Inspection
Drama based on the filmmaker's own experiences as a gay man in Marine Corps basic training following a decade of living on the streets.

M

Master Gardener
A meticulous horticulturist who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager, is persuaded to take on her great niece as an apprentice.
No Bears
The director appears as himself, relocated to a rural border town to remotely oversee the making of a new film in Turkey, the story of which comes to sharply parallel disturbing events that begin to occur around him.
One Fine Morning
A woman who is raising her daughter alone and looking after her dad, who has a degenerative disease, embarks on a passionate affair.
Pacifiction
On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government navigates the high end "establishment" as well as shady venues as a rumour abounds about the sighting of a submarine whose presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing.

R

Solaris
A psychologist is sent to a space station to find out what has become of the occupants.
Saint Omer
A novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court tries to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.
Scarlet
A wood craftsman returns from the First World War and unites with his infant daughter, who one day will receive a premonition from the local sorceress saying that scarlet sails shall take her away.
She Said
Drama about a New York Times investigation into sexual harassment in Hollywood.
The Super 8 Years
A trip to the Seventies via family video shot at the time.
Till
The story of Mamie Till-Mobley, the Chicago woman whose son, Emmett Till, was lynched while visiting cousins in Mississippi and whose body became an indelible image of the horrors of American racism.
Tár
Set in the international world of classical music, this film centres on Lydia Tár. widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
Trenque Lauquen
Story set in the Argentinian city of the title, centring on an academic who has disappeared. The story is told across two feature films.
Triangle Of Sadness
A yacht for the super-rich sinks, leaving its passengers marooned on an island.

V

White Noise
An Eighties American family attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.
Women Talking
A group of women from a remote religious community deal with the aftermath of sexual assault perpetrated by the colony’s men.
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