About Dry Grasses
A young teacher hopes to be appointed to Istanbul after mandatory duty at a small village. After long time waiting he loses all hope of escaping from this gloomy life. His colleague helps him to regain his perspective.
All Of Us Strangers
A screenwriter embarks on a relationship with a neighbour at the same time as making a journey into his troubled past.
Anatomy Of A Fall
A woman is accused of her husband's murder.
The Beast
In the near future a woman decides to purify her DNA in a machine that takes her into her past lives. Then she meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she had always known him.
The Boy And The Heron
A teenager, haunted by his mother’s tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, who bears a striking resemblance to his mum. His strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who dubs him the “long-awaited one.”
La Chimera
The story of a group of archaeologists and the black market in historical artefacts.
Close Your Eyes
A TV show looking into the mysterious disappearance of an actor leads a director on a journey into his own past while making discoveries in the present.

D

The Delinquents
Two bank staff rob their own establishment.
Do Not Expect Too Much Of The End of the World
Overworked and underpaid, Angela drives around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a 'safety at work video' commissioned by a multinational company. When one of the interviewees reveals the company’s liability in his accident, a scandal erupts.
Eureka
Three stories set in wildly different terrain reflect lives haunted by the specter of colonialist violence.
Evil Does Not Exist
A rural village faces disruption from the construction of a glamping site for Tokyo tourists.
Fallen Leaves
The course of potential love does not run smooth for a shelf-stacker and a metal worker.
Ferrari
It's the summer of 1957 and Ferrari is in crisis, both in his business and personal life. He decides to take a gamble on a race, the Mille Miglia.
Green Border
Multifaceted drama about the plight of refugees on the Belarus/Poland border.

I

Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell
A man has to return his sister-in-law's body to her hometown after an accident while, along with his nephew, he searches for his long-lost brother.
Kidnapped
In 1858, a six-year-old Jewish boy is forcibly seized from his family by the Catholic church.

M

Maestro
Biopic of Leonard and Felicia Bernstein.
Mangosteen
Beginning at a mangosteen juice factory on the east coast of the gulf of Thailand, we follow brother and sister as their interior worlds reach out to meet one another.
May December
20 years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
Nowhere Near
Documentary reflecting the filmmaker’s attempts to understand his and his family’s experiences as undocumented Filipino immigrants in the US.
Orlando, My Political Biography
Docufiction interpretation of Virginia Woolf's novel.
Perfect Days
The story of an urban renewal project which involves the creation of 17 public toilets in key locations in the Japanese capital.
Pictures Of Ghosts
A portrait of the city of Recife, re-envisioned in its 20th Century glory through the remains of the cinema palaces which were central to its busy social milieu.
Poor Things
The story of a young woman who has been brought back to life.
The Practice
A yoga teacher finds himself grappling with life and bad luck after his splits from his wife.
Priscilla
A Priscilla Presley biopic based on her memoir Elvis And Me.

R

The Taste Of Things
The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the fine gourmet she has been working for over the last 20 years.

V

Youth (Spring)
Documentary about the lives of teenage workers in China.
The Zone Of Interest
The daily lives of the Höss family outside the walls of Auschwitz.
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