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A lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She fights single-handedly for the truth to come out.

A soldier's memories play over this animated tale of Korea's demilitarised zone.

A Palestinian journalist chronicles his village’s resistance to a separation barrier being erected on their land and in the process captures his young son’s lens on the world.

People responsible for the mass murder of suspeced Communists at the onset of the military regime in 1965 are challenged to restage their actions and question the pride they still take in them.

A linguist is given the task of helping to communicate with extra-terrestrial beings when they touch down around the globe.

After they split, a couple continue to share a house because of financial constraints.

Seymour “Swede” Levov, a once legendary high school athlete, is now a successful businessman married to Dawn, a former beauty queen. But turmoil brews beneath the polished veneer of Swede’s life.

A documentary charting the experiences of Danish soldiers in Afghanistan.

In turn of the 20th century France, working girl Marie snubs the affections of the local gangsters for Georges Manda, a reformed hoodlum himself, with unpleasant consequences.

A going-nowhere party girl discovers a mysterious connection between herself and a giant monster wreaking havoc on the other side of the globe.
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A young man finds himself no other option but to replace his dead father down the mine.

After an amnesty is declared on crimes committed during the civil war, Atim's grandfather gives him a gun and send him out to avenge his murdered father; but the man he meets is not what he expected.

Trouble brews for a couple from different classes when the husband is asked to perform for the friends of his wife's rich uncle.

A successful video game boss aims to track down her attacker after a home invasion.

An old violinist tries to help his son's guerrilla faction.

A fashion designer woos his best friend's fiancee and finds himself in too deep.

A documentary looking at the inhabitants of Lampedusa and the desperate attempts made by refugees to reach the island.

The story of a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite being unable to carry a tune in a bucket.

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.

Rikard is a 30-year-old man, severely deformed and suffering from autism, haunted by the loss of his mother. From time to time, he escapes from reality into an imaginary world where he is a 50m tall giant.

The story of The Stooges.

Examination of the events leading up to and during Bobby Sands' 1981 hunger strike. Winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes.
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A carpenter suffering from ill health and a young single mum find themselves facing a wall of welfare bureacracy.

Three Palestinian women share a flat in Tel Aviv.

As civil war rages in an unnamed African country, the lives of a boy soldier and a young girl fleeing the fighting become intertwined.

A personal look at French cinema, the films, directors and composers.

A mother and daughter struggle to come to terms with grief.

Caught up in a family feud over rent, two boys respond with a vow of silence.

A woman sold into a loveless marriage develops a mind for murder after starting an affair.

Consideration of Indonesian genocide.
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A documentary about the unrest in Ukraine in 2013 and 2014.

A man takes his eight year old son on a special journey.

Seven gunmen team up to help save a village from an evil mining boss.

A boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mum's terminal illness.

Stop-motion story of a boy, who is sent to a group home for orphans after the death of his mum.

Story of the Nobel prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his homeland.

One morning in Paris. A fistful of adolescents, from different backgrounds. Individually, they begin a strange dance through the labyrinth of the metro and the streets of the capital. They seem to be following a plan.

Biopic of the underwater pioneer Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

A woman sets out to recover her grandfather's tree from the company who bought it.

An ornithologist searching for black storks is swept away by rapids and awakens in a mysterious, dark forest.

Four incarnations of a character who is a mistress of reinvention.

Palestinian thriller on the explosive subject of suicide bombers

The story of American poet Emily Dickinson.
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The life of a castaway on a desert island.

The story of spy Francisco Paesa, a man who fooled an entire country.

Biopic of the whistleblower.

A look inside the S21 prison at the heart of the Cambodian genocide.

A sausage tries to find meaning in the world as well as carnal knowledge.

Old revolutionaries still on the run flee from Portugal to Germany with their teenage daughter.

Storks have moved on from delivering babies to packages. But when an order for a baby appears, the best delivery stork must scramble to fix the error.

A philosophy teacher soldiers through her life being turned upside down on all fronts.

After a bullion heist, two gangsters face a test of friendship when one of them is kidnapped.

Crime thriller set against the backdrop of Spain's economic collapse.

Four inmates try to tunnel out of a prison.

A father drops in on his daughter and poses as a stranger to her friends.
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Portmanteau film about the owners of a dachshund.

Two high school kids who've never met - city boy Taki and country girl Mitsuha - are united through their dreams.

A quiet, middle-aged zoo employee wakes up to discover that she has grown a tail.

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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