107 Mothers
Docufiction considering the lives of mothers in Odessa women's prison.
Aloners
Reflection on loneliness through the life of a solitary woman.
Azor
Thriller set in the world of high finance.
Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn
Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet.
Benedetta
A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair.
Benediction
Siegfried Sassoon biopic.
Between Two Worlds
Marianne Winckler, a well-known author, goes to live in northern France to research for her new book on the subject of job insecurity. Without revealing her true identity, she gets hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other women.
Bigger Than Us
Documentary about young environmental activists around the globe.
Blue Moon
A young woman struggles to access higher education and escape the violence of her dysfunctional family.
Carajita
Sara and her nanny Yarisa have a relationship that seems to transcend their class condition but an accident will test their loyalty.
A Cop Movie
A docufiction dive into the Mexican police force.

D

Drive My Car
Nishijima Hidetoshi as a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day the wife disappears.
Dusk Stone
Less than a year ago, Greta's son mysteriously disappeared by the sea. As she and her husband Bruno are struggling with grief, Bruno claims to have seen something that confirms the locals' rumours: the appearance of a strange shape coming from the sea.
Earwig
Somewhere in Europe, mid-20th century. Albert is employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice. Mia never leaves their apartment, where the shutters are always closed. The telephone rings regularly and the Master enquires after Mia’s wellbeing. Until the day Albert is instructed that he must prepare the child to leave...
Everything Went Fine
A father asks for help to die.
The Eyes Of Tammy Faye
An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker.
Fever Dream
A young woman lies dying far from home. A boy sits beside her. She is not his mother. He is not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, an invisible threat and the power and desperation of family.
The French Dispatch
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th Century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in the French Dispatch magazine.
The Good Boss
Trouble brews at a factory after a boss finds himself in line for an award for excellence.
The Great Movement
Mystical portrait of the contemporary central South American cityscape and those who work within its bowels and environs.

I

It All Starts Today
The effect of unemployment on France's children as seen through the eyes of a teacher.
I Want to Talk About Duras
Portrait of the complex romantic relationship between epochal experimental novelist and filmmaker Marguerite Duras and her much younger, homosexual partner, Yann Andréa.
Jane By Charlotte
The director's portrait of her mother.

M

Mass
Years after a tragic shooting, the parents of both the victim and the perpetrator meet face-to-face.
The Noise Of Engines
Alexandre, an instructor at the Canadian customs college, finds himself under surveillance by police trying to get to the bottom of the sexually explicit drawings that have been troubling the town.
Petite Maman
Something magical happens to a young girl after the death of her grandma.
Playground
A little girl faces a moral dilemma after she sees her brother being bullied.
The Power Of The Dog
A widow and her son are tormented by her new husband’s sullen and bullying brother.
Prayers For The Stolen
Life in a town at war seen through the eyes of three young girls on the path to adolescence.

R

Red Rocket
A washed-up ex-porn star tries to get his life back together in his hometown, sparking trouble for those in his orbit.
The Restless
A family struggles with the father's bipolar disorder.
Returning To Reims (Fragments)
An intimate and political story of the French working class from the beginning of the 1950s to today.
The Souvenir: Part II
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
That Happy Couple
A young couple win a competition to 'that happy couple' for a day but find that money and gifts don't solve all of their problems.
Titane
A dancer becomes pregnant after having sex with a car.

V

The Velvet Underground
Cinematic collage that is as much about New York of the period as it is about the rise and fall of the seminal band.
Vortex
Drama focused on a handful of dark days in the lives of an elderly couple in Paris.
Wheel Of Fortune And Fantasy
An unexpected love triangle, a failed honey trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
A Woman Judge
A lawyer defends her mother-in-law, who has confessed to murder.
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