Afire
Tensions and desire bloom among five people at a holiday home by the Baltic Sea.
Almamula
12-year-old Nino is assaulted for being homosexual. In an effort to protect the boy, his parents move the family to a small rural village.
Anatomy Of A Fall
A woman is accused of her husband's murder.
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.”
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.
Creatura
A woman realises the source of her trauma and sexual appetite after returning to her coastal-town home.

D

Dance First
Biopic of author and playwright Samuel Beckett.
The Delinquents
Two bank staff rob their own establishment.
Dumb Money
Based on a true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop into the world's hottest company.
The Eternal Memory
Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognises her.
Evil Does Not Exist
A rural village faces disruption from the construction of a glamping site for Tokyo tourists.
Ex-Husbands
Peter’s parents divorced after 65 years, his wife left him after 35, and his sons, Nick and Mickey, are off leading their own lives. When Peter flies to Tulum, crashing Nick's bachelor party hosted by Mickey, he realises he's not the only one in crisis.
Fallen Leaves
The course of potential love does not run smooth for a shelf-stacker and a metal worker.
Fingernails
A woman who is increasingly unsure about her relationship secretly embarks on a new assignment working at a mysterious institute designed to incite and test the presence of romantic love in increasingly desperate couples.
Gamma Rays
Summer unfolds in a triptych of stories about teenagers in Montreal.

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.
Io Capitano
Two Senegalese teenagers try to realise their dream of a new life in Europe.
Kalak
A nurse who was abused by his father finds his trauma is increasingly damaging to himself and those around him.

M

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.
Monster
A mother is shocked when she learns what a teacher has said to her son, but the truth is more complicated.
The New Boy
The story of a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun, where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world.
Nine Queens
Two small-time con artists in Buenos Aires attempt a high level rare stamps fraud.
Orlando, My Political Biography
Docufiction interpretation of Virginia Woolf's novel.
Past Lives
Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are separated from each other when Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York where Nora now lives with her American husband.
Perfect Days
The story of an urban renewal project which involves the creation of 17 public toilets in key locations in the Japanese capital.
The Practice
A yoga teacher finds himself grappling with life and bad luck after his splits from his wife.
The Promised Land
In 1755, the impoverished Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer the harsh, uninhabitable Danish heath with a seemingly impossible goal; to build a colony in the name of the King.

R

Red Island
Set in Madagascar in the early 1970s, on one of the last air bases of the French army, where military families live the last throes of colonialism. Influenced by his reading of the intrepid comic book heroine Fantômette, ten-year-old Thomas sweeps with a curious glance what surrounds him, while the world gradually opens up to a different reality.
Remembering Every Night
Drama involving the quiet pursuits of several women over a single afternoon.
The Royal Hotel
US backpackers Hanna and Liv take a job in a remote Australian pub for some extra cash and are confronted with a bunch of unruly locals and a situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
A Silence
Astrid is the wife of an acclaimed lawyer. Silenced for 25 years, her family balance suddenly collapses when her children initiate their search for justice.
Society Of The Snow
Survival thriller taking place in the aftermath of a plane crash in the Andes.
Sultana's Dream
Taking her inspiration from a feminist sci-fi short story written in Bengal in 1905, Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.
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.
Through The Night
The lives of three people are explored after a rape.
Toll
Suellen, a toll booth attendant, realises she can use her job to raise some extra money illegally. But this is only for a noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop led by a renowned foreign priest.
Tótem
In a large house, friends and family meet for a dual ritual: it is the birthday of young father and painter Tona, but also a farewell ceremony.

V

Woman Of The Dunes
Japanese classic explores the bond between a lonely woman and her reluctant guest.
The Zone Of Interest
The daily lives of the Höss family outside the walls of Auschwitz.
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