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Tensions and desire bloom among five people at a holiday home by the Baltic Sea.
Pressures mount as summer intensifies for a group of entertainers at an all-inclusive resort.
A young, pregnant woman finds emancipation as aliens land in Morocco.
Sci-fi adventure set in a world where humans are mutating into "creatures".
Love and loss in Dakar are given a supernatural twist.
The story of a 40something in a dead-end town who discovers love for the first time.
A woman's moral compass starts to slip after she is conned out of her savings by a phone scammer.
A pianist returns to his home town, where he finds a new kebab bar in town, which begins to generate friction between the employees and local youths.
College student Margot meets 33-year-old Robert at the cinema where she works. After a casual flirtation at the concession stand, they carry on conversations through texts. As their perceptions of each other collide, events spiral out of control. Based on The New Yorker short story by Kristen Roupenian.
When a mum makes a promise to her daughter after unfairly punishing her, she finds herself having to go the extra mile to make it come true.
The story of a group of archaeologists and the black market in historical artefacts.
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.
Guided by the voice of his GPS, Amir navigates the underworld districts of Tehran to comfort the troubled souls of the night.
Deaf twin brothers find their world closing in after a devastating diagnosis.
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Road movie about the friendship of a wounded young man in the western frontiers, who hooks up with a Native American.
Two bank staff rob their own establishment.
The destinies of a man who has joined the Foreign Legion and another in the Niger Delta intersect.
Two mysterious brothers abduct a mogul during his quest for immortality. Meanwhile, a seductive woman helps them launch a journey of self-discovery.
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.
Refugee Jacqueline, alone and penniless on a Greek island embarks on a friendship with a tour guide.
Think Mirroball for those who find Mirrorball lightweight.
It's a sad day in Eva's life. The rain is pouring down at her husband's funeral. A woodpecker delivering a message code on the coffin is killed. There is a lot of crying, too much wine, and a couple of dreams that fill in the gaps.
Set during a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by the glamorous new counsellor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.
Three stories set in wildly different terrain reflect lives haunted by the spectre of colonialist violence.
A loose adaptation of the Poe classic, with a lonely aristocrat obsessively painting his wife as she wastes away.
The course of potential love does not run smooth for a shelf-stacker and a metal worker.
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.
A creative documentary following ten years in the life of a fortysomething Tunisian mother, a cleaning lady from a poor environment, who sees her two teenage daughters become radicalised, run away and join the terrorist organisation Daesh in Libya.
A woman's life goes off the rails after a mysterious car accident.
An unpopular teacher, a talented but badly behaved student and a cook who recently lost her son in Vietnam spend Christmas together in an otherwise empty boarding school.
A young man searches through delapidated dreamscapes for his dead/live father.
A lesbian suddenly finds herself responsible for her partner’s two daughters.
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she’s too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha’s life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest.
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Kaleb, passionate about exotic animals, accidentally lets his new eight-legged pet slip away.
A married actress falls for her leading man whilst making a film about an illicit affair.
A mother fights for her rights in a partriachal system after her husband's death.
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.
A kung-fu comedy set in an Orthodox Monastery in 1970s Soviet Union.
An actor struggles with the various roles he is juggling in life.
Two Senegalese teenagers try to realise their dream of a new life in Europe.
A young girl and a cop recall the same fateful night.
Two men and a bird, trapped in a snowstorm in the middle of nowhere, try to solve a mystery while it slowly devours them.
In 1858, a six-year-old Jewish boy is forcibly seized from his family by the Catholic church.
A man tries to convince a woman that they had an affair the year before.
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An adolescent boy stalks beautiful woman in small Sicilian town during the war.
Six-year-old Cléo loves her nanny Gloria more than anything. When Gloria must return to Cape Verde to care for her own children, the two must make the most of their last summer together.
A mum who has lost her baby tries to work through her grief as she attempts to donate her milk.
A famous surrealist short in which a woman encounters doppelgangers.
Recently disgraced and desperate for a story, a young journalist holes herself up in her parents’ luxurious home and gets to work on the only job she can get - hosting a clickbait investigative podcast. Then she discovers a strange artefact and begins to convince herself it is evidence of an alien conspiracy.
A mother is shocked when she learns what a teacher has said to her son, but the truth is more complicated.
Over the course of a single hectic day in New York City, three people from Feña's past are thrust back into his life. Having lost touch since transitioning from female to male, he navigates the new dynamics of old relationships while tackling the day-to-day challenges of living life in between.
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.
A trio of stories unfold against a backdrop of Cuba.
A musing on the future of The Old Oak, the last remaining pub in a village in Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available, thus making it an ideal location for Syrian refugees.
A married man cheats on his husband with a woman... then tells him about it.
A hand-painted animated film about an early 20th Century Polish peasant woman who creates havoc by marrying an older rich man.
A yoga teacher finds himself grappling with life and bad luck after his splits from his wife.
Facing the apocalypse, as a secret website devotes itself to the terrible isolation of ghosts and the parable of techno terror.
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A woman becomes obsessed with the trial of a murderer.
Drama involving the quiet pursuits of several women over a single afternoon.
A young woman engaged to help a pair of children fit into their new French family engages in a battle of wills with their new mum.
Samsara is the Buddhist cycle of death and reincarnation. From the temples of Laos, alongside with teenage monks, we will accompany a soul in its transit from one body to another through the bardo.
After her dad's death at sea, a teenage girl becomes convinced his boat was capsized by a sea monster.
Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way is Fran herself.
On the remote island of Chiloé in the late 19th century, an indigenous girl named Rosa lives and works with her father on a farm. When the foreman brutally turns on Rosa’s father, she sets out for justice, seeking help from the king of a powerful organisation of sorcerers.
A screening of James Whale's Frankenstein alters how an impressionable young girl sees her world in 1940s Spain.
A couple and their young son choose to move to a remote cabin in the Danish Forest for an experiment in off-grid living, with no human contact for a year. When they encounter another family in the forest, identical to themselves in almost every way, the fabric of their identities faces a test.
When Dutch patriarch and plantation owner Jan dies suddenly in Indonesia, his son arrives from Europe with plans for radical change. But when Jan’s will puts his Indonesian concubine Siti at the forefront of the family estate, ideals prove to be futile and blood thicker than water.
The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the fine gourmet she has been working for over the last 20 years.
The lives of three people are explored after a rape.
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A young occultist stumbles upon a French village shrouded in fog and haunted by a vampire.
Historic vampire tale, adapted from a Tolstoy novella.
Metaphysical thriller about a woman trying to escape her past and build a future.
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