About Endlessness
Guided by a Scheherazade-like narrator, the film reflects on human life through a series of vignettes - from war-torn Cologne to smaller incidents like the tying of shoelaces.
Ad Astra
An astronaut travels to the outer edge of the solar system in a bid to find his missing father and ensure the survival of the planet.
Atlantis
In a near-future war-torn Ukraine a man with PTSD takes a volunteer job exhuming the dead.
Babyteeth
Comedy, sees a family whose seriously ill daughter falls for a drug dealer discover that it might not be such a terrible thing after all.
Collective
Documentary considering the aftermath of a nightclub fire that exposed deep corruption in the Romanian healthcare system.
Corpus Christi
Daniel who experiences a spiritual transformation in a Youth Detention Centre. The crime he commits prevents him from applying to the seminary... but Daniel has no intention of giving up his dream.
Crash
After being caught up in a violent crash, a quiet man with a struggling marriage discovers a cult of car crash sex fetishists.

D

The Domain
Chronicle of a Portugese family who own a large estate on the banks of the Tagus, tracking them down the decades.
Ema
A dancer and her choreographer husband find themselves trying to stop their lives falling apart after an adoption goes awry.
Eyes Wide Shut
A doctor embarks on a sexual adventure after a chance remark by his wife leads him to question monogamy.

I

The Incredible Shrinking Man
Following exposure to a mysterious gas, a man begins to shrink - and doesn't stop.
Joker
Origin story of Batman's arch nemesis.
Just 6.5
Action film sees a young cop take on a drug lord.
The Kingmaker
Documentary about the Marcos family and Imelda's continued influence on politics in the Philippines.

M

Marriage Story
A couple find themselves in a messier divorce than they imagined.
Martin Eden
A man struggles to better his circumstances, motivated by his love for a woman from a bourgeois family.
Moffie
Drama following a conscript through his military service in the South African Defence Force in the 1980s.
The Painted Bird
A lone Jewish boy has to fend for himself in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe.
The Perfect Candidate
A young female Saudi doctor decides to run for election.

R

A Son
After a child is shot and needs a transplant, a family secret is exposed.
State Funeral
Documentary based on footage from March 5 - 9, 1953, when the USSR mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.
The Truth
A reunion between a French cinema star and her daughter descends into confrontation.

V

Waiting For The Barbarians
A magistrate in a colonial town suffers a crisis of conscience about the regime he works for.
White On White
A man hired to photograph a wedding at an estate seized from indigenous people becomes obsessed with the bride to be after discovering she is underage.
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