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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.

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.

In a near-future war-torn Ukraine a man with PTSD takes a volunteer job exhuming the dead.

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.

Documentary considering the aftermath of a nightclub fire that exposed deep corruption in the Romanian healthcare system.

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.

After being caught up in a violent crash, a quiet man with a struggling marriage discovers a cult of car crash sex fetishists.
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Chronicle of a Portugese family who own a large estate on the banks of the Tagus, tracking them down the decades.

A dancer and her choreographer husband find themselves trying to stop their lives falling apart after an adoption goes awry.

A doctor embarks on a sexual adventure after a chance remark by his wife leads him to question monogamy.
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Following exposure to a mysterious gas, a man begins to shrink - and doesn't stop.

Origin story of Batman's arch nemesis.

Action film sees a young cop take on a drug lord.

Documentary about the Marcos family and Imelda's continued influence on politics in the Philippines.
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A couple find themselves in a messier divorce than they imagined.

A man struggles to better his circumstances, motivated by his love for a woman from a bourgeois family.

Drama following a conscript through his military service in the South African Defence Force in the 1980s.

A lone Jewish boy has to fend for himself in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe.

A young female Saudi doctor decides to run for election.
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After a child is shot and needs a transplant, a family secret is exposed.

Documentary based on footage from March 5 - 9, 1953, when the USSR mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.

A reunion between a French cinema star and her daughter descends into confrontation.
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A magistrate in a colonial town suffers a crisis of conscience about the regime he works for.

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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