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Sometime in the Nineties, somewhere in a Turkish coastal resort, a young, divorced father is spending the vacation with his daughter pre-teen daughter Sophie.
Touring a repossessed chateau, a film location scout falls for its flirtatious representative, who recounts the story of an influential book written there. But is their connection for real, or just a projection of the book's characters?
A man and a mechanical bear head to an observatory to confront his past.
Recreation of one woman's flight from the Armenian Genocide.
Light-hearted take on To Catch A Thief, transplanted to the Bahamas.
Oliver Stone takes a gladiatorial look at the world of American football.
Two young people meet again in Paris nine years after a romantic night in Vienna.
A high school teacher undergoes transition to her new life while working in a conservative small-town school.
The witty exploits of two lovable outlaws who go on the lam in South America.
Fable about a boy ordered to avenge his brother's death.
A witch plots to return as a vampire after 200 years in her tomb and possess the body of the princess who shares her appearance.
Retelling of the Second World War Rape of Nanking.
A historical piece, family drama and love story set in Soviet Russia.
Betrayed Red Army General, Sergei Kotov, attempts to clear his name and regain his honour.
A dancer explores the forces of nature.
A man who is hired to be a father figure for a young girl begins to forge an unexpected connection.
The sons of a cattle baron in Texas in the 1880s vie for the love of an untamed "half-breed".
An ex-couple delete each other from their memories after a painful split.
A documentary about the 25 year career of Fishbone, the unique punk/funk underground band considered by many fans to be the best in the world.
Murder mystery involving an estate agent and his secretary in the South of France.
Civil war shatters the comfortable illusions of Nigeria’s middle class in this 1960s-set love story.
After her husband leaves her, Kate’s friend Vanessa has the perfect solution to her despair – vodka, grass and a road trip.
The story of two men with albinism in Tanzania pursuing their dreams in the face of virulent prejudice.
Compelling testimony from seven to 10-year-old survivors, reveals how last year’s Japanese tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear accident have changed children's lives forever.
A Kurdish emigre tries to take his friend's body home.
Isabelle, single mum, divorced artist with one child, is looking for love. True love at last.
A dysfunctional family's road trip to a beauty pageant.
Portrait of a Mexican migrant who spent his life working in California, away from his family back home.
Documentary about Californian DJ, who likes to be seen with the stars.
A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman.
Men without jobs in Galicia share friendship, black humour and alcohol.
When one day the sun fails to rise as expected, Mondo becomes determined to discover its fate.
A girl endures a difficult transition to adulthood, living in poverty on the banks of the Bosphorus.
Violence bubbles up in small town Spain.
Considers the material of Mateo Sobode Chiqueno, who has been using an old tape recorder to capture stories, songs, and testimonies of his ancestral culture since the Seventies.
A social worker struggles to reunite families after discovering the (real life) scandalous deportation of British children to other Commonwealth countries, which often resulted in abuse.
The daughter of a Nazi hunter is looking for revenge and stumbles across an undead Nazi army.
In 1870, a gang robs a train and steals a ceremonial Japanese sword meant as a gift for the US president, prompting a manhunt to retrieve it.
A group of schoolboys plots to steal a statue in order to make some much-needed cash.
Exploration of grief in small-town Korea.
A man hooks up with a group of eccentrics on a roadtrip after the death of his wife.
A year in the life of a singular family.
Magpie lives in an isolated church community ruled over by her father, The Pastor. When a man is murdered, paranoia sets in and people start to whisper about a strange 'Beast' that lives in the forest.
When a Deaf young man asks his estranged older brother to join him in a musical contest, this blue collar worker must dust off his musical chops in order to be his little brother's voice, so that the world can finally hear him.
Behind the scenes of a comedy sketch show.
Lost in an endless desert, an injured teenager adopts the identity of a mythical unicorn to survive surreal encounters and rescue his abducted father.
An ageing artist is visited at his country estate by his family.
An Alzheimer's sufferer is reunited with the brother he hasn't seen in 30 years.
Part of the Exhibition on Screen project, looking at five of Van Gogh's Arles Sunflowers from collections in London, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Munich and Amsterdam.
A young wannabe milliner in Budapest meets a man connected to her past and begins to uncover family secrets.
The head of a secret vampire society in Los Angeles becomes concerned that they are at risk of exposure.
Sobering and powerful film that follows three generations in upper-class Jews amid the early 20th Century.
Astronauts are sent to try to save earth by reigniting the sun.
Two sisters try to forge a career in crime scene clean-up.
One of Emperor Hirohito last days before the Japanese surrender in 1945.
A post car crash tale of survivors and other displaced egos.
As the World Cup in Brazil reaches a climax, a very different final is taking place just down the road…
A man is seduced by a flapper who wants him to murder his wife.
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
Ensemble drama about an undeveloped beach front community facing 'progress'.
Portrait of the father of Base jumping Carl Boenish.
Relationships break down in a dystopian future in this, the first film ever written by an AI.
A doctor becomes obsessed with a much younger tourist.
East meets West in Seventies Berlin.
Tension between two lovers escalates as one of them seems to be losing her mind.
A ten-year-old becomes aware of the strains on her parents' marriage over the course of long car journey.
Sixty-five years after a serial killer terrorised a small town... the murders begin again.
Commandos tough it out in Nigeria.
Drama about a couple who return to the small rural lakeside hamlet where one of them grew up.
Divorced American writer buys rundown villa in Italy.
Bait for the beast Simon Panay on challenging attitudes to albino people in The Boy With White Skin
Ice cool Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani talk Reflection In A Dead Diamond
Songs and silence Urška Djukić on music, unspoken communication and Little Trouble Girls
The beauty of doubt Toni Servillo on costumes by Carlo Poggioli and working with Paolo Sorrentino on La Grazia
Peter Hujar's Day leads Independent Spirit nominations Full list of film contenders revealed
One Battle After Another takes top Gotham prize It Was Just An Accident wins on the numbers
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