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A misanthropic, struggling photographer just wants to watch TV and eat candy while his wife is out of town, but when a desperate old pal resurfaces, his plans are thwarted, with spooky consequences.
Following five years in the life and career of an independent filmmaker, supported by dozens of interviews, posing one question: how does an indie filmmaker survive in the current film business?
Trying to satisfy a diversity checklist, a group of women of colour and queer women discover the real intention behind their workshop retreat.
A squabble between the gods of Mount Olympus forces the young hero Perseus to go on a desperate quest, taking on the gorgon and the kraken.
A documentary that focuses on a famously dangerous water park and its slew of injuries and crimes along with child safety concerns.
Two high school outsiders join forces in an attempt to take power on the local school board.
Tormented by a past life, garbage man Clean attempts a life of quiet redemption. But when his good intentions mark him a target of a local crime boss, Clean is forced to reconcile with the violence of his past.
Environmental activists hijack a gala, taking 300 hostages. After one extremist seizes control, planning mass murder as a message to the world, it's up to a former soldier turned window cleaner to save the day.
As a means to distract herself from an affair, a love-addicted woman befriends a cleaning lady, badly scarred by burns. She soon learns, these scars run much deeper than the surface.
A documentary about the making of the original Ghostbusters.
Millennial entrepreneurs, Drew and Max, run a webcast that streams live exorcisms that are, in fact, elaborately staged hoaxes. They get their comeuppance when today's actress becomes mysteriously possessed by a real demon that holds the crew hostage.
An epic based on the life of the legendary queen.
Returning to their childhood home on the Isle of Wight, a house filled with art and the songs and poetry their mother once wrote, Dorothy and Phoebe deal with conflicting feelings about the difficult woman who raised them.
Two sisters vie for the affections of a man who may or may not be a vampire.
A climber who has recently miscarried after a car accident is determined not to miss out on the world championships, but she begins to receive text messages from what is apparently another, still pregnant version of herself.
A lonely church housekeeper encounters a young Irish girl of exceptional promise.
After Sang-Won's daughter Yi-Na goes missing in their new home, a mysterious man approaches him and tells him to look for her in the closet.
A forensic examination of the Vermeer paintings collected for the 2023 Rijksmuseum exhibition, also exploring emerging information about the stories behind them.
A young man happens to encounter with an old friend on his way back home to a dreaded family reunion that forces him to confront long-buried memories.
Following her mother's funeral and a recently ended relationship, Nina flies to Los Angeles in search of her missing sister.
The story of souls across the centuries.
A documentarian chronicles her struggle with post-natal depression and the isolation she felt as a result.
A teenager and her father move to a fading midwestern town in which Frendo the clown, a symbol of bygone success, reemerges as a terrifying scourge.
A rich high school student tries to give a fellow student a makeover but finds herself falling in love.
Three young men try to make it in a rapidly changing world.
An experimental and genre-defying drama shot entirely on sound stages in support of a film-within-a-film narrative.
An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.
Seaside family sex romp with gay/straight permutations.
Black comedy about a couple facing a tricky moment in their relationship.
15-year-old Rihana is put into a coffin at the hands of her father to be sold off to an old Taliban soldier.
Murder mystery chiller unfolds across two time periods as a man and his daughter try to come to terms with a suicide while he investigates historic deaths at a juvenile centre.
A fictionalised take on the story of serial killer Dennis Nilsen.
A young man who takes up the role of weather observer on a remote island finds himself trapped in a battle with sinister people from the sea.
A team of Redditors lose everything after a cryptocurrency scam leads them to plot to kidnap the 'financial influencer' who screwed them over.
A grieving father grapples with the seedy, manipulative world of high stakes debt collection while struggling to shed the tragedies of his past. He'll find himself pitted against his best friend, his prodigy and his love.
A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.
A group of survivors in a post-Apocalyptic frozen world go to the aid of another colony only to uncover a deadly threat.
The adventures of a high school girl who can see the colours of emotions within other people.
A documentary about the rise and fall of St. Louis, Missouri's premier black hospital, which trained the largest number of black doctors and nurses in the world from 1937 through 1979, before and after desegregation.
A meteorite lands in the frontyard of a family who have moved to a farm... and begins to mutate everything it touches.
A woman faces many hardships in her life but ultimately finds strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
The iconic adventures of a humble detective with a shabby raincoat and a brilliant mind.
Columnist and author Femke is flooded with anonymous nasty messages and death threats on social media. One day she has enough and decides to take revenge.
Three young men with disabilities hit the road with a jaded nurse driver to a brothel in Montreal catering to people with special needs.
After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Norval travels to his dad’s oceanfront home for what he hopes will be a positive experience. If only he’d known the dark truth about his old man beforehand.
Plagued by disturbing dreams and unable to go home, a teenager is relieved to find help at a university sleep study, but unwittingly becomes the channel to a horrifying new discovery.
A family’s outing descends into terror when teacher Alan Hoaganraad, his wife Jill and stepsons Maika and Jordon explore an isolated coastline. An unexpected meeting with a pair of drifters, the enigmatic psychopath Mandrake and his accomplice Tubs, thrusts the family into a nightmare when they find themselves captured.
Against a rich Hollywood backdrop, this film documents the true story of the fight against HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles - and how an intrepid group of people living with HIV/AIDS, doctors, movie stars, studio moguls and activists changed the course of the epidemic.
A documentary about a teenager who acts as a carer for every member of her family.
A government minister, who subsequently becomes prime minister, struggles to get the better of the civil service.
Hustle horror Barbara Crampton on comedy, horror, corporate culture and Grind
Changing identities, changing lives Rahemur Rahman and Lily Vetch on evolving hijra culture and Body Of Our Own
Changing hearts and minds Lexi Powner, Friedel Dausab, Rosanna Flamer-Caldera and James Lewis on Out Laws
Somewhere over the rainbow Arco director on how he managed to follow his dream with help from Natalie Portman
A place to belong Liam O Mochain on anthology filmmaking, hidden stories and making Abode
Sundance announces Sandbox Fund recipients Four UK nonfiction productions/co-productions among selection
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It's a busy time for festivals and here's the latest from the spring events:
GSFF 19th edition opens in Glasgow with Downriver A Tiger
Cannes Barbra Streisand to receive honorary Palme d'Or
Thessaloniki Golden Alexanders announced
Cannes Lighton and McGoldrick join La Résidence
Cannes Park Chan-Wook named as Jury head
