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A young literature student hopes to become a belly dancer like her mother, but must struggle against traditional expectations and her own inability to express her feelings.
A biopic of bar owner Jack Durant.
A recently bereaved screenwriter struggles to get his film produced without too many compromises, but personal compromises can be much more dangerous.
Over the course of one single day, we track the sun from the highest mountains to the remotest islands to exotic jungles.
Two schoolfriends faced with having to part go to the woods for one last adventure.
A history of Boyle Heights, one of America's most genuinely multicultural communities.
A hard pressed single mother gets a job in a Japanese restaurant and is inspired to pursue a career as a sushi chef.
Britain's vampires gather together for their once-every-50-years meeting. Others will be joining them too: an unwitting Essex boy who thinks he's on a promise with an older woman, and a detachment of Special Forces vampire killers...
A troubled man returns from fighting in the American Civil War to start a conflict in his own rural neighbourhood.
Marooned on a remote peninsula and haunted by frightening specters, a young man becomes convinced that he has caught sight of a beautiful woman.
Edith and Eddie, ages 96 and 95, are America's oldest interracial newlyweds. Their love story is disrupted by a family feud that threatens to tear the couple apart.
The Easter story as depicted in art, from the time of the early Christians to the present day.
After the death of her husband, Tabatha - a young, tattooed, rebellious horse trainer - wrestles with financial insecurity and unresolved grief while providing refuge for a group of wayward teenagers on her broken-down ranch in the Badlands.
Considering the conditions under with our food is produced, based on the memoir by Jonathan Safran Foer.
A vegan-goth high school student falls in love with her new English teacher and develops a problematic taste for human flesh.
On Easter Island, the most isolated community in the Pacific uses lessons learned from their past to solve environmental and social challenges brought on by booming tourism and rapid development.
A documentary about the history of Mongolia and life there today.
A fictionalised take on the massacre of Kalavryta in which a survivor tells his tale decades after the fact.
While escaping from the police, Óliver accidentally stumbles into a flat and saves Lóa’s life. The pair are both users and dealers, but want nothing more than to escape and start a new life. However, the situation becomes considerably more complicated when they decide to use stolen narcotics from an infamous drug lord to fund their escape plans.
A young man surviving by himself years after the Earth has been devastated by nuclear war finds his orderly life thrown into chaos when he encounters other survivors.
A girl makes a friend while on holiday with her mum but when the boy shows her an abandoned tin mine what they hear there leads to trouble above ground.
The story of James Brooke, who defied the British Empire to rule a jungle kingdom in 1840s Borneo, and embarked on a lifelong crusade to end piracy, slavery and head-hunting.
A father takes his sons out into the wilds to make them into men, but things go awry when he realises their mother and stepfather are planning to take them away.
A portrait of two South Korean women in transition: Edhi, a modest and cheerful woman who hopes to feel good in her own body after her surgery, and Alice, a quiet personality who is at a different stage in her life and her transition.
A timid dork accidentally takes the spotlight when she starts a punk band with her fellow 'turds', becoming an icon to the rest of the losers at her all-girls Catholic school while managing to piss off the hot girls, the nuns, and a horny altar boy.
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.
A dramatisation of the marriage of John Ruskin and Euphemia Gray.
The tale of a young woman who learns firsthand the personal costs of societal shortcomings.
A young Asian American girl and her hapless best friend hit the road to go and meet her online crush.
At the breaking point of their dysfunctional marriage, a couple take a trip through Serbia. After meeting a mysterious local who eagerly offers to be their guide, they embark on an impromptu sightseeing expedition that soon takes a series of sinister turns.
A runaway teenager tries to make it as a hustler.
A German-Kurdish woman tries to decide whether to cover up the fact that she is no longer a virgin in the run up to her wedding in this poignant exploration of cultural pressure and self-determination.
An octogenarian, who enters into a state of dementia after the sudden suicide of his wife, sparks a series of paranormal events that will put his family's lives at risk.
An intimate portrait of a chronically ill man who ascribes his symptoms to electromagnetic hypersensitivity syndrome.
A woman who survives a lightning strike finds herself drawn into an underground society of fellow survivors intent on engaging with strange and erotic new experiences.
A documentary looking at how different kinds of knowledge are being brought together to deal with the escalating problem of wildfires in the US.
When her babysitter doesn’t show, a single mother is forced to leave her precocious five-year-old daughter with the girl’s estranged father for a long weekend.
A documentary about the mass migration of elephants to Botswana after it made hunting them illegal, and the family who found their tourist lodge on the front line when the new arrivals sought water.
An indigenous couple in South India raise two orphaned baby elephants
A group of YouTubers is prompted to investigator a ritual in which players use an elevator to seek access to a parallel dimension, risking the wrath of a vengeful spirit.
Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.
The life story of Elis Regina, widely considered to be the greatest Brazilian singer of all time, is told in this biopic.
A brilliant man marries a much younger woman and shows her his home, stating that it's all hers - except for one room she can't enter.
In this romcom, Ellie’s dead aunt has the perfect dating advice for her. But will she listen to it?
When Blitzen announces his retirement on December 21st, a miniature horse has 3 days to fulfil his lifelong dream of earning a spot on Santa's team at the North Pole try-outs.
A look into the creative and culinary processes behind one of the world's most famous restaurants.
A replacement babysitter seems to have sinister intentions towards her young charges.
The journey to womanhood of rebel and misfit Emily Brontë.
Down on her luck and saddled with debt, Emily gets involved in a credit card scam that pulls her into the criminal underworld of Los Angeles, ultimately leading to deadly consequences.
‘Do no harm’ is an abiding principal of psychiatry. It is abandoned time after time in this exploration of the profession’s collusion with state sponsored torture over the past 70 years.
It's a steal Mikel Gurrea on mothers, daughters and heists in Saints
'We don't have nearly enough films that talk about Sudanese women' Suzannah Mirghani on culture and politics in Cotton Queen
A moment of change David Arrow and Amber Paul on November 1963 and making the Oscar-qualifying Drive
The serpent's call Composer Stephen Lukach on creating tension and awe in Beware Boiúna
Care and community Mike Leigh and the Tender Loving Care cast on humanity and looking out for one another
I Swear leads charge for Scottish BAFTAs Tourette's drama has seven nominations
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It's a busy time for festivals and here's the latest:
San Sebastian Golden night for Tender Loving Care
Toronto La Bola Negra wins People's Choice award
San Sebastian Naomi Watts dedicates Donostia Award to Lynch
PÖFF Sir Christopher Hampton heads jury
San Sebastian Werner Herzog honoured
Dinard Full programme announced
