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The sheer existence of newly formed football team Gayvotas means defiance in a repressed society that despises them. For these women, modesty is a stranger, liberation reigns supreme and sexuality is fluid – their lives presenting a gloriously free alternative to the oppressive regime.
At the end of the 19th century, as a mysterious plague spreads across the countryside, a young woman living under the tyranny of her deeply religious father fights to reclaim her freedom.
Nathan and Mirra are in no way close siblings, but their father’s passing means they must return to their old family farm to sell off the land. There, Nathan starts having vivid nightmares of a woman rising from the sea, feeling the same dread his father felt before his death.
Shooting a zombie movie in one take is harder than you think...
Iris is 17 and takes each day as it comes. When she meets the cool Renata, her life changes abruptly.
Two women are enjoying their last night out in Tel Aviv before one of them leaves for Berlin, but when they are arrested, one of them is faced with a difficult decision.
On their first date, Alex and Zoe venture out to see a movie at a local cinema. The film ends and the two become so engaged in a heated discussion that they fail to notice the cinema closing, leaving them locked inside.
The adventures of some cavemen, with added dinosaurs!
In the aftermath of Cassius Clay’s defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the young boxer meets with friends Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to decide the course of his life, and possibly that of civil rights history.
A musical man lives a careful life. Each day is like the next, just how he likes it. One day, however, misfortune and fate collide, breaking his routine and rocking his world forever.
An elite squad of Navy SEALs, on a covert mission to transport a prisoner off a CIA black site island prison, are trapped when insurgents attack.
A cobbler's daughter dreams of going to the moon.
A documentary following a man's journey to recovery years after he was sexually assaulted in a taxi in Mexico City.
An unemployed Welshman with no hot water travels to Denmark in an attempt to get arrested because he believes that his life will be better in prison there.
A documentary about trailblazing musician Orin O'Brien and the double bass she plays.
Onyx joins a group of fellow occultists to attend a dark ritual at the mansion of their idol, Bartok. Suspecting Bartok's nefarious intentions, Onyx is suddenly immersed in a world of monsters, mystery, and mayhem.
A family living in a woodland trailer home is suddenly threatened by wildfire.
A Yazidi genocide and ISIS sexual slavery survivor, 23-year-old Nadia Murad is determined to tell the world her story. As her journey leads down paths of advocacy and fame, she becomes the voice of her people and their best hope to spur the world to action.
After a car crash which damages her memory, a woman desperate to find her son goes looking for answers.
Expose of Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte's single-minded war on drugs.
After setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire, a paranoid, delusional woman gets a job at an all-night gas station.
Four queer women in their 30s who are exes-turned-best-friends navigate adulthood, love, friendship, chosen families, and everything in between.
An essay film that navigates the intersections of folklore, horror, and psychological warfare during the Troubles and encompasses a bizarre propaganda operation in which the British army staged fake black magic rituals to smear the IRA as ‘Satanists’.
Iman, an Iranian, lives with his family in Sweden in an ever-changing succession of refugee hostels. To increase his chances of obtaining residence permits for them all, he resumes his career as a wrestler – and is confronted with the reason he had to flee.
When a suicidal man finds a blind girl lost and wandering the streets of LA, he is torn between getting her home safely and keeping his appointment with death.
After his partner and unborn child are killed, a killer whale seeks revenge on the humans responsible.
A documentary portrait of filmmaker Jean Rollin.
An exploration of the roots of racism as experienced in the US.
A couple's love is tested by illness and the treatment that follows it.
A frustrated housewife, her uptight husband, and a freewheeling artist form an unlikely triangle with explosive results.
A celebration of the superhero from Nebula M78 and his appearances in films, on television, and in wider Japanese culture.
Docufiction interpretation of Virginia Woolf's novel.
Special Forces commandos are abducted mid-operation by a mysterious spacecraft and, upon awakening, find themselves prey to a relentless alien race in a fight for survival.
Three friends discover surfing as an escape from the violence of late-apartheid South Africa.
An exploration of male identity via the lives, personalities, and adventures of a diverse band of men, real men across the globe all sharing the same name - James Bond.
After their heroes meet a valiant but stupid end, two back-office cops rise to the call and quickly get out of their depth.
When a new stepmother's troubled eight-year-old girl befriends a boy that lives in the shadows, the family learns why things that live in the dark don't want be seen.
A childless woman forms a deep bond with her boyfriend's young daughter.
Elena is a single mother dependant on Social Services and finds her custody of her child under threat after he is diagnosed with ADD.
A woman who is initially unhappy about her husband taking a second wife discovers that the arrangement has unexpected benefits.
A disabled man's chronic pain is explored through horror movie tropes that the people around him can't see.
A couple celebrate their first anniversary with friends in a remote house in the woods. Not everyone will make it through the night.
Sheri thought her biggest problem in life was dealing with the recent loss of her beloved grandma. But when a mysterious entity crash lands in the woods, only she and her group of friends are what stands in the way of an insatiable, intergalactic hunger.
After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.
A former child soldier struggling to come to terms with her past finds her world turned upside down with the arrival of a priest whom she belives she recognises.
Satire sees wealthy NYC teenager Balthy make dramatic gun control videos to impress his activist crush. When an online troll targets his content, Balthy becomes convinced he's communicating with a potential school shooter and embarks on an ill-advised journey to Texas to confront him.
A young physicist experimenting with the principle of wireless electricity accidentally makes way for something from elsewhere to interact with our world - but is it a force for good or for evil?
A father and mother are faced with the painful task of washing and shrouding their deceased transgender daughter.
An impoverished, recently dumped actor who is moonlighting as a cop meets a victim of domestic abuse who is planning to kill herself, and an unexpected connection forms between them.
A documentary about the lasting effects of nuclear tests on nearby people and their descendents.
Passion piece Steve Oram on exploring a gentle character in a dangerous world in Crushed
'I wanted to talk about the things that truly matter' Yoon Dan-bi on young love and adolescence in The World Before
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
I Swear leads charge for Scottish BAFTAs Tourette's drama has seven nominations
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