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Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The leader of the opposition MDC party, Nelson Chamisa, challenges the old guard ZANU-PF led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, known as "The Crocodile." The election tests both the ruling party and the opposition – how do they interpret principles of democracy in discourse and in practice?
While people struggle daily to survive under sanctions in Saddam's Iraq, nine-year-old Lamia must use her wits to gather ingredients for a cake to celebrate President Saddam Hussein's birthday or face the consequences.
A prosecutor finds himself in the frame when the woman he was having a secret affair with is murdered.
A love triangle involving a photographer, a director and an actress.
Jack and Lindsay are invited on a getaway trip with affluent strangers: down the rabbit hole, and into the most unhinged weekend of their lives. Can their relationship survive?
Trouble brews for a man on his release from jail and only worsens after he buys his girlfriend a dream dress.
Awakening after a dimly remembered one night stand, Tom can't shake the feeling that something terrible has happened - or is about to happen.
Prisoners in a remote jungle prison are pawns in a high stakes game of human-hunting.
A young couple is compelled to leave their Christian missionary station in the Kalahari Desert after being threatened with death by an extremist militant gang. After crashing their aircraft they must battle man and beast for their lives.
A nun prepares to perform an exorcism and comes face to face with a demonic force with mysterious ties to her past.
A documentary about LGBTQ+ people of colour in the UK.
A civilisation lost in time invaded one million years ago.
A dragon’s adopted daughter befriends a human princess, and must contend with a frog-witch’s curse.
The legendary wrestling princess of Mongolia leads a small band of warriors to retrieve a sacred scroll.
Modelo Prison. Barcelona, 1977. A young accountant awaiting trial for embezzlement, joins forces with his cellmate and a collective fighting for the rights of ordinary prisoners.
Daniel has been suspended from active police work and is under internal investigation for violence. When Sara, his internet love affair, stops answering his texts he decides to drive north in search of her.
Two estranged cousins try to make amends for many generations of family dispute.
A drama-therapy project working with six men in Kansas City, Missouri, who were abused by Catholic priests as children.
A psychologist is invited to interview an unusually intelligent child, but the situation proves more complex than he anticipated.
An engineering team from the Maeda Corporation is ordered to draft blueprints for the fictional storage facility for giant robot Mazinger Z.
The story of dangerous criminals on a cargo ship who are transported from the Philippines to South Korea, as they unleash a sinister force after an escape attempt leads to a riot.
A futuristic firefighting mecha service is created to protect the world.
A salesman arrives in a small agricultural town to try and persuade the impoverished locals to sell their land to a natural gas extraction company.
In 1755, the impoverished Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer the harsh, uninhabitable Danish heath with a seemingly impossible goal; to build a colony in the name of the King.
A documentary providing an insight into the mind of acclaimed artist Peter Howson as he works on his latest masterpiece.
In the 1880s, an Australian outlaw is offered a pardon if he tracks down and kills his psychotic elder brother.
A portrait of Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg Trial prosecutor, who continues to wage his lifelong crusade in the fight for law and peace.
A traumatised ex-squaddie and serial killer returns to South Wales to escape his demons. There he becomes workout and gym-obsessed and eats a local drug dealer for their protein. Compelled to kill again, he sends shockwaves through the local criminal underworld.
A documentary about Scotland’s cultural heritage of traditional Gaelic psalm singing.
A woman on the run stops in at the wrong motel.
After unearthing a gem that controls an evil monster looking to destroy the Universe, a young girl and her brother use it to make him do their bidding.
A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by night.
The FBI is charged with hunting down Public Enemy No. 1: John Dillinger.
A history of the US War on Drugs.
A burned out young woman joins a secret society of traumatised adults who heal through childlike play.
Local bogeyman Mr. Punch is stalking the town, and he knows just the way to do it. As the carnage escalates, a group of friends must fight to stay alive in this seaside-gothic, end-of-the-pier slasher.
A lonely woman allows a man to transform her into a puppet.
A documentary about a young Muslim woman who dreams of becoming a star cricketer.
A tale of dirt, soap, and magic set in a cult on a remote Greek island.
A young musician, tormented by an abusive situation at home, must contend with a rival singer, a burgeoning romance, and his own dissatisfied band, as his star begins to rise.
A heavily pregnant real estate agent is trapped in a remote house at night with a dangerous man.
Alone at home one evening, a woman decides to have a solo pleasure session — but not everything goes according to plan.
Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: he has burned through eight of his nine lives. He sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore them.
A glimpse of everyday reality for people living in Gaza in 2024.
A frustrated, angst-ridden teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill her mother.
Parachuted down into an unfamiliar jungle, a group of strangers realise they're being hunted for sport.
A mysterious curse transports a jungle guide to a prehistoric land where beautiful women are enslaved by... other beautiful women.
A lawyer rejects his bourgeois past and moves to the inner city in an attempt to engage with ordinary life.
An awkward teenage girl from a poor background finds her life getting complicated when she falls for a boy from a rich one.
The wayward life and violent death of provocative playwright Joe Orton.
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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