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A high school girl engages in compensated dating in order to buy an expensive ring before the day ends.
A blind medium uncovers the truth behind her sister's death with the help of a frightening wooden mannequin.
The story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th century.
During the 1990s, at a Scandinavian psychiatric hospital, a man known as Mads Lake confessed to multiple murders and was convicted. However, the uneasy triumvirate of Mads, therapist Anna Rudebeck and policeman Soren Rank all have a vested interest in unearthing the truth, while a deepening co-dependency threatens to consume them all.
A poetic, non-linear journey that explores the impact of white supremacy on connection, relationships, and life.
Two female cable car operators fall in love as they pass each other in their gondolas.
When true-crime podcaster and sleuth Lola visits her hometown for the first time since running away and transitioning, the local urban legend, The Toymaker, is the least of her worries. But then the vengeful ghost of the historical murderer seemingly rises again.
An international group of 'gentlemanly explorers', all with pseudonyms to protect their identities, come together in a quest to solve the mystery of the missing tomb of Alexander the Great.
A nightmarish essay film on the history of the doorbell, tracing its invention and constant reinventions through 19th century labour struggles, the nascent years of narrative cinema, and contemporary surveillance cultures.
Biodiversity and generation gaps collide in a politically urgent and thoughtful film about two young activists' fight to save the vast Finnish forests.
Shot in Paris, Death Valley, and the Nevada nuclear test site, this film essay examines the complex historical relationship between photography, cinema and science.
A documentary following the struggles of three resilient women determined to battle poverty by establishing and sustaining local businesses, thereby empowering their communities.
Joe and his Belfast neighbors reenact childhood memories from the violent Troubles era in their Catholic district, exploring the collective experiences that shaped their lives and community.
A young, pregnant woman finds emancipation as aliens land in Morocco.
A troubled actor begins to exhibit a disruptive behaviour while shooting a remake of The Exorcist. His estranged daughter wonders if he's slipping back into his past addictions or if there's something more sinister at play.
A filmmaker with cerebral palsy documents his developing romantic relationship and family life.
Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt-performer daughter, Dylan.
On the remote island of Chiloé in the late 19th century, an indigenous girl named Rosa lives and works with her father on a farm. When the foreman brutally turns on Rosa’s father, she sets out for justice, seeking help from the king of a powerful organisation of sorcerers.
Documentary profile of comic Janey Godley.
When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. Their stories reveal a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity.
One afternoon a polite young boy, Elio, meets his tutor's secret lover. When he confides in her, sharing an even bigger secret, she's convinced he's joking and bursts out laughing.
An imagined meeting between Sigmund Freud and CS Lewis, to discuss the existence or non-existence of God.
In this true-crime documentary, a charismatic rebel in 1990s Seattle pulls off an unprecedented string of bank robberies straight out of the movies.
The story of the National Gallery of London and what it means to its staff, visitors and the country at large.
Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
The story of a man who violently breaks free from his banal environment, evading society with its principles, codes and institutions.
A lonely man starts to piece together the story of his estranged father after his death and discovers the older man didn't believe he was human.
Just a week before Jo gets married, she is reunited with Scarlet, rekindling their friendship and memories of teen romance.
A criminal lawyer faces difficult moral and emotional choices.
During their final weekend together, two best friends test the limits of their friendship while making a double-meta film.
A portrait of William Shatner's personal journey over nine decades on Earth.
An experiment with artificial intelligence, looking at the world from a different perspective.
A man tries to help his in-laws celebrate their wedding anniversary at his country hotel while fending off foreclosure.
A troubled young woman who has lived an isolated life inherits her grandmother's schoolhouse. There she begins to experience strange visions and terrifying dreams.
Men and women perfect the art of the pitch to make their livelihood selling various products with visual demonstrations.
A young woman unwittingly sets off a gruesome chain of revenge.
Abang and Adi are undocumented orphans in Malaysia. While the older brother, who is deaf mute, has resigned himself to a life of poverty, his younger sibling burns with indignation. A brutal accident upsets their relationship's fragile balance.
Looking after his gay actor uncle, filmmaker Simon is engulfed in a whirl of Shakespeare and clutter, as uncle David lends his credit card to neighbours, greets visitors in the nude and teaches Simon a profound lesson on dying happy
A young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland flounders in a maze of social services and bureaucracy as her situation becomes increasingly dire.
An archaeologist and an architect fight to re-imagine a future after traumatic brain injury leaves them adrift from the people they love.
In a dystopian South Korean city, a soon-to-be-evicted tenant decides to complicate the process by renting his toilet out to an eccentric couple, but their strange behaviours soon become unbearable.
When troubled assistant bank manager Andy McNeary's baby daughter goes missing, he must follow the instructions of a mysterious voice on the other end of a baby monitor to save her before she disappears forever.
After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew.
The story of a Japanese reality TV star left naked in a room for more than a year, tasked with filling out magazine sweepstakes to earn food and clothing.
Five young women visiting the tropics for a wedding find themselves in deep water, with hungry sharks on the prowl.
A reflection on the polarisation of US politics, looking at the potential of moderated conversations to bring ordinary people together and encourage empathy.
Princess Kriemhild vows to avenge her husband's murder but must overcome her brothers who swore allegiance to Hagen. She marries Attila the Hun and persuades his army to attack Hagen, but there will be a terrible price to pay.
A nurse caring for a weakened alien begins to oppose a group of corrupt officials who are intimidating him and extracting a valuable substance from him.
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.
During an environmental collapse that is forcing humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father's plan to enlist in the government's new euthanasia program goes horribly awry.
Among spectral snows Kier-La Janisse on the work of Algernon Blackwood and The Haunted Season: The Occupant Of The Room
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
Sinners on fire as Critics Choice nominations are announced One Battle After Another, Frankenstein and Hamnet also look good
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