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The story of music students and members of Afghanistan's only all-female orchestra, and what happened to them after the return of the Taliban.
A portrait of the celebrated filmmaker.
Carlos lives in a youth shelter in Bogota. Its Christmas and Carlos longs to spend the day with his mother and sister, who are lost in the spiral of urban violence. As he leaves the shelter, Carlos is confronted with the rigor of the streets in his neighborhood, where the law of the strongest, the alpha 'macho', rules. As he seeks for a family reunion, Carlos must show he can be one of them.
Survivors from a massive earthquake struggle for a new life in Seoul.
When a Deaf young man asks his estranged older brother to join him in a musical contest, this blue collar worker must dust off his musical chops in order to be his little brother's voice, so that the world can finally hear him.
In a small village in Leon, Spain, María José prepares to end her life after failing to get over the suicide of her bullied son years before. Everything changes when she receives a visit from Lucía, a strange little girl who could be connected to a local legend about stopping an impending apocalypse.
A young Mexican American woman takes her white boyfriend home for Christmas.
Profile of Chelly Wilson, a Christmas-celebrating Jewish grandma, a lesbian who married men, and a proud owner of porn cinemas in 1970s NYC.
A serial killer inveigles his way into the friendly, supportive space of a queer nudist camp.
The son of a funeral director makes money on the side by breaking into the homes of the dead. One day he decides it's time to start taking his younger brother along with him.
A filmmaker discovers that his father was part of a secret network of Jewish vigilante groups, who, in the glaring absence of justice after the Holocaust, took the law into their own hands.
The story of the doll sensation.
A family's journey to reconciliation after facing the trauma of the Holocaust.
Meet 5000 space aliens in 5000 seconds.
A 70-year-old widower travels to Paris to visit a childhood friend. He stays with his daughter and discovers that her marriage is falling apart. He decides to help. In the process, he finds out that he and his daughter share both dreams and desires of which they had been previously unaware.
Claire was just a child when her best friend was abducted and murdered. 25 years later, Bill, the dead boy's father, has a plan to learn the truth about what really happened. With the help of psychic Eleanor, they venture deep into a haunted moor to find his son’s supposed resting place. But they find more than just the ghosts of dead children, for something dark and evil stirs at their presence.
While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her, and explores what it takes to love oneself fiercely despite the pervasiveness of ableism.
Two Israelis and two Palestinians, all of whom have suffered horrible losses, come together to work towards peace.
The mysterious poisoning of a detective friend leads Kent, a retired English teacher, on the search for a transforming perfume that could shape the political and religious stability of Northern Ireland.
Shere Hite’s 1976 bestselling book, The Hite Report, liberated the female orgasm by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous survey respondents. Her findings rocked the American establishment and presaged current conversations about gender, sexuality, and bodily autonomy. So how did Shere Hite disappear?
Seductive vampire Carmilla Karnstein and her family target the beautiful and the rich in a remote area of Germany in the late 18th Century.
Against the backdrop of a shared obsession with Bollywood fantasy, Mariam, a Pakistani Muslim woman, and her Canadian-born daughter Azra come of age in two different eras.
A portrait of the hunters of Scotland's famous creature. who camped out on the shores of the loch throughout the 1970s and 1980s, chasing but never finding her.
A troubled young woman finds her life even more complicated when she stops the rampage of a local serial killer, but that's just the start of a very strange experience.
A man loses his grip on reality after becoming involved in a libertarian masculinity cult.
A man has to return his sister-in-law's body to her hometown after an accident while, along with his nephew, he searches for his long-lost brother.
May 1945: after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Heinrich Zwygart, Swiss ambassador in Berlin, is ordered back home. Soon he gets caught up in past decisions. He got through the war. Will he survive the peace?
A young soldier fighting in the Second Boer War finds himself ill at ease when sheltering in a hut with a mysterious woman and her beautiful daughter.
After stealing a priceless painting, three men arrive at a secluded safe house by the sea to discover their fourth accomplice missing. Was one of them responsible, or is there a more sinister presence lurking at the water's edge?
A documentary about The Kiss, situating it within the context of other artistic works by Gustav Klimt.
The story of the legendary Iceni queen who led a revolt against Roman occupiers.
A couple and their young son choose to move to a remote cabin in the Danish Forest for an experiment in off-grid living, with no human contact for a year. When they encounter another family in the forest, identical to themselves in almost every way, the fabric of their identities faces a test.
The fate of the planet's last untouched wilderness, the deep ocean, is under threat as a secretive organisation is about to allow massive extraction of seabed metals to address the world's energy crisis.
Summer 1900, Switzerland. The sudden death of her older sister forces Elisabeth to return home. Stiffled by the strict rules of the village, Elisabeth is slowly driven to rebel for her right to live her life.
Police detective Guillaume decides to gift the family bowling alley to his estranged half-brother following the death of their father only for their elationship to become further strained by a series of murders.
Each Wednesday Amar endures a 24-mile trip on foot to the Job Centre to sign on.
Thomas and Oscar have spent a year as foster parents to a wonderful child, a calling that's shown them new dimensions of what 'family' can mean. However, when the young boy is reunited with his birth mother, the couple's differing views on what the experience meant come into focus.
A washed-up stuntman and his stunt horse become an overnight social media sensation when their real-life fight with debt collectors goes viral.
A love letter to the mosaic of queer lives in Saigon, a city that is as liberating as it is oppressive.
A lesbian suddenly finds herself responsible for her partner’s two daughters.
Conflicted by his mother's new relationship and his best friend's crush on him, Bruno, a pyromaniac teenager, escapes from the city. He sets off on a journey in search of a girl he met online who will push him to confront his father's death and the doubts about his sexuality, but not before leaving all his fires behind.
Trying to satisfy a diversity checklist, a group of women of colour and queer women discover the real intention behind their workshop retreat.
A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellin, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city.
A documentary which aims to break open the conversation around sexual life in the disabled community.
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.
Miscommunication and a lack of empathy cause events to spiral out of control as a young waitress finds herself in the centre of a murder spree.
Two couples go on a weekend getaway in the middle of the desert, only to discover that their Airbnb is already occupied. It's a long and bloody night told from four points-of-view.
Two mysterious brothers abduct a mogul during his quest for immortality. Meanwhile, a seductive woman helps them launch a journey of self-discovery.
A group of people, dispatched to investigate the disappearance of a ship, find themselves confronted by something monstrous.
In a remote village, two brothers find a demon-infected man just about to give birth to evil itself. They decide to get rid of the man but merely succeed in helping him to deliver the inferno.
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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