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A filmic response to Lynn Hershman Leeson’s text, Romancing The Anti-body (1995), exploring the jarring juxtapositions of friction, toxicity, joy and liberation that trans people, queers and femmes experience when playing as their own custom character creations in video game spaces.
A girl living in war-torn Aleppo forges a connection across time with the poet Rumi as he flees the Mongols.
A trans boy facing bullying at a girls' school tries to find a refuge in the world of online games.
A young woman undergoes a disturbing transformation after her daughter's newfound faith threatens her health.
A woman meets the girl of her dreams in a library. Everything seems perfect - almost.
A personal, visual essay about gender transition.
The camera lingers over the faded white scars on a variety of body parts, then black ink animates over the top of them as a voice recounts the power and shame that comes with being a cutter.
Part biography, part testimonial and part imagined queer heavenly utopia, The Devotions explores the intersection between queerness and Catholicism.
A man takes his new wife to meet his children in their remote country home.
A vampire in a prairie city reflects on whether or not she can sustain a successful relationship with her mortal girlfriend.
Over an evening a wealthy family gathers for a sumptuous dinner with guests in their ostentatious house in the Welsh mountains. Served by a mysteriously disturbing young woman, the assembled party do not realise they are about to eat their last supper.
Determined to fit in at a sleepover, 15-year-old Sam ignores cruel taunts from mean girl Blair and her growing feelings for Willow, but she can't ignore the strange things happening to her body.
Just before the pandemic, the world experiences a phenomenon never seen before. Marilene looks for her daughter Roberta, a trans woman who went missing. While running out of time, she discovers a hope for the future.
A young boy is chosen as the defender of good and must team up with Japan's ancient spirits and creatures of lore to attempt to destroy the forces of evil.
The story of a romance between a woman and a non-binary person.
A high school student falls in love with the teacher who organises a secret book club in contravention of the White Terror martial law.
A young woman lies dying far from home. A boy sits beside her. She is not his mother. He is not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, an invisible threat and the power and desperation of family.
A hospice nurse takes care of terminally ill patients all while trying to move past the tragedy of having lost her daughter in a school shooting.
A giant rat escapes from a scientist's laboratory and wreaks havoc on the local population.
A documentary portrait of Martin Shkreli.
The animated tale of a stranded horticulturist-astronaut who meets an ethereal visitor on a desolate world.
A family’s outing descends into terror when teacher Alan Hoaganraad, his wife Jill and stepsons Maika and Jordon explore an isolated coastline. An unexpected meeting with a pair of drifters, the enigmatic psychopath Mandrake and his accomplice Tubs, thrusts the family into a nightmare when they find themselves captured.
A teenager struggles with his dad's ideas about the sort of behaviour that will make him a proper man.
Four lifelong friends head to a remote lodge for a weekend of fun, only to find themselves having to fight for their lives when a local cult offers them up to a goddess as a sacrifice for the Solstice.
A feature length adaptation of the cult zomcom web series following the adventures of three inept survivors of a zombie apocalypse.
A bereaved woman whose husband is struggling with mental illness encounters a starling who wants to claim her garden for himself.
Retelling of the legend of Sir Gawain's quest.
A thumb drive from the dark web reveals disturbing footage documenting three American filmmakers on a script writing trip to rural Quebec.
A young woman gets involved in a dangerous world as she tries to find out what has happened to her missing sister.
A groovy mushroom dealer and a man from the 5th dimension journey through Hollywood to find the meaning of 'mondo'.
A grieving father grapples with the seedy, manipulative world of high stakes debt collection while struggling to shed the tragedies of his past. He'll find himself pitted against his best friend, his prodigy and his love.
The rivalry between two ageing actresses only becomes more bitter when they acquire the gift of eternal youth.
A young woman tries to come to terms with bereavement in the London indie music scene in 2007.
A documentary portrait of the famous film director.
A high school social outcast is taken under the wing of a mysterious mentor, only to be groomed as the hive's next queen.
A couple go to stay in a mountain cabin to have one last go at saving their marriage.
A dejected bartender and an aging drag queen try to survive the eccentric and hostile nightlife of a corrupt city, as a masked maniac slaughters young gay men and drains them of blood.
Gato's safe, isolated world is throw into chaos when his teenage daughter gets a mobile phone and makes herself visible to the world.
A ride share driver's life is turned upside down after an unexpected series of misfortunes.
The disappearance of a young woman threatens to change the beige and banal lives of Anne Fedder and her pastor husband Jakob Fedder forever.
A teenager, who is working as a domestic maid and being haunted by the previous maid's spirit, strives to discover the secret behind her death.
A film about the events surrounding the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on February 14th and 15th 2015.
Even in her job at a children’s day care centre, Anne prefers fun to actual work and often alienates those around her with her erratic behaviour.
With their follower count dwindling, travel vloggers Teddy and Claire pivot to creating viral content around their most recent 'superhost', Rebecca, who wants more from the duo than a great review.
Three creatives team up to write a screenplay chronicling a string of murders in their town, but one of the three may be closer to the story than the others realise.
In the late Nineties, a video archivist unearths a series of sinister pirate broadcasts and becomes obsessed with uncovering the dark conspiracy behind them.
When Molly moves into her new apartment after a tragic accident, a strange noise from upstairs begins to unnerve her. As its intensity grows, she confronts her neighbours – but no one seems to hear what she is hearing.
An upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter's brutal murder.
A boy deals with the loss of his mother by creating a dangerous relationship with a monster rumoured to live in the woods.
The Found Footage Phenomenon is an independent documentary charting the origins of the found footage sub-genre, tracking it through to the technique's current form and asks what the future is.
'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
The serpent's call Composer Stephen Lukach on creating tension and awe in Beware Boiúna
I Swear leads charge for Scottish BAFTAs Tourette's drama has seven nominations
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