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Sparks fly during the recording of a song by a famous blues singer.
A heavy-metal drummer's life is thrown into freefall when he begins to lose his hearing.
Out by Lake Geneva, Mary Shelley conceives the idea for Frankenstein and gradually develops her novel, amid personal turmoil and increasingly disturbing visions.
An undertaker's dysfunctional family lives amongst coffins, wreaths and mischievous but nonviolent ghosts - but then a malevolent entity arrives.
Portrait of Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is serving a prison sentence of 38 years in Iran for representing women who protested the country’s mandatory hijab law.
After his girlfriend's death, an aimless musician spirals into a genre-bending fever dream.
Nurse Mandy is just trying to make it through her double shift alive, but her nasty drug addiction, annoying coworkers, needy patients, and devious cousin are making it pretty tough, not to mention organ-stealing criminals and an injured convict.
Death threats see suspicion grow between four women in an NGO.
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.
Sara has just arrived in NYC from Colombia when she witnesses a crime and is forced to flee from the perpetrator.
A late night radio host is trapped inside the station by a violent storm after being bitten by a rabid bat.
Exploring the criminalisation of pregnant women as seen through the eyes of a young mother swept up in new laws.
An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
A father and son renovate an Italian property together.
A talented young race car driver struggles to cope with his father's behaviour.
A visit to a wealthy and reclusive friend lands a young man in a world of fear and despair.
The animated tale of a young woman who takes refuge in a house in southern Chile after escaping from a German colony.
A devout communist witnesses a government shooting during a strike - which changes her life forever.
A bizarre rite of passage at the local deli determines the fate of a generation of teenagers, leading some to escape their suburban town and dooming others to remain.
In 2420, after aliens and powerful space wizards enslave human villages, a group of rebels organise a counter attack against their alien overlords by piloting fully loaded spaceships.
A volcanic eruption threatens the inhabitants of a small island.
A documentary about the history of voter suppression in the United States.
In this animated musical, a girl builds a rocket ship and blasts off, hoping to meet a mythical moon goddess.
Documentary, charting the emotional and physical journey of surgical transitioning, as experienced by patients at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital.
Two sisters, one blind and one deaf, begin to suspect that their father is up to no good.
The stone age family encounter another family with a very different way of life who remember Guy from his early childhood.
A lone Jewish boy has to fend for himself in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe.
A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl, taken by the Kiowa people years ago, to her aunt and uncle, against her will.
Four African-American vets battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.
Life on Earth is rapidly destroyed except for a small area in Eastern Europe.
Wonder Woman has to learn some difficult personal lessons as she faces off against Max Lord and the Cheetah with the fate of the world at stake.
A family live in the remote wilderness as fur trappers, but their tranquility is threatened when they think they are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf.
New Jersey’s Good Grief counseling center offers a holistic approach to mourning. This film offers a child's perspective of grief.
The story of legendary player and coach Lang Ping and the Chinese women's volleyball team.
A meteorite lands in the frontyard of a family who have moved to a farm... and begins to mutate everything it touches.
A pair of star-crossed lovers in Ireland get caught up in their family's land dispute.
In the aftermath of a sexual assault, a teenager is further traumatised by others' behaviour.
A man struggles to better his circumstances, motivated by his love for a woman from a bourgeois family.
In this horror satire set in 1989, an ambitious young woman gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career may come at a great cost when she realises that her new hair may have a mind of its own.
Timo, the youngest of a Greek community of Funfair workers, will have to face the hardest winter together with his loved ones.
After Sang-Won's daughter Yi-Na goes missing in their new home, a mysterious man approaches him and tells him to look for her in the closet.
Summer 1998 – the opening stages of Le Tour de France are relocated to Ireland. Belgian rider Dom has been one of the best support riders on the Tour for the last 20 years but he secretly harbours a desire to wear the yellow jersey just once before his career is over.
Martians worried about the impact of Earth television programmes on their children decide to kidnap Santa Claus, but get more than they bargained for.
Documentary examining the emotional toll of our modern economy on families, told through the lens of a 24-hour daycare centre in Westchester, New York.
A Japanese TV host finds a trip to Uzbekistan to shoot an episode of her reality travel show begins to dissolve her chipper persona.
The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash's first wife and the mother of his four daughters.
On October 31st, two preteens in a small town accidentally awaken an evil that has lain dormant for decades. They are forced to survive through a terrifying Halloween night of cat-and-mouse.
A young woman inherits an Albanian castle and uncovers a sinister family legacy.
A picaresque chronicle of Laura, a peasant maid, and Sebastian, the young orphan in her charge, against a backdrop of overflowing passion and revolutionary intrigue in Europe at the twilight of the 18th Century.
A square sound engineer employs unusual research efforts to reveal the secrets behind the quintessential icon of kitsch, the pink flamingo.
Hustle horror Barbara Crampton on comedy, horror, corporate culture and Grind
Changing identities, changing lives Rahemur Rahman and Lily Vetch on evolving hijra culture and Body Of Our Own
Changing hearts and minds Lexi Powner, Friedel Dausab, Rosanna Flamer-Caldera and James Lewis on Out Laws
Somewhere over the rainbow Arco director on how he managed to follow his dream with help from Natalie Portman
A place to belong Liam O Mochain on anthology filmmaking, hidden stories and making Abode
Sundance announces Sandbox Fund recipients Four UK nonfiction productions/co-productions among selection
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It's a busy time for festivals and here's the latest from the spring events:
GSFF 19th edition opens in Glasgow with Downriver A Tiger
Cannes Barbra Streisand to receive honorary Palme d'Or
Thessaloniki Golden Alexanders announced
Cannes Lighton and McGoldrick join La Résidence
Cannes Park Chan-Wook named as Jury head
