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The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.
A married couple is forced to reckon with their idealised image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher threatens his status as an all-star student.
John Wick is on the run after killing a member of the international assassins' guild, and with a $14 million price tag on his head, he is the target of professional killers everywhere.
A documentary about the making of the original Ghostbusters.
A group of women take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
Animation about a young mother sent to a Khmer Rouge forced labour camp, who is separated from her son and has to fight to survive and not lose hope.
Complications ensue when a couple try to sell an inherited sword believed by some to be proof that the Confederacy won the American Civil War.
A documentary about a US Olympic gymnastics coach who abused young trainees, and the cover-up that followed.
When a factory is threatened with closure, a desperate worker kidnaps the boss' toddler son.
The story of the first designated hospital ward for AIDS patients in the US.
A young nobleman asks a peasant to help fake his own kidnapping.
A teenager bullied because of his weight is persuaded to learn to box so he can defend himself.
A bored man suddenly realises that everyone around him has disappeared and he isn't sure what happened.
Filmmaker chronicles his own efforts and that of his wife, to trade in their city life for a small farm dream.
A once successful poet aims to drift through the remainder of his life in a happy haze of drink and drugs.
A man returns to the town of his birth 12 years after having committed a still-unpunished murder. Memories of the enigmatic and beautiful woman for whom he killed resurface, confronting him with unbearable revelations.
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
With the impending Y2K apocalypse fast approaching, Abbie is faced with the ultimate challenge - the unbeatable level 256 on Pac-Man - and he can't get off the couch until he conquers it. A survival story set in a living room.
A woman finds her calling in an ethically debatable industry - debt collecting.
Profile of choreographer Merce Cunningham.
The story of Rudy Ray Moore, the comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a Blaxploitation phenomenon.
A tragic accident leaves a man stranded in the Arctic with no hope of rescue.
The story of freedom fighter Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into an American hero.
A big screen addition to the popular television series about wealthy owners of a large estate in the English countryside in the early 20th Century.
Documentary capturing the microcosm that surrounds a couple of street dogs that live in a skatepark.
The first film to deal with the AIDS crisis tells the story of a man who becomes a voluntary 'buddy' for an AIDS patient and finds their relationship changing
Documentary about an underground Syrian hospital and its staff
A thirtysomething woman checks herself into a retreat which promises to take less-than-perfect women and transform them into 'marriage material'.
Animated feature about the master of Spanish surrealist cinema.
When Hiccup discovers Toothless isn't the only night fury, he must seek the Hidden World, a secret dragon Utopia, before a sinister dragon-slayer does.
An ageing fashion model strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good, but her son's determination to make a final film about her sparks an unexpected collaboration and confrontation with the camera's gaze.
Documentary about the first woman director, producer and director of a studio in the history of cinema.
A football player's dreams of playing in the NFL are halted when he is wrongly convicted and sent to prison. Years later, he fights to clear his name within an unjust system.
Documentary tracking schoolchildren growing up in Kabul over a period of years.
A girl is drawn into a mystery involving sealife around the world, in which two mysterious boys are somehow involved.
Satire following a lonely boy and his imaginary friend Adolf Hitler, whose nationalistic views are challenged when he discovers his mum is hiding a young Jewish girl.
A 13-year-old girl spends her working life helping others have fun, but longs for more.
A doctor struggles to hold onto hope after the death of his young daughter. On the day he finds out his wife is pregnant again, aliens invade the Earth.
A dramatisation of the 2008 terrorist attacks that centred on Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.
A bullied boy who has always tried to avoid attracting attention discovers that he has a superpower.
The goddess Diana is reimagined as a sharpshooter pursuing an engraver through the snowy wilderness of the Sawtooth mountains.
Two women set out on a road trip across the American West. Junior is trying to let go of her past. Mads is trying to find hers.
An octogenarian with dementia meets a PTSD afflicted homeless war veteran after choir practice and gives him a ride instead of going home.
A futuristic firefighting mecha service is created to protect the world.
A seedy, ambitious Puglian property developer sets his sights sets on Rome and access to Berlusconi’s inner circle.
A girl and her yeti friend face a race against time.
The story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, which preserved the stories of Jews who lived and died in the Warsaw ghetto.
When a riot breaks out in Milwaukee, America's most segregated city, medical transport driver Vic is torn between his promise to get a group of elderly Russians to a funeral and his desire to help Tracy, a young black woman with ALS.
A boy falls in love with a girl who can control the weather.
A history of the US War on Drugs.
Stardust sleuth We Are Stardust's Jon Larsen on his micrometeorite quest
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
Sundance announces Sandbox Fund recipients Four UK nonfiction productions/co-productions among selection
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GSFF 19th edition opens in Glasgow with Downriver A Tiger
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