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Immigrant children have to find their way in a new classroom, with a new teacher and a language they don't understand.
A documentary about the ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
A documentary following two 'parachute students' who travel from China for a US high school experience.
A student becomes a sugar baby, documenting her experience in the hope of winning a journalism prize.
In a remote village, locals have turned against their loved ones. A handful of survivors goes into hiding, looking for others like them.
A pathologist is riven with guilt after the death of a child.
Lonnie, a crop duster pilot, must lead a mismatched group of survivors to escape the deadly zombie horde after an experimental chemical, intended to control the invasive kudzu vine, transforms the citizens of Charleston, MS into zombies.
The director investigates her Hungarian mother-in-law's story and, through it, the story of the 20th century.
A psychologist is invited to interview an unusually intelligent child, but the situation proves more complex than he anticipated.
A supervisor tries to get to the truth after a popular swimming instructor is accused of kissing one of his young pupils.
A young village girl in northeast India wants to start her own rock band.
A 72-year-old divorcee plans to rent out rooms in her home and take swimming lessons, but has to deal with family members and financial institutions that think they know what's best for her.
A frustrated, angst-ridden teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill her mother.
A petty criminal moves from Gdansk to São Paulo to try and do the right thing after he learns that a woman he barely knows is pregnant as a result of their one night stand.
A young man who takes up the role of weather observer on a remote island finds himself trapped in a battle with sinister people from the sea.
A teenager becomes the focus of a witch hunt after her brother posts a video of her dropping live puppies into a river online.
A boisterous man in a red tie and baseball cap wants to invest in Irena's pig farm and make it great again.
A group of low-budget filmmakers make a horror movie.
The director reflects on the fate of her grandparents, who moved from Italy to Japan and were interned in a civilian prison camp after refusing to pledge their allegiance to Mussolini’s Republic of Salò.
An intense psychological drama about a young Iranian man who is desperately trying to meet women who can secure his stay in Denmark.
A teenager longs to escape her seaside town and finds solace in her imagination. When her disillusionment calcifies into an obsession with a troubled stranger, she becomes entangled with a dangerous local gang.
The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
Four people undertake a three year voyage to the shrine of the apostle St James in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in A Coruña, in their own homemade boat.
Two members of the Mohawk people and their British lover are forced to flee into the woods when a group of vicious American renegades turns on them during the war of 1812.
Estranged sisters reunite after the death of their father and form a daring plan to pay off debts.
A teenager living in a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and is sentenced to three months in prison.
A young woman returns from a hospital stay to find rumours circulating in her village.
A troublesome girl sent to stay on a farm for the summer comes of age as she gets to know the animals around her and gradually understands the adult world.
Archive study of Britain's relationship to the land.
A lawyer is anxious to have a baby but her artist girlfriend keeps putting it off. Then her neighbour gets involved.
A man who lies, cheats and steals without conscience finds himself beginning to get into serious trouble.
An interview with the Australian actor.
When a teenager who has trouble with her parents moves to Zurich with them, she starts to walk on the wild side.
Gaza lives with his father Ahad on the shores of the Aegean Sea. The intelligent kid would like to continue his studies, but Ahad sees his son’s future differently. He gets Gaza to help with his side business – smuggling refugees from the Mideast.
A film about language, masculinity and speedway racing.
A young woman determined to make it as a hip hop dancer is disillusioned upon moving to Paris - but then she discovers comedy.
When an injured teenager stumbles into a remote Christian community he is cared for and supported. Then the children become convinced that he has holy powers.
Two siblings coping with grief find their lives disrupted by the arrival of three brothers who have a surprising connection to their farm.
A small business owner and part-time cab driver is pushed to the edge by corruption.
A documentary about John Hume and his contribution to bringing the Troubles in Northern Ireland to an end.
A former blogger and painter confronting what she believes is her calling: becoming a cloistered contemplative nun in a strict religious orders.
A documentary about journalists sent by their employers to the Mediterranean to cover the unfolding humanitarian tragedy.
Twins in a crumbling family home live according to rules set by a mysterious supernatural entity, but when one of them falls in love, the stage is set for conflict.
Examining the human rights pros and cons of the internet in terms of citizen journalism and global surveillance.
After hitting rock bottom, former youth boxing champion Jimmy McCabe returns to his childhood boxing club and his old team.
Survey Corps members are faced with a second Titan invasion.
What does it take to build a world-class French restaurant? What if the staff is almost entirely men and women just out of prison?
A peasant girl who embarks on a romance with the landowner she serves begins to suspect that the spirit of his dead wife resents her.
A documentarian investigating doping in cycling accidentally uncovers an international Olympic scandal.
The filmmaker investigates the shooting of his brother.
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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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
