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The story of Christy Martin, the most successful female boxer of the Nineties.
During a professional conference in Prague, two interpreters in the Hungarian booth realise that only one person is listening to them. They vie for her attention.
A young man is forced to face past traumas when he embarks on a new relationship.
How far would you go to reach heaven? Santa, a young indigenous girl, embarks on a rollercoaster journey to take her mother out of a life of hardship and into eternal paradise.
Cinderella is pushed too far by her evil stepsisters and stepmother, which causes her to switch out her glass shoes and use the assistance of her Fairy Godmother to seek bloody vengeance.
The daughter of a brilliant builder betrayed by those close to him finds herself in deadly danger as she reaches the brink of adolescence under the watching eyes of her cruel stepmother and the local mafia.
A collection of early shorts from renowned American directors
A woman undertakes a dangerous journey to join her comrade in Dragon City, a military base controlled by the Jin regime, to find a map showing the deployment of the resistance army against the northern invaders.
A look at Boston's city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more.
A documentary about Muhammad Ali's funeral and what he meant to the people of his home town, Louisville, Kentucky
A gritty look at gang life in Rio De Janeiro.
A chronicle of resilience as female survivors of violence create a revolutionary community in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Dramatisation of the Rape of Nanjing, seen from a dual perspective.
After a psychic has a disturbing vision, she and her reporter friend race to rescue the inhabitants of a town where a priest's suicide has released a terrible evil.
A misanthropic, struggling photographer just wants to watch TV and eat candy while his wife is out of town, but when a desperate old pal resurfaces, his plans are thwarted, with spooky consequences.
Following five years in the life and career of an independent filmmaker, supported by dozens of interviews, posing one question: how does an indie filmmaker survive in the current film business?
Trying to satisfy a diversity checklist, a group of women of colour and queer women discover the real intention behind their workshop retreat.
A squabble between the gods of Mount Olympus forces the young hero Perseus to go on a desperate quest, taking on the gorgon and the kraken.
A documentary that focuses on a famously dangerous water park and its slew of injuries and crimes along with child safety concerns.
Two high school outsiders join forces in an attempt to take power on the local school board.
Tormented by a past life, garbage man Clean attempts a life of quiet redemption. But when his good intentions mark him a target of a local crime boss, Clean is forced to reconcile with the violence of his past.
Environmental activists hijack a gala, taking 300 hostages. After one extremist seizes control, planning mass murder as a message to the world, it's up to a former soldier turned window cleaner to save the day.
As a means to distract herself from an affair, a love-addicted woman befriends a cleaning lady, badly scarred by burns. She soon learns, these scars run much deeper than the surface.
A documentary about the making of the original Ghostbusters.
Millennial entrepreneurs, Drew and Max, run a webcast that streams live exorcisms that are, in fact, elaborately staged hoaxes. They get their comeuppance when today's actress becomes mysteriously possessed by a real demon that holds the crew hostage.
An epic based on the life of the legendary queen.
Returning to their childhood home on the Isle of Wight, a house filled with art and the songs and poetry their mother once wrote, Dorothy and Phoebe deal with conflicting feelings about the difficult woman who raised them.
Two sisters vie for the affections of a man who may or may not be a vampire.
A climber who has recently miscarried after a car accident is determined not to miss out on the world championships, but she begins to receive text messages from what is apparently another, still pregnant version of herself.
A lonely church housekeeper encounters a young Irish girl of exceptional promise.
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.
A forensic examination of the Vermeer paintings collected for the 2023 Rijksmuseum exhibition, also exploring emerging information about the stories behind them.
A young man happens to encounter with an old friend on his way back home to a dreaded family reunion that forces him to confront long-buried memories.
Following her mother's funeral and a recently ended relationship, Nina flies to Los Angeles in search of her missing sister.
The story of souls across the centuries.
A documentarian chronicles her struggle with post-natal depression and the isolation she felt as a result.
A teenager and her father move to a fading midwestern town in which Frendo the clown, a symbol of bygone success, reemerges as a terrifying scourge.
A rich high school student tries to give a fellow student a makeover but finds herself falling in love.
Three young men try to make it in a rapidly changing world.
An experimental and genre-defying drama shot entirely on sound stages in support of a film-within-a-film narrative.
An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.
Seaside family sex romp with gay/straight permutations.
Black comedy about a couple facing a tricky moment in their relationship.
15-year-old Rihana is put into a coffin at the hands of her father to be sold off to an old Taliban soldier.
Murder mystery chiller unfolds across two time periods as a man and his daughter try to come to terms with a suicide while he investigates historic deaths at a juvenile centre.
A fictionalised take on the story of serial killer Dennis Nilsen.
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 team of Redditors lose everything after a cryptocurrency scam leads them to plot to kidnap the 'financial influencer' who screwed them over.
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.
A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.
Wool power Concrete Land director Asmahan Bkerat on learning about herself as she filmed a Bedouin clan's life
New eyes on Old Hollywood How images of Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Rita Hayworth inspired Pretty Babies
Lost Boys Wayne Wapeemukwa on drawing on reality for Manhunt while avoiding a true crime approach
Serious about comedy Louis Paxton on grounding the humour of The Incomer in darker elements
That shrinking feeling Shivek Gupta and Syed Shadan on the Mumbai housing market and Chaar Diwaari
A woman who didn't belong Anna Cazenave Cambet on working with Vicky Krieps in Love Me Tender
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EIFF Gets back its mojo
Locarno Isabella Rossellini receives Excellence Award
London Jesse Eisenberg's The Debut to close festival
San Sebastian announces José Giovanni retrospective
Dinard Amira Casar to head jury, plus opening film announced
