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When Edna, the elderly and widowed matriarch of the family, goes missing, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam travel to their remote family home to find her. Soon after her return, they start to discover a sinister presence haunting the house and taking control of Edna.
Ku Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner, struggles to navigate his dream of becoming a collegiate athlete as the memory of his great grandfather's escape from an Indian boarding school begins to connect past, present, and future.
Two couples rent a vacation home for what should be a celebratory weekend break, but gradually become convinced that somebody is spying on them.
A lonely American actor living in Tokyo starts working for a Japanese 'rental family' company to play stand-in roles in other people's lives. Along the way, he finds surprising connections and unexpected joys within his built-in family.
A lonely carer looking for love becomes obsessed by a videotape featuring a man who offers to be his friend.
An inventor whose daughter is missing develops a device which he believes he can use to communicate with the dead.
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 man and a woman from two disparate worlds meet at nights just to have sex. However, when they get caught, the extra-marital relationship between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man causes tensions in the socio-politically divided Jerusalem.
The intense life of a young punk repo man in a city haunted by a car with a secret.
A lonely young woman gradually loses her mind.
A girl is hidden from view, confined from modern society by her family. Yet as Liv’s curiosity to an existence outside her confinement comes to the fore, she starts to question her parents’ worldview.
An alternate history story in which German soldiers occupy a Welsh village during World War Two.
The story of Marcel Marceau, who before he became a world famous mime worked with the French Resistance which saved the lives of ten thousand orphans during the Second World War.
A biopic about Aretha Franklin.
The banal life of a middle-aged empty nester is violently shaken in the blink of an eye when hard-partying - and potentially dangerous - new neighbours move in next door.
After losing both hands in an accident, Boyd Grayson becomes the prime candidate for an experimental replacement procedure in this queer, campy, erotic horror.
It’s the year 2041, and humanity has reached the point where it can cheat death. Anyone who dies an unnatural death has the right to be brought back to life. All you have to do is to create a backup of your personality – a restore point – at least every 48 hours. But a movement of people try to sabotage this concept.
A teenage boy finds his world turned upside down when he learns a secret about his beloved father.
An upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter's brutal murder.
A man in the throes of his overstimulated, energy poor midlife fantasises about everything he'd love to do in retirement, once he finally has the 'time'.
A hiking trip goes awry, leaving a man who was warned about the wendigo fighting for his sanity.
A lesbian couple with a rocky relationship go to a pre-wedding retreat and end up fighting for their lives.
The indigenous people of the Guarani tribe has either been exterminated or reduced to servitude. Julia, the wife of a wealthy landowner, gives birth to her third dead child. In desperation, she begs Kerana, her indigenous housekeeper with ancient powers, to bring him back to life - but he doesn't return alone.
Retired alcoholic Captain Invincible is called out of retirement to take on the sinister Mr. Midnight.
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the world of men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
A school reunion is arranged, but one former student is determined to make the others face up to how they treated her.
Tensions rise when a stripper and religious protester are trapped together in a peep show booth and must come together to survive the apocalypse in 1980's Chicago.
A filmmaker discovers that his father was part of a secret network of Jewish vigilante groups, who, in the glaring absence of justice after the Holocaust, took the law into their own hands.
After a young woman is drugged at a party, her cousin's all-female biker gang rides out for revenge.
A look at campaigning aiming to overturn the US' Roe vs. Wade ruling on abortion, and efforts to defend it.
Transfer student Yasuhiko has had an amazing 21 days with Miyuki and their shared secret, that Yasuhiko comes from the future, binds them even closer.
Rangers must relocate 21 black rhinos to a new sanctuary after their successful protection efforts led to overcrowding in their current space, which is surrounded by poachers.
Starting out as a petty thief, a young man nicknamed “Rhino” quickly works his way up the criminal hierarchy in 1990s Ukraine. Rhino has only known power and cruelty, but with nothing left to lose, could he finally find a chance at redemption?
A Korean single mother raises her young son in the suburbs of Nineties Canada, determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind.
Three mischievous children on dirt bikes, armed with paint guns and cocky attitudes, launch an attack at a local warehouse, outwitting a security guard and 'liberating' the very latest video game console for themselves - but to make use of it, they need to figure out the password with which their mother has locked the TV.
A washed-up stuntman and his stunt horse become an overnight social media sensation when their real-life fight with debt collectors goes viral.
A teenage Scottish surfing champ prepares to ride a dangerous Irish big wave.
A burdened man feels the wrath of a vengeful God after he and his wife are visited by a mysterious stranger.
Loyalties within a New York police department are really put to the test when it emerges that a serial killer is targeting criminals.
Denmark has reached the finals of the European Championships and everyone is glued to their TVs. Petrol station employees Agnes and Belinda were hoping for a quiet night but they have been chosen as players in a gruesome game and no customers means no witnesses.
This period film from Director Devon Parks weaves an intersecting web of characters, all having witnessed a murder from three different vantage points. An elaborate plot for revenge is constructed around the origins of a real life ghost story.
John Malkovich plays the enigmatic Tom Ripley in a new tale of multiple murders
Obsessed with living up to her dead father's legacy, a young sheriff finds her mettle tested when locals are found ripped to shreds.
When the happiness of children is under threat, an unlikely new hero emerges to help Father Christmas, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy save the day.
The Mongol Empire has grown to the largest the world had ever known. Its armies now lay siege to much of Eastern Europe. A small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpathian Mountains.
A documentary about the history and current standing of the Paralympic Games, which has grown to become the world's third largest sporting event.
Rita, a 13 year old girl, runs away from her abusive father to the big city. She finds solace until she's placed in a safe house run by the State. Rita and her cellmates plots an escape that ends in a shocking act of violence.
One winter in Kibune, Kyoto, people find themselves stuck in a two minute time loop. As others try to work together to find out what's going on, one woman finds herself increasingly isolated.
Five friends travel 1,200 miles from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico on horses, mountain bikes and canoes, along the line of where the US-Mexico border wall is scheduled to be built.
A little bit of hope Miriam Margolyes, Jacki Weaver and Nat Boltt on feelgood cinema and Holy Days
Stardust sleuth We Are Stardust's Jon Larsen on his micrometeorite quest
Sugaring the pill Brea Grant, Ed Dougherty and Chelsea Stardust on Grind
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
Sundance announces Sandbox Fund recipients Four UK nonfiction productions/co-productions among selection
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