1976
A woman finds herself dicing with danger after she is asked for help.
All That Breathes
Against the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the black kite.
Armageddon Time
Coming-of-age drama set against the backdrop of the Reagan era.
Broker
Drama following a group of people brought together by "baby post boxes" used to help abandoned babies.
Brother And Sister
The death of a pair of siblings' parents forces them to cross paths after 20 years of avoiding one another.
Butterfly Vision
Drama about a former prisoner of war, who struggles to resume her life in Ukraine.
Close
Two best friends find their bond upset by schoolmates.
Corsage
A period drama about Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi.
Crimes Of The Future
In a near-future human evolution has accelerated, a situation embraced by a performance artist.

D

The Dam
Sudan, near the Merowe dam. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly builds a mysterious construction made of mud.
Decision To Leave
A detective investigates a man's death in the mountains.
The Eight Mountains
The Eight Mountains is the story of a friendship. Of children becoming men who try to erase the footprints of their fathers, but who, through the twists and turns they take, always end up returning home.
Elvis
Biopic about the star and his manager.
Enys Men
A volunteer observing a rare wild flower finds the different worlds that have inhabited the island where she is beginning to collide.
EO
Tale revolving around an unassuming grey donkey.
Falcon Lake
A young teenager falls in love with an older girl while on holiday.
Father And Solider
A father enlists in the French army in 1917 to join his 17-year-old son.
Final Cut
Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.
The Five Devils
Eight-year-old Vicky possesses a special power: a hyperacute sense of smell. She spends her days exploring this gift, and lives happily with her mother Joanne, a swimming teacher whom she adores exclusively - to the despair of her firefighter father. When her mysterious aunt Julia suddenly reappears in their lives, secrets from their past resurface both violently and magically.
For The Sake Of Peace
South Sudan is the youngest country in the world, at war with itself, with over 350,000 people killed since its inception in 2011. However, through this darkness, its endless cycle of conflict has hope: the determination of young women and men who refuse to give up on peace.
Godland
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, his mission and morality.
The Green Perfume
Crime caper sees an actor caught up in international intrigue after the death of a member of his troupe.
Harka
Ali earns a living illegally selling gasoline on the street. He doesn’t have any contact with his family, but when he receives news that his father has died, he is forced to become responsible for his two younger sisters.
Les Harkis
At the end of the 1950s, beginning of the 1960s, the war in Algeria continued. Salah, Kaddour and other destitute young Algerians join the French army as harkis.
Holy Spider
A journalist tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering sex workers.

I

Joyland
As the Ranas, a happily patriarchal joint family, yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theater and falls for an ambitious trans starlet. Their impossible love story illuminates the entire family's desire for a sexual rebellion.
Little Nicholas: Happy As Can Be
The French schoolboy's adventures mix with the biography of his creators.

M

A Male
Carlos lives in a youth shelter in Bogota. Its Christmas and Carlos longs to spend the day with his mother and sister, who are lost in the spiral of urban violence. As he leaves the shelter, Carlos is confronted with the rigor of the streets in his neighborhood, where the law of the strongest, the alpha 'macho', rules. As he seeks for a family reunion, Carlos must show he can be one of them.
Mediterranean Fever
Drama charts the unlikely bond between two very different Arab family men living in the Israeli port city of Haifa.
Men
In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, a woman retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have found a place to heal. But someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her.
Metronom
A teenager finds herself grappling with love and the authorities during the rule of Ceaucescu.
Moonage Daydream
Documentary featuring a wealth of David Bowie archive.
Mother And Son
In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.
One Fine Morning
A woman who is raising her daughter alone and looking after her dad, who has a degenerative disease, embarks on a passionate affair.
Pacifiction
On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government navigates the high end "establishment" as well as shady venues as a rumour abounds about the sighting of a submarine whose presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing.
Pamfir
Pamfir wants to be a decent family man but challenged by the circumstances he is forced to give up honest breadwinning to help his family.
Paris Memories
A woman is caught up in a Paris terror attack and three months on she tries to piece together her memory.
Plan 75
In a near future Japan, over-75s are offered a payment to encourage them to accept an assisted death.

R

Scarlet
A wood craftsman returns from the First World War and unites with his infant daughter, who one day will receive a premonition from the local sorceress saying that scarlet sails shall take her away.
Sick Of Myself
Signe and Thomas are in an unhealthy, competitive relationship that takes a vicious turn when Thomas suddenly breaks through as a contemporary artist.
Smoking Causes Coughing
Tobacco Force are superhero avengers, preparing for their clash with the mighty Lezardin. But what if the real horrors are the stories they tell to each other along the way?
The Super 8 Years
A trip to the Seventies via family video shot at the time.
Tchaikovsky's Wife
Drama following the turbulent relationship between the composer and his wife.
Top Gun: Maverick
Maverick, now a trainer, encounters the son of his old friend Goose.
Tori And Lokita
In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the difficult conditions of their exile.
Triangle Of Sadness
A yacht for the super-rich sinks, leaving its passengers marooned on an island.
Under The Fig Trees
Among the trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find – and flee – deeper connections.

V

The Water
First love plays out against a backdrop of a hot summer and local myth.
The Worst Ones
Film within a film about a group of youngsters who are street cast and how it changes their lives.
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