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Yuli and Beats
All Creatures Here Below
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Collin Schiffli; Writer: David Dastmalchian; Stars: David Dastmalchian, Karen Gillan, Jennifer Morrison, Richard Cabral, John Doe)
A desperate young couple go on the run with a stolen baby.
Beats
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Brian Welsh; Writer: Kieran Hurley; Stars: Laura Fraser, Amy Manson, Gemma McElhinney, Kevin Mains, Rachel Jackson), Official Site
Two best friends in a small Scottish town in the summer of '94 head out for one last night together before life takes them in different directions.
Eighth Grade
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Bo Burnham; Writer: Bo Burnham; Stars: Elsie Fisher, Daniel Zolghadri, Frank Deal, Marguerite Stimpson, Greg Crowe, Deborah Unger, Natalie Carter, Jake Ryan, Jalesia Martinez, Catherine Oliviere, Phoebe Amirault, Kevin R. Free, Luke Prael, Faith Kelly, Dylan Vonderhorst)
Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school - the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year - before she begins high school.
Gloria Bell
(Country: Chile, US; Year: 2018; Director: Sebastián Lelio; Writer: Alice Johnson Boher, Sebastián Lelio; Stars: Julianne Moore, Sean Astin, Michael Cera. Alanna Ubach)
A free-spirited woman in her fifties looks for love in LA dance clubs.
Hotel Mumbai
(Country: Australia; Year: 2018; Director: Anthony Maras; Stars: Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi)
A dramatisation of the 2008 terrorist attacks that centred on Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.
The Vanishing and Gloria Bell
The Merger
(Country: Australia; Year: 2018; Director: Mark Grentell)
A former football star tries to revive the fortunes of his football club in the tiny township of Bodgy Creek. Times are hard, jobs are scarce and civic pride is all they have left. Troy decides to seek out the undiscovered talent at the local refugee support centre.
Mid90s
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Jonah Hill; Writer: Jonah Hill; Stars: Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges, Na-kel Smith, Olan Prenatt, Gio Galicia, Ryder McLaughlin, Alexa Demie, Fig Camila Abner, Liana Perlich, Ama Elsesser, Judah Estrella Borunda, Mecca Allen, Aramis Hudson, Sonny Greenback), Trailer
The story of a teenager and his life between domestic violence and the newfound recognition from a group of local skaterboarders.
Papi Chulo
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2018; Director: John Butler; Writer: John Butler; Stars: Matt Bomer, Alejandro Patiño, Elena Campbell-Martinez, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Michael Shepperd, Tommie Earl Jenkins, Shaughn Buchholz, Tom Beyer, Irene White, Caitlin Kimball, Marisa Szczepan, Brandon Kyle Goodman, Blaine Swen, Martin Morales, Nick Bush)
A TV weatherman in an emotional crisis strikes up a platonic friendship with a married migrant worker.
The Public
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Emilio Estevez; Stars: Alec Baldwin, Emilio Estevez, Gabrielle Union)
On the coldest night of the year, with hostels filled to capacity, the patrons of a library where homeless people are sheltering refuse to leave. A peaceful sit-in escalates to national news, reflecting social divisions, political hypocrisy and a manipulative media.
She’s Missing
(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Alexandra McGuinness; Stars: Josh Hartnett, Lucy Fry, Eiza Gonzalez)
Heidi is a small town waitress whose best friend goes missing after meeting a mysterious man at a rodeo. Determined to find out what happened to her, she sets out across the desert, unveiling astonishing secrets and encountering the unexpected violence of life on the road - and somebody seems to be following her.
Papi Chulo and Wild Rose
Tell It To The Bees
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Annabel Jankel; Stars: Anna Paquin, Holliday Grainger, Gregor Selkirk)
When mill worker Lydia is abandoned by her philandering husband, she struggles to pay the rent and feed herself and son Charlie. Local doctor Jean is one of the few to help and a friendship develops that blossoms into a romance that will scandalise the town.
The Vanishing (Keepers)
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Kristoffer Nyholm; Writer: Joe Bone, Celyn Jones; Stars: Gerard Butler, Connor Swindells, Peter Mullan)
Three lighthouse keepers arrive on an uninhabited island 20 miles off the Scottish coast. It is the start of a six week shift that is anything but routine as they make a discovery that provokes greed, fear, paranoia and a vicious fight for survival.
Wild Rose
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Tom Harper; Writer: Nicole Taylor; Stars: Julie Walters, Jessie Buckley, Sophie Okonedo, Jamie Sives, Gemma McElhinney, James Harkness, Ashley Shelton, Daniel Campbell, Vanya Eadie, Tracy Wiles, J. Thomas Bailey, James McElvar, Janey Godley, Robin Daugherty, Jeffrey Wilkerson)
A Glasgwegian single mum tries to make it in the world of country music.
Yuli
(Country: Spain; Year: 2018; Director: Icíar Bollaín; Writer: Paul Laverty; Stars: Edison Manuel Olvera, Mario Elias, Carlos Enrique Almirante, Carlos Acosta, Santiago Alfonso, Andrea Doimeadiós, Laura De la Uz, Carlos Acosta, Keyvin Martínez, Cesar Domínguez, Yerlín Pérez, Carlos Enrique Almirante, Andrea Doimeadiós, Laura De la Uz, Keyvin Martínez)
The true story of Carlos Acosta, a black Cuban dancer who rose from an impoverished childhood to find international acclaim as a ballet dancer with London's Royal Ballet.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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