All Of Us Strangers
A screenwriter embarks on a relationship with a neighbour at the same time as making a journey into his troubled past.
Anatomy Of A Fall
A woman is accused of her husband's murder.
Another Body
A documentary following a college student’s search for justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online.
Chronicles Of A Wandering Saint
When a devout elderly woman finds a statue she think is long lost, what she decides to do next upends her life.

D

Evil Does Not Exist
A rural village faces disruption from the construction of a glamping site for Tokyo tourists.
Fallen Leaves
The course of potential love does not run smooth for a shelf-stacker and a metal worker.
From Russia With Love
James Bond tries to foil a plot involving a stolen espionage machine, and faces off against a deadly assassin. Enjoying a reissue.
How To Have Sex
Three friends contend with peer pressure in their decision to “do it”.
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she’s too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha’s life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest.
Hundreds Of Beavers
In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

I

Inshallah A Boy
A mother fights for her rights in a partriachal system after her husband's death.
In Camera
An actor struggles with the various roles he is juggling in life.
Kidnapped
In 1858, a six-year-old Jewish boy is forcibly seized from his family by the Catholic church.
Kim’s Video
Playing with the forms and tropes of various cinema genres, the filmmaker sets off on a quest to find a legendary lost video collection of 55,000 movies in Sicily.
The Lady Vanishes
Young Iris is horrified when the woman she has been talking to on a train disappears and no-one seems to remember her.

M

Mad Cats
Taka, a shiftless young man, sets off on a quest to find his brother Mune. Teaming up with a quirky new friend and an edgy, mysterious young girl along the way, Taka finds himself taking on a pack of vicious monster cats determined to execute unscrupulous pet shop owners.
Melk
A mum who has lost her baby tries to work through her grief as she attempts to donate her milk.
Mutt
Over the course of a single hectic day in New York City, three people from Feña's past are thrust back into his life. Having lost touch since transitioning from female to male, he navigates the new dynamics of old relationships while tackling the day-to-day challenges of living life in between.
North By Northwest
A case of mistaken identity and false accusation sees an innocent man go on the run from the CIA and a criminal gang.
Orlando, My Political Biography
Docufiction interpretation of Virginia Woolf's novel.
La Palisiada
Two old friends, a detective and psychiatrist, investigate a murder of their colleague.
Poor Things
The story of a young woman who has been brought back to life.
The Queen Of My Dreams
Against the backdrop of a shared obsession with Bollywood fantasy, Mariam, a Pakistani Muslim woman, and her Canadian-born daughter Azra come of age in two different eras.

R

Raging Grace
An undocumented Filipina immigrant is struggling to do the best she can for her daughter when she secures the perfect job, taking care of an extremely wealthy but terminal old man. The new position pays well and guarantees a roof over their heads but very soon, she realise that something is amiss.
Red Rooms
A woman becomes obsessed with the trial of a murderer.
Restore Point
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.
River
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.
Shadow Of The Vampire
Gothic comedy that revises the story of the making of silent film classic Nosferatu.
Samsara
Samsara is the Buddhist cycle of death and reincarnation. From the temples of Laos, alongside with teenage monks, we will accompany a soul in its transit from one body to another through the bardo.
Snowpiercer
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Sultana's Dream
Taking her inspiration from a feminist sci-fi short story written in Bengal in 1905, Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.
The Taste Of Things
The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the fine gourmet she has been working for over the last 20 years.
Tish
A working-class photographer captures the impact of Thatcherism on the north of England but is unable to escape the poverty and inequality she exposed.
Toll
Suellen, a toll booth attendant, realises she can use her job to raise some extra money illegally. But this is only for a noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop led by a renowned foreign priest.

V

Your Fat Friend
Popular anonymous blogger Aubrey Gordon spent five years writing about the realities of living as a self-described “very fat person.” Now, she is about to face the public for the very first time.
The Zone Of Interest
The daily lives of the Höss family outside the walls of Auschwitz.
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