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The Oscar-qualifying film festival returns for another exciting year with some of the hottest titles on the festival circuit, including both features and shorts looking likely to win big awards in the months ahead. It also includes some fantastic retrospectives, with a particular focus on cult ozploitation classics.
The festival runs from 1 to 17 November.
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A clan gathers for what could be their last Christmas together at their family home.
An animated adventure about a group of animals who must work together to survive a catastrophe in a post-human world.
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch.
Two teenage girls, eager to escape from the bleakness of their industrial town, form an unexpected bond at a local modelling school that pushes their bodies to the limit.
Life's a constant struggle for Pansy. Racked with physical and mental pain, her dealings with the world are channeled through anger and confrontation - only her sister understands and is able to help her.
Follows an octogenarian woman’s transition to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.
Brazil, 1971: a country in the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence.
An online scammer, reselling faulty products at preposterously high rates, is on the run after some of his customers decide to hit back.
A samurai who gets hit by lightning wakes up to find himself on a film set in the present day and starts to work as an extra on samurai films.
Adventures await when new lovers are separated by a chainsaw killer in this absurdist musical.
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