Atlantics
Love and loss in Dakar are given a supernatural twist.
Bacurau
Villagers sold as human prey defend themselves from hunters using a psychotropic drug.
Beanpole
Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins of Leningrad after the Second World War.
Bitter Bread
Documentary about a community of refugees living in a tent camp in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley.
The Booksellers
A tour of New York’s book world, past and present.
Born To Be
Documentary, charting the emotional and physical journey of surgical transitioning, as experienced by patients at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital.
Cunningham
Profile of choreographer Merce Cunningham.

D

Fire Will Come
A convicted arsonist returns to his rural home.
First Cow
A cook with a group of fur trappers strikes up a connection with a Chinese emigre in the Old West.
A Girl Missing
Ichiko works as a private nurse for a family she has almost become a part of. But when the youngest member of the family disappears, the kidnapper's identity causes trouble.

I

The Irishman
Story of the union official with mob ties, Frank Sheeran, and the part he claims to have played in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.
Joker
Origin story of Batman's arch nemesis.
Liberté
A group of 18th century libertines are expelled from court and wander in the forests, seeking asylum.

M

Marriage Story
A couple find themselves in a messier divorce than they imagined.
Martin Eden
A man struggles to better his circumstances, motivated by his love for a woman from a bourgeois family.
The Moneychanger
A money launderer sees the Uruguayan dictatorship as an opportunity to make a killing.
Motherless Brooklyn
A lonely private detective with Tourette's attempts to solve his friend's murder.
Mum's Cards
The filmmaker's mother, a sociologist, used index cards throughout her career to make notes on all that she read. Now that she no longer has an office her house is filled with these cards.
My Father And Me
The filmmaker charts his relationship with his humanist-pacifist father, Maurice Broomfield, a factory worker turned photographer.
Oh Mercy!
A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered.
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
Documentary about the life of the neurologist.
Pain And Glory
A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.
Parasite
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Party Day
Mena organises a birthday party for a daughter. But after a phone call from her mother, she becomes distraught.
Please Speak Continuously And Describe Your Experiences As They Come To You
Emily is a patient at an experimental psychiatric facility where a brain implant prototype allows her to relive her dreams.
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
On an isolated island in Bretagne at the end of the 18th century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

R

State Funeral
Documentary based on footage from March 5 - 9, 1953, when the USSR mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.
Synonyms
Tragicomedy about Yoav, a young Israeli determined to wipe out his origins and become French.
To The Ends Of The Earth
A Japanese TV host finds a trip to Uzbekistan to shoot an episode of her reality travel show begins to dissolve her chipper persona.

V

Varda by Agnès
A masterclass from the French filmmaker.
The Whistlers
Film noir sees a corrupt cop learn a whistling language to beat detection while trying to double-cross the mob.
Young Ahmed
A teenager becomes radicalised.
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