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An eight-year-old explores her identity over a summer in the Basque country.
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war’s atrocities.
A young teacher hopes to be appointed to Istanbul after mandatory duty at a small village. After long time waiting he loses all hope of escaping from this gloomy life. His colleague helps him to regain his perspective.
Sci-fi adventure set in a world where humans are mutating into "creatures".
The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.
The story of a 40something in a dead-end town who discovers love for the first time.
A woman's moral compass starts to slip after she is conned out of her savings by a phone scammer.
A documentary about the complex legacy of Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy for LGBTQ+ people and its life-saving impact on director Sav Rodgers.
When a mum makes a promise to her daughter after unfairly punishing her, she finds herself having to go the extra mile to make it come true.
The story of a group of archaeologists and the black market in historical artefacts.
Romance unfolds at a chicken packing factory.
A TV show looking into the mysterious disappearance of an actor leads a director on a journey into his own past while making discoveries in the present.
An experimental and genre-defying drama shot entirely on sound stages in support of a film-within-a-film narrative.
Survivors from a massive earthquake struggle for a new life in Seoul.
Told by the pioneering women who participated, this is the extraordinary story of the 1971 Women's Soccer World Cup, a tournament witnessed by record crowds that has been written out of sporting history - until now.
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Two bank staff rob their own establishment.
Overworked and underpaid, Angela drives around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a 'safety at work video' commissioned by a multinational company. When one of the interviewees reveals the company’s liability in his accident, a scandal erupts.
Peter’s parents divorced after 65 years, his wife left him after 35, and his sons, Nick and Mickey, are off leading their own lives. When Peter flies to Tulum, crashing Nick's bachelor party hosted by Mickey, he realises he's not the only one in crisis.
The course of potential love does not run smooth for a shelf-stacker and a metal worker.
Following her sister's disappearance, a Native American hustler kidnaps her niece from the child's white grandparents and sets out for the state powwow in hopes of keeping what is left of their family intact.
A comical attempt to save a New Jersey record store and confront a mid-life crisis
A creative documentary following ten years in the life of a fortysomething Tunisian mother, a cleaning lady from a poor environment, who sees her two teenage daughters become radicalised, run away and join the terrorist organisation Daesh in Libya.
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.
A chronicle of the trial of Goldman, a French left-wing revolutionary who was convicted of several robberies and was mysteriously murdered.
Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
Biopic of mafiosi Henry Hill and his rise and fall through the mob.
Multifaceted drama about the plight of refugees on the Belarus/Poland border.
A pair of sisters' encounter with a woman who looks like their dead sibling proves to be just the start of a whale of a tale.
A handmaiden sets out to swindle an heiress but things don't go to plan.
A lesbian suddenly finds herself responsible for her partner’s two daughters.
Remake of the 1960 classic about a man's affair with the family's servant.
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.
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A mother fights for her rights in a partriachal system after her husband's death.
After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart by figures from their past – both real and imagined.
A retired assassin finds himself drawn into a game of cat and mouse.
This fly-on-the-wall film captures Ukrainians as they are forced to leave their homes and drive into the unknown.
Two Senegalese teenagers try to realise their dream of a new life in Europe.
In 1858, a six-year-old Jewish boy is forcibly seized from his family by the Catholic church.
After discovering his wife’s affair, Ray Jepsen plans to kill himself, but fate intervenes. Through a bizarre turn of events, he is mistaken for a low-rent hired killer and decides to become one.
Documentary about the Disco star.
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A young man has to come to terms with his sexuality.
Foolish cops investigate South Korean serial killer.
The story of cinema's longest lasting partnership.
When an alien comes back to take him, a mouthless young man's life twists and turns as his memories untangle.
A mother is shocked when she learns what a teacher has said to her son, but the truth is more complicated.
The filmmaker doesn’t have any pictures of herself as a child. This is the starting point of a documentary investigation that unfolds the secrets of a Casablanca family.
An ex-con suffering from mental illness falls for a woman with cerebral palsy.
A musing on the future of The Old Oak, the last remaining pub in a village in Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available, thus making it an ideal location for Syrian refugees.
Iman, an Iranian, lives with his family in Sweden in an ever-changing succession of refugee hostels. To increase his chances of obtaining residence permits for them all, he resumes his career as a wrestler – and is confronted with the reason he had to flee.
Documentary about drag nights in New York.
A hand-painted animated film about an early 20th Century Polish peasant woman who creates havoc by marrying an older rich man.
The story of an urban renewal project which involves the creation of 17 public toilets in key locations in the Japanese capital.
In 1755, the impoverished Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer the harsh, uninhabitable Danish heath with a seemingly impossible goal; to build a colony in the name of the King.
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A woman becomes obsessed with the trial of a murderer.
Shayda, an Iranian mother, finds refuge in an Australian women’s shelter with her six-year-old daughter. Over Persian New Year, they take solace in Nowruz rituals and new beginnings, but when her estranged husband re-enters their lives, Shayda’s path to freedom is jeopardised.
Legendary singer Carol Sloane prepares for one final live recording in New York City while reflecting on her rich but largely unknown career involving some of the greatest names in music, from Ella Fitzgerald to The Rolling Stones.
In the darkness of a smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.
Survival thriller taking place in the aftermath of a plane crash in the Andes.
A train journey is complicated by the presence of the living dead.
The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the fine gourmet she has been working for over the last 20 years.
In a large house, friends and family meet for a dual ritual: it is the birthday of young father and painter Tona, but also a farewell ceremony.
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When people in Littlehampton start receiving scandalous and obscene letters, suspicion immediately falls on fiery Rose, who might lose the custody of her daughter. A group of women set out to solve the mystery.
Sailor and Lula go on the run, after Lula's mum bids to kill her daughter's beau.
The daily lives of the Höss family outside the walls of Auschwitz.
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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