Amazing Grace
Concert film about the recording of Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace album.
And The Birds Rained Down
Three elderly hermits live deep in the woods, cut off from the rest of the world. While wildfires threaten the region, their quiet life is about to be shaken by the arrival of two women.
Atlantics
Love and loss in Dakar are given a supernatural twist.
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.
Bird Island
After a long period of isolation, Antonin, a young man suffering from persisting exhaustion, rediscovers the world at a rehabilitation centre for birds.
The Climb
A look at the friendship between two guys that spans many years.

D

Disco
The stepdaughter of a charismatic pastor begins to question her faith
Ema
A dancer and her choreographer husband find themselves trying to stop their lives falling apart after an adoption goes awry.
The Endless Trench
Higinio and Rosa have only been married for a few months when the Civil War breaks out, representing a serious threat to his life. Helped by his wife, they decide to use a hole dug into their own home as a provisional hiding place... but their imprisonment will go on for years.
Fire Will Come
A convicted arsonist returns to his rural home.
Ghost Town Anthology
After a man dies in a car accident, time seems to lose all meaning for the residents of a small town... and then strangers begin to appear.
Giraffe
A Danish summer: A tunnel is being built to connect Denmark and Germany. An ethnologist comes to the island of Lolland to study its inhabitants and record their traditions and objects.

I

Invisible
Jonas pretends to be blind and enters a TV dance contest where he meets his attractive dance partner, Saulé. They soon become the show’s most popular contestants. Meanwhile, Vytas, an old acquaintance of Jonas, is released from jail thirsty for revenge...
Joker
Origin story of Batman's arch nemesis.
The Lighthouse
A tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Lynn + Lucy
Lynn and Lucy are life-long best friends but after the birth of Lucy's first child, their relationship comes under strain.

M

Macario
A peasant is befriended by 'Death' and given a water that can heal any disease... but his new powers attract unwanted attention.
Les Misérables
A man joins an anti-crime brigade and rapidly discovers the tensions between the various neighbourhood groups.
The Moneychanger
A money launderer sees the Uruguayan dictatorship as an opportunity to make a killing.
Monos
On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
The Other Lamb
A young girl begins to question her place in the religious community she was born into.
Parasite
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
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.
Proxima
A female astronaut finds the demands of work take their toll on her single-mum relationship with her young daughter.

R

Rocks
A young girl is determined to keep the fact that there mother has left her and her younger brother alone from the authorities, through fear of being separated from him.
The Sharks
While a rumour about the presence of sharks in a small beach town distracts residents, 14-year-old Rosina begins to feel an instinct to shorten the distance between her body and Joselo's.
The Sleepwalkers
A mother and her daughter are pushed to their emotional limit during a family celebration.
Some Beasts
A family enthusiastically disembarks on a deserted island on Chile’s southern coast with the dream of building a tourist hotel. When the man who brought them across from the continent disappears, the family is trapped.
Sorry We Missed You
A hard-up delivery driver and his wife struggle to get by in modern-day England.
A Thief's Daughter
When a woman's father reappears on the scene after a spell in prison, she has a difficult choice to make.
Tremors
The coming out of an evangelical father shatters his family, his community and uncovers a profoundly repressive society.
The Truth
A reunion between a French cinema star and her daughter descends into confrontation.

V

Waiting For The Barbarians
A magistrate in a colonial town suffers a crisis of conscience about the regime he works for.
Weathering With You
A boy falls in love with a girl who can control the weather.
While At War
Drama about author Miguel de Unamuno and his stance towards the fascist coup d’état.
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