107 Mothers
Docufiction considering the lives of mothers in Odessa women's prison.
After Blue
It's a distant future, on a savage planet, where only women can survive. The lonely teenager Roxy frees a criminal buried in the sand. Once freed, the woman, who goes by the name of Kate Bush, starts spreading fear and death again.
Ahed's Knee
An Israeli filmmaker throws himself in the midst of two battles doomed to fail: one against the death of freedom, the other against the death of a mother.
Alcarràs
The Solé family spends the summer picking peaches - but this year’s crop may well be their last as new owners plan to replace the peach trees with solar panels and the family’s livelihood is threatened.
Aleph
The director takes a puzzle-like approach, inspired by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges
Annette
A stand-up comedian and his opera singer wife have a daughter with a surprising gift.
The Balcony Movie
Documentary composed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under his Warsaw apartment.
Belle
The story of a shy teenager who becomes an online sensation as a princess of pop.
Benediction
Siegfried Sassoon biopic.
Boiling Point
The shift has hardly begun for head chef Andy and he’s already behind with everything. His restaurant is overbooked, there’s a disgruntled inspector combing the kitchen and, if that weren’t enough, a culinary icon and a respected food critic have turned up for dinner.
The Circus
The Little Tramp takes a job as a clown and falls for the ringmaster's daughter.
Concerned Citizen
Drama about the perils of gentrification

D

Do The Right Thing
Racial tensions come to the boil on the hottest day of summer in Brooklyn.
Feature Film About Life
A woman finds herself in increasingly curious situations after the death of her father.
First Cow
A cook with a group of fur trappers strikes up a connection with a Chinese emigre in the Old West.
Flee
Amin arrived as an unaccompanied minor in Denmark from Afghanistan. Today, he is a successful academic and is getting married to his long-time boyfriend. A secret he has been hiding for 20 years threatens to ruin the life he has built.
France
A TV journalist's career, home life, and psychological stability are shaken after a driving accident.
The Fire Within
A suicidal man struggling to avoid sliding back into alcoholism visits former friends and lovers to say goodbye.
The Good Boss
Trouble brews at a factory after a boss finds himself in line for an award for excellence.
The Great Movement
Mystical portrait of the contemporary central South American cityscape and those who work within its bowels and environs.
Happening
France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing.
A Hero
When an ex-con's decides to try and rehabilitate himself by returning a lost bag of coins and exploiting the media attention, nothing goes to plan.
Hit The Road
Drama based around a road trip in a borrowed car.

I

I Want to Talk About Duras
Portrait of the complex romantic relationship between epochal experimental novelist and filmmaker Marguerite Duras and her much younger, homosexual partner, Yann Andréa.

M

A Man And A Camera
Filmmaker Guido Hendrikx doorsteps the unsuspecting residents of Dutch suburbia.
Medusa
A woman who is part of a gang who hunt those who transgress their religious ideals, finds her values changing dramatically after she is injured.
Memoria
A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.
Mirror
Documentary about the lives of a group of acid attack survivors.
Neptune Frost
The love story between an African intersex runaway and a coltan miner, and the virtual marvel born as a result of their union.
A Night Of Knowing Nothing
A poetic record of the experience of being a young Indian in a land of violence.
Întregalde
A group of people on a humanitarian mission arrive in a remote area of Transylvania to offer the inhabitants various goods, but when they try to help a disorientated local, things take a turn for the worse.
Onoda: 10,000 Nights In The Jungle
It's the end of 1944. Japan is losing the war. Hiroo Onoda is sent to an island in the Philippines just before the American landing. The handful of soldiers that he takes with him into the jungle keep fighting, not realising the war is over.
Otar's Death
Two families, each facing their own existential difficulties, are brought together by an unfortunate event.
Petite Maman
Something magical happens to a young girl after the death of her grandma.
Pilgrims
A pair of old friends revisit the scene of a crime with unexpected consequences.
Playground
A little girl faces a moral dilemma after she sees her brother being bullied.
Possession
After his wife walks out on the family with no explanation, a distressed man hires a detective to help him find out why.

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Red Rocket
A washed-up ex-porn star tries to get his life back together in his hometown, sparking trouble for those in his orbit.
The Restless
A family struggles with the father's bipolar disorder.
Returning To Reims (Fragments)
An intimate and political story of the French working class from the beginning of the 1950s to today.
Silent Land
A couple find their relationship going south after a trip to an Italian holiday home begins to be fraught with problems.
Songs For A Fox
After his lover's death, a rock singer studies the art of lucid dreaming and descends into a netherworld in hopes of being together again.
The Sparks Brothers
How can one rock band be successful, underrated, hugely influential, and criminally overlooked all at the same time? Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band's favorite band.
Speak No Evil
A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.
Utama
In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. When an uncommon long drought threatens their entire way of life, Virginio and his wife Sisa face the dilemma of resisting or being defeated by the environment and time itself.

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The Watermelon Woman
A young black lesbian in Philadelphia tries to track down a once legendary actress.
Women Do Cry
A family full of women in a society where 'gender' is not a familiar word.
The Worst Person In The World
Four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
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