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Adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's One Human Minute, sees bookshop staff incarcerated because copies of a book describing everything that happens to everyone on the planet in the space of a minute are found on their shelves.
Another day, another crisis; this time terrorists are planning a major outrage.
A drug dealer Edward Norton has 24 hours to make amends with his high school buddies.
Futuristic action film where a man finds a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.
Seven short films show unseen sides to Havana through the eyes of locals and visitors.
Documentary tracking the history of Grime music.
When a young couple with a newborn baby move into a house with a troubled past, strange things begin to happen.
An alphabet of short films focusing on different ways to die.
A writer wrestles with his demons - and his twin - as he tries to adapt a book for the big screen.
A young globetrotting journalist partners with an old alcoholic sea Captain to unravel a mystery.
Scientists create a robot boy, with emotions, in a globally warmed, flooded future world.
Courtroom drama about a mutiny on a slave ship.
The animated tale of a man born without his own shape, who keeps being shaped by others.
True story about misfit who creates a popular comic series based on his own life.
The story of a love affair that turned into a mystery after a Syrian blogger was kidnapped.
Multi-layered plotlines around the inhabitants of an apartment complex.
A disturbed man's descent into hell.
A documentary about two teenagers who want to change gender role in Tamil Nadu.
Six teenagers partying in an abandoned building find themselves in trouble after experimenting with the supernatural.
A prostitute and her friend go on the rampage after being gang raped.
An actor lets fame get to his head and turns into a ferocious beast, ripping Hollywood to shreds.
"New York City, a puppeteer, a tragic marriage, a chimp, a boss, a receptionist, another woman, an actor, the New Jersey Turnpike, and a plate of lasagne." - Spike Jonze
A little girl befriends a giant.
Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter.
Six kickass women must fight off a horde of terrifying monsters at an 18th birthday party.
An American lawyer is recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to defend a Russian spy
The death of a pair of siblings' parents forces them to cross paths after 20 years of avoiding one another.
The Bobby Darin Story as perceived and sung by Kevin Spacey.
Story of two actors whose lives mirror their onstage characters in an anti-evangelical musical.
Rival male figure skaters who hate each other enter the Montreal Winter Olympics in the pairs section.
A paranormal investigator goes about his business as a documentary crew follows him.
True story of a boy who conned his way into being an airline pilot.
Spielberg's sci-fi extravaganza about first contact with aliens.
The legendary Cimmerian warrior battles to save the land where he lives from an encroaching evil force.
Documentary about Second World War film The Great Escape.
Documentary about the Tallahassee Unified Family Court in Florida, which specialises in judicial cases involving children.
A real life science fiction story devoted to the world of myxomycetes, or fungus-like ‘slime moulds’.
A disgraced member of the military police investigates child murders from the Stalin era.
Lysistrata re-envisioned through an outbreak of street violence between black gangs.
Ensemble drama about a family brought together - and, possibility on course to be torn apart - by the illness of their matriarch.
Four male friends share, listen and support each other through emotional crises.
A documentary celebration of Comic-Con, celebrating its success and the people who attend it.
During a traumatic accident on a deep-sea dive, Olive, a gifted, young marine biologist discovers an unearthly creature and smuggles it home so she can study it. Then the nightmars begin.
Second half of the sixth season, sees Brass run into trouble. Out to own from June 4.
A new technical team hunt killers in Miami.
Vampires have overthrown the human race... but now blood stocks are running low.
The frustrated sex life of a German canteen worker.
Vittoria is growing up in a remote Sardinian village. One day she meets the wildly independent Angelica who is so very different to her own caring mother Tina. The young girl has no knowledge of the secret that connects these two women.
A film of Byrne's acclaimed Broadway show.
Four African-American vets battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.
An American novelist living for a time in London converses with his wife, his mistress, and other female characters he may have dreamed up.
Explicit seven-part portmanteau feature examining pornography, sexuality and art.
Racial tensions come to the boil on the hottest day of summer in Brooklyn.
Raoul and Beatrice’s eyes meet in the Montreal metro. This sets off a chain of events that will affect the whole city.
Based on a true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop into the world's hottest company.
A documentary following a middle aged journalist's quest to reunite The Kinks.
A singer accidentally returns a homemade sex tape to her local video shop... and is desperate to get it back.
Sylvester Stallone plays a cop who fights off a serial killer at a rehab unit in the wilds of Wyoming.
A poor student with an expensive elite lifestyle sells cocaine to pay for his extravagant habits.
An elderly couple are starving in a condemned tenement, trapped by their terror of a creature on the stair.
A psychedelic journey into the afterlife.
Spielberg's beloved classic about a stranded and lonely alien.
Death threats see suspicion grow between four women in an NGO.
A girl in an open topped sports car drives the highway, followed by a wolf in a breakdown truck.
An aspiring author forms an unusual friendship with an oddball older playwright.
A German clothes salesman finds his territory challenged by a young rival – who’s also become romantically involved with his secretly-gay son.
Growing up in post-World War Two era Arizona, a young man named Sammy Fabelman discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
Inside the ACLU, a team of scrappy lawyers battle Trump’s historic assault on civil liberties.
Portmanteau documentary based on the best-selling book that promises to explore the "hidden side of everything".
Is horror movie addict Charley Brewster’s suave new nextdoor neighbour Jerry Dandridge really an evil vampire responsible for a string of recent deaths?
When Peter bumps into handsome businessman Jack in a gay bar, they begin a passionate relationship, in spite of Jack being married. Peter keeps ending up with married men and realises that if his life is ever going to get better, something needs to change.
In 1952 coastguards makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard.
Flow Country takes the viewer on an apocalyptic journey through a contested site in the far north of Scotland.
Jason Vorhees is back... and he's angry.
A man is asked by his dying mother to take his brother back to the place where they were born.
After her life collapses around her a woman is forced to move back in with her mother, and clashes ensue.
Eight more episodes from the iconic Seventies TV comedy sketch show.
After years in the US, Pedro returns home to his family in Mexico, but the lure of the north remains as strong as ever.
A mysterious, anarchical trickster descends on the lives of a family struggling to deal with a painful loss.
Skateboarding inflected pop video.
A lonely writer falls in love with his new all-purpose operating system, leading to romantic and existential complications.
A jailbird dad tries to reconnect with his basketball prodigy son, so that he can broker a shorter sentence.
When a narrow-minded teenager in a rural Ontario community starts a new job, he meets somebody who changes his outlook on life.
A pregnant woman, resented by her mother, discovers her grandmother's secret diary and begins to understand why.
A young man is forced to reassess his life when his fiancée dumps him days before their planned wedding.
The whip-cracking archaeologist hero returns.
Indiana Jones battles Nazis for the holy grail - with his father in tow.
Indiana Jones takes on Kali-worshiping cultists with the aid of a resourceful young boy and a hysterical nightclub singer.
A woman's inheritance leads her to Eastern Europe to uncover a dark and disturbing family secret.
Spike Lee takes on the heist genre.
Documentary about the House Of Latitude social experiment.
Karoline’s life is turned upside down when her father, Kjeld, manically starts digging a pit in their backyard.
Brutal story of a violent rape, told in reverse. Now out to own in special collectors edition.
A filmmaker's life becomes complicated by the return of a former lover.
A filmmaker's life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover just as he is about to embark on the shoot of a new film.
A 13-year-old will stop at nothing to win the heart of the girl of his dreams.
Shocking story of a butcher on the brink of violence.
Dramatisation of the story of ice skater Tonya Harding.
Four whodunits for the aristocratic DI and his proletarian assistant.
Third outing of a classic Seventies TV sitcom about a group of entertainers in the British Raj during World War II
Film noir fantasy for the unlikeliest of heroes.
A small seaside community dependent on tourism is terrorised by a great white shark with a hunger for human flesh.
How did a single ‘Big in Japan’ videotape change the course of global horror history? This documentary charts the origins, evolution and diffusion across the world of a distinctive brand of Japanese supernatural chillers featuring vengeful ghosts manifesting themselves through contemporary technology against a backdrop of urban alienation and social decay.
A Native American man is admitted to hospital after fighting in France and forms an unexpected friendship with the doctor who treats him.
A trip to a dinosaur theme park turns deadly.
The complex examination of madness, love, psychological growth and unresolved feelings within relationships.
Re-telling of anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl’s transformational 1947 journey by raft from Peru to Polynesia.
A quiet young man falls in love with a woman who is perfect in every way - except that she's inflatable.
A comedy documentary outlining the progression of the ever growing cannabis industry.
The president's battles in the Civil War and within his own cabinet.
Genre icon Christopher Lee is brought back to life in a documentary using fresh interviews, archive material and multiple forms of traditional and cutting-edge animation.
Story of a single mother and her two children trying to make ends meet in Florida.
A sexual melodrama about a boy and a girl and another girl; a love story which celebrates sex in a joyous way.
Life in a cable car that carries pilgrims and tourists to and from a mountain top temple in Nepal.
A portrait of the legendary Norwegian resistance fighter who took up arms to drive the Nazis out of his country.
Groundbreaking detective show which proved it was cool for cops.
Sci-fi thriller about cops who predict murder before it happens with the use of psychics.
Biochemist Michael Morbius tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead.
Moroni Benally is running for the presidency of the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American nation in the US. Young, gay, Mormon and highly educated, he sets out to confront the political establishment in a homecoming that challenges what he imagined home, and himself, to be.
Sam inquires about a Help Wanted sign outside a funeral home and in her interview with owner Montgomery Dark, four gruesomely disturbing stories are told.
Rom com based on the Shakespeare play.
Fictionalised reimagining of the aftermath of the Munich Olympics hostage taking and slaughter.
A recently divorced filmmaker explores the different ways people manage relationships.
A successful author returns home to discover that his high school nemesis is dating his mom.
Part prequel to My Sex Life. Paul remembers his youth and the consequences of true love.
A young graduate gets a taste of what life is like for the rich after inadvertently becoming a nanny.
caddish behaviour at an upper-class London party for bright young things
A young woman struggles to find meaning in her life, becoming obsessed with a writer in the process.
A sound technician for a news station becomes a vigilante ninja in New York City after his pregnant wife is murdered.
Cult series... we can't believe it's not the Twilight Zone.
An intimate portrait of two people's lives including open discussion about issues of sexuality and gender.
Adaptation of John Hull's audio diary about the experience of losing his sight.
Four nurses behaving badly in realistic TV hospital series.
A struggling comedian loses her boyfriend, her home and her job, then accidentally gets pregnant from a one night stand.
Documentary about the X Factor boys who made it big.
After their small Australian country town is annihilated by an overwhelming airborne attack, a group of civilians evade capture and discover they are now among the last remaining survivors of an extraterrestrial invasion engulfing the entire planet.
Two years after an alien invasion, the survivors fight back with the help of unexpected allies.
A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered.
Danish black comedy about family relationships.
A man who spent 20 years in solitary confinement sets about looking for vengeance.
Thai country girl uses terror magic in Bangkok go-go bar.
A music journalist gets out of his depth when he goes looking for his missing neighbour in London's gangland.
A New Jersey kid dreams of making it as a rapper.
Sparrow is drunk. Salazar is dead. Barbossa takes charge. The young ones are searching for the trident of Poseidon. There's a lot of water. And magic. If you wait long enough you might glimpse Keira Knightley running.
The filmmaker sets out to finance a documentary about product placement in the movies by making his own product placement deals with major companies.
A snapshot of life in a chess cafe in Athens.
A charity shop worker is set on winning the big national talent show. But when the actions of five selfish people cause him to miss his audition, he sets out to seek deathly revenge.
The story of how the Washington Post rose to prominence by taking on the Nixon administration.
A deconstruction of DW Griffith’s controversial film.
An ex-hitman turns vigilante to seek redemption for his sins by taking on a vicious drug cartel and facing deadly assassin "The Scorpion".
An accidental shooting leads to a search for revenge.
Indiana Jones races the Nazis to find the lost Ark of the Covenant.
Prison portrait of a maximum-security jail in Argentina.
When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune.
The missions of an underwater team, with added dolphin.
Controversial film about a porn star's descent into depravity.
A young man struggles to do the right thing after falling in love with someone other than his girlfriend.
When a safe house is attacked, a young agent finds himself on the run with the man who was hiding there.
From Omaha Beach on D-Day, they search for a lost soldier in the fields of France.
A lone man determines to use his factory as a means of rescuing Jews from Nazi concentration camps, risking his life in the process.
Life after med school for greenhorn interns at a Californian hospital.
Sacked biotech whistleblower starts a business inpregnating lesbians who want babies.
A tribute to Richard Linklater's Slacker made by members of the Austin Filmmakers Society.
Trouble brews when a woman is late home for her birthday dinner.
The story of a busker and recovering drug addict whose life was transformed by a stray cat.
Spike Lee focusses his camera on the summer when Son of Sam roamed the streets.
A child's eye view of life in a religious cult.
Documentary filmmaker acts as guinea pig in fast food experiment.
A woman who has taken an oath to live as a man rediscovers her sexuality.
The second, longer season of the Chronicles leads us further into stacked paradoxes and the genesis of a resistance machine intelligence.
Remake of the slasher classic.
Schoolboys, sexual awakening and snakes.
Teenage mutant turtles set out to try to become heroes so that people will like them, but may have bitten off more than they can chew with villainous fellow mutant Superfly.
Tom Hanks is stateless, Eastern European and living in a big American airport.
Several intertwining stories of New Yorkers with no sense of direction in life.
Sci-fi zombie spoof from Oz, in which aliens turn Aussies into walking corpses.
An officer helps a blood-soaked figure on the road but the trip to the hospital turns into a nightmare.
Drama focused on a handful of dark days in the lives of an elderly couple in Paris.
A young man signs us to try and stay close to his beloved horse during World War One.
Avant garde examination of a lonely life.
Exploration of evolution and life.
Morgan Spurlock goes in search of the al-Qaeda leader.
Earth is under attack and survival at a premium as giant alien robots gather for Armageddon.
Musical sees romance fuel a gang rivalry in New York.
Mischievous lad learns how tough it is to be a parent when he is crowned king of a family of magical monsters.
Running loose around a campsite, a group of kids are revolted by the sight of people kissing. One boy is especially troubled, however, as he's beginning to feel the urge to try it himself.
Biopic of the French fashion designer.
Tests of love Dennis Iliadis and his star Konstantina Messini on twisty meet-the-parents thriller Buzzheart
You must remember this Loïc Espuche on childhood revulsion, shyness, shame, kissing and Yuck!
Lights and shadows Dustin Pittman with Ed Bahlman on Alan J Pakula, James Ivory, Brian De Palma and Jerry Schatzberg
Innocence lost Sebastián Parra R on growing up too fast and world building in Seed Of The Desert
A monstrous legacy Nicholas Vince on Thatcherism, AIDS, writing, filmmaking and I Am Monsters
UK hopes ride high as Oscar International Film shortlist announced Ireland also makes the grade
That's a wrap on festival coverage for 2024 now. We've recently covered DOC NYC, the French Film Festival UK, Tallinn Black Nights, the Leeds International Film Festival, Abertoir, the London Korean Film Festival, the Belfast Film Festival and Halloween Frightfest.
Looking a little further back, we were at the London Film Festival, Newfest, the New York Film Festival, the Scottish Queer international Film Festival, Beyond Fest, Grimmfest, San Sebastian, Fantastic Fest and the Toronto International Film Festival.
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