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An aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Damascus, Syria, Lina starts to report on the events around her until she is compelled to become a war reporter and, later, the unexpected narrator of her own destiny.
Two people meet at a gig and have lots of sex, while Michael Winterbottom watches.
On Chicago’s South and West sides, the scourge of guns and gangs is destroying countless lives. Taking matters into their own hands, two men dedicate their lives educating, empowering and healing young black men at high risk for being victims or perpetrators of deadly gun-violence.
The story of playwright Liza Jessie Peterson's performance of The Peculiar Patriot at Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary and its impact.
A bereaved Satanist couple kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their dead grandson's spirit into her unborn child, but end up summoning more than they bargained for.
The adventures of a big, black, heavily armed chopper.
The continuing story of the beautiful spy and her lovable, detestable, sexy and deceitful friends.
A college grad black-ops spy, becomes a double agent to bring down corruption.
A reporter looking for a scoop gets impounded with patients at a mental institution.
Documentary about the rise and fall of presidential candidate Ralph Nader
Documentary following the director as he shoots his "last" film.
Two orphans, each of whom longs to become the Wizard King, seek paths to greatness - with or without magic.
A woman's moral compass starts to slip after she is conned out of her savings by a phone scammer.
A documentary about the uncommon life and unthinkable murder of the legendary no-budget exploitation filmmaker and the communities he inhabited in Seventies California.
Bridget continues to put her fat foot in it, ending up in a Thai prison.
Final season of the Scandi crime drama.
Examination of the life of Britain's self-titled "most dangerous criminal". Out on re-release.
The story of an affair unfolds backwards over a series of summers to reveal long-held secrets.
A father immerses himself in a quest to make his daughter a spelling champion while his family slowly falls apart.
A Holocaust survivor with an outsized personality faces her biggest fear: retirement.
A barmaid saved by high-tech medical implants adapts to a new role as part of a shady goverment organisation.
A chemistry teacher embraces a life of crime after being diagnosed with cancer.
Cinematographer Kirsten Johnson documents her career working with filmmakers.
College student Margot meets 33-year-old Robert at the cinema where she works. After a casual flirtation at the concession stand, they carry on conversations through texts. As their perceptions of each other collide, events spiral out of control. Based on The New Yorker short story by Kristen Roupenian.
A well intentioned US congressman gets out of his depth trying to help the Afghans repel Russian invaders.
Cecilia and her children travel to her ageing father’s dairy farm after he has a heart attack. Back in her childhood home, Cecilia is met by her mother, a woman dead for many years, whose presence brings to life a painful past chorused by the natural world around them.
It's all-change in Vegas as Gil moves on.
An exceedingly French musical about a menage a trois in Paris.
An IT nerd finds himself thrust into espionage after Government secrets are accidentally downloaded into his brain.
Claymation opinions on life.
Anatomy of a murder, Iranian style.
Gothic romance in which a young American woman becomes ensnared by the machinations of a pair of British siblings.
A year in the life of Lake Natron's flamingos. Plus read our exclusive interview with filmmakers Matthew Aeberhard, Leander Ward and writer Melanie Finn.
In which Horatio Caine achieves sainthood and Calleigh Duquesne becomes more hands on.
New York gets its own grittier version of the crime scene invesigations.
Mac Taylor and his team continue to scour the streets of New York for clues.
A new season, a new team and the detection rate of serious crime in the Big Apple continues to rise.
Mac's back with the rest of the team as the writers put the emphasis on relationships.
Mac Taylor's team go up market for more bizarre murders, while Stella Bonasera has a scare in a contaminated crime scene.
Crime drama with a technical twist.
Third TV season of the popular Las Vegas crime investigation series.
Love and adultery... Who could resist!?
Schlock jock horror in the Caribbean.
Making a game out of sex, love and relationships has dire consequences in eighteenth century France.
A grieving mother sets out to contact her dead child.
With this inventive portrait, a cameraperson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilising moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humour, she celebrates Dr Dick Johnson’s last years by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.
A western thriller asking the question: how far would you go to protect your loved ones?
The last days of Delius, as seen through the eyes of his musical assistant, Eric Fenby.
Volunteers are imprinted with new personas so they can become 'bodies for hire'.
A repressed young man discovers the world with the help of an eccentric actress.
After an amnesty is declared on crimes committed during the civil war, Atim's grandfather gives him a gun and send him out to avenge his murdered father; but the man he meets is not what he expected.
Police corruption in the ex-murder capital of America is exposed by a rookie reporter.
When aspiring musicians Lars and Sigrit are given the opportunity to represent their country at the world's biggest song competition, they finally have a chance to prove that any dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for.
A journey through the pictorial world of Orson Welles, his drawings, paintings and works of youth, seen for the first time on screen thanks to his daughter Beatrice Welles.
More trials and tribulations in the emergency room.
TV animated series about a strange family that make The Simpsons look positively normal
After a failed escape a female convict is thrown into solitary, only for her ex to take out a hit on her.
Box set edition of the trio of women-in-prison movies following a convict's incarceration, escape and revenge.
When the midwinter ritual goes awry, the seasons stop rotating, crops start failing, and a village begins to come apart at the seams.
The life and art of Ralph Steadman.
Two Italian boys travel to India to find themselves, but get more than they bargained for.
Freddy Krueger from Elm Street fights Jason Voorhees from Friday The 13th in hell.
A loan undermines three friends relationship.
futuristic sci-fi TV animated series from the makers of The Simpsons
Exploration of the history and methods of the Church of Scientology, recounted by former members.
A documentary tribute to the legendary creator of gonzo journalism.
Macaulay Culkin turns psychotic killer in family melodrama.
True story of a biker's journey into the desert with a coffin to fulfil Gram Parsons' last request.
A man finds himself revisiting his past after he has to take on the job of running his father's grocery van.
A woman stumbles into the war in Yugoslavia in search of her husband.
A group of people discover they have special abilities – and fate soon draws them together to save the world.
The race is on to find a formula that will give normal folk super abilitites.
The fragmented Heroes band together to stop the Company unleashing the Shanti virus. And Sylar just won't stay dead.
A drug-addicted teacher is befriended by a student.
Exploration of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, Hallelujah.
Bigfoot is taken into a suburban Seattle home.
Harry returns to Hogwarts to find he is being pursued by the escaped murderer Sirius Black.
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.
Twenty-two tales of supernatural thrills in half hour chunks, with bad sex and Terence Stamp.
Trouble at t'shop when eldest daughter of tyranical Lancashire bootmaker in 1890 decides to marry his timid, downtrodden employee.
Chinese children grow up in Australia with their beautiful mother who was a nightclub singer in Hong Kong.
The doctor tries to fight his psychological demons.
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
A young farmer becomes a drugs courier in a bid to make ends meet.
Documentary about questions that hang over the conviction of Death Row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.
A dysfunctional family struggles to survive in a challenging environment, but might wealth make things even worse?
A Nothern family sitcom, in which the men slag off the women and the women moan about the men.
Friday 13th serial killer does it on a spaceship after being frozen solid for 400 years.
Selling pop video ideas to a board of directors.
A junkie drifter's tale.
The young hero Jason takes a crew of Greece's most impressive warriors in pursuit of the legendary golden fleece.
Bourne tries to uncover the secrets from his past.
American and Serb soldiers who fought on opposite sides in the Bosnia War clash once again in a tense, action-packed game of cat and mouse set in the gorgeous yet inaccessible Appalachian Mountains.
Young love, knitting and unexpected consequences.
A husband's jealousy threatens to drive him mad.
A look at the life and music of Kurt Cobain, narrated by the man himself.
A poetic documentary about the Shawaks people of eastern Turkey.
Ninth series of the NYC detective show.
A Glasgow barber accidentally turns killer.
Two teenage wasters upset the wrong person.
A provincial schoolteacher is faced with tough choices due to mounting debts.
A cleaner reflects on life.
US version of the retro UK cop show about a copper stranded in the past.
When he discovers his baby boy was accidentally swapped with another at birth, whom he has raised and loved, a wealthy businessman must decide which one he truly feels is his son.
The story of music students and members of Afghanistan's only all-female orchestra, and what happened to them after the return of the Taliban.
Original series of America's longest running cop drama.
A young novelist eager to make a name for himself begins tutoring the son of one of the most influential writers in the world. Good intentions soon give way to suspicion as darker motivations surface and the lines of master and protégé are blurred.
A teacher and a student engage in an emotional conflict in a fight for justice.
Complete second series about Laura Ingalls and her family.
A group of elves, dwarfs, humans and hobbits contend with events which could bring mass destruction to Middle Earth.
The rings of power are forged as the dark lord Sauron prepares to try to take control of Middle Earth.
Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains. A love story for those who are alone.
A dreamlike conversation with the past and the present, this film reimagines a more nuanced narrative of Latasha Harlins by excavating intimate memories shared by her cousin and best friend.
First series of the superhero show, sees Clark head for Metropolis where he meets feisty reporter Lois Lane.
A guinea pig family, sent into space for an experiment, lose their way and must try to get back.
A private eye uncovers a web of peadophiles when he is called in to help find a man's missing son.
The film recounts a romantic obsession that spans several decades. In a poor Shanxi Province village, six-year old Tiedan falls in love with May, the beautiful neighbor who practices a traditional form of singing, Er-ren-tai, and this love will never die.
Documentary tracking the director and actor.
Two brothers tour Charlie Manson murder sites.
A woman finds forbidden romance on a tropical island given to her by her husband-to-be.
Continuing the black humour of American medics in the field during the Korean war.
Nostalgic reminder of the long running mobile army doctors classic American sitcom.
A child inventor meets a mysterious man and goes on a time-travel adventure.
Eighties vice cops turn on the style.
Neonoir about a private eye charged with following a man presumed dead after 9/11.
Tragic tale of a put-upon fruit seller in post-war Germany.
Groundbreaking detective show which proved it was cool for cops.
Twisted romance with a vampiric edge.
In the final part of the trilogy, the yakuza clan he infiltrated tries to import pasta made entirely of methamphetamines: speed-a-ronis.
Detective Monk sets out for a fourth outing, which begins with a crisis in faith and ends in redemption (sort of). Out to own on DVD now.
A deeply personal memoir about a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Beethoven the year he was blindsided by deafness and wrote his iconic sonata. Their lives weave a story about what we discover when we push beyond loss.
In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.
Celebrating patriotic nipples and a theatre that never closed.
Story of the artist and his bed-ridden, controlling mother.
Two detectives try to work out how a young man came to kill his mother with a sword.
Favourite moments from the series, picked by the surviving members of the team.
The novelist-turned-sleuth returns for a second series.
More crimes to be solved by author-turned-sleuth JB Fletcher, more roles for fading Hollywood stars.
The relationship between a Pakistani taxi driver and a prostitute.
Lonely farm-hand finds someone to be close to.
Stage show about a Take That tribute band.
Four seasons pass in the Demilitarized Zone in Korea.
Cult series... we can't believe it's not the Twilight Zone.
Documentary charting the friendship that grew between two priests on either side of the Atlantic after their communities were rocked by school shootings.
The Islamic revolution of 1979 banned female singers from appearing in public in Iran. Now Ayat Najafi tries to revive tradition, planning an evening of Iranian and French female soloists to rebuild shattered cultural bridges - but can it work?
Drawing connections between European adventurer Raymond Borremans and present-day Africa.
US Version of the Ricky Gervais hit.
More office politics at Dunder Mifflin, in the American version of the Brit hit.
After receiving a mysterious letter, a woman travels to a desolate island town and soon becomes trapped in a nightmare.
The director embeds himself with a radical Islamic family in Syria to ask what the future holds for their kids.
A tame animated bear is returned to the mountaintop in time for the hunting season, with a neurotic deer who wants to be his friend.
Three teenage girls coping with growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Story of a bus driver and a poet and a maker of cup cakes and a dog walker and a week in New Jersey where small things happen
The world of a hotshot Premiership footballer finds his life turned upside down after a run in with the crew from his old estate.
Teenage gods and monsters - classical, but not a classic
Percy and his pals go on a quest to find the Golden Fleece.
A girl splits up with her boyfriend and goes on a series of blind dates after placing a personal ad.
Ghost story set against the backdrop of the Paris fashion world.
Three short stories about women and their yearning for freedom.
Is the girl, saved from drowning, the daughter of the Devil and will the good people of Point Pleasant change her for the better?
Retelling of the Dickens classic.
Exploring the criminalisation of pregnant women as seen through the eyes of a young mother swept up in new laws.
A sister becomes determined to stop her brother leaving the family home.
Documentary about a gay black prostitute.
Religion, melodrama and an early cameo from Death himself in Bergman’s twisting metafilm.
A man whose daughter disappears, takes matters into his own hands.
A notorious criminal is sent to rescue an abducted woman who has disappeared into a dark supernatural universe. They must break the evil curse that binds them and escape the mysterious revenants that rule the Ghostland, an East-meets-West vortex of beauty and violence.
The trials of two soldiers captured by rebels.
Modelo Prison. Barcelona, 1977. A young accountant awaiting trial for embezzlement, joins forces with his cellmate and a collective fighting for the rights of ordinary prisoners.
A man gets sent to jail to mastermind a breakout that will save his brother's life. Out to own on DVD now.
A film about the prison from the places we least expect to find it.
Falling for the wrong girl can be fatal.
A kidnapped secret agent finds himself trapped in "the village".
A confrontation between a prisoner kept in a closet and an unhappy jailer.
Modern remake of the Sixties classic, sees a surveillance expert finds himself stranded in a "the village".
A young US soldier posted to an Iraqi prison forms a forbidden friendship with a detainee.
Plenty of cons, lots more pros.
The fourth outing for an intrepid time traveller and his hologram sidekick.
A former hitman trying to live a quiet life finds himself blackmailed at the same time as a boy arrives in desperate need of his guidance.
Dafoe's classic gets an animal twist.
Stranded on an alien world, alone but for a monkey, a spacefarer must learn how to survive.
Pop-culture savvy sketch show from over the Pond.
Courtroom drama about a herdsman accused of killing a baby.
Animation about a compulsive collector.
Based on the book by Naoki Higashida this immersive film explores the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people around the world.
A warrior with a magical sword sets out to take back a powerful talisman from the sorceress who destroyed her city.
Two penniless young men try to pick up young women and after one agrees to go with them to a dancehall things turn sour.
Girls kidnapped by soldiers in war-torn zones are prostituted to the military.
The history of the forests, from the Ice Age to the dawn of humankind.
Four film essays about the much loved artist and storyteller.
Tunisian women spend 11 months of the year together on an island without their men.
A frustrated housewife seeks a solution to her problems in witchcraft.
Two men escort a prisoner who may or may not be a witch on a perilous journey through a land ravaged by the black death.
A hoarder manages to obtain a precious cupboard in impoverished Eastern Europe, but the cost may be higher than he imagined.
A big screen outing for Homer and family. Out to own on DVD and Blu-ray on December 10.
Collection of The Simpsons TV cartoons, themed around the subject of the title.
Premiere season of the dysfunctional family's antics.
Homer and his family's odyssey continues.
Documentary charting the career of Harry Belafonte - singer, actor and political activist.
A sly spin on the Superman mythology, as we return to Kansas.
The continuing adventures of the young Clark Kent, aka Superman.
A carpenter takes on an apprentice who harmed his family when he was younger.
Women prisoners tell their stories in song.
Wry examination of the human condition told through a series of vignettes.
Autobiographical account of life as a boy offender in an Irish Catholic reform school.
An elderly man struggles to deal with his terminally ill wife's desire to be part of her local choir.
Documentary about an American musicologist’s life among the Bayaka pygmies.
Musicians from Lahore head to the US to play jazz.
The stirrings of incestuous passion against a background of deeply felt religious beliefs.
An ETA militant tries to cut the ties with his past. Showing at the EIFF as part of European Shorts 1.
A brother and sister find themselves on a magical adventure.
Modern love story set against the backdrop of the Austin music scene.
The story of an aspirational young Afghan rapper whose family plan to sell her into marriage.
Children at Havana’s state-run boxing academy prepare for the national championships.
Heist thriller about a tough young hoodlum who teams up with a ruthless con and finds himself attracted to a smart, street-savvy young woman.
Father and son's ideologies clash in their Pashun tribe.
In the days following the fall of Saddam, a Kurdish grandmother takes her grandson on the search for his father.
Fortysomething businessman discovers the value of family over success.
The genes of The Mask are inherited by a baby.
Winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes, sees an Aboriginal couple drawn together after tragedy strikes.
A look at the life and legend of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson.
Peter's busy life with new wife Beth and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate comes to him with concerns about their teenage son, Nicholas.
After a child is shot and needs a transplant, a family secret is exposed.
After the death of her estranged but famous composer father Richard Marlow, young virtuoso violinist Rose inherits his old French mansion. There, she discovers her father’s final work: a mysterious score marked with arcane symbols. He may be dead but his plans for her are still very much alive.
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.
A filmic response to the still photograph archive of Stanley Kubrick.
Life for siblings on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Considering the lasting trauma of decades of abuse in a German religious community in Chile.
Ed Sheeran up close, far away from raving fans and the stage. This personal portrait of the British singer-songwriter, filmed by his cousin Murray Cummings, follows this modest performer’s creative process as he writes a new song from scratch.
A gangster and an actor in an opera company discover they are soulmates.
An innocent moves to the city after her father’s death and finds her ideas about love and romance thwarted by cynicism. Available to own as part of Marlene Dietrich: The Movie Collection.
This Iranian morality tale deals with an ostrich farmer who loses his job and is forced to travel to and from the city.
A young music collector takes his friend on a trip to steal a valuable record from his grandmother, but the friend finds his grandmother far more intriguing.
A group of siblings respond to a family tragedy by rejecting adult authority and exercising their own brutal form of justice.
A musical epic and a romantic parable of a man whose family falls from grace after a tribal feud in a nomadic village.
Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation.
When the manic Dr Robotnik returns to Earth with a new ally, Knuckles the Echidna, Sonic and his new friend Tails are all that stands in their way.
Hard working widow, Leila, is tirelessly trying to provide for her infant daughter and 12 year-old-son, Amir. A marriage proposal from kind hearted Kazem could be the solution to all of her financial troubles. Unfortunately, as Kazem has a young daughter of his own, tradition dicates that Amir will be unable to live with them.
A prison officer faces a dilemma after a young man from her past is transferred to the jail where she works.
A family grives over the loss of their son in a freak diving accident.
An exploration of the legend that a woman was impregnated by a bullet during the US Civil War.
After his grandmother’s death, a Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown, nestled in the majestic monarch butterfly forests of Michoacán. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his hybrid identity, sparking a personal and spiritual metamorphosis.
Delightful comedy about childlike imagination and love of the movies.
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people tries to save a body from the flames.
The creator of a formula that will make men rich is tempted to betray his firm.
Documentary about the Millennium-trilogy author Stieg Larsson and his pioneering work of fighting right wing extremists and neo-Nazis.
Documentary charting the making of a plastic bowl.
An aging hairdresser escapes his nursing home and embarks on an odyssey across his small town to style a dead woman’s hair for her funeral.
Animated antics from a galaxy far, far away.
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
An old man is taken shopping by a young girl from Community Services.
Documentary tracks the preparations for the Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo in the second year that female cons are allowed to take part.
Documentary following the songwriters and stars of Once, after their triumphant Oscar win.
A film director explores the possibilities offered by tango.
There are other ways to create a monster.
TV series follows Sarah in her quest to save her son from the terminators.
The second, longer season of the Chronicles leads us further into stacked paradoxes and the genesis of a resistance machine intelligence.
Two petty crooks are hunted over rugged country after a gun goes off by mistake in a farmyard.
The plight of jailed Burmese comic Zarganar.
A Tokyo salaryman loses his job and tries to conceal it from his already dysfunctional family.
A young man with a pregnant wife strives to build a future for his family, but living in a refugee camp means that his options are strictly limited.
This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career. Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, history, America and the human condition.
Intimate portrait of the heavyweight boxer.
How China's Uyghur minority got caught up in the US invasion of Iraq and ended up illegally detained in Guantanamo.
A village competition leads to rivalry and romance in a local choir.
Behind the scenes at The White House when Martin Sheen is President.
Musical docudrama following six 17-year-olds on the cusp of leaving school.
The complicated love life of a compassionate undertaker and a dedicated midwife.
A misfit is brought in to coach his local girl's high school basketball team.
The second season of the Baltimore drug-ring cops - and an all-new case.
A fashion designer who holds workshops in a prison aims to put on a fashion show behind bars.
In Singapore, teacher Ling becomes the object of an infatuation when she takes one of her students under her wing.
Baltimore detective series sees a team of detectives take on a drug lord.
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.
Last series with David Duchovny, in which there are less supernatural shocks.
Sci-fi series soldiers on without David Duchovny, but can it survive?
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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