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After falling down a steep rock face, a woman finds herself stranded. Now, alone and with a dislocated shoulder, she must make her way out of the woods--and contend with how she got there.
Just as the Earth is, our inner selves are made up of many layers that make up our identity and tell the story of our existence.
A recovering drug addict, desperate for closure and saddled by crushing guilt after the disappearance of her young son, is presented with a bizarre offer to learn the truth about what happened and set things right - if she is willing to pay a terrifying price.
10 plaintiffs who suffered as comfort woman during World War II and their 13 lawyers stand in a courtroom in Japan. They have gone through 23 difficult trials from 1992 to 1998.
When a woman inherits a kite from her recently deceased grandmother, she has no idea of the terrifying forces about to be unleashed.
A documentary exploring the use of Monument Valley in film.
A young woman who was abandoned in a graveyard as a baby goes looking for her roots in rural Norway and gets more than she bargained for.
Alienated filmmaker hopeful Pat Johnson's epic story of growing up in rural Illinois, falling in love and becoming the first fan of the movie that changed everything.
A documentary about the development of South Korea's lesbian community in the 1990s.
Two men and a mysterious manuscript.
A young woman disguises herself as a man in order to access a university education.
A writer of film versions for the visually impaired falls for a photographer who is losing his eyesight, together they learn to see the radiant world.
A meditation on the power of sound to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us.
A man who is down on his luck wakes up one day to find that an explosive device has been implanted in his neck.
After a solitary prospector strikes gold in the wilderness of Lapland, he runs into a retreating detachment of Nazi soldiers who set their sights on claiming the bounty. Unfortunately for the stormtroopers, this is no ordinary miner.
A DJ on a late night radio show on which callers share horror stories has to deal with a stalker.
A physically disabled man treks to Everest Base Camp on horseback, yet when the mountain puts his life on the line, he's forced to question how far he's willing to go, just to fit in.
Steely Shin Myung is a fierce trans queen on the Seoul nightclub scene who reconnects with her Buddhist heritage after the death of her father.
A real life science fiction story devoted to the world of myxomycetes, or fungus-like ‘slime moulds’.
A make-up artist and fashion designer enjoying life in a thriving queer community has to open up about being straight when he falls for a beauty queen.
A documentary following one Honduran family's efforts to be accepted into the US as refugees.
Returning to their childhood home on the Isle of Wight, a house filled with art and the songs and poetry their mother once wrote, Dorothy and Phoebe deal with conflicting feelings about the difficult woman who raised them.
When a satellite falls from orbit and crashes into the suburban home of a dysfunctional family in Ohio, the father seizes the opportunity to fulfil his dream of becoming an astronaut by re-building it into his own rocket ship. While his wife and daughter believe he's experiencing a midlife crisis, surreal events begin to unfold around him.
As well as bringing Vermeer's works together, both the Rijksmuseum and the Mauritshuis in the Hague have conducted research into Vermeer's artistry, his artistic choices and the creative process behind his paintings.
Unfaithfulness dogs a couple on the verge of marriage.
A driftless young woman discovers she's 11 weeks pregnant and has only 24 hours to make a consequential decision.
The story of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's unexpected rise to power and his dramatic fall from grace, from the highest office in the land to Ward 10 at Maasiyahu Prison.
A documentary about what happens to old objects once they reach the end of their working life, exploring the ways in which they can be repurposed, upcycled or used to create art.
A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies.
When a man leaves the city to be with his boyfriend, his unstable best friend, with whom he used to perform drag, struggles to cope alone.
When his grandmother suddenly passes away and a young woman with a mysterious rash arrives on his doorstep, a young man tries to help her. As her condition worsens, it becomes clear that she’s afflicted with no ordinary illness. She’s transforming into something dangerous before his eyes, but he’s already in too deep to abandon her.
When a recovering drug-addict named Massimo is bitten by an ancient, shapeshifting monster, he must fight to save his girlfriend Tien from the same bloody fate.
Alone at a remote country house, a young man watches helplessly as a social media frenzy wrongly identifies him as a wanted terrorist. When online threats lead to an IRL home invasion, he must fight for his life in this tense thriller of virtual witch-hunts and false accusations.
Friday, December 27, 1945. Five military veterans gather in the ornate parlour of a Brooklyn brownstone. Best friends since childhood, they’ve reunited to support their troubled host – but when his invitation for cocktails turns into an impromptu séance, the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all-too-literal.
A group of male hunters regularly lures women to their island with the chance to win 100K in a hunt, only for them to discover that they are the hunted. Then they mess with the wrong women.
After getting laid off, a young woman finds herself living in her car and struggling to hide her homelessness from her brother, who is looking after her daughter.
Convinced that his wife is possessed by dark forces, a desperate husband puts his faith in the power of a pitiless self-proclaimed exorcist, who is convinced that salvation can be found only through his hands.
An exploration of Wiz’s controversial and banned 1992 film about the UK acid house scene.
Set against the backdrop of the filmmaker's quixotic quest to build an ark in a field in Maine, the film heads far afield - to salt mines in the Alps, fjords in the Arctic, and ancient libraries in the Sahara - to illuminate the strange world of archives, record keeping, and memory.
A 17-year-old girl from Belize finds herself mysteriously pregnant. We find her walking, following the north star to safety across the US/Mexican border. She’s escaping a deadly virus and being chased by the right-hand man of the devil, Baal.
A documentary exploring the movement to eliminate the use of Native American slurs, names, logos, images and gestures which many Native Americans and their allies find demeaning and offensive.
Anita Chitaya has a gift: she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and maybe she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home in Malawi from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real.
When a novelist has an unexpected encounter in his professional life, he recalls falling in love with the young man's father.
Starting out as a petty thief, a young man nicknamed “Rhino” quickly works his way up the criminal hierarchy in 1990s Ukraine. Rhino has only known power and cruelty, but with nothing left to lose, could he finally find a chance at redemption?
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.
Ali earns a living illegally selling gasoline on the street. He doesn’t have any contact with his family, but when he receives news that his father has died, he is forced to become responsible for his two younger sisters.
Suburban London, the 1980s. A stranger in the family becomes a ghost child and awakens the monsters and desires of a queer childhood.
An Asian Canadian teenager grapples with his identity when he falls for the boy next door. What will his family think? And how will he tell his girlfriend?
A recently disgraced detective leads a special unit in an effort to stop a crime boss from becoming mayor.
After her father's death, Alyson, her partner Richard and their baby return to her childhood home.
Jumping into a life Emilios Avraam and Niovi Charalambous on Smaragda: I Got Thick Skin And I Can't Jump
A dark time Kim Sung Soo on capturing history and getting a shot at an Oscar with 12.12: The Day
Reflections of a cat Gints Zilbalodis on Hayao Miyazaki, fairy tales and Latvia’s Oscar submission, Flow
Man about town Gay Talese on Watching Frank, Frank Sinatra, and his latest book, A Town Without Time
Magnificent creatures Jayro Bustamante on giving the girls of Hogar Seguro a voice in Rita
Silent City Driver speeds off with top prize in Tallinn Mongolian drama wins Grand Prix
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