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When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. Their stories reveal a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity.
One afternoon a polite young boy, Elio, meets his tutor's secret lover. When he confides in her, sharing an even bigger secret, she's convinced he's joking and bursts out laughing.
An imagined meeting between Sigmund Freud and CS Lewis, to discuss the existence or non-existence of God.
In this true-crime documentary, a charismatic rebel in 1990s Seattle pulls off an unprecedented string of bank robberies straight out of the movies.
The story of the National Gallery of London and what it means to its staff, visitors and the country at large.
Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
The story of a man who violently breaks free from his banal environment, evading society with its principles, codes and institutions.
A lonely man starts to piece together the story of his estranged father after his death and discovers the older man didn't believe he was human.
Just a week before Jo gets married, she is reunited with Scarlet, rekindling their friendship and memories of teen romance.
A criminal lawyer faces difficult moral and emotional choices.
During their final weekend together, two best friends test the limits of their friendship while making a double-meta film.
A portrait of William Shatner's personal journey over nine decades on Earth.
An experiment with artificial intelligence, looking at the world from a different perspective.
A man tries to help his in-laws celebrate their wedding anniversary at his country hotel while fending off foreclosure.
A troubled young woman who has lived an isolated life inherits her grandmother's schoolhouse. There she begins to experience strange visions and terrifying dreams.
Men and women perfect the art of the pitch to make their livelihood selling various products with visual demonstrations.
A young woman unwittingly sets off a gruesome chain of revenge.
Abang and Adi are undocumented orphans in Malaysia. While the older brother, who is deaf mute, has resigned himself to a life of poverty, his younger sibling burns with indignation. A brutal accident upsets their relationship's fragile balance.
Looking after his gay actor uncle, filmmaker Simon is engulfed in a whirl of Shakespeare and clutter, as uncle David lends his credit card to neighbours, greets visitors in the nude and teaches Simon a profound lesson on dying happy
A young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland flounders in a maze of social services and bureaucracy as her situation becomes increasingly dire.
An archaeologist and an architect fight to re-imagine a future after traumatic brain injury leaves them adrift from the people they love.
In a dystopian South Korean city, a soon-to-be-evicted tenant decides to complicate the process by renting his toilet out to an eccentric couple, but their strange behaviours soon become unbearable.
When troubled assistant bank manager Andy McNeary's baby daughter goes missing, he must follow the instructions of a mysterious voice on the other end of a baby monitor to save her before she disappears forever.
After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew.
The story of a Japanese reality TV star left naked in a room for more than a year, tasked with filling out magazine sweepstakes to earn food and clothing.
Five young women visiting the tropics for a wedding find themselves in deep water, with hungry sharks on the prowl.
A reflection on the polarisation of US politics, looking at the potential of moderated conversations to bring ordinary people together and encourage empathy.
Princess Kriemhild vows to avenge her husband's murder but must overcome her brothers who swore allegiance to Hagen. She marries Attila the Hun and persuades his army to attack Hagen, but there will be a terrible price to pay.
A nurse caring for a weakened alien begins to oppose a group of corrupt officials who are intimidating him and extracting a valuable substance from him.
A young couple is compelled to leave their Christian missionary station in the Kalahari Desert after being threatened with death by an extremist militant gang. After crashing their aircraft they must battle man and beast for their lives.
During an environmental collapse that is forcing humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father's plan to enlist in the government's new euthanasia program goes horribly awry.
Cinderella is pushed too far by her evil stepsisters and stepmother, which causes her to switch out her glass shoes and use the assistance of her Fairy Godmother to seek bloody vengeance.
An architect finds her search for love complicated by the fact that whenever she falls for someone she forsees their death.
When an influx of illegal weapons trafficking explodes onto the scene, a grieving blind police officer must purge the city streets or risk mass chaos breaking loose.
Summer vacation has emptied a Japanese boys' school of all but three boys. They have no families to return to for the summer, so they spend their days in the empty school. A darkness hangs over the three however: the suicide, three months earlier, of a classmate.
There is an ancient villa where desperate people have the opportunity to solve their fate by selling their body to a mysterious entity in exchange for money. When enormous, centuries-old creatures emerge from the deep woods surrounding the villa, a series of strange and sinister events pushes three unlikely guests to band together to attempt a desperate escape.
Kasumi doesn't know what love is and she doesn't have any feeling of romance. Due to her sister's marriage, her mother arranged a formal marriage arrangement without her permission. At the meeting, she finds a man who is just seeking a friend.
Mitchell Morse's investigation into a serial killer in a sleepy beach town is complicated by a severed foot on the beach, his fracturing relationship with his wife, and his own slipping sanity.
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, sets off on a treacherous journey to the Kingdom of Burgundy to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Princess Kriemhild.
A burned out young woman joins a secret society of traumatised adults who heal through childlike play.
Docufiction interpretation of Virginia Woolf's novel.
Kora and surviving warriors prepare to defend Veldt, their new home, alongside its people against the Realm. The warriors face their pasts, revealing their motivations before the Realm's forces arrive to crush the growing rebellion.
Black comedy about a couple facing a tricky moment in their relationship.
A documentary exploring John Singer Sargent's mastery of portraying subjects' identities through clothing in 50 paintings and wardrobes, comparing public identity portrayal then and now, examining his influence on art, culture, and fashion.
A trans woman returns to her remote village upon her father's death to find her traumatised mother in desperate need of her help.
A man and his sentient handkerchief best friend visit a remote mountain cabin and discover that only they can save the Earth.
A group of thieves is recruited for a dangerous mission which turns out to have a personal twist.
Murder mystery chiller unfolds across two time periods as a man and his daughter try to come to terms with a suicide while he investigates historic deaths at a juvenile centre.
A young woman follows a mysterious melody onto a remote tidal island. When she crosses back over at the next low tide, she emerges into a world where 25 years have passed.
Trouble brews for a young woman and her mother after they take in a foundling youngster against the wishes of their community.
The serpent's call Composer Stephen Lukach on creating tension and awe in Beware Boiúna
Care and community Mike Leigh and the Tender Loving Care cast on humanity and looking out for one another
The aftermath Jorge Thielen Armand on returning to Venezuela to make Death Has No Master
Making magic Gregg Bishop on witches, inspiring actors, instinctive filmmaking and The Heretiks
The road to The Guests Cristina Diz and Stefan Butzmühlen on working together on their latest film
Beyond Saturn Tina Gharavi, Tala Calil and Assaad Bouab on Shadows Of Beirut
Puppy love Brad Pitt on the 'moving' Heart Of The Beast shoot thanks to furry co-star Odin
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San Sebastian Golden night for Tender Loving Care
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San Sebastian Werner Herzog honoured
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