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Eva a 16-year-old girl lives with her mother, her younger sister and their cat, but wants to move in with her estranged father.

A bank employee plans to steal money, confess, and then serve his sentence while his colleague hides the loot.

This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers.

Seventy-year-old Mahin, solitary until now, chooses to revive her love life.

A chase where a daughter and her fugitive father bond.

When September is suspended from their school, her sister July begins to assert her own independence. Tension in the family builds.

Una grapples with grief while harboring a secret, unable to fully express her emotions, as she navigates challenging events swirling around her.

On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.

The great imam collapses and dies in front of his students. It's the start of a battle for influence to take his place.

The adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe.

When a student comes out as queer, her teacher is forced to choose between conservative religion and individual freedom.

As he is about to return to his country, a Romanian construction worker meets a doctoral student studying bryology.

A visually stunning film about femininity and solidarity with the healing power of a sauna ritual.

Ireland, 1981. An effete young girl neglected by her family is sent to live with a foster family for the summer.

A young girl tries to prove to her disapproving mother that she can potty train a cute but unruly piglet.

After spending years in Belgium, a young Congolese man returns to his birthplace of Kinshasa to confront the intricacies of his family and culture.

Two unmarried women who accidentally became pregnant and are about to give birth meet each other in a hospital room.

A look at the relationships and rivalries within The Rolling Stones in their formative years, as well as the creative musical genius of Brian Jones, key ...

Interwoven stories told over the course of one day.

Keiko is deaf and lives on the outskirts of Tokyo, where she trains relentlessly in boxing.

In a maritime region with windswept dunes, a kind of hermit with mysterious powers becomes the guardian angel of a young girl. The light-eyed stranger ...

Ken Loach, the chronicler of social injustice, takes on the gig economy, liberalized labor markets and fake self-employment in his latest film.

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger ...

The film follows the journey of Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne Frank dedicated her diary. A fiery teenager, Kitty wakes up in the near future ...

Preteen Akira Fukushima (Yûya Yagira) and his young siblings have been abandoned by their mother, Keiko (You). Keiko, who has moved in with a new lover, ...

The film interweaves several of Haruki Murakami's short stories, giving them new philosophical and existential meaning.

A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers.

Overshadowed by her boyfriend's recent rise to fame as a sculptor, Signe hatches a vicious plan to reclaim her rightfully deserved attention.

The mesmerizing world of Albert Serra's PACIFICTION departs from the exotic portrayal of Tahiti, presenting an authentic glimpse into its beauty.

Christmas 1877, Elisabeth of Austria (Sissi) celebrates her 40th birthday. Stifled by convention, she increasingly rebels against her image.

At a time when abortion is illegal, a married woman with an unwanted pregnancy works with a group of women to find help.

A couple who have been happily married for many years face an existential decision.

Deeply humanist drama centred on the strength and resilience of women in the face of a dangerously patriarchal society.

The true story of Rocco Granata, an Italian coal miner's son who followed his passion for music against his father's wishes and social barriers.

Carefully arranged portrait of Icelandic society shows protagonists from all walks of life.

After a pandemic, Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery programme that helps patients forge new identities.

While struggling to find a nursing home for her sick father, Sandra meets a long-lost friend.

A mother is accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by leaving her on a beach in northern France as the tide was coming in.

A shy teenager on a summer vacation experiences the joy and pain of young adulthood when he forges an unlikely bond with an older girl.

In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean.

In a remote village in Costa Rica, Clara, a withdrawn 40-year-old woman, experiences a sexual and mystical awakening as she begins a journey to free herself ...

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A documentary that seeks to understand the violence that surrounds us, but also the violence within us.

A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, ...

Four children become friends during the summer holidays, and out of sight of the adults they discover they have hidden powers. While exploring their newfound ...

A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.

Two young Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge reserve try to find their way to adulthood in a hostile society.

An intimate story between Alice, a mother, and her two daughters.

World War II, occupied Soviet Union. István Semetka is a simple Hungarian farmer who serves as a Sub-Lieutenant in a special unit scouting for partisan ...

Life is a short party that will soon be forgotten.

In 1961, a 60 year old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains ...

The story of 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing ...

Desperately seeking inspiration for the follow-up novel to his bestseller "Inexorable", Marcel Bellmer moves in his wife's old family mansion with his ...

The Guerrasio family and friends gather to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s oldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday ...

In a near future, single people are taken to The Hotel to find a romantic partner in 45 days, or else are transformed into beasts and sent off into The ...

Hans Hoffmann is gay during a time when homosexuality was still illegal in Germany and Austria. Nevertheless he continues his quest for freedom and love, ...

A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.

Based on a true story: The wife of a politician is found dead in a hotel room. What happened in room 108?

14-year old drug dealer Johnny is in a home for young people. When he learns that he cannot go home at weekends any longer, he asks one of his customers, ...

The story of Winky Wong, a little Chinese girl who has just arrived in Europe and whose boundless imagination will help her to integrate. Everything is ...

The touching portrait of eight-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender and in doing so, evokes the sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is ...

Director Charlène Favier deals with her own experiences of abuse as a young junior athlete in this compelling and haunting drama.

Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On release ...

Stéphane joins an anti-crime brigade in the 93. He will meet his teammates and discover the tensions between the groups in the neighborhood.

A hit man suffering from Alzheimer's disease is pursued by two detectives.

A home care nurse is suspected of being an accomplice after the youngest daughter in the family she works for was abused.

Three Iranian actresses: one from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, one popular star of today and a young girl longing to attend a conservatory.

As Jafar Panahi is banned from making movies by the Iranian government, he poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran. Director ...

Alice and Celine are best friends, just like their sons. Their complicity is flawless until the day an accident disrupts their lives.

Two strangers. A spontaneous sex date. The attraction between them is intense. Is this really their first meeting?

When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further ado, ...

Thelma leaves home to go and study in Oslo. There she discovers that she is in communication with supernatural forces.

Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. ...

Explores day in the life of Anders, a recovering drug addict. Reaching the end of a treatment course at a rehab centre, Anders is clean and has a day's ...

Pio Amato, a 14 year-old member of a small Romani community in southern Italian town of Gioia Tauro in Calabria, is in a hurry to grow up. Pio follows ...

One morning it is over. For Hampus it is a relief to break up from their destructive relationship, while Adrian is devastated. Will he be able to survive ...

An unsettling feeling overwhelms a small Hungarian town when two orthodox Jews arrive with a mysterious trunk. As residents begin to speculate on the purpose ...

Jonathan, a kind-hearted young man, is released from prison due to lack of evidence. He returns to his mother who lives in a small house by the dunes. ...

Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education.

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life...

The film follows Merab, a competitive dancer who is thrown off balance by the arrival of Irakli, a fellow male dancer with a rebellious streak.

An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.

In Claire Denis' English debut, convicted criminals Monte (Robert Pattinson) and Dr. Dibs (Juliette Binoche) are sent on a one-way space mission.

Punky biopic about the underground music scene in Leningrad just before perestroika, based on the early years of pop icon Viktor Tsoi and his band.

Young Felix grows up as an inside spectator at cycling races, a bizarre environment where violence and drugs seem to reign. Following his father's footsteps, ...

14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest ...

Three aliens come to Earth and take over human bodies in preparation for a massive invasion .

BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together ...

In her mad quest for love, 9-year-old Benni scares everyone around her with her indomitable energy.

Carmen, a Romni, has resigned herself to the traditional expectations placed on her until she meets Lola and questions everything.

Brazil, 2027: Joana is deeply religious. At work, she encourages divorcing couples to reconsider their breakup.

Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger ...

Ever since 1919, the daily life in Ypres, in Flanders Fields, has been dedicated to commemorating the First World War. The films makes a journey through ...

While cruising, Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, powerful, and deadly dangerous man.

As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both brothers ...

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

Abbas flees violence in the Central African Republic with his two children to build a new life in France.

An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s.

Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive ...

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