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Girls Will Be Girls
Teenage romance simmers in a strict Himalayan boarding school in this sublime coming-of-age tale. Winner of a 2024 Sundance audience award
- Romance
- Drama
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2024
- 119 mins
- Shuchi Talati

Green Border
Three-time Oscar-nominee Agnieszka Holland returns with a powerful, timely and unflinching exploration of the current migrant crisis.
- Drama
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2023
- 152 mins
- Agnieszka Holland & 2 others

Power Alley
Queer sisterhood and collective power lie at the heart of this arresting Brazilian debut, in which a promising volleyball player faces an unwanted pregnancy.
- Drama
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2023
- 100 mins
- Lillah Halla

Take Shelter
Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain bring to life this extraordinary tale of ordinary madness.
- Drama
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2011
- 116 mins
- Jeff Nichols

Wilding
A dying landscape is healed against all odds, going on to thrive in astonishing ways, in this hopeful story of ecological regeneration.
- Documentary
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2024
- 75 mins
- David Allen

Samsara
Berlin Film Festival award winner Lois Patiño’s assured third feature transports us to magical places in Laos and Zanzibar, where the visible and the invisible merge.
- Drama
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2023
- 114 mins
- Lois Patiño

Tchaikovsky's Wife
Award-winning director Kirill Serebrennikov (Petrov's Flu) charts the tumultuous relationship between the 19th-century composer and his wife, in this poignant and powerful biopic.
- Biopic
- Drama
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2022
- 144 mins
- Kirill Serebrennikov

Body Double
An unemployed actor is drawn into a world of voyeurism, seduction, mystery and murder, in Brian De Palma's playful and satirical homage to Hitchcock.
- Thriller
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1984
- 114 mins
- Brian De Palma

Red Rooms
The allure of the serial killer is explored in this deeply unsettling and unforgettable exploration of the impact of extreme violence.
- Drama
- Horror
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2023
- 118 mins
- Pascal Plante

The Origin of Evil
Laure Calamy stars in this devious, involving French thriller by Sébastien Marnier, playing an outsider tangled in a web of upper-class family malice.
- Thriller
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2022
- 123 mins
- Sébastien Marnier

The Last Detail
Jack Nicholson is at his very best in this highly-acclaimed dramatic comedy from Hal Ashby about three sailors on the loose.
- Comedy
- Drama
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1973
- 104 mins
- Hal Ashby

Starve Acre
Dark and sinister forces invade a couple’s home in this wildly eerie British folk horror, with unflinching performances from Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark.
- Horror
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2023
- 98 mins
- Dan Kokotajlo
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Black Dog
An ex-con is sent to catch stray dogs in the Gobi Desert in Guan Hu’s picturesque, Cannes prize-winning, canine caper.
- Thriller
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2024
- 110 mins
- Guan Hu

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Johan Grimonprez’s involving film essay, anchored by the rhythm of American jazz, reveals disturbing truths about the decolonial struggle between global political powers.
- Documentary
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2024
- 150 mins
- Johan Grimonprez

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
A striking portrait of an artist deserving of greater recognition, directed by Mark Cousins (A Story of Film).
- Biopic
- Documentary
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2024
- 88 mins
- Mark Cousins

Who We Love
Bullied for her sexuality, Dublin schoolgirl Lily turns to her gay best friend for support in this vibrant coming-out, coming-of-age drama.
- Drama
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2021
- 94 mins
- Graham Cantwell

Love Lies Bleeding
Rose Glass’s gripping and gory follow-up to Saint Maud finds a lesbian couple drawn into a web of violence in 1980s small-town New Mexico.
- Romance
- Thriller
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2023
- 104 mins
- Rose Glass

Only the River Flows
Shujun Wei's slow-burn noir draws us inexorably into its mysterious psychological journey.
- Crime
- Drama
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2023
- 102 mins
- Shujun Wei

Kneecap
Fantastically outlandish biopic about the anarchic Belfast rap trio and their fight to save the Irish language.
- Drama
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2024
- 105 mins
- Rich Peppiatt

The Critic
Ian McKellen is in delicious form as London's most vicious critic, who strikes a Faustian pact with a struggling actor (Gemma Arterton).
- Period drama
- Thriller
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2023
- 101 mins
- Anand Tucker

No Other Land
This powerful documentary from a Palestinian-Israeli collective might be one of the most important films of this year.
- Documentary
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2024
- 92 mins
- Basel Adra, Rachel Szor & 2 others

Night Courier (Mandoob)
A desperate delivery driver gets caught up in the dark underworld of Riyadh in Ali Kalthami’s gripping, pitch-black satire.
- Comedy
- Thriller
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2023
- 112 mins
- Ali Kalthami

About Dry Grasses
Turkish Palme d’Or-winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns with an icy portrait of a teacher whose life unravels following an accusation of inappropriate behaviour.
- Romance
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2023
- 198 mins
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Kensuke's Kingdom
Michael Morpurgo’s beloved novel is brought to life in this delightful, animated tale of a young castaway who discovers he’s not alone.
- Animation & Artists Moving Image
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2023
- 84 mins
- Neil Boyle and Kirk Hendry
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Wales. Wonderful Rugby Win
The English Rugby team are overpowered by a dominant Welsh team at Cardiff Arms Park.
- Non-Fiction
- Sport
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1922
- 1 mins

Damaged Goods
A tragic story is played out by porcelain figurines residing in a bric-a-brac shop.
- Animation & Artists Moving Image
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2008
- 9 mins

Farmers Diary - 12 February 1965: Day in the Life of a Farmers Wife
The essence of life as a farmer’s wife in Weardale, County Durham, in the 1960s.
- News
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1965
- 5 mins

Snow in January
Snowcastles, rather than sandcastles, are the order of day as Aberystwyth’s beach, promenade, bandstand and streets are covered in the white stuff, as is an outlying area.
- Home movie
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1959
- 1 mins

The Strange Case of Penny Allison
Imelda Staunton and Hugh Laurie as you've not quite seen them before: in a comedy training video for Britain’s National Blood Service.
- Government sponsored film
- Training film/TV programme
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2002
- 18 mins

LFF Trailer 1995
Aardman turn the cinema screen into a mirror and offer this delightful portrait of the typical film festival audience
- Animation & Artists Moving Image
- Documentary
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1995
- 1 mins

Jack Johnson Paying a Visit to Manchester Docks
The legendary world heavyweight boxing champion, John Arthur 'Jack' Johnson, visits Manchester.
- Non-Fiction
- 2 mins

Shippam's Sandwichmakers
Boring sandwiches get a tasty Shippam's make-over in this classic comedy commercial from the 70s starring the legendary Roy Kinnear
- Advert
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1981
- 1 mins

Life in Her Hands
Kathleen Byron - of Black Narcissus fame - stars in one of the most ambitious recruitment films ever made.
- Instructional film/TV programme
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1951
- 55 mins

Poet Goes North
A long-lost BBC documentary of John Betjeman reflecting, in his unhurried manner, his sense that something vital was being lost and singling out what should be preserved.
- Documentary
- Instructional film/TV programme
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1968
- 26 mins
Outlying
A documentary on one of Scotland’s most isolated and breathtaking islands, where all 35 residents prepare for the remarkable roll-out of fibre-optic broadband.
- Documentary
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2019
- 11 mins

Everywhere is a Wildlife Park
No need to queue, and nothing to pay. All you need is a good pair of eyes ... because ‘everywhere is a wildlife park’.
- Amateur film
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1970
- 19 mins
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