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VermiglioVermiglio

Drama2024120 minsDirector: Maura Delpero

Unfolding against the stunning backdrop of a remote Italian mountain village, Maura Delpero’s film is a hauntingly beautiful period tale of family life gradually torn apart.

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On FallingOn Falling

Drama2025101 minsDirector: Laura Carreira

The importance of human connection lies at the heart of this powerful, nuanced portrait of a young Portuguese warehouse employee in Scotland.

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Silent RoarSilent Roar

Drama202390 minsDirector: Johnny Barrington

On the Isle of Lewis, a passionate surfer and his childhood sweetheart have dreams of escaping the past and the present, in Jonny Barrington's charming, windswept comedy with echoes of Bill Forsyth.

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Long Day's Journey Into NightLong Day's Journey Into Night

Drama2018138 minsDirector: Bi Gan

Bi Gan's ‘destroyed film noir' is a dazzling dive into an immersive dreamscape.

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The BalconettesThe Balconettes

Comedy2024104 minsDirector: Noémie Merlant

Co-written with Céline Sciamma, Noémie Merlant’s bright and bold film follows three friends as they try to dispose of the body of an abuser they’ve accidentally killed.

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Jeune & jolieJeune & jolie

Drama201393 minsDirector: François Ozon

Francois Ozon’s sly and seductive account of teenage girl’s dalliance with high-class prostitution.

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All We Imagine as LightAll We Imagine as Light

Romance2024118 minsDirector: Payal Kapadia

Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Grand Prix-winning portrait of three women is a transcendent tale of love and sisterhood.

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Ghost in the ShellGhost in the Shell

Animation & Artists Moving Image199583 minsDirector: Mamoru Oshii

Mamoru Oshii's beautifully animated and disturbingly prophetic anime classic about the hunt for a supreme hacker in a transhumanist dystopia.

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Memories of MurderMemories of Murder

Detective drama2003131 minsDirector: Bong Joon-ho

A pair of detectives clash trying to solve the brutal murder of two women, in Bong Joon-ho’s masterful blend of true crime and dark social satire.

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Caligula: The Ultimate CutCaligula: The Ultimate Cut

Period drama2023178 minsDirector: Tinto Brass

Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren star in one of the most controversial films in cinema history, presented here in an entirely new cut compiled from the original rushes.

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Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 BruxellesJeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Drama1975202 minsDirector: Chantal Akerman

Chantal Akerman's magnificent epic of experimental cinema offering a feminist perspective on recurrent events of everyday life.

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PatersonPaterson

Comedy2016118 minsDirector: Jim Jarmusch

Adam Driver excels in this effortlessly charming tale of a bus driver poet in New Jersey, filmed with typically groovy elan by Jim Jarmusch.

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Good Bye, Lenin!Good Bye, Lenin!

Drama2003121 minsDirector: Wolfgang Becker

After his mother wakes from a coma in 1990, a young man goes to great lengths to pretend East Germany still exists in this wonderfully bittersweet tragicomedy.

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La HaineLa Haine

Drama199598 minsDirector: Mathieu Kassovitz

Mathieu Kassovitz’s landmark mid-90s drama throws a cinematic Molotov cocktail at structural racism, police brutality and media manipulation.

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My Favourite CakeMy Favourite Cake

Romance202497 minsDirector: Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha

Life begins at 70 for Mahin, who decides to shake her life up in this charming, quietly subversive tale from Iran.

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ArchitectonArchitecton

Documentary202498 minsDirector: Viktor Kossakovsky

Victor Kossakovsky’s film essay looks at the way we have constructed our built world through a series of breathtaking sequences.

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Barking Dogs Never BiteBarking Dogs Never Bite

Comedy2000111 minsDirector: Bong Joon-ho

A professor takes drastic action to silence a barking dog in this superb debut feature from Bong Joon-ho, the Oscar-winning director of Parasite.

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The Kindergarten TeacherThe Kindergarten Teacher

Drama201897 minsDirector: Sara Colangelo

Maggie Gyllenhaal gives a career-best performance as a kindergarten teacher who finds herself in an ethical quagmire after discovering the poetic talents of a precocious student.

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Amores perrosAmores perros

Drama2000148 minsDirector: Alejandro González Iñárritu

Alejandro González Iñárritu's (Birdman, The Revenant) gripping debut feature is a savagely brilliant triptych around the theme of animalistic desires.

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High LifeHigh Life

Science Fiction2019113 minsDirector: Claire Denis

The messiness of sex, the mysteries of birth and the moving spectacle of devoted parenting in the face of impending oblivion.

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Bottle RocketBottle Rocket

Comedy199591 minsDirector: Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson's rarely screened debut ditches the kitsch in favour of surprisingly subtle comedy, in this tale of a criminally inept gang led by Owen Wilson.

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God's Own CountryGod's Own Country

Drama2017105 minsDirector: Francis Lee

A troubled young sheep farmer falls for a hired hand in this stunning debut from Francis Lee.

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Nymphomaniac Vol. INymphomaniac Vol. I

Drama2013118 minsDirector: Lars von Trier

Volume 1 of Lars von Trier’s explicit, controversial film about a woman recounting the history of her sexuality in episodic style.

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RomanceRomance

Drama199998 minsDirector: Catherine Breillat

Shockingly explicit, Catherine Breillat’s critically acclaimed Romance is one of the most controversial films of modern cinema.

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Paris, TexasParis, Texas

Drama1984145 minsDirector: Wim Wenders

The late, great Harry Dean Stanton's finest role came as the near-mute Travis, on a journey across America to reunite his family, in Wim Wenders' moving tale of loss and redemption.

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The Hourglass SanatoriumThe Hourglass Sanatorium

Fantasy1973119 minsDirector: Wojciech Jerzy Has

The first screen adaptation of Bruno Schulz’s novella is an opulently strange trip through a Polish-Jewish looking-glass.

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MauriceMaurice

Drama1987140 minsDirector: James Ivory

Merchant Ivory’s landmark adaptation of E M Forster’s classic LGBTQ+ novel and a precursor to the James Ivory-scripted Call Me By Your Name.

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