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  • Thirty Souls
    Movie + 1 extra

    Thirty Souls

    Movie + 1 extra

    "...in equal parts magical, haunting, mysterious and tangible." Cineuropa

    Berlin Film Festival
    San Sebastian International Film Festival
    Camerimage

    Twelve-year-old Alba longs to discover the mysterious, unknown reality of death in director Diana Toucedo's debut feature, an intensely atmospheri...

  • Querência (Homing)
    Movie + 1 extra

    Querência (Homing)

    Movie + 1 extra

    " ...an inspiring tale about one particular farmer who is struggling to overcome a traumatic event." Cineuropa

    Berlin Film Festival
    Indie Lisboa International Film Festival
    Jeonju International Film Festival

    Helvécio Marins Jr.'s film centres on Marcelo (Marcelo di Souza), an easygoing cowboy a...

  • Demolition Girl
    Movie + 1 extra

    Demolition Girl

    Movie + 1 extra

    "... among the strongest of recent films to bluntly speak about class difference." Slant Magazine

    Slamdance Film Festival
    Raindance Film Festival

    Set in rural Japan, this is a remarkable coming-of-age drama features a stunning performance by Aya Kitai as the tenacious titular character. She pla...

  • Such A Small Thing
    Movie + 1 extra

    Such A Small Thing

    Movie + 1 extra

    "Juno Rinaldi’s Such A Small Thing addresses the cultural inertia around intimate partner violence" - The Globe and Mail

    Hamilton Film Festival
    Toronto Shorts International Film Festival

    A woman in her 40s returns to her small hometown to confront her ex-boyfriend about an assault that happene...

  • Naked of Defenses
    Movie + 1 extra

    Naked of Defenses

    Movie + 1 extra

    "A poised yet internally turbulent film of almost religious purity and compassion..." The Hollywood Reporter

    Berlin International Film Festival
    Pusan International Film Festival

    Masahide Ichii’s expertly crafted, spare and compassionate drama explores the life of Kinoshita (Ayako Moriya), a wom...

  • Americano
    Movie + 1 extra

    Americano

    Movie + 1 extra

    "Writer-director Kevin Noland effectively utilizes his fine young cast and the natural beauty and rich culture of northern Spain in amiably posing a timeless question of youth." - The Los Angeles Times

    Palm Springs International Film Festival
    Seattle International Film Festival

    Chris McKinley, ...

  • Crying Bitch
    Movie + 1 extra

    Crying Bitch

    Movie + 1 extra

    SXSW Film Festival
    Fantasia Film Festival

    A man, who is having an affair with a young woman, gets home late as usual. But that night, he finds something wrong with his wife Satomi. Since then, he gets strayed into her dark side, the "labyrinth".

    Japan - 2018 - 14m
    Directed By: Reiki Tsuno
    Writt...

  • Mina Olin Siin (I Was Here)

    Movie + 1 extra

    "...slick and fast paced, contrasting modern, stylised split-screen editing with a grim backdrop of misspent adolescence." Time Out

    Karlovy Vary Film Festival
    Helsinki International Film Festival

    17-year-old Rass is growing up in an Estonian suburb. In the absence of a solid home life his fami...

  • Our People Will Be Healed

    Movie + 1 extra

    "This film functions as both cinema and journalism, the camera pushing us into a world we might not otherwise see and illuminating that world on a human scale." NOW Magazine

    Toronto International Film Festival

    Our People Will Be Healed, Alanis Obomsawin’s 50th film, reveals how a Cree community...

  • Papagajka
    Movie + 1 extra

    Papagajka

    Movie + 1 extra

    "Rozanski has taken bold steps in her first feature film, Papagajka, setting her psychological thriller in the tumultuous background of Sarajevo" - IndieWire

    SXSW Film festival
    Sarajevo Film Festival

    Damir provides security in a quiet building in Sarajevo where he lives. His life is secluded an...

  • Holy Angels

    Movie

    Vancouver International Film Festival
    Yorkton Film Festival

    In 1963, Lena Wandering Spirit became one of the more than 150,000 Indigenous children who were removed from their families and sent to residential school. Jay Cardinal Villeneuve's short documentary Holy Angels powerfully recaptures Ca...

  • Debris
    Movie + 1 extra

    Debris

    Movie + 1 extra

    Vancouver International Film Festival

    This short film is a portrait of Tofino, BC intertidal artist Pete Clarkson as he crafts his most ambitious and personal project to date: a memorial to the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami. He, like so many of us around the world, was deeply affe...

  • China Gate
    Movie + 1 extra

    China Gate

    Movie + 1 extra

    DOK Leipzig
    Korean International Documentary Festival

    Right before dawn, students in Huining have already started their studying session; hard working youngsters have filled up the space of school ground. This is one of the most poverty-stricken Counties in Western China; here people's only hope...

  • A Young Patriot
    Movie + 1 extra

    A Young Patriot

    Movie + 1 extra

    "A gripping chronicle of the breakdown of the so-called Chinese Dream" Hollywood Reporter

    Toronto International Film Festival
    CPH: DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
    Sheffield Doc/Fest

    'A Young Patriot' explores the patriotism in China`s youths born after 1990. The film foll...

  • Luk'Luk'I
    Movie + 1 extra

    Luk'Luk'I

    Movie + 1 extra

    Toronto International Film Festival
    Edinburgh Internatonal Film Festival
    Vancouver International Film Festival

    Wayne Wapeemukwa's powerful portrait of five Vancouverites during the 2010 Winter Olympics utilizes doc/fiction hybrid techniques to give voice to those living on the margins of Canadi...

  • A Dog Barking at the Moon

    Berlinale Film Festival
    Hong Kong International Film Festival

    Director, Lisa Zi Xiang’s Chinese family saga, A Dog Barking At The Moon, winner of the Teddy prize at Berlinale for LGBT-themed features, is told through different periods of time, often exploring pivotal moments in a family's histo...

  • Like A House On Fire

    Movie + 1 extra

    When Dara returns home to reconnect with the husband and young daughter she left behind two years earlier, she discovers that a woman who is seven months pregnant has taken her place and that her daughter no longer recognizes her. Featuring a remarkable performance from Sarah Sutherland in the le...

  • They Who Surround Us

    Movie + 1 extra

    "...a penetrating, thick-with-emotion period piece." Edmonton Journal

    Edmonton International Film Festival
    Sedona International Film Festival
    Montreal Independent Film Festival

    Roman (Troy Ruptash), a Ukrainian farmer living in Alberta loses his wife in a tragic accident. Guilt and grief send h...