Drama

Plan 75

By Trevor Johnston

Chie Hayakawa’s dystopian drama about a government-sponsored euthanasia programme is affecting, but leaves key questions unexplored.

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The Eight Mountains

By Rafa Sales Ross

The lifelong friendship between two men is the subject of Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s poignant Alps-set drama.

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Pamfir

By David Jenkins

An in-your-face and vibrant gangster comedy set on the Ukraine-Romania border about a man who powers through life and directly into disaster.

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The Blue Caftan

By Marina Ashioti

In her second feature, Maryam Touzani fashions a complex tale about love that aptly deals with the complexities of repressed sexuality.

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Harka

By Josh Slater-Williams

A young man in Tunisia steps up to care for his younger sisters following the death of their father in Lotfy Nathan's electrifying drama.

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Return to Seoul

By Ella Kemp

Davy Chou’s bittersweet comedy of a Korean adoptee searching for her biological parents is powered by a dazzling lead performance.

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Rodeo

By Katherine McLaughlin

A young French-Guadeloupian woman enters the male-dominated world of moto cross biking in Lola Quivoron’s daring debut feature.

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Love According to Dalva

By Alexandria Slater

Belgian filmmaker Emmanuelle Nicot approaches the subject of child sexual abuse with great sensitivity in her debut feature.

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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

An elderly man begins a remarkable journey after discovering that a former colleague has terminal cancer in Hettie Macdonald's adaptation of Rachel Joyce's best-selling novel.

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How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By Hannah Strong

An ensemble of radical climate activists attempt to sabotage an oil pipeline in Daniel Goldhaber's environmentalist action-thriller.

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Missing

By Alison Rumfitt

Storm Reid anchors an enjoyable, twisty thriller that leaves an unfortunate sour taste in the mouth.

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Sick Of Myself

By David Jenkins

A competitive pair of self-obsessed narcissists will do just about anything for attention in Kristoffer Borgli’s satirical feature debut.

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A Thousand And One

By Cheyenne Bart-Stewart

A woman recently released from prison raises her young son against the backdrop of a rapidly-changing New York City in AV Rockwell's Sundance prizewinning feature.

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One Fine Morning

By Savina Petkova

Léa Seydoux stars as a single mother entangled in an affair with a married man in Mia Hansen-Løve's powerful eighth feature.

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Pacifiction

By David Jenkins

The Polynesian island of Tahiti represents a tropical purgatory for the French colonists in Albert Serra’s apocalyptic political thriller.

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Cairo Conspiracy

By Charles Bramesco

Tarik Saleh’s latest sees the election of a new Grand Imam take place in Egypt’s most prestigious university for Islamic scholarship.

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Beau is Afraid

By Hannah Strong

Joaquin Phoenix plays a chronically nervous man on a mission to get home in Ari Aster's scattered third feature.

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