Girlhood​​​
​Bande de filles

Céline Sciamma
France  ·  2014

From the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, this energetic and deeply empathetic drama follows a shy Parisian teenager drawn into a black girl gang.

“Empowering and electrifying” – Observer

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
​​​​Dokhtari dar sab tanha be xane miravad

Ana Lily Amirpour
USA ·  2014 

An outrageously languid new-school vampire flick about a chador-wearing antiheroine who stalks the night, sinking her teeth into those who deserve to die.

“Strange, wonderful and special” – Guardian

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The Wild Goose Lake
Nan fang che zhan de ju hui

Diao Yinan
China ·  ​2019

Gangland subterfuge tumbles into a dazzling nocturnal manhunt in this film noir par excellence – a modern genre classic in the making.

“Spellbinding pulp noir” – Rolling Stone

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Never Gonna Snow Again
​​​​Sniegu juz nigdy nie bedzie

Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
Poland  ·  2020

This unclassifiable satire of Poland’s disconnected upper-class follows an angelic masseuse as he tries to draw meaning out of his clients’ lives.

“A magical… tour-de-force” – Hollywood Reporter

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Honeyland 
​​Medena zemja

Tamara Kotseva, Ljubomir Stefanov
Macedonia  ·  2019

A centuries-old way of life tending wild beehives deep in the countryside is disrupted by the arrival of new neighbours.

“An elemental struggle between ancient tradition and greed… an incredible true story” –Time Out

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Collective 
​Colectiv

Alexander Nanau
Romania ·  2019
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A heroic reporter investigates a shocking health-care fraud in the aftermath of a tragic nightclub fire.

“The best film about journalism since All the President’s Men” – The Times

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

Spaceship Earth

Matt Wolf
​USA ·  ​2020

The stranger-than-fiction story of eight scientists who spent two years quarantined inside a self-engineered bio-dome.

“Entertaining and edifying in equal measure” –Little White Lies

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