A young woman’s faith is challenged over the course of a tragic night in As In Heaven. Lise (Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl) is the oldest child living on a 19th-century farm, who is preparing to go away to school, a choice supported by Lise’s mother Anna (Ida Cæcilie Rasmussen), but not so much by her absentee […]
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A fashion student is haunted by memories of an aspiring singer from the 1960s in Last Night in Soho. Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) is a 1960s-obsessed young woman from the English countryside, who is accepted into the London College of Fashion. Unhappy with the living situation at her dorm, Eloise decides to rent a room in London’s
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A woman with an obsession with cars poses as the missing son of a fire captain in Titane. As a child, Alexia (Agathe Rousselle) got into a car accident, resulting in a titanium plate being implanted in her skull. This leads to an unnatural connection to cars, which she uses to great success as a gyrating
A filmmaker seeks the truth about how his father came to be a hitman in Comala. Gian Cassini was shocked to read about the 2010 assassination of El Jimmy, a small-time hitman in Tijuana since the murdered hitman was his own estranged father. This prompts Gian to speak to his family members, including mother Eloisa, half-sister
A vampire takes in a suicidal alcoholic in Kicking Blood. Anna (Alanna Bale) is a vampire, who works during the day as a librarian with her elderly co-worker Bernice (Rosemary Dunsmore), while at night she hunts for blood with fellow vampires Boris (Benjamin Sutherland) and Nina (Ella Jonas Farlinger). One night, Anna comes across suicidal alcoholic
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A woman and her daughter move into the home of her estranged servant mother in Mlungu Wam (Good Madam). After the death of her grandmother, Tsidi (Chumisa Cosa), and her young daughter Winnie (Kamvalethu Jonas Raziya), move into an extravagant house where Tsidi’s estranged mother Mavis (Nosipho Mtebe) works as a servant for her bedridden Madam
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