Supporting Indie Film
Written and directed by Fred Baillif, a group of teenage girls have been placed in a residential care home with social workers. This forced family experience creates unexpected tensions and intimacies, one incident triggers a chain of over-reactions. Starring: Charlie Areddy, Kassia Da Costa, Amandine Golay, Claudia Grob, Joyce Esther Ndayisenga, Amelie Tonsi, Sara Tulu and Anais Uldry.
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Written and directed by Kavich Neang, co-written by Daniel Mattes, 20-year-old Samnang faces the demolition of his lifelong home in Phnom Penh and the pressures from family, friends, and neighbours which arise and intersect in this moment of sudden change. Starring: Piseth Chhun, Jany Min, Chinnaro Soem, Tho Sovann, Hout Sithorn and Ok Sokha.
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Written and directed by Jonas Bak, as she enters retirement, a mother leaves behind her solitary life in rural Germany and memories of a once perfect family life and travels to protest-ridden Hong Kong, a place that has kept her son away from her for many years. Starring: Anke Bak, Theresa Bak, Lena Ackerman, Alexandra Batten, Patrick Lo and Ricky Yeung.
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Written and directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, tells the extraordinary true story of a man, Amin, on the verge of marriage which compels him to reveal his hidden past for the first time. Voiced by: Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh, Milad Eskandari, Belal Faiz, Elaha Faiz, Zahra Mehrwarz and Sadia Faiz.
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Written and directed by Ángeles Cruz, Chabela, Maria and Toña, live in a Mixtecan town, where they have to confront their own sexuality. Starring: Sonia Couoh, Myriam Bravo, Aida López, Eileen Yañez and Noé Hernánde.
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Directed by Pablo Larraín and written by Steven Knight, during her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles. Starring: Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Jack Nielen, Freddie Spry, Jack Farthing, Sean Harris, Stella Gonet, Richard Sammel, Laura Benson and Sally Hawkins.
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Directed by Craig Roberts and written by Simon Farnaby, the story of golfer Maurice Flitcroft whose performance at the 1976 British Open Golf Championship made him a legend. Starring: Mark Rylance, Sally Hawkins, Rhys Ifans, Mark Lewis Jones, Nigel Betts, Johann Myers, Jake Davies, Jonah Lees and Christian Lees.
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Written and directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, an unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets. Starring: Kotone Furukawa, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Katsuki Mori, Fusako Urabe, Aoba Kawai, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri and Shouma Kai.
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Written and directed by Natalie Morales, co-written by Mark Duplass, the only two stars of the film, a Spanish teacher and her student develop an unexpected friendship.
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Written and directed by Michael Pearce, co-written by Joe Barton, two brothers embark on a journey with their father, who is trying to protect them from an alien threat. Starring: Riz Ahmed, Lucian-River Chauhan, Aditya Geddada, Octavia Spencer, Rory Cochrane, Janina Gavankar and Misha Collins.
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Written and directed by Sebastian Meise, co-written by Thomas Reider, in post-war Germany, Hans is imprisoned again and again for being homosexual. The one steady relationship in his life becomes his long time cell mate, Viktor, a convicted murderer. Starring: Franz Rogowski, Georg Friedrich, Anton von Lucke and Thomas Prenn.
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