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A colourful comedy featuring quirky characters, a case of mistaken identity and one hell of a ride.

A wordless, dream-like, post-apocalyptic horror movie full of sounds of fury. A darkly trippy avant-garde scare fest!

A suicidal police officer finds a reason to live: catching the killer preying on migrant women.

A touching, unexpected friendship grounds Alberto amid psychotic visions – blurring reality and hallucination, fantasy and terror.

A privileged teenager mounts a mock Kabuki performance to lampoon her billionaire parents in this idiosyncratic dark comedy.

Merging documentary and thriller, a resounding, archival retracing of the 1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak.

Thai students unite to reject the rigid societal norms and traditionalist values in their school.

A candid film about a remarkable and resilient neurodiverse family who prove that love prevails.

An elliptical, boundary-bending journey through memory, a hypnotic elegy for freedom and art.

Gym teacher Jean grapples with sexuality, self-censorship and identity in this intimate portrait of 1980s systemic homophobia.

A camp, provocative, subversive mosaic of sex, love, rape, death, tourism, and defiance from Hong Kong underground artist Scud.

Undercover agent Vera is torn between family and mission in a fierce, gripping crime thriller.

After stumbling into an abandoned convenience store, failing screenwriter Kato falls into a fantastically quirky adventure.

Can the official overseers of Mexico's grand lottery succeed in defrauding the system? Find out...

A (be)coming-of-age story about a teenage girl’s trauma-shaped identity and rebirth of her youth.

The giallo genre meets Indonesian spiritual mythology in Garin Nugroho’s dazzling revitalisation of horror tropes.

Swaggering swordsmen, intriguing overlords and fluffy daemons in an animated wuxia epic starring glove puppets.

A documentary of unvarnished authenticity, following Beijing youth in search of a post-punk, underground lifestyle.

In a post-colonial twilight, the zoo of Brasília stirs with the gaze of the uprooted.

A riveting exploration of the intrigue surrounding the 1978 kidnapping of Italian politician Aldo Moro.

A clever, terrifying horror film that riffs on the difficulties faced by young people.

A Christian community finds itself on the brink of scandal in a sensitive social drama.

The latest queer fairytale from IFFR favourite João Pedro Rodrigues: a boundary-crossing musical comedy.

A neon-drenched ensemble crime thriller set in Geylang, Singapore’s notorious red-light district.

Sawako explores the limits of her sensuality with older men until she eventually falls for someone her age.

A solemn physician meets the doppelgänger of his loved one in this cordial, light-footed romance.

Improv-based, psychologically dense piece of chamber cinema crafted with little financial means, but a lot of excellence and dedication.

Presumed gay, Dali falls for a woman in a buoyant reverse coming-out comedy.

Urgent, immersive journey into Hong Kong’s 2019 protests, and a meditation on what resistance means.

A grisly and captivating coming-of-age fairy tale set in an isolated mansion in 1945 Philippines.

Political corruption and betrayal abound in this poignant Iranian gangster tale from Masoud Kimiai.

The private home museum of Eva and Jan Švankmajer viewable in a film: surrealism unbound.

A collage-like essay about coastlines and plants, adaptation and transformation as well as resistance.

Reminder that Hong Kong loves spooky comedies and isn’t afraid to let it scare (and entertain).

The search for the home of the author Naiyer Masud becomes an exploration of a city.

Neon sign-lit declaration of enduring love to a man with passion, and to Hong Kong.

Two schoolgirls struggle to overcome the strain of life online in this powerful coming-of-age drama.

Action-packed crime cinema gem at its purest and most philosophical, proudly featuring noir's new darling, Frank Grillo.

Andrew Legge’s debut feature is a sci-fi time travel romp through surreal and imaginary reconstructions of 1940s footage.

Júlio Bressane looks back at his career in this very long stream-of-consciousness edit containing scenes from all his films!

An exploration of symbiotic bonds between driver and passenger in the universe of sidecar racing.

In 1918, the destinies of three people from different backgrounds are intertwined... A nuanced chamber drama.

A middle-aged Malaysian woman fights societal prejudices and religious bureaucracy to marry a younger man.

Reticent teenager's relationship with his mother boils over in a tough and unsettling coming-of-age drama.

Coffee, karaoke and conversations amid one of the longest workers’ strikes of the 21st century.

A reinvention of Hindu myth in a timeless, poetic framework. A symphony for the senses.

Compelling documentary following the maritime crossing of a group of Zapatistas from Mexico to Europe.

Crossing snow-covered mountains, four resistance fighters evade enemy eyes in an austere, visually stark work.

An imaginary melodrama excerpted from twelve extant films from the silent period of Colombian cinema.

A fusion of past and future, archival images and modern technology, courtesy of Agatha Christie.

The landscape of Seoul becomes an alluring invitation into the magical wonders of the night.

A soft-core porn magical realist murder mystery zombie comedy cop shocker fairy-tale reverie about filmmaking.

Kawase's discreetly subversive document of the Olympic Games is an extraordinary accomplishment in scale and elegance.

An unflinching look at the controversial side of the world's foremost sports competition in turmoil.

On the campaign trail with Japanese Communist Party candidates as they fight for a more equal Japan.

Nele dreams of becoming a soprano and falls in love with dancer Kolya. A razzmatazzy musical mixing realism, kitsch and classical ballet.

An animated film about the perils of indoctrination, questioning a world made of straight lines.

Albert Serra’s latest film is a dreamlike tale of decadent colonial power in Polynesia, starring Benoît Magimel.

An ex-smuggler does one last job for his family in this simmering rural crime drama.

An eerily funny anthology of horror stories inspired by Bengali superstitions, legends and folk tales.

A brooding, stunningly shot investigative political thriller about the malignant nature of power.

Three members of a South London family struggle with changing orientations and desires. Vibrant entertainment.

An intoxicating battle between twins (and their accomplices), infused with Hong Kong martial-arts tropes.

A pamphlet for a new way of seeing. Austrian feminist legend Friederike Pezold's return to cinema!

This drama of a family torn by a suicide attempt casts a critical eye on social institutions.

A transparent, thought-provoking collaboration between a volatile, struggling loan shark and a self-questioning documentarian.

Five men, five histories, five apparitions of a woman. A lush story about gossamer memories and dreams.

Jet-black comedy featuring Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler and Churchill in a Dantean vision of the Afterlife.

An oneiric experimental love story set in the future that fuses narration and formalist abstraction.

In this tender debut feature, summer vacation is an exploration of millennial boredom, family love and trans identity.

An actor secretly moonlights at a drag club, where escalating sabotage games lead to violence.

A supermarket, its employees and homeless people as a cosmos of resistance in neoliberal times. A modernist masterpiece!

A woman facing a health crisis abandons her lifestyle and discovers other, more tantalising options.

A chamber piece anchored in the presence of director Peter Schreiner. A unique essay in stream-of-conscious filmmaking.

Trapped residents of a high-rise descend into tribalistic mayhem in a bleak, uncompromising dystopian drama.

A woman investigating a real-life romance enigmatically vanishes in this mysterious, magic, ever-shifting tale.

The dual past haunts and informs the present in this occultist noir set in rural Namibia.

A whimsical debut feature that explores what it means to be human and/or alien.

Compelling story of the female political prisoners who sought justice during the oppressive White Terror era.

An affecting portrayal of the burden of celebrity, blurring the line between reality and fiction.

Intimate, lyrical ode to filmmaker Narimane Mari's late partner, Michel Haas – and to life itself.

A contrite policeman must reckon with his political past in a stylised, expansive film noir.

A combined version of Ulrich Seidl's Rimini and Sparta that explores an ageing crooner and his pedophile younger brother.