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Following five queer Nigerians living in the UK as they document their lives through audio diaries. From childhood to the present, participants share stories that explore how universal ideas of family, love, and finding oneself are obfuscated within the intersection of Blackness, African-ness, and Queerness. Official Selection Encounters International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Winner Short Film Competition

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Mona, a young woman in London, finds archived photographs of Arab women cross-dressing in the 1920s. Somewhere between her fantasies and reality, she starts a feverish journey of uncovering lost histories and her own identity. Official Selection BFI Flare LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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Sid, an elderly, widowed veteran, lives in a self-imposed isolation with his dog, Ace in the Scottish Highlands. When an identical version of his house appears on the horizon, Sid is forced to investigate a strange window into his future.

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Mel, a young Black lesbian, enraged at being wrongfully jailed, casts a spell during her overnight stay in a cell-block to tip the power balance between herself and the Police. A disturbing look at racialised misogyny and its violent counterpart through a black, female gaze.

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On October 6th, 1973, under cover of darkness, on Israel’s holiest day and during the month of Ramadan, the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan begin a surprise attack on the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. Outnumbered and outgunned, Golda Meir (Helen Mirren) confronts the immediate, clear, and present danger of a ticking timebomb that she hoped never to face. Surrounded, isolated, and frustrated by the infighting of her all-male cabinet, with little hope of rescue, one woman is in a race against time to save millions of lives on both sides of the conflict. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2023 - Berlinale Special Gala - World premiee

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In frigid 1960s Boston, Eileen shuffles between her father’s dingy, emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works alongside colleagues who have ostracised her. When an intoxicating woman joins the prison staff, Eileen is taken. Just when the possibility of a salvational friendship (or maybe more) takes hold and forms a singular glimmer in Eileen’s darkness, her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime that alters everything. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2023 - Premieres - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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In this coming of age drama, 11 year old Ama and her 24 year old mother, Grace, take solace in the gentle but isolated world they obsessively create. But Ama’s growing up threatens the boundaries of their tenderness, and forces Grace to reckon with a past she struggles to forget. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2023 - World Cinema Dramatic Competition - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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With only fourteen hours remaining to complete a commission for the Queen of Denmark's 80th birthday ball, a tortured artist must overcome his personal demons to finish his masterpiece.

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Martial artist-in-training Ria Khan believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2023 - Midnight - World premiere

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After an embarrassing encounter at the supermarket, Ramin, who is on the spectrum, is forced to confront the one thing he can’t seem to fix: himself. Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2023

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A blind ballet dancer is being stalked by Tommy, a dissociative identity disorder (split personality) street artist. A surreal image of Tommy descending the lonely path of the seeker, his suit made bespoke. A blind ballet dancer. Both will be on Wolfman Radio. Some say that there is a permanent and a temporary personality within a human being. A twisting walkabout in the worlds of separateness beyond dreams and reality. Unfolding with the logic of a dream, which can be interpreted but never explained. Punctuated by a series of occurrences that twist and turn where the lamb becomes the wolf. 4th International Film Festival of Crete & Awards 2023 - World Premiere - Best Feature Film Award, Best Script, Best Female Actor, Best Male Actor

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A boy, a mole, a fox and a horse create an unexpected friendship as they travel together in the boy's search for home. BAFTA Film Awards 2023 - Best British Short Animation - Winner Academy Awards 2023 - Best Short Film (Animated) - Winner