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In this major season we spotlight Japanese filmmakers who have inspired admiration and fascination around the world ...

Yorkshire sheep farmer Johnny (O’Connor) is dedicated to keeping his family’s farm afloat after his father’s stroke. He finds release from his exhausting everyday life through binge drinking and ...

Ancient ancestors of Wallace, Gromit and Morph abound in this trick film filled with malleable magic. Walter Booth made a number of films that began to explore the potential of stop-motion to bring ...

British cinema pioneer Claude Friese-Greene, known for his beautiful colour travelogue The Open Road (1926), liked to feature young ladies gracefully posing within a scene. Bordering on the risqué, ...

The heated 1976 trial of French left-wing intellectual and activist Pierre Goldman, accused of murdering two pharmacists in a bungled robbery, is reconstructed in Cédric Kahn’s riveting courtroom ...

Adapted from the book by Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre stars Matt Smith as Richard, an archaeologist obsessed with uncovering the roots of an ancient oak tree, and Morfydd Clark as Juliette, who ...

Legendary bubbly blonde 1950s TV starlet Sabrina (born Norma Sykes) slips into something more comfortable after luxuriating with her loofah in this (very slightly) saucy home-viewing 8mm glamour short ...

From US nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands, which used native people as radiation guinea pigs, to the expansion of its military bases across the region, from Japan to Korea, writer and presenter ...

Mira is a perfect teenage student in her final year at a strict school in the Himalayas. However, her life is thrown off course by her sexual awakening, as she becomes passionately involved with a new ...

There’s a ripple of disquiet in the locker-room when Leon, a new striker, joins the football team. Sharing a flat with keen rival Mario sets the scene for an unexpected love affair, but the path of ...

Innovative filming techniques and powerful interviews are used to strip away the façade of how the conflict in Northern Ireland was reported. It reconstructs one of that period’s most shocking ...