The Final Code (2021)

A rich man’s daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father’s money.

In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of catastrophe…

Keem’s internal battle leads us through fragments of memory and temptation as he navigates the depths of The Melodic Blue.

A teacher, driven to exasperation from insults and insubordination, takes her class hostage.

Mia, an ex-prostitute, is trapped in a loveless marriage with the abusive Quan (Sunny Pang, who also stars in Headshot in this year’s Festival lineup), a butcher who runs a…

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five…

The spirit of a condemned 20-year-old student wanders through time, linking together four stories of people struggling for survival in this gritty meditation on poverty, natural disaster and political strife…

In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake…

The story of 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to…

The German soldier Clemens Forel – determined to be reunited with his beloved family – makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from…

Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John’s…

When the stripper from Alisha’s bachelor party is found dead the next morning, the high society lives of best friends Alisha, Maya and Zee go through a roller coaster ride.