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Former Victoria detective Narelle Fraser investigated some of Australia’s highest profile crimes. Her easy manner allowed her to gain rapport with many perpetrators, leading to their convictions… but it all came at a price. The constant daily exposure to horrific crime had a cumulative effect on Narelle’s mental health. She hid the effects for 27 years, but after suffering panic and amnesia, she received a diagnosis of PTSD, which forced her discharge from the Police. THE POLICEWOMAN illustrates the crimes that caused her descent into hell, and the battle to claw her way out. Narelle’s positive outcome in this true crime feature will demystify the stigma of mental health and speak to millions of first responders around the world.
At the peak of his career, famous Kyiv architect Władysław Horodecki is desperately fighting his own demons. At the same time, darkness emanated by the evil forces bringing menace to the city is gradually enveloping the entire Kyiv. To defeat evil, Horodecki has to take on the mission of creating an architectural Quadrangle of Good.
The Andersons is a satirical horror film that begins as a cheerful VHS-era sitcom, following a picture-perfect suburban family. Laugh tracks cue every joke, routines repeat flawlessly, and nothing ever truly changes. That is, until Lisa, the mother, begins to notice something is wrong. Jokes repeat word for word, objects reset, the world seems to glitch, and an unseen audience appears to be watching her every move. As the cracks begin to show, Lisa steps beyond the sitcom stage and into a void where the making of the show is revealed: cameras, crew, and the presence of an audience. Desperate to escape, she fights her way back into the “show,” only to find the family reset, everyone frozen in their roles while the laughter never stops. Trapped in an endless loop of artificial happiness, Lisa is left alone with the terrifying realization that awareness is the worst punishment of all.
Evading the hard truth of their religious matriarch’s death, three sisters gestate dark ecstasies of faith and folk horror. Blessed be Mother.
After a funeral, Mile's finds himself having a conversation with a blissfully ignorant girl and a man who has a healthy outlook on life, the two of them try and help him fix his pessimistic ways.
A couple’s conversation unravels a film shaped by memory, where images and sounds reconstruct a past marked by state violence.
High on the Diablerets massif, the cable car unloads skiers. On the other side of the mountain, in a kind of mirror image, silence prevails, along with the quiet, hidden life of Derborence's wildlife.
Fool is back in Milwaukee with a new crew and a fresh new hustle, but their biggest score turns into their worst mistake.
When a loyal enforcer of a vampire order begins to remember the night his childhood ended, the truth waiting in the dark threatens to consume what’s left of him.
There's an old legend, that across the hills, deep in the forest of New Zealand, lies a gateway to a new world. A new beginning. Evergreen. 16 year old Ezra Galliard begins his search to see if the old legend is true...
After several years of silence of the LGBTIQ+ community because of a national decree, a group of friends organized a big attack to be free and have the right to speak in public again.
It tells the story of what the ceviche vendors themselves wanted to share, encompassing everything from myths and historical facts to funny and sad anecdotes. The film also aims to raise environmental awareness, revealing extinct marine species and promoting the protection of wildlife against overfishing.
A man cannot figure out why everyone is staring at him...
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The enemy, the lover and the brother of a missing landlady all become entangled in this Hitchcockian chamber play, set in the mid-70s.
Follows an impoverished 17-year-old girl who becomes a famous outlaw and survives a brutal 48-hour siege when thousands of armed men trap her in a village.
Dorotea is a young farmer who lives in the family's farm with her father. But, the Father reveals himself to be increasingly obsessive. Stranger and more disturbing events keep happening, and Dorotea just wants to run away.
