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This fascinating chapter from Mark Cousins’ epic essay on the history of documentary chronicles a decade of formal reinvention and mainstream success.

Cousins, the creator of the groundbreaking The Story of Film: A New Generation and Women Make Film, trains his distinctive film-historian lens on the evolution of documentary. The result is a rich tapestry of landmark works and underappreciated gems. In this illuminating chapter, he guides us through the 1990s, a decade of filmmakers exploring bodies, spirituality, labour, war and politics, against the backdrop of rising commercial interest in the form.

It took Anna (Nicole Kidman) 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph (Danny Huston), and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean (Cameron Bright) turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.

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Mesmerising, stimulating and unsettling, Niels Schneider and Léa Seydoux star in this body-swap tale that grapples with the existential implications of being trapped inside someone else’s physical being.

David, a withdrawn photographer, meets a mysterious woman at a party. The two share a sexual encounter, only for David to wake up the morning after in the woman’s body. Arthur Harari’s (co-writer of Anatomy of a Fall) vertiginous, occasionally harrowing and ultimately rewarding ride eschews straightforward resolution in favour of a reflection on the aftermath of severing the link between body and mind.

French Language with English subtitles

Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado, hoping to cure his writer's block. He settles in along with his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and his son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), who is plagued by psychic premonitions. As Jack's writing goes nowhere and Danny's visions become more disturbing, Jack discovers the hotel's dark secrets and begins to unravel into a homicidal maniac hell-bent on terrorizing his family.

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In this stunning, blood-soaked homage to Technicolor horror films, a woman in medieval England rises from the grave to wreak revenge on her husband.

Returning as a ghost after a cruel betrayal results in her death, Eleanor and her sister deliver bloody vengeance on the man who took her life and murdered their father. Anna Biller, writer-director of The Love Witch, here delivers a rich visual feast. Gloriously shot on 35mm, this supernatural Gothic melodrama vibrantly brings 14th-century England to life.

After transferring to a Los Angeles high school, Sarah (Robin Tunney) finds that her telekinetic gift appeals to a group of three wannabe witches, who happen to be seeking a fourth member for their rituals. Bonnie (Neve Campbell), Rochelle (Rachel True) and Nancy (Fairuza Balk), like Sarah herself, all have troubled backgrounds, which combined with their nascent powers lead to dangerous consequences. When a minor spell causes a fellow student to lose her hair, the girls grow power-mad.

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Having attended a Hallmark movie workshop, John Wilson applies his learnings to a documentary about concrete, albeit with a dryly funny and deceptively understated tone.

After finding himself with too much time on his hands, documentarian Wilson attends a workshop on how to make Hallmark romcoms. It inspires him to apply the formula to a film investigating the story of concrete. Infused with Wilson’s trademark curiosity and wit, the film project introduces him to a variety of unusual people and places. The result is a wry and humane meditation on the modern world.

These screenings will be presented with Descriptive Subtitles. 

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.