Tilda Swinton
Birthday: 1960-11-05
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Biography: Katherine Matilda Swinton (born November 5, 1960) is an award-winning British actress of Scottish descent, known for her versatile roles in independent films and blockbusters. She is a recipient various accolades throughout her long career, including an Academy Award and two BAFTA Awards, in addition to being nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. Swinton began her career by appearing in experimental films starting with Caravaggio (1986), followed by The Last of England (1988), War Requiem (1989), and The Garden (1990). She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of Isabella of France in Edward II (1991). She next starred in Sally Potter's Orlando (1992), for which she received a nomination for the European Film Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in The Deep End (2001), and followed this with appearances in Vanilla Sky (2001), Adaptation (2002), Constantine (2005), Julia (2008), and I Am Love (2009). For the film Young Adam (2003), she won the British Academy Scotland Award for Best Actress. Her performance in Michael Clayton (2007) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Additionally, she won the European Film Award for Best Actress and received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the psychological thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011). Swinton has also played the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia series (2005–2010) and the Ancient One in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise. Swinton was awarded the Richard Harris Award by the British Independent Film Awards in recognition of her contributions to the British film industry. In 2013, she was given a special tribute by the Museum of Modern Art. In 2020, Swinton was awarded the British Film Institute Fellowship, the highest honour presented by the institution, for her "daringly eclectic and striking talents as a performer and film-maker and recognizes her great contribution to film culture, independent film exhibition and philanthropy." That same year, The New York Times ranked her thirteenth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century up to that point.
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Young Adam
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he...
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Broken Flowers
Introverted Don Johnston receives an anonymous letter from an ex-lover informing him that he has a s...
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. ...
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Constantine
John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve t...
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themsel...
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Thumbsucker
Justin Cobb, a teenager in suburban Oregon, copes with his thumb-sucking problem, romance, and his d...
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Vanilla Sky
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins fall...
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The Beach
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumou...
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
One year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, L...
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Adaptation.
Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustr...
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Michael Clayton
A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while repres...
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Stephanie Daley
Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the bl...
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orle...
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Burn After Reading
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda ...
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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. Th...
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Caravaggio
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Carava...
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The End
Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son ...
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Julia
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's ...
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The Killer
After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he...
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The Man from London
A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase...
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The Limits of Control
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While ...
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The Deep End
With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. H...
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Orlando
England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she w...
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I Am Love
Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family...
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The Statement
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War I...
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Durmiente
Durmiente shows Tilda Swinton, the lead actress of Memoria, sleeping in a bedroom as the shadows gro...
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Female Perversions
Eve Stephens, a beautiful and sexy high-powered attorney, is up for appointment as a judge. But belo...
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War Requiem
During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him i...
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The War Zone
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a d...
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Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
This documentary explores Serge Diaghilev's roots, his genius for bringing together avant-garde comp...
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Edward II
England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origi...
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Possible Worlds
The same man lives out several parallel lives in different "worlds" and in different relationships a...
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Aria
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...
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David Bowie: Five Years
Featuring a wealth of previously unseen archive, this film looks at how Bowie continually evolved: f...
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relation...
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Teknolust
Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist creates a Recip...
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Climate of Change
"We are the renters of this world, not its masters," reminds Pooshkar, a precocious 13-year-old memb...
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The Invisible Frame
In 1988, Cynthia Beatt and the young Tilda Swinton embarked on a filmic journey along the Berlin Wal...
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Cannes Uncut
Looks at the glamour, red carpets, movies, craziness, stunts, deals, parties and personalities that ...
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Blue
Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects an...
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Wittgenstein
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge...
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Conceiving Ada
Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undyin...
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Cinema Is Everywhere
A documentary feature film that ties four narratives - from China, India, Scotland, and Tunisia - to...
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars ...
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Snowpiercer
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class syst...
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The Garden
A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, p...
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Strange Culture
The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensembl...
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Only Lovers Left Alive
A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several ce...
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The Protagonists
An Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a few...
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The Zero Theorem
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work inter...
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Love Flesh
During the course of a series of voyages, the pocket cameras of Pippo Delbono capture unique moments...
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The Party: Nature Morte
The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart....
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Radioman
The extraordinary story of 'Radioman', a New York film set mascot who overcame homelessness and alc...
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Friendship's Death
A robot messenger is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go t...
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The Dilapidated Dwelling
Documentary with fictional elements exploring issues around housing in the United Kingdom....
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Goliath: Playing with Reality
After a decade of isolation in psychiatric institutions, Jon, a paranoid schizophrenic, finds his sa...
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Death for a Unicorn
Little Billy’s life is tormented by his scheming aunt who drags him daily to the cemetery and forces...
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Egomania: Island Without Hope
Egomania is a visually stunning end-of-the-world melodrama about lust, jealousy and murder set amids...
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Moonrise Kingdom
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the stor...
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Some Thoughts On The Common Toad
A cine-collage manifesto in defense of beauty amidst political cynicism and environmental alienation...
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Degrees of Blindness
Inspired by a poem by William Blake: a short experimental film about the perception of vision....
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Cycling the Frame
In 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle - starting and ending at the Brande...
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The Sluggard
A young woman lazes about while those around her try to maintain order. Produced in 1986 and release...
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Trainwreck
Having thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face h...
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Hail, Caesar!
When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer...
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Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
A portrait of the American director Jim J. at work on the set of his latest film, Only Lovers Left A...
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The Room Next Door
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine....
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Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project
Described as being based on Weerasethakul's dreams....
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Uncut Gems
A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of h...
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A Bigger Splash
An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experience trouble when Mar...
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Volcano Saga
This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxde...
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Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
Martin Scali, who was Wes Anderson's assistant on "Fantastic Mr. Fox", shot this short documentary i...
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Dreams Rewired
Tracing anxieties about technology back to the 1880s, DREAMS REWIRED combines clips from nearly 200 ...
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
With mesmerizing footage and time lapses of animators at work, this behind-the-scenes special captur...
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The Gospel According to St Derek
Using interviews with close family, friends and collaborators, The Gospel According to St. Derek bea...
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Sleepwalkers
A bike messenger, an electrician, a postal worker, a business man and an office worker make their wa...
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Deep Water
DEEP WATER is the stunning true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsma...
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Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
Remembrance of Things Fast represents the culmination of Maybury's work in video, which has develope...
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B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and...
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Behind Jim Jarmusch
"Behind Jim Jarmusch" is an intimate an intriguing portrait of director Jim Jarmusch, at work on the...
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Ballad of a Small Player
Amid the glittering casinos of Macau, a gambler running from his past—and his debts—becomes fascinat...
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The Human Voice Q&A With Pedro Almodovar And Tilda Swinton, Hosted By Mark Kermode
A recorded Q&A hosted by Mark Kermode, where Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swintondiscuss the inspiratio...
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The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze
A collection of thoughts and journeys. A dialogue between different forms of knowledge. A film about...
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Suspiria
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic...
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The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
The Ways of Seeing writer is celebrated by Tilda Swinton and her fellow admirers in an unorthodox fo...
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Transparent
Marking the 30th anniversary of Derek Jarman's passing, close friend and collaborator Tilda Swinton ...
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The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
The official music video for "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" by David Bowie, it premiered on 25 Febru...
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Okja
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnappi...
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Chroma
On the afternoon of September 22nd, 2023, sunny, in the Summer Palace, in the glowing, colorful Kunm...
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War Machine
A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex ...
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The Somme
Drama-documentary recounting the events of the 1st July 1916 and the Battle of the Somme on the West...
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Isle of Dogs
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an...
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A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
One of the most important women in British modern art, the painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a hig...
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Play Me Something
A group of individuals are stranded at a small island airport when the flight from the mainland is d...
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Derek
Derek, in chronological order, records the work and life that stands at the foot of Derek Jarman's h...
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Your Cheatin' Heart
In this fondly remembered mini series John Byrne, creator of Tutti Frutti, explores the country musi...
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Letters from Baghdad
Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq ...
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When Björk Met Attenborough
Award-winning musician Björk and legendary broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough have ad...
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Song 1
An installation commissioned to be projected on the outer ring of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture...
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async - first light
A collaboration between Apichatpong and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album “async”. T...
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Antarctica: On the Edge
Antarctica lives in our dreams as the most remote, the most forbidding continent on Planet Earth. It...
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Memoria
After hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, a Scottish woman begins experiencing a mysterious sensory s...
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The Souvenir
A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a char...
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Letters from Generation Rx
As a result of the 2008 documentary"Generation Rx," thousands of people wrote director Kevin P. Mill...
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The Personal History of David Copperfield
A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal His...
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The Open Universe
The whole world in one film: Robert, a young Dane, is shanghaied in Marseille, and via Acapulco he i...
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The Dead Don't Die
In the sleepy town of Centerville, the lives of a number of interconnected characters are disrupted ...
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Three Thousand Years of Longing
A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who...
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A Call to Arms
A woman dressed in armour sleeps on the floor of a dark, sunlit room. As she sleeps dreams and memoi...
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The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an...
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Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory
At the Hotel Majestic in Cannes, Tilda Swinton talks to director Luca Guadagnino about cinema, lonel...
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Last and First Men
As the end approaches inexorably, the last humans, living millions of years into the future, send a ...
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Faceless
In an eerily familiar city, a calendar reform has dispensed with the past and the future, leaving ci...
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The Souvenir: Part II
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie...
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Caprice
A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film...
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Depuis le Jour
Derek Jarman's interpretation of the aria 'Depuis le jour' from the final act of Gustave Charpentier...
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One Water
Tilda Swinton, a British actress and friend of Weerasethkul, organized Film on the Rocks, a film fes...
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Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
Documentary on the making of the film....
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The Last of England
The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than p...
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Man to Man
Shortly before the WW II, Ella Gericke takes on the identity of her husband Max after his death to w...
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Visions of Heaven and Hell
Dennis Potter, Esther Dyson, William Gibson and other techno-thinkers appeared in this award-winning...
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Cannes: All Access
From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Ca...
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The Human Voice
A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up...
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Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilli...
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to...
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Doctor Strange
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorc...
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Avengers: Endgame
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts ...
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Derek Jarman: A Portrait
A BBC Arena profile of the Director from the time of the release of his film, The Garden, featuring ...
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The Eternal Daughter
An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family ho...
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Tania Libre
In 2015 reknown Cuban artist Tania Bruguera was imprisoned in Havana after advocating for freedom of...
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The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
Joining Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas on his annual pilgrimage to the Cannes Film Festival, f...
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Asteroid City
In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is...
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Ashes
In collaboration with Lomo, an Austrian camera company, and Mubi, a global film website, Weerasethak...
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Problemista
Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to lif...
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Moments on the Set of I Am Love
A documentary behind the scenes of Luca Guadagnino's 𝘐 𝘈𝘮 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦....
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January Stories (version Harinezumi)
This film featuring Tilda Swinton was shot early 2024, in a abandoned camp of the Kew Thab Yang Fore...
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Sleep Song
"A ghost band only plays at night and in dreams. Tilda and Sam are carried away by their song as the...
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Death of a World Star
A mockumentary - after suffering a tragic accident on a shoot in Tuscany, Udo Kier is about to die. ...
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The New Ten Commandments
The film was produced by Nick Higgins from Lansdowne Productions and Noémie Mendelle from the Scotti...
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Phantom of the Universe
From the journey of protons racing through the world’s largest particle collider in Europe to up-clo...
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Impulse: Playing with Reality
A look inside the ADHD brain and how it processes information....
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Hitler's Favourite Royal
Prince Charles Edward was Queen Victoria's youngest grandchild. Brought up at Claremont House and ed...
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Death in Her Hands
An elderly widow's life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods....
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Hamlet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne,...
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Broken English
A survivor, provocateur and true original, Marianne has spent more than six decades defying expectat...
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WOLF
Narrated by Tilda Swinton, WOLF is a deeply personal documentary about musician Patrick Wolf....
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Karl
“I have spent so much time playing a role that it’s almost impossible for anyone to know who I reall...
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Jenjira’s Magnificent Dream
Jenjira, a Thai widow, travels to the ancient Buddhist temple Sigiriya in Sri Lanka to scatter her h...
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Finding the Burn
A featurette about the making of Burn After Reading, featuring cast and crew interviews....
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DC Insiders Run Amuck
A featurette about Burn After Reading featuring an interview with Joel and Ethan Coen and cast inter...
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Camaraderie
For the exhibition "Tilda Swinton: Ongoing" at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, Luca Guadagnino created ...
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Phantoms
An intimate, deeply personal film featuring footage Weerasethakul shot of Swinton in and around her ...
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The Tree
A super 8 short in response to ancestors, ghosts, nature and Derek Jarman’s Glitterbug....
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Timeslip
Shot 1988 by Derek Jarman, completed for the exhibition Tilda Swinton: Ongoing at Eye Filmmuseum...
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Hot Dollar
“The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of the earth an...
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