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Genre: Mystery


Slightly blurry close up of a man’s eyes and glasses.

Dark Matter [short film]

Leo Berkeley  |   Australia
English  
Art, Mystery, Social Commentary

Leo Berkeley is a wheelchair-bound resident of an inner city suburb in Australia. Filled with ideas about existence but limited to the observations of his neighbors, Leo comes to know the depths of his awareness, while others are unbothered by their personal impact.

A woman with dark hair and blood on her cheek looks off camera left.

Fréwaka

Aislinn Clarke  |   Ireland
English, Irish  
Horror, Mystery, Women Centered

What appears to be a simple home-care assignment turns into a supernatural identity crisis for an Irish nurse in this terrifying folk-horror film.

A figure slinks through a foggy forest.

Misericordia (Miséricorde)

Alain Guiraudie  |   France
French  
Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jérémie returns to his sleepy hometown to attend a funeral. When a mysterious disappearance disturbs the community, a cloud of suspicion begins to form.

A woman in a red jacket stands clutching a book and a pen.

The Missile (Ohjus)

Miia Tervo  |   Finland, Estonia
Finnish  
Comedy, Mystery, Women Centered

A single mother working as an archivist at a local paper is drawn into an investigation when a Soviet nuclear missile crashes near her Lapland town.

A group in uniforms holds back a crowd. One uniformed woman is turned away, with a concerned expression.

Santosh

Sandhya Suri  |   United Kingdom
Hindi  
Drama, Mystery, Social Commentary, Women Centered

Newly widowed Santosh is compelled to take her husband’s old job on the police force, where she’s thrust into an intriguing murder investigation.

Two feet dangle over the edge of a tipped over row of plane seats in the middle of the jungle

Transamazonia

Pia Marais  |   France, Germany, Switzerland, Taiwan, Brazil
English, Portuguese  
Drama, Environmental, Mystery

A healer and her evangelist father are at the center of a conflict between an indigenous community and illegal loggers in this mystical eco-thriller.