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Ewa is a 10-year-old girl, convinced of being a vampire. When she gets bullied by teenagers from the neighborhood for her belief, she's ready to act in the creepiest, sickest ways to prove her identity to the world.

A dutiful husband and loving father whose life falls apart when decades of festering secrets are exposed and he's forced to face up to who he really is.

David Tennant is joined in the studio by Paddy McGuinness, Zoe Ball, Joel Dommett and AJ Odudu. Comedians Flo and Joan perform their mischievous tribute to 35 years of Comic Relief. Oti Mabuse and Rylan Clark return after their epic battle against the elements in the Cairngorms. We celebrate the wonderful Gethin Jones, whose Strictly Fitness: Gethin Keeps Dancing challenge saw him dance for 24 hours with the help of some showbiz pals. And throughout the evening, a series of films highlight incredible and inspiring stories of the people supported by some of Comic Relief’s projects in the UK and around the world.

It's Christmas and Gemma has hired a lovely cottage in a quaint village. Terry spots that the village has a Santa competition, but things take a dark turn as competitors start being killed off in a host of warped and festive ways.

Marta and her daughter Nina move to Malanotte, a small mountain village. The little girl has been suffering from hypnagogic paralysis for some time, a sleep disorder which can lead to hallucinatory states, and Marta thought that a bit of mountain air and distance from the frenetic rhythm of city life might benefit the little girl. However, the house they move into is anything but welcoming, and children are never seen playing in the streets of Malanotte. Nina’s symptoms begin to worsen from the very first night in the new house, and the little girl has more and more vivid nightmares in which a ghostly figure sits on her chest, immobilises her and steals her breath. For Marta, a single mother in a place she finds increasingly sinister, it will become harder every day to know what is best for her child.

In a small seaside town, a couple can no longer love each other. Around them, the townspeople are preparing to celebrate the Sea Festival, even though the fish have long since disappeared.

In a Germany in the not too distant future, queer people have become even more marginalized and under threat. On the last day of winter, Omar is released from prison and, unannounced, visits Ava.

This Saturday is a Turkish wedding day at Espace Venise. Huddled in a car in the parking lot, 21-year-old Fatih wants to get married. He has set his sights on Ipek, Recep’s sister. But neither his best friend Murat nor Recep nor even Ipek are yet aware of this.

Lucy, during a long period of isolation and 23h of sleep a day, has created her dream alter ego Lucy 2, who at the edge of becoming real, does not want her to wake up, or solve her traumas, but there are other parts of Lucy, urging her to live her life again. The film is about projections, projections becoming reality, projections being the reality until you know what they are, projections, or....a film.

Love, power and ambition meet on the stage of the Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona with L'Incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi directed by Jordi Savall and directed by Calixto Bieito.

Three tonnes of stolen gold. Told from the inside by the police who were there, this is the true story of Britain’s biggest bullion heist.

In Moscow, a young delivery girl is witness to the hatred and divide invading her society. Overwhelmed, she discovers a curious loophole to deal with war supporters. However, the reality she is trying to escape soon catches up...

Thanks to a new technology, Andrés, a young policeman, discovers that he will die in 20 minutes.

Loïe Fuller, stage name of Marie Louise Fuller: the American actress and dancer trained in burlesque, circuses and variety shows who, in the 1890s, signed by the Folies Bergère of Paris, became a star. She was portrayed by Toulouse-Lautrec, loved by the symbolists, the inspiration for Art Nouveau, in her shows she combined dance, spirals of fabric and light, reflected from behind or from below through the glass floor that she had created. She transformed into the "Fairy of Light", was taken up (especially in her Serpentine Dance) by Georges Méliès and Alice Guy and influenced René Clair's early films.

The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, Gremlins 2 and Hammer Film’s The Mummy. Iconic actor Christopher Lee died in virtually every other role he played. Jan Soldat’s nerdy short film compilation lines up one death after another and, amid this involuntary stream, reveals entertaining gems and various connections as well – not only those relevant to the advance of Lee’s acting career.

A boy who, during the day, enjoys the beach, the sun and a beautiful vacation with friends. But, in the distance, the fleshly body of a stranger rests on a rock... A boy who, at night, switches to the side of fantasies, of the erotic prohibition which repels as much as it fascinates... When Abdellatif Kechiche’s cinema meets those of Yann Gonzalez and Bertrand Mandico, it gives a whole new world. A portal behind which, be careful, the monsters are unleashed.

What if, before rushing headfront into technology progress, we think twice about it ? As our societies bet on technology outbids, some chose to invest on sobriety : the "low tech".

The reunion of three friends, among tango, dance, music and the opportunity of a trip that will take them as in their good old days to travel the route of the country.

Rushing from the chaos of her student job, up the never-ending staircase of her apartment building, Danielle, a West African-French student, calculates that she has enough time to change from her work clothes before her final sociology exam in 20 minutes. Her under-maintained shoebox apartment has other plans. Yanis, a young concierge, comes to help and tries to fix the ancient door lock that has trapped her. As time trickles past, the two strangers find an unexpected solidarity, with only a door to separate them.

Teacher Mr. Schubert and student Fred seperately enter the empty school on a Saturday to test out what they cannot be in everyday life. Something special happens as they both wander through school.

An octogenarian named Manuel falls into a state of dementia after the sudden suicide of his wife, sparking a series of paranormal events that will put his family’s lives at risk.

One night, at the end of the seventies, Venus, Paula and Miguel's band, performs its last concert.

A man is convicted of a robbery he didn't commit and spends six years in jail. Decades later, he becomes a suspect again — but is he still innocent?

Three friends hide from some boys who are looking for trouble and discover together how to solve it.

Caught Between Outside & Inside

Six years ago, Charity Jimohe left Nigeria for France. After ten months of forced prostitution to pay off a debt of 35,000 euros contracted with the traffickers who had brought her here, she walked through the door of a police station in Nantes to denounce the members of her prostitution ring.

The story of the birth of the exploitation of wild animals, the fruit of the iron twinning between the Industrial Revolution and the omnipotent and arrogant logic of colonialism, told through the multiple tribulations of Fritz, an Asian elephant who, one hundred and fifty years ago, worked in the largest circus in the world.

Four female judges discuss and reflect on their role in society, their doubts about the usefulness of their decisions, the solitude of their work or their place as women in a system that continues to be eminently male. Four women who do not intend to represent any group but who humanize it and who, with the naturalness of their conversations, will

Six Iranian directors examine, one after the other, a place in Iran, France, or Germany. The places and the stories enter into a dialogue with each other and deal with living conditions in today's Iran, social and economic struggles, but also identities in exile, and places of longing.

This one-off special brings the record-breaking, five-star West End performance Showman - probably Derren Brown's most personal show to date - to TV.

Composed of songs and memories, this powerful musical film traces the traumatic experience of young survivors from different parts of Africa. In the village of Conques in France, they found a therapeutic space where they learn to overcome their past and, through song, to imagine a new future.

It’s 1881, and Old College, Oxford plays host to three very different academics. Abercrombie Smith is a model of Victorian manhood, clean of limb and sound of mind. Monkhouse Lee is a delicate and unworldly student from Thailand. And occupying the rooms between them is the strange and exotic Edward Bellingham, whose unnatural researches into the secrets of ancient Egypt are the talk of the college. Can Bellingham’s experiments truly bring the breath of life to the horrifying bag of bones that is the mysterious Lot No 249?

Two estranged brothers overcome the deep-seated and prejudiced rift in their relationship during a late-night car ride.

The second essay about still dominant dark aspects of our modern society. It is conceived as a surreal anti-patriarchal thought experiment and raises important questions about gender, power, and social change, prompting us to reflect on how historical patterns of discrimination and oppression might be either repeated or overcome in a reversed gendered world. It challenges the viewer to confront their own assumptions and biases, and to consider the possibilities of a more equitable society.

Dodger and the gang return to London to pull off their biggest mission yet: to rob the Crown Jewels ahead of the Queen's Coronation.

Driving around the streets of Cuba, Lav Diaz – the famous Filipino director – and Gustavo Flecha - a talkative Cuban taxi driver – find themselves discussing about politics, migration, social conditions and love; touching many personal stories and experiences, they create an historical affresco of the conditions of their own countries.

When news breaks of an impending wine shortage in the UK, four friends at a birthday party begin to spiral over their last bottle of wine. Paranoia ensues, as their quarrel soon becomes much bigger than deciding who gets the last drop.

Late summer on the Brittany coast. Oscar invites a group of friends to spend a week's vacation at his grandparents' house. He hasn't been back to his childhood home since he came out as a trans boy. On the beach, the gang meets Malo, a handsome local guy who is also trans. From the moment they first look at each other, desire takes over. However, faced with the lightness and casualness of Malo, from whom almost everything seems to separate him, nothing is easy for Oscar. This is the story of their meeting, which turns everything upside down. The salty taste of the first time you take the plunge.

His middle-class demeanour makes him inconspicuous and brings him close to world events. He was the first German to photograph Auschwitz. He became the chronicler of the young FRG and GDR. His iconic pictures of the ‘68 movement shape our perception to this day. He came closer to Beuys than anyone else. He continues to work on series of photographs that he began years ago: the legendary photographer Michael Ruetz.

Seven adventurers embark on an expedition in the world's most hostile environment, The Arctic. Starting from the Southernmost peninsula of Spitsbergen Svalbard, they travel to the Northernmost part of the Island lasting for 40 days.

In Aztec Mexico, we follow the journey of corn from the plant to the emperor's plate.

Desperate for a last minute haircut the night before his wedding, a fancy client enters a cheap barbershop. But he´ll get more than he bargained for when the barber recognizes him as a very important person from his past.

Under the heat of the sun at a Spanish archeological mission in northern Jordan, local workers dig the land for long hours. The wages are poor and the cost of living is on the rise. Abu Deya, a Palestinian Jordanian, wants to provide a different life for his family, but a criminal record stymies his efforts. Alex Sardà’s observational film sensitively documents one man's relationship to his family, the land and its laws. Ultimately, it questions the possibility of exorcising the past in a society that seems opposed to the notion of rehabilitation.

What if Sabu and Anna May Wong turned the tables on Michael Powell and his crew, during the making of The Thief of Baghdad?

A man searches for the source of an increasingly disturbing sound until he finds its source to be something unexpected.

SOFT BWOI is a short art/experimental film that explores the existence of black males in our society and the restrictive parameters in which they have been given to survive in. Through the creative lens of yardie, dancehall and sound system culture, the film is for black men to observe the negative stereotypes that are associated with them and the toxic traits they have prescribed to. Angling for our community to self define what it means to be black and male by inviting vulnerability and the divine feminine to discover SOFT BWOI.

After receiving bad news, Marta decides to willingly lock herself down at home. This confinement will not be easy to deal with though, considering that strange things start happening.

In the middle of the night, two brothers in their thirties break into a public garden guarded by a security guard to accomplish a mission dear to their hearts.

After a wild bachelorette party, a group of young women find themselves trapped in an underground bunker complex. A disturbing finding turns their night into an absolute nightmare. Will they be able to escape from this vast concrete maze?

When Ulja (12) is prevented from pursuing her passion, astronomy, she decides to take matters into her own hands. With a stolen hearse and a 13-year-old classmate as a driver, she makes her way across Eastern Europe to watch the impact of an asteroid. In doing so, she not only has to shake off her persecutors, but also her pragmatic view of friendship and family.

A shy and insecure girl becomes a social media idol thanks to the selfies taken by her smartphone that portray her as beautiful. However, all this will soon have a macabre price: like a modern Dorian Gray with a digital portrait, with each new shot the phone’s camera will steal a little piece of her lifeblood.

Hayat, an expert sailor in the Arctic, navigates far from humans and her family's past in France. But when her little sister Leila gives birth to a baby girl Inaya, their worlds are turned upside down; we witness their journey, guided by the polar star, to overcome the family’s fate.

A landscape remembers how it developed into the mountain it is today. From glacial tongues to raging wildfires, the story is a reminiscence of the human impact on landscapes.

A wounded woman is capable of much; a swarm of well organized and motivated women can do much more.