One of the most important filmmakers to emerge from Japan’s post-war era, Imamura’s unruly, inventive, and often anthropological approach to cinema is singular in the medium’s history. 

Often pushing the limits of cinematic realism by incorporating elliptical, nested narratives, with forms that spiral towards the fantastical and absurd, the films of Mexican filmmaker Nicolás Pereda are sly and granular explorations of power, grounded in an acute attention to the body’s most minute gestures and to the tensions that gather beneath dialogue.

Drawing from alternative histories of filmmaking, criticism and cinema exhibition; and unfolding through weekly talks, discussions and workshops, this year-long critical forum brings together a group of London-based cinéastes to watch, discuss, write, and make cinema. Applications close on Friday 20 November at 11:59pm