Fleeing persecution in the US, Hungarian architect László Tóth is commissioned to construct a monumental building. Driven by a powerful performance from Adrien Brody, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist explores trauma, art’s value, and ambition’s price.

Is any story ever the full truth? Can the same truth ever be recounted twice? Here, six shorts challenge the delineation of documentary and fiction, reminding us that there are even more sides to a story than there are voices to tell them.

Gentrification and unregulated landlordism are fracturing communities, while social housing disintegrates and profits soar. However, as these films constantly underline we can and should resist. 

As the 2021 UK national lockdown drags on, increasingly isolated theatre actors Sam and Mark spend their days in the online world of Grand Theft Auto. When they have an idea to stage a full production of Hamlet within the game.

Filmmaker Basim Magdy is simultaneously interested and dismissive of the meanings concealed within the world; as he layers interpretations, he increasingly questions their authenticity. His work doesn't concern itself with a fixed contemporary reality which he views as a masked parade of absurdity. In his eyes, there is no sense or logic in the world—time, memory, future, and dreams all blur together, dissolving into a hazy in-between.

Swooning maidens and stolen kisses - are you ready for some classic love stories? Don’t be. Six new shorts tear up the script and find love hiding in the dusty corners where nobody wants to look. 

The latest film from Victor Kossakovsky (Gunda, Aquarela) is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward.