Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers a career-best performance as Pansy, a woman battling grief, rage, and disconnection in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, three decades after their collaboration on Secrets and Lies. 

Awarded Best Film in the BFI London Film Festival’s Official Competition, Adam Elliot’s heartfelt animation about twins navigating loss, blends humour and darkness.

Mahdi Fleifel’s first fiction feature portrays Chatila, a Palestinian refugee in Athens, as he cares for his addicted cousin Reda while seeking an escape to Germany.

New Contemporaries and ICA have invited exhibiting artists to select and introduce a film that has been formative, or a reference in their practice.   

From Tokyo to the Lake District – a universal portrait of love, acceptance and family loss in which the true journey toward forgiveness and reconciliation will prove the hardest of all.

Legendary provocateur Bruce LaBruce reimagines Pasolini’s Teorema, with a refugee protagonist liberating the bourgeoisie from sexual repression, critiquing anti-immigration rhetoric and exploring sexual and spiritual transformations.