Nikola is a farmer grappling with the harsh realities of new government policies. When his family leaves, Nikola takes a job as a landfill attendant, where he encounters the injured white stork Silyan and an unlikely bond forms between man and animal. 

Made in 1969, AKA Serial Killer is a landmark of Japanese political cinema and the foundational work of landscape theory. Prompted by the murders committed by the young Nagayama Norio in 1968, the film reconstructs his life through the spaces he would have encountered, treating the urban and industrial landscapes of late-1960s Japan as sites where postwar modernisation, social oppression, and state authority are visible and intertwined. 

Using audio from actual phone conversations, Kaouther Ben Hania’s searing film recounts a day in January 2024 where workers at the Palestine Red Crescent Society struggled to intervene in the preventable murder of Hind Rajab.

Made in 1969, Female Student Guerrilla mixes political provocation with the transgressive, psychosexual elements of pink cinema, using the genre as a vehicle for satirical self-critique within revolutionary rhetoric, through the story of five high schoolers who take up arms and embark on a guerrilla-style revolution in the mountains.

A former member of the East Asian Anti-Japanese Armed Front’s 'Scorpion Cell'; Kirishima Satoshi spent decades underground, living quietly under an alias as a wanted fugitive. As he confronts terminal illness in 2024, his years on the run resurface. Juxtaposing these final moments with his own revolutionary past, Adachi Masao portrays Kirishima’s anguish and determination in Escape.

Marie-Claude Treilhou drew on her own experience as an usher in an adult cinema for her debut film, which follows its title character over the course of a single night, from a shift dealing with porn theatre clientele, to a bizarre lesbian cabaret, to a car ride shared with a melancholy older man, in an unforgettable depiction of an unseen Paris.

A programme of films showcasing the work of American experimental filmmaker Carl Elsaesser, presented by Open City Documentary Festival, moving between melodrama and residues, as evidence of cinema’s capacity to mourn, desire and care.

Sergio, an environmental engineer from Portugal, travels to Guinea-Bissau for an impact report. There, lonely in the heat, he encounters Diara and Guilermhe and begins to approach the post-colonial and capitalist forces shaping their lives.