A continuing series spotlighting new films that expand the possibilities of the medium and provide a vision for its future.

A continuing series of in-depth retrospectives exploring the work of cinema's great artists, both past and present.

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.

Magaluf Gallery presents Chill Fatalism, a focused programme of recent works by New York-based filmmaker Ken Kobland. Shown as a continuous loop

For a fifth consecutive December, a heartbroken Noel returns to New York City to work the night shift at a sidewalk Christmas tree lot. As he slowly spirals into despair, he comes to the aid of a mysterious young woman in the park.

A timeless masterpiece of love and yearning, L’Atalante was the only full-length film made by Jean Vigo before his tragic early death. The film is now considered to be one of cinema’s very greatest works.

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. 

A sense of otherworldly threat pervades French-Moroccan director Sofia Alaoui’s intriguing philosophical sci-fi Animalia, an extension of her Sundance Grand Jury-winning 2020 short, So What If the Goats Die.

A fearless, Palme d’Or winning, tour-de-force from cinematic luminary Jafar Panahi. Both urgently political and deeply humane, this new moral classic confronts truth and uncertainty, revenge and mercy, head-on.

Having tried and failed to make a true crime documentary, filmmaker Charlie Shackleton tells the story of what might have been.

Colin is a quiet parking attendant, whose steady existence is disrupted by the exploration of pleasure, dependence, and his own limits, when he enters a dominant-submissive relationship with biker Ray (Alexander Skarsgård). 

Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau’s latest film offers a quiet revolution in genre filmmaking, borrowing from body horror, leading us through a family’s story of fear and pain, and their journey towards love. 

Igor Bezinović weaves archive and interview to recount poet and military officer Gabriele D’Annunzio’s radical 1919 occupation of Fiume (Rijeka, Croatia), revealing the stirrings of European fascism in the wake of World War I.

Runaway Jeanne falls under the spell of Cristina, the enigmatic star of a film adaption of the Hans Christian Andersen story being shot in the studio where she has taken refuge. A dark, richly textured and deeply moving tale of longing and solitude.

From renowned filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, Die My Love is a visceral and uncompromising portrait of a woman engulfed by love and madness.

An incomplete selection of Wiseman’s landmark works, spanning nearly six decades, on the occasion of the UK release of his most recent film, Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros. 

David Bowie was always more than just a musician—he was an icon of transformation. For decades, he captivated the world with his chameleon-like ability to reinvent himself, constantly pushing boundaries in both music and identity. But in the final act of his life, he underwent something even more profound: a resurrection.

Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall star in the masterful new film from Ira Sachs, an intimate, richly cinematic rendering of a conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz.

Timothée Chalamet stars as a restless ping-pong player chasing greatness in 1950s New York.

A young Marine sniper awaiting action in the Gulf War experiences the loneliness and frustrations of combat while worrying about home and his future. Selected by Tanoa Sasraku to accompany her exhibition.

Another Man and the ICA present a screening of Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day, followed by a Q&A panel discussion between Gary Schneider and Vince Aletti, hosted by John Douglas Millar.

A programme of five of Diagonale’s finest productions to mark the release of issue 2 of the international film quarterly Narrow Margin.

Documentarian Gianfranco Rosi’s monumental latest details with pointillist precision and unnerving beauty a region in Naples living under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius and above the simmering Campi Flegrei volcanic caldera.

Jean-Luc Godard’s vast oeuvre is littered with unmade and abandoned projects. This programme brings these phantom works into the light, revealing their connections with his completed films and those of other directors, and highlighting his creative process.

A double bill devoted to Godard’s extensive engagement with theatre in the 1960s: Jacques Rivette’s The Nun (1966), which evolved out of a stage production funded by Godard, and La Chinoise (1967), which was the culmination of his exploration of theatrical forms in this decade.

A double bill of films that double: Jackie Raynal's Deux fois and Barbara Rubin's Christmas on Earth.

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.

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.

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.

Following a violent bus hijacking, three survivors – a bus driver and two siblings – embark on a quiet journey across Japan’s southern landscape. Part road film, part unconventional family drama, Eureka reimagines the bounds of cinema at the turn of the century with magnetic force.

Sonic Cinema presents a programme of ten short films, bringing together the practices of Vienna-based filmmakers Viktoria Schmid and Johann Lurf for the first time.

The UK’s leading short film festival, the London Short Film Festival (LSFF), returns for its 23rd edition from 23 January – 1 February 2026, bringing films and events to London’s iconic cinemas alongside community and creative spaces.

Lana Daher’s archival essay film is a personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory that spans 70 years of film, television, home movies and photography. 

The first ever major UK retrospective devoted to the work of one of twentieth century cinemas most luminary and unique voices. Utopian yet scuzzy, not straightforwardly political, yet radical in its heart of hearts, Werner Schroeter's cinema is one of emotionality, queerness, improvisation and somatics.

Isiah Medina strikingly reimagines the gangster picture in this profound and ironic examination of both depiction, endorsement, and the morality of making and consuming cinema.

Drawing on telenovelas and home movies, the debut feature from Mexican filmmaker Racornelia incisively unravels the shifting power dynamics underlying a young family’s Christmas dinner in Mexico City.

In Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani’s debut feature, a queer Moroccan coyote navigates distance and family in a genre-blurring animated journey through New York’s emotional landscapes. 

For more than two decades, Rita Azevedo Gomes has quietly forged and reshaped an unmistakable cinema, rooted in literature, theatre, music and art history, and unfolding with a rare attentiveness to language, performance, and the spaces that open between them, and moving always with deliberate strangeness and clarity.