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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Following The Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier reunites with Renate Reinsve for a moving exploration of sisterhood, father-daughter relationships and the evocative power of childhood memories. Sentimental Value won the Cannes Grand Prix award, and features career-best performances from Golden Globe winner Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning. 

Looking for a job? When a happy family man is dismissed after twenty-five years of loyal service at a paper company, he finds the perfect solution to land his next role: truly eliminate the competition.

Two young music students, Lionel and David, attending the Boston Conservatory in 1917, bond over their shared love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.

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.

A playful, poignant love letter to cinema, Nouvelle Vague reimagines the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in an exuberant exploration of the youthful rebellion and creative chaos that shaped the French New Wave.

Listen With Your Eyes is an ongoing series of screenings for children of all ages and their grown-up companions. It’s a space where curious minds and open hearts can come together to explore the wonders of experimental cinema.

The soil and wind are whispering, I'm here, listening.

A moment of defiance in the West Bank opens a quiet reflection on inherited resilience, as one Palestinian family’s past—from the Nakba to today—casts a long shadow over the present. Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

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 UK’s largest festival of Japanese cinema, the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme (JFTFP), is back again. This is the place where cinema comes alive!

Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, witnessing both the city’s magnitude and their father’s daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home.

A young woman finds her voice through the written word and her salvation as a swimmer — ultimately becoming a triumphant teacher, mother and a singular modern writer.

Since 2010, filmmaker Isiah Medina has quietly been building a collection of idiosyncratic, formally arresting, and uniquely current films. Bringing together all five of his feature films to date, alongside a selection of his shorts, this retrospective provides a rare opportunity to explore one of contemporary cinema's most remarkable bodies of work.

This programme brings together a selection of Isiah Medina's short films tracing a variety of formal and narrative evolutions in his work, spanning an entire decade from 2010 to 2020.

Taking its title from the reset that displays on an appliance after the power has been cut, Isiah Medina's debut feature 88:88, is a profoundly humanistic and densely layered exploration of suspension and the running in place reality of contemporary life.

A programme of three short works by José Luis Guerín, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Hong Sangsoo, exploring and celebrating the JEONJU Digital Project initiative.

Following the deeply personal 88:88, Isiah Medina turns to adaptation with his second feature, tackling Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams' 2015 post-work manifesto to craft another radical work of montage that explores everything from the failings of neo-liberalism to the tactile reality of free time.

In 1990s Iraq, 9-year-old Lamia must bake Saddam Hussein's birthday cake. She scrambles to find ingredients for this compulsory task while facing potential punishment if she fails.

A moment of defiance in the West Bank opens a quiet reflection on inherited resilience, as one Palestinian family’s past—from the Nakba to today—casts a long shadow over the present. 

Isiah Medina's third feature marks another key evolution in his work, with performance and character coming into greater focus, as he continues to develop his cinema-of-thought through the form of a philosophical hangout movie.

Commissioned by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Isiah Medina's fourth feature centres upon a painter staging a heist to steal back his paintings from the vault of a museum, and a filmmaker who just so happens to be conducting research at the museum on the very same day.

Schroeter’s first feature unfolds like a fevered collage of opera and cinematic dream, as performers move, lip-syncing tragically, in drag, through industrial and domestic spaces. 

A university professor travels from São Paulo to the seaside city of Recife during Carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son. He soon finds out he’s been tailed and spied on by neighbours in his new refuge, leaving him no possible escape from the tentacles of corruption.

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.

Intimate and fragmented moments unfold in a community of zoos and animal rescue centres across Argentina. As histories of these institutions are uncovered, dedicated workers commit both day and night to caring for the remaining enclosed animals, fostering a mutual bond that transcends imagined boundaries between human and animal.

By the end of 1968 Schroeter had acquired a 16mm Beaulieu camera with which he began making longer work in black and white that became points of departure in his art. This screening presents three such pieces.

An odyssey through desert and soul, following a father and son across a stark Moroccan wilderness, as they chase a loose thread to an illegal rave filled outcasts, for their missing daughter, and sister. 

Made for television Der Bomberpilot enlists Schroeter's anchoring structure of three women to probe cultural legacies of Fascist Germany, in sly, uneasy operetta style.

The first of two shorts programme, this screening compiles a selection of Schroeter's early 8mm works.

A father and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco, searching for Mar who vanished months ago. Hope is fading but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert.

With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.

In a world where humanity has lost the ability to dream, one creature remains entranced by the fading illusions of the dreamworld. This monster, adrift in reverie, clings to visions no one else can see — until a woman appears.