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May 2026
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Romería
1:00 PM
8:00 PM
18-year-old Marina, travels to Vigo on the Galician coast in the early 2000s, in search of information about her biological father, seeking his death certificate to apply for a scholarship to film school. Reconnecting with her paternal side of the family, she discovers a huge amount of shame and secrecy around his death.
Queer East Festival 2026
With Beauty and Sorrow on 35mm
+ introduction
2:00 PM
Otoko is a famous painter who, as a teenager, was seduced by the married novelist Oto. Years later, when he reappears in her life, Otoko’s pupil and lesbian lover Keiko vows to take revenge. Exquisite cinematography and evocative use of the Kyoto locations conjure up a claustrophobic feel in this classic tale of obsessive love.
Off-Circuit
UK PREMIERE Phantoms of July
3:30 PM
Julian Radlmaier's fifth feature brings together an East German waitress with a broken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm, in an enigmatic comedy about the ghosts of the past and the mysteries of the present.
In Focus: Niki de Saint Phalle
Niki de Saint Phalle: 4k Restoration
A Dream Longer Than the Night + intro
4:00 PM
Garnering comparisons on its 1976 release to Jean Cocteau and Georges Mèlies, Niki de Saint Phalle’s colourful, marvellously polymorphic fairytale follows a girl into an alluring dreamscape, where sexual awakening is imagined as an excitable quest that runs on quixotic feminine desire.
Nothing But Life: The Cinema of Rita Azevedo Gomes
Altar + introduction
6:00 PM
Widowed actor René lives in purposeful isolation, drifting between phone conversations and memories that refuse to settle, as fragments of a distant past resurface.
Kokuho
6:30 PM
In 1964 Nagasaki, an orphaned yakuza heir enters the world of Kabuki, growing up beside his mentor’s son as rivalry and ambition shape their destinies.
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