Vittorio Cottafavi's emotionally complex 1954 melodrama follows Liana, a young architecture graduate on the cusp of marriage, who becomes convinced she shouldn't live a life in service of a man. Instead, she leaves for Amalfi, where she embarks on an affair. 

Pedro Almodóvar's 1986 erotic thriller explores the intimate relationship between pleasure and death through the convergence of bullfighting and murder.

Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a biographical drama film about the famous jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. 

A playful spin on theatrical adaptation, Alejo Moguillansky's latest film is a delightfully imaginative take on Samuel Beckett's Fin de Partie, punctuated by music, tennis, and another exceptional turn by Laura Paredes.

Winner of the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival 2026, Queen at Sea is a riveting drama which poses challenging and heartwrenching questions about care, choice and ageing. Amanda and her stepfather, Martin, struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda’s mother, Leslie, who is suffering from advanced dementia, lost the ability to make critical decisions in her own best interests? And, if so, who is responsible – a spouse, a child, an institution – for making such a determination?

Willem Defoe plays Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, who is sought out by a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius. Kent Jones's thoughtful, witty film is a wistful yet unromantic look at a lost idea of downtown New York.

In 2007, French actress Juliette Binoche and British dancer-choreographer Akram Khan stepped away from their established careers to embark on a bold artistic experiment.

In his striking feature debut, long-time Bad Bunny collaborator Stillz captures an intimate, formally daring portrait of Colombia's forgotten youth. Barrio Triste is heightened by a restless, intense debut score from Arca, whose fluid soundscapes anchor the film's vision. Navigating the thin line between desperation and the supernatural, Stillz delivers a beautiful, unclassifiable piece of contemporary cinema.

A subtle meditation on memory and performance, Hong Sangsoo's latest film unfolds through a series of increasingly intimate conversations, as he continues his exploration of the boundaries between lived experience and artistic creation.

Winner of the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival 2026, Queen at Sea is a riveting drama which poses challenging and heartwrenching questions about care, choice and ageing. Amanda and her stepfather, Martin, struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda’s mother, Leslie, who is suffering from advanced dementia, lost the ability to make critical decisions in her own best interests? And, if so, who is responsible – a spouse, a child, an institution – for making such a determination?

In 2007, French actress Juliette Binoche and British dancer-choreographer Akram Khan stepped away from their established careers to embark on a bold artistic experiment.

In his striking feature debut, long-time Bad Bunny collaborator Stillz captures an intimate, formally daring portrait of Colombia's forgotten youth. Barrio Triste is heightened by a restless, intense debut score from Arca, whose fluid soundscapes anchor the film's vision. Navigating the thin line between desperation and the supernatural, Stillz delivers a beautiful, unclassifiable piece of contemporary cinema.

Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a biographical drama film about the famous jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. 

Willem Defoe plays Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, who is sought out by a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius. Kent Jones's thoughtful, witty film is a wistful yet unromantic look at a lost idea of downtown New York.

Winner of the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival 2026, Queen at Sea is a riveting drama which poses challenging and heartwrenching questions about care, choice and ageing. Amanda and her stepfather, Martin, struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda’s mother, Leslie, who is suffering from advanced dementia, lost the ability to make critical decisions in her own best interests? And, if so, who is responsible – a spouse, a child, an institution – for making such a determination?

The improbable life of French poet Arthur Rimbaud unfolds with all the shock and playfulness of his poetry.

Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a biographical drama film about the famous jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. 

In his striking feature debut, long-time Bad Bunny collaborator Stillz captures an intimate, formally daring portrait of Colombia's forgotten youth. Barrio Triste is heightened by a restless, intense debut score from Arca, whose fluid soundscapes anchor the film's vision. Navigating the thin line between desperation and the supernatural, Stillz delivers a beautiful, unclassifiable piece of contemporary cinema.

In 2007, French actress Juliette Binoche and British dancer-choreographer Akram Khan stepped away from their established careers to embark on a bold artistic experiment.

Willem Defoe plays Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, who is sought out by a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius. Kent Jones's thoughtful, witty film is a wistful yet unromantic look at a lost idea of downtown New York.

Pedro Almodóvar's 1986 erotic thriller explores the intimate relationship between pleasure and death through the convergence of bullfighting and murder.

Winner of the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival 2026, Queen at Sea is a riveting drama which poses challenging and heartwrenching questions about care, choice and ageing. Amanda and her stepfather, Martin, struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda’s mother, Leslie, who is suffering from advanced dementia, lost the ability to make critical decisions in her own best interests? And, if so, who is responsible – a spouse, a child, an institution – for making such a determination?

A playful spin on theatrical adaptation, Alejo Moguillansky's latest film is a delightfully imaginative take on Samuel Beckett's Fin de Partie, punctuated by music, tennis, and another exceptional turn by Laura Paredes.

Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a biographical drama film about the famous jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. 

In his striking feature debut, long-time Bad Bunny collaborator Stillz captures an intimate, formally daring portrait of Colombia's forgotten youth. Barrio Triste is heightened by a restless, intense debut score from Arca, whose fluid soundscapes anchor the film's vision. Navigating the thin line between desperation and the supernatural, Stillz delivers a beautiful, unclassifiable piece of contemporary cinema.

In 2007, French actress Juliette Binoche and British dancer-choreographer Akram Khan stepped away from their established careers to embark on a bold artistic experiment.

A double-bill of short films by Hussein Shariffe (1934-2005), a pioneering avant-garde Sudanese painter, poet, and filmmaker.

Pedro Almodóvar's 1986 erotic thriller explores the intimate relationship between pleasure and death through the convergence of bullfighting and murder.

Willem Defoe plays Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, who is sought out by a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius. Kent Jones's thoughtful, witty film is a wistful yet unromantic look at a lost idea of downtown New York.

A playful spin on theatrical adaptation, Alejo Moguillansky's latest film is a delightfully imaginative take on Samuel Beckett's Fin de Partie, punctuated by music, tennis, and another exceptional turn by Laura Paredes.

Winner of the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival 2026, Queen at Sea is a riveting drama which poses challenging and heartwrenching questions about care, choice and ageing. Amanda and her stepfather, Martin, struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda’s mother, Leslie, who is suffering from advanced dementia, lost the ability to make critical decisions in her own best interests? And, if so, who is responsible – a spouse, a child, an institution – for making such a determination?

In 2007, French actress Juliette Binoche and British dancer-choreographer Akram Khan stepped away from their established careers to embark on a bold artistic experiment.

Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a biographical drama film about the famous jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. 

In his striking feature debut, long-time Bad Bunny collaborator Stillz captures an intimate, formally daring portrait of Colombia's forgotten youth. Barrio Triste is heightened by a restless, intense debut score from Arca, whose fluid soundscapes anchor the film's vision. Navigating the thin line between desperation and the supernatural, Stillz delivers a beautiful, unclassifiable piece of contemporary cinema.

A playful spin on theatrical adaptation, Alejo Moguillansky's latest film is a delightfully imaginative take on Samuel Beckett's Fin de Partie, punctuated by music, tennis, and another exceptional turn by Laura Paredes.

Vittorio Cottafavi's emotionally complex 1954 melodrama follows Liana, a young architecture graduate on the cusp of marriage, who becomes convinced she shouldn't live a life in service of a man. Instead, she leaves for Amalfi, where she embarks on an affair. 

Willem Defoe plays Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, who is sought out by a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius. Kent Jones's thoughtful, witty film is a wistful yet unromantic look at a lost idea of downtown New York.

Winner of the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival 2026, Queen at Sea is a riveting drama which poses challenging and heartwrenching questions about care, choice and ageing. Amanda and her stepfather, Martin, struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda’s mother, Leslie, who is suffering from advanced dementia, lost the ability to make critical decisions in her own best interests? And, if so, who is responsible – a spouse, a child, an institution – for making such a determination?

In 2007, French actress Juliette Binoche and British dancer-choreographer Akram Khan stepped away from their established careers to embark on a bold artistic experiment.

Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a biographical drama film about the famous jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. 

Picture This is a heartwarming portrait of three groups of refugee and migrant women in Edinburgh, Farnham and London who received photography training as a way to reinterpret their own experiences of exile.

In his striking feature debut, long-time Bad Bunny collaborator Stillz captures an intimate, formally daring portrait of Colombia's forgotten youth. Barrio Triste is heightened by a restless, intense debut score from Arca, whose fluid soundscapes anchor the film's vision. Navigating the thin line between desperation and the supernatural, Stillz delivers a beautiful, unclassifiable piece of contemporary cinema.

FBI criminal profiler Will Graham is called out of early retirement to assist on a deadly case involving a murderer known as the “Tooth Fairy.” After enlisting the help of imprisoned serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, Graham and the FBI are soon entangled in a menacing cat-and-mouse game.

Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon) returns to the silver screen with Her Private Hell. As a strange mist unleashes an elusive darkness, a young actress (Sophie Thatcher) and an American GI (Charles Melton) find their lives intertwined in a hypnotic, neon-drenched moodscape where memory, reality, and survival collide. 

In Remake, filmmaker Ross McElwee turns his lens on the passage of time and the uneasy space between documenting life and understanding it. The film traces McElwee’s relationship with his son Adrian, and the fragile bond the camera created between them while Adrian was alive, and now that he’s gone.

Weaving together oral histories, archaeological field notes, regional legends, poetry, and song, Maureen Fazendeiro's The Seasons is a remarkable portrait of the Alentejo region of Portugal, its people, and its stories.

WET & MESSY is the eleventh iteration of the Late Tapes series – an ongoing exploration of fetishistic desire curated by Harlan Whittingham and Helena Whittingham in collaboration with the Bishopsgate Institute's UK Fetish Archive.

A double bill of Canadian structuralist filmmaker Michael Snow's Back and Forth (1969) and To Lavoisier, Who Died In The Reign of Terror (1991)

Weaving together oral histories, archaeological field notes, regional legends, poetry, and song, Maureen Fazendeiro's The Seasons is a remarkable portrait of the Alentejo region of Portugal, its people, and its stories.

A double bill of conceptual Canadian artist Joyce Wieland's La Raison Avant La Passion (1969), a subversive travelogue; and A&B in Ontario (1984), a lighthearted portrait of its two makers Wieland and Hollis Frampton.

FBI criminal profiler Will Graham is called out of early retirement to assist on a deadly case involving a murderer known as the “Tooth Fairy.” After enlisting the help of imprisoned serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, Graham and the FBI are soon entangled in a menacing cat-and-mouse game.

Mary Stephen first met Éric Rohmer as a student on his course. They began their creative collaboration on The Aviator's Wife, with Stephen working as assistant editor to Cécile Decugis, who also edited several landmark films from the French New Wave, including Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. Stephen also made a brief appearance in the film.

In Remake, filmmaker Ross McElwee turns his lens on the passage of time and the uneasy space between documenting life and understanding it. The film traces McElwee’s relationship with his son Adrian, and the fragile bond the camera created between them while Adrian was alive, and now that he’s gone.

Mary Stephen’s first directorial feature portrays the entangled relationship between Lysanne (Alexandria Brouwer) and Marlène (Stephen), who’ve known each other since school in Shanghai. Tension between the two young Asian women escalates as they separate and migrate in adulthood. Stephen shot the film in Paris at the age of 24 with a minuscule budget and a small crew. Inspired by the work of Marguerite Duras, the film is a homage as well as a counterpoint to India Song.

Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon) returns to the silver screen with Her Private Hell. As a strange mist unleashes an elusive darkness, a young actress (Sophie Thatcher) and an American GI (Charles Melton) find their lives intertwined in a hypnotic, neon-drenched moodscape where memory, reality, and survival collide. 

Taking its title from a dialogue by French satirist Denis Diderot, Canadian structuralist filmmaker Michael Snow's film is also inspired by Diderot's encyclopaedic tendencies and the playfulness of Marcel Duchamp, and features contributions and appearances from Chantal Akerman, Babette Mangolte, Jonas Mekas, Annette Michelson, Nam June Paik, Amy Taubin and Joyce Wieland.

Weaving together oral histories, archaeological field notes, regional legends, poetry, and song, Maureen Fazendeiro's The Seasons is a remarkable portrait of the Alentejo region of Portugal, its people, and its stories.

FBI criminal profiler Will Graham is called out of early retirement to assist on a deadly case involving a murderer known as the “Tooth Fairy.” After enlisting the help of imprisoned serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, Graham and the FBI are soon entangled in a menacing cat-and-mouse game.

Both from 1981, Cuban filmmaker Fernando Villaverde's Tent City and Carlos Oteyza's recently restored Venezuelan documentary Mayami Nuestro present contrasting and penetrating non-fiction portraits of Latin American diaspora communities in Miami.

In Remake, filmmaker Ross McElwee turns his lens on the passage of time and the uneasy space between documenting life and understanding it. The film traces McElwee’s relationship with his son Adrian, and the fragile bond the camera created between them while Adrian was alive, and now that he’s gone.

A Tale of Summer is the third installment of Éric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons series and, according to the filmmaker himself, the most autobiographical of his work. Mary Stephen not only collaborated with Rohmer on the film as an editor, but also worked with him on the music under the pseudonym ‘Sébastien Erms’, creating the melodious sea shanty the protagonist wrote in the film.

Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon) returns to the silver screen with Her Private Hell. As a strange mist unleashes an elusive darkness, a young actress (Sophie Thatcher) and an American GI (Charles Melton) find their lives intertwined in a hypnotic, neon-drenched moodscape where memory, reality, and survival collide. 

Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon) returns to the silver screen with Her Private Hell. As a strange mist unleashes an elusive darkness, a young actress (Sophie Thatcher) and an American GI (Charles Melton) find their lives intertwined in a hypnotic, neon-drenched moodscape where memory, reality, and survival collide. 

Weaving together oral histories, archaeological field notes, regional legends, poetry, and song, Maureen Fazendeiro's The Seasons is a remarkable portrait of the Alentejo region of Portugal, its people, and its stories.

FBI criminal profiler Will Graham is called out of early retirement to assist on a deadly case involving a murderer known as the “Tooth Fairy.” After enlisting the help of imprisoned serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, Graham and the FBI are soon entangled in a menacing cat-and-mouse game.

In Remake, filmmaker Ross McElwee turns his lens on the passage of time and the uneasy space between documenting life and understanding it. The film traces McElwee’s relationship with his son Adrian, and the fragile bond the camera created between them while Adrian was alive, and now that he’s gone.

The second programme of Bodies Adrift traces the Villaverde filmmaking couple trajectory from revolutionary Cuba in the early 1960s to the experimental underground scene of 1970s New York.

Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon) returns to the silver screen with Her Private Hell. As a strange mist unleashes an elusive darkness, a young actress (Sophie Thatcher) and an American GI (Charles Melton) find their lives intertwined in a hypnotic, neon-drenched moodscape where memory, reality, and survival collide. 

In Remake, filmmaker Ross McElwee turns his lens on the passage of time and the uneasy space between documenting life and understanding it. The film traces McElwee’s relationship with his son Adrian, and the fragile bond the camera created between them while Adrian was alive, and now that he’s gone.

Weaving together oral histories, archaeological field notes, regional legends, poetry, and song, Maureen Fazendeiro's The Seasons is a remarkable portrait of the Alentejo region of Portugal, its people, and its stories.

FBI criminal profiler Will Graham is called out of early retirement to assist on a deadly case involving a murderer known as the “Tooth Fairy.” After enlisting the help of imprisoned serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, Graham and the FBI are soon entangled in a menacing cat-and-mouse game.

Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon) returns to the silver screen with Her Private Hell. As a strange mist unleashes an elusive darkness, a young actress (Sophie Thatcher) and an American GI (Charles Melton) find their lives intertwined in a hypnotic, neon-drenched moodscape where memory, reality, and survival collide. 

FBI criminal profiler Will Graham is called out of early retirement to assist on a deadly case involving a murderer known as the “Tooth Fairy.” After enlisting the help of imprisoned serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, Graham and the FBI are soon entangled in a menacing cat-and-mouse game.

This shorts programme traces experiences of migration across different times and places – people who arrived in Hong Kong, and those who later left it for the UK – allowing conversations around home and identity to unfold from narrative cinema into documentary and artist moving images.

In Remake, filmmaker Ross McElwee turns his lens on the passage of time and the uneasy space between documenting life and understanding it. The film traces McElwee’s relationship with his son Adrian, and the fragile bond the camera created between them while Adrian was alive, and now that he’s gone.

Weaving together oral histories, archaeological field notes, regional legends, poetry, and song, Maureen Fazendeiro's The Seasons is a remarkable portrait of the Alentejo region of Portugal, its people, and its stories.

This programme brings together five short films exploring themes of memory, family, return and identity.

I am fine, thank you. documents the stories of Hongkongers who migrated to the UK after 2019, as each gradually settled into a new life in the country while finding their own way to connect with memories of the homeland.

This captivating documentary explores the life and legacy of César Concepción (1909-1974), a maestro of La Plena, and trailblazer in Latin music.

David, a university student, meets Diego, an openly gay intellectual with a passion for art and literature. What begins as an unlikely encounter gradually develops into a deep and unexpected friendship that challenges David's assumptions and changes both of their lives in 1970s Havana.

Against the backdrop of Havana’s sun-drenched streets and shimmering coastline, ¡Quba! delves into the history and transformation of Cuba’s LGBTQ+ community.

A programme of experimental documentary, artists’ moving image and lecture performance explores voices as both fragile and impossible to fully erase. Traces endure as bodies, images and technologies become sites where histories and memories are reactivated against systems that seek to silence them.

Guided by dreams and ancestral wisdom, a 13-year-old Shuar girl discovers her identity while her Amazonian community struggles to protect its land from mining.

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 drift through the worlds of experimental cinema. 

This programme brings together four short films exploring the theme of resilience. Across different contexts and forms, the films consider resilience as the capacity to move through what does not work, and to adapt to life’s challenges rather than remaining in a static state. 

The Saldaña family has new tasks for the summer: looking after the dog and the house of the Pernas, their neighbours. The house is a small luxury that provokes the envy of the neighbourhood, and the Saldañas, taking advantage of their duties as improvised caretakers, will live out their own vacation in it.

Inspired by true events, this story intertwines a crime thriller with a migrant drama. In 2010, Chinese mafias arrived in the city of Mendoza, which became the hidden stage of a silent war between two factions fighting for control of organised crime.

Walerian Borowczyk’s critically acclaimed and influential medieval tale — a beautiful tragedy told with pitch-black humour and the director’s remarkable idiosyncratic inventiveness. Screening as a part of Contemporary Films 75th Anniversary celeberation.

Life is Dance follows the stories of six main protagonists, across 3 generations. Ordinary Cubans with one thing in common, their love of dance.

Naira, an imaginative nine-year-old girl living in precarious conditions near the Colca Canyon, desperately seeks a way to save her mother, Nieves, from the cruel abuse of their landlord, Don Demetrio. 

The filmmaker Ignacio Agüero creates an intimate audiovisual correspondence with his parents, beginning with his father’s death just days after Allende’s election and spanning fifty years of personal and Chilean history.

Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois intellectual, chooses to stay in Havana while his family flees to Miami after the Cuban Revolution. Unable to join the new socialist fervour or let go of his past, he wanders the city as a cynical, detached observer.

This mysterious and uniquely introspective journey through Tbilisi traces the steps of a once famous, but now faded Georgian actor. 

Two emotionally scarred strangers are thrust into an arranged marriage, in this wildly original, pitch-black comedy with hints of the supernatural.

The stakes are high for a prize-winning show dog, his owner, her butler and their extended family, in this kitsch comedy about avarice and love.

When his only cow delivers a stillborn calf and then falls sick, a retired professor turns to an age-old calf-doll ritual, while industrialisation closes in around him.

Acclaimed visual artist Rachel Rose gives Mrs Dalloway a contemporary makeover in her arresting mood piece, starring Alicia Vikander and Victoria Pedretti.

Jing Zou’s captivating debut feature, an intimate, decade-spanning character study, explores the consequences of the single-child policy on generations of Chinese girls.

Set in the remote highlands of Montenegro, this year’s Sundance World Documentary Prize winner reflects on the fragile coexistence between ancestral knowledge and the growing pressures of the contemporary world.

Filmed by William Greaves in 1972 and completed by his son David 50 years later, this is a rapturous love letter to the Harlem Renaissance.

Featuring a vibrant lead performance, this gripping realist drama, set in a lawless town on the Bulgaria-Turkey border, exudes an atmosphere of danger and paranoia.

Playing versions of themselves as the central protagonists, Hoda Taheri and Boris Hadžija make a daring debut: a witty, irreverent and politically astute portrait of lives shaped by the search for belonging.

The film collective Cosmic Salon (Jack Auen and Kevin Walker) make their beguiling and assured feature debut, guiding us through hidden histories and uncanny landscapes of belief, mystery and the unknown.

Infused with gentle humour and profound humanity, Sompot Chidgasornpongse’s fiction debut presents a serene passage through family, faith and the cycles of life.

Beatrice Gibson’s feature directorial debut is a luminous nocturne, evocatively capturing the streets of Paris over the course of a single night on 16mm.

Shaped by the tidal rhythms of British Columbia’s oyster farms, this richly cinematic documentary, shot on 35mm, exists where labour, scientific inquiry and the living world meet.

In this striking British feature debut, a young man in the care system tries to juggle his musical aspirations and mental health issues.

Leonardo Pirondi’s timely reflection on ecological collapse imagines a future in which a biodome spaceship preserves the last traces of life on Earth.

Framed as a cinematic letter to the late Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab, this evocative and timely work reanimates Saab’s 16mm archive as a living space of dialogue and political imagination.

Master of archival film reconstruction, Sergei Loznitsa, reframes Soviet history once again via the revealing gaze of Italian cameramen who captured life there in the early 1970s.

Contending with oppression, violence, and dispossession, these four works embody acts of defiance and solidarity; some enacted up close, others from afar. As images narrow the gaps, kinships are formed.

Discovering a cache of Super 8 home movies and photographs following the death of his grandmother, Chilean filmmaker Rafael Guendelman embarks on a personal journey through his family’s intertwined political histories.

The second part of Julia Loktev’s epic documentary, detailing the persecution of journalists in Russia, follows her brave protagonists’ escape abroad following the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Sekja, an ageing and charismatic Korean trans burlesque star, is front and centre in this glorious film about life.

Revolution is the beat that drums through this electrifying story about the landmark case against the Bradford 12.

Iranian director Mohsen Amiryousefi discusses his eventful career with the Angel of Death in this hilarious cinematic autofiction about the highs and lows of radical filmmaking.

Resisting the enduring legacies of colonial violence and honoring those who continue to gather, speak and dream, these films transform acts of remembrance into radical forms of reclamation, solidarity and world-making.

These films invite reflection on places that remember, histories that persist, and cinema’s role in unearthing hidden relationships between ecology, extractive capitalism and collective survival.

The new film by Alain Gomis is a formally inventive, politically attuned meditation on the enduring ties of the African diaspora, and the meaning of family and community.

Nolitha Refilwe Mkulisi’s debut feature – a tender love letter to Tapoleng, her hometown in South Africa – offers an intimate evocation of a community in transition.

Hanabi is a visceral cinematic adaptation of Yoko Hayasuke’s Journal of a Radioactive Brain, written in the aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and nuclear disaster.

Winner of the Grand Jury Dramatic Prize at Sundance, this suspenseful and devastating film follows a child trying to navigate life after witnessing a sexual assault.

Following a screening of her short Ghazal-e Sorkh, Jarman Award–winning artist Maryam Tafakory presents this live film performance, which explores erased histories of women’s political resistance in Iran.

Resisting the enduring legacies of colonial violence and honoring those who continue to gather, speak and dream, these films transform acts of remembrance into radical forms of reclamation, solidarity and world-making.

The latest in Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s series of cinematic essays is a rich and thought-provoking journey through ageing, legacy and the intersection between artistic and personal relationships.