Sumitra Peries' groundbreaking Sri Lankan film offers a tender and transporting journey through young dreams and first loves.

Andrei Tarkovsky's extraordinary and haunting exploration of exile, memory, and faith returns to the big screen in a new 4K restoration.

12-year-old best friends Ish and Maram wrestle to hold on to their friendship in the wake of a police stop and search. As the ripples take hold, the boys try to make sense of the men they are becoming – and how ‘letting go’ can be the hardest part of growing up.

Andrei Tarkovsky’s visionary final film unfolds in the hours before a nuclear holocaust. Among many other awards, The Sacrifice won the Cannes Grand Prix in 1986, the same year that Tarkovsky died of cancer in Paris at the age of 54. 

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.

Vladlena Sandu, a survivor of the war in Chechnya, studies her traumatic memories in order to transcend and transform them via cinema in her poetic debut feature.

Francesco Sossai’s dazzling sophomore feature is many things at once: a road movie, a casual caper, a tribute to a vanishing industrial Italy, a scruffy intergenerational odyssey, and free-flowing bender through time and space.

Andrei Tarkovsky's extraordinary and haunting exploration of exile, memory, and faith returns to the big screen in a new 4K restoration.

A legendary meta-soap opera that has maintained a devoted underground following since 1981, it captures the improvisational heat of Harlem life on gritty U-matic video to explore what Ishmael Reed calls the "triteness of everyday life."

Andrei Tarkovsky’s visionary final film unfolds in the hours before a nuclear holocaust. Among many other awards, The Sacrifice won the Cannes Grand Prix in 1986, the same year that Tarkovsky died of cancer in Paris at the age of 54. 

Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. 

Éléonore drives West. Her car breaks down in the middle of Brittany, France. She rents a bungalow on a campsite with a view of the lake, in which, it is said, lives a legendary beast. From mobile home to mobile home, she observes the present, summons the past and lets herself be invaded by fiction.

Vladlena Sandu, a survivor of the war in Chechnya, studies her traumatic memories in order to transcend and transform them via cinema in her poetic debut feature.

A raw, improvisational “meta–soap opera” directed by Bill Gunn (Ganja & Hess) that captures Black working-class life in late-1970s Harlem with startling intimacy. 

This special programme brings together four shorts from between 1984 – 1992 by music video director Richard Heslop with an intro from archivist Nicole Atkinson.

Siren Screen presents Herostratus, a 1967 British experimental psychological drama named after a legend of a man who burned down the Temple of Artemis to achieve immortal fame. It follows Michael Gothard as a young poet who proposes to a marketing firm that they turn his suicide into a mass media spectacle.

Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. 

Vladlena Sandu, a survivor of the war in Chechnya, studies her traumatic memories in order to transcend and transform them via cinema in her poetic debut feature.

The lovers are trade fair hostess Brigitte (Johanna Wokalek) and young Paula (Hannah Schiller). Faced with the shrinking market value of her femininity, Brigitte makes wealthy Heinz (Ben Mün-chow) her lover. She just manages to make her way to the top, while Paula has yet to learn the hardships of life.

At once disturbing and oddly amusing, Ōshima's macabre farce about a man who survives his execution and throws the judiciary system into chaos, is a searing indictment of both capital punishment and the treatment of Korean immigrants in his country.

Electric Blue Cinema presents the UK premiere of new video mixtape from emerging Canadian directors Kalil Haddad and Ryan Steel, exploring lo-fi aesthetic, youth in flux, and the notion of experimental filmmaking in the landscape of 2026.

12-year-old best friends Ish and Maram wrestle to hold on to their friendship in the wake of a police stop and search. As the ripples take hold, the boys try to make sense of the men they are becoming – and how ‘letting go’ can be the hardest part of growing up.

Early twenties Iris (Jillian Frank) and Palmer (Avalon Fast) never left their hometown. They work at the same restaurant, share the same bed, and both have a habit of drinking and driving.

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.

Francesco Sossai’s dazzling sophomore feature is many things at once: a road movie, a casual caper, a tribute to a vanishing industrial Italy, a scruffy intergenerational odyssey, and free-flowing bender through time and space.

The UK Premiere of the 4K Restoration of Leos Carax's 1999 postmodern adaptation of Herman Melville’s controversial Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (1852). 

Vladlena Sandu, a survivor of the war in Chechnya, studies her traumatic memories in order to transcend and transform them via cinema in her poetic debut feature.

Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. 

When a thief is caught stealing form a book shop by one of its employees, the two embark on an unusual, erotic adventure. Set against the vivid backdrop of the massive student-led riots, Nagisa Ōshima's radical concoction of cinema verité, underground kabuki and just about everything in-between, is a striking meditation on the psychosexual ambiguities of the postwar counterculture.

12-year-old best friends Ish and Maram wrestle to hold on to their friendship in the wake of a police stop and search. As the ripples take hold, the boys try to make sense of the men they are becoming – and how ‘letting go’ can be the hardest part of growing up.

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

The latest film from Karim Aïnouz is an outrageous satire on the absurdity of the patriarchal family.

Francesco Sossai’s dazzling sophomore feature is many things at once: a road movie, a casual caper, a tribute to a vanishing industrial Italy, a scruffy intergenerational odyssey, and free-flowing bender through time and space.

Andrei Tarkovsky's extraordinary and haunting exploration of exile, memory, and faith returns to the big screen in a new 4K restoration.

A legendary meta-soap opera that has maintained a devoted underground following since 1981, it captures the improvisational heat of Harlem life on gritty U-matic video to explore what Ishmael Reed calls the "triteness of everyday life."

Andrei Tarkovsky’s visionary final film unfolds in the hours before a nuclear holocaust. Among many other awards, The Sacrifice won the Cannes Grand Prix in 1986, the same year that Tarkovsky died of cancer in Paris at the age of 54. 

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.

Vladlena Sandu, a survivor of the war in Chechnya, studies her traumatic memories in order to transcend and transform them via cinema in her poetic debut feature.

Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. 

12-year-old best friends Ish and Maram wrestle to hold on to their friendship in the wake of a police stop and search. As the ripples take hold, the boys try to make sense of the men they are becoming – and how ‘letting go’ can be the hardest part of growing up.

The latest film from Karim Aïnouz is an outrageous satire on the absurdity of the patriarchal family.

Andrei Tarkovsky’s visionary final film unfolds in the hours before a nuclear holocaust. Among many other awards, The Sacrifice won the Cannes Grand Prix in 1986, the same year that Tarkovsky died of cancer in Paris at the age of 54. 

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.

Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. 

12-year-old best friends Ish and Maram wrestle to hold on to their friendship in the wake of a police stop and search. As the ripples take hold, the boys try to make sense of the men they are becoming – and how ‘letting go’ can be the hardest part of growing up.

When a thief is caught stealing form a book shop by one of its employees, the two embark on an unusual, erotic adventure. Set against the vivid backdrop of the massive student-led riots, Nagisa Ōshima's radical concoction of cinema verité, underground kabuki and just about everything in-between, is a striking meditation on the psychosexual ambiguities of the postwar counterculture.

As part of a film programme exploring themes connected to the exhibition She Flickered In and Out of History, scholar Damon R. Young brings together three films: L’Hippocampe, L’atalante and Moon’s Pool. 

Based on the shocking story of a young Japanese couple jailed for throwing their ten-year old son into traffic in order to extort money from unwitting drivers, Boy is one of Ōshima's most beautiful and restrained films.

Vladlena Sandu, a survivor of the war in Chechnya, studies her traumatic memories in order to transcend and transform them via cinema in her poetic debut feature.

30-year-old Danielius returns to his hometown to sell his parents’ flat, but the visit lasts longer than expected in Vytautas Katkus' delicate study of homecoming, fatherhood, and belated farewells.

Songs of Forgotten Trees, which won Anuparna Roy the Best Director award in the Orizzonti competition at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, is a gentle ode to female friendship.

30-year-old Danielius returns to his hometown to sell his parents’ flat, but the visit lasts longer than expected in Vytautas Katkus' delicate study of homecoming, fatherhood, and belated farewells.

Based on the shocking story of a young Japanese couple jailed for throwing their ten-year old son into traffic in order to extort money from unwitting drivers, Boy is one of Ōshima's most beautiful and restrained films.

Songs of Forgotten Trees, which won Anuparna Roy the Best Director award in the Orizzonti competition at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, is a gentle ode to female friendship.

30-year-old Danielius returns to his hometown to sell his parents’ flat, but the visit lasts longer than expected in Vytautas Katkus' delicate study of homecoming, fatherhood, and belated farewells.

One of the most urgent, anxious cinematic interventions into the post-1968 defeat of the radical youth movement, Ōshima's The Man Who Left His Will on Film is an enigmatic unravelling of the suicide of a young member of a political film cooperative.

Songs of Forgotten Trees, which won Anuparna Roy the Best Director award in the Orizzonti competition at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, is a gentle ode to female friendship.

Songs of Forgotten Trees, which won Anuparna Roy the Best Director award in the Orizzonti competition at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, is a gentle ode to female friendship.

30-year-old Danielius returns to his hometown to sell his parents’ flat, but the visit lasts longer than expected in Vytautas Katkus' delicate study of homecoming, fatherhood, and belated farewells.

One of the most urgent, anxious cinematic interventions into the post-1968 defeat of the radical youth movement, Ōshima's The Man Who Left His Will on Film is an enigmatic unravelling of the suicide of a young member of a political film cooperative.

30-year-old Danielius returns to his hometown to sell his parents’ flat, but the visit lasts longer than expected in Vytautas Katkus' delicate study of homecoming, fatherhood, and belated farewells.

Songs of Forgotten Trees, which won Anuparna Roy the Best Director award in the Orizzonti competition at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, is a gentle ode to female friendship.

Among Ōshima's most ambitious works, The Ceremony, is a savage critique of the corrosive abuses of power at the heart of both a patriarchal Japanese family and the nation itself.

30-year-old Danielius returns to his hometown to sell his parents’ flat, but the visit lasts longer than expected in Vytautas Katkus' delicate study of homecoming, fatherhood, and belated farewells.

Songs of Forgotten Trees, which won Anuparna Roy the Best Director award in the Orizzonti competition at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, is a gentle ode to female friendship.

Among Ōshima's most ambitious works, The Ceremony, is a savage critique of the corrosive abuses of power at the heart of both a patriarchal Japanese family and the nation itself.

Ōshima's documentary celebrating the centenary of cinema in Japan, traces the history of Japanese cinema from the silent era of the late 1800s to more recent work by the likes of Hayao Miyazaki and Takeshi Kitano.

For his final independent film, shot on location in Okinawa immediately after it's release from US control, Ōshima combines a breezy tale of summer romance with an unpredictable exploration of the island and its inhabitants.

For his final independent film, shot on location in Okinawa immediately after it's release from US control, Ōshima combines a breezy tale of summer romance with an unpredictable exploration of the island and its inhabitants.

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.