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Timestalker

UK Premiere

Timestalker

Alice Lowe’s vibrant second feature offers a playful take on the romantic comedy with a reincarnation twist. Agnes chases her true love across the centuries, but can’t quite seem to get the happy ending she’s looking for. Her various unlucky...

UK Premiere
Alice Lowe
2024
105 mins
18

Steppenwolf

UK Premiere

Steppenwolf

Dystopian, genre-straddling road trip set during civil war in a stark, bleakly violent landscape. A woman searching for her young son encounters a corrupt, coldly sociopathic investigator who will stop at nothing to carve the way forward. This is a...

UK Premiere
Adilkhan Yerzhanov
2024
102 mins
15

Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust

UK Premiere

Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust

A radical new animated vision of a dystopian future probes our fears about social control and liberation. Imagine a world in which difference is erased. This is a world where everyone wears a paper bag over their head. But when...

UK Premiere
Ishan Shukla
2024
103 mins
12A

My Favourite Cake (Keyke mahboobe man)

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My Favourite Cake (Keyke mahboobe man)

A profoundly moving meditation on ageing, loneliness and love in unexpected places. An elderly Iranian widow encounters a lonely taxi driver in Tehran, where female oppression and strict social structures are subverted as a delicate kinship blooms against the odds....

UK Premiere
Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha
2024
97 mins
15

Mongrel (白衣蒼狗)

UK Premiere

Mongrel (白衣蒼狗)

Raw, commanding and thoughtful Taiwanese drama about compassion and decency in the face of inequality and invisibility. An undocumented Thai careworker living in a remote region of Taiwan cares for the disabled and elderly, as he is forced to navigate...

UK Premiere
Wei Liang Chiang, Aimee Yin
2024
128 mins
15

Blue Sun Palace

UK Premiere

Blue Sun Palace

A beautiful rumination on absence, grief, and the human need for connection. Far from home, Amy and Didi have built new lives for themselves in Flushing, Queens. Whilst in their massage parlour they have formed a new sense of home,...

UK Premiere
Constance Tsang
2024
117 mins
PG

Bogancloch

UK Premiere

Bogancloch

A solitary soul in the Scottish wilderness is observed living a life that is harmonious and beautiful. Over a decade on from Two Years at Sea (2011), Ben Rivers returns to the ramshackle home of forest-dwelling hermit Jake Williams. Retaining...

UK Premiere
Ben Rivers
2024
86 mins
12A

Black Dog (狗阵 Gou Zhen)

UK Premiere

Black Dog (狗阵 Gou Zhen)

A young man returns to his hometown following time in prison, only to form a strong bond with a stray whippet in this profound and moving film. Tasked with clearing the streets of strays and faced with dangers and ghosts...

UK Premiere
Guan Hu
2024
110 mins
15

Between the Temples

UK Premiere

Between the Temples

A cantor undergoing a crisis of faith runs into his high school music teacher who is intent on having a late life Bat Mitzvah in this sweet, melancholic comedy. Jason Schwartzman stars alongside Carol Kane as the unlikeliest of odd...

UK Premiere
Nathan Silver
2024
112 mins
15

Armand

UK Premiere

Armand

A tightly wound and exhilarating drama that examines the assumptions that adults make whilst trying to uncover the truth. When Elisabeth is called in to her sons’ school, she is shocked to discover that he has been accused of crossing...

UK Premiere
Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
2024
113 mins

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