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Black Box Diaries

This daring work of first-person journalism charts the case that not only launched #MeToo in Japan but changed the country’s legal system for good.

Dir. Shiori Ito / 2024 / 104 mins / UK, Japan / Japanese
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Copa 71

Think the global surge in interest in women’s football is a relatively recent occurrence? This eye-opening documentary asks you to think again.

Dir. Rachel Ramsay, James Erskine / 2023 / 89 mins / UK / English, Spanish, French, Italian
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Daphne was a torso ending in leaves

Winner of the KNF Award at Rotterdam, a playful and richly cinematic ode to the mythological Greek nymph.

Dir. Catriona Gallagher / 2023 / 13 mins / UK, Greece, Italy / No Dialogue
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DEVO

This effusive documentary explodes onto the screen as it chronicles the remarkable rise and staying power of the 80s new-wave band behind ‘Whip It’.

Dir. Chris Smith / 2024 / 94 mins / USA, UK / English
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Grand Theft Hamlet

The show really must go on as two locked-down actors take Shakespeare to the least likely stage imaginable: the streets of Grand Theft Auto.

Dir. Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane / 2024 / 90 mins / UK / English
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Hoard

The past comes knocking in this four-time Venice-winning feature debut that blends grief, grime, love and childhood trauma.

Dir. Luna Carmoon / 2023 / 126 mins / UK / English
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Lee

Kate Winslet delivers a captivating performance alongside a stellar cast in this portrait of legendary WWII war photographer Lee Miller.

Dir. Ellen Kuras / 2023 / 117 mins / UK / English
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Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

Hear Martin Scorsese wax lyrical about how the mesmerising films of two of Britain’s finest inspired his own adventures in cinema.

Dir. David Hinton / 2024 / 131 mins / UK / English
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Man number 4

Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photo on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.

Dir. Miranda Pennell / 2024 / 9 mins / UK / English
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The Medallion

Ethiopian-Australian filmmaker Ruth Hunduma hears her mother’s testimony of surviving the ‘Red Terror’ genocide of Ethiopia in the 1970s.

Dir. Ruth Hunduma / 2023 / 19 mins / UK / English, Amharic
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Occupied City

This immersive, epic work of memorialisation from Oscar winner Steve McQueen uncovers WWII histories hidden in plain sight.

Dir. Steve McQueen / 2023 / 266 mins / USA, Netherlands, UK / English
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

With absurdist humour and playful surrealism, this disarmingly funny Cannes award-winner rages at a middle-class Zambian family’s shameful silence.

Dir. Rungano Nyoni / 2024 / 95 mins / UK, Ireland, Zambia / English
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The Outrun

Saoirse Ronan produces and stars in this moving adaptation about a recovering addict who returns to her childhood home on Scotland’s Orkney Islands.

Dir. Nora Fingscheidt / 2023 / 117 mins / Germany, UK / English
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Santosh

Premiering in Cannes Un Certain Regard, this scathing, subversively feminist take on the police procedural puts modern-day India under scrutiny.

Dir. Sandhya Suri / 2024 / 125 mins / Germany, UK, France, India / Hindi
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Scala!!!

Delirious, debaucherous and downright dangerous – the Scala played home to sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll (and John Waters) in Thatcher-era London.

Dir. Jane Giles, Ali Catterall / 2023 / 96 mins / UK / English
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September Says

An unsettling and oneiric tale of sisterhood is French actor Ariane Labed’s Cannes-premiering directorial debut, based on a Gothic novel.

Dir. Ariane Labed / 2024 / 100 mins / Germany, UK, France, Greece, Ireland / English
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Shé (Snake)

A violin student’s competitiveness manifests as grotesque, nightmarish creatures.

Dir. Renee Zhan / 2023 / 15 mins / UK / English, Mandarin
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Single File

Time collides and collapses in this kaleidoscopic reflection on change in Hong Kong.

Dir. Simon Liu / 2023 / 10 mins / USA, UK, Hong Kong, Italy / English, Cantonese
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The Small Back Room

Now in a stunning 4K restoration, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s WWII thriller remains a classic of aching romance and high-wire suspense.

Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger / 1949 / 106 mins / UK / English
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The Stimming Pool

Immerse yourself in a wildly imaginative, proudly neurodivergent world informed by autistic perspectives and perception.

Dir. The Neurocultures Collective, Steven Eastwood / 2024 / 70 mins / UK / English
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The Substance

Demi Moore satirises Hollywood ageism in this audacious and gory feminist body horror that was the talk of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Dir. Coralie Fargeat / 2024 / 141 mins / USA, UK, France / English
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Sunlight

Comedian Nina Conti directs this darkly funny joy ride featuring a monkey, a radio host brought back from the brink and a dead man’s watch.

Dir. Nina Conti / 2024 / 96 mins / UK / English
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Timestalker

In cult UK comedy treasure Alice Lowe’s film, a woman’s misguided fatal attraction to the same pretty bad-boy has lasted six centuries … so far.

Dir. Alice Lowe / 2024 / 97 mins / UK / English
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To a Land Unknown

Acclaimed documentarian Mahdi Fleifel makes his fiction debut with a Midnight Cowboy–inspired Palestinian refugee story.

Dir. Mahdi Fleifel / 2024 / 105 mins / Germany, Netherlands, UK, France, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Palestine / English, Greek, Arabic
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Tuesday

Death comes as a giant macaw in this A24 fairytale about letting go, featuring a career-best turn from Seinfeld’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Dir. Daina Oniunas-Pusić / 2023 / 111 mins / USA, UK / English
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Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other

The complex relationship between two married artists is laid bare in this searing and joyful portrait of love and creativity in autumn.

Dir. Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet / 2023 / 100 mins / USA, UK, Denmark / English, French, Italian
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Wilding

Letting it all go to seed is the answer to revitalising the land and its visitors, suggests this soul-nourishing film about innovative farming.

Dir. David Allen / 2023 / 75 mins / UK / English