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Saturday, 13 December
Daily Programme
Films
Animalia
12:00 PM
A sense of otherworldly threat pervades French-Moroccan director Sofia Alaoui’s intriguing philosophical sci-fi Animalia, an extension of her Sundance Grand Jury-winning 2020 short, So What If the Goats Die.
Exhibitions
Tanoa Sasraku: Morale Patch
Morale Patch is an exhibition of new work by Tanoa Sasraku (b. 1995, Plymouth) examining the seductive and destructive power of oil – its ties to war and national identity – through a meditation on emblems and mementos.
Films
In Focus: Pedro Pinho
UK PREMIERE
I Only Rest in the Storm
12:30 PM
Sergio, an environmental engineer from Portugal, travels to Guinea-Bissau for an impact report. There, lonely in the heat, he encounters Diara and Guilermhe and begins to approach the post-colonial and capitalist forces shaping their lives.
Films
L'Atalante (4K Restoration)
1:45 PM
A timeless masterpiece of love and yearning, L’Atalante was the only full-length film made by Jean Vigo before his tragic early death. The film is now considered to be one of cinema’s very greatest works.
Films
Cinema Tehran
Downpour
3:30 PM
Cinema Tehran presents Bahram Beyzayi’s first feature which helped usher in the Iranian New Wave. When he takes a job as a schoolteacher in a new neighborhood, the hapless intellectual Mr. Hekmati finds that he is a fish out of water. 
Live
Snapped Ankles + TaliaBle
4:00 PM
8:00 PM
As the name suggests, the tracks that make up Snapped Ankles’ Hard Times Furious Dancing album were designed for live performance. Or more specifically to make people move as if their lives depend on it. Honed at the band’s Forest Rayve club nights throughout 2024 and released in 2025 - it marked a new era for the woodwose. Support from TaliaBle.
Films
Pillion
4:30 PM
Colin is a quiet parking attendant, whose steady existence is disrupted by the exploration of pleasure, dependence, and his own limits, when he enters a dominant-submissive relationship with biker Ray (Alexander Skarsgård). 
Films
A Midnight Clear
+ online Q&A with Keith Gordon
6:00 PM
A special screening of Keith Gordon’s psychological World War II drama adapted from William Wharton’s autobiographical novel.
Films
It Was Just an Accident
6:50 PM
A fearless, Palme d’Or winning, tour-de-force from cinematic luminary Jafar Panahi. Both urgently political and deeply humane, this new moral classic confronts truth and uncertainty, revenge and mercy, head-on.
Films
Diane Keaton and Heaven
8:30 PM
An evening celebrating Diane Keaton, screening her directorial debut, Heaven (1987).
Films
The Tale of Silyan
9:00 PM
Nikola is a farmer grappling with the harsh realities of new government policies. When his family leaves, Nikola takes a job as a landfill attendant, where he encounters the injured white stork Silyan and an unlikely bond forms between man and animal.