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Thursday, 25 June
Daily Programme
Exhibitions
Genuine Fake Premium Economy:
Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison & Jasmine Gregory
Through satirising, staging or appropriating the real, these artists probe what effect this post-2008 era of financial collapse has had on societal myths of fairness and progress under capitalism.
Films
Off-Circuit
UK PREMIERE
Fuck The Polis
12:10 PM
Fifteen years after the original trip to Greece, with a cancer diagnosis once thought final, a filmmaker retraces her journey through the Greek islands – this time with a group of young friends, filming, reading, singing, and moving from ferry to roadside to ruin.
Films
Enzo
12:30 PM
A 16-year-old boy defies his bourgeois family's expectations by starting a masonry apprenticeship where he meets a charismatic Ukrainian colleague who shakes up his world.
Films
Nino
2:00 PM
5:00 PM
One morning, Nino attends a doctor’s appointment where he is given some upsetting news. The treatment will start on Monday morning, but there is a high chance that it might leave him infertile, so the doctor tells him to consider freezing his sperm. 
Films
The Misfits
2:30 PM
A drama of broken-hearted cowboys and broken-down marriages, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift co-star as an aging cowboy and a rodeo-rocked bull rider in John Huston’s swan song to the Western, and Marilyn Monroe’s final film.
Films
Off-Circuit
UK PREMIERE
Tycoon
4:00 PM
Charlotte Zhang's mesmerising debut feature effortlessly merges forms and formats to craft a paranoid spiral into a city on the brink, as Los Angeles is encircled by militarized policing, meat shortages and cockroach infestations on the eve of the 2028 Olympics.
Films
Familiar Touch
6:30 PM
A coming-of-old-age film following an older woman’s transition into assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship with herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.
Talks & Events
Gushing to Perform: TRU DA VEIL
7:00 PM
An evening of music and performance rooted in Black Trans experimentation, exploring identity, survival, and expression through sound, movement, and spirit. Curated by TRIBE, the event features Chloe Filani, The Prodigy Sisters (Munya Jani & Sakeema Crook), faith//agency, and TRIBE.
Films
Off-Circuit
Dry Leaf
7:00 PM
An opaque journey through the Georgian countryside, Alexandre Koberidze's latest film is a remarkable exploration of absence, as a father traces a path through villages and football fields in search of his missing daughter.
Films
Pink Narcissus
4k restoration
8:30 PM
With its highly charged hallucinogenic quality and its atmosphere of lush decadence, Pink Narcissus is a landmark of gay cinema.