Enigmatic and endlessly intriguing, the cinema of German filmmaker Angela Schanelec defies easy classification. For more than thirty years Schanelec has crafted a singular body of work that is both elliptical and philosophical. Drawing and departing from classical dramaturgy in almost equal measure, Schanelec's cinema, at its heart, is a cinema of being and becoming, a profound exploration of the very act of existing.

Hong Kong Film Festival UK returns for its third edition from 12–28 September in London, presenting reflective, boundary-shifting cinema from Hong Kong and the ESEA diaspora.

This double bill brings together Amy Halpern's Falling Lessons and Julie Dash's Illusions.

Charming and irreverent, the films of Pia Frankenberg are animated by contagiously impulsive women who abandon bourgeois happiness and pursue the romance of new, improvised futures. From 1981 to 1992, the writer, director, and actor brought her jazzy spontaneity to German cinema, working to capture the spirit of the moment in Hamburg and Berlin.