A continuing series spotlighting new films that expand the possibilities of the medium and provide a vision for its future.

A continuing series of in-depth retrospectives exploring the work of cinema's great artists, both past and present.

Alone in the mountains: Olivia, her Father, and their home. By the foothills, a slaughterhouse, where Father works. She dreams by day and lives by night; they share only dusks and dawns before the rising sun lulls her to sleep. When Father disappears, Olivia descends the mountains in search of him.

Armenian Film Society London and Armenian Heritage Month campaign present the long overdue UK premiere of Komitas, a haunting and unconventional film by Don Askarian centred upon one of Armenia’s most significant cultural figures, the pioneering composer and musicologist Komitas Vardapet.

Julian Radlmaier's fifth feature brings together an East German waitress with a broken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm, in an enigmatic comedy about the ghosts of the past and the mysteries of the present.

For more than two decades, Rita Azevedo Gomes has quietly forged and reshaped an unmistakable cinema, rooted in literature, theatre, music and art history, and unfolding with a rare attentiveness to language, performance, and the spaces that open between them, and moving always with deliberate strangeness and clarity.

A cross-disciplinary festival that showcases boundary-pushing LGBTQ+ cinema, live arts, and moving image work from East and Southeast Asia and its diaspora communities. 

When a fishing boat, the Rose of Nevada, lost with all hands 30 years ago, mysteriously reappears in the old harbour of a forgotten Cornish village, for those who remember, it’s surely a sign. The boat must go out to sea again and maybe then the luck of the devastated village will turn.

Iconic and game-changing, Katsuhiro Otomo's landmark anime returns to the cinema where it was first released in the UK.

Laura, a piano student from Berlin, miraculously survives an accident. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura's presence, the four of them slowly build a familial routine. 

Set in near-future Brazil where the government prioritises productivity above all else, elderly citizens are forcibly relocated to remote colonies to make way for younger generations. When 77 year old Tereza reaches the mandated age, she refuses to comply.

Radu Jude resurrects Dracula, dissecting modern Europe and its myths through a collision of AI mischief and pornographic absurdity.

Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the latest film from Jim Jarmusch takes the form of a triptych, to tell three stories concerning the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other.

François Ozon’s exquisite adaptation of Albert Camus’s classic existential novel brings the contradictions and hypocrisy of the French colonial project into sharper focus, while maintaining the original novel’s spirit of philosophical provocation. 

Jean-Luc Godard’s vast oeuvre is littered with unmade and abandoned projects. This programme brings these phantom works into the light, revealing their connections with his completed films and those of other directors, and highlighting his creative process.

Spanning decades and continents, this programme brings together three films by the independent filmmaker Penny Allen.

At a sports boarding school, talented young boxer Camille narrowly survives a fatal accident, saved by his best friend Matteo. After a swift recovery, an inexplicable pain gradually takes hold of him, threatening his dreams of greatness and his relationship with the team.

This hybrid documentary from Thai director Thunska Pansittivorakul commences as a film about Mor Lam, folk music that originated in Laos, before mounting a searing critique of state repression and violence. Queer in its gaze and endlessly inventive in its style, Isan Odyssey is an ambitious and unpredictable work.

Eleven-year-old Yekta lives in a crumbling island mansion with her strict aunts and ailing grandfather, yearning for her absent mother. As dreams and surreal visions shape her solitude, she sets out in search of a mythical seagull with a child’s head.

When Hiroyuki Oki (1964-2025) passed away suddenly late last year, Japan lost one of its most singular and tireless artist-filmmakers. His amorphous work, traversing documentary and fiction, frequently harnessed smaller, more intimate forms of cinema (8mm, 16mm, video, the home movie) for their unique potential. 

The UK premiere of two short films by Olaa Zhyzhko, a filmmaker born in Kyiv, now living and working in Paris. In Olaa’s Ark, the self is mediated through filmmaking, the director in front of a camera, in the now recognisable mode of autofiction, negotiating her own image under its gaze. Just Drifting inverts this: an intimate, immersive portrait in which a character does not watch herself but dissolves into her circumstances.

18-year-old Marina, travels to Vigo on the Galician coast in the early 2000s, in search of information about her biological father, seeking his death certificate to apply for a scholarship to film school. Reconnecting with her paternal side of the family, she discovers a huge amount of shame and secrecy around his death.

A double bill devoted to the Godardian remake comprising Jacques Becker’s classic Don’t Touch the Loot (Touchez pas au grisbi, 1954), which he planned to remake in the 1990s, and Number Two (Numéro deux, 1975), which started off as a remake of À bout de souffle (Breathless).

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.

A final double bill from the Machine that Kills Bad People.

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.

A provocative portrait of a ‘cruel’ dominatrix, co-written and directed by Elfi Mikesch and Monika Treut. Once divisive, it is now considered as a landmark of queer cinema, celebrated for its exquisite mise-en-scène and Mikesch’s striking cinematography, preceded by the short film The Blue Distance.

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.