Francesco Sossai’s dazzling sophomore feature is many things at once: a road movie, a casual caper, a tribute to a vanishing industrial Italy, a scruffy intergenerational odyssey, and free-flowing bender through time and space.

The UK Premiere of the 4K Restoration of Leos Carax's 1999 postmodern adaptation of Herman Melville’s controversial Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (1852). 

Vladlena Sandu, a survivor of the war in Chechnya, studies her traumatic memories in order to transcend and transform them via cinema in her poetic debut feature.

Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. 

When a thief is caught stealing form a book shop by one of its employees, the two embark on an unusual, erotic adventure. Set against the vivid backdrop of the massive student-led riots, Nagisa Ōshima's radical concoction of cinema verité, underground kabuki and just about everything in-between, is a striking meditation on the psychosexual ambiguities of the postwar counterculture.

12-year-old best friends Ish and Maram wrestle to hold on to their friendship in the wake of a police stop and search. As the ripples take hold, the boys try to make sense of the men they are becoming – and how ‘letting go’ can be the hardest part of growing up.

The improbable life of French poet Arthur Rimbaud unfolds with all the shock and playfulness of his poetry.

The latest film from Karim Aïnouz is an outrageous satire on the absurdity of the patriarchal family.

Francesco Sossai’s dazzling sophomore feature is many things at once: a road movie, a casual caper, a tribute to a vanishing industrial Italy, a scruffy intergenerational odyssey, and free-flowing bender through time and space.

Andrei Tarkovsky's extraordinary and haunting exploration of exile, memory, and faith returns to the big screen in a new 4K restoration.

A legendary meta-soap opera that has maintained a devoted underground following since 1981, it captures the improvisational heat of Harlem life on gritty U-matic video to explore what Ishmael Reed calls the "triteness of everyday life."

Andrei Tarkovsky’s visionary final film unfolds in the hours before a nuclear holocaust. Among many other awards, The Sacrifice won the Cannes Grand Prix in 1986, the same year that Tarkovsky died of cancer in Paris at the age of 54. 

A subtle meditation on memory and performance, Hong Sangsoo's latest film unfolds through a series of increasingly intimate conversations, as he continues his exploration of the boundaries between lived experience and artistic creation.

Vladlena Sandu, a survivor of the war in Chechnya, studies her traumatic memories in order to transcend and transform them via cinema in her poetic debut feature.

Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. 

12-year-old best friends Ish and Maram wrestle to hold on to their friendship in the wake of a police stop and search. As the ripples take hold, the boys try to make sense of the men they are becoming – and how ‘letting go’ can be the hardest part of growing up.

The latest film from Karim Aïnouz is an outrageous satire on the absurdity of the patriarchal family.

Andrei Tarkovsky’s visionary final film unfolds in the hours before a nuclear holocaust. Among many other awards, The Sacrifice won the Cannes Grand Prix in 1986, the same year that Tarkovsky died of cancer in Paris at the age of 54. 

A subtle meditation on memory and performance, Hong Sangsoo's latest film unfolds through a series of increasingly intimate conversations, as he continues his exploration of the boundaries between lived experience and artistic creation.

Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. 

12-year-old best friends Ish and Maram wrestle to hold on to their friendship in the wake of a police stop and search. As the ripples take hold, the boys try to make sense of the men they are becoming – and how ‘letting go’ can be the hardest part of growing up.

When a thief is caught stealing form a book shop by one of its employees, the two embark on an unusual, erotic adventure. Set against the vivid backdrop of the massive student-led riots, Nagisa Ōshima's radical concoction of cinema verité, underground kabuki and just about everything in-between, is a striking meditation on the psychosexual ambiguities of the postwar counterculture.

As part of a film programme exploring themes connected to the exhibition She Flickered In and Out of History, scholar Damon R. Young brings together three films: L’Hippocampe, L’atalante and Moon’s Pool. 

Based on the shocking story of a young Japanese couple jailed for throwing their ten-year old son into traffic in order to extort money from unwitting drivers, Boy is one of Ōshima's most beautiful and restrained films.

Vladlena Sandu, a survivor of the war in Chechnya, studies her traumatic memories in order to transcend and transform them via cinema in her poetic debut feature.