Black Audio Film Collective
Spurred by political unrest in Thatcher’s Britain, the Black Audio Film Collective’s experimental cinema challenges form and culture to dismantle stereotype.
Censor
At the height of the ‘video nasty’ era, a tightly wound film censor begins to unravel in this clever and subversive ode to the genre.
Cow
Festival favourite Andrea Arnold gets up close and personal with a dairy cow to unveil a surprising and unknown world.
Freedom Swimmer
Olivia Martin McGuire parallels a grandfather’s journey to safety during the Cultural Revolution with his granddaughter’s fight for freedom in Hong Kong today.
Handsworth Songs
Archival footage and media portrayal of violent civil disturbances in Birmingham are used to explore a broader picture of the Black experience in postwar Britain.
In the Earth
In a forest in England, Ben Wheatley builds the folk horror of your most feverish pandemic nightmares.
Ithaka
The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this documentary portrait of an elderly man’s fight to save his son.
The Lair of the White Worm
Ken Russell’s wild mash-up of Anglo-Saxon folklore and Bram Stoker’s final novel pits a baby-faced Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi against a vampiric snake goddess.
Limbo
This story of a Syrian refugee awaiting resettlement on a remote Scottish island is at once heart-wrenching and humorous.
Lizard
In the 2021 Sundance Short Film Grand Jury Prize winner, a young girl stumbles upon secrets at her local church in Lagos.
Memoria
Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns with this hotly anticipated English-language collaboration with Tilda Swinton, which won the 2021 Cannes Jury Prize.
Moffie
This bruising, tender queer drama reminiscent of Beau Travail explores homophobia and repressed desire in the Apartheid-era South African military.
Nestor
Routine is the only thing keeping Nestor afloat.
O Black Hole!
Loneliness is operatic in the latest film by Renee Zhan.
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
A daughter explores her mother’s complex punk legacy in this no-holds-barred documentary.
Prom Night
A Lynchian depiction of self-transformation in the social media age.
Psychomania
Undead bikies, wealthy witches, Satanic butlers and magic frogs. What more could you want from a cult post-Hammer horror?
The Reason I Jump
This Sundance 2020 Audience Award winner is a revelatory, immersive adaptation of Naoki Higashida’s memoir of a neurodiverse life.
Rose: A Love Story
This unsettling chamber piece, while wearing the skin of a horror, is at heart a considered meditation on selflessness, loyalty and chronic illness.
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Dramatic re-enactments, interviews and testimonies traverse and illuminate the life and death of Black American revolutionary Malcolm X.
Sisters With Transistors
Laurie Anderson narrates the untold history of the women who blazed a trail through electronic music.
Smooth Talk
Laura Dern is unforgettable in this 1986 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner – now digitally restored – as a teen who pursues experiences she’s not really sure she wants.
Such Small Hands
When a new arrival is alienated by her peers at a girls’ orphanage, she exacts revenge by inventing an activity that takes gameplay to the extreme.
Under the Volcano
Go behind the music at the sunny Caribbean studio that birthed some of the biggest hits of the 1980s.
Year of the Everlasting Storm
Jafar Panahi, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Laura Poitras and other global cinema heavyweights reflect on 2020 in this sweeping anthology film for the COVID age.