Black Box Diaries
This daring work of first-person journalism charts the case that not only launched #MeToo in Japan but changed the country’s legal system for good.
Copa 71
Think the global surge in interest in women’s football is a relatively recent occurrence? This eye-opening documentary asks you to think again.
Daphne was a torso ending in leaves
Winner of the KNF Award at Rotterdam, a playful and richly cinematic ode to the mythological Greek nymph.
DEVO
This effusive documentary explodes onto the screen as it chronicles the remarkable rise and staying power of the 80s new-wave band behind ‘Whip It’.
Grand Theft Hamlet
The show really must go on as two locked-down actors take Shakespeare to the least likely stage imaginable: the streets of Grand Theft Auto.
Hoard
The past comes knocking in this four-time Venice-winning feature debut that blends grief, grime, love and childhood trauma.
Lee
Kate Winslet delivers a captivating performance alongside a stellar cast in this portrait of legendary WWII war photographer Lee Miller.
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Hear Martin Scorsese wax lyrical about how the mesmerising films of two of Britain’s finest inspired his own adventures in cinema.
Man number 4
Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photo on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.
The Medallion
Ethiopian-Australian filmmaker Ruth Hunduma hears her mother’s testimony of surviving the ‘Red Terror’ genocide of Ethiopia in the 1970s.
Occupied City
This immersive, epic work of memorialisation from Oscar winner Steve McQueen uncovers WWII histories hidden in plain sight.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
With absurdist humour and playful surrealism, this disarmingly funny Cannes award-winner rages at a middle-class Zambian family’s shameful silence.
The Outrun
Saoirse Ronan produces and stars in this moving adaptation about a recovering addict who returns to her childhood home on Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
Santosh
Premiering in Cannes Un Certain Regard, this scathing, subversively feminist take on the police procedural puts modern-day India under scrutiny.
Scala!!!
Delirious, debaucherous and downright dangerous – the Scala played home to sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll (and John Waters) in Thatcher-era London.
September Says
An unsettling and oneiric tale of sisterhood is French actor Ariane Labed’s Cannes-premiering directorial debut, based on a Gothic novel.
Shé (Snake)
A violin student’s competitiveness manifests as grotesque, nightmarish creatures.
Single File
Time collides and collapses in this kaleidoscopic reflection on change in Hong Kong.
The Small Back Room
Now in a stunning 4K restoration, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s WWII thriller remains a classic of aching romance and high-wire suspense.
The Stimming Pool
Immerse yourself in a wildly imaginative, proudly neurodivergent world informed by autistic perspectives and perception.
The Substance
Demi Moore satirises Hollywood ageism in this audacious and gory feminist body horror that was the talk of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Sunlight
Comedian Nina Conti directs this darkly funny joy ride featuring a monkey, a radio host brought back from the brink and a dead man’s watch.
Timestalker
In cult UK comedy treasure Alice Lowe’s film, a woman’s misguided fatal attraction to the same pretty bad-boy has lasted six centuries … so far.
To a Land Unknown
Acclaimed documentarian Mahdi Fleifel makes his fiction debut with a Midnight Cowboy–inspired Palestinian refugee story.
Tuesday
Death comes as a giant macaw in this A24 fairytale about letting go, featuring a career-best turn from Seinfeld’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other
The complex relationship between two married artists is laid bare in this searing and joyful portrait of love and creativity in autumn.
Wilding
Letting it all go to seed is the answer to revitalising the land and its visitors, suggests this soul-nourishing film about innovative farming.