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Take a breath and reflect on the planetary impacts of our brief human existence, under the watchful gaze of the…

The Taste of Mango, Chloe Abrahams’ debut feature, is an enveloping, hypnotic, urgently personal meditation on family, memory, identity, violence,…

Filmmaker Ella Glendining’s global search for someone with a body that looks like hers, and explores what it takes to…

Gena, a queer artist from a small town in Russia, dresses in otherworldly costumes made from junk and tape, and…

A group of adults find solace in sharing their experiences of growing up as children of Black Nigerian immigrants who…

Made over 6 years, director Jeanie Finlay charts the rise of Aubrey Gordon, from anonymous blogger writing with candour and…

Part of the 2023 edition. An exhilarating father-daughter VR artwork collaboration blending immersive animation, archive and live-action to celebrate Eden’s…

The most quintessentially British working-class filmmaking club, Bradford Movie Makers’, members grow old amid flickering memories and the brutal reckoning…

On the outskirts of Beirut, Lilas and her thrash metal bandmates, Shery, Maya, Alma and Tatyana (Slave to Sirens), have…

REBEL DREAD is the story of Don Letts, a first-generation British-born Black filmmaker, DJ, musician, and cultural commentator. The film…

A collection of short documentary films by the collective Kino Dopomoha show Ukraine facing a world-scale tragedy and its struggle…

From Oscar-nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen, director of Cobain: Montage of Heck, and featuring never-before-seen concert footage, MOONAGE DAYDREAM is an…

6.30pm – Welcome Party Join us at Silver Screen Cinema before the opening film Fire of Love to raise a drink to…

During his day job as a Spanish criminal interpreter in a small town in California, filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes met a…

Skate Dreams is the first feature documentary about the rise of women’s skateboarding. It profiles a diverse group of women…

For over a decade William has been living with a debilitating condition that has forced him to retreat from society…

"Cops, be listening, your daughter’s out here fighting!" The chants of thousands of feminists who took to the streets in…

Join Stone Club on a filmic dance through the landscape and ancient sites of Britain. From beating the bounds and…

Summer of Soul (… Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson will inspire our programme…

Rachel Pronger Guest programmer screening + introduction. On remote Christmas Island, thousands of asylum seekers are detained in a high-security…