Extra Screenings

On the Edge
A young doctor with an exemplary humanist spirit fights a brave battle to hold together the run-down Paris hospital where he works – and to hold his patients together in the process.

The Last Year of Darkness
Bass-heavy and neon-coloured portrait of the alternative Chinese youth in a country in constant state of change that now threatens the underground club Funky Town. A haven for outsiders who live every weekend like it's their last – and it might soon be.

Motherland
Dark and monumental film from Belarus, where corruption and a brutal military culture push young people to choose sides. A film in two tracks, from rave parties in heavy industrial wastelands to the neo-nationalism of post-Soviet society.

Mrs Hansen & the Bad Companions
80-year-old Inger provides a home for society's outsiders in her enormous villa. But when she herself falls ill, the guests in her ramshackle microcosm must learn to send some of the care the other way.

Seven Winters in Tehran
19-year-old Reyhaneh Jabbari is sentenced to death by the Iranian clerical regime for murdering the man who tried to rape her, in an urgent and heartbreaking film narrated by Cannes-winning actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi.

Queendom
21-year-old queer artist Gena looks like a visitor from another planet in her hometown in the far reaches of Russia, where she challenges everyone with her extravagant, homemade costumes – but her lone rebellion comes at a high price.

Songs of Earth
The mountainous landscapes of Norway provide the monumental backdrop for the cinematic nature experience of the year. A magnificent, existential journey with the filmmaker's parents as its human yardstick, and with the primordial forces of the earth looming in the bedrock.

20 Days in Mariupol
An unflinching and vital inside account of Russia's war in Ukraine, shot in the besieged city of Mariupol by the only journalists left. Courageous, meticulous and with glimpses of hope and humanity amid the devastation.

After Work
A thought-provoking film that looks at the phenomenon of work in the 21st century with the razor sharp X-ray vision and equally sharp humour. From Kuwait to Korea, from the US to Europe, and from nine to five - with Swedish mastermind Erik Gandini behind the camera.

A Storm Foretold
Christoffer Guldbrandsen's long-awaited film about Donald Trump's former adviser Roger Stone is a chilling report from the rotten core of power, ahead of the riot on Capitol Hill.

Pacifiction
A tropical fiction and a slow-motion jet-set thriller from one of today's greatest cineastes. A deep, dark trip into the abyss of imperialism, and one of the most beautiful film experiences of the year.

The Super 8 Years
Nobel Prize-winning author Annie Ernaux's debut as a film director is based on home movies shot during her life. A personal film with an intellectual wingspan that stretches from 1960s France to the present day.

Theatre of Violence
An epic and unshakeable drama of guilt and punishment. Former Ugandan child soldier Dominic Ongwen is both executioner and victim in a sober courtroom drama about crimes against humanity that upends on the very foundations of morality.

Free Money
A poor village in Kenya has been selected by an American NGO to take part in the world's largest experiment in citizen pay. Kenyan co-director Sam Soko follows the project sceptically over three years.

Bobi Wine: The People's President
Political activist and pop star Bobi Wine is the young generation's hope for the future in Uganda, where the opposition leader's path to the presidency starts with popular protest songs that go viral in the ghetto.

The Last Rider
The incredible story of cyclist Greg LeMond, who returned from the brink of death with a bullet hole in his stomach to haunt the Tour de France. A thrilling epic about one of the greatest and most inspiring comebacks in sporting history.

A Journey and the Doors
Would you let a stranger into your home for a night? A filmmaker goes on a bike ride through Europe to take the temperature of the continent's trust and hospitality after years of talk about borders.

Breaking Social
Eye-opening global investigation into the social contract and cohesion, by Swedish docu-veteran Fredrik Gertten ('Push') with bestselling author Rutger Bregman as his deeply sympathetic expert witness.

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
A group of women sit in a steaming hot sauna and exchange stories. A beautiful, unsentimental film about femininity, solidarity and the very special community of sauna culture across ages and body shapes, captured with an unusual intimacy.

Total Trust
The first major film about the Chinese surveillance state is a disturbing tale of technology, (self-)censorship and abuse of power in the 21st century. Two families fight for justice from within the digital prison.

Beyond Utopia
Hidden camera footage augments this perilous high-stakes journey as we embed with families attempting to escape oppression, ultimately revealing a world most of us have never seen.