Films

All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea

A wave of poisoned crabs, like a biblical plague has washed ashore on the coast of North East England, where fishermen, coastal communities and politicians are fighting for different futures after Brexit. A highly topical tale with a strong local accent.

Jeanie Finlay / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere

Boy George & Culture Club

The story of one of the most groundbreaking pop bands of the 1980s is a dramatic journey filled with internal infatuation, secret homosexuality, and destructive heroin abuse.

Alison Ellwood / United States & United Kingdom / 2025

Broken English

The legendary Marianne Faithfull's extraordinary life, told by herself and accompanied by George MacKay, Tilda Swinton, and Nick Cave in a deeply original film by the duo behind ‘20,000 Days on Earth’.

Jane Pollard & Iain Forsyth / United Kingdom / 2025

Burden of Other People’s Dreams: Chapter One – Ganymede

'Burden of Other People's Dreams: Chapter One – Ganymede' is a surreal, abstract memoir of Joe Bini's life as a film editor and storyteller, presented as a live cinema experience for one audience member at a time.

Joe Bini / United Kingdom / 2026

Coded Black

'Coded Black' is a social justice game exploring the insidious and haunting histories of systemic racism in the US and UK, revealing stories of racial injustice and Black resilience.

Maisha Wester / United Kingdom / 2025 / Danish Premiere

Compact Disc

After years of silence, the director and his friends return to fragments of a shared youth shaped by imprisonment, revisiting memory, friendship, and the images that refuse to settle.

Rico Wong / Hong Kong & United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere

Conscious

Can subjective consciousness be studied objectively? A philosophical and scientific dilemma looms large in a film about the mysteries of the brain, where life itself catches up with a neuroscientist.

Suki Chan / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere

Everybody to Kenmure Street

On a street in Glasgow, hundreds of residents flock to prevent the deportation of two of their neighbors. Award-winning Sundance hit about civil disobedience and radical neighborliness.

Felipe Bustos Sierra / United Kingdom / 2026

Everyone Is Lying To You For Money

If you've bought cryptocurrency in the hope of easy money, you should watch Ben McKenzie's entertaining and eye-opening film, which is to cryptocurrency what ‘The Big Short’ was to the financial crisis.

Ben McKenzie / United States, El Salvador & United Kingdom / 2025 / European Premiere

Fukushima

The Fukushima disaster, recounted hour by hour by the people who stayed behind to prevent a meltdown. An ultra-intense and gripping epic from the director of ‘Antidote’.

James Jones & Megumi Inman / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere

here and not here

A cinematic diary from the West Bank and the Golan Heights – places caught between occupation, oppression, and a lived, collective experience.

Andrea Zimmerman / Palestine & United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere

I Heard That They Are Not Going To See Each Other Anymore

Young love and intertwined lives in Taipei in a romantic and charming debut film with a colossal creative energy that dissolves the boundary between fiction and reality - just like when you are in love.

Ka Ki Wong / Taiwan, Hong Kong, Türkiye & United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere

Inside: The Childhood of an Artist

An evocative multisensory biography capturing the moment artist Judith Scott’s life changed forever.

Sacha Wares / United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere

Intelligence Rising

Thinkers such as Yuval Harari and leaders from the EU, China and the US participate in a war game on AI, where they are confronted with geopolitical scenarios for possible future crises.

Elena Andreicheva / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere

Jaripeo

Behind the hypermasculine rituals of a Mexican rodeo show a hidden queer desire pulsates. A festival hit about performative masculinity and the longings of the subconscious.

Efraín Mojica & Rebecca Zweig / United States, Mexico & United Kingdom / 2026

Kenny Dalglish

A captivating portrait of legendary Liverpool player Sir Kenny Dalglish, told by the man himself, and directed by the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind ‘Amy’ and ‘Maradona’.

Asif Kapadia / United Kingdom / 2025

Killing Anna

A shocking video from Syria leads to an unusual detective story when a Syrian woman makes up a fake name to catch war criminals - on Facebook. A psychological thriller with a brave woman as a virtual Sherlock Holmes.

Sam Benstead / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere

Last Movies

Film history from Kafka to Kurt Cobain: A darkly humorous, alternative timeline based on the last films iconic celebrities watched before (and sometimes while) they died – narrated by Jeremy Irons.

Stanley Schtinter / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere

Mare’s Nest

CPH:DOX winner Ben Rivers is back with a trippy and magical hybrid film based on a play by Don DeLillo about a girl's journey from the Stone Age to the future through a mysterious world without adults.

Ben Rivers / United Kingdom, France & Canada / 2025

Matter of Britain

An enchanting film about an entire British village reenacting the myth of the Holy Grail over the course of a year. A striking debut film with enormous imaginative power.

Peter Treherne / United Kingdom / 2026 / European Premiere

Molly vs the Machines

The responsibility of tech giants for young people's mental health is put to the test in a film in which a tragedy in a British family leads to a court case where a heartbroken father takes legal action.

Marc Silver / United Kingdom / 2025

Nick Cave’s Veiled World

Friends, colleagues, and spiritual companions paint an intimate portrait of Nick Cave - an artist in transformation, shaped by grief, curiosity, and the search for meaning after the loss of his son.

Mike Christie / United Kingdom / 2026

Nova ’78

A cinematic time capsule from William S. Burroughs' legendary Nova Convention in New York, where icons such as Patti Smith, Frank Zappa, and Laurie Anderson met in an explosive artistic clash.

Aaron Brookner & Rodrigo Areias / United Kingdom & Portugal / 2025

Nurses come and go, but none for me

His father's diaries from his final months in hospital, minimalistically staged by artist Ed Atkins and by Steven Zultanski as a performative film in two acts.

Ed Atkins & Steven Zultanski / United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere

One in a Million

Ten years in the life of an extraordinary young girl, from her escape from Syria to Germany with her family, where she grows up and becomes a young woman. A captivating film about exile, hope and dreams.

Itab Azzam & Jack MacInnes / United Kingdom & Germany / 2026

Our Land

Does everyone have the right to roam freely in nature? Not in England, where eccentric landowners and nature lovers fight a creative battle over the land.

Orban Wallace / United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere

Penkelemes

Onyeka Igwe’s new film work is a post-colonial analysis that unfolds the complex history of a university in Nigeria, built under imperial rule.

Onyeka Igwe / Nigeria & United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere

Something Familiar

While trying to help a stranger find her birth mother, a filmmaker is drawn into the shadows of her own family history, uncovering a dark legacy that has loomed over its women.

Rachel Taparjan / Romania & United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere

Takkuuk

A visually explosive, musical journey into the Arctic, where musicians and researchers share their personal stories about nature, culture, and rapidly changing identities to a dizzying score by BICEP.

Zak Norman & Charlie Miller / United Kingdom / 2025

The Cycle of Love

A young Indian man cycles 10,000 km from Delhi to Sweden to find the love of his life. An epic adventure film and an incredible but true story – and one of the biggest romantic hits of the year.

Orlando von Einsiedel / United Kingdom & Sweden / 2025 / European Premiere

The Futora

Connecting traces of hypnagogia, fragmented geography and childhood sci-fi media, through senses of time belonging to translucent dreams, shadows, fantasies and family owned workshops. the images drift into the peripheral glimmers of a nocturnal city and slip into another world.

Yuqing Lin / China & United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere

The Lost Golden Lotus

'The Lost Golden Lotus' reimages China’s foot-binding legacy through multisensory art and Deaf-led performance, connecting historical beauty ideals to today’s exacting body standards.

Chisato Minamimura / United Kingdom & China / 2025 / Danish Premiere