Films
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
One of the biggest audience favourites of the year is a genuinely gripping and truly epic film about the man who first became Superman and then became a real-life superhero after a tragic accident changed his life forever.
Peter Ettedgui & Ian Bonhôte / United Kingdom / 2024 / European Premiere
The Contestant
A real-world 'The Truman Show’ in which a Japanese man became a national superstar without realising it through a bizarre reality TV show. A story stranger than fiction, which gets a second chapter as he is looking back at it today.
Clair Titley / United Kingdom / 2023
The Daughters of Fire + Man in Black
Two expressive new films by Pedro Costa and Wang Bing – screened together.
Pedro Costa & Wang Bing / Portugal, France, United States & United Kingdom
The Flats
A run-down Belfast housing estate becomes a haunted inner landscape in a dark, cinematic film where the echoes of the conflict in Northern Ireland still reverberate in the corridors. An aging man on his final, existential mission confronts the ghosts of the past.
Alessandra Celesia / France, United Kingdom, Ireland & Belgium / 2024 / World Premiere
The Sound Voice Project
The Sound Voice Project explores the intrinsic value of the human voice – merging synthetic voices with live opera, performers who have no voice box and digital voices, sharing real-life stories about the symbiotic relationship between our identity and the way we sound.
Hannah Conway, Hazel Gould, Luke Halls & David Sheppard / United Kingdom / 2024 / International Premiere
The Stimming Pool
Created by a collective of neurodivergent filmmakers in an attempt to provide an alternative and artistic take on what it's like to live with neurodivergence in a chaotic world not made for those who are different.
The Neurocultures Collective, Benjamin Brown, Georgia Bradburn, Sam Chown-Ahern, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker & Steven Eastwood / United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere
The Stones & Brian Jones
Genius, sex symbol, lost soul. The director of 'Kurt and Courtney' and 'Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love' unravels the story of the Rolling Stones icon who mysteriously ended his days at the bottom of a swimming pool aged just 27.
Nick Broomfield / United Kingdom / 2023
The Walk
The director of 'Honeyland' returns with a contemporary fairytale made with sensitivity and poetry as a giant puppet travels from Syria up through Europe to tell the story of migration from a child's perspective.
Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other
Life, death and making meaning are the heart of a beautiful and often very funny film about an aging couple who, after an accident, face the inevitability of impermanence and seek a deep peace in their relationship while they still can.
Jacob Perlmutter & Manon Ouimet / United Kingdom, Denmark & United States / 2024 / World Premiere
Unbuilt Environments
Utopian and dystopian environments for disabled people, built in Unreal Engine and based on collaboration with disabled-led groups and disabled people in East London.
Alistair Gentry / United Kingdom / 2024 / International Premiere
Vocalize
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Halsey Burgund, Francesca Panetta & Shehani Fernando / United Kingdom / 2024 / International Premiere
Welcome to the Darkness
The party-loving British glam rockers in The Darkness are trying to reclaim stadiums around the world. But not everything goes according to plan in an unpretentious, funny and touching story of brotherhood and rock n' roll.
Simon Emmett / United Kingdom / 2023 / International Premiere
Your Fat Friend
A humorous, personal and highly educational manifesto about being fat in a world designed for thin people. Based on the iconic texts and activist Aubrey Gordon, and on six years of lived experience from anonymous blogger to best-selling author.
Jeanie Finlay / United Kingdom & United States / 2023