Films
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
The incredible story of how jazz music and soft power were used on both fronts of America's ideological battles during the Cold War - including in the Congo. An epic, original and supremely stylish trip through the 20th century from an original angle.
Johan Grimonprez / Belgium, France & Netherlands / 2024
Stephen
A young actor in rehab is cast as a gambler in a crime thriller based on a film from 1901. Realities are layered in a British visual artist's performative film about the risk - and freedom - of letting go of yourself and becoming someone else.
Melanie Manchot / United Kingdom / 2023 / International Premiere
Stray Bodies
Involuntary body related travelling is on the rise in Europe, with women crossing EU borders to reclaim the right to their own bodies. Abortion and artificial insemination are just two items on the list in a film that maps the continent.
Elina Psykou / Greece, Switzerland, Italy & Bulgaria / 2024 / International Premiere
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
Teaches of Peaches
Fuck the pain away! 20 years after queer musician Peaches kicked off the new millennium, she's embarking on an anniversary tour - and she's armed with bare breasts, a razor-sharp entourage and a prophetic fuck you to the patriarchy.
Philipp Fussenegger & Judy Landkammer / Germany / 2024 / International Premiere
Tell Them About Us
A group of delightful teenage girls who have all fled to Germany find their own creative ways to overcome hidden discrimination in a film about friendship, sisterhood and living your dreams.
Rand Beiruty / Germany & Jordan / 2024 / World Premiere
Thank You Very Much
Andy Kaufman was the favourite comedian of all the other comedians. The story of his life is an endlessly fascinating and entertaining trip through the mind of a brilliant, tragic and extreme human being with an unsurpassed sense of humour.
Alex Braverman / United States / 2023
The Battle for Laikipia
Drought, politics and colonial history collide in a stormy and unpredictable conflict between Kenyan cattle herders and white ranchers in the vast African country. A complex and wise film about the consequences of climate change.
Daphne Matziaraki & Peter Murimi / United States & Kenya / 2024 / International Premiere
The Bones
Dinosaur fossils are worth their weight in gold in a market where serious scientists and fortune hunters vie to be first to the next big find. An eye-opening adventure documentary about bones, cash and big egos - and an absolute must for dinosaur fans.
Jeremy Xido / Canada & Germany / 2024 / World 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 Expedition to the End of the World
Tribute screening in memory of Michael Haslund. An epic and adventurous journey of discovery to the last white spaces on the world map.
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 Human Surge 3
A cinematic trip across time and space, shot with a 360-degree camera in an inventive gesture unlike any other in contemporary cinema. Eduardo Willams breaks every conceivable rule of what the cinema experience can be.
The Perfect Meal – The Secrets of the Mediterranean Diet
A food-loving and scientific tribute to the Mediterranean diet and, not least, the liquid gold: olive oil.
Alexandros Merkouris / Greece / 2023
The Sky Above Zenica
In the centre of Europe, one of the world's three most polluted cities has united its citizens in a common fight for a viable future. But money, power and environmental politics prove to be as toxic an opponent as the factory smoke that clouds the city.
Nanna Frank Møller & Zlatko Pranjic / Bosnia and Herzegovina & Denmark / 2024 / World 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 Train and the Peninsula
A thoughtful and sensuous tour along Mexican train tracks on the Yutacán Peninsula, where a new, large-scale railway project threatens the indigenuos Mayan culture and the nature around them.
Sky Richards & Andreas Kruger Foncerrada / Mexico / 2023
They Shot The Piano Player
A film noir in colour that brings back the heyday of bossa nova in stunning animations and to a jazzy score, as it tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of one of Brazil's most legendary jazz pianists.
Fernando Trueba & Javier Mariscal / Spain, France, Netherlands, Portugal & Peru / 2023
This is Ballroom
An upbeat tribute to the Brazilian ballroom scene, where LGBTQ+ and non-white people create the creative space they are not allowed in a repressive society.
Juru & Vitã / Brazil / 2024 / World Premiere
To be an Extra
A charismatic young woman's intelligent film about making the leap from supporting roles in German TV dramas to play the leading role in her own life. A courageous piece of performative autofiction which invents its own rules as it unfolds.
Henrike Meyer / Germany / 2024 / World Premiere
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