Films
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 Kyiv Files
The secret KGB archives in Ukraine have been opened to the public for the first time, testifying to a surveillance culture of distrust that remains a weapon in Russian politics. Three people open their own files for the first time.
Walter Stokman / Netherlands / 2023
The Labour of Pain and Joy
A generous and eye-opening story that unfilteredly follows two Finnish birth attendants as they struggle to improve birthing practices and challenge old traditions.
Karoliina Gröndahl / Finland / 2024 / World Premiere
The Lost Notebook
The discovery of a diary with meticulous records of a Hungarian man's 2,158 visits to the cinema becomes a tale of a divided family held together by a shared love of film.
Ida Marie Gedbjerg Sørensen / Denmark & Hungary / 2024 / World Premiere
The Many Lives of Édouard Louis
One of the most important contemporary writers invites us on a personal stroll through the past he has come to terms with in his autobiographical novels. Class, culture, sexuality, identity and education: Édouard Louis speaks from experience.
François Caillat / France / 2023
The Mother of All Lies
Last year's critically acclaimed Cannes winner is a Moroccan filmmaker's attempt to reconstruct her family's shadowy past. A miniature model of the family's labyrinthine neighbourhood in Casablanca is an important piece in a cinematic puzzle.
Asmae El Moudir / Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia & Qatar / 2023
The Mum in Me
A sensitive and scientific analysis of infertility as a social phenomenon that will make you blush if you have ever asked your colleague when they are going to have children.
Hilde Merete Haug / Norway / 2023
The Nature of Grief
A gentle, personal story about a filmmaker who has lost his older brother and decides to explore the culture of grief with a group of experts in psychology.
Sami Saif / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
The Nights Still Smell Of Gunpowder
A hypnotic film debut from Mozambique, where a young director visits his grandmother's village to measure the depths of her memories. Each moment is staged as a drama in itself in a dark and disquieting piece of cinema.
Inadelso Cossa / Mozambique, France, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands & Norway / 2024 / International Premiere
The Pathogen of War
It’s 2073, a decade after the Bio-Rift which killed half of humanity. This show at the Museum of Medical Archaeology will explain how a benign bacteria was driven by war to become a “perfect killer.” A speculative interactive work based on the real science of antibiotic resistance.
Yasmin Fedda / 2024 / World Premiere
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 Recovery Channel
A filmmaker who has been set back by her own brother's decades-long battle with the mental health system, invents a fictional TV channel to expose the injustices of modern psychiatric treatment.
Ellen Ugelstad / Norway / 2023 / International Premiere
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 Son and the Moon
A Danish-Iranian filmmaker's brave and honest journey through six years of cancer, love and a life project of mapping her family's dramatic history. Existential poetry with an unforgettable woman in front of (and behind) the camera.
Roja Pakari / Denmark / 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 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
The Unfair Body Fight
It's a paradox that the world's population is getting fatter and fatter when many dream of being thin. Why can't weight be controlled?
Mette Korsgaard / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
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.
There was Nothing Here Before
A Swiss-Palestinian director visits his childhood friend who has moved to an Israeli colony, to make a film about their relationship that transcends borders and political differences.
Yvann Yagchi / Switzerland / 2024
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