Films
premiere-type European Premiere:
Antipsychotic
Embark on an immersive XR installation that blends psychotropic cyberpunk aesthetics with high fidelity sound and poetry to explore personal experiences with bipolar disorder.
Matt McCorkle / United States / 2023 / European Premiere
Black Box Diaries
A Japanese journalist becomes both detective and protagonist in her own story of overcoming a sexual assault and confronting both the boss of Japan's leading TV networks and a deeply conservative system. Dramatic, moving and determined to change a toxic culture.
Shiori Ito / Japan, United States & United Kingdom / 2024 / European Premiere
Devo
Meet the cult band of them all in the rockumentary of the year about a band that fused a political vision with being bizarre, nerdy and rock star cool. From the director of ‘American Movie’ and the hit series about the Fyre Festival.
Chris Smith / United States / 2024 / European Premiere
Elsewhere in India
‘Elsewhere in India’ is an audiovisual electronica performance about a future world where global cultures are nearing extinction. We follow a motley crew in the year 2079 as they face the dystopian cultural consequences of unbridled technological growth.
Murthovic & Thiruda / India / 2023 / European Premiere
Every Little Thing
Hummingbirds are the fairies of nature's grand fairy tale. But for a woman who has dedicated her life to saving them from her Los Angeles mansion, the magical creatures are more than just cute.
Sally Aitken / Australia / 2024 / European Premiere
Finite Horizon
Finite Horizon is an amalgamated skyline of Asian futures imagined by white filmmakers. Sourced from 20th and 21st century sci-fi, these movies depict a vice-ridden, dangerous world.
Astria Suparak / United States / 2023 / European Premiere
Free Party
Welcome to a party so wild that the British state had to rewrite the law to ban it, and that the electronic sound waves of the raging Free Party movement of the 1990s still resonate today.
Aaron Trinder / United Kingdom / 2023 / European Premiere
Grand Theft Hamlet
Two unemployed friends have a fresh idea: They want to stage Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' in Grand Theft Auto. But even in a virtual world, reality intrudes in a wild and trippy film shot entirely inside the ultra-violent video game.
Sam Crane & Pinny Grylls / United Kingdom / 2024 / European Premiere
I see it, so you don’t have to
Combining machine learning and Jacquard weaving, the artistic wall-hanging delves intomental health of low paid micro-workers laboring in the data and content moderationsector of the AI industry.
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm / Denmark / 2023 / European Premiere
Into the Rabbit Hole
Jess Coldrey explores her uncertain and pain-ridden relationship to the world during her battle with endometriosis by creating a soft, surreal, yet alien world through contemporary quilts and surreal digital imagery.
Jess Coldrey / Australia / 2023 / European Premiere
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
In his first documentary, music video legend Anton Corbijn tells the wild story of the visionary album cover designers behind Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and many others. The rockumentary of the year!
Anton Corbijn / United Kingdom / 2022 / European 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