Independent Cinema for Everyone

A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rise...

Pioneering German director Christian Petzold (Phoenix, Barbara) returns with this experimental historical thriller about Georg, a German refugee fleeing persecution from Nazi-occupied France by assuming the identity of a recently deceased author.

With Director Q&A on Friday 27. Stunningly shot on a vintage 16mm camera using monochrome Kodak stock, Mark Jenkin’s remarkable new film is a timely and funny, yet poignant tale that gets right to the heart of a Cornish community facing an unwelcom...

Acclaimed director Penny Lane returns with her take on the extraordinary rise of one of the most colourful and controversial religious movements in American history - the Satanic Temple.

Tucked is an unexpectedly funny end-of-life drama set in Brighton, with a brilliant performance by 83-year-old Derren Nesbitt. He plays Jack Collins, who initially looks like retired brickie but, under a towering beehive wig, Jack becomes Jackie, the...

This powerful drama, the first English language film from acclaimed Dutch director Polak tells the story of a young woman rebuilding her life after an acid attack leaves her with severe burns.

Romantic sparks fly between the daughters of two opposing politicians in this neon-bright story of forbidden love. The first Kenyan film to screen at Cannes, Rafiki follows the story of two teenage girls, Kena and Ziki, whose friendship blossoms into...