Richard Linklater reimagines the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s À bout de souffle in a playful, poignant love letter to cinema. At the dawn of his career, Godard directs Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo as star-crossed lovers, filming with unorthodox spontaneity on the streets of Paris. Working alongside other key players, friends and creative collaborators like […]

Breathtaking visions of wildfires in Galicia centre this stunning reflection on the delicate balance between humans, animals and the environment. An immersive, visually striking journey deep into southern Galicia, one of Europe’s most vulnerable forest fire zones, where wild horses have curbed flammable undergrowth for centuries under the watch of local cowboys. During the hottest […]

In Malaysia, where LGBT identities face legal challenges, a trans man named Faris and his punk band defy norms and build camaraderie. Choosing the name “Shh...Diam!”, meaning “shut up!” in Malay, this LGBT punk band persists in shouting out its truth in a country that denies queer rights. We’re invited into the lives of band […]

A 10-year-old boy from a peaceful, distant future accidentally travels back to the year 2075 and discovers a world in peril. As Arco develops a friendship with a young girl named Iris, they band together and, along with her trusted robot caretaker Mikki, set out on a quest to get Arco home. A remarkable journey […]

British Nigerian Akinola Davies Jr’s bold and poetic debut is a semi-autobiographical tale set over the course of a single day in Lagos as political unrest looms. Nigeria, 1993: Kid brothers Remi and Akin are gifted a day with their estranged father Folarin. Together, they voyage into Lagos for the first time, the boys taking […]

Sorrentino (The Consequences of Love, The Great Beauty) reunites with actor Toni Servillo in this chamber-piece about the final months in office of an Italian president. President Mariano De Santis – grieving his wife’s death – retreats into isolation within his vast presidential palace, relying on his trusted confidante and comforted by a predilection for […]

This outstanding debut is a detailed portrait of life under dictatorship, seen through the travails of a nine-year-old girl. Iraq, 1991: Lamia lives in poverty on the Mesopotamian Marshes with her ailing grandmother, Bibi. When she is chosen to supply the cake for her school’s mandatory celebration of Saddam Hussein’s birthday, it’s a nightmare. Bibi […]

Denis Lavant (Holy Motors, Beau Travail) gives an intensely physical performance in this tender allegory of survival. Set in a rural Swedish village at the height of the Cold War and based on real events, Redoubt is punctuated with quotes from If War Comes – a civil defence manual issued to Swedish households during the […]

Bart and Laurie, both sharpshooters, meet in a fairground, fall in love and embark on a crime spree in this cult film noir. A low-budget B-movie with a terrific script […]