Film Programme
Our 2026 Film Programme features 104 films from around the world, exploring individual and collective lives, how we live, the world around us and the ways it is changing.
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3 Lost In Towers
After a real estate collapse in a small Chinese city, a man who took his own life lingers as a ghostly presence among the unfinished buildings.
  • Jingyuan Liang, Shizhao Ye
  • 2026
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The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist
AI is changing the world as we know it. A filmmaker expecting his first child asks the people building it what kind of future lies ahead.
  • Daniel Roher, Charlie Tyrell
  • 2026
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Air Horse One
One of the most valuable horses in show jumping is flown between competitions across the globe in the business class of equine air travel.
  • Lasse Linder
  • 2025
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The Alien Autopsy Scandal
The Alien Autopsy Scandal unravels how two friends sparked a worldwide media frenzy by unearthing jaw-dropping film purporting to show an extra-terrestrial being.
  • John Dower
  • 2026
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All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea
When thousands of dead crabs wash ashore along England's North East coast, fisherman Stan Rennie finds himself leading a grassroots fight for answers and a future.
  • Jeanie Finlay
  • 2026
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All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea + Conversation
Join us for a special screening of All Rivers Spill Their Stories into The Sea, plus a discussion with the director, Jeanie Finlay and the contributors of the film. Moderated by
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all that appears solid is built on blood
Footage documenting the making of a mass grave in Khan Younis, Gaza is slowed frame by frame, re-shot on film and soaked in human blood.
  • Izdihar Afoyuni, Gelare Khoshgozaran
  • 2026
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Allies in Exile
For fourteen years, Syrian filmmakers Hasan Kattan and Fadi Al-Halabi have documented war, revolution and each other. Now, confined to a UK asylum hotel, they turn their cameras inward.
  • Hasan Kattan, Fadi Al Halabi
  • 2026
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American Doctor
Three American doctors volunteer in Gaza's overwhelmed hospitals. The humanitarian catastrophe they witness compels them to carry their fight far beyond the wards and back to Washington.
  • Poh Si Teng
  • 2026
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an open field
An Open Field is an exquisitely beautiful and profoundly moving meditation on grief, memory, and collective healing.
  • Teboho Edkins
  • 2025
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Anatomy of a Portrait
A rural Colombian woman plans to donate her body to science and commissions her own posthumous portrait, in a tender, inventive meditation on life, death and the human body.
  • Juan Felipe León
  • 2026
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The Apologist
Through the ritual of saying sorry, a bold journey explores how apologies redefine history and what happens to us as witnesses to the act of atonement.
  • Kristof Bilsen
  • 2026
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The Apologist + Meditation & Q&A
Join us for a special screening of this film, followed by a meditation that strengthens your roots, and a Q and A with the director, Kristof Bilsen and contributors.
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The Archivist
David "Doc" Rowe has spent decades preserving Britain's overlooked folk traditions. Now, with time running short, he faces a race to protect them.
  • Rob Curry, Tim Plester
  • 2026
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The Archivist + Conversation
Join us for a special screening of the film, followed by a discussion with the directors, Rob Curry and Tim Plester.
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The Ballad of Judas Priest
From working-class roots in England's industrial Black Country, a story of heavy metal's most influential band, closeted queerness and a culture war.
  • Sam Dunn, Tom Morello
  • 2026
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Birds of War
Over thirteen years of revolution, war and exile, a Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist document their love story through text messages, voice notes and footage from the front lines.
  • Janay Boulos, Abd Alkader Habak
  • 2026
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Blind, into the eye
Two Iranian filmmakers in exile piece together the story of a brutal and deliberate act: the systematic targeting of protesters' eyes during Iran's 2022 protests.
  • Mehrad Sepahnia, Atefeh Kheirabadi
  • 2025
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The Boys and the Bees
On an idyllic Georgia farm, young Black parents share their love of beekeeping, nature and life itself with their sons as they rebuild their family's connection to the land.
  • Arielle Knight
  • 2026
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Bugboy
A shy Greek teenager with misaligned eyes finds an unlikely confidant in a cricket named Isabella, discovering where he belongs through the smallest of connections.
  • Lucas Paleocrassas
  • 2026
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Buried
Investigative journalists Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor team up with Michael Sheen to trace 'forever chemicals' buried in Welsh land, and possibly in our food. Join the team and contributors for a conversation about this series. 
  • Mags Gavan
  • 2026
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Cantona
Told largely in his own words, the remarkable story of Eric Cantona's journey from volatile French prodigy to Manchester United legend.
  • David Tryhorn, Ben Nicholas
  • 2026
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A Child of My Own
Oscar-nominated director Maite Alberdi follows Alejandra, a young Mexican woman who fakes a pregnancy, becoming trapped in a web of her own making for nine months.
  • Maite Alberdi
  • 2026
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Children & Animals
A twelve year old farmer brings his favourite goat to compete at a country fair in Maine, where a conversation about death changes everything.
  • Walker Kalan
  • 2026
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A City in the Forest
When a police unit in Atlanta moves to raze an urban forest for the country's largest police training facility, a grassroots movement fights to defend the land.
  • Lev Omelchenko, Nolan Huber
  • 2026
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