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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Shorts: Italian Archives Reimagined
Experience a captivating journey through Italy's history with this collection of rare Historical Luce Archive shorts, beautifully reimagined with vivid color and evocative, contemporary musical scores.
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Shorts: On Human & Animals
Three films follow lives shaped by care and connection across farms, flights and fairs, where animals and humans share fragile bonds of growth, loss and belonging.
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Shorts: Portraits of Absence
Three intimate journeys through grief and remembrance where art, rituals and hope become a way of holding those still missing close.
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Shorts: Safe Spaces
Three stories of queer resilience trace the search for safety in homes, music and asylum centers, where identity, community and survival collide.
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Shorts: States of Becoming
From Texas classrooms to neurodiverse self-discovery and a particular Italian youth community, three films explore how young lives adapt, resist and redefine what it means to belong.
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Shorts: Stories of Displacement
From frontlines to exile, two Syrian stories of friendship and loss reveal the quiet endurance of memory, resistance and the search for home.
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Shorts: Thresholds of Faith
Three films explore belief and resistance through healing rituals, feminist defiance and ancestral memory, where the sacred becomes a space of struggle, identity and transformation.
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The Shrimp Condition
Five young men live in a community on the outskirts of Milan, sent here by courts and social services. None of them know what comes next.
  • Davide Piras, Giammarco Boscariol
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Silenced
Human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson fights the weaponisation of defamation laws used to silence survivors of sexual violence around the world.
  • Selina Miles
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SKYCLIMBER - Scaling The Eiffel Tower
A climber attempts to scale the Eiffel Tower in a documentary that is equal parts high-altitude adventure and intimate personal portrait.
  • Nick Hardie
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Stalin Boys
Four middle school boys in a tiny Texas border town channel an unlikely obsession with Joseph Stalin into a history fair play about tyranny.
  • Bianca Giaever, Ora DeKornfeld
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Steal This Story, Please!
Through decades of archive footage, this compelling portrait follows investigative journalist Amy Goodman as she takes on soldiers, politicians and corporate media in pursuit of truth.
  • Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
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The Story of Documentary Film: 1960s
Mark Cousins continues his sweeping history of documentary with the 1960s, a decade of political awakening, portable cameras and filmmakers turning dissent into an art form.
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The Story of Documentary Film: 1970s
Mark Cousins continues his sweeping history of documentary with the 1970s, a decade of environmental reckoning, feminist uprising and filmmakers speaking truth to power.
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Synthetic Sincerity
A university research lab is trying to build authentic AI characters, and they've licensed a documentary filmmaker's back catalogue to teach them what's missing.
  • Marc Isaacs
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TAKKUUK
Breathtaking infrared cinematography and a hypnotic Bicep score pull audiences into the Arctic, where Indigenous artists reckon with culture, colonialism and a rapidly changing world.
  • Charlie Miller, Zak Norman
  • 2025
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TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing
Friends of Black feminist writer, filmmaker and cultural worker Toni Cade Bambara come together to share her lessons on art, community and resistance.
  • Louis Massiah, Monica Henriquez
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TheyDream
A filmmaker and his mother look back on twenty years of family life, love and death, weaving animation, home recordings and memory into a shared act of healing.
  • William Caballero
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TikTok Never Dies
Three TikTok creators sue the US government to stop a ban on the app. Their unlikely last hope? The very president who first tried to block it.
  • Hao Wu
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Time and Water
Icelandic poet Andri Snær Magnason weaves his family's archives, folktales and the melting glaciers of his homeland into a cinematic letter to the future.
  • Sara Dosa
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Time Machine Maidan
In this haunting and visually inventive documentary, a spectral voice drifts through time and memory to trace the Maidan revolution and the roots of resistance in Ukraine.
  • Roman Liubyi, Volodymyr Tykhyy
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Toddler Kino: The Boys and the Bees
Join us for a short film and free bee-focused craft session for you and your toddler in collaboration with Showroom Cinema

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Try!
Four Irish Rugby teams who defy stereotypes tackle their way to the Mixed Ability Rugby World Cup, where full-contact sport meets joyful belonging.
  • Oisín Mistéil
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Try! + Conversation
Join us for a special screening of this film, followed by a conversation with the director Oisin Misteil and contributors. 
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Ultimate Thunder
A punk band whose members have learning disabilities and Down syndrome fight to reach a bigger stage as funding cuts, health scares and setbacks close in.
  • Ben G. Brown
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