WORLD 2020

Skate Kitchen

Crystal Moselle
USA · 2018

The Wolfpack director returns with a free-wheeling, often funny fiction debut about girl skateboarders in New York City, featuring real-life crew Skate Kitchen.

Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

Certain Women

Kelly Reichardt
USA · 2016

Laura Dern, Michelle Williams and Kristen Stewart are beautifully attuned to Meek’s Cutoff director Kelly Reichardt’s intimately observed, interwoven tales of three independent women in contemporary small town Montana.

Screening times, review and trailer >>

I Am Not a Witch

Rungano Nyoni
UK/Zambia · 2017

Set in Zambia, the birthplace of writer-director Rungano Nyoni, this strange, engrossing feature addresses the continuing marginalisation of ‘witches’ and the accusations against a nine-year-old girl.

Screening times, review and trailer >>

Ixcanul Volcano

Jayro Bustamante
Guatemala/France · 2015

Guatemala’s active Pacaya volcano is a symbol of both ancient traditions and modern threats in this absorbing, beautifully shot film about the consequences of a peasant girl’s strategy to avoid an arranged marriage.

Screening times, review and trailer >>

Arctic

Joe Penna
Iceland/USA · 2018

This snowbound endurance thriller, shot spectacularly on location in Iceland, stars Mads Mikkelsen as the sole survivor of an air crash, stranded somewhere in the barren wastelands of the Arctic.

Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

The Babadook

Jennifer Kent
Australia · 2014

“Baba-dook-dook-dook” joins “Candyman” and “Bloody Mary” as words too terrifying to say, but too tempting not to, thanks to Australian writer-director Jennifer Kent’s startling and thought-provoking horror house thriller.

Screening times, review and trailer >>

Woman at War
Kona fer í stríð

Benedikt Erlingsson
Iceland · 2018

Iceland’s Benedikt Erlingsson (Of Horses and Men) winningly mixes absurdist comedy and tense thriller, with Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir as a fearless eco-warrior juggling environmental action and foster motherhood.

Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

Let the Sunshine In
Un beau soleil intérieur

Claire Denis
France · 2017

Juliette Binoche lights up every frame of Claire Denis’ frank and rueful dramedy of romantic hope springing eternal, scripted in collaboration with controversial confessional novelist and playwright Christine Angot.

Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

The Miseducation of
Cameron Post

Desiree Akhavan
USA · 2018

Chloë Grace Moretz delivers a heartbreaking and nuanced performance as a queer teen shipped off to a gay conversion camp in Desiree Akhavan’s touching drama.
Sundance Grand Jury Prize

Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

God's Own Country

Frances Lee
UK · 2017

Filmed on the Yorkshire Dales where he grew up, Francis Lee’s debut tells the poignant story of a hard-drinking lad who keeps his emotions in check until a handsome Romanian immigrant comes to work on the family farm.

Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

Up the Mountain
Huo shan

Zhang Yang
China · 2018

This visually arresting film takes us to a mountaintop village in China, where the simple rituals and traditions of unhurried, everyday life are captured in vibrant folk paintings.

Screening times, reviews and trailer >>