Skate KitchenCrystal 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 WomenKelly 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 WitchRungano 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 VolcanoJayro 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 >> |
ArcticJoe 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 BabadookJennifer 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
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Let the Sunshine In
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The Miseducation of
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God's Own CountryFrances 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
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For more contemporary festival titles in the 2020 season, see also:
FRENCH CONNECTIONS · GERMAN CINEMA · TILDA · SPACES AND PLACES
FRENCH CONNECTIONS · GERMAN CINEMA · TILDA · SPACES AND PLACES