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Rose of Nevada

Mark Jenkin’s time-travelling odyssey about a long-lost fishing boat that mysteriously returns to harbour, starring George MacKay and Callum Turner.
  • Drama
  • Science Fiction
  • 2025
  • 114 mins
  • Mark Jenkin

Ish

A friendship is capsized in this blistering British drama, told with power and rage, from a filmmaker to watch.
  • Drama
  • 2025
  • 88 mins
  • Imran Perretta

Edward II

Christopher Marlowe's 16th century play is radically adapted by Derek Jarman in one of his most powerful films, starring Tilda Swinton.
  • Drama
  • Historical drama
  • 1991
  • 90 mins
  • Derek Jarman

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The Passion of Remembrance

A key film of the Black Film Workshop movement - this London-set visual mosaic captures the richness and complexity of 1980s Black British life.
  • Historical drama
  • Animation & Artists Moving Image
  • 1986
  • 83 mins
  • Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien

Being Blacker

Molly Dineen’s acclaimed documentary about renowned Brixton-based music producer Blacker Dread.
  • Documentary
  • Current affairs
  • 2018
  • 89 mins
  • Molly Dineen

Edge of Summer

A summer holiday and an old folk tale bring two 11-year-olds together as they explore what, or who, is calling to them, from within an abandoned mine.
  • Drama
  • 2024
  • 90 mins
  • Lucy Cohen

Palestine 36

Acclaimed Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir’s most ambitious work is a powerful exploration of the events leading up to the Arab Revolt of 1936.
  • Period drama
  • 2025
  • 120 mins
  • Annemarie Jacir

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Grimonprez’s Academy Award-nominated film reveals the connections between post-war jazz, US imperialism and the Pan-African decolonisation movement.
  • Documentary
  • 2024
  • 150 mins
  • Johan Grimonprez

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Rose Byrne gives a mesmerising, Oscar-nominated performance as an overwhelmed mother, in Mary Bronstein’s nerve-shredding comedy-thriller-horror.
  • Drama
  • 2025
  • 113 mins
  • Mary Bronstein

Nouvelle Vague

Richard Linklater recreates the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s seminal feature debut, Breathless.
  • Drama
  • 2025
  • 106 mins
  • Richard Linklater

The Chronology of Water

A woman battles addiction and abuse in Kristen Stewart’s uncompromising depiction of love, trauma and artistic self-expression.
  • Drama
  • 2025
  • 128 mins
  • Kristen Stewart

The Voice of Hind Rajab

Emergency workers receive a call from five-year-old Hind Rajab. Using real-life audio recordings, this film recreates the desperate mission to save her.
  • Drama-documentary
  • Crime
  • 2025
  • 89 mins
  • Kaouther Ben Hania

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