Films in Journey
Whether it’s the journey or the destination, these films transport you and shift your perspective.
Journey gala
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The Two Popes
Dir Fernando Meirelles | Italy-Argentina
Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce tussle over the future of the Catholic Church in this thrillingly cinematic two-hander from Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener).
Feature films
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37 Seconds
Dir-Scr HIKARI | Japan
A young woman with cerebral palsy strikes out for independence with the help of a sex worker in this sensational Japanese debut.
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Adolescents
Dir Sébastien Lifshitz | France
This captivating coming-of-age documentary follows best friends Anaïs and Emma for five years of teenagehood.
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Again Once Again
Dir-Scr Romina Paula | Argentina
Argentinian actor Romina Paula meditates on motherhood, identity and relationships in this enticing combo of real life and fiction.
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Burning Night
Dir Eryk Rocha | Brazil-France-Argentina
Eryk Rocha’s edgy, impressionistic chronicle of the nocturnal encounters of a Rio cab driver vividly captures the strange unpredictability of a rapidly changing world.
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Circus of Books
Dir Rachel Mason | USA
Imagine discovering that your parents have been running a gay adult book store for most of their lives…
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The Cordillera of Dreams
Dir-Scr Patricio Guzmán | Chile-France 2019
Veteran documentarist Patricio Guzmán completes his trilogy about Chile’s troubled past, meditating on how the Andes shaped its sense of identity.
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An Easy Girl
Dir Rebecca Zlotowski | France
Rebecca Zlotowski investigates desire, the lure of the high life and the imagery of modern female sexuality in a French summer-of-sun drama with a difference.
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Give Me Liberty
Dir Kirill Mikhanovsky | USA
Kirill Mikhanovsky’s anarchic look at disability and race in working-class America shares a fresh street-level energy with Good Time and Tangerine.
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The Gold-Laden Sheep & the Sacred Mountain
Dir Ridham Janve | India
In the remote Himalayas, a shepherd searches for a mythical mountain where a plane has crashed. But is his heart as sacred as the place he seeks?
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Harriet
Dir Kasi Lemmons | USA
Cynthia Erivo (Widows) gives a show-stopping and star-making turn as the American revolutionary anti-slavery heroine Harriet Tubman in Kasi Lemmons’ Harriet.
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The House of Us
Dir-Scr Ga-eun Yoon | South Korea
One for fans of the family dramas of Hirokazu Kore-eda: in The House of Us director Ga-eun Yoon proves herself one of the world’s finest filmmakers at capturing contemporary childhood onscreen.
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The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão
Dir Karim Aïnouz | Brazil-Germany
A deserving winner of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard prize, this sumptuous tale of two sisters cruelly separated by family and fate makes for deeply moving drama.
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Monsoon
Dir-Scr Hong Khaou | UK
Hong Khaou follows Lilting (BFI Flare 2014) with this gorgeous drama that evokes the disorientation of returning to an unrecognisable homeland.
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Öndög
Dir-Prod-Scr Wang Quan’an | Mongolia
Wang Quan’an returns with a witty, tender and visually bewitching tale of death, desire and camels on the plains of Mongolia.
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The Orphanage
Dir-Scr Shahrbanoo Sadat | Denmark-Germany-France-Luxembourg-Afghanistan
Caught selling black market cinema tickets, young Qodrat is sent to a Soviet orphanage where he daydreams himself into his favourite Bollywood films.
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Perfect 10
Dir-Scr Eva Riley | UK
An aspiring teen gymnast’s world is turned upside down with the arrival of the half-brother she never knew she had.
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Rialto
Dir Peter Mackie Burns | Ireland-UK
This second feature by Daphne director Peter Mackie Burns is a nuanced and deeply cinematic portrait of a middle-aged Dublin man disintegrating on all fronts.
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Ridge
Dir John Skoog | Sweden
An invitation to step inside the beautiful confusion of nature in Swedish artist John Skoog’s innovative and luscious CPH:Dox award-winning debut.
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Run
Dir-Scr Scott Graham | UK
Mark Stanley plays the petrol-head who never left town, in this Bruce Springsteen-inspired tale of thwarted dreamers.
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Sister
Dir Svetla Tsotsorkova | Bulgaria-Qatar
A teenage girl’s habitual fantasies have unforeseen consequences in Svetla Tsotsorkova’s sensitive take on the apparently mundane lives of a mother and her two daughters.
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A Thief’s Daughter
Dir Belén Funes | Spain
An emotionally powerful drama from debut filmmaker Belén Funes, charts the trials and tribulations of a single mother with a singular sense of purpose.
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To the Ends of the Earth
Dir-Scr Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan-Uzbekistan-Qatar
Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa explores cross-cultural miscommunication in this engagingly low-key portrait of a TV host becoming lost in Uzbekistan.
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Transnistra
Dir Anna Eborn | Sweden-Denmark-Belgium
Anna Eborn’s dreamy documentary details six teenagers coming of age over the course of one year whilst marooned in Transnistra, a Soviet-style breakaway republic sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine.
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Us Among the Stones
Dir D. R. Hood | UK-Belgium
A family clan gathers beside an ageing matriarch’s deathbed at her home on Dartmoor, but the conviviality soon gives way to the unearthing of long-buried secrets and resentments.
Short films programmes
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My Life, Whose Rules?
Films that tell of personal journeys of survival, identity and agency.
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London Calling
A selection of new shorts from some of the capital’s most exciting upcoming filmmakers, funded by BFI NETWORK and delivered by Film London.
