Journey

Below the Clouds

This breathtaking documentary explores past and present lives of the communities living in the shadow of Vesuvius.

The Blue Trail

Gabriel Mascaro’s wondrous adventure of a defiant elder fleeing an ageist society is a life affirming boat-movie that manages laughs and warmth in the face of calamity.

Enzo

Laurent Cantet’s final film, co-written and directed by collaborator and friend Robin Campillo, is a moving and nuanced exploration of class and budding sexuality.

La grazia

Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino is reunited with The Great Beauty actor Toni Servillo, who plays a fictional president reaching the end of their final term in office.

High Wire

When a small circus arrives in a rural part of England, a young woman’s world is opened to the boundless possibilities of life, in this rollicking directorial debut.

Lucky Lu

Inspired by personal memory, Lloyd Lee Choi’s compassionate debut charts a migrant father’s enduring devotion as he drifts through the rhythms of life in New York’s Chinatown.

Mortu Nega

Flora Gomes’ sweeping epic of Guinea-Bissau’s struggle for independence is viewed through the intense, intimate prism of a young couple in love.

Orphan

Academy Award-winning director László Nemes’ highly anticipated third feature, set in post-war Budapest, is a film of great import, style and technical flair.

A Pale View of Hills

A poignant tale of loss and exile under the shadow of the Nagasaki bomb, Kazuo Ishiguro’s 1982 novel makes a classy transition to the screen.

Palestine 36

Acclaimed Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir’s most ambitious work to date is a powerful exploration of the events leading up to the Arab Revolt of 1936.

Portobello

A preview of the first two episodes of Marco Bellocchio’s bravura Italian TV biopic about the controversial arrest of a beloved TV-show host.

The President’s Cake

In Hasan Hadi’s engrossing debut, a young girl is faced with the challenge of baking a cake for her school’s celebration of Saddam Hussein’s birthday.

Promised Sky

Erige Sehiri’s beautiful and intimate new film finds three Ivorian women, each attempting to improve their lot, thrown together in Tunisia.

Redoubt

Denis Lavant delivers an astonishing physical performance in John Skoog’s beautiful and inventive story of community and obsession, inspired by true events.

The Son and the Sea

BAFTA-winner Stroma Cairns blends personal experience and threads of familial history to question how boys become men if there’s no one to show them the way.

Têtes Brûlées

A young girl’s experience of grief, within a close-knit Tunisian community in Belgium, is tenderly captured in Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama’s affecting feature debut.

Two Prosecutors

Inspired by the story of a gulag survivor, Sergei Loznitsa’s masterful return to fiction is a chilling portrayal of the labyrinthic nature of navigating corrupt systems.

Weightless

Forbidden fruits of all flavours tempt teenage Lea as she negotiates space for herself and her desires at a Danish summer ‘wellness’ camp.