Film

Oscar-winning Chloé Zhao directs this adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s acclaimed novel, Hamnet, starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal.

Following the success of global phenomenon The Worst Person in the World, Academy Award-nominee Joachim Trier reunites with BAFTA nominee Renate Reinsve.

A Gripping Investigation That Exposes Wildlife Protection’s Darkest Loophole. What if the system designed to protect endangered species was actually enabling their exploitation?

Timothée Chalamet stars as Marty Mauser in Josh Safdie’s (Uncut Gems) sort-of sports biopic about a young man that goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.

January 29, 2024. Workers at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society receive an emergency call. A terrified 6-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. Her name was Hind Rajab. A striking blend of documentary and fiction

Italian Cultural Association Exeter present a tribute to Naples with this is a collection of 6 Napolitean episodes.

Kristen Stewart’s splashy Cannes-premiering directorial debut poetically adapts writer Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir.

Claire Foy (Wolf Hall, The Crown) stars as writer Helen MacDonald in the much-anticipated adaptation of her award-winning 2014 memoir H Is for Hawk.

Ben Wheatley (Free Fire, Sightseers) returns with a mind-bending sci-fi thriller in the tradition of Quatermass, Alphaville and Primer, but also a love letter to film writing and making.

Buster Keaton’s 1924 comedy classic is reimagined with R.E.M.’s alt-rock masterpieces Monster (1994) and New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996).

Oliver Hermanus (Living) chronicles a decades-spanning romance centred around the power of music, starring an electric Paul Mescal (Hamnet) and Josh O’Connor (Mastermind).

This deliriously entertaining satire from Park Chan-wook follows an unemployed man who, desperate to land a coveted role, develops a ruthless plan to dispatch his competition.

Driven by the joy and confusion of a little girl’s discovery of the world and her place within it, Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han’s poetic, astoundingly beautiful animation feels like it’s arrived from a different planet.

Iraqi writer-director Hasan Hadi’s exceptional debut The President’s Cake is a detailed portrait of life under dictatorship, as seen through the struggles of a nine-year-old girl.

From the Oscar-nominated director of ‘Honeyland’ comes a poignant and visually arresting story set in the heart of a rural farming community.

Emerald Fennell’s bold reimagining of Wuthering Heights reawakens Emily Brontë’s timeless Gothic romance with an electrifying contemporary pulse.

DocLab presents The Fastest Bicycle, the amazing story of Barney Townsend and his team as they attempt the World Human Powered Vehicle land speed record at Battle Mountain Nevada.

This faux-documentary is a fun, satirical and a pastiche of the chaotic, brash, self-deprecating and clueless 1990s/2000s British reality TV.

Master filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho (Neighbouring Sounds, Aquarius, Bacurau) teams up with a superb Wagner Moura (Narcos, Civil War) for this rich and arresting political thriller that was garlanded with awards at Cannes and Golden Globes.

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The inaugural screening of Two Short Nights 2026 is a glorious celebration of Celtic language film, guest curated by BFI Film Academy Young Programmer’s Osian Andrew and Jack Synod.