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Ish

A coming-of-age story for modern times, this powerful British debut explores the emotional cost of racism on our children.
  • Drama
  • 2025
  • 88 mins
  • Imran Perretta
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The Love Witch

A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, in Anna Biller's outrageous tribute to 1960s Technicolor melodramas.
  • Comedy
  • Horror
  • 2016
  • 121 mins
  • Anna Biller
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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
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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
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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
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Ultras

Forget the dramatic headlines and take a joyful deep dive into 'the world’s most popular subculture’: football’s infamous ultras.
  • Documentary
  • 2025
  • 88 mins
  • Ragnhild Ekner
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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
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The Gleaners & I

Agnès Varda’s award-winning study of those living on the margins of French society at the turn of the millennium.
  • Documentary
  • 2000
  • 79 mins
  • Agnès Varda
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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
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Nouvelle Vague

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