Simón Mesa Soto is a Colombian director, screenwriter and producer.He studied Audiovisual Communication at the University of Antioquia and later pursued a Master’s Degree at the London Film School. Amparo, his first feature film, premiered at the Cannes Critics’ Week 2021, where it won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for its lead actress. The film has toured more than fifty film festivals around the world and has won awards in Havana, Chicago, Lima and Punta del Este, among…

Michael Fassbender is among the best actors of his generation and certainly among the most daring. While many of his contemporaries have settled into their own niches, Fassbender has consistently explored a wide array of genres and rarely fails to deliver a compelling performance. From his breakout role in Hunger to the emotionally raw Shame and the brutal 12 Years a Slave, he has shown a fearless commitment to deeply challenging material. After a brief absence from the big screen,…

ORPHAN. An exquisitely mounted historical vision from Academy Award-winning director László Nemes.

They say that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Hulu’s first Margaret Atwood adaptation, the award-winning “The Handmaid’s Tale,” became a cultural phenomenon when it premiered in 2017, its exploration of extreme misogyny, authoritarianism, and the battle over women’s reproductive rights an uncomfortably timely companion to the first Donald Trump administration. The show’s iconic red cloaks and white bonnets became mainstays at protests and demonstrations, and many of its most recognizable sayings (“Under His Eye,” “Blessed be the…

Kaum eine*r kann die Marketingkampagne zu diesem Film verpasst haben: Wir sprechen natürlich von THE DRAMA. Ein glücklich verlobtes Paar steht kurz vor der Traumhochzeit – doch in den Tagen vor dem Ja-Wort bröckelt die Fassade. Eine unerwartete Enthüllung wirft nicht nur die Hochzeitsplanung aus der Bahn, sondern alles, was sie über einander zu wissen glauben. Überraschend, tiefgründig und romantisch: Die Hollywood-Superstars Zendaya und Robert Pattinson begeistern im neuen Must-See-Film des Erfolgsstudios A24 als leidenschaftliches Liebespaar. DAS DRAMA hinterfragt die…

Le premier film d'animation de Bong Joon Ho

What is the worst thing you've ever done?

When a fetish-catering camboy (Kieron Moore) visits a client in exchange for $50k, he discovers a masked man (Reed Birney) with a camcorder and a series of increasingly intrusive questions. But when the man reveals a disturbing connection to Aaron’s past, the two drop their personas and gradually unravel in a sultry chamber piece being called "one of the most daring American films of recent vintage."

With Steven Spielberg celebrating his 80th birthday on 18 December 2026 (and Disclosure Day coming in June), it's time to plan the your retrospective, with a wide and varied selection of titles from his decades-long career available to book now – including A.I. Artificial Intelligence, celebrating its 25th anniversary and back in cinemas from 8 May.

Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo on letting the cameras in to their lives to film new show, Raising Chelsea. They share their love of reality TV, what made them want to document this chapter of their lives and why capturing the good, bad and the ugly was so important to them.

It's a magical month at the Plaza! Catch these essential fantasy films while they last.

We hosted a Q&A screening with Markus Lehmusruusu, the director of The Squirrel, at Riviera Kallio on 1 April.