Independent Cinema for Everyone

This screening will be introduced by the films writer and director Deborah Haywood and Oscar winning filmmaker Mia Bays, with a panel Q&A afterwards.

Sheila Hancock is at her sublime best as Edie, an elderly woman who, in the aftermath of the death of her controlling husband, decides to fulfil a long-held dream of climbing a Scottish mountain.

This is an intimate and poignant homage to one of the true cultural icons of our time, as she fights to maintain her brand’s integrity, her principles and her legacy in a business driven by consumerism, profit and global expansion.

Soaking the perennial rape/revenge thriller in a strikingly hypnotic style.

Screening as part of Bird’s Eye View Influencer programme. This screening will be introduced by BEV with a panel Q&A afterwards.

Juliette Binoche is both incandescent and emotionally raw in Claire Denis’s latest, a romantic comedy about a middle-aged Parisian woman in search of love.

A stand-up comedienne in an all-male world, the film delivers tragedy and comedy in equal measure.

A joyous, warm-hearted and thoughtful film about motherhood, friendship and solidarity, proving it’s never too late to put your heart on the line.

A riveting film about the world’s first all-girl punk band, who formed in London in 1976. Contemporaries of The Clash and The Sex Pistols, The Slits are the pioneering godmothers of punk.

Weaving interviews and clips with never-before-heard audio tapes of Hedy speaking on the record about her incredible life; from her beginnings as an Austrian Jewish emigre, her glittering Hollywood life to her ground-breaking, but completely uncredit...