Award Winning Independent Cinema

Ushimatsu, a successful teacher, is hiding a secret: he is an outcaste burakumin. As suspicion grows about his true background, his social position and romantic prospects become uncertain.

Oscars 2025: Winner of Best International Feature Film. Walter Salles makes a triumphant return with an emotionally layered, visually rich account of family life under an oppressive regime in 1970s Brazil.

Powered by awe-inspiring, psychedelic, never-before-seen footage, performances, and music, Bernard MacMahon’s experiential cinematic odyssey explores Led Zeppelin’s creative, musical, and personal origin story.

Named by critics and scholars as the Greatest Film of All Time in the 2022 edition of Sight & Sound’s famed decennial poll, Jeanne Dielman is a modernist masterpiece.

This programme, curated by the Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival, is a dynamic collection of films that explores identity, transformation, and the unexpected connections that shape us, from superheroes to shorelines.

When an Edo-era samurai travels through time to the 21st century, he puts his sword skills to good use – as an extra on a period drama TV set.

A gritty, captivating drama about young Palestinians caught in an eternal state of exile. Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens.

Starring Oscar®-nominee Barry Keoghan, Bring Them Down is a tense and gripping thriller about two warring families set against the harsh landscape of rural west Ireland.

Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.