Independent Cinema for Everyone

The César Award-winning Laure Calamy demonstrates the phenomenal range of her talents in this unique thriller about a single mother who lands an interview for a job that might offer a better life for herself and her two children.

The Oil Machine explores our economic, historical and emotional entanglement with oil by looking at the conflicting imperatives around North Sea oil.

In this workshop with Vicky Putler from The Flax Project, you will learn how to make Corn Dollies from flax grown locally, touching on the wonderful history and folklore of corn dolly making.

The Craft has become a modern cult classic. Made in the 1990s, it subverted cinema clichés about female friendship and the power that can be gained from them.

This perfectly pitched romance is the kind of decades spanning tearjerker we see all too rarely. Michael Grandage’s love story is epic in scope, but intimate in its attention to detail.

In this collection of shorts, curated by Lux and BFI, filmmakers and contemporary artists explore the legacy of forced migration and the transatlantic slave trade in boldly imaginative terms.

In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the cruel conditions of their exile.

Based on a novel by John Updike, and a huge success on its release, the film looks at how women find and use their power in a way that has new resonances in a post-Weinstein world.

A dysfunctional sonic collective – a band devoted to the sounds of the culinary arts – navigates rivalries internal and external in this absurdly original feast for the senses.

A definitive exploration of singer songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, “Hallelujah.”