Independent Cinema for Everyone

In Oakley’s quiet, soulful drama, a closeted PE teacher reckons with her identity during the introduction of Clause 28 to Thatcherite Britain.

Oscar buzz rightfully surrounds Brendan Fraser’s affectingly gentle, altogether heart-breaking central performance, in this stunning one-location character study from visionary auteur Darren Aronofsky.

Oscar®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) presents a stirring portrait of renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin, focussing on her fight against Big Pharma.

With introduction and Q&A with Director Mark Jenkin on Saturday 21 January. Mark Jenkin follows up his acclaimed breakthrough Bait with this mind-bending Cornish folk horror tale, gorgeously shot on grainy 16mm.

With blistering intent, Abbasi reconfigures the tropes of the serial-killer genre, creating a film that not only grapples with the attempt to bring a criminal to justice but examines what really stands for ‘justice’ in this world.

The first Catalan-language film to win the Berlinale’s Golden Bear award, Carla Simón’s second feature following her debut Summer 1993 is a gorgeously shot, immersive and naturalistic ode to living and landscape.

The stunning debut from Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells, Aftersun juxtaposes a hopeful coming-of-age story with a poignant, intimate family portrait that leaves an indelible impression.

Vicky Krieps stars as Empress Elizabeth 'Sissi' of Austria in this witty, sexy and distinctly postmodern vision of her life, winner of Best Film award at this year's London Film Festival.

Hilarious and horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic, White Noise dramatizes a contemporary American family’s experience in this ambitious, comic look at human relationships. Sure to delight Baumbach’s fans, old and new.

In two parallel love stories, Panahi plays a version of himself trying to remotely direct a film from an Iranian village close to the Turkish border, but soon finds himself under suspicious eyes from the local residents unnerved by his presence.