Award Winning Independent Cinema

In 1917, Lionel meets David and they bond over a deep love of folk music. Years later, they reconnect and take an impromptu journey through the backwoods of Maine to collect traditional songs.

Foy plays Helen Macdonald, a Cambridge academic who, following the death of her beloved father - retreats from the human world and turns to nature instead, taking on the training, care and feeding of a goshawk.

Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy. Filmed live from the National Theatre.

A playful, poignant love letter to cinema, Richard Linklater reimagines the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in an exuberant exploration of the youthful rebellion and creative chaos that shaped the French New Wave.

Park Chan-wook returns with this satirical black comedy/thriller about a husband and father who takes violent action after being laid off.

This film centres around a toddler born to her Belgian parents in Japan. Amélie uncovers the world around her in this beautiful, mature and oh so human depiction of the transition from infancy to childhood.

Award winners, audience favourites from the opening night - unforgettable stories from the 2025 Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival.

A multiple award winner at Cannes, this is an unforgettable look at a country crushed by poverty and international sanctions and ruled by a sadistic, greedy, and vain tyrant.

Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut is poetic and unflinching. Lidia is a young woman who finds escape from an abusive home through competitive swimming in the 1980s.

A deeply personal family story set against the turbulence of 1993 Lagos during a pivotal national election promising a shift from military rule to democracy in Nigeria.