A daring, queer, anachronistic adaptation of, Christopher Marlowe’s play Edward II (1594) ...

There’s more than a hint of the supernatural when a young detective investigates the charred body found in a construction site in this assured and gripping Tunisian thriller ...

Derek Jarman was production designer on this controversial story of a mass possession event in 17th Century France ...

Scripted by Marguerite Duras and directed by Henri Colpi, a regular editor for Alain Resnais and Agnes Varda, this forgotten New Wave film won the Palme d’Or in 1961. ...

Stunning Iranian road movie from debut director Panah Panahi wowed festival audiences with its rich emotional nuance and sly political critique ...

Legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky’s brilliantly original science-fiction epic challenges our conceptions about love, truth and humanity itself. ...

Special encore screening! Stanley Kubrick’s stately, sumptuous drama returns to the big screen where it belongs. Previously seen as a lesser work from the man who made 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, it is now widely regarded as one of Kubrick’s masterpieces ...

Festival films come from 20 countries including Bhutan, Iran, Somalia, Nepal and Vietnam, as well as China, Japan, the UK, Ireland, USA, France, Germany, Portugal and Australia. Ticket sales open on Friday 12 July ...

Desire, ravenous and ineffable, shudders through Burning, the latest from the great South Korean director Lee Chang-dong… The story has the quality of a mystery thriller — somebody goes missing, somebody else tries to figure out why ...

A subversive black comedy about a clique of High School mean girls – all named Heather – and the violent revenge taken out on them by one their own. Perhaps because it found humour in such taboo subjects as teenage suicide, bulimia, date rape, and murder, the film was not a success when it came out in 1988. Since then though... it has become a cult classic ...

Muratova explores the intricate triangular relationship of three striking individuals with clarity, tenderness and irony. As with the lovely solo piano score, every incisive detail registers with a sure, light touch and there are some unexpected, haunting chords. The cinematography is crisp, beautiful, and for 1967, daringly, but expressively, unconventional ...

Adam is a young man living in a small fishing village with his father. A good student, the local imam puts him forward for a scholarship to the elite Al-Azhar university, the centre of Sunni Islam. Soon after he arrives he becomes embroiled in various plots for control of the university, its theology, and even Egypt itself ...

Tartly funny and plungingly sad in equal measure, this is nuanced, humane queer filmmaking, more concerned with the textures and particulars of its own intimate story than with grander social statements — even if, as a tale of transgender desire in a Muslim country, its very premise makes it a boundary-breaker ...

This screen adaptation of Michael Crichton’s first bestseller tackles the crisis that unfolds when a space probe falls to Earth carrying an extraterrestrial virus that instantly turns human blood to powder. Thankfully, the US authorities have just built a secret subterranean research facility for exactly such eventualities ...

A powerful and moving story based on a memoir by Nobel Laureate, Annie Ernaux, recounting when, as a star student, she discovers she is pregnant and must come to terms with how this will change her life. Audrey Diwan’s Happening adapts Ernaux’s account into a lean, muscular film resolutely cinematic in its retelling ...

Neither of the films in this double bill received much love in their time. Their controversial subject matter meant both were subject to censorship in the subsequent decades. Luckily, audiences have become more open to films in which the real monsters are ‘normal’ people and Tod Browning’s masterpieces are getting the belated appraise they deserve ...

Andrea Arnold has created a kind of agribusiness pastoral about the daily life of cows on a working dairy farm. We hear human voices from the very beginning, often cheerfully calling the cows “girlies!” – no word could be less suitable for these mighty beasts. But we don’t see any people until the very end... ...

An elegiac evocation of Frame’s acclaimed autobiographical trilogy which is both cinematically stunning and tenderly intimate in its depiction of a woman constantly shadowed by death who wrote herself into life. Beautifully shot, it also displays a keen, often eerily accurate eye for the New Zealand past ...

Initially it seems such a small story, yet its significance grows as we’re immersed in it, contemplating a child’s first corrosive inkling of evil in the world and, a decent man’s growing realisation of the thin tissue of circumstance separating happiness from damnation. ...majestic black-and-white camerawork ... timeless and intoxicating ...

In a disarmingly entertaining fashion, this multi-award-winning German bittersweet comedy seems to encapsulate all the emotion and drama of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. “It is not a step-by-step chronicle of German reunification, but it gives a perspective of the time. It's a bonus that this comes as part of an engrossing and well told story.” ...

On the face of it, this is a film about the life of writer Yukio Mishima, however that’s only a starting point for a glorious collage in celluloid, broken into four parts, with each part given its own colour palette... "one of the most gorgeous and sophisticated portraits of an artist ever put on film.” ...

JSA follows the international investigation of an incident in which two Northerners have been shot dead by a South Korean soldier, but no one seems to want to talk about what really happened. In lurid colour, director Park Chan-wook tells the story of an unlikely friendship – and eventual betrayal ...

This authentic 1970s cult sci-fi classic stars a key figure of the period, patrician hippie Bruce Dern, as an idealistic crew member of a 21st-century space station refusing to destroy the only forest vegetation saved from a defoliated Earth. The reputation of Silent Running has grown to near classic status and its environmental message more relevant today than ever. ...

The long, languid days at the end of a summer holiday. Slices of lemon for the gin and tonics. Diving off the back of the boat. Grown-ups at parties. Rain is an evocative mood piece, enriched by gorgeous visuals, about the dissolution of a marriage as a mother reaches out for excitement and escape and her 13-year-old daughter explores her own budding sexuality ...