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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

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  • The Bottomless Bag

    This Russian adaptation of the story that inspired Kurosawa’s masterpiece Rashomon (1950) is filmed in stately black-and-white and is set partly at th
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  • Come to Me, Paradise

    In this sci-fi documentary, a drone spirit is summoned to the heart of Hong Kong where Filipina migrant workers gather and make public space their…
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  • Elegy

    After 20 years of service, the spacecraft Cassini was sent crashing into Saturn on 15 September 2017. It now appeals even more to the imagination.
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  • Hanagatami

    Choosing stylised vivacity over realism, this anti-war period drama set on the eve of World War Two captures an historical moment of frenzy. The direc
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  • Who Is Bárbara Virgínia?

    Having only made one feature-length film and one short, Bárbara Virgínia was for decades a neglected figure in Portuguese film history.
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  • Ligne noire

    Wrenching, yet poetic work shows a young woman with a simple fishing net wading through a heavily oil-polluted river.
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  • Amateurs

    A slick marketing film or two teenagers messing with a smartphone and selfie sticks: how do you pitch the colourless Swedish town of Lafors as…
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  • Who Am I?

    “Through the eyes of children, an enlightened voice is given to the tribal and religious fissures that are growing in Kenyan society.”(Nick Redding)
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  • .TV

    The credit crunch did not really affect island nation Tuvalu, but climate change is bringing it down all too literally now. Yet online it might…
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  • Der rote Schatten

    The productive master filmmaker Graf made this long version of a thrilling Tatort production for the cinema. Forty years after shocking events surroun
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