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From the body-horror side-effects of pushing yourself too far to an intense ski ride and some grisly cooking ideas, the way we spend our time has never appeared so strange.

FILMS IN THE PROGRAMME:

The Sorrows of Young Charlotte
Director- Shir Ariya
UK - 2026 - 13min
When Werther finds Charlie’s ex-boyfriend’s potency pills in the bathroom, he takes a double dose.

Meatmylk
Director- Lucy Luscombe
UK - 2026 - 15min
A personal trainer decides to bulk-up with a new protein shake, only to discover that it has side effects.

Fishbrain
Director - Max Vanderspuy
USA - 2026 - 22min
Trapped in her decaying coastal town and desperate to escape, Ori feeds her stubborn grandfather tainted fish.

All Yours
Director - Sophia Di Martino
UK - 2025 - 8min
After discovering her skin is peeling off, a bored mother is compelled to bake it into little pastries.

The Last Snow
Director - Rodolphe Bouquet-Populus
France - 2024 - 19min
In a ski resort where snow is starting to disappear, Isabelle and Guillaume find themselves stuck on a chairlift.

Man Eating Pussy
Director - Emily Lawson
 Canada - 2026 - 12min
A dying man seeks comfort in a mysterious sex worker whose monstrous anatomy offers pleasure and the ultimate release.

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Eleanor Coppola's behind-the-scenes documentation of her daughter Sofia Coppola directing the 2006 film Marie Antoinette, capturing the craftsmanship and challenges of being a young female director.

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Whether it’s cutting your own hair, winning the lottery, looking for love or livening up a dull day at work, these uk shorts will cover all your comedy needs.

FILMS IN THE PROGRAMME:

A Twist of Hate
Director- Maddy Shenai
UK - 2025 - 9min
Newlyweds encounter an unusual lawyer who probes their motivations for love.

Date Night
Director- Tanya Reynolds
UK - 2026 - 16min
Danielle and Harry's latest attempt at kinky roleplay shines a discomforting light on what they really want from life.

Laundreams
Director - Amber Gadd, Evie Ward-Drummond
USA - 2026 - 15min
In an empty laundrette manned by 20-year-olds Minnie and Leah, nothing ever happens and nothing ever changes.

Micro Bangs
Director - Iris Breward
UK - 2026 - 5min
A woman starts to spiral as she considers a drastic haircut.

Sweet Bitter Sweet
Director - Nicolee Tsin
UK - 2025 - 9min
After moving to London, a young Chinese woman searches for love while working at a bakery.

The Devil Is In Me
Director - Tia Salisbury
UK - 2026 - 11min
In late 18th-century England, a nightmarish teenager and a rookie reverend lock horns over Sunday school attendance.

A Kind of Purity
Director - Theo Shivdasani
UK - 2026 - 15min
At an art gallery, a disillusioned assistant's pretence of normality is pushed to breaking point when a sudden act takes place.

How To Hide It
Director - Ramla Ali, Richard A. Moore
UK - 2025 - 13min
After winning the lottery, a woman faces tension between dreams of a better life and her deeply held beliefs.

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A selection of animated shorts exploring what connects us to people, the world around us and, most importantly, ourselves.

FILMS IN THE PROGRAMME:

Babyface
Director- Sacha Beeley
UK - 2026 - 6min
Spoon finds a coupon!

Dance of the Spirits
Director- Andreea-Lorena Florea
UK - 2026 - 6min
A young shepherd boy, living in rural Romania, finds more comfort among his sheep than with his dad.

Eyeliner
Director - Aisha Boudjillouli
USA - 2026 - 8min
When two friends receive different receptions to wearing eyeliner, Nina discovers that her journey as a trans girl might not be so easy.

Dummy
Director - Adrian Maganza
UK - 2026 - 7min
Everyone forgets the rescue dummy that's left at the bottom of a swimming pool.

Film Film
Director - Arturs Voblikovs
UK - 2025 - 12min
A print-shop owner with seasonal depression becomes obsessed with copying the life of his new customer.

I Was Kidnapped!
Director - Dhananjay Barangule
UK-Latvia - 2026 - 7min
Dhananjay enjoys recounting stories from his childhood when it slowly starts to dawn on him how they may have affected his mum.

PLEASE
Director - Anna Mantzaris
Sweden-France-Czech Republic - 2026 - 8min
In a big city, several characters looking for affection are plunged into situations that are absurd, comical and moving.

The Bird's Placebo
Director - Rami Jarboui
Tunisia - 2025 - 20min
Told through rotoscope and 3D animation, a young man from a marginalised neighborhood in Tunisia’s capital dreams of crossing the Mediterranean.

The Clouds of Odessa
Director - Luca Arcangeli
Italy - 2026 - 13min
A Ukrainian director thinks about the film, a love story, that she would have liked to make but that she may never be able to..

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A talking fox, voiced by Olivia Colman, persuades a hunter to transform his cheating wife into an ideal spouse, in this gleefully outrageous, shape-shifting comedy.

As revenge for adultery, who wouldn’t take a talking fox’s advice to throw your cheating partner into a magical outback hole with transformative powers? Dario Russo’s sly, irreverent black comedy mercilessly satirises our baser animal instincts, and is played straight by a terrifically committed cast that includes Jai Courtney and Emily Browning, alongside the vocal talents of Colman and the late, great Sam Neill.

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In this riveting documentary portrait, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney brings insight and a fearlessness in peeling away the many layers of Elon Musk’s world.

Like his Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side and Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, Gibney brings a forensic eye to the life and career of the richest – and certainly one of the most divisive – figures in contemporary life. There is also intelligence and no small amount of wit to the way he frames his approach, resulting in a film that’s sure to start conversations.

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A couple’s dream of idyllic family life in the Finnish woods is shattered by the arrival of their nightmarish new baby, in Hanna Bergholm’s riotously gory folk horror.

Drawing deeply from the wells of folk horror and psychological post-natal angst, director Bergholm pits Seidi Haarla and Rupert Grint’s new parents against their hairy, howling offspring, which displays a taste for raw meat over milk. Gruesome and bloody, it’s also chock-full of self-aware humour that surely guarantees the film’s place as a future cult classic.

English and Finnish Language with some English subtitles

Content warning: Contains scenes of graphic violence or injury and harm towards children.

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The new film from the acclaimed director of The Silent Twins is a daring and distinctive sci-fi thriller set in a near-future society ruled by sentient AI.

Djonny, a vibrantly dressed private eye, is called to solve a mysterious murder case, only to discover a rebel group capable of undermining the digital overlord led by Rana, who may or may not be a cyber witch. Agnieszka Smoczyńska creates a hypnotic, dystopian world that lures you in with its breathtaking aesthetics and hallucinatory images.

English and Japanese Language with some English Subtitles

Content Warning: Contains flashing images

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Martin McDonagh continues to mine the absurdities and complexities of male relationships in a film that brims with energy and is sure to delight.

On the cusp of dictator Augusto Pinochet taking power in Chile, a trio of CIA agents snipe and bicker as they await the ‘go’ date on their part in yet another military coup. However, against the stunning natural beauty and mysterious ancient artefacts of Easter Island, their plan starts to unravel. John Malkovich’s peerless performance chimes beautifully with co-stars Sam Rockwell and Steve Buscemi, who together bring McDonagh’s brilliantly acerbic and witty script hilariously to life.

English and Spanish Language with English Subtitles

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In Guy Nattiv’s tense, probing film, two young women attempt to extract their mother from a cult, but find themselves susceptible to its mysterious leader.

Carrie Coon has never been better than she is as Rita, who lives an ‘ordinary’ life as a bank teller, wife and mother. But beneath the veneer of this seemingly ordinary life, she hides the deep trauma of being a holocaust survivor. When she falls into the orbit of the seductive Ricki (a compelling Lily James), Rita finds the space to heal. But at what cost to her family?

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Censored for over half a century, Ken Russell’s film returns in a landmark director’s cut reconstruction that reveals the full power of his original vision.

Inspired by the true story of 17th-century priest Urbain Grandier, accused of bewitching a convent of nuns, The Devils lays bare the collusion of church and state through a searing vision of religious persecution, collective hysteria and institutional corruption. The restoration many believed would never happen reaffirms Russell’s incendiary masterpiece as among the most overwhelming and uncompromising achievements in British cinema.

Assembled from original camera negative, this 4k restoration is Ken Russell’s 2004 preferred edit. Picture and sound restoration by Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services, Water Tower Color and Warner Bros. Sound.

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Duncan Jones brings the beloved 2000 AD comic strip to life with an all-guns-blazing sci-fi animation, about a soldier in a dystopian future who is sent on an impossible mission.

Biochipped genetic soldiers, whose personalities can be downloaded should they fall on the battlefield, fight a futile, violent war across a chemically toxic landscape. Time is of the essence for their mission, but a raft of horrors await them. Fast and funny, Rogue Trooper is skilfully directed by Jones (Moon and Source Code), who gives this terrific British indie the feel of a Hollywood blockbuster.

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Having attended a Hallmark movie workshop, John Wilson applies his learnings to a documentary about concrete, albeit with a dryly funny and deceptively understated tone.

After finding himself with too much time on his hands, documentarian Wilson attends a workshop on how to make Hallmark romcoms. It inspires him to apply the formula to a film investigating the story of concrete. Infused with Wilson’s trademark curiosity and wit, the film project introduces him to a variety of unusual people and places. The result is a wry and humane meditation on the modern world.

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Isabelle Huppert dazzles as the Blood Countess in this delightful and high-camp gothic fantasy from visionary filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger.

After awakening from a long slumber, the Blood Countess embarks on a quest, with her devoted maid and trusty pet bat in tow, to search for an ancient text that could cause the demise of her vampire realm. Based on the legend of Countess Elizabeth Báthory, Huppert perfectly embodies the role of the bloodthirsty seductress who reigns over present-day Vienna.

German and French Language with English subtitles

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Leo Reich’s new series turns the struggles of young Londoners into its playground, mining a generation’s problems for biting, clever comedy.

Ethan, Abi and Sam, inseparable friends in their mid-20s, are forced into real adulthood when eviction looms. Razor-sharp and witty, It Gets Worse skewers a generation stuck between housing crisis, humiliating jobs and messy relationships, while savouring the joy of youth in one of the buzziest cities in the world. It’s anchored by standout performances from the three leads, alongside unforgettable cameos from the likes of Lena Dunham and Andrew Scott.

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This fascinating chapter from Mark Cousins’ epic essay on the history of documentary chronicles a decade of formal reinvention and mainstream success.

Cousins, the creator of the groundbreaking The Story of Film: A New Generation and Women Make Film, trains his distinctive film-historian lens on the evolution of documentary. The result is a rich tapestry of landmark works and underappreciated gems. In this illuminating chapter, he guides us through the 1990s, a decade of filmmakers exploring bodies, spirituality, labour, war and politics, against the backdrop of rising commercial interest in the form.

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Mesmerising, stimulating and unsettling, Niels Schneider and Léa Seydoux star in this body-swap tale that grapples with the existential implications of being trapped inside someone else’s physical being.

David, a withdrawn photographer, meets a mysterious woman at a party. The two share a sexual encounter, only for David to wake up the morning after in the woman’s body. Arthur Harari’s (co-writer of Anatomy of a Fall) vertiginous, occasionally harrowing and ultimately rewarding ride eschews straightforward resolution in favour of a reflection on the aftermath of severing the link between body and mind.

French Language with English subtitles

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In this stunning, blood-soaked homage to Technicolor horror films, a woman in medieval England rises from the grave to wreak revenge on her husband.

Returning as a ghost after a cruel betrayal results in her death, Eleanor and her sister deliver bloody vengeance on the man who took her life and murdered their father. Anna Biller, writer-director of The Love Witch, here delivers a rich visual feast. Gloriously shot on 35mm, this supernatural Gothic melodrama vibrantly brings 14th-century England to life.

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In this deliciously unhinged mash-up of rural thriller and dark comedy, enormous wild boars create havoc in a small French town.

Farmers and hunters are openly at war in the rural town of Sérieux. Wild boars are ruining crops and putting everyone on edge. When a local farmer mysteriously disappears, gendarme Fulda is put on the case. As he reluctantly teams up with psychologist Stéphane, the investigation gradually spirals out of control, and so does this offbeat and absurdly funny comedy.

French Language with English subtitles

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Katherine Mallen Kupferer and Sophie Okonedo excel in this moving drama about facing up to life in the aftermath of a tragedy.

Lifelong friends Callie and Minnie are like ying and yang: one loud and popular, the other shy and quiet. Abruptly forced out from her friend’s shadow, it’s finally time for Minnie to figure out who she is on her own terms. Kupferer and Okonedo’s performances drive this beautiful film that’s guaranteed to have audiences alternating between crying and laughing out loud.

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The sequel to Takashi Yamazaki’s acclaimed 2023 film is a true cinematic spectacle that’s sure to grip fans of Godzilla, as well as newcomers to the franchise.

Japan, 1949. Pilot Kōichi, his wife Noriko and adoptive daughter Akiko are attempting from recover from Godzilla’s recent attacks. But just as everything seems settled, a new danger emerges. Meanwhile, at the bottom of the sea, something is stirring. The first Japanese film to be shot for IMAX, Godzilla Minus Zero combines high-octane thrills with more than a little heart.

Japanese Language with English subtitles

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Aimee Lou Wood and Johnny Flynn are superb as Anna and Fyodor Dostoevsky in Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert’s acerbic and joyful period film.

Anna Dostoevsky loves her husband Fyodor. Fyodor loves his wife, but he also loves gambling and booze. Living in self-imposed exile in Germany, Fyodor’s biggest obstacle to creative progress is himself. Anna tries desperately to rid him of his procrastination so he can deliver a new novel and they can avoid destitution. Sending up the myth of the male genius, The Idiot(s) is also a beautiful love story about the writer and the wife that saved him.

English and French Language with English subtitles

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A forest inhabited by magical beings is the setting for this epic stop-motion saga from LAIKA Studios.

When her baby brother is kidnapped by a large flock of crows, Prue hotfoots it to a local forest where a wondrous world of mystery and peril awaits. This breathtaking, hugely ambitious new film from LAIKA Studios (Coraline, Kubo and the Two Strings) is a masterpiece of stop-motion storytelling on an epic scale and quite unlike anything previously seen.

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James Gray goes back to his roots with this tense and atmospheric thriller, set in 1980s New York, which finds two brothers becoming embroiled with the Russian mafia.

Irwin Pearl (Miles Teller, on top form) is an engineer and family man living in Queens. When his brother, a showboating ex-police officer (a magnetic Adam Driver), enlists him for a high paying job, things rapidly take a turn for the worse. Channelling the spirit of Sidney Lumet and Michael Mann, Gray’s own, distinctive directorial style is on full display in this instant classic of American crime cinema.

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Bassam Tariq follows Mogul Mowgli (LFF 2020) with this gripping, inventive thriller, featuring a commanding central performance by Oscar winner Mahershala Ali.

An assassin and father of three, Latif’s life is turned upside down when his wife dies. He struggles to balance his two very different worlds, but when a hit goes south and as forces close in around him, he sets off on a desperate journey to protect his children. Amid all the mayhem, Tariq’s stylish and exhilarating thriller offers a tender portrait of grief and fatherhood, and a testament to maintaining one’s faith.

English and Arabic Language with English Subtitles

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A jaded New York club promoter finds his messy lifestyle upended by the discovery that he has a son, in Jordan Firstman’s hilarious feature directorial debut.

A decade of drinking, drugs and clubs is finally starting to take its toll on Peter. The unexpected arrival of an infant son means it’s finally time for him to get his life together. How hard can it be? The perfect skewering of millennial malaise that is also deeply touching, it’s easy to see why Club Kid was one of the most talked-about films at Cannes this year.

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For LFF 2026’s curtain call, writer-director Jesse Eisenberg delivers a rapturous and raucously funny love letter to community theatre, featuring a luminous lead performance by Julianne Moore.

Quiet housewife Mona has become a supporting role in her own life; her husband barely acknowledges her presence and their children are on the cusp of fleeing the nest. So when, on an impulse, she auditions for a local production of an original musical, Mona suddenly finds herself in the spotlight when she is cast in a leading role, as Miss Danielle. However, she is unprepared for the theatrical hurricane that is Jerry, her enigmatic director and the ‘biggest name in New Jersey community theatre’. As she continues to be creatively pushed by him, Mona finds herself going to extreme lengths to unlock her character. The Debut once again finds the perfect balance between humour and drama that Eisenberg delivered with his previous films A Real Pain (LFF 2024) and When You Finish Saving the World. It’s both sparklingly witty and laugh-out-loud funny, while every scene works to build on the emotional undercurrents and heartbreaking revelations that make the characters so credible. This time, Eisenberg’s talents even stretch to writing the songs for the fictional stage musical. Moore is in her element, giving one of her finest performances, while Paul Giamatti’s Jerry continues his run from The Holdovers as the master of dramedy. Ultimately, The Debut is an elegant and intelligent coming-of-older-age story about how it’s never too late to find our true selves, and the redemptive powers of community and art. Take your seats... It’s showtime!