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Amores Perros – 10 July
Film (2000). Alejandro González Iñárritu’s first film is a powerful story that weaves together three lives connected by a violent car crash in Mexico City. One story follows a teenager who risks everything to run away with his brother’s wife. Another centres on a model who loses everything after moving in with her lover. The third follows a homeless man who confronts memories from his past. As these stories develop, we see chaos, cruelty, and tenderness, showing that the characters are more connected than they first appear.
The film uses a fractured timeline, fast-paced editing, and overlapping stories shaped by desire, betrayal, and survival. It also marks Gael García Bernal’s striking first appearance in a feature film. Rodrigo Prieto’s raw cinematography and Gustavo Santaolalla’s intense, rhythmic score give the movie a strong sense of chaos and emotion that stands out in Latin American cinema today.
Homour And Melancholy: The Cinema Of Martín Rejtman – 10 July
Collection. The films of Argentinian auteur Martín Rejtman have the beauty of feeling familiar while surprising us at every turn. Luminous and delightfully off-kilter, these are comedies of sheer originality, mordant, often tender, and always unpredictable.
Includes Rapado, Silvia Prieto, Shakti, The Magic Gloves.
The Non-Actor – 10 July
Film (2025). A curious, charming short from musician and novelist Eliza Barry Callahan (adapting her debut novel The Hearing Test), starring Victoria Pedretti and Maya Hawke. While attending a medical trial for sudden hearing loss, a woman stays with her ex’s new girlfriend – and an unexpected connection sparks.
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The Deer Hunter – 1 July
Film (1978). Michael Cimino’s monumental Vietnam epic follows three steelworkers from a Pennsylvania town whose lives are shattered by war. Anchored by extraordinary performances from Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and Meryl Streep, and winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture.
The Third Man – 1 July
Film (1949). Carol Reed’s masterwork of postwar noir, written by Graham Greene, follows a pulp novelist who arrives in shadowy, occupied Vienna to find his friend has been killed under mysterious circumstances. Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles at their most magnetic.
Phantoms Of July – 3 July
Film (2025). Julian Radlmaier’s fourth film is a bittersweet and whimsical story that spans centuries in the German town of Sangerhausen. Ursula, a heartbroken waitress from East Germany, and Neda, a lonely Iranian YouTuber recovering from a broken arm, meet by chance and mistaken identity. Their encounter leads to an unexpected ghost hunt in the mountains, where the ghosts of history have a playful conversation with the dissatisfied people of modern Germany.
Theatre of The World – 26 June
Spotlight collection. Queer, feminist, and defiantly avant-garde, Ulrike Ottinger’s ‘Berlin’ trilogy transforms Cold War-era West Berlin into a dazzling landscape of theatricality, excess, and radical imagination. Blurring fantasy, satire, and political provocation, Ottinger’s cinema revels in collisions between the grotesque and the beautiful.
Includes Ticket of No Return, Freak Orlando, Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press.
God Is Shy – 19 June
Film (2025). Jocelyn Charles’ poised and formally inventive debut short film, God Is Shy, opens with an apparently innocent game in which two young passengers sketch their fears during a train journey. However, the dynamic shifts when a mysterious woman intervenes, transforming the encounter into increasingly unsettling, ambiguous territory.
Hot to the Touch: Female Desire on Screen – 12 June
Spotlight collection. This collection foregrounds women reclaiming desire, intimacy, and agency on screen—challenging decades of objectifying cinematic conventions. From tender romances to boundary-pushing dramas, these films explore sexuality through female subjectivity, emotional complexity, and unapologetic passion.
Includes The Handmaiden, Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
Sirāt – 12 June
Film (2025). Oliver Laxe’s Sirât presents a hypnotic and immersive narrative set in the deserts of North Africa, chronicling a father and son’s search for their missing daughter following her disappearance at an underground rave in Morocco. As the protagonists move from one remote gathering to the next, their quest evolves into an exploration of spiritual, existential, and ultimately unknowable dimensions.
From ScreenHub’s five-star review:
Sirât, the immaculately staged near-apocalypse from Oscar-nominated French-Galician filmmaker Óliver Laxe, has no interest in easing you in. Or out.
Instead, as the film opens, we’re thrust headlong into a juddering blast of bone-crunching bass that annihilates our senses. A fortress-like barricade of towering speakers is arrayed at the foot of a cliff, somewhere in the southern Morrocco end of the Sahara. A light show dances on this foreboding canvas as a drugged-up throng surrender themselves to the beat. Read more …
