Programme

60th anniversary of John Frankenheimer’s criminally unseen sci-fi starring Rock Hudson as a dissatisfied banker who pays a mysterious organisation to fake his death, giving him a new identity and a youthful body.

Mike Leigh’s tender and gently humorous drama follows two best friends working as social workers while trying to hold together their own complicated lives — and may prove to be the veteran director’s final film.

Introduced by Kevin Howlett

When the world’s most powerful supercomputer takes control of the nuclear arsenal, one scientist discovers that the machine has plans of its own.

Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney star as two people brought together by humour, dance and Parkinson’s in a life‑affirming British dramedy about finding reasons to keep moving.

With their tiny theatre under threat of closure, two best friends must decide what they’re willing to risk—for art, for love... for each other.

75th anniversary of Robert Wise’s landmark sci-fi classic about an alien who arrives in Washington with a warning for humanity.

Sandra Hüller stars as a mysterious soldier hiding a life-changing secret in this atmospheric 17th-century folk tale.

A young singer from Gaza risks everything to audition for Arab Idol in this uplifting true story about music, friendship and following a dream against the odds.

A school trip to Pompeii becomes an intoxicating journey into desire, jealousy and teenage freedom in this sensuous coming-of-age drama.

Sophie Okonedo stars in this warm and perceptive coming‑of‑age story about friendship, growing up and finding your own identity after everything changes.

30th anniversary of quite possibly the most eye poppingly gorgeous film ever made, a sumptuous allegorical tale focusing on an almost extinct nomadic tribe of South Eastern Iran who are famed for their intricately designed Persian carpets.

Helen Mirren plays Patricia Highsmith in a deliciously dark thriller about the writer behind Tom Ripley — and the young publisher who discovers that getting her to write one last book may be murder.

Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with his AI assistant in Spike Jonze’s tender, funny and surprisingly prescient sci-fi romance about what it means to be human.

Actor Jeremy Theobald presents Christopher Nolan's debut film and shares his experience of working with this great director at points throughout his career.   

A young boy sets off across the hills of rural Iran to return a school notebook he has taken by mistake in Abbas Kiarostami’s enchanting and deceptively simple world cinema classic.