Programme

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.

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

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.

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.

In Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's thriller, tennis star Guy Haines strikes up a conversation with a stranger, Bruno Anthony, and unwittingly sets in motion a deadly chain of events. 

Two women building a life and a school together in 1810 Edinburgh find their independence threatened following the arrival of a new pupil and a scandalous accusation.

25th anniversary of this mind-bending masterpiece which turns a young actress’s arrival in Los Angeles into a seductive journey through love, ambition, identity and illusion.

Exiled Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev delivers another scathing portrait of his homeland. 

Lukas Dhont’s moving First World War drama follows two soldiers who find friendship, theatre and fleeting freedom behind the trenches.

A chance encounter blossoms into a life‑changing friendship and a shared desire to make the world a better place in this absorbing, richly textured drama from the Oscar‑nominated director of Drive My Car.