A father and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They’re searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. Hope is fading but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness, the journey forces them to confront their own limits.

Sirât is a truly staggering and major film, one that has to be seen to be believed. David Jenkins, Little White Lies

Spain, France 2025

Spanish, French, Arabic languages with English subtitles

Please note the film contains one or more sequences involving extended flashing or flickering lights which may impact customers with photosensitive epilepsy.

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo (Wagner Moura) a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realises that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho,

Winner of Best Director and Best Actor in Cannes.

"The Secret Agent is vicious and vivid in its sense of place and danger. But it also has a streak of weirdness and offers a very human take on the political-crime thriller genre." Dave Calhoun, Time Out

Brazil, 2025

Portuguese Language with English subtitles

The UK's Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards® and recipient of the Caméra d'Or Special Mention at Cannes, Akinola Davis Jr.'s MY FATHER'S SHADOW is a poetic, tender portrait of father-son bonds.

Framed by the political landscape of 1993 Lagos, the film follows a father and his two young sons as they journey into and around the vibrantly rendered Nigerian metropolis, quietly reckoning with their relationship while navigating a city on the precipice of democratic crisis.

Brothers and collaborators Akinola Davis Jr. and Wale Davies bring us a groundbreaking feature debut -- centering an award-winning performance by Sopé Dìrísù (Slow Horses, Gangs of London) -- that reveals the profound depths of what families leave unspoken.

"This is a beautifully rendered film about the kind of loss that permanently rips you apart." Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com

Nigeria, 2025

Nigerian Creole Language with English subtitles

Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler reunite in a heart-pounding thriller where brothers return home for a fresh start - only to confront a chilling secret that refuses to stay buried.

Set in the Deep South during the 1930s, twin brothers Elijah and Elias Smoke, both portrayed by Michael B. Jordan, return to their hometown flush with cash after becoming entangled in Chicago’s gang wars whilst working for Al Capone. Hoping for a fresh start, they invest in a local 'juke joint', but it doesn’t take long for them to sense something is off. As night descends, dark forces and the undead emerge, forcing the brothers into a brutal fight for survival until dawn.

"Sinners is a redemption movie, a revenge movie with elements of Blaxploitation, and certainly a red-blood-soaked horror movie; it’s also deeply romantic and has the rhythms and audaciousness of some of our boldest musicals." Adam Kempenaar, Filmspotting

A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.

A bold and original imagining of one of the greatest love stories of all time, Emerald Fennell’s “WUTHERING HEIGHTS” stars Margot Robbie as Cathy and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, whose forbidden passion for one another turns from romantic to intoxicating in an epic tale of lust, love and madness.

"If you embrace the film's audacious style and think of it as a reinvention not an adaptation, this bold, artful Wuthering Heights is utterly absorbing." Caryn James, BBC.com

In Mascha Schilinski’s transcendent SOUND OF FALLING, fragments from a hundred years in one farmhouse coalesce into a cinematic flood of memory.

Germany’s shortlisted Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards® tracks the lives of four adolescent girls (Alma, Erika, Angelika, Lenka) across the last century – their desires and distress, their secrets and truths, their encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return. Though separated by time, far-reaching resonances emerge as echoes of experience linger.

"It is a complex puzzle box, powered by the sensory and sensual, and a strong statement of intent from a bright spark in the German filmmaking scene." Hannah Strong, Little White Lies

Germany, 2025

German Language with English subtitles

Sisters Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, (Stellan Skarsgård) a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star.

The film reunites director Joachim Trier with Renate Reinsve, following her leading role in his previous feature, The Worst Person In The World.

"A heart-swelling and unexpectedly humor-filled tale that will break you before it makes you whole again. You will leave the movie with a newfound gratitude for all that cinema can do." Tomris Laffly, Elle

BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language 2026

Norway, France, Germany, Denmark

Norwegian and English Language with English subtitles

Leonardo DiCaprio and Teyana Taylor star in Paul Thomas Anderson’s much anticipated period satire.

Bob is a washed-up revolutionary who lives in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited and self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces and Willa goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her as both father and daughter battle the consequences of their pasts.

"In years to come, when this appears on TV late at night, it’ll be impossible to switch off. It’s just one of those films. A stone-cold, instant classic." Alex Godfrey, Empire Magazine

Cocky young draughtsman Vic Brown (Alan Bates) looks certain to get all the best things in life: prospects at work, plans to travel abroad, and an attractive girlfriend in typist Ingrid Rothwell (June Ritchie). But the luckless Vic is destined to learn the hard way that the best things in life aren't always free.

Director John Schlesinger's award-winning debut remains among the most enduring entries in the British New Wave, not least for presenting the most nuanced and vulnerable of its so-called 'angry young men'.

The Consummate Professional: John Schlesinger at 100 is a UK-wide retrospective curated by Marc David Jacobs and Claire Nicolas, taking place from February to May 2026. More information on https://schlesinger-100.webflow.io/'

This special screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Ian Buruma, author of the book "Conversations with John Schlesinger" and nephew of the director.

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In May 2021, a UK Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Pollokshields, Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbours.

Winner: Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance

"Felipe Bustos Sierra’s "Everybody to Kenmure Street" is a spirited and imperative portrait of collective action whose urgency painfully speaks to now." Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com

A new generation of young female activists awakens to a powerful, forgotten chapter of women's history.  As they navigate the complexities of teenage life and social activism, three young women - Poppy (16), Xanthe (17), and Evie (19) - discover the remarkable Greenham Common Women's Peace Movement.

This groundbreaking protest saw 30,000 women stand resolute against nuclear armament forty years earlier. Their journey is an intimate intergenerational dialogue and a 110-mile march over nine days, retracing the steps of the original Greenham Common protesters in 1981. These young women uncover not just a historical movement but a living, breathing legacy of collective courage and resistance.

Gentle, Angry Women is a poignant and timely documentary that weaves personal discovery, historical remembrance, and contemporary activism together. It confronts the rising global tensions of our time while celebrating the enduring power of women's collective action - revealing a bridge between past courage and present hope.

“Powerful, poet, and unapologetically bold”

Screened for International Woman's Day 2026, we are delighted to welcome director, Barbara Santi for a post screening Q&A.

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For more info: https://www.folklifefilms.co.uk/gentle-angry-women

A special preview film screening and concert marking the release of Broken English, an original career-spanning portrait of the iconic, late Marianne Faithfull.

The evening includes an exclusive preview of the film ahead of its release, and from The Barbican, live via satellite performances of Faithfull's songs from a line up ft. Jarvis Cocker, Anna Calvi, Rufus Wainwright, Beth Orton, Samantha Morton and more, alongside house band Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey), Colin Greenwood (Radiohead), Ed Harcourt, Anna Phoebe, and Adrian Utley (Portishead).

Directed by BAFTA nominees Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Broken English is a portrait of Marianne Faithfull, starring Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Nick Cave, Suki Waterhouse and Courtney Love. Drawing on interviews, archival material and Faithfull’s final recorded performance, the film traces a life shaped by fame and reinvention. Across 6 decades and 35+ albums, Faithfull is one of the most distinctive voices of her generation, whose work continues to influence.

19:00 Broken English (film screening)

20:50 Live Set

21:30 Close

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Please also note: This event is excluded from membership discounts.

From Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard — the BAFTA nominated directors of the Sundance award winning 20,000 Days on Earth — comes Broken English, a bold documentary portrait of the inimitable singer, songwriter and icon: Marianne Faithfull. A survivor, provocateur, and true original, Marianne has spent more than six decades defying expectations — releasing over 35 albums while constantly reinventing herself.

Made with her full involvement, Broken English is an intimate and unflinching exploration of a

fractured yet unbreakable life shaped by fame, creativity and relentless public scrutiny. The film unfolds within The Ministry of Not Forgetting — an imagined, cinematic institution where memory and mythology collide.

Featuring a cast led by Tilda Swinton and George MacKay, with powerful, intimate

performances from friends and collaborators including Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Courtney Love and Suki Waterhouse.

Broken English is a genre-defying act of resilience and rebellion. Marianne Faithfull’s final

fearless declaration — her defiant swan song.

The morning of February 8, 1977, Anthony G. “Tony” Kiritsis, 44, entered the office of Richard O. Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun wired with a “dead man’s wire” from the trigger to the Hall’s head.

This is the true story of the stand-off that took the world by storm as Tony demanded $5 million, no charges or prosecution, and a personal apology from the Halls for cheating him out of what he was “owed.”

Directed by Gus Van Sant

Starring Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Cary Elwes

"With terrific chutzpah, black-comic flair and cool, cruel unsentimentality, screenwriter Austin Kolodney and director Gus Van Sant have made a true-crime suspense thriller... tapping into the spirit of both Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon and Network." Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

George Orwell was one of the most visionary authors of the 20th Century, whose novels 1984 and Animal Farm foretold a chilling, all-to-believable authoritarian future.

Acclaimed director Raoul Peck (Academy Award-nominated I Am Not Your Negro), working in collaboration with the Orwell Estate, seamlessly interweaves historical clips, readings from Orwell's diary, cinematic references, and dynamic modern day footage to craft not only a definitive portrait of the writer himself, but an entirely fresh take on how remarkably relevant and prophetic his work has become. Peck doesn't just present the information but shows new ways of seeing it, drawing patterns and connections we might not otherwise realise, championing Orwell as a man from the past who just might hold the key to the world's future.

"The writer became inspired to counteract his complicity in a corrupt system. The film inspires you to do the same." David Fear, Rolling Stone

One family, the heart of the American dream. When wartime delivers profits for Joe, it comes at a price when his partner is charged with criminal manufacturing deals, and his eldest son goes missing in action. Will peacetime bring peace of mind, or will he be confronted by the consequence of his actions?

Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in this five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, from visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge).

Filmed live from the West End, Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You), Tom Glynn-Carney (House of the Dragon), and Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake) also feature in this disturbingly prescient play.

★★★★★

"The stars of a dream cast align" The Guardian

Approximate run time is 2 hours 15 mins with no interval.

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Please also note that All My Sons contains strobe lighting, which may impact customers with photosensitive epilepsy.

Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery.

Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero and begins to win hearts, that is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene…

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Caitríona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets.

By John Millington Synge

Directed by Caitríona McLaughlin

BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin.

Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire. But when their alliance collapses into rivalry, the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path.

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Marianne Elliott (Angels in America) directs this thrilling game of love, lies, and social warfare.

By Christopher Hampton

Based on the novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Directed by Marianne Elliott