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

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

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

Returning to cinemas for the first time in over a decade, Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the Olivier and Tony Award® -winning hit production, directed by Stephen Daldry.

For 60 years, Queen Elizabeth II met with each of her 12 prime ministers in a private weekly meeting. This meeting is known as The Audience. From Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron, the Queen advised her prime ministers on matters both public and personal. Through these private audiences, we see glimpses of the woman behind the crown and witness the moments that shaped a monarch.

Peter Morgan’s Netflix phenomenon The Crown was based on this hit play that was captured live from London’s West End in 2013 and went on to become one of the most-watched NT Live productions

By Peter Morgan

Directed by Stephen Daldry

Approximate run time is 2 hours 30 mins including an interval.

Please note: Prompt start as no ads/trailers.

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

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

'Is it safe?'

The life of university student and aspiring marathon runner Babe Levy (Dustin Hoffman) is turned upside-down when he discovers his brother (Roy Scheider) brutally murdered. The trail to his killers lands him in the middle of an intriguing and dangerous conspiracy surrounding the return of a supposedly-dead Nazi, Christian Szell, played in an unforgettable Golden Globe-winning comeback role by Laurence Olivier.

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/'

Please note: The screening will be introduced by season curators Marc David Jacobs and Claire Nicolas

Please also note: Prompt start as no ads/trailers.

At 14 years old, Molly Russell came home from school, finished her homework and said goodnight to her family. A few hours later, she took her own life.

Surrounded by a loving circle of family and friends, it was a life-shattering mystery to all who knew her. In search of an answer Ian, her devastated father, pieces the final months of her life back together only to discover that, when Molly looked at her phone, social media machines dragged her into darkness.

From a teenager’s suburban bedroom to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, MOLLY Vs THE MACHINES is the story of a heartbroken father’s quest to uncover the truth behind his daughter's death, and his fightback against how the most powerful corporations of the modern age operate.

This is a nationwide premiere screening in partnership with Glasgow Film Festival and following the screening, features a pre-recorded discussion with Marc Silver (director), Ian Russell (Molly's Father), Charlotte Campbell (Molly's friend), Sophie Conlan (Molly's friend), hosted by Carole Cadwalladr.

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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

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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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.

Please note: Prompt start as no ads/trailers.

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

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

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.

Please note: Prompt start as no ads/trailers.

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