Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots star in a slightly sci-fi, bittersweet look at all the complications and joys of romance which although set in a recognisable near-future, shows that love never changes. Two best friends since college, Simon and Laura drift apart when she takes a test that finds her soulmate despite years of unspoken feelings between them. Faced with the uncertainty of changing ...

Pastor Leung struggles between faith and seeking vengeance. After being released from prison, the man who caused his daughter’s death is taken into custody by his church. Should Leung pursue punishment and sin, or should he practice what he preaches on God’s forgiveness? Formidable yet restrained, Anthony Wong (Infernal Affairs, Initial D)’s powerful performance as the torn pastor is the heart of...

Beautifully charting the highs and lows of falling in love, writer/director Sophie Dupuis’s SOLO is a passionate triumph of character-driven storytelling and visual extravagance, celebrating the drag world in all its splendour and heartache in an incisive tale of ambition and jealousy, desire and dependence. Simon is the rising star of the Montreal drag queen scene. It’s love at first sight whe...

The cinematically visionary director of BOOGIE NIGHTS, LICORICE PIZZA, THE MASTER and THERE WILL BE BLOOD, Paul Thomas Anderson, unleashes an exhilarating comic blast based on Thomas Pynchon’s best-seller Vineland, the tale of a weird new America . Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil ...

To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of worldwide theatrical sensation HAMILTON, the recording of the original Broadway production featuring composer Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton – also included is a cast reunion with all-new interviews with cast and creators. An unforgettable cinematic stage performance, the filmed version of the original Broadway production of HAMILTON combines the b...

I, THE WORST OF ALL (Yo, Peor de Todas) is presented by the Rio Feminist Programming Group in collaboration with Cinema Mentiré as part of Daring to Dare: The films of María Luisa Bemberg We are thrilled to screen this remarkable film that played at the Rio on its original release in the UK in a new 2K restoration. The film will be introduced by Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha of Cinema Mentiré. ...

A key member of iconic bands The Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, multi-instrumentalist and renowned film composter Warren Ellis has cut a brilliant and unorthodox figure in music for over three decades. Far from the international concert halls in which he has plied his craft lies a very different passion project: a wildlife sanctuary in the forests of Sumatra. Co-founded by Ellis and...

Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots star in a slightly sci-fi, bittersweet look at all the complications and joys of romance which although set in a recognisable near-future, shows that love never changes. Two best friends since college, Simon and Laura drift apart when she takes a test that finds her soulmate despite years of unspoken feelings between them. Faced with the uncertainty of changing ...

Powered by a remarkable, award-winning performance from Frank Dillane, URCHIN is the outstanding directorial debut from Harris Dickinson. Following the screening we are proud to welcome director, Harris Dickinson for a live on-stage Q&A, hosted by Roxy Rezvany. Roxy is a BIFA and London Critics circle nominated writer-director and documentary producer from Brent, London. Mike, a rough sleeper ...

An intimate and revealing look at the inner and outer lives of Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, one of the most original and controversial of contemporary writers, followed by a live-on-stage Q&A with Irvine Welsh and the film’s director Paul Sng hosted by Empire journalist Amon Warmann. Irvine Welsh is at a crossroads. After experiencing the huge success of several film adaptations and six mi...

The landmark Oscar®-winning director of THE HURT LOCKER, Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Noah Oppenheim imagine a crisis of apocalyptic proportions in a fast-moving thriller that is as unsettling as it is heart-pounding, and, in the current climate, all too plausible. The day starts like any other, but it soon becomes a possible doomsday when a single, unattributed nuclear missile is launched ...

Powered by a remarkable, award-winning performance from Frank Dillane, URCHIN is the outstanding directorial debut from actor Harris Dickinson Mike a rough sleeper on the streets of London, is trapped in a cycle of self-destruction as he attempts to turn his life around. Moving between short-term jobs and small-time hustles, he must balance the hopeful rush of a fresh start with a past that is ...

In association with the London Short Film Festival, a Preview of THE SEVERED SUN with its director Dean Puckett in conversation with LSFF Artistic Director Philip Ilson, plus the short film HAMMER OF THE WITCHES. THE SEVERED SUN is the feature debut of director Dean Puckett — a haunting British folk horror set deep within a world of faith, fear, and folklore. Produced by Rebecca Wolff (Grasp th...

An absurdist journey through a dark fairy tale from transgender and cis-gender writing-directing duo Kit & Arran who inventively, insightfully and hilariously explore themes of class, hierarchy, gender and power. Followed by a live on stage Q&A with co-writer/director Arran Shearing. Timothy Stevens, Former Rio Cinema Director, film programmer and artist, will be moderating the Q&A . A ‘King’ an...

Set against the gritty, vibrant backdrop of the German capital, BERLIN LOOP is independent movie making at its very best - a coming-of-age revenge story that blends crime, sci-fi, time travel...and bicycles. Fatma, a disillusioned young cleaning woman, steals a bike to make extra cash, unknowingly entangling herself in Berlin’s bike-theft mafia. Trapped in a life of petty crime, she seeks a sec...

Josh O’Connor is superb as a rudderless everyman out of step with his immediate environs and the country at large, in Kelly Reichardt’s funny, shaggy heist film. 1970s America has witnessed a generational chasm and a society torn apart by Vietnam. But JB is oblivious to these cultural changes as he bumbles towards a major art heist. “Writer-Director Reichardt’s smartly crafted drama offers a...

A Little White Lies Preview Cinema’s master of the monstrous, director Guillermo del Toro, creates his own monster with an original and visually sumptuous adaptation of Mary Shelley’s timeless gothic novel. Victor Frankenstein is a brilliant scientist tortured by ambition and his own raging passions. Pushing his work beyond scientific certainty to the boundary between life and death, he brin...

UK PREMIERE A WAY TO DIE: THE SHORT-FILMS OF COIL Followed by a Q&A with directors Xavier Laradji and Maxime Lachaud. After paying tribute to and introducing the photographic and pictorial work of Peter Christopherson (1955-2010) and John Balance (1962-2004) to a larger audience, founding members of the cult formation COIL, Timeless editions have had the duo’s filmed archives restored, from their...

WORLD PREMIERE SOUND OF A DREAM: LEE BURRIDGE Followed by a Q&A with director Hoj Jomehri This intimate portrait follows underground DJ Lee Burridge, whose lifelong pursuit has been to bring people together through music. Blending cinematic storytelling, rare archival footage, and access to his inner world, the film traces a forty-year journey from a small seaside village in the UK to some of...

UK PREMIERE FELIX DARE TO DREAM + Q&A Followed by a Q&A with directors Valerio Bariletti & Morgan Bertacca and special guest Loretta Leu, tattoo artist, and the wife of Felix. The story of Felix Leu is one of defiance, creativity, and the search for freedom. Son of painter Eva Aeppli and assistant to Jean Tinguely, Felix grew up in Paris’s vibrant 1960s art world before embracing the revolutiona...

UK PREMIERE BUTTHOLE SURFERS: THE HOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUTT A documentary feature about the legendary psychedelic punk band, Butthole Surfers followed by a Q&A with director Tom Stern The film traces how two accounting students from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, found solidarity in their shared strangeness, gathered a tribe of like-minded outsiders — queers, weirdos, and non...

UK PREMIERE Followed by a Q&A with director Lola Rocknrolla Dean Johnson was a famous New York drag queen, rock star, sex party promoter and late in life escort. In 2007 Dean went on a job and never came back. Was it just an accidental OD, Dean had a history of drug use or was it something more sinister? Another escort died in the same apartment four days earlier. The mystery of his death is...

A BEAUTIFUL PLACE - A MUSIC DOC ABOUT LEBANON HANOVER An intimate journey with darkwave icons Lebanon Hanover during their 2024 European tour followed by a Zoom Q&A with the film's director, Isolde Woudstra As William Maybelline and Larissa Iceglass traverse the continent, playing electrifying shows in Bristol, London, Paris and Berlin, the film unveils the raw emotion behind their haunting so...

V London Festival of Queer Spanish Culture presents A FREE MAN (Un Hombre Libre) directed by Laura Hojman. Agustín Gómez Arcos was renowned as a playwright in 1950s Madrid, but the modernity and freedom of his work led to him being censored and forced into exile. In 1970s France he became a successful, critically acclaimed novelist, but remained largely unknown in Spain. His novels were transla...

Exploring Britain’s identity crisis through moments of emotion, humour, and the everyday, Jessi Gutch’s incisive and revealing documentary is an ode to participatory filmmaking and forging messy friendships in your own backyard. In the port town of Folkestone, which refugees attempt to reach from France on a daily basis, tensions are rife. Old traditions die hard, voices struggle to be heard an...