More than an historical drama, Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir’s PALESTINE 36 shows on a grand scale how events shaped Palestinian national identity and focuses on the background to the current situation. Palestine 1936. As villages rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest. ...

Lynne Ramsay’s psychosexual thriller is a bold, brave, blistering, and unflinching, but also darkly comic, portrait of a woman on the edge fired by two powerhouse performances from Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. Writer Grace and her partner Jackson leave New York for the country with their baby. But something has changed in her since the birth, which has unleashed primal urges and thre...

The latest provocatively wild ride from the director of RAW and TITANE, Julie Ducournau, ALPHA is a new genre-defying dream within a dream that delves deep into the raw complexities of family bonds. A 13-year-old girl returns home with a freshly branded tattoo on her arm, much to her mother’s dismay. But beyond parental worries lies a deeper threat: an unknown virus spreading through the popula...

Director Edgar Wright puts his own stamp on this high-octane, fast-paced dystopian thriller starring Glen Powell as he revisits the original Stephen King novel with a more faithful adaptation than Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1987 version. In a near-future society, The Running Man is the top-rated show on television–a deadly competition wherein contestants must survive 30 days while being hunted by ...

Screening as the second part of our Trans Awareness’ season, Pink Palace presents this eye opening doc. XY Chelsea tells the historic story of whistleblower Chelsea Manning, whose 35-year sentence in an all-male maximum security prison was commuted by President Obama in 2017. XY Chelsea is the journey of her fight for survival and dignity, and her transition from prisoner to a free woman. After ...

Sensitively directed and with two fearless performances, PILLION is Harry Lighton’s, sexy, moving and surprisingly funny tale about a sadomasochistic relationship. Shy and unassuming Colin is a choir singing traffic warden who still lives with his parents and longs for a soulmate. Instead he finds Ray, his complete opposite - and the man of his dreams. Clad in head-to-toe leather, tall and magn...

From Yorgos Lanthimos, creator of such madcap and uncompromising delights as THE FAVOURITE and POOR THINGS, comes a darkly funny and satirical environmental comedy-thriller. On what they believe to be the eve of the Armageddon, a conspiracy obsessed young man and his easily led young cousin kidnap a hard-nosed pharmaceutical company executive whom they believe to be an alien. They have three da...

This is a naturist film screening within a contained, safe space including the Ludski bar area adjacent to Screen 2. Please bring a towel to sit on and a bag to put your clothes in, the bag to be kept at your seat. The bustling streets of Brazil come to life with dizzying vibrancy, allure and danger as Brazilian director Marcelo Caetano captures São Paulo in all its grit and vibrancy as a place of...

From Yorgos Lanthimos, creator of such madcap and uncompromising delights as THE FAVOURITE and POOR THINGS, comes a darkly funny and satirical environmental comedy-thriller. On what they believe to be the eve of the Armageddon, a conspiracy obsessed young man and his easily led young cousin kidnap a hard-nosed pharmaceutical company executive whom they believe to be an alien. They have three days...

Daniel Craig returns as private detective Benoit Blanc in the third instalment of Rian Johnson’s sharply penned and devilishly fun KNIVES OUT reinventions of the classic whodunit. With nods to the dark, gothic elements of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue — a seemingly impossible locked-room scenario involving a corpse and a murder that presents itself as an impossible crime, Ben...

Comedian and ground-breaking podcast host Marc Maron reluctantly pulls back the curtain on his life in Steven Feinartz’s ARE WE GOOD? - from the COVID-19 pandemic which halts his thriving standup career, yanking him into an unwelcome, caged existence to the sudden loss of his partner, filmmaker Lynn Shelton. As, with director Feinartz alongside, Maron grapples with a new reality, the ups and do...

Having tried and failed to make a true crime documentary, filmmaker Charlie Shackleton tells the story of what might have been. The winner of the Next Innovator Award, at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, ( There is no film like it’ — Jury head Elijah Wood), this screening of ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT will be followed by a live in-person Q&A with its director producer, and editor, Charlie Shackleton...

Sensitively directed and with two fearless performances from Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård, PILLION is Harry Lighton’s, sexy, moving and surprisingly funny tale about a sadomasochistic relationship. Shy and unassuming Colin is a choir singing traffic warden who still lives with his parents and longs for a soulmate. Instead he finds Ray, his complete opposite - and the man of his dreams....

On the UN's International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People , a Preview of THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB which combines drama and documentary to tell the story of a six-year-old Palestinian girl. January 29, 2024. Workers at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society receive an emergency call. A terrified 6-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying ...

Incorporating elements of magical realism and body horror, AISHA CAN'T FLY AWAY shows how a decent life may be rendered impossible by the conflict, coerced compliance, and exploitation experienced by women refugees in this ambitious and slow-burning feature. The film is followed by a live Q&A with guests to be announced. Aisha is a 26-year-old Sudanese caregiver living in a neighbourhood in the h...

Ukranian director Pavlo Ostrikov’s debut feature is a true wonder - a genre-bending journey into the soul, infinity… and beyond! Written and filmed during Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, this response to existential sci-fi films like 2001, SOLARIS, DARK STAR, and MOON explores timeless themes: mortality, loneliness, longing, and a universal need for human connection and understanding duri...

IRON LADIES is the story of the iron willed working-class women who, during the 1984–85 Miners’ Strike, found themselves at the forefront of a battle against the British state.as they fought for the future of their communities. From Scotland to Kent, women from the coalfields shed light on their experiences of the year long struggle, and how they became the backbone of the Strike. With many st...

Stronger Than Love: ¡Too MuchMexican Melodrama! Victims of Sin (Victimas del Pecado) Introduced by Camilla Baier, co-founder of the feminist film collective Invisible Women. A treasure of Mexico’s cinematic golden age, this deliriously plotted blend of gritty crime film, heart-tugging maternal melodrama, and mambo musical is a dazzling showcase for iconic star Ninón Sevilla. She brings fierc...

The screening is followed by a live Q&A with Rick Bush (director), Nina Fidderman (co-star) and Tilly Wadsworth (screenwriter). Lana (Nina Fidderman) wanders into a quiet bookshop one rainy afternoon and unexpectedly bumps into an old friend, Tom (David Boan). What begins as a brief, awkward reunion takes an unexpected turn when the pair find themselves locked in overnight. As the hours unfold, o...

¡Too MuchMexican Melodrama! Stronger Than Love (Mas Fuerte que el Amor) An intoxicating melodrama starring Miroslava Stern as Barbara who defies social codes and patriarchal control. Carlos, a former factory worker of humble origins, has made millions—but the upper class refuses to accept him as one of its own. Meanwhile, Bárbara, the spoiled daughter of an industrialist, is to enter into a...