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Acclaimed conductor Thibaut has leukemia and needs a bone marrow donor. Learning that he was adopted, he tracks down his older brother, who is a musician and factory worker. Their reunion sparks a fraternal, musical journey amidst the town's factory closure.

Be among the first in the UK to experience the bold new wave of Georgian cinema with this striking premiere.

French filmmaker Armel Hostiou discovers a fake Facebook profile using his photos, inviting women in Kinshasa to audition for a non-existent film.

Join us for a special double-bill screening of Bibiru: The Panema Dog and The Forbidden Dogs—two powerful films exploring the bonds between humans and dogs across very different cultural and political landscapes.

At 71 years old, famous Portuguese writer José Cardoso Pires had a stroke which affected his ability to speak, read and write.

In the newly-restored alternative British road movie Gallivant, the director Andrew Kötting sets off on a wandering, eventful journey around the British coastline accompanied by his granny and young daughter Eden.

Informed by her own experiences, Daisy-May Hudson’s portrait of a woman trying to regain custody of her kids is a impassioned indictment of the current social-care system.

Based on the bestselling book by Naoki Higashida, this immersive film explores neurodiversity through the experiences of non-verbal autistic people from around the world.

A short film programme curated in partnership with Sense & Accessibility exploring the intersectionality of queer crip identities in love, relationships and selfhood.

Two Brooklyn baristas indulge in a sensuous modern love affair.

Join Bristol Surf Cinema in celebrating story-first surf filmmaking with a screening of Point of Change, a powerful documentary by director Rebecca Coley, and a series of homegrown UK short surf films.

1974 LA, and three self-determined young women look for their place in the world. Female friendship, work and utopian socialism braid the narrative beautifully together. Will the women do anything for money?

Co-director of Alpe-Adria Underground! Matevž Jerman has selected some recently restored experimental/avant-garde shorts from the Socialist Republic of Slovenia (1945-1991).

Join director Stephen Frears, writer Hanif Kureishi and actor Gordon Warnecke for this 40th anniversary showing of the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette, the story of two lovers attempting to open a glamorous laundromat amid the turbulence of life in Thatcher’s Britain.