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Black Dog and My Favourite Cake
Acting
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Sophie Fiennes)
World premiere
Documentary follows Cheek By Jowl theatre company's preparation for Macbeth.
And Mrs
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Daniel Reisinger; Stars: Aisling Bea, Colin Hanks, Susan Wokoma, Billie Lourd, Elizabeth McGovern, Harriet Walter)
World premiere
When a woman's fiance dies shortly before their wedding day, she decides to marry him anyway.
Armand
(Country: Norway; Year: 2024; Director: Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel; Writer: Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel; Stars: Renate Reinsve, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Øystein Røger, Endre Hellestveit, Thea Lambrechts Vaulen, Vera Veljovic-Jovanovic, Loke Nikolaisen)
A mother is called into her child's infant school after he faces an accusation.
UK premiere
Between The Temples
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Nathan Silver; Writer: Nathan Silver, C Mason Wells; Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Caroline Aaron, Robert Smigel, Dolly De Leon, Madeline Weinstein, Matthew Shear, Jaden Waldman, Jacob Morrell, Laurent Rejto)
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult bat mitzvah student.
UK premiere
Black Dog
(Country: China; Year: 2024; Director: Guan Hu; Writer: Ge Rui , Guan Hu; Stars: Jia Zhangke, Eddie Peng, Liya Tong)
A man forges a bond with a dog after returning to his hometown following a spell in prison.
UK premiere
A New Kind Of Wilderness and Steppenwolf
Blue Sun Palace
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Constance Tsang; Writer: Constance Tsang; Stars: Ke-Xi Wu, Kang-sheng Lee, Haipeng Xu)
UK premiere
A sudden loss catalyses an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Navigating lives far from home and the painstaking labor that supports them, they journey through grief together in hopes of finding family.
Bogancloch
(Country: UK, Germany, Iceland; Year: 2024; Director: Ben Rivers; Stars: Jake Williams)
Documentary sequel about a former sailor and his off-the-grid life.
UK premiere
Joy Dancer
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Suzanne Smith, Sylvia Soff)
World premiere
Documentary about South African choreographer and activist Gregory Maqoma and composer Thuthuka Sibisi.
Mongrel
(Country: Taiwan, Singapore, France; Year: 2024; Director: Chiang Wei Liang, You Qiao Yin; Writer: Chiang Wei Liang; Stars: Lu Yi-ching, Yu-hong Hong, Wanlop Rungkumjad, Kuo Shu-wei, Achtara Suwan)
UK premiere
Drama about an undocumented migrant working as a caregiver.
The Mountain Within Me
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Polly Steele)
World premiere
Profile of rugby player Ed Jackson's recovery from a near-fatal injury through a new-found love of mountaineering.
Timestalker and Bogancloch
My Favourite Cake (Keyke mahboobe man)
(Country: Iran, France, Sweden, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha; Writer: Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha; Stars: Lili Farhadpour, Esmaeel Mehrabi)
A 70-year-old decides to break her solitary routine and revitalise her love life.
UK premiere
A New Kind Of Wilderness
(Country: Norway; Year: 2024; Director: Silje Evensmo Jacobsen)
In a forest in Norway, a family lives an isolated lifestyle in an attempt to be wild and free, but a tragic event changes everything, and they are forced to adjust to modern society.
UK premiere
The Radleys
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Euros Lyn; Writer: Jo Brand, Talitha Stevenson, adapted from the novel by Matt Haig; Stars: Kelly Macdonald, Damian Lewis, Madeleine Power, Sophia Di Martino, Steven Waddington, Bo Bragason, Jay Lycurgo, Shaun Parkes, Suan-Li Ong, Freddie Wise, Mark Weinman, Harry Baxendale, Sarah Durham, Richa Prakash, Tai Schumann Saunders)
World premiere
Dark comedy about a family of abstaining vampires.
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
(Country: India, France, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Ishan Shukla; Writer: Ishan Shukla; Stars: Golshifteh Farahani, Asia Argento, Gaspar Noé, Anurag Kashyap, Karan Johar, Soko, Shekhar Kapur, Lav Diaz, Piyush Mishra, Denzil Smith, Tibu Fortes, Shahbaz Sarwar, Janna Fox, King Khan, John Sutton)
UK premiere
In a near-perfect society, citizens all wear paper bags on their heads to erase differences... but when rumours of a mythical land without bags spread a revolution brews.
Sing Sing
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Greg Kwedar; Writer: Writers Clint Bentley, Brent Buell, Greg Kwedar; Stars: Colman Domingo, Paul Raci, John Divine G Whitfield, Sean San Jose, Clarence Maclin)
European premiere
A theatre group escapes the reality of incarceration through the creativity of staging a play, with a cast that includes actors who have been incarcerated.
Armand and Between The Temples
Steppenwolf
(Country: Kazakhstan; Year: 2024; Director: Adilkhan Yerzhanov; Stars: Anna Starchenko)
Tamara searches for her missing son in a violent town. She hires a morally questionable ex-detective to find him. His methods are cruel but she is determined to find her son whatever the cost.
UK premiere
A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Mark Cousins)
Consideration of the painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.
UK premiere
Timestalker
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Alice Lowe; Writer: Alice Lowe; Stars: Alice Lowe, Jacob Anderson, Aneurin Barnard, Nick Frost, Kate Dickie, Tanya Reynolds, Boyd Clack)
A woman continuously seeks out the presumed love of her life across time, in one incarnation after another.
UK premiere
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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