In Dance First, Gabriel Byrne plays Samuel Beckett – with young Beckett played by Fionn O’Shea – in a sweeping account of the life of this 20th century icon. Parisian bon vivant, World War II resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright,... Read More
BOOK NOW Times: 16.10
Timid professor Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) feels the recognition he craves has arrived when he begins appearing in other people’s dreams in Kristoffer Borgli’s sharp, funny, and insightful interrogation of masculinity, cancel culture, social media, and the allure of celebrity.... Read More
BOOK NOW Times: 16.00
Summer 2019: Madeleine (Rebecca Marder), a brilliant activist from a modest background, is preparing for her oral exam at an elite French school to study and become a politician. Madeleine’s partner Antoine (Benjamin Lavernhe), from a wealthy background, is also... Read More
BOOK NOW Times: 15.50
A pioneering filmmaker for nearly 50 years, renowned for explorations of female sexuality, Catherine Breillat returns with a daring portrait of Anne (Léa Drucker), a family lawyer specialising in child protection and parental custody. She lives a very bourgeois life... Read More
BOOK NOW Times: 20.40
Étienne (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) is barely 20 when he falls in love with Valérie, and when daughter Rosa (Céleste Brunnquell) is born. Then one day Valérie leaves them, without explanation, leaving Étienne to bring up Rosa alone. Father and daughter... Read More
BOOK NOW Times: 18.20 (SOLD OUT)
Cédric Kahn (festival guest in 2018) revisits the controversial case of Pierre Goldman, a far-left Jewish activist who faced a life sentence for four armed robberies and the killing of two women pharmacists in 1969. In his 1975 appeal hearing,... Read More
BOOK NOW Times: 18.10
Hollywood actress Elizabeth Berry (Natalie Portman) has come to Savannah, Georgia, to research the life of Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Julianne Moore), whom she will portray in an upcoming dramatisation of a traumatic period in Gracie’s life, a scandal for which she... Read More
BOOK NOW Times: 13.20, 20.30
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