Programme for Saturday 15 October

afternoon
Treasures from the Archives
Sat 15 |
12:00 |
NFT1

Timely centenary tribute to popular singing cowboy Roy Rogers, with newly-restored revivals of two of his best sagebrush sagas.

 
Galas & Special Screenings
Sat 15 |
12:15 |
Vue Screen 5

Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan star in Steve McQueen's frank study of a New York man's sexual compulsion.

 
Film on the Square
Sat 15 |
12:30 |
Vue Screen 7

An original story of friendship, love and survival - and finding humour in the most unlikely places.

 
World Cinema
Sat 15 |
13:00 |
ICA 1
An aged Indian couple decide to sacrifice everything to make a once in a life-time Hajj (pilgrimage) to Mecca.
 
World Cinema
Sat 15 |
13:00 |
Vue Screen 3
A young, Bengali, wannabe rapper slides into drugs and porn to escape reality and discover his dream.
 
Cinema Europa
Sat 15 |
13:15 |
CINE LUMIERE

Chantal Akerman heads east, with a very distinctive take on the Joseph Conrad novel about two men fighting over the future of a half-Malaysian woman.

 
World Cinema
Sat 15 |
13:15 |
NFT3

A young woman battles with a recent tragedy whilst caring for an elderly man in this haunting, claustrophobic drama.

 
Short Cuts & Animation
Sat 15 |
14:00 |
NFT2

A selection of short animated films from around the world. Justin Johnson

 
Galas & Special Screenings
360
Sat 15 |
14:45 |
Vue Screen 5

A dynamic and moving study of love in the 21st century from the director of The Constant Gardener.

 
Experimenta
Sat 15 |
15:15 |
ICA 1

A figure in the grass with a gun, a name called out in the distance, a woodcutter and a man who has lost a dog are woven together by Lisandro Alonso in a meditation on the past we inherit and the future we construct.

 
Treasures from the Archives
Sat 15 |
15:15 |
NFT1
A sumptuous samurai period drama in colour from Japanese master stylist Mizoguchi, newly restored by Tokyo's Museum of Modern Art.
 
Cinema Europa
Sat 15 |
15:15 |
Vue Screen 6

A young couple's passionate relationship plays out against the backdrop of a manhunt.

 
Masterclasses
Sat 15 |
15:45 |
NFT3

The writer responsible for BAFTA-winning TV dramas Sex Traffic and White Girl, as well as the screen adaptation of Monica Ali's Brick Lane joins us to discuss Shame, her collaboration with director Steve McQueen.

 
French Revolutions
Sat 15 |
16:00 |
NFT2

A cat with a double life becomes embroiled in a tale of animated adventure on the rooftops of Paris.

 
French Revolutions
Sat 15 |
16:15 |
CINE LUMIERE

An anarchic yet sophisticated comedy involving a fairy and a receptionist at a seaside hotel.

evening
Film on the Square
Sat 15 |
18:00 |
Vue Screen 7

Two young brothers at opposite ends of Kyushu devise a magical plan to reunite their separated parents in Hirokazu Kore-eda's benign and superbly acted picture of family life.

 
Cinema Europa
Sat 15 |
18:15 |
NFT2

The remarkable political life of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.

 
New British Cinema
Sat 15 |
18:30 |
NFT1

A one-night stand turns into something altogether more unexpected in Andrew Haigh's heartfelt love story.

 
Experimenta
Sat 15 |
18:30 |
NFT3
James Benning brings his formal precision to this study of twenty people engaged in the act of smoking.
 
World Cinema
Sat 15 |
18:30 |
Vue Screen 3
An absorbing and suspenseful drama about an Albanian family caught in a blood feud.
 
World Cinema
Sat 15 |
19:00 |
STUDIO

A trio of contrasting short films made through the Africa First mentoring scheme: an important initiative that seeks to identify emerging talent from Africa.

 
Film on the Square
Sat 15 |
20:15 |
Vue Screen 5

An affecting and delicate teen romance which confirms Gus Van Sant as one of Hollywood’s most astute and sensitive chroniclers of American youth.

 
World Cinema
Sat 15 |
20:30 |
ICA 1
Kim Kyung-Mook's sparky indie feature crosscuts between the lives of two young men, one an illegal immigrant from North Korea stuck in dead-end jobs, the other the kept boy of a married businessman stifling in a swanky apartment.
 
Film on the Square
Sat 15 |
20:30 |
Vue Screen 7

The best crime movie of recent times; Woody Harrelson delivers a performance guaranteed to be one of the most talked about of the year.

 
Cinema Europa
Sat 15 |
20:45 |
NFT2

Anca Damian's poetic and innovative animated feature recounts the life and final days of a Romanian immigrant wrongly imprisoned in a Polish prison.

 
French Revolutions
Sat 15 |
21:00 |
CINE LUMIERE

An L.A.-Mexican quest movie with a palpably personal edge, as director Mathieu Demy revisits the California he knew as a child.

 
World Cinema
Sat 15 |
21:00 |
NFT3

A triple prizewinner at Locarno, Milagros Mumenthaler's story of three sisters coping with the death of their grandmother offers an original take on the coming of age tale.

 
Cinema Europa
Sat 15 |
21:00 |
Vue Screen 3

A young couple are taken by surprise on a trek deep into the Caucasus Mountains.

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