Programme for Tuesday 18 October

morning
Free film screenings
Tue 18 |
09:30 |
VUE West End

A clever contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's play of political power and intrigue, directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes.

afternoon
Film on the Square
Tue 18 |
12:15 |
Vue Screen 5

The shocking dramatisation of Australia's most notorious serial killings.

 
Film on the Square
Tue 18 |
12:30 |
Vue Screen 7

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to Dogtooth from Yorgos Lanthimos.

 
World Cinema
Tue 18 |
12:45 |
Vue Screen 6
Karen leaves her husband and finds herself in this smart, confident debut-feature from a new voice in Colombian filmmaking.
 
Cinema Europa
Tue 18 |
13:00 |
NFT1

Haunted by a previous tragedy, the crew of an old trawler try to make sense of the past. Moody drama from Iceland's internationally acclaimed Vesturport group.

 
New British Cinema
Tue 18 |
13:15 |
NFT2

The intriguing story of a young woman discovered in a London flat three years after her death.

 
World Cinema
Tue 18 |
13:30 |
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.

 
World Cinema
Tue 18 |
13:45 |
ICA 1
Three stories from the Sri Lankan civil war (all with violent endings) are interwoven in Sanjeewa Pushpakumara's coolly modernist, non-partisan debut. Best Director prize, St Petersburg.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
Tue 18 |
14:45 |
Vue Screen 5

The much-anticipated film based on Lionel Shriver's Orange Prize-winning novel.

 
World Cinema
Tue 18 |
15:00 |
Vue Screen 6

Pablo Giorgelli's hypnotically paced road movie tells a beguiling love story and won the Argentine director a top prize in Cannes.

 
French Revolutions
Tue 18 |
15:30 |
NFT1

The superb Jean-Pierre Darroussin plays a banking executive driven off the rails in Jean-Marc Moutout's incisive and angry indictment of the financial world.

 
World Cinema
Tue 18 |
15:45 |
NFT2
An Iranian boy goes on a road trip with his deaf relatives after his own parents mysteriously leave in the middle of the night and are killed in an accident.
 
World Cinema
Tue 18 |
16:15 |
ICA 1
An Alaskan-set story of two young men caught up in subterfuge following the accidental killing of one of their friends.
 
Cinema Europa
Tue 18 |
17:45 |
Vue Screen 5

Andrei Zvyagintsev's award-winning account of a struggle over inheritance is accompanied by an effective score by Philip Glass.

evening
Short Cuts & Animation
Tue 18 |
18:15 |
NFT2

Eight short stories concerning suburban living that could take place on the streets of any town, as all daily modern life plays out in suburbia on both a local and global scale. Philip Ilson

 
Galas & Special Screenings
Tue 18 |
18:15 |
Vue Screen 6
Enchanting, magical tales told using silhouette animation and screened in 3D.
 
Cinema Europa
Tue 18 |
18:45 |
ICA 1

A police psychologist renews old acquaintances when she is drafted in to help small town police find an escaped convict.

 
World Cinema
Tue 18 |
19:00 |
STUDIO
Winner of the best documentary at SXSW this year, a stunning verité portrait of skater Josh ‘Skreech' Sandoval.
 
Cinema Europa
Tue 18 |
20:45 |
NFT2

Gritty contemporary crime drama about a Moldovian girl caught in a plot to steal and sell a baby in return for a new legitimate identity in Italy.

 
French Revolutions
Tue 18 |
20:45 |
NFT3

Sandrine Kiberlain gives her best performance yet in Yves Caumon's subtle, intelligent drama about a woman who walks alone.

 
World Cinema
Tue 18 |
21:00 |
ICA 1

Winner of a Tiger Award in Rotterdam, Sivaroj Kongsakul's superbly beautiful debut chronicles a rural courtship…and frames it in the context of the husband's early death.

 
World Cinema
Tue 18 |
21:00 |
NFT1
Jafar Panahi's postcard from Iran.

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