BFI Player’s August 2026 line-up 

Exam season is over, and we’ve scored some great Marks – a substantial retrospective of Mark Jenkin’s brilliant and singular work, from early shorts to his latest winner, Rose of Nevada. Get a little bit of Monica in your lives with the return of La Notte, and enjoy the usual eclectic selection of world cinema favourites.

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The Girls (Gehunu Lamai)
1978/Sri Lanka
Subscription exclusive
A young girl finds herself torn between duty and desire in this stunning Sri Lankan coming-of-age drama by pioneering filmmaker Sumitra Peries.

Thoughts from Inside a Headache
2005/United Kingdom
A young man is drawn by the music he hears in his head to a moment of existential crisis far from home.

Cape Cornwall Calling/All the White Horses
2013/United Kingdom
Mark Jenkin’s vision of transatlantic commonality.

If This Is No-One’s Then It’s Ours
2013/United Kingdom
Mark Jenkin’s short, made in response to a Simon Armitage poem, asks the question: how should we define public space?

St. Buryan to Lamorna/Orange
2013/United Kingdom
A trip down memory lane, and an actual lane.

La notte
1961/Italy
Michelangelo Antonioni’s masterpiece about urban alienation stars Italian film icons Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau and Monica Vitti.

An Air That Kills
2014/United Kingdom
Mark Jenkin’s short explores feelings of nostalgia, loss and the evolving nature of memory.

The Lady with the Long Brown Hair
2016/United Kingdom
An old man muses on the plausibility of a memory…in a maize field in Brittany.

Tomato
2017/United Kingdom
A playful meditation upon landscape, colour and the process of collaborative filmmaking.

Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape
2017/United Kingdom
A walk through England’s south coast evokes the artists who lived and worked there.

Porth Trethek
2020/United Kingdom
Ethereal, unsettling film shot on Super 8 with an entirely Stylophone produced score.

Edge of Summer
2024/United Kingdom
Subscription exclusive
A summer holiday and an old folk tale bring two 11-year-olds together as they explore what, or who, is calling to them, from within an abandoned mine.

Sex (Oslo Stories Trilogy)
2024/Norway
Subscription exclusive
Part of the Oslo Stories trilogy, two colleagues face experiences that unsettle their views on sexuality, gender and identity.

I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash
2025/United Kingdom
Between film screenings across the world, Mark Jenkin muses on cinematic influences, ponders cultural history and reflects upon home.

Bronco’s House
2015/United Kingdom
A young man strives to provide a home for his pregnant girlfriend and their unborn child, in Mark Jenkin’s mid-length precursor to Bait.

Dear Marianne
2016/United Kingdom
A Cornishman visiting the Irish coast sends postcards home in Mark Jenkin’s short travelogue.

The Road to Zennor
2017/United Kingdom
Mark Jenkin’s poetic travelogue evokes the long shadows and peaceful hum of a late Cornish autumn.

Enough to Fill Up an Eggcup
2016/United Kingdom
A film poem that is quiet and angry.

Rose of Nevada
2025/United Kingdom
Subscription exclusive
Mark Jenkin’s time-travelling odyssey about a long-lost fishing boat that mysteriously returns to harbour, starring George MacKay and Callum Turner.

The Essential Cornishman
2016/United Kingdom
Mark Jenkin’s experimental homage to the spontaneous prose of The Beats, from the mythical Cornish west.

David Bowie Is Dead
2018/United Kingdom
Mark Jenkin undertakes a stream-of-consciousness road trip through London in the turbulent wake of David Bowie’s death.

29 Hour Long Birthday
2022/United Kingdom
From the Hudson River to the summer homes of Long Island, Mark Jenkin looks back on a movie-inspired trip to New York.

A Dog Called Discord
2023/United Kingdom
Mark Jenkin explores his fascination with the magic of film and its life-giving properties.

Toomorrow
1970/United Kingdom
A London-based pop group are abducted by aliens to save their race from extinction in this rarely seen sci-fi musical starring Olivia Newton-John.

Heart of a Dog
2015/United States
Subscription exclusive
Multimedia artist Laurie Anderson’s cinematic journey through love, death and language, centred around memories of her beloved terrier Lolabelle.

Fragments of Paradise
2022/United States
Intimate portrait of the pioneering filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, assembled from thousands of hours of his own footage and diaries.