Film

How To Have Sex - WINNER

Winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, HOW TO HAVE SEX is a vibrant and authentic depiction of the agonies, ecstasies and ride-or-die glory of young female friendship, from rising British filmmaker Molly Manning Walker. Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday, drinking, clubbing and hooking up in what should be the best summer of their lives. As they dance their way across the sun-drenched streets of Malia, they find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self-discovery. Captured with luminous visuals and a pitch-perfect soundtrack, Manning Walker’s directorial debut paints a painfully familiar portrait of young adulthood, and how first sexual experiences should – or shouldn’t – play out.

All Of Us Strangers

ALL OF US STRANGERS is Andrew Haigh’s achingly beautiful adaptation of Taichi Yamada’s novel Strangers. The film follows Adam (Andrew Scott) who is living a lonely existence in an anonymous London tower block. A chance encounter with Harry (Paul Mescal) breaks Adam’s self imposed solitude and, as their relationship develops, Adam revisits his family home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) appear to be living just as they were on the day they died 30 years before. With the opportunity to say all the things he never could, ALL OF US STRANGERS explores the power of love in all its formsin a film which simultaneously breaks and rebuilds hearts

Occupied City

The past collides with the present in Steve McQueen’s documentary Occupied City, informed by Bianca Stigter’s book Atlas of an Occupied City. Amsterdam 1940-1945.

McQueen creates two interlocking portraits: a door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts Amsterdam, his adopted city, and a vivid journey through the last years of pandemic and protest. What emerges is both devastating and life-affirming, an expansive meditation on memory, time, and where we’re headed. Where do the memories of a city go?