Opening Gala - UK Premiere: Collective (18*)

It was one of the worst disasters in recent Romanian history, with 27 people killed and 180 injured. Fierce protests erupt when 37 of the injured subsequently die from bacterial infections.

Director Alexander Nanau follows a team of investigative journalists at the newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they uncover a vast health care fraud that siphoned off urgent hospital funding and diluted disinfectants while enriching the country’s most powerful moguls, hospital managers, doctors, and politicians.

As the tides begin to turn with increased public awareness, Collective brings home the essential role of a free press in calling out corruption.

Following the film we are joined by the author of The Windrush Betrayal Amelia Gentleman for a ScreenTalk.