Cinema On Demand

Sun 1 Jan 2023, 23:59

In a Nicaraguan fishing community, divers are getting sick. Enjoy this  Mermaid-themed addendum to Rolling in the Deep: Mer-Creatures and Mythology in Global Cinema at home. 

Thu 19 May –Thu 30 Jun 2022

A Ukrainian military surgeon is captured by the Russian military forces in the Donbass region in Valentyn Vasyanovych’s brilliant, disturbing drama, set in 2014.

Mon 28 Mar –Mon 2 May 2022

Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is a haunting road movie travelling a path of love, loss, acceptance, and peace.

Thu 24 Mar –Sat 30 Apr 2022

A dealer takes high risks stashing drugs throughout the neighbourhoods of Moscow in this haunting experimental film exploring power and control.

Mon 14 Mar –Mon 2 May 2022

Winner of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at Berlinale, Oscar Nominated Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car) tells the story of an unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction and a chance encounter.

Wed 26 Jan –Mon 28 Feb 2022

Three members of the Belarus Free Theatre find themselves at the centre of the 2020 protests against Alexander Lukashenko’s totalitarian regime.

Mon 20 Dec 2021 –Mon 17 Jan 2022

Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is a haunting road movie travelling a path of love, loss, acceptance, and peace.

Fri 10 Dec 2021 –Fri 7 Jan 2022

The untold story of a community of women in 1980s post-punk, and how they went on to change their world by becoming artists, performers, musicians and activists.

Wed 24 Nov –Fri 10 Dec 2021

Emerging from years in isolation to an enraptured crowd, a transgender, septuagenarian musical genius finally finds his place in the world.

Fri 12 Nov –Fri 10 Dec 2021

Starring real-life friends Annie Clark (Grammy-winning artist St Vincent) and Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney), this is a mischievous, metafictional and frequently laugh-out-loud funny account. 

Fri 22 Oct 2021, 23:59

This powerful documentary follows the essential work of those who try to identify the anonymous souls who lose their lives along the US-Mexico border. 

Thu 21 Oct –Tue 30 Nov 2021

It’s 1993, Serbia is at war, and a tired mother hosts her daughter’s birthday party in a Belgrade suburb in Milica Tomović’s sharp Serbian comedy.

Thu 21 Oct –Tue 30 Nov 2021

Alexa Bakony’s moving and uplifting documentary follows a queer teenager keen to move from their rural town to Budapest.

Mon 20 –Thu 30 Sep 2021

Collapsing the line between mainstream sports drama and formal invention, avant-garde hero Shuji Terayama’s Boxer is arguably the greatest boxing film ever made.

Mon 20 –Thu 30 Sep 2021

The first of our two screenings celebrating butoh co-founders Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno through wildly inventive and highly surreal cinematic works.

Mon 20 –Thu 30 Sep 2021

The logistical efforts of putting on the 1964 Olympics are pitted against the Sisyphean loneliness of a long-distance runner.

Mon 20 –Thu 30 Sep 2021

Chiaki Nagano and Kazuo Ohno’s trilogy reaches its bewildering and exhilarating conclusion in part two of JAEFF’s butoh screenings.

Thu 12 Aug –Thu 30 Sep 2021

A young martial arts fighter flees Chechnya, after his brother discovers that he is gay and threatens to kill him, and struggles to find his way in a new country in this powerful documentary.

Wed 11 Aug –Thu 30 Sep 2021

After years of living in Germany, a Mongolian woman returns to her family home in the steppes and experiences a new sexual liberation in Uisenma Borchu’s unique, beautifully filmed drama.

Fri 6 Aug –Fri 3 Sep 2021

Mo Scarpelli’s gripping film looks at the relationship between a father and son, but in no ordinary way. El father is making a film, playing a fictional version of himself – while his son directs him.