Closure and One In A Million
All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Jeanie Finlay)
When thousands of dead crabs wash ashore along England's North East coast, fisherman Stan Rennie finds himself leading a grassroots fight for answers and a future.
UK premiere
Birds Of War
(Country: United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon; Year: 2026; Director: Janay Boulos, Abd Alkader Habak)
The love story of a London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman as told through 13 years of personal archives across revolutions, war, and exile.
UK premiere
Closure
(Country: Poland; Year: 2026; Director: Michał Marczak)
After his teenage son goes missing, Daniel scours the depths of the Vistula River, torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the hope that his son may still be alive.
UK premiere
Crocodile
(Country: New Zealand, Nigeria; Year: 2026; Director: The Critics, Pietra Brettkelly)
A group of young filmmakers in Nigeria form a homemade collective with smartphones and recycled materials.
UK premiere
Jesy Nelson: Life Changing
(Year: 2026; Director: Clare Bradbury)
A mother of twins diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy navigates her new reality while fighting to change UK newborn screening laws.
World premiere
Birds Of War and The Last First: Winter K2
The Last First: Winter K2
(Country: US, United Kingdom; Year: 2026; Director: Amir Bar-Lev)
The race to grab the last great prize in mountaineering, K2 in winter, left five dead. It exposed deep fault lines in alpinism today: pressures from commercialization, toxic effects of social media, and long-brewing tensions between those who’ve been marginalized and those who’ve always basked in the sport’s glory.
UK premiere
Obsession: The Beryl Burton Story
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Stuart Pollitt)
Britain's greatest cyclist. A lifetime of victory. One family's cost. An intimate portrait of obsession, sacrifice and the price of sporting success.
World premiere
One In A Million
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2026; Director: Itab Azzam, Jack Macinnes)
Filmed over 10 years, one girl’s epic journey from Syria to Germany and back again. She and her family navigate war, exile, and heartbreak in a foreign land, illuminating the complexities of the refugee experience.
UK premiere
Phenomena
(Country: Australia; Year: 2026; Director: Josef Gatti)
A psychedelic odyssey into the fabric of the universe, guided by a filmmaker and his immersive practical experiments that blur the lines between art and science to reveal nature’s inner workings.
UK premiere
Savage Mountain
(Country: Norway, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Even Sigstad; Stars: Kristin Harila, Tenjen Sherpa)
Kristin Harila risked everything to summit the world’s 14 highest peaks at record speed. When her final ascent sparked backlash, her greatest triumph became a reckoning.
World premiere
SKYCLIMBER - Scaling the Eiffel Tower
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Nick Hardie)
A climber attempts to scale the Eiffel Tower in a documentary that is equal parts high-altitude adventure and intimate personal portrait.
World premiere
Time And Water
(Country: US, Iceland; Year: 2026; Director: Sara Dosa; Writer: Sara Dosa, Erin Casper, Jocelyne Chaput, Andri Snær Magnason)
Facing the death of his country’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time, and water.
UK premiere
