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Paper Tiger and Fjord
Behemoth!
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Tony Gilroy; Writer: Tony Gilroy; Stars: Pedro Pascal, Olivia Wilde, Eva Victor, Will Arnett, Hank Azaria, Alexa Swinton, Kaya Ralls, Erik Griffin, JoBeth Williams, Margarita Levieva, Matthew Lillard, Adam Rose, Vincent Oppido, Eden Epstein, Miles Anderson)
BFI patrons gala
Portrait of a gifted cellist's complex life.
Being Heumann
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Siân Heder; Writer: Siân Heder, Rebekah Taussig; Stars: Ruth Madeley, Madeline Delp, Mark Ruffalo, Dylan O'Brien, Rob Delaney, Daniel Durant, Roberta Colindrez, Antwan Tolliver, Jon Beavers, Ray Fisher, Andrew Pilkington, Michael Patrick Thornton, Russell Harvard, Charlie Rush-Reese, Rio Finnegan, D'Arcee Charrington Neal, Will Brill, Matthew August Jeffers, Sienna Rafter, Rein Barcel)
The story of activist Judy Heumann, 'Mother of the Disability Rights Movement'.
The Beloved
(El ser querido)
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2026; Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen; Writer: Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Isabel Peña; Stars: Javier Bardem, Victoria Luengo, Raúl Arévalo, Marina Foïs, Mourad Ouani, Raúl Prieto, Melina Matthews, Núria Prims, Pablo Gómez-Pando, Malena Villa, Laura Birn, Chos, Pepa Gracia, Raquel Ferri, Conchi Albiñana Espejo)
A director and his estranged daughter, a struggling actress, make a movie together, forcing them to confront their troubled past
La Bola Negra
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2026; Director: Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo; Writer: Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo; Stars: Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes, Lola Dueñas, Penélope Cruz, Glenn Close, Lorenzo Zurzolo)
Drama exploring the inter-connected lives of three gay men.
Bunker
(Country: France, Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Florian Zeller; Writer: Florian Zeller; Stars: Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Paul Dano, Stephen Graham, Eileen Atkins, Mark Gatiss, Nimmi Harasgama, Jamie Bisping, Christos Lawton, Karen Ascoe, Shelley Williams, Abe Jarman, Greta Bellamacina)
When an architect accepts a morally ambiguous project - building a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire - his wife begins to question their marriage after 17 years together.
Minotaur and Elsinore
Club Kid
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Jordan Firstman; Writer: Jordan Firstman; Stars: Jordan Firstman, Cara Delevingne, Diego Calva, Reggie Absolom, Eldar Isgandarov)
A washed-up party promoter is forced to take in the young son he didn't know he had.
The Debut
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Jesse Eisenberg; Writer: Jesse Eisenberg; Stars: Julianne Moore, Paul Giamatti, Halle Bailey, Havana Rose Liu, Jesse Eisenberg, Cara Buono, Bernadette Peters, Lilli Cooper, Colton Ryan, Maulik Pancholy, Eldar Isgandarov, Bonnie Milligan, Patrick Fabian, Danny McCarthy)
Closing night gala
A shy housewife is unexpectedly cast in a local am-dram original musical. Under the spell of the strong-willed and enigmatic director, she loses herself in the role.
Elsinore
(Country: Italy, UK, US; Year: 2026; Director: Simon Stone; Writer: Stephen Beresford; Stars: Andrew Scott, Olivia Colman, Billie Piper, Johnny Flynn, Luke Thompson, Peter Mullan, Monica Dolan, Juliet Stevenson, Joe Locke, Adeel Akhtar, Matthew Beard, David Dawson, Kadiff Kirwan, Dickie Beau, John Hollingworth)
Opening night gala
Account of Ian Charleson’s life, capturing the moment when he faced his own mortality as he prepared to play Hamlet at the Royal National Theatre.
Fatherland
(Country: Italy, Poland, France, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Pawel Pawlikowski; Writer: Pawel Pawlikowski; Stars: Sandra Hüller, August Diehl, Anna Madeley)
Drama focusing on Thomas Mann's post-war life, his family's stand against Nazi rule and their journey into exile.
Fjord
(Country: Romania, France, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden; Year: 2026; Director: Cristian Mungiu; Writer: Cristian Mungiu; Stars: Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Giulia Nahmany, Ingvild Lien, Turid Vatne, Alin Panc, Emilie Hetland, Sofie Vartdal)
Mihai and Lisbet Gheorghiu, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, move from Romania to Norway with their children to be closer to Lisbet’s family. But tension mounts when one of the children arrives at school with bruises.
Ink
(Country: 2026; Year: 2026; Director: Danny Boyle; Writer: James Graham; Stars: Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce, Claire Foy)
The Mayor of London's gala
Drama charting Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of The Sun newspaper and its relaunch along with editor Larry Lamb in 1969
I Love Boosters
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Boots Riley; Writer: Boots Riley; Stars: Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza González, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Demi Moore)
A crew of professional shoplifters takes aim at a cutthroat fashion maven.
Klara And The Sun
(Country: New Zealand, UK, US; Year: 2026; Director: Taika Waititi; Writer: Dahvi Waller, Taika Waititi, based on the book by Kazuo Ishiguro; Stars: Jenna Ortega, Mia Tharia, Amy Adams, Natasha Lyonne, Aran Murphy, Rachel House, Steve Buscemi, Davida McKenzie, Harry Greenwood, Anastasiia Aksiuta)
An Artificial Friend is desperate to find a loving home.
A Long Winter
(Country: UK, Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Andrew Haigh; Writer: Andrew Haigh; Stars: Fred Hechinger, Caitríona Balfe, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Kit Connor, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, David Furr, Susan Serrao, Anthony Timpano, Geoff Gustafson, Camille Sullivan, Martin Freeman)
Returning to his childhood home deep in the mountains, Mike is drawn back into the quiet rituals of family life as the clan prepares for the winter ahead.
Minotaur
(Country: France, Germany, Latvia; Year: 2026; Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev; Writer: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Simon Lyashenko; Stars: Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva, Varvara Shmykova)
A high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence begins to unravel.
Paper Tiger
(Country: US, Italy, Brazil; Year: 2026; Director: James Gray; Writer: James Gray; Stars: Adam Driver, Miles Teller, Scarlett Johansson, Joel Marsh Garland, Raphael Corkhill, Meredith Holzman, Cindy Katz, Patrick Murney, Jeff Adler, Rosslyn Luke, Dimiter D Marinov, Yelena Solovey, Yavor Vesselinov)
Two brothers pursue the American Dream but get entangled in a dangerous Russian mafia scheme.
Possible Love
(Ga-neung-han sa-rang)
(Country: South Korea, US; Year: 2026; Director: Lee Chang-dong; Writer: Lee Chang-dong, Oh Jung-mi; Stars: Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Zo In-sung, Cho Yeo-jeong, Jo Yu-ri)
A story of two married couples - a laid-off worker and his spouse, and a documentary filmmaker and her spouse - crossing paths to film a documentary and facing their different lives and hidden desires.
Prima Facie
(Country: Australia, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Susanna White; Writer: Suzie Miller; Stars: Cynthia Erivo, Daniel Ings, Noma Dumezweni, Toheeb Jimoh, Elizabeth Dulau, Harry Treadaway, Khalid Abdalla, Elliot Levey, Simon Russell-Beale, Sarah Junillon)
An ambitious barrister who primarily defends those accused of sex crimes unexpectedly becomes the accuser in a sexual assault case.
Ray Gunn
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Brad Bird; Writer: Brad Bird, Matthew Robbins; Stars: Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Waits, Kathryn Hunter, John Ratzenberger, Jamie Costa, Patton Oswalt)
In a futuristic world where humans and aliens co-exist, a private eye drawn into a murder investigation.
Tender Loving Care
(Country: UK, US, Singapore; Year: 2026; Director: Mike Leigh; Writer: Mike Leigh; Stars: Kate O'Flynn, Alice Bailey Johnson, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson)
In contemporary London, social workers Amy and Rosie navigate the stressors and joys of life together, be that work, family or messy dating lives.
Wildwood
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Travis Knight; Writer: Chris Butler; Stars: Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Carey Mulligan, Arthur Knight, Mahershala Ali, Awkwafina, Angela Bassett, Jake Johnson, Charlie Day, Amandla Stenberg, Jemaine Clement, Maya Erskine, Tantoo Cardinal, Tom Waits, Richard E. Grant)
When her baby brother is kidnapped by a large flock of crows, Prue hotfoots it to a local forest where a wondrous world of mystery and peril awaits.
Wild Horse Nine
(Country: UK, US, Chile; Year: 2026; Director: Martin McDonagh; Writer: Martin McDonagh; Stars: John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Parker Posey, Tom Waits, Mariana di Girolamo, Paola Giannini, Ailín Salas, Samuel Wayt)
Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Bassam Tariq; Writer: Bassam Tariq; Stars: Mahershala Ali, John Cho, Giancarlo Esposito, Abubakr Ali, Tramell Tillman, Tiffany Boone, Laith Nakli, Adia, Jahleel Kamara, Shakirah DeMesier, James Dormuth, Shawn Jain, Derrick Goodman Jr., Irene Santiago, Ali Alsaleh)
An assassin and father of three, Latif’s life is turned upside down when his wife dies. He struggles to balance his two very different worlds, but when a hit goes south and as forces close in around him, he sets off on a desperate journey to protect his children.
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