Modern Films

From the director of the Oscar® and BAFTA-winning Drive My Car, this new film by Ryusuke Hamaguchi won the Silver Lion–Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival and Best Film and Best Music at the 2024 Asian Film Awards. It is deeply affecting.  Evil Does […]

Academy Award and BAFTA nominee actor Viggo Mortensen explores the fractures and contrasts that make up a modern family in his directorial debut, Falling, an intimate drama about a son’s relationship with his ageing father.  John Petersen (Mortensen) lives with his partner Eric (Chan) and their adopted daughter Monica in Southern California. His father […]

WINNER: Special Jury Prize, Venice Film Festival | Best Film, Polish Film Academy Awards In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian […]

Bi-racial, female, working class and possessing an unforgettable warrior-cry voice (not to mention the most satirical perspective in punk), X-Ray Spex founder Poly Styrene was, as Billboard proclaimed, “one of the least conventional front-persons in rock history”.  For the first time, the jigsaw pieces of Poly’s fascinating life are brought together by her daughter […]

Sisters with Transistors is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.  The film maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of […]

Filmmaker Sara Driver’s exploration of the pre-fame years of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, offers a window into his life and the City of New York, 1978-81, illustrating how the city, the times and the people around him informed the artist he became and shaped his vision.  A fresh perspective on the movements that touched […]

Following her compelling documentary The Wolfpack, Crystal Moselle makes her feature debut with this authentic account of an all-girl skateboarding gang in New York. Kicking against stereotypes, the group prove they can hold their own against any skateboarders, but they soon find loyalty to be the greatest challenge.