Spring 2026
Neon, noodles and quiet grief.
From a graphic-novel noir to a deadpan Helsinki romance — eight films, cult favourites and contemporary standouts alike.
January
21 Jan
Sin City
A hyper-stylised neo-noir that turned a graphic novel into a new kind of cinema.
February
04 Feb
Totem
A quietly devastating family portrait seen through a child's eyes.
18 Feb
Fallen Leaves
Deadpan Helsinki romance where two lonely workers try to find each other.
March
04 Mar
Memoir of a Snail
Animated tale of hoarding, heartbreak and finding your people.
18 Mar
The Hunt
Mads Mikkelsen destroyed by a false accusation. Nerve-shredding mob mentality.
April
08 Apr
Graduation
A father's moral compromise spirals in this slow-burn thriller.
22 Apr
Kneecap
Belfast hip-hop trio play themselves in a wild, politically charged film about language and identity.
29 Apr
Tampopo
A “ramen western” that playfully mixes food, desire and genre conventions.
Autumn 2025
Dreams, ruins and light.
From Satoshi Kon's dream worlds to a forgotten cinema in Guinea — eight films that searched for something hidden.
September
03 Sep
Paprika
A device that lets therapists enter dreams is stolen. Reality and fantasy collapse in Kon's wildly inventive animated thriller.
16 Sep
On Body and Soul
Two introverts at a slaughterhouse discover they share the same dream each night. A tender, strange love story.
October
01 Oct
The Lunchbox
A mistaken lunch delivery sparks an unlikely correspondence across Mumbai.
15 Oct
Phoenix
A Holocaust survivor, face reconstructed, returns to find her husband. A devastating identity thriller.
29 Oct
The Lighthouse
Two lighthouse keepers descend into madness on a remote island. Claustrophobic, mythic, unhinged.
November
11 Nov
The Cemetery of the Cinema
A love letter to cinema in West Africa, tracing the rise and fall of movie houses in Conakry.
26 Nov
Maria Full of Grace
A teenage flower worker becomes a drug mule. Raw, unsentimental, impossible to look away from.
December
10 Dec
La Grande Vadrouille
France's most beloved comedy: two bumbling civilians help downed RAF pilots escape across occupied Paris.
Spring 2025
Revenge, robots and ramen noodles.
From dystopian Detroit to the Patagonian steppe — eight films that crossed every border.
January
08 Jan
Robocop
A murdered cop is resurrected as a cyborg enforcer. Verhoeven's razor-sharp satire of corporate America wrapped in sci-fi action.
22 Jan
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
A deaf factory worker's desperate plan to save his sister spirals into a chain of retribution. The first chapter of Park's vengeance trilogy.
February
05 Feb
My Life as a Courgette
A lonely boy finds friendship at a foster home. Stop-motion tenderness in sixty-six exquisite minutes.
19 Feb
Short Film
A curated selection of short film favourites from the Grimstad festival — bold voices in compact form.
March
05 Mar
Mustang
Five sisters in rural Turkey are gradually locked away by their conservative family. A fierce, luminous debut about freedom.
19 Mar
Historias Mínimas
Three strangers travel across Patagonia on small, personal quests. Gentle, wry and deeply moving.
April
02 Apr
M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
Berlin's underworld hunts a child killer before the police do. Lang's masterpiece — the thriller that invented the genre.
23 Apr
Cesária Évora
An intimate portrait of Cape Verde's barefoot diva — her voice, her island, and the saudade that carried her around the world.
Autumn 2024
Where it all began.
Our inaugural season — from Pulp Fiction to Crouching Tiger, eight screenings that launched a film club.
September
04 Sep
Pulp Fiction
Hitmen, a boxer, and a pair of bandits collide across Los Angeles in Tarantino's genre-scrambling Palme d'Or winner.
18 Sep
The Handmaiden
A pickpocket is hired to seduce a Japanese heiress. An exquisite con game of shifting loyalties and desire.
October
02 Oct
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
A Spanish expedition drifts down the Amazon in search of El Dorado. Kinski rages; the jungle swallows everything.
16 Oct
Mata
Two communities on opposite sides of the Atlantic share a bond through the forest. A meditative documentary on ecology and memory.
30 Oct
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Teenagers are stalked in their dreams by a burned killer with razored fingers. The slasher that blurred the line between sleep and death.
November
11 Nov
The Punk Syndrome
Four men with learning disabilities form a punk band. Raw, funny and completely on their own terms.
25 Nov
My Favorite War
Growing up in Soviet Latvia, a girl navigates propaganda and personal courage. An animated memoir of quiet resistance.
December
09 Dec
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Warriors and lovers collide in Qing-dynasty China. Ang Lee turned wuxia into breathtaking poetry.
Spring 2024
From Tokyo to Timbuktu.
Shoplifting families, weeping camels and a yak in a classroom — our second season roamed the globe.
January
10 Jan
Shoplifters
A makeshift family survives on petty theft and boundless warmth. Koreeda's Palme d'Or winner redefines what family means.
24 Jan
Young Frankenstein
A descendant of the infamous doctor inherits the family castle — and the itch to create. Brooks' finest hour in glorious black and white.
February
07 Feb
Compartment Number 6
A Finnish student and a rough Russian miner share a train compartment to Murmansk. An unlikely connection unfolds mile by mile.
21 Feb
The Story of the Weeping Camel
A Mongolian nomad family coaxes a mother camel to accept her rejected calf — through music. A documentary of breathtaking gentleness.
March
06 Mar
Sami Blood
A Sámi teenager in 1930s Sweden renounces her heritage to escape racial biology. A wrenching story of identity and survival.
18 Mar
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
A reluctant teacher is posted to the world's most remote school. The children — and a yak — change everything.
April
03 Apr
Guled & Nasra
A couple in Djibouti face an impossible choice when the wife falls ill. A quiet debut about love, poverty and dignity.
17 Apr
Fantastic Planet
Tiny humans are kept as pets by giant blue aliens. A surreal, psychedelic animated fable about oppression and revolt.