Beset with personal and professional problems, George Bailey (James Stewart) finds his previously happy life falling apart around him on Christmas Eve. Seeing no way out, George considers suicide from the edge of a bridge - but Clarence, his guardian angel, intervenes and shows George what his beloved hometown of Bedford Falls would be like without him. Shocked by what he sees and at the unfore...

Paddington in Peru brings Paddington's story to Peru as he returns to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.

OPENING NIGHT | SNEAK PREVIEW This illuminating documentary offers a new perspective on the remarkable partnership of Oscar-winning director James Ivory and Indian producer Ismail Merchant. Footage from more than fifty interviews, clips and archival material gives voice to the family of actors and technicians who, together with screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and composer Richard Robbins, tra...

EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW The Contestant charts the startling birth of reality television in Japan. With echoes of The Truman Show , aspiring comedian Tomoaki Hamatsu, nicknamed Nasubi, wins an audition resulting in him living alone in a room where his every move is filmed. He has no idea that 15 million people are watching his life unfold. The film has recently received a BIFA (British Independent ...

EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW Ashley Gething’s film commemorates the 20th anniversary of one of the greatest natural disasters in history - the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Told through the stories of seven individuals in Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka, the film documents the events of that terrible day and follows the fortunes of these survivors. Charting the pain and loss they suffered, we also see the re...

UK PREMIERE Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris (The Fog of War and The Thin Blue Line) incisively probes Trump's covert policy of separating migrant children, including babies, from their families at the US-Mexican border. Merging narrative vignettes of one migrant family’s plight with hard-hitting interviews with government officials, Morris paints a jaw-dropping picture of the stat...

SATURDAY NIGHT CENTREPIECE | WORLD PREMIERE Author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , polymath Douglas Adams was a pioneer of science fiction, comedy, technology and environmental activism. Campaigning for endangered species and climate change, he was ahead of his time. Featuring interviews with family and friends including John Lloyd, Stephen Fry, Griff Rhys-Jones, Mary Allen and Jon Ca...

Eight decades after Auschwitz, this film records the extraordinary meeting between Hans Jurgen Höss, the son of the camp Commandant, and Jewish prisoner Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived because she was a cellist for the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. By delving into several generations of each family, the documentary reveals the long shadows that Auschwitz still casts over so many lives. P...

How can we measure happiness? The country of Bhutan invented Gross National Happiness to do just that, and Amber is one of the agents who travels door to door to meet people and measure how happy they really are. He is still living with his elderly mother at the age of 40, but is nevertheless a hopeless romantic who dreams of finding love: a happiness agent who is in search of his own happiness. ...

When the United States withdrew from its twenty-year 'forever war' in Afghanistan, the Taliban retook control of the ravaged country and immediately found an American base loaded with over $7 billion of weaponry. Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash’at spent a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache America left behind—and transform from a f...