Duke of York's / Fri 06 Nov / 6:00pm

I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING

OPENING NIGHT FILM The latest film by acclaimed director Clio Barnard is a bittersweet drama about a group of friends in Birmingham. Oli, Patrick, Shiv,... read more

Duke of York's / Sun 15 Nov / 9:00pm

ELSINORE

CLOSING NIGHT FILM Andrew Scott takes centre stage in a moving biopic depicting the tumultuous final months of a renowned British actor’s life. Best known... read more

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Showing in Previews – Drama

From Cannes to London, we scour film festivals across the world to bring you advance previews of the very best dramas coming up over the next year.

Fri 06 Nov / 6pm

Duke of York's

15

I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING

OPENING NIGHT FILM The latest film by acclaimed director Clio Barnard is a bittersweet drama about a group of friends in Birmingham. Oli, Patrick, Shiv,... Read more

Sat 07 Nov / 5pm

Duke of York's

12A

The Debut

Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial follow-up to the award-winning A Real Pain is a gloriously funny and off the wall comedy featuring a tour de force performance... Read more

Sun 08 Nov / 11am

Duke of York's

12A

ALL OF A SUDDEN

Award-winning Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi makes his French-language debut with a compassionate study of ageing, mortality and friendship. Marie-Lou, the director of a French nursing... Read more

Sun 08 Nov / 3pm

Dukes at Komedia

VIOLETTE

Based on the international bestselling novel Fresh Water for Flowers, Violette is the latest feature from the visionary director of Amélie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet.  Violette Toussaint... Read more

Sun 08 Nov / 5:45pm

Duke of York's

ROSE

An engrossing drama unfolds when a mysterious female soldier disguised as a man arrives at a village in 17th-century Germany. The soldier claims the inheritance... Read more

Mon 09 Nov / 5:45pm

Depot

18

JOSEPHINE

How do you support a young child struggling to cope with the aftermath of a deeply traumatic incident? That’s the question at the heart of... Read more

Mon 09 Nov / 8pm

Duke of York's

15

BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY (Q&A)

Set in a New Zealand town during the summer of 2006, this queer coming-of-age drama vividly captures what it’s like to be a teenager trying... Read more

Tue 10 Nov / 6pm

Duke of York's

PAPER TIGER

Adam Driver, Miles Teller and Scarlett Johansson deliver impressive performances in a 1980s New York-set thriller that reveals the repercussions when two brothers strike a... Read more

Tue 10 Nov / 8:30pm

Dukes at Komedia

15

COWARD

A young man’s experience of the First World War is transformed in unexpected ways when he joins a cabaret troupe run by a charismatic director. ... Read more

Wed 11 Nov / 6pm

Dukes at Komedia

BEN’IMANA

A Rwandan community faces the aftermath of genocide and takes faltering steps towards reconciliation in this award-winning debut film. Eighteen years after the horrific conflict... Read more

Wed 11 Nov / 6:30pm

Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts

15

I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING

OPENING NIGHT FILM The latest film by acclaimed director Clio Barnard is a bittersweet drama about a group of friends in Birmingham. Oli, Patrick, Shiv,... Read more

Wed 11 Nov / 8:15pm

Duke of York's

15

MINOTAUR

Russia 2022 – in the immediate outbreak of the invasion of Ukraine – is the setting for this hard-hitting political thriller. The moral beliefs of... Read more

Thu 12 Nov / 5:50pm

Depot

THE EDUCATION OF JANE CUMMING

The lives of two female teachers in 19th century Edinburgh are ripped apart by a malicious accusation in this intense drama. Marianne Wood and Jane... Read more

Thu 12 Nov / 6pm

Duke of York's

INK

Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle returns to the screen with a propulsive rollercoaster of a drama about the launch of The Sun newspaper. When Rupert Murdoch... Read more

Thu 12 Nov / 8:30pm

Dukes at Komedia

15

MOUSE

An empathetic coming-of age-story steeped in the pre-social media innocence of the early 2000s. Best friends Minnie and Callie have just finished their senior year... Read more

Fri 13 Nov / 6:15pm

Duke of York's

TENDER LOVING CARE

Mike Leigh’s latest film – widely rumoured to be the last that he will direct – is a rich and compelling portrait of friendship, family... Read more

Fri 13 Nov / 8:15pm

Depot

CLARISSA

A sumptuous re-working of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway moves the setting from 1920s London to contemporary Lagos during one lush summer’s day. Clarissa has planned... Read more

Sat 14 Nov / 2pm

Dukes at Komedia

Sheep in the Box

In a not-too-distant future, a grieving couple welcome a humanoid robot version of their deceased seven-year-old son, Kakeru, into their home to help process their... Read more

Sat 14 Nov / 8pm

Duke of York's

CLUB KID

In his electrifying and exuberant debut feature, writer-director Jordan Firstman stars as Peter Green, a jaded New York club promoter who finds his lifestyle upended... Read more

Sun 15 Nov / 5:30pm

Duke of York's

A LONG WINTER (Q&A)

Director Andrew Haigh (All Of Us Strangers, 45 Years, Weekend) returns to the screen with an atmospheric story set among the snowy mountains of Colorado. ... Read more

Sun 15 Nov / 9pm

Duke of York's

ELSINORE

CLOSING NIGHT FILM Andrew Scott takes centre stage in a moving biopic depicting the tumultuous final months of a renowned British actor’s life. Best known... Read more