Through organised 'mass trespass' events, the Right to Roam movement sets out to increase public access to nature, but finds itself in conflict with England's landowners.

Shaheen Baig is back in Brum to shed light on the invisible magic of casting. Award-winning casting director Shaheen Baig was most recently in Birmingham for the premiere of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. Having grown up in Erdington, it was a bit of a full-circle moment. For Flatpack, Baig will share insights into her journey, from starting out as a video trainee at community organisation Wi...

A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor?

Greta Gerwig’s acclaimed adaptation of Little Women follows the March sisters—Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth—as they navigate the joys and challenges of growing up in 19th-century New England. Moving between their childhood and adult lives, the film explores themes of ambition, creativity, love, and independence as each sister searches for her own path in a world full of expectations. With warmth, humour ...

Time is a funny thing. One minute you’re toddling around, and the next you’re working in a bank (see Paper Trail). Or becoming a satellite dish (We Were Here). Or finally getting round to watching The Sopranos and realising how much it mirrors your own history (Long Live Livia). Whether it's the changing nature of storytelling over eons (Storytelling), or one person’s transformation across a lifet...

A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.

Eschewing traditional documentary tropes, director Lana Daher has meticulously assembled a love letter to Beirut composed entirely of 70 years of archival footage - from long-lost home movies and TV broadcasts to the work of pioneering Lebanese filmmakers. In a country without a formal national archive, this film is a vital act of collective memory-retrieval. It’s a rhythmic, evocative journey tha...

Following the opening of A Cage In Search of a Nightingale, we present the UK theatrical premiere of three restored Parajanov shorts. Made in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine, this triptych features two creative documentaries on regional painters – the Raphael of Tiflis, Hakob Hovnatanyan, and the Georgian naif painter Niko Pirosmani – alongside a collage of screen tests from Parajanov’s unfinished f...

A visceral adaptation of Gary Owen’s acclaimed play Iphigenia in Splott, this Welsh-language powerhouse transports the story to the rugged landscape of Blaenau Ffestiniog - a town where the jobs have vanished and the clouds hang low. At the heart of the film is a magnetic, career-defining performance by Leisa Gwenllian as Effi. Initially a loud-mouthed party girl fueling a cycle of hangovers with ...

Meet Kenneth (Peter Mullan), a grieving widower and local historian who spends his days dressed in breeches, guiding tourists through the legacy of his dubious 18th-century ancestor. When a high-budget, Game of Thrones-style fantasy epic, The White Stag of Emberfell, rolls into town, suddenly, his beloved museum is gutted for "fan experiences". Kenneth is forced to swap his historical dignity for ...