Films I might want to watch this week

Last updated: 29/10/2026 at 01:00

Possible Love (2026)

164 mins

7.796

Drama, Romance

Four strangers' paths cross by chance, leading to complex emotional entanglements that challenge their existing relationships and force them to confront uncomfortable truths about love and commitment.

THU 29 @ 17:10 FRI 30 @ 20:10

NAZA (2026)

80 mins+ 1 more screening

7.994

Documentary, War

Filmed at night from Tel Aviv rooftops, this investigative documentary examines the civilian casualties of Israel's military operations in Gaza and the systems behind targeted killings of Palestinians.

FRI 30 @ 16:15 MON 2 @ 20:30 WED 4 @ 20:15

Fatherland (2026)

82 mins+ 7 more screenings

7.390

Biography, Drama, History

At the height of the Cold War, Fatherland centers on the relationship between the writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika—actress, writer and rally driver—as they embark on a road trip in a black Buick cruiser across a Germany i...

THU 29 @ 17:45 FRI 30 @ 18:10 MON 2 @ 18:40

I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning (2026)

109 mins

6.677

Drama

Five childhood friends face adult struggles: Patrick and Shiv's relationship strains over a secret, Oli parties destructively, Conor awaits fatherhood with business dreams, and wealthy Rian can't escape his past despite moving away.

TUE 3 @ 20:30

Primetime (2026)

110 mins+ 12 more screenings

8.775

Action, Biography, Crime

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.

WED 4 @ 17:45 FRI 30 @ 18:15 MON 2 @ 18:05

Sense and Sensibility (2026)

132 mins

7.272

Drama, Romance

From Focus Features and Working Title comes an irresistible new take on Jane Austen's iconic Sense and Sensibility: a charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles.

SAT 31 @ 20:25

I Love Boosters (2026)

113 mins+ 1 more screening

6.671

Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price, what they call "fashion-forward philanthropy."

TUE 3 @ 17:45 FRI 30 @ 20:45 SAT 31 @ 20:45

Tenzing (2026)

125 mins

7.767

Adventure, Biography, Drama

The untold and inspiring tale of one of the most important mountain climbers in history who, with Edmund Hillary, became the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

THU 29 @ 17:40

Wild Horse Nine (2026)

118 mins

Comedy, Crime, Drama

CIA agents Chris and Lee face a trust-testing mission from Santiago to Easter Island during 1973 in Chile.

WED 4 @ 17:30

Digger (2020)

129 mins

7.464

Drama

A father and a son long lost. Love and hate. Digging deep into mud to find their roots. Revenge and Redemption. A Western, revisited.

WED 4 @ 20:25

Coco (2017)

109 mins

8.481

Animation, Adventure, Drama

Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.

SUN 1 @ 11:00

Nightcrawler (2014)

117 mins

7.876

Crime, Drama, Thriller

A petty thief desperate for work muscles into the world of crime journalism and becomes the star of his own story as he blurs the line between observer and participant.

SUN 1 @ 17:50

Pan's Labyrinth (2007)

120 mins

8.298

Drama, Fantasy, War

In 1944 Francoist Spain, an imaginative young girl meets a faun who tells her she's a princess and that she must prove her worthiness by completing three dangerous tasks.

WED 4 @ 17:30 MON 2 @ 20:35

Donnie Darko (2001)

113 mins

8.088

Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

WED 4 @ 16:00 MON 2 @ 20:45 SUN 1 @ 18:10

Shakedown (1988)

80 mins

6.0

Action, Crime, Drama

A legal aid attorney and renegade cop team up to stop a corrupt cop.

SUN 1 @ 15:55

The Shining (1980)

119 mins

8.468

Drama, Horror

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.

FRI 30 @ 18:05 SAT 31 @ 20:40

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

100 mins

7.465

Comedy, Horror, Musical

A rain-soaked couple take refuge in the castle of a transvestite mad scientist from outer space who is about to unveil his greatest creation.

TUE 3 @ 21:00

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Manhunter: The Final Cut

120 mins

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In retirement following a nervous breakdown, preternaturally gifted FBI profiler Will Graham is persuaded by his former boss Jack Crawford to hunt down a new serial killer terrorising the American South. Promising his wife Molly to stay out of harm’s way, he warily investigates the man the press have dubbed the Tooth Fairy – due to his signature bite marks.

Graham decides that Dr. Hannibal Lecktor , the high-IQ cannibal murderer and one-time psychiatrist who formerly attacked him, holds the key to solving the case. Visiting Lecktor in his high-security cell, Graham requests his insights.

But when the wardens discover a note from the Tooth Fairy in Lecktor’s affairs, it becomes clear that he is ensnaring his FBI counterpart in a deadly game.

Michael Mann's Manhunter, celebrating its this year, is an incredible example of virtuoso filmmaking in many different ways. Extensively researched with several crimefighting agencies including the FBI Behavioral Science Unit , Mann wrote the script over three years based on Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon, the predecessor to The Silence of the Lambs. Tom Noonan requested that none of his co-stars would be allowed to see him outside of shooting - this combined with his incredible physique attained through body-building in preparation from the role and sitting in the dark alone between takes led to the cast and crew being incredibly intimidated by his Tooth Fairy. The production even had to resort to guerilla filmmaking for the airplane scene, as Mann had failed to get permission to use a plane - instead, the cast and crew had to book tickets for a public flight and keep the rest of the passengers quiet during filming by giving them Manhunter crew jackets!

THU 29 @ 20:25

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The Tropic Sun and His Eyes + Short + Q&A

95 mins

Screening as part of the Jali Film Weekender 2026.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with The Tropic Sun and His Eyes writer, director and producer Elisee Junior St Preux, hosted by University of Glasgow James McCune Smith and scholar of Creative Writing Leilani Taneus-Miller.

UK Premiere

Ruben, a despondent 26-year-old, returns home to Haiti to reconnect with his estranged father before it's too late. The moment Ruben arrives on land, he is spiritually confronted by childhood memories of his father and struggles to control the anxiety it brings him.

As Ruben makes his way to his father’s house in the mountains on foot, he gets bombarded by a curious street kid, Young Boy, who insists on accompanying Ruben's quest to his father. Young Boy wants to connect with Ruben on a familial level, but Ruben’s trauma toward family prevents Ruben from being vulnerable to him. This contrast puts a strain on Ruben and Young Boy’s relationship, but the more they open up to each other, the more they learn about themselves.

As they interact with locals along the way and hear their stories of joy and pain, it becomes more apparent that they must love out loud and break generational trauma together.

The feature will be screened alongside short film:

Wheelie Boys

Three teenage friends, Garvey, Bas and Stag, experience their last summer together before they start at different high schools. Helping each other to ride their longest wheelie , they realise how important their friendship is to them.

THU 29 @ 18:00

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The Woman Who Poked The Leopard + Q&A

108 mins

Screening as part of the Jali Film Weekender 2026.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with one of producers of The Woman Who Poked The Leopard, pan-African queer feminist writer, activist, healer, life coach and award-winning documentary and feature film producer Rosie Motene, hosted by Jali Film Weekender co-director Carmen Thompson.

UK Premiere

Unapologetic and revolutionary — The Woman Who Poked The Leopard is an intimate portrait of Ugandan poet-academic Dr. Stella Nyanzi, who defies state repression with bold acts of resistance. Through performance and protest, Stella confronts dictatorship and patriarchy. She navigates threats, imprisonment, and exile to reclaim autonomy both for her nation and her own family.

Presented in partnership with Scottish Documentary Institute.

THU 29 @ 20:30

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Ken Russell's The Devils

114 mins+ 3 more screenings

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Also screening from 35mm film.

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Censored for over half a century, Ken Russell’s visionary masterpiece The Devils is back on the big screen in its definitive version. Fully restored in and cut to Ken Russell’s specific direction, Ken Russell’s The Devils is the first publicly released version of the film as intended by the filmmaker. Fifty-five years after its initial release, the definitive version of The Devils was unveiled at the 79th Cannes Film Festival as an official selection in Cannes Classics.

An enduring masterpiece of cinema starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, Ken Russell’s The Devils is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption, and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell. Inspired by the true story of 17th-century priest Urbain Grandier, accused of bewitching a convent of nuns, the film lays bare the collusion of church and state through a searing vision of religious persecution, collective hysteria and institutional corruption. In addition to powerhouse performances from Reed and Redgrave, Ken Russell’s The Devils showcases the stunning work of artists at the peak of their craft: Academy Award-winning cinematographer David Watkin ; editor Michael Bradsell ; and visual artist Derek Jarman , whose work as production designer marked his feature film debut.

Produced by Warner Bros. in 1971, the film received best director awards from two of the most prestigious institutions in the world: the 33rd Venice International Film Festival and the US National Board of Review. Its critical reception in the following decades has only become more impassioned, championed by artists and film historians including Guillermo del Toro and Mark Kermode.

MON 2 @ 18:15 TUE 3 @ 18:15 FRI 30 @ 20:40

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Spotlight Geração 80: My Semba + Discussion + Festival Party

93 mins

Screening as part of the Jali Film Weekender 2026.

This screening will be followed by a discussion with Geração 80 collective member and My Semba cinematographer Ery Claver, who will joined by musicians Sean Focus and Bemz, hosted by Matthew Hickman .

UK Premiere

X, an Albino baby manages to survive his contentious birth but loses his mother in the process. He comes of age, forming a bond with his fraternal brother and sister, Léle and Maria. As the working class in an African metropolis they face below minimum wage jobs and undignified working conditions.

Maria holds on to her faith and family values, Lélé fights fire with fire against the injustices of the metropolis and X, the poet, tries to make sense of it all, painting the city with words. When their father figure’s life is at risk, they each have to face their deepest fears to save him. With a nothing to lose attitude, X enters poetry battles where he finds new corners of his personality, and even the possibility of love.

My Semba film screening ticket includes access to the Festival Party. If you would like to attend only the Festival Party, tickets are available via Eventbrite.

The Spotlight: Geração 80 programme offers a rare opportunity to engage the collective’s distinctive contribution to contemporary African cinema through films that reflect their commitment to innovative storytelling, visual experimentation and authentic representations of Angolan life and culture. Look out for the additional screenings in this programme, Air Conditioner and Our Lady of the Chinese Shop.

Join Geração 80 for a special Jali Film Weekender masterclass on Thursday 29 October. Tickets sold separately.

Spotlight: Geração 80 is made possible through the support of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation UK Branch and their Gulbenkian Exhibitions Fund.

FRI 30 @ 18:00

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Variations on a Theme + Short + Introduction

79 mins

Screening as part of the Jali Film Weekender 2026.

This screening will have an extended introduction from film programmer Mosa Mpetha.

Scottish Premiere

An elderly goat herder in the mountains of Namaqualand, South Africa, falls victim to a scam promising long-overdue reparations for her father’s WWII service. As she waits for money that will never come, the disruptions of her 80th birthday threaten to strip away the last of her independence. Structured as a series of recurring visual ‘variations’, Variations on a Theme transforms repetition into revelation to frame a portrait of waiting, endurance, and loss.

The feature will be screened alongside short film:

Submergido

After his brother Amarildo disappears whilst fighting the war in Cabo Delgado, rumors spread that he may have switched sides to the insurgents. Sérgio returns home to deliver the tragic news to his family. As tension mounts in the household, he begins to sense that his ten-year-old nephew, Pércio, shares a mysterious connection with the missing man.

FRI 30 @ 16:00

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Strawberries + Short + Introduction + Reflection

114 mins

Screening as part of the Jali Film Weekender 2026.

This screening will have an introduction and conclusion from Take One Action's Events & Co-Production Coordinator Saoirse Amira Anis, as well as an optional space for collective reflection after the film in the Filmhouse Cafe Bar.

Scottish Premiere

Hasna and Meriem leave their native Morocco to work as seasonal laborers picking strawberries in Southern Spain. Hoping to return home and provide a better life for their families, their dreams clash with a harsh reality: abuse, harassment, and undignified working conditions at the hands of their employers.

The bond they share as a unified sisterhood, empowers them to rise above their situation, despite the risks that are needed to advocate for their rights. They must make the difficult decision to speak out against a powerful patriarchal system, risking everything for their own personal justice.

Presented in partnership with Take One Action.

The feature will be screened alongside short film:

Enjoy the Tropix and Have A Banana!

Snapshots of the life of an islander who is trapped in a hamster wheel where any desire must be instantly satisfied – perhaps in the hope of making up for all those days without? Welcome to “the Tropics”! Where the paradoxes of neo-colonial daily life are at work in a suffocating economic and health context.

SAT 31 @ 18:00

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Black Burns Fast Creative Workshop

105 mins

Part of the Jali Film Weekender 2026.

The screening of Black Burns Fast will be followed by a free zine workshop facilitated by Martha Adonai Williams. Please note that this workshop is inspired by the film, and is for Black Burns Fast ticket holders only.

Before group chats and DMs, there were folded notes. Passed across classrooms, slipped into pockets, scribbled in margins. Tiny paper vessels carrying crushes, secrets, questions, confessions...

A zine isn't so different. A single sheet of paper, folded into a story, a memory, a secret.

Taking the intimate gesture and materiality of 'the note' as our starting point, we'll use collage, writing and drawing to make new zines inspired by first love, hidden feelings, friendship, longing, and the people who helped us become ourselves. Whether you're reflecting on your own coming-of-age or coming out story, imagining one, or celebrating the friendships that have shaped you, you'll leave with a folded message to keep or pass on to a friend, a lover or maybe even a crush.

Martha Adonai Williams is a writer, facilitator and creative producer whose practice centres Black feminist world-making, collective care and the transformative possibilities of storytelling.

SUN 1 @ 13:15

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Black Burns Fast + Short + Introduction + Workshop

105 mins

Screening as part of the Jali Film Weekender 2026.

This screening will have an introduction from queer feminist writer, activist, healer, life coach and award-winning documentary and feature film producer Rosie Motene, and be followed by a free zine workshop facilitated by Martha Adonai Williams - tickets must be booked seperately through the link here.

Scottish Premiere

Seventeen-year-old Luthando, adorkable, bookish, and forever drifting between reality and her vivid inner world, returns for another year at a prestigious South African all-girls’ boarding school. Behind its manicured lawns and bright, busy corridors, the school hides a deceptively conservative culture where reputation is everything, and nonconformity is quietly disciplined. As the lone scholarship girl, Luthando has learned to keep her head down, her marks up, and her mother’s strict expectations close to heart.

Her world tilts when Ayanda, a bold and effortlessly magnetic new student, arrives. Their connection sparks into something that Luthando has only ever daydreamed about. As they begin a secret romance, Luthando is ushered into Ayanda’s orbit of confident, carefree friends, tasting freedom she’s never experienced within the school’s rigid walls.

Presented in partnership with Scottish Queer International Film Festival .

The feature will be screened alongside short film:

ChikaBOOM!

Chika Batstone is an aspiring young magician whose curiosity accidentally unleashes Kaboom, a chaotic magical creature, into the heart of New York City. With her world-famous magician father, The Amazin’ Arnie, performing nearby, Chika must contain the mayhem before it’s too late. Featuring the voice cast of Yara Shahidi, Daveed Diggs, Natasha Lyonne, Roy Wood Jr and Tika Sumpter.

SUN 1 @ 10:30

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Closing Film: House of the Wind + Short

118 mins

Screening as part of the Jali Film Weekender 2026.

Scottish Premiere

This year’s Weekender will close with Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu’s House of the Wind, which recently had its world premiere at Venice Film Festival and won the Orizzonti special jury prize and Luigi De Laurentiis award for debut film.

Josette lives alone in Yaoundé, Cameroon. All her children have left for the West. She encourages them to build houses in Cameroon, a ploy to bring them back to her. But the unexpected bond she forms with Sarah, a young woman from her neighborhood, shatters everything she has built her life on: her family, her responsibilities, and her hopes.

The feature will be screened alongside short film:

Rain in August

In a world where digital contact has replaced genuine human connection, a young Black woman struggling with her deteriorating mental health must confront the silence between her and her mother.

SUN 1 @ 20:30

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Magma + Short + Q&A

101 mins

Screening as part of the Jali Film Weekender 2026.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Magma director Mia Bendrimia, alongside producers Kira Simon-Kennedy and Imane Lamime.

Scottish Premiere

Spanning Algeria and France, Magma follows Mia as she sets out to understand how colonialism tore her family apart. The deeper she digs, the more contradictions she finds, with each revelation raising new questions rather than settling old ones. What begins as an investigation into family taboos opens out into something far more personal and complex, as buried histories collide with the life she's living now.

The feature will be screened alongside short film:

Sara & Fatima

Two women meet at a bus stop in Morocco, on an almost deserted highway. One is veiled, the other is not. They are smitten at first sight and judge each other. Time passes by, the bus doesn't arrive. They drop their masks to reveal their inner struggles and unite in the face of the aggression hanging over them.

SUN 1 @ 15:30

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Shorts: What Calls Us Has Travelled Far

85 mins

Screening as part of the Jali Film Weekender 2026.

Some pursuits take us across borders; others take us in search of histories, answers or a sense of purpose. Through documentary, narrative, animation and experimental film, these shorts explore the many forms devotion can take and the journeys it sets in motion.

From a mother seeking refuge and a safer future for her children and a family rooting a new generation in the wisdom of the land, to a boy faced with an impossible choice of the fate of his family's camel, these films follow people, young and grown, searching for a way forward while remaining connected to what came before.

Through explorations of the spiritual and ancestral, the search for sanctuary and our relationships with animals and the living world, they return to the simple but radical insistence that some things are worth tending, remembering, protecting and holding onto. Looking both backwards and ahead, they ask what guides us, what we carry forward and what might be revealed when we keep going.

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Hope Is Lost

Ten days before the millennium, Hope, a single mother, arrives in London with her two infants, clutching only the clothes on their backs. Escaping a haunted past, she seeks refuge in a city gripped by Y2K paranoia. A charismatic stranger offers sanctuary, but as Hope navigates an uncertain future in unfamiliar streets, she uncovers his chilling motives.

An Afternoon with a Gnawa

The Gnawa inhabit ordinary and non-ordinary worlds, their music and song creating passageways between the two. This experimental non-fiction short offers a brief entry point into these worlds through an encounter with Mustafa, a Gnawa musician who lives in Rabat.

The Travails of Ajadi

After surviving a violent storm at sea, a frustrated fisherman confronts a divine voice to demand answers for his life of hardship, only to discover that his suffering was a divine preparation for his true purpose.

FarEye

Fleeing the chaos of home, a young Jamaican boy finds refuge within a community guided by music, spirit and faith, awakening something deep within that will change the course of his life forever.

Khufu

After the family’s breadwinning camel, Khufu, collapses before the pyramids, young Sayed is torn between selling his only source of income for meat or abandoning him by the “wall of carcasses”. However, a mysterious dawn intervention by his mother leads them into an unexpected burial ritual.

The Boys and the Bees

A year in the life of a Black family on a small farm in rural Georgia. Through a patient, vérité lens, the film moves at the pace of two young boys as they wander fields, tend hives and grow in their relationship with the land around them. Their parents, Eliza and Nehemiah Ray, set out to reimagine Black family life, rooting it in the wisdom of the natural world.

SUN 1 @ 18:00

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Spotlight Geração 80: Our Lady of the Chinese Shop + Q&A

98 mins

Screening as part of the Jali Film Weekender 2026.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Geração 80 collective member and Our Lady of the Chinese Shop writer/director Ery Claver, hosted by Jali Film Weekender co-director Isabel Moura Mendes.

When a Chinese merchant brings to a neighbourhood of Luanda a peculiar holy plastic figure of Our Lady, a mourning mother will seek peace, a committed barber starts a new cult, and a stray child will look for revenge for his lost friend.

This bizarre urban tale will reveal a family and city facade full of resentment, greed and torment.

The Spotlight: Geração 80 programme offers a rare opportunity to engage the collective’s distinctive contribution to contemporary African cinema through films that reflect their commitment to innovative storytelling, visual experimentation and authentic representations of Angolan life and culture. Lookout for the additional screenings in this programme, My Semba and Air Conditioner.

Join Geração 80 for a special Jali Film Weekender masterclass on Thursday 29 October. Tickets sold separately.

Spotlight: Geração 80 is made possible through the support of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation UK Branch and their Gulbenkian Exhibitions Fund.

SUN 1 @ 13:00

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Quadrophenia + badge making drop-in workshop

120 mins

Stay with us after the screening to make badges in response to the film. The workshops are drop-in, free to attend, and aimed at young people but everyone is welcome to attend.

Book tickets for two or more of our Rip It Up: Find Your Own Way films in the same transaction to receive a discount!

In 1964 London, Jimmy and his pals are Mods, dividing their time between dancing and brawling with Rockers. Adapted from a double album written by Pete Townshend and performed by The Who , Quadrophenia is one of the best films about youth ever made, beautifully illustrating the frustrations of being young and bright but still having no future.

Showing as part of our Rip It Up: Find Your Own Way season of films celebrating youth culture and coming of age in the UK, programmed by young people across Edinburgh. Supported by funding from the BFI delivered through Film Hub Scotland.

MON 2 @ 18:00

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Dogtooth + discussion

97 mins

Screening as part of Film & Philosophy.

This screening will have a short introduction and be followed by an open discussion on Language, Conditioning, and the Construction of the Self led by James Mooney .

Confined within an isolated suburban compound, three adult siblings have spent their entire lives cut off from the outside world by authoritarian parents who systematically engineer their reality. Yorgos Lanthimos’s deadpan masterpiece dramatises Ludwig Wittgenstein’s proposition that "the limits of my language mean the limits of my world". Through a chilling exploration of institutional power and control, the film exposes how profoundly our moral horizons and desires are constructed by our environment, challenging us to consider how much of our own "autonomous" subjectivity is simply the deterministic output of our milieux.

TUE 3 @ 18:10