When wannabe rapper Jerem becomes the new product tester for a smart fridge called Yves, he soon begins to form a relationship with the appliance. In this eccentric comedy, Yves soon becomes Jerem’s best friend, providing everything from lifestyle choices to dating advice.

Followed by a Q&A with director Benoit Forgeard.

Divided into nine overlapping musical chapters echoing the nine Greek mythological muses and mixing a vast array of archival material, The Nine Muses offers a modern recasting of Homer’s epic The Odyssey as a tone poem about journeys, migration, time and space, memory, the power of elegy and our relation to the environment.

Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is a secret agent from the ‘Outlands’ whose aim is to destroy Alpha 60, a machine which controls all the city of Alphaville and its inhabitants through electronic and luminous signals. Despite the ban on human emotions, there is hope: love comes to Lemmy Caution though the poetry of Paul Eluard and Anna Karina’s character, Natasha Von Braun.

Melding celestial and earthly quests, mutli-awarded documentary Nostalgia for the Light is a gorgeous, moving, and deeply personal odyssey into astronomy, archaeology, geology and human rights.

Eerie, poetic and masterful, 2010 Palme d’or-winning film Uncle Boonmee creates an enchanted world where fauna and flora converge to convey a magical, sublime atmosphere. Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in a remote forest, an important place from his childhood and, he believes, the possible location of his former existences…

Shot in Grand Teton National Park, this immersive essay film draws together the distinct sensibilities of filmmakers Emma Davie (I Am Breathing), Peter Mettler and environmental philosopher David Abram to encounter the spaces where humans and animals meet. A subversive nature film in which we pique our senses to witness the so-called natural world—which in turn witnesses us, tracing how we sense the ‘more than human’ world and exploring how it also senses us.

Melding celestial and earthly quests, mutli-awarded documentary Nostalgia for the Light is a gorgeous, moving, and deeply personal odyssey into astronomy, archaeology, geology and human rights.

Eerie, poetic and masterful, 2010 Palme d’or-winning film Uncle Boonmee creates an enchanted world where fauna and flora converge to convey a magical, sublime atmosphere. Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in a remote forest, an important place from his childhood and, he believes, the possible location of his former existences…

Global warming, deforestation, floods and dwindling resources are addressed with an extraordinary breadth of archives in this documentary by Jean-Robert Viallet – based on The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz – that goes back to the beginning of the environmental crisis.

Followed by a Q&A with historian and writer Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (EHESS) and David Edgerton, Professor of the History of Science and Technology (King’s College London).

In partnership with Arte in English

Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is a secret agent from the ‘Outlands’ whose aim is to destroy Alpha 60, a machine which controls all the city of Alphaville and its inhabitants through electronic and luminous signals. Despite the ban on human emotions, there is hope: love comes to Lemmy Caution though the poetry of Paul Eluard and Anna Karina’s character, Natasha Von Braun.

Single mother Alice (Emily Beecham) is a dedicated senior scientist who has just developed a special species of flower that can make people happy. When she takes a flower home to her son, she realises that it may not be as harmless as she initially thought. A chilling drama about the genetic manipulation of plants, ambiguously perched between sci-fi, paranoia and realism that won Emily Beecham the Best Actress Prize in Cannes in 2019.

Followed by a Q&A with screenwriter Géraldine Bajard.