In a dystopian future, ex-con Jensen Ames is coerced into a deadly competition—the ultimate prison car race. As brutal rivals clash on the asphalt, survival turns into a high-octane spectacle of betrayal and bloodshed, where only the ruthless prevail.

With a colourful introduction from Lee Bentham of What the Film Club, this screening is a nod to the boundary pushing multi-genre form of car chases within action and science fiction.

In Rob Cohen’s The Fast and the Furious, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), a Los Angeles street racer, attracts the suspicion of the LAPD as the driver for a string of high-speed hijackings. Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker), an LAPD officer, infiltrates Toretto's racing crew to bring it down. But finds himself enamoured with the street racing world and in love with Toretto's sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster). As the investigation moves on, and a rival racing crew rises up, O'Conner must decide where his loyalties lie. With his new friends or the LAPD.

Before it evolved into a series of outrageous spy capers, Fast & Furious actually began life as something very different. The first films in the franchise were mid-budget crime pictures set within the world of underground street racing, and they featured a cast of relative unknowns. This Film School Day will be a crash course in the unusual origins of Fast & Furious.

As the city of Chengdu changes, the future of Funky Town, a beloved queer-friendly techno club, is unclear. For a vibrant group of DJs, drag performers, artists, lovers, ravers, and skaters, the club is a sanctuary for underground partying and allows them to thrive after the sun sets.

But with construction cranes looming and a metro station encroaches, the partygoers are forced to face what brought them to the club in the first place, and make the most of their remaining time there.

Screening as part of the Queer East touring Film Festival.

In director Tsai Ming-Liang’s subversive family drama, Hsiao-Kang gets roped into participating in a film shoot, in which he plays a dead body floating in the Tamsui River in Taipei. But the polluted water provokes a health crisis, as Hsiao-Kang is suddenly struck by debilitating neck pain.

Following two young people, Utamaro and Giiko, on a doomed summer road trip through Japan, Isao Fujisawa’s poetic, surreal work reflects on the dissipating promise of 1960s counterculture and free love.

An action-documentary about the evolution of stunt women, their struggles on screen to perform at the highest level, and their fight off-screen to be treated fairly and equally. The movie takes us behind-the-scenes and introduces us to the female stunt performers who drive the action and thrills of Hollywood’s biggest blockbuster movies from the silent age of cinema to present day.

For the last decade, NYDC, run by Sadler's Wells, has sought out the most talented young dancers in England to create, perform and tour a new work every year with a Guest Artistic Director.

For 2025, Olivier Award-winning hip hop dance theatre company Boy Blue has been appointed as Guest Artistic Director and teams up with NYDC's young people to create a brand-new show. Don't miss this fusion of Boy Blue's radical vision and the super talents of the young dancers of NYDC.

Hoolan Ensemble is a recently formed collective of musicians and composers dedicated to performing innovative and unusual contemporary music, and to collaborating with other art forms. Join them for an electrifying evening of live music and film inspired by the forgotten artistic achievements of women in early cinema.