Features

If this year's programme is anything to go by, the future's pretty bright. Alongside extraordinary works masters of their craft (including Sundance winner Susanne Bier and festival favourite Kelly Reichardt), five of our features are debuts works, and they couldn't be more exciting prospects.

  • Grown Up Movie Star

    UK PREMIERE

    ICA Cinema 1, Fri 11 March 6.15pm

    Sexual awakening - and reawakening - takes an explosive turn, with a brilliant, fiery, Sundance-winning central performance by Tatiana Maslany

  • The Imperialists Are Still Alive!

    + director Q&A

    LONDON PREMIERE

    ICA Cinema 1, Sat 12 March, 6.45 pm

    Part comedy, part alluring commentary on post-9/11 America, this razor-sharp drama follows an Arabic artist in New York

  • In A Better World

    LONDON PREMIERE

    BFI Southbank NFT1, Sun 13 March, 3.30pm
    Electric Cinema, Mon 14 March, 6.30pm
    Rio Cinema, Tue 15 March, 6.15pm

    2011 Academy Award and Golden Globe winner: a breathtaking exploration of cycles of violence in modern society from Susanne Bier

  • Meek's Cutoff

    + Q&A, co-presented with Psychologies Magazine

    BFI Southbank NFT1, Wed 9 March, 8.20pm

    A starkly modern drama of faith and survival set on the 19th century pioneer trails across the American midwest, starring Michelle Williams

  • Night Catches Us

    UK PREMIERE

    ICA Cinema 1, Wed 9 March 9.00pm

    A fierce, compelling drama about the legacy of Philadelphia's Black Panther movement with an electric cast and pounding new score by The Roots

  • Soul Boy

    + Are You Listening? + Q&A

    LONDON PREMIERE

    ICA Cinema 1, Sat 12 March 2.00pm

    Set in Nairobi's vast Kibera slum, this is a vibrant adventure from the heart of Kenya

  • Tiny Furniture

    Closing Night Gala + Awards

    LONDON PREMIERE

    BFI Southbank NFT1, Thu 17 March 8.20pm

    Lena Dunham's brilliantly offbeat quarterlife crisis comedy took America by storm

  • Rosa Luxemburg

    + director Q&A

    ICA Cinema 1, Wed 9 March 6.00pm

    Special free screening: ICA, 12 April at 6.30pm
    Limited capacity: RSVP by Fri 8 April to zoe@birds-eye-view.co.uk

    A 20th century classic, this sweeping biopic chronicles the life of radical icon Rosa Luxemburg

  • Near Dark

    + Last Seen on Dolores Street

    Part of Bloody Women: From Gothic to Horror

    Prince Charles Cinema, Thu 10 March 8.45pm

    A sexy, bloody, seminal vampire flick by Academy Award-winner Kathryn Bigelow