A panel of celebrated screenwriters will discuss the challenges of a changing industry, with particular reference to the 2023 Writers’ Guild of America strike (and the associated SAG/AFTRA actors’ strike).

Ruth Bradley gives a tour-de-force performance as a sex surrogate assigned to a man with a violent past in this superbly performed, tense psycho-sexual drama.

Winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, How to Have Sex is a vibrant and authentic depiction of the agonies, ecstasies and ride-or-die glory of young female friendship, from rising British filmmaker Molly Manning Walker.

Margo Harkin’s insightful and heartfelt documentary Stolen tells the story of several mother and baby homes survivors.

Argentinian director Rodrigo Moreno’s ticklish saga follows the surreal intertwined journeys of two bank clerks, Morán (Daniel Elías) and Román (Esteban Bigliardi), who collude in stealing back their lives from the bank where they work.

A delectable feast for the senses, The Taste of Things is a stunningly beautiful romance from the acclaimed director Trần Anh Hùng.

In his chilling, oblique study of evil, British director Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin) situates the viewer at the centre of frighteningly familiar banality.