The Good Dinosaur

Jordan Peele’s breakout film of 2017 is a chilling satire on liberal racism in America. When a preppy rich girl takes her African American boyfriend…

Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals, ‘Sing’ stars Buster Moon, a dapper Koala who presides over a once-grand theatre that…

The film traces memories of a ten year resistance against the construction of a huge military base at Gangjeong village, Jeju Island, South Korea. Facing…

“He looks for the good in all of us” – The Bear Church is delighted to present Paddington 2 – a film for all the…

A beautifully filmed adventure movie recounting the life of Dutch Admiral Michiel De Ruyter (Frank Lammers) from the 1653 start of the Anglo-Dutch wars to…

Berated all his life by those around him, a monk follows his dream and dons a mask to moonlight as a Luchador (Mexican wrestler). Loosely…

Two films with a South London focus. The first film centres on The Battle of Lewisham and the effect that this memorable event had on…

Grandma Song Sin-do was one of an estimated 250,000 women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army during WW2.  This film shows her…

In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek…

Welcome to Old Tidemill Wildlife Garden. A beautiful, magical community garden in the heart of Deptford. We will be screening some short films made by local…

When “The Dude” Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire named Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he…

When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, nature’s deadliest killer rules sea, land, and air as thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace. With few…

An upper middle class, liberal couple (Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) are challenged when their daughter brings home her African American fiancé (Sidney Poitier) in…

Concrete Soldiers UK is a new documentary, looking at the regeneration of council estates in London and across the country. Starved of funds by central…

Cla’am (15 mins), Nathaniel Martello-White, 2017, UK. A dark, surreal comedy about the impossibly rapid gentrification of a London area. Cheltenham Tapes (15 mins), SPID…

London Drawing Group will be hosting a workshop in which Jean Cocteau’s avant-garde masterpiece The Blood of the Poet will be screened whilst participants use…

Loco, Local, Lo-fi – celebrates the crazy, the talented and the thrifty film-makers in this unique collection of short films and screen based performance. We’ve…

San Andreas – we always knew this day would come. A seemingly ideal day turns disastrous when California’s notorious San Andreas fault triggers a devastating,…

Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle is a feature documentary directed by Paul Sng and narrated by Maxine Peake. The film explores the catastrophic failures…

Set inside a single room in Folsom Prison, USA, The Work follows three men from outside as they participate in a group therapy retreat with…

Three short documentaries reflecting on life in the borough including Mr Pink’s famous house on Lewisham Way. A Portrait of Mr Pink (1997) depicts Mr…

Reading Writing Revenge – Celebrate election night in Deptford with this satirical, black comedy-drama. Tracey Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is running unopposed for the high school…

NXDFF is delighted to present this pre-release screening of locally shot film, SINK, followed by a Q&A with writer/director Mark Gillis. “It draws you in…this…

Life behind the lens and the secrets a film negative can hold. Filmed during London’s swinging 60s, Blow-Up turned the role of photographer into rock…

A crack in the world has started… we have 24 hours to stop it. When miner Charley ‘Boomer’ Baxter sets off a series of massive…

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore. In New York’s Little Italy, a woman falls in love with her…

Local music collective including Record Label 343, The Vintage Group, Cellar Door, Blakie and friends talk about forging their way into the music industry. From…

She Loved Men… To Death. Inspired by Hollywood melodrama, Technicolor and exploitation movies, The Love Witch is a campy, colourful tale about a witch looking…

Sleaford Mods articulates the rage and desperation of those without a voice in austerity Britain. Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain is a feature documentary showing the…

Shoot first. Sightsee later – It’s that film you’ve been meaning to watch! Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson are two hitmen, holed up in the…

Shiver me timbers it’s pirates in the park! Bike powered screening with Electric Pedals Celebrate Deptford’s swashbuckling past at this piratical cycle-powered cinematic event in…

What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? Set in an alternate universe…

Festival closing film and party at Buster Mantis ‘Beats of the Antanov’ documents the Sudan/SRF conflict in the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains regions, focusing…