Barbarella, an astronaut from the 41st century, sets out to find and stop the evil scientist Durand Durand, whose Positronic Ray threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.

Doc'n Roll Film Festival presents: Big Mama Thornton: I Can't Be Anyone But Me This fascinating documentary profiles Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton as a blues powerhouse who shook American music to its core. Towering in voice and presence, she made “Hound Dog” a #1 hit before Elvis ever sang it, and her ferocious “Ball & Chain” launched Janis Joplin’s career. Defying gender norms in jeans, boots, and cowboy hat, Big Mama captivated audiences with raw energy, humor, and soul. From Alabama juke joints to European festivals, she lived hard, sang harder, and left an indelible mark on rock, R&B, and the blues.

Lisa, a sports photographer, vanishes off into the greener pastures of the Georgian countryside, traces of her passing embedded in the landscape like clues. Her father, Irakli (David Koberidze), picks up her scent in the ochre foliage and communal soccer fields she documented for her last assignment. His search-and-rescue trip defies her wishes not to be followed. With a disembodied voice in his passenger seat, he embarks on a winding pastoral picaresque, marked by the recurring gaggles of adolescents, wild dogs, and oral histories he encounters along the way. Undulating between impressionistic reverie and subversive detective story, Irakli’s near-fruitless search invites us to see—with renewed eyes—the quotidian elements which constitute both cinema and life. Shot with a pixelated W595 Sony Ericsson phone camera, Dry Leaf stands as a palpable salvo on cinematic degrowth. While director Alexandre Koberidze teeters on the edge of a formal gimmick to challenge technological tyranny, his characters swim against the false currents of modern life. Taking an audacious leap of faith after his breakthrough What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?, and harkening back to his low-res debut Let the Summer Never Come Again, Koberidze reignites the threadbare wonders of cinematic language in spectacular, big-screen fashion.

Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, both used landscape painting to reflect the changing world around them. Tate Britain is bringing these two greats together for a groundbreaking exhibition, in London from November 2025 to April 2026, and Exhibition on Screen once again has exclusive and privileged access to bring their extraordinary art and remarkable stories to the big screen in February so that you can enjoy both film and exhibition together. Discover unexpected sides to both artists with intimate views of sketchbooks and personal items and insights from leading experts. Turner’s blazing sunsets and sublime scenes from his travels and Constable’s idealised depictions of beloved places from home whipped the public of the time into a frenzy of enthusiasm. Constable represents the very best of the old school of realism and pastoral nostalgia; Turner, an exciting new way of depicting emotion and dreamlike impressions. Critics compared their starkly different styles to a clash of ‘fire and water’. Don’t miss this opportunity to see these greats side-by-side, as they so often were in life, on the big screen for the first time.

Dark Entries and F.A.G. Archive present: FISTFUL OF LOVE (plus post-screening Q&A with Director Reynaldo Rivera) Shot largely over 1996 and 1997, Fistful of Love is the debut feature of the Mexico-born, Los Angeles-based photographer Rivera and makes extensive use of his immense personal archive of Hi8 tapes. Vignettes from Rivera’s life in both Mexico and California—including raucous parties, punk clubs, drag performances, political protests, intimate moments with artist friends, family, and more—are elegantly edited together in a nonlinear fashion by filmmaker Pablo Bujosa Rodríguez, to present a nostalgia-free look back at the late ’90s, and the characters, music, and cities that make up a life. LOBBY DJ SET at 7:00 PM FILM at 7:30 PM Q&A with Reynaldo Rivera (Director & Photographer) to follow the film

HI NRG presents: A SPOTLIGHT ON LES BLANK: Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers & All In This Tea (DOUBLE FEATURE) Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative powers of the stinking rose features chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, and a flavorful musical soundtrack. The SF Chronicle called this loving ode to garlic “a joyous, nose-tweaking, ear-tingling, mouth-watering tribute to a Life Force.” Nothing less than a hymn to the stinking rose of the kitchen, this beautifully photographed documentary is an odyssey of garlic feasts blended with uniquely individual interviews of garlic aficionados. Not only does the film promote garlic as our first line of defense against all forms of blandness, it also titillates the taste buds with shots of garlic dishes sizzling in their pans. Les Blank shows once again that he knows how to have a good time and share it on film – especially if it involves food! All In This Tea This film follows world-renowned tea expert David Lee Hoffman to remote regions of China in search of the best handmade teas in existence. As a tea importer, Hoffman’s obsession with this ancient beverage led him from “insipid tea bags in America” to far-flung tea regions in Asia. In the process, he discovered the rarity of good, handmade tea, especially in China, where the ancient craft of making tea has been giving way to mass production. Tea-making secrets have been handed down through generations of tea makers over thousands of years. In this, his first digitally shot film, Les Blank takes his famous fly-on-the-wall approach. The film moves from modern, urban settings to a pastoral China rarely glimpsed by westerners. Scenes shot in cinema véritéare interwoven with more formal presentations about the fundamentals of tea. HI NRG curated DJ SET at 7:00 PM GARLIC IS AS GOOD AS TEN MOTHERS at 7:30 PM Q&A with Maureen Gosling (Sound Recorder & Editor of GARLIC) at 8:20 PM ALL IN THIS TEA at 8:40 PM

A visionary neuroscientist explores the limits of consciousness through isolation tanks, communication with dolphins, and psychedelic experiments, transforming himself from researcher to mystical explorer.

Love Will Travel Lost San Francisco Punk Film Returns to the Screen (with opening sets from Insect Lounge and Class of '77) Having escaped Hamburg with her young sister after a family tragedy, Lena works at a strip club in San Francisco's Tenderloin district 13 years later and still takes care of now-teen Katrin ( Katherine Gilbert) Lena's bf Levon (Johnny Goetchius)brings in nickels playing honey tonk piano in a bar, but soon, trio's desperate lives send them on the road. The virtual ghost town they decamp in is the kind of archly conceived village that only exists in indie movies, populated by friendly old coots, irritating dog catchers and burly bikers. LIVE MUSIC at 7:30 PM FILM at 8:50 PM

Programme 4, the switched-on broadcast from the wall-to-wall carpeted world of Golden Sands, is coming to you live with a special presentation: a feature-length screening of Programme 4 with an exclusive look at all-new television entertainment! Escape to a groovy, aspirational world of tomorrow, TODAY. Make the Scene with creator Rachel Lichtman, special guest stars, Rhodes pianos, complimentary matchbooks and more. Featuring special guest appearance from Kelley Stoltz on the Rhodes piano! DOORS at 7:30PM SHOW at 8:00 PM $22 ADV | $25 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: Dylan Earl 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $18 ADV / $23 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: Eli Winter Trio Danny Paul Grody Duo Presented by Talent Moat 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $15 ADV / $18 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: Field Medic (with support from beaming) 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $22 ADV / $25 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: France Pateka Agnes Martian 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $15 ADV / $18 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: Meredith Edgar 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $15 ADV / $18 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: Nat Lefkoff Good Friends Dead Nettle 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $18 ADV / $22 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: Seventies Tuberide Tony Jay 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $18 ADV / $22 DOOR Presented by (((folkYEAH!)))

LIVE MUSIC: Sophia Yau-Weeks Rebirth Canal ZOLA 7:00 PM Doors 7:30 PM Music $15 ADV / $20 DOOR Masks Required (KN95+)

LIVE MUSIC: Sophie May Kacie Jewel Hill 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $20 ADV / $22 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: An Evening with: Souled American (2 Sets) Andy Cabic Spinning Vinyl Before & Between Sets 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $25 ADV / $30 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: Sweet Lew Spencer Noble Dust Collector 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $14 ADV / $18 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: The Sleeves 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $15 ADV / $20 DOOR

A TOTAL ACCORD NIGHT AT THE THEATER Hosted by Media Meltdown (as part of Total Accord Fest 2026) LIVE MUSIC: The Seshen AroMa DRAG PERFORMANCES: Pirahna Psychotronica, Kafka X & Mojo Carter! MUSIC VIDEOS: The Seshen, AroMa, Davia Schendel, Gloomy June, Zelma Stone! plus the PREMIERE SCREENING of the Total Accord Short Documentary by White Crate!

LIVE MUSIC: Woods Dougie Poole Presented by (((folkYEAH!))) 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $22

SUPER XUXA CONTRA BAIXO ASTRAL: Step into the magical world of Brazilian children’s media with Super Xuxa contra Baixo Astral (or Super Xuxa versus the Down Mood)! If you’re not familiar with the Brazilian legend that is Xuxa (aka The Queen of Children), imagine a combination of Mr. Rodgers and Britney Spears who dominated airways in Central and South America beginning in the 1980s and reached around 20 million viewers a day at her peak. Angered by Xuxa’s message to children to brighten the world, the evil sewer goblin Baixo Astral and his cronies kidnap her dog Xuxo! Our heroine must then travel through a mysterious portal, get super charged by a magic crystal, and team up with a caterpillar and a rebellious teen to save her pup and defeat the negative entity! With Lisa Frank-esque visuals, puppets galore, late 80s kiddie pop, and scenes eerily familiar to some familiar American releases, this film is a must-see for fans of Labyrinth, Pee-Wee, Little Monsters, and The Neverending Story! MEDIA MELTDOWN MOVIE MADHOUSE: Gender jesters Piranha Psychotronica and Kafka X bring you a new experience in cinematic depravity… Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse! Prepare yourself to enter into a world of face-flaying forgotten and forsaken films… Made-for-TV, Direct-to-Video, VCR games, underground cinema, and more wiley weirdness than your minds can handle! In a world dominated by AI, CGI, mega streaming platforms, and cinematic universes, Media Meltdown celebrates the amateur, the low-budget, the handmade, the experimental, and the weird! Commit yourself every 3rd Sunday to … MEDIA MELTDOWN MOVIE MADHOUSE!

Filmmaker Suzannah Herbert takes a sharp look at the American South’s unreconciled history through a Mississippi town that mixes antebellum tourism with a community deeply divided over its past. With an unflinching lens, the film captures the debates, memories, and tensions that are building toward a reckoning.

A team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.

When free-spirited petty crook Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) arrives at the state mental hospital, his contagious sense of disorder jolts the routine. He’s on one side of a brewing war, soft-spoken, coolly monstrous Nurse Ratched (Louis Fletcher) on the other. At stake is the fate of every patient in the ward. This electrifying adaptation of Ken Kesey’s bestseller swept all 5 major 1975 Academy Awards®: Best Picture (produced by Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas), Actor (Jack Nicholson) Actress (Louis Fletcher) Director (Milos Forman) and Adapted Screenplay (Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman). Raucous, searing and with a superb cast that includes Brad Dourif, Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd in his film debut, it soars.

Doc'n Roll Film Festival presents: Rave Culture: A New Era When society fractured, electronic music took over. Late 80s. In an England suffocated by unemployment and Margaret Thatcher’s policies, a generation found refuge and a voice in music. In abandoned factories and secret fields, underground raves were born - explosions of light and sound where thousands of youth escaped social oppression to the rhythm of a new musical genre: breakbeat. Fusing the raw intensity of Detroit techno, the warmth of Chicago house, and the energy of New York hip hop, breakbeat shattered all the rules. Syncopated rhythms, powerful basslines, and limitless production fueled by samplers and synthesizers gave birth to a sound that was not just danced to - it was an act of rebellion. An electrifying journey into the heart of the rave revolution, from the first illegal beats in England to its global explosion. Through never-before-seen archival footage, interviews with the most underground pioneers, and a soundtrack that still resonates today, this documentary unveils the story of a movement that transformed music, culture, and the very essence of nightlife. Featuring: Orbital, The Prodigy, General Levy, Baby D, DJ Rap, Slipmatt, Uncle Dugs, Goldie, Jumpin Jack Frost, Bryan Gee, Altern 8, DJ Hype, Fabio, Sarah Sandy, The Ragga Twins, DJ Brockie, Bassline Smith, DJ Ron, Master Pasha, Shades Of Rhythm, Nick Halkes, The House Crew, DJ Darren Jay, Junior Tomlin, plus many more...

Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.

Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary — all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father’s fault. “The Royal Tenenbaums” is the story of the family’s sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.

A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.

In the distant future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.