This year’s film’s programme unfolds across a series of intimate screenings in The Auxiliary’s new bar space, opening its doors for the first time during the festival.

Our selection of artists’ films, documentaries, and expanded cinema reflects on the speculative, the situated, and the deeply personal, asking what kinds of worlds are made possible through moving image. Whether through collective memory, grassroots resistance, or imagined futures, each screening invites us to sit with complexity, and to consider the multiple realities unfolding around us.

In keeping with the 2025 festival theme In All Possible Worlds these screenings propose cinema as a site of attention, exchange and transformation

Programmed events include work by Freefilmers, a grassroots collective from Ukraine, urgent documentary exposing the ongoing silencing of Palestinian voices from Platform Arts Censoring Palestine, plus We are making a film about Mark Fisher from duo Close & Remote: What does it mean to make a film about the late cultural theorist Mark Fisher today? More than a biopic, this feature-length documentary is a dérive through the ruins and rewired realities of the 21st century.

All screenings are free and open to all. Accessible venue. Capacity is limited, so booking is recommended.

MAW25 Screenings