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Sneak Peek 2.0: Fucktoys + Q&A

Fri 26 Jun

Starring: Annapurna Sriram, Sadie Scott, François Arnaud, Big Freedia, Damian Young, Brandon Flynn OK, you asked for it... We have another sneak peek of Fucktoys for Pride Month. This pre-release sneak peek 2.0 screening will be followed by a Q&A with writer & director Annapurna Sriram. A cursed young woman sets out on a wild fundraising adventure through Trashtown, USA, after she's told by mult...

Her Will Be Done (English Premiere)

Sat 27 Jun

Official Selection of Soho Horror Pride Film Festival 2026. CLICK HERE for the Festival Day Pass. Save over 25% to watch all films! This screening will be introduced by the short film Stay With Me (10 mins). Her Will Be Done (95 mins) Nawojka, 20, dreams of escaping her harsh life working at the family farm. Under the influence of the free-spirited Sandra, Naw experiences trance-like episodes...

Hag (International Premiere)

Sat 27 Jun

Official Selection of Soho Horror Pride Film Festival 2026. CLICK HERE for the Festival Day Pass. Save over 25% to watch all films! This screening will be introduced by the short films Die Bully Die (16 mins) & Last Call (20 mins). Hag (100 mins) After a decade apart, a down on his luck and recently bereaved Rowan rents spare room to Mag – his long distanced, primary school friend and self-pr...

Camp + Q&A (English Premiere)

Sat 27 Jun

Official Selection of Soho Horror Pride Film Festival 2026. CLICK HERE for the Festival Day Pass. Save over 25% to watch all films! This screening will be introduced by the short film Blood Boys (16 mins). Emily is the root cause of two devastating tragedies very early in her life. She feels the weight of these accidents like a curse has been placed upon her. Her dad suggests she go to a Camp f...

The Restoration at Grayson Manor (English Premiere)

Sat 27 Jun

Official Selection of Soho Horror Pride Film Festival 2026. CLICK HERE for the Festival Day Pass. Save over 25% to watch all films! This screening will be introduced by the short films Are You Fucking Kidding Me? (12 mins) & Family Descent (16 mins). The Restoration at Grayson Manor (94 mins) When spoiled heir Boyd Grayson is left handless after an accident, his domineering mother spares no ex...

The Restoration at Grayson Manor (English Premiere)

Anything that Moves (UK Premiere)

Sat 27 Jun

Official Selection of Soho Horror Pride Film Festival 2026. CLICK HERE for the Festival Day Pass. Save over 25% to watch all films! This screening will be introduced by the short film Embrace (9 mins). Anything that Moves (89 mins) An innocent Chicago food delivery boy, after having sex for money, finds himself involved in a series of murders that can be traced back to someone who was in his b...

Cactus Pears

Sun 28 Jun to Tue 7 Jul

Anand, a 30-something city dweller compelled to spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in the rugged countryside of western India, tenderly bonds with a local farmer who is struggling to stay unmarried. As the mourning ends, forcing his return, Anand must decide the fate of his relationship born under duress.

The Deepest Space in Us

Sun 28 Jun

Part of Japan Pride Day. Kaori, an aromantic and asexual woman, is left shattered after her fiance Takeru's sudden suicide. Seeking closure, she embarks on a journey with Nakano, Takeru's best friend, to the place of his death; unraveling hidden layers of love, identity, and the Takeru they never truly knew.

Beyond the Fire + Director Q&A

Sun 28 Jun

Headlining our Japan Pride Day. After this screening, we wil have a live-streamed Q&A with director Hiroaki Matsuoka. Born in 1931, Teishiro Minami launched Japan's first commercial gay magazine, coordinated a queer helpline and organised the nation's first Pride parade in 1994. Minami and friends reflect on the complicated relationships and inter-community clashes that paved the way for today's...

UK Premiere: Polar Night

Sun 28 Jun

Closing our Japan Pride Day. Makoto is an art student captivated by her former teacher, Ira. After a sudden disappearance, Ira resurfaces six years later at an art exhibition. She hasn't aged, but Makoto quickly realises her beloved former teacher hides a dark, bloodthirsty secret.

Plainclothes

Mon 29 Jun to Thu 2 Jul

In 1990s New York, an undercover police officer receives an assignment to lure and arrest gay men. However, he's surprised to discover a scintillating connection with one of his targets. As their secret connection deepens and internal pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, he finds himself torn between duty and desire.

Lesbian Space Princess

Mon 29 Jun to Sat 4 Jul

A space princess is thrust out of her sheltered life and into a galactic quest to save her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from evil incel aliens.

Pink Narcissus (4K Restoration) + Short Intro

Mon 29 Jun to Thu 9 Jul

Celebrate Pride Month with this newly restored piece of queer cinema history! This screening will begin with a pre - recorded shortened introduction from the UCLA Film and Television Archive's Motion Picture Curator Todd Wiener. An outrageous erotic poem focusing on the daydreams of a beautiful boy prostitute who, from the seclusion of his ultra-kitsch apartment, conceives a series of interlinke...

Pink Narcissus (4K Restoration) + Short Intro

The + Short Films Fundraiser (Choose What You Pay)

Mon 29 Jun

The + is a collection of short films that celebrates the + in LGBTQ+. 50% of all ticket sales will be donated to Galop. There are six ticket/donation options to choose from. Please donate what you feel comfortable paying. Galop is the UK’s LGBT+ anti-abuse charity. They work with and for LGBT+ victims and survivors of abuse and violence. Galop works directly with thousands of LGBT+ people who h...

The + Short Films Fundraiser (Choose What You Pay)

Erupcja

Tue 30 Jun

While on vacation in Poland, Bethany (Charli XCX) breaks away from a romantic itinerary planned by her doting boyfriend, Rob, fearing that a marriage proposal is imminent. Reuniting instead with an old friend, Nel, the two women rekindle a uniquely combustible chemistry over the course of a few days in a chaste but burning trust predicated on sapphic synchronicity and a mutual penchant for poetry.

Double Bill Q&A: Two Black Boys in Paradise + A Friend of Dorothy

Tue 30 Jun

To celebrate the end of Pride Month, we have a very special double bill Q&A of BAFTA-winning Two Black Boys in Paradise and Oscar-nominated A Friend of Dorothy. After the screening of these films, we will be joined by Dean Atta & Ben Jackson (writers & producers on Two Black Boys in Paradise) & Lee Knight (writer and director of A Friend of Dorothy) & James Dean (producer on A Friend of Dorothy). ...

Double Bill Q&A: Two Black Boys in Paradise + A Friend of Dorothy

UK Premiere: Cramps! A Period Piece

Tue 30 Jun

Closing out our Pride Month season. This premiere screening will be followed by a live-streamed Q&A with director & writer Brooke H. Cellars. Agnes defies her strict family by working at a salon, but her newfound independence is challenged when her menstrual cramps manifest as actual monsters, merging her real and nightmare worlds.

Grease Sing-A-Long

Thu 2 Jul

Opening our Summer Lovin' season of feel-good musicals. This is a Sing-A-Long screening. Sing as loud and proud as you can! Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?

Beyond the Fire: The Life of Japan’s First Pride Parade Pioneer

Fri 3 Jul to Thu 9 Jul

Born in 1931, Teishiro Minami launched Japan’s first commercial gay magazine, coordinated a queer helpline and organised the nation’s first Pride parade in 1994. Minami and friends reflect on the complicated relationships and inter-community clashes that paved the way for today’s movement. Comprising a rich trove of archive footage and vibrant animation, Hiroaki Matsuoka’s documentary honours Mina...

Beyond the Fire: The Life of Japan’s First Pride Parade Pioneer

Cramps! A Period Piece

Fri 3 Jul to Thu 9 Jul

Agnes defies her strict family by working at a salon, but her newfound independence is challenged when her menstrual cramps manifest as actual monsters, merging her real and nightmare worlds.

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Sneak Peek 2.0: Fucktoys + Q&A

Fri 26 Jun

Her Will Be Done (English Premiere)

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Hag (International Premiere)

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Camp + Q&A (English Premiere)

Sat 27 Jun

The Restoration at Grayson Manor (English Premiere)

Sat 27 Jun

Anything that Moves (UK Premiere)

Sat 27 Jun

Cactus Pears

Sun 28 Jun to Tue 7 Jul

The Deepest Space in Us

Sun 28 Jun

Beyond the Fire + Director Q&A

Sun 28 Jun

UK Premiere: Polar Night

Sun 28 Jun

Plainclothes

Mon 29 Jun to Thu 2 Jul

Lesbian Space Princess

Mon 29 Jun to Sat 4 Jul

Pink Narcissus (4K Restoration) + Short Intro

Mon 29 Jun to Thu 9 Jul

The + Short Films Fundraiser (Choose What You Pay)

Mon 29 Jun

Erupcja

Tue 30 Jun

Double Bill Q&A: Two Black Boys in Paradise + A Friend of Dorothy

Tue 30 Jun

UK Premiere: Cramps! A Period Piece

Tue 30 Jun

Grease Sing-A-Long

Thu 2 Jul

Beyond the Fire: The Life of Japan’s First Pride Parade Pioneer

Fri 3 Jul to Thu 9 Jul

Cramps! A Period Piece

Fri 3 Jul to Thu 9 Jul