Oxford International Film Festival 202315

The Oxford International Film Festival returns to the UPP this December with a selection of short films made by filmmakers from all around the world. Join us for this one-off presentation of short films, including intros and Q&A with the filmmakers.

This year’s selection includes the following titles:

  • The Perfect Shot: Antartica (Quinn Halek, USA)
  • Circtopolis (Claire Fleming, UK)
  • Romenesco (Tom Moran, UK)
  • These Wounds (David A Knight, Australia)
  • Immaculate Deception (Emily Lucienne, UK)
  • Tell Me Where To Go (Peter Beatty and Joseph Boyle, UK)
  • Eternal Hourglass (Joanna Vymeris, UK)
  • A Day In February (KlaasDiersmann, UK)
  • The Exchange Girl (George Larkin, USA)
  • The Old Grow Young (Liam LoPinto, Japan)
  • Cathy’s Doll (Taylor Venter, Australia)
  • Earthling (Keith Lane and Molly Graham, USA)
  • A Beating Heart (Julian Maguire, Australia)
  • Old Flames (Fugitives, Canada)
  • Regular Rabbit (Eoin Duffy, Ireland)
  • I’m Not Fine (Madison Olandt and Taylor Olandt, USA)
  • Sand Mama (Catherine Loerke, USA)

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We showed Oxford International Film Festival 2023 between December 8, 2023 and December 8, 2023.

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Today (Friday 20th March)
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14:15

The Secret Agent 15
2h 41m | Portuguese w/ English subtitles
Carnival, communal resistance, political tensions, and a man's missing leg collide in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s slow-burning 1970s political thriller. The Oscar-nominated Wagner Moura stars in this gripping examination of Brazil’s turbulent past.

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17:45

The Testament of Ann Lee 15
2h 17m
From poverty in England to revolutionary America, Ann Lee’s spiritual vision and utopian dreams shape the lives of a newly formed religious community. Mona Fastvold’s sweeping historical epic stars Amanda Seyfried as the founder of the Shaker Movement.

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20:45

Sirāt 15
1h 54m | Spanish, French & Arabic w/ English subtitles
Oliver Laxe’s intense, hallucinatory road movie follows a father and son through Morocco as they try to find a missing relative at various sprawling, illegal raves. Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival 2025.

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Tomorrow (Saturday 21st March)
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14:00

The Last Supper Cert-TBC
2h | Spanish w/ English subtitles
Set in 1790s Cuba, a devout plantation owner invites 12 enslaved men to Easter dinner to prevent rebellion. Restored in 2020, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s bold, sometimes surreal drama examines slavery as an economic system and centres Black resistance.

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16:45

The Secret Agent 15
2h 41m | Portuguese w/ English subtitles
Carnival, communal resistance, political tensions, and a man's missing leg collide in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s slow-burning 1970s political thriller. The Oscar-nominated Wagner Moura stars in this gripping examination of Brazil’s turbulent past.

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20:15

One Battle After Another 15
2h 41m
A paranoid ex-revolutionary and his daughter are forced into confrontation when an old nemesis returns. Leonardo DiCaprio stars in Paul Thomas Anderson’s (There Will Be Blood, The Master) sharp satirical adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Vineland’.

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Our beautiful art deco inspired auditorium can be found just off East Oxford's Cowley Road.We are open 7 days a week. We open the cinema and box office 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of each film, and the Box Office then closes 10 minutes after the film starts. We only show a few adverts – less than most cinemas – and we only play a couple of trailers, so please don’t be late as the film itself starts very close to the advertised time!

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