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28 October

Frankenstein

Running time: 149 mins

Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley's classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie

Running time: 110 mins

In this brand new film, Gabby (Laila Lockhart Kraner) heads out on a road trip with her Grandma Gigi (four-time Grammy Award winner Gloria Estefan) to the urban wonderland of Cat Francisco. But when Gabby's dollhouse, her most prized possession, ends up in the hands of an eccentric cat lady named Vera (Oscar nominee Kristen Wiig), Gabby sets off on an adventure through the real world to get the Gabby Cats back together and save the dollhouse before it's too late.

Tibet Film Festival London Short Film Competition and UK Premiere of My Sweet Pala

Running time: 92 mins

TFF Short Film Competition:

A Phone Call by Kunchok Rabten (India), 14:14
A Night Garden by Tenzin Gyaphel (Belgium), 4:55
Butter Tea by Tenzin Wangchuk Tasur (USA), 10:42
Lobsang on Camera by Migmar Jannot (France), 14:40
My Sister by Phakpa Kyap (Tibet), 3:24
The Curse by Tenzin Gurmey (Belgium), 7:32
Shabnam by Tenzin Kuntse Gyephel (USA), 9:10
We Run For Tibet by Dominik Kelsang Erne (Switzerland), 6”

My Sweet Pala
Directed by Tao Okamoto (USA), 22”

The Tibet Film Festival returns to the Genesis Cinema! Following successful screenings in Zurich and Dharamsala, we're bringing you an unmissable program of eight preselected films from our Short Film Competition. The Tibet Film Festival Short Film Competition is a vital, bi-annual event that serves as the premiere platform for emerging Tibetan filmmakers to share their stories with the world. Join us to watch all eight films and cast your vote for the London Audience Award. At this screening we will also announce the 2025 Jury Award winner.

This screening will also host the UK Premiere of Tao Okamoto's compelling short film, My Sweet Pala. Born to Tibetan immigrants in the United States, eleven-year-old Pema grows up in a sheltered, close-knit community, constantly cared for by her overprotective father. But an unexpected event shatters her familiar world and reveals the harsh realities from which her father has protected her.

We will also be joined by special guest Wangpo Tethong, co-founder of the Tibet Film Festival in Zurich in 2009.

For more information on the short films please visit: https://www.tibetfilmfestival.org/2025-preselection
Follow Tibet Film Festival on Instagram @tibetfilmfestival

Film Festival

Far From Heaven - Seasonal Affective Cinema 

Running time: 107 mins

Seasonal Affective Cinema is a quarterly film club screening films that aesthetically and thematically reflect the changing of the seasons. Join us for a sumptuous induction into autumn with a screening of Todd Haynes’ homage to Hollywood melodrama, Far From Heaven.

Julianne Moore plays Cathy Whitaker, a 1950s housewife with the “perfect” life: she has a successful husband (Dennis Quaid), lives in a beautiful suburban home, and is the pinnacle of her New England social scene. But Cathy’s carefully constructed world is shattered when her husband’s secret desires are exposed and she finds herself falling for her gardener, Raymond (Dennis Haysbert). Confronted by prejudice, gossip, and rigid social codes, Cathy has to choose between the comfort of conformity and the risk of desire.

Haynes (Carol, Safe) crafts a stunning homage to the lush melodramas of Douglas Sirk, filling the film with saturated autumnal hues, heightened emotions, and a gorgeously stylised production design. But beneath the beauty is a portrait of repression, longing, and change. Amongst the falling leaves, Cathy’s world shifts too — turning seasonal imagery into a poignant metaphor for personal transformation.

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Events

Hedda

Running time: 107 mins

In this drama, a newlywed woman in 1950s England, feeling suffocated by her new life, manipulates those around her in a desperate bid to regain control.

One Battle After Another

Running time: 162 mins

Washed-up revolutionary Bob (DiCaprio) exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa (Infiniti). When his evil nemesis (Penn) resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.

Pets on a Train

Running time: 87 mins

When a crew of animal bandits embark on a routine swindle, they find themselves caught up in a train heist. It's up to Falcon, a petty thief raccoon, and Rex, a righteous police-dog, to save the animals on this high-speed runway train. Jam-packed with belly laughs, thrills, and super furry bandits, Pets On A Train is the must-have ticket for all the family this half-term. Are you ready to help Falcon and Rex save the day?

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

Running time: 119 mins

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 Nebraska album when he was a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggling to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past. Recorded on a four-track recorder in Springsteen’s New Jersey bedroom, the album marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his most enduring works – a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe.

The Mastermind

Running time: 110 mins

In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.

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